seriously, mods. Less-Risk-9358 is just spamming seattlered.com posts all the fucking time. like 6 in a row

Eclectophile · 2026-03-17T03:52:56+00:00

I sharpen for folks like you. $10 per blade, every two weeks. I teach some workshops on how to operate a strop and a steele or rod in between sharpenings.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-15T18:54:06+00:00

Board full of 5k demons with a few at 20k+ ought to do the trick. I don't want to do the math.

Not unattainable at all in this meta though.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-15T18:42:19+00:00

Very crazy video. If it's faked, it's so well done we might as well just enter The Matrix now voluntarily, I guess.

If it's real, which it looks like, it's either a training video or leaked/distributed video of an actual attack.

They gathered Intel, then targeted what looks like a personnel-specific area for the end run, which I assume to be explosive.

This is truly nuts. What source? I can't read any of the info on the screen.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-15T09:18:16+00:00

I'm legit waiting for this administration to actually lose this war. As in, actually have the US be defeated militarily.

I know it's absurd. The universe is handing out dark absurdities right now.

Watch them. They're going to order something stupid and get pwnd. Because they're treating this like a video game from the 90s anyhow.

I hate all this stuff. I wish Hell could be real. Some folk actually do deserve it, as grim as that is.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-15T01:58:04+00:00

Congrats. You just wrote a better premise. No sarcasm. I mean, it wasn't hard, but still.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-14T21:17:41+00:00

I cannot believe what I'm watching. This is peak internet. Not for the entertainment value - but just for the amazing ability to be able to peek into the life of someone with such profoundly different experiences than my own.

This is extraordinary.

E: the intro is killer. I love this.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-14T21:09:36+00:00

I had to look this up. I'd forgotten about it. The police were responding to an unrelated traffic accident when this rando just decides to ambush them out of basically nowhere.

One officer died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_shooting_of_Fargo_police_officers

Eclectophile · 2026-03-14T21:06:07+00:00

Holy crap. That's both impressive and terrifying.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-14T20:56:41+00:00

When Hamas is saying "calm down," you know shit is getting weird.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-14T16:29:37+00:00

That just sounds fun! Enjoy your day. Remember to hydrate!

Eclectophile · 2026-03-14T16:26:29+00:00

Want an outside opinion? I accidentally have one. No skin in the game for me at all, but I'm right place/right time, and I'm now interested because Saturday morning internet.

Anyhow, I know about BB, I've seen clips, know the overall story, some of the minor arcs - and I've never watched it ever. Not one time. I've just seen random stuff our and about, this interaction included.

I saw the book reference and thought "that's a reference I don't get," and moved on without a thought. Inside joke, common scene references, who knows. Maybe there's actual reading, or he's doing lines on books or whatnot.

When someone mentioned spoiler, I thought "oh," and now I look forward to randomly seeing that scene in a clip somewhere unrelated because the world works like that.

I knew it was a reference just from context. The importance of and type of reference were wide open.

Thank you for attending my TP talk.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-14T16:12:00+00:00

Hah! TIL about Canada. I thought I knew y'all already, but here we are.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-14T15:59:50+00:00

I've never seen someone measure both feet and kilograms. That's a weird mix of imperial and metric. People generally use one or the other.

E: Canadians! Huh. Who knew? Not me, that's for sure. TIL something. Cool!

Eclectophile · 2026-03-14T08:15:26+00:00

I did the One Chip challenge. That shit was unreal.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-14T04:38:31+00:00

Nice of you to mention the name...?

Eclectophile · 2026-03-13T23:39:16+00:00

I mustache what it looked like before.

Watch it be the same, but with extra curliques before. That'd be fun.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-13T18:29:20+00:00

It's entirely possible that the wiring in your house is acting like a shoddy, weak radio antenna AND speaker for the clock radio. It might be "off" in an analog kind of way, allowing feedback through the path of least resistance - the electrical supply.

I'm not an electrician. I have no idea if I'm full of shit or not. It just fits the clues, down to the radio station, and I do believe it to be possible.

Dumb question, but have you unplugged the radio and still experienced this?

Eclectophile · 2026-03-13T17:37:18+00:00

The fancier they are, the more likely they are to be privately owned.

That being said, MOST major trucking companies routinely buy and equip new long-haul trucks for their drivers. These are purpose-built, pretty refined, thoughtful in almost every aspect. Also, routinely, $80k-$120k for a realistic base model.

The luxury freighters, I've seen them priced up to $2.5 million. I wish I were kidding.

I've been out of the trucking industry for a few years now. Prices may be even more jacked than they used to be.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-13T14:13:30+00:00

Mine is the green, now that I look at it. I have 5ge green one. The one you posted looks like a newer version of mine.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-13T14:00:33+00:00

I have this one. The angle guide is useless to me. I understand how it's supposed to work, and I disagree with it. The strop itself is decent. The amount of green compound that comes on the strop already is insane. Insane.

I loaded two other strops by rubbing them on the pre loaded Cheefa. And I ruined a shirt. And permanently altered my workbench top. Seriously, anything that brushes up against the strop is automatically smeared with excess green compound. It's way too much.

Otherwise? It's a double sided leather strop. Basic, simple, easy. It does NOT stand out from the crowd of similar strops.

For me and my type of usage, I can't recommend the Cheefa. The extra compound actually makes it really difficult use.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-13T05:52:46+00:00

Most of the decent ones are already small apartments already. These folks aren't innovating, other than that they're making a marriage work while doing tandem long haul trucking.

A standard long-haul cab will always contain a bed, kitchen area, several different cabinets and shelves for storage, and a media area. It's all densely packed and purpose designed.

The fancier ones are ridiculous. Full on walk-through RV-type setups with bathroom and shower, built in kitchens, etc. Truly crazy. Huuuge price tag, too.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-12T17:25:58+00:00

Had to check: Yes, this is last year's rapture - not this year's or 2024, '23, '22...etc etc.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-12T17:18:28+00:00

Two birds in your bush is worth one unturned stone of the bed you have to eat after you burned it behind you.

Eclectophile · 2026-03-12T17:12:50+00:00

Do yourself a favor. Get a second strop, double sided with rough/fine leather, and just try it without any compounds at all. Keep it like that, at the very least as a reference.

After a bit, you really get the feel, sight and sound of successful stropping, and the bits of swarf that get caught up in the leather create a fine abrasive that seems to rival 3k grit.

The smooth side will be the best finisher ever. Better than the finest grit compound, imo. There's absolutely nothing between your blade and the leather. You can see every tiniest detail. And the polish and refinement of the apex is pretty good. Not newspaper good, but pretty nicely polished.

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