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- Comment on demon named racecar 7 hours ago:
People named “Bob.”
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 16 hours ago:
I’m not! But I like very close to them, and the hardware stores around here usually have at least some Robertson.
I do prefer Torx, but failing that I’d chose Robertson.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 21 hours ago:
Oh, yeah. Phillips is dominant in the US; patents and marketing. Except on the Canadian border, where Robertson bleeds over a bit. But Torx is slowly making gains; franchises like Ace carry them. There’s just not as much variety as Phillips yet. Even looking online, the only way you can get some types is by going to contractor sites where the options are buying 1,000 or more of the thing; I need, like, 2 screws to fix my door hinge. Places like Amazon US doesn’t carry Torx door hinge screws.
I was taking to a guy at Ace a couple of years ago, and he was saying that Ace was slowly switching to Torx inventory - more baskets were being dedicated to Torx screws every year. The conversion is just very slow.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 1 day ago:
It’s better than Phillips, for sure. I prefer Torx, myself, but as long as it isn’t Phillips, I’m in.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 1 day ago:
Damn. Where do you live? In general. I’m in the Minnesota, and it’s almost easier to find Robertson screws, because Canada.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 1 day ago:
Torx FTW. I only use Phillips in situations where Torx aren’t available. They still aren’t easily available in as many varieties as Phillips.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 1 day ago:
15 years ago, I built an extension on a barn stall to suit my wife’s draft horse.
I am not a carpenter.
I was not trained. I had no experience.
What I had was Home Depot, and I’d seen enough framed work and enough videos about people building buildings, and the belief that I could “figure it out.” Also, this was a barn in rural country, and people wouldn’t be living in it so I wasn’t too concerned. So I bought a Saws-All and cut a giant hole in the side of the barn.
Long story short, I did figure it out, and it wasn’t half bad. Framing the roof gave me the most trouble; I kind of understood the theory, but I had the feeling it wasn’t as neat as it could be; it was the only part of the project that required joining. It had proper siding, a proper roof (with some composite corrugated roofing), and even a ventilated peak with corrugation foam under the top-thingy to frustrate wasps. It had a big-ass sliding door, which I bought pre-made. It had a12" ramp from the door into a paddock made of packed 3/4-minus (second hardest thing). The inside, like the rest of the barn, was just 1x4 horizontal planks, stained, which made everything easier. It didn’t need to be fancy, and the ceilings were all open, so no ceiling work.
In the end, I learned several things:
- Home Depot has everything you need to build a small house, including truck rental to get the material to the house.
- I waaay overbuilt it, out of paranoia that I would under-build it. I had double supports every 16" and horizontal cross beams. Like the rest of the barn, there was no floor - it was all packed 3/4-minus - but I poured a 1’x3’ concrete foundation over basebed gravel for the walls. I’m not certain anymore that the original barn had more that 4x4 posts sunk in concrete. I believe that, had I been experienced with building, I could have done the job with far less material.
- Home Depots wood is absolute shit. I screwed double 2x6s mainly to try to get the damned things straight enough to build on. And I bought only pressure-treated wood because I wasn’t certain that my siding job would be perfect, but also because this was open to the elements.
- I learned to hate Phillips-head screws with a passion that’s lasted the rest of my life so far.
- Someone with no experience can do something like build a glorified shed. A 14’ tall, 16x16, sided and corrugated roofed shed, but a shed.
I was pleased with the result, and I’m grateful for Home Depot because there’s no way I could have done that without them. Not within the season of weekends that it took me.
The only wood I’ll buy from Home Depot is unfinished shelving wood. Their shelving stuff is outrageously expensive, but it’s clean and straight, and properly cured.
- Comment on doctors 4 days ago:
This. And I suspect what they’re taking about isn’t common except in very specific cases, like transplants.
If there’s a compatible kidney doner available, and it’s a choice between an obese and a non-obese adult, they’re going to give it to the person more likely to survive and make longer use of the donation, and all other things being equal that’s the non-obese person. OP will categorize this as “denying care,” but it’s really a question of saving the person who isn’t likely to die anyway from comorbidities.
- Comment on The Knowledge Forager 4 days ago:
Cordyceps. Man, in a post-apocalyptic landscape, I’d be staying as far away from cordyceps as possible. That’s just a horror story set-up.
- Comment on You can't have Panama Canal without Anal 6 days ago:
And when you go through it, you also get an anama.
- Comment on Socialism bad 1 week ago:
There’s two girls, but because of inflation and Cup Developers buying all the cups and renting the cups out, driving up cup prices, the girls can afford only one cup.
- Comment on great shoe idea 1 week ago:
I… what? He’s doing what with these shoes?
- Comment on Stride and Speed 3 weeks ago:
It could probably be made fairly stable for the riders - think of a chicken’s head.
But imagine what it’s doing to the road.
- Comment on Prehistoric Crossroads 5 weeks ago:
Naw, my gut instinct was just straight up wrong, dog. It’s Ok. It’s neither the first, nor the last, time I’m going to be wrong. It’s good, because it means I sometimes verify before making claims.
But I appreciate the spirit of your attempt to make me look less ignorant.
Doveryay, no proveryay.
- Comment on Big Marijuana don't want you to know... 1 month ago:
Yeah, I think I’m just cursed that the first noticeable effect is nausea. From what I’ve read, it’s not entirely uncommon.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Legalized prostitution is liberal, though. Worker’s rights, protection, medical care… in every country with legalized prostitution, prostitutes have a better deal.
Note that I’m not saying that legalized prostitution is always good - human trafficking is still an issue. I’m just saying it’s a better environment than places where prostitution is illegal.
There may be liberals who see prostitution as exploitation, but more broadly, legalized prostitution is more supported by liberals.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
$20? No. $200? Still no. $2,000. Nopers.
But $100,000 USD? Yeah. That’s dick-sucking money. Now, if it came with caveats - swallowing, whatever - probably no. But for $1,000,000, I’d swallow.
It’s, like, eating human shit. Assuming it’s been sanitized and I’m not going to get some illness from it, for $1M, I’d do it. There isn’t a lot that’s not life-threatening I wouldn’t do for a million dollars, especially if it’s under a half-hour’s work.
$1M would dramatically reduce my retirement age.
But $20? There’s not a lot I would do that I normally wouldn’t for $20.
- Comment on Big Marijuana don't want you to know... 1 month ago:
I’m in a state where it’s legal, and I’ve been experimenting since the late 80’s. I’ve had a wide variety of doses of pot.
If it’s enough for me to notice more than a little fuzzy-headed, I get sick. Yes, there’s a threshold below which I don’t get sick, but I also don’t get a buzz.
- Comment on If I acted like a semi white power douche. On X Meta or whatever. And was a yes man to Elon and promoted the Orange Peel. While using fake photos of myself. Can I bilk them for alot of cash? 1 month ago:
You have to have something they want. Either a really good con, like… an idea to convert public schools to prisons, or something. They’re not just going to give you money just because you kiss their asses; they have a shitload of authentic rabid fanatics.
But if you think you’ve got a good con, do it for the cause, not because it’ll embarrass them. If you could somehow embarrassed Trump, you could find yourself with new lodging at Guantanamo, and good luck getting anyone in the lethal system to successfully get you out.
Neither of them are “givers”. They’re both con men themselves, so I think trying to bilk them is going to be challenging.
- Comment on Big Marijuana don't want you to know... 1 month ago:
Yeah. Some of us suffer from a paradoxical effect, where the entire time we’re high, we feel like we’re in zero-G, which is a lot like being made dizzy. It makes me so sick, I’m on the verge of puking. The. Entire. Time. 4-6 hours of being nauseous. It sucks, and I’m pissed about it.
I didn’t get it from mom; she was a pot smoker back in the day, and my sister is fine with it, so I guess I just got unlucky.
- Comment on Iron Fist Actor Finn Jones Continues To Advocate For His MCU Return 1 month ago:
“Mom, can we get One Punch Man?”
“We have One Punch Man at home.”
One Punch Man at home:
Image - Comment on Emerald Woodland 1 month ago:
Were you surprised that the single, glowing light turned into a fairy? Even with the full prompt, I wouldn’t have expected the little flame, fairy, or whatever it is in the puddle.
- Comment on Prehistoric Crossroads 1 month ago:
So, I came to ask whether that is really prehistory, given that we have cave paintings of wooly mammoths. So I looked it up, and prehistory is anything before the first known structured writing system, and cave art and bone carvings don’t count.
So, TIL.
- Comment on Stairwell To Happiness 1 month ago:
So adorable! What a cute smile! I can imagine the cat-eye makeup, maybe a studded collar, some black lace… I’m going in…
- Comment on Stairwell To Happiness 1 month ago:
I mean, that very well could be a goth GF down there.
- Comment on Between Worlds 1 month ago:
Wow.
One day, decades ago, my GF and I were driving through Germany from Munich to - Vienna, I think. Anyway, it was summer, and we had all the car windows down, and it was getting to be evening - just a the end of the golden hour, when things start to fade into darkness.
As the road wound out between some hills, we suddenly came out into a view almost exactly like this: a lake, surrounded by wooded hills, with the shores lined by houses, all lit up. They were more cottage-y, and less dense than this, but this captures really well that feeling I had coming upon an almost fairyland scene.
I don’t remember the name of the lake, or even where it was. For all I know, it was a glimpse into Faerie.
Thanks for the post, though. I’ve never seen anything that quite captured that scene.
- Comment on lords of chaos 2 months ago:
I believe that chaos monkeys will go down in computing history as being one of the century’s greatest innovations in testing.
- Comment on Tiny Face Vance 2 months ago:
That, too. It’s a face of many repulsive characteristics.
- Comment on Tiny Face Vance 2 months ago:
What? That’s just a normal picture of Vance. Voted “Most Punchable” 2 years in a row!
- Comment on Anon is deeply disturbed 2 months ago:
Thank you! No problem. I do that all the time.
