My father was a deeply flawed parent to minor children, and a disastrously bad one to adult children. My adult life was punctuated with discoveries and realizations and interactions that revealed him to be a fuckin’ mess. He was better and kinder than his own parents, but that’s damning with faint praise.
AMERICAN STYLE!
I don’t really mind a Red Baron or Tony’s. I think frozen pizza fails most dramatically when it forgets what it is. A home oven can manage a cracker-style crust kind of okay, and within the category of frozen pizza it can be better or worse. It’s the rising crust and “gourmet flatbread” and the overly-topped nonsense where frozen pizza just becomes a sad mush of unfulfilled ambition.
Yup. This right here.
I was moving very slowly at full depth, so I wouldn’t have to try to get to the exact same endpoint multiple times at different depths.
This is the textbook source of burning on routed pieces, especially with a bit that’s anything less than pristine. As mentioned, stop blacks are the best solution. Barring that, plunging at the beginning and end, maybe twice, will give you cushion to stop without needing millimeter-accuracy, but hell, the best way to get those plunges in just the right spot is stop blocks. :-) As an added bonus, you’ll get less tearout doing multiple shallow passes. You sanded that down very nicely indeed, and the big open grain of red oak is actually quite good for masking that, but other materials might be less forgiving.
Every once in a while there is an old painting or photo where the style of the artist and subject combine to present a visual that I find eerily modern. Something about this guy just screams “project manager who’s been working from home for three years.”
Then there’s the dude with the beard…
And that lamp is definitely a bong.
I mean, as long as Bob is into it…
That’s so Texas of them.
I bet we can find out whose spreading this fake news if we Sweden the pot.
I drive an Outback. Have you seen the new 1999 Ford Explorer 2026 Outback? The things even Subaru is doing are, just, BLEH.
I too am into the afternoon of my life. Fuck I hated getting up to go to sacrament meeting. When I was a kid, we still had two hours of classes afterwards, too. Jesus what a beatdown the Morning church was.
None of them look like cardinals to me.
Are we not all middle aged nerds who partied like eight times in our 20s and these days now have a couple of IPAs at our combined LUG/D&D meetings? 🤣
Live your truth, OP, but statistically and demographically speaking, this may be the least relatable shitpost on lemmy, like, ever.
I find that I want some politics, and the politics that leaks into News and elsewhere is just about right. I un-subbed from anything specifically with the word politics in it and I mostly avoid .ml, and generally I find it very pleasant around here.
I have mine, and frankly I still use it to read about college football and Star Wars and check AskHistorians and post about keyboards. For shitposting and actually engaging with humans – yes, many of whom are my political speed or even further left – I really prefer it here. I “left” during the Mod Rebellion and APIpocalypse when it kind of became clear things were not going to be getting better. If it dies, it dies. We got beans over here.
Plenty of clever boys at well-funded public schools have an ancap phase. Most of them grow out of it.
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
Nah bro! You see, I’ll be invested in the corporations so their success is my success, and furthermore the market forces that definitely won’t be manipulated by the most powerful players will ensure that things are so much better, and the illegitimate use of violence has never occurred in the history of private enterprise ever, and they’re also making plenty more land and natural resources so duplicating efforts is not problematic, and separate will be as equal as people can afford, and we’re definitely also all starting from a place of utter fairness! Like, if anything I’m starting from behind! My allowance is only 100 bucks a week and Eddy down the street makes 200 with his job at McDonald’s!!!
There is test-taking software that locks out all other functions during the essay-writing period. Obviously, damn near anything is hackable, but it’s non-trivial, unlike asking ChatGPT to write your essay for you in the style of a B+ high student. There is some concern about students who learn differently or compose less efficiently, but as father to such a student, I’m still getting to the point where I’m not sure what’s left to do other than sandbox “exploitable” graded work in a controlled environment.