Wow. What a throwback. He ranted about those movie titles on harmontown how many years ago? That had to have been close to a decade ago.

The Portland (Oregon) airport recently finished remodeling their main atrium area and they used some pretty incredible engineered wood beams. I know a guy who worked on the mill that built those beams. The mill assembles plywood veneer (thin sheets about an eighth of an inch or so, usually in 4x8 foot sheets) into like 16 inch thick, 12 foot wide, however long you want pieces, and then they can basically cut out anything that isn’t a beam from this massive brick of engineered wood.

Here’s a pic

The picture doesn’t show these massive plywood beams, but if you ever fly through pdx, go check out the main atrium just past security. It’s absolutely breathtaking, and it’s mostly wood.

That’s a pretty boilerplate criticism. While true to a great degree, it’s also true of a lot of western capitalist nations.

It’s pretty hard to find information about real communist societies because media companies have it in their best interest to bury any good that has possibly been done by a communist society, meanwhile demonizing them and making them the enemy. You really have to dig to find honest information about communist societies.

Moreover, a lot of otherwise successful communist regimes have been sabotaged and poisoned by capitalist interests. Either by literally arming fascists, or just by demonizing them with foreign policy and media coverage.

A bit late to the party and maybe you’ve already come across this in your search. But i figured just to add to the conversation, here’s an article about how to sew a dart (more in the non leather sense. Apparently there’s some a real skill to it, but I’m sure with some practice, you can nail it.

https://www.westada.org/

As close as I could get. I couldn’t find in a brief search of the site if there was a staff lookup. But I’m pretty sure you can look up an licensed teacher if you know what state they’re in, which Is how I found that she’s licensed and active in that district.

Hooooo boy. There’s a lot you can’t do. If you have a rifle (that uses a ‘rifle’ round as opposed to a pistol round), your barrel must be over a certain length. But if you have a “rifle” that is chambered in say 9mm (a pistol round), doesn’t matter. Barrel could be 4 inches long. But then it can’t have a stock. So you have a “wrist brace” (read:totally not a stock I promise) instead. There’s a bunch of wacky shit the atf and congress have come up with.

Liver spots are a skin condition that fairly old people sometimes get. They’re like big, dark freckles. Usually pretty harmless. The above poster is referring to Debian not accepting packages unless they’re quite old.

You’re correct that slop in the threads just means some extra backlash. I could see, depending on the construction of the vise, having some axial play due to that slop being bad, but vises usually have some other means to control movement in that direction. The only thing the threaded piece does is push or pull.

I get that you probably didn’t mean much by it but don’t let if be “a balm to your soul” let it inspire you to action and speaking up against this regime.

Just found this post on local, but shit, I’ll bite. I’ve been thinking about hosting a Plex server or something on a little lenovo MPC I’ve got kicking around. Could you send or post some links to some videos about self hosting on small form factor machines? I’m sure I could google it, but let’s keep these cool little communities alive.

Thanks for the info. I’m stoked that they didn’t get buried by the lawsuit. They employ a lot of people in my community and their Chilipeño chips are the bomb!

I just noticed the Juantonitos instead of Juanitas thing in the store tonight. And I felt like I was being gaslit. Like a Bearenstien bears gag. When did that happen? I would have thought I would have heard about it because they’ve got a factory in the next town over.

If someone made half a million a year I’d say they were rich… half a million in total assets would just mean you own a home and might have something saved for retirement.

I’m not saying that it’s poor, and I know that there’s a good chunk of America that’s “worth” less than like 10k, and probably a good number of people who are in the negative, but half a million isn’t fabulously rich.

Half a million is within reach for people who didn’t start out dirt poor, got an education, and a professional gig. I say this as someone who would be worth less than 10k if I didn’t inherit my home. A lot of people’s Net Worth Includes things that they can essentially never turn into actual money, but it still acts as a money saving asset.

Congress just confirmed a guy that’s gonna take away their power to act as a check on the executive?

First, check your oil and coolant levels. Only when you’re sure it’s not going to damage itself further by running without fluids, run it in neutral and Rev it up to the engine speed that make it make funny noises and try to isolate what’s making noise.

I don’t think your radiator is making noise. If the noise is coming from the radiator, it’s the fan. Otherwise, I would suspect that something in the engines top end isn’t being lubricated properly (if I’m imagining the right kind of noise).

Maybe they’re trying to say that Wiccans have a special hatred for the American tax system? I thought the same thing you did and had to go reread and make sure i wasn’t misunderstanding.

Someone who just wants someone who is easy to manipulate and control. Some high school grads can be incredibly brilliant in technical fields, but what’s much less likely is to be ethically experienced and world-wise.

I can’t speak for all of them, but the I5 border station near the Oregon border hasn’t even been manned in several years. This gal is so full of shit.

I can’t speak to that, though I tried to look them up and find out but there are just a couple of articles from a year ago. But they basically just joined a much larger union of 50k+ actors and stage workers. I imagine they’re making headway.