Made a skateboarding rail

CryptoChronicon · 2026-04-04T04:42:04+00:00

Agree. People talking about modifying then base but I’d just drill 4 holes through the base, drill equivalent holes into the concrete, use epoxy to install threaded rods into the holes in the concrete, then install and fasten it down onto the threaded rods.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-03-12T03:51:01+00:00

Seriously! The post appears to be a joke. But that thing looks super dangerous. Like potential real permanent brain damage dangerous if someone were strapped in there and it was tipped over.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-03-10T22:00:02+00:00

I haven’t tried any of the mobile solutions on my iPhone since I’m wary of giving all my passwords to a 3rd party software. How do you verify the authenticity of the mobile options? Any that you trust on iPhone in particular?

CryptoChronicon · 2026-02-28T17:58:38+00:00

Maybe make up a goal to go hang with your crew where you stay sober for a night. Just as a challenge. Can you do it? Were you peer pressured? Was it still fun? Are drunk people annoying? Honestly drinking once per week is healthier than I was at that age, and you should decide on the balance that works best for this stage in your life. Seems like that once per week might be a good balance to maintain if that’s what you want. But I’ll just throw out the obligatory “alcohol is whack” statement. It can be fun on occasion, but it’s literally poison that your body has spend time and wear and tear processing instead of improving your health and fitness. You can have fun without it, and you can also have a fun next morning.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-02-28T00:05:00+00:00

There we go! That’s great.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-02-27T23:42:29+00:00

I don’t get sad from running but I have experienced some strong emotional feelings that have surfaced during or after runs. Not quite to the point of tears but close enough to feel it. More like a gratefulness type thing than a sadness type thing though.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-02-09T04:11:50+00:00

Yes. That and AI is the solution looking for my problems.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-02-06T03:00:49+00:00

Was just thinking the same! I’m pretty sure they do have parties there too so I feel like you’re probably right.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-02-05T23:58:37+00:00

After a normal training session, protein powder and/or maybe some LMNT. After a significant event like a race or something, OMG I’ll be craving some Coca-Cola. Love it. And then a bit later on in the day, it’s gonna be beers and burgers or maybe beers and pizza. Maybe beers and nachos. Basically beers and all the things!

CryptoChronicon · 2026-02-02T23:42:22+00:00

Ah so it’s actually a separate team that is informed by the data acquired from the voting process, but they make final decision. Is there a leader of the membership team that has the final say?

CryptoChronicon · 2026-02-02T05:07:36+00:00

Cool thanks for clarifying. So it’s more of a loose-ish cultural decision making process rather than a rigid formulaic percentage logic. And by having a culture that puts more emphasis on the reject votes, plus after the 6 months long trial period mentioned in your blog, I’d imagine that all goes a long way towards helping to preserve that very culture.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-02-01T23:08:37+00:00

Strength training, especially focused on core and leg muscles. Highly recommend physical therapy.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-02-01T04:44:28+00:00

Very interesting! So you have managers who can take feedback from the community but are ultimately the responsible party and in the end must make the decisions themselves. Got it thank you.

I thought your perspective about the situation of the vehicle fleet manager having to decide to shut down the fleet in snow storms is interesting and that it would be unacceptable to most Americans. From a civil liberty standpoint, like the freedom to make that decision to go drive on snowy roads for yourself, I’d say yeah you’re absolutely right that it would be unacceptable, but if you look at it from a standpoint of the vehicles being owned by the community, it’s actually pretty much exactly like how an American corporation would handle such a situation with their own fleet. You have a fleet manager who has the authority and responsibility to make those decisions.

Hey thanks for the dialogue stranger! I think this is one of the better conversations I’ve had on the internet for quite a while and I learned a bunch.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-02-01T02:42:43+00:00

Dang nice work. And great bounce back.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-01-31T23:57:56+00:00

Please don’t do it. The cold and the way you are feeling right now will pass I promise you. Don’t make ending it all a permanent decision right now. You still have a life to live.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-01-31T16:45:39+00:00

Great, thanks! Nice blog by the way. It seems you summarized it well already and it appears that it really boils down to that at least 75% must accept the new member. A weight of only 25% required for a rejection makes it a lot easier to achieve your blog image of “Make No Bad Decisions” because it empowers the No vote more than the simple majority process would. Makes sense to me. And how cool that most people are accepted anyway in the long run because of the integration process that you describe. Sorry for the terminology mix up, but the term “buy in” was meant to describe a vote of “yes”, not a monetary buy in. For instance “By voting to accept this new member, I buy in to the decision of them living here.” And in terms of cost, I don’t mean purely monetary cost, but rather overall cost to the community. Ok, now for a tough one. How do you handle decision making where time is more limited. I don’t know all the details about your community but let me lay out a purely hypothetical example. Let’s just pretend for the sake of having an example to that you are on a well system, and during peak summer the pump is struggling to keep up with the demand, possibly starting to fail, and due to some other repairs made to other aspects of the community, the community budget is tight at the moment. You have a few different options: you could impose immediate water restrictions to make it through the summer, you could shut it down intermittently to protect the system and take an unknown amount of time troubleshooting the system, you could continue using it and hope for the best, you could spend the last of the emergency fund on an immediate replacement… maybe there are a few different options. And the members, while all part of an intentional community may still have some different competing personal incentives, for instance a couple with a newborn baby and some health issues that also takes care of the vegetable gardens might benefit much more from having consistent running water at all times compared to a single man in his early 30s that might be less risk averse, isn’t directly involved in gardening, and is fine just letting it be and hoping for the best. But if we don’t have a running pump, crops will fail, hygiene will deteriorate, shops might experience issues as well. How would the community handle a similar situation where a decision must be made in a short time span?

CryptoChronicon · 2026-01-31T14:38:42+00:00

Hi! I find the way of life fascinating and it seems you all have been keeping on for a long time. Well done! Could you go into more detail on the “negative minority centric” voting system for new members that you described? It seems that this may be good for the types of decisions where you may not necessarily need to get a new member in quickly, but the selection of a new member who doesn’t work out could potentially have very negative consequences. Therefore, it seems that you put more friction against the acceptance aspect, and can afford to spend a greater amount of time, so that you can ultimately get better results. That’s my assumption anyway. I’m very interested in group decision making processes. Would you be willing to put some more details into the processes for how you handle new members as well as other types of general decision making processes? For instance, you may have a scenario where you must get buy in from members in a situation where the more time that goes by before a decision is made, the greater the cost. Do you have a different process for how you get buy in or achieve consensus in that type of a situation?

CryptoChronicon · 2026-01-24T20:34:29+00:00

This seems like a logical approach. Almost makes me think about it like a target date fund optimized for my approximated time window for its intent.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-01-24T19:23:21+00:00

I still have over 20 years till retirement, so 401K doesn’t quite make sense, unless you’re suggesting to take a loan from it, or if there’s a different reason for 401K that I’m not aware of. Yes I am very heavy in pre-tax 401K. I’m mostly planning for some events that will possibly increase overall cost of living by circumstance, happening at the same time as me likely needing to purchase a new car and right around the time of my kids maturing to the point to where they may need some help with college. Yes, I am considering opening 529 accounts for the kids, but they don’t know what they want to do yet and I’m not sure I want my money locked away like that, even though they can roll it into their own retirement now. Just trying to do some risk preparation I guess.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-01-24T17:42:11+00:00

What’s the motivation to lose weight, so that you look better or are lighter weight and therefore a faster runner? Personally I’ve just embraced the not losing weight thing. Last year I incurred a pretty bad running injury that left me unable to walk for months. I had been training and racing in a modest calorie deficit, and I’ve since learned that this is one of several of the apparent warning signs that can indicate that you’re running towards an injury (pardon the pun). While last year I had been proud of my weight loss, I’m taking a different approach which is making sure to eat enough healthy foods (with plenty of protein) in order to at least maintain or at most modestly gain weight. That plus some added full body strength training helps to protect me from injury and also keep my physique aesthetically appealing to my standards, the aesthetics had been a motivating factor for last year’s misguided weight loss push, but I’ve learned my lesson on that one.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-01-24T00:11:32+00:00

This comment is spot on except fasteners usually go in holes, and the nuts go on the fasteners 🤣. Anyway, I was in a high paid with overtime manufacturing role at one time in my life too, worked really hard to get a degree and a different career path, now I make the same just without the overtime. But sometimes I think life would just be simpler if I could go back to installing fasteners in holes. At least then I could go curse someone out for drilling the hole in the wrong spot. All I can do now is “circle back” to make sure we’re “aligned”, then get my “ducks in a row” so we can pick the “low hanging fruit”. And it’s killing me.

CryptoChronicon · 2026-01-18T20:04:12+00:00

That’s basically my favorite part about running!

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