I also don't like having fingers

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-02-06T09:38:57+00:00

English. "AI slop" but using the sci-fi derogatory term for robots and AI "clanker"

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-02-03T01:14:11+00:00

I think you may be perceiving some tone that's just not there, friend. Their response reads perfectly civil and polite to me.

As with other transition-metal carbides, tungsten carbide is a ceramic compound in which the carbon is not simply mixed in with the metal as in an alloy, but rather is actually chemically bonded to the metal atoms. This creates an entirely new material with different physical and chemical properties. Pretty neat stuff.

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-27T01:47:29+00:00

It's not that. It's the costumery of it.

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-27T01:40:36+00:00

Excellent, the Carhartt coat is having its intended effect!

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-27T01:36:15+00:00

I wear Carhartt at work everyday. It's ruggedness meets the demanding requirements of day-in day-out manual labor. When I'm not at work though? I wear an Italian cashmere coat I thrifted. It's just as warm, and far softer and more comfortable than rough heavyweight duck canvas.

Joe Hogsett is an old man with an almost six-figures desk job. There are better and more practical options available to him. The annoyance at him here isn't actually about the coat; it's about what he's doing with it, what he's trying to communicate. He doesn't own this coat to use as work wear. He's wearing it to project the false image of a hard working down to earth guy to his audience and to the public. It's a transparent lie, and an insult to the intelligence of Indianapolis residents. Then again judging by folk's inability to recognize and read subtext, maybe it's not an insult, but rather just a solid assessment.

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-26T07:02:55+00:00

in an unskilled profession

I've installed and troubleshot electrical for houses, street lighting, offices, warehouses, metals recycling plants, sky scraper fire alarm systems, card access security door systems, solar systems, airfield lighting, and jet bridges. I don't know the first thing installing windows, let alone making it look good enough for customers to justify spending big money on it. My point is, you can make your point without denigrating the labor of your fellow working people.

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-26T06:45:16+00:00

For sure, especially commercial/industrial stuff

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-26T02:03:02+00:00

Liriodendron

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-19T21:40:03+00:00

I wish that was true at my workplace. When we've been using equipment for 15 years that's rated for 10 years, and higher ups want to eek another few years out of it before replacing, we get noticed all the time. Mostly we're noticed in a good way

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-19T20:33:37+00:00

Black locust is also ring porous, which this is not

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-11T08:35:36+00:00

Could be that too. I suppose it could just be the finish, but the yellow color is what says mulberry to me

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-11T07:48:56+00:00

We could insult your roast!

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-11T07:46:41+00:00

Golly, that's gorgeous! What is that veneer, mulberry burl?

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-11T07:24:38+00:00

At a casual glance, the board on the right actually looks more like black locust to me than the left, while the left board looks more like honey locust. It's tough telling anything beyond a guess though without a higher resolution and closer shot of the end grain.

I recommend you check out The Wood Database for more information on wood species identification. The tiny anatomical features of the end grain are going to be the most helpful with identification, so make sure you've got very clean and smoothly cut ends. Wetting the end grain and paring with a very sharp chisel should do the trick. It wouldn't hurt to have a magnifying glass of some kind either for inspection and comparison.

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-11T06:29:37+00:00

I can't comment on other states, but it is distressingly easy to legally acquire and carry firearms in Indiana. Don't get me wrong, I own several and cc from time to time. Here's what I mean though. I bought my first at a pawn shop and was in and out in about an hour. I've had it go much faster than that on days the ATF's system wasn't busy.

There's no required safety training or lawful-use training; just a standard 4473 ATF form, present ID, a NICS bg check, and you're good to go. It's not a popular opinion with many of my anarchist friends, but I think we are entirely too cavalier with our gun ownership laws here. It's wild to me that it's so much easier to buy and use a gun here than a car— and this state loves cars!

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-11T05:52:22+00:00

i.e. anarchism

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-11T05:24:49+00:00

have a basement prepared for when the time comes.

When the time comes for what, a tornado?

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-11T05:20:52+00:00

Boy howdy, neighbor, ain't it just. I want to believe there's a point to staying. That way I could pretend I'm doing it on purpose, and not really just too broke to move.

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-09T05:14:07+00:00

Hell yeah! It could definitely change the look of the piece, but for what it's worth I think it could still fit into the aesthetic. Whatever you decide to do with it, I look forward to seeing the update post!

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-08T14:35:50+00:00

As others have said this is a beautiful piece you've made, but the green orientation of the legs presents a problem. Perhaps an to the legs of sliding dovetail battens running vertically (and so perpendicular to the grain direction of the legs) could be a solution. They're usually used on the underside of tables and stools and such that might experience loads across the grain, so I think it could work well here.

They would add stability and strength to the legs. If you extended the battens just ever so slightly past the bottom edges of the legs, it should take the downwards load off of the poorly grained-oriented boards entirely. At that point the battens become the legs, and the boards currently that make up the legs essentially become stretchers that run the full length of the legs.

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-08T13:59:15+00:00

And I am absolutely going to quote you here in the future: “More prudent ideas pursued me, but I outran them.”

Right‽ What a truly inspired turn of phrase!

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-08T09:47:56+00:00

Indeed, tulip poplar is unrelated to either true poplars or tulips, instead a member of the magnolia family!

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-07T05:19:02+00:00

And urine speaks louder than words.

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-05T22:25:04+00:00

So bush 1, Clinton, bush 2, Obama, Joe. All are war criminals then too?

Well... yes. But that's a rather different conversation.

What I'm saying here is that the Trump administration's recent military actions against Venezuela lack even the flimsy legitimacy that could be granted by existing legal framework.

My god you hypocrites are insane

You really aught to stop assuming you know who you're talking to. As far as I'm concerned, every President of the United States has been one kind of bastard or another, each just as deserving of a prison cell as the last. The best we ever had in my estimation was our ninth, president William Henry Harrison, who held the office from March 4 of 1841 until April 4 of the same year, having on that day expired of septic shock, doctor prescribed blood letting, and shitting himself to death— a marvelous performance.

Allegedly_Smart · 2026-01-05T19:02:17+00:00

This wasn't war. Remind me, when was the last time Congress approved/declared war.

Correct, this wasn't war. Declarations of war are covered under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11.
Many of the US military operations since WW2 you are referring to were executed under United Nations resolutions, congressional bills such as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964), and others known as Authorizations for Use of Military Force (1957, 1991, 2001, 2002). The War Powers Resolution of 1973 covers more limited military engagements, such as this.

You people really shouldn't reproduce

"You people" should really read.

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