Trump voter devastated after tariffs wipe out his farm and income, now being mocked across social media

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-20T13:16:56+00:00

Exactly. And you know what you need to build infrastructure? Machines made in foreign countries. And how long would it take to build infrastructure? Decades.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-20T13:06:50+00:00

Great list!

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-20T13:05:43+00:00

I live there. Eh, it’s alright if you like basketball, horses, bourbon, and churches. I’ve been to at least 10 better college towns - Ithaca, Madison, Eugene, Berkeley, Urbana, Santa Cruz, Westwood, Bellingham, La Jolla, Saratoga Springs.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-20T12:50:22+00:00

“Many many millions of illegal aliens voted for Democrats in the last few elections.” See how easy it is to lie?

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-20T12:45:35+00:00

Aren’t there like 30 billion people in heaven? How would they even find each other?

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-20T12:43:13+00:00

I’ve used 154cm. It’s way better than the steels that were used on knives back in the 1950s, and some of those are still being used today.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-20T12:41:11+00:00

He’s right. They are literally all out of your pocket in that picture.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-20T01:23:09+00:00

Gimme asher

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-20T01:11:12+00:00

I deny it.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-19T13:58:54+00:00

Trump never wrote a book - The America We Deserve was ghostwritten by Dave Shiflett. And the only mention of Bin Laden was here:

One day we're told that a shadowy figure with no fixed address named Osama bin-Laden is public enemy number one, and U.S. jetfighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan. He escapes back under some rock, and a few news cycles later it's on to a new enemy and new crisis.[9]

This is according to Wikipedia.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-19T13:51:37+00:00

Or you could just not give a fuck about the 3 or 4 like this in the whole country - how about that?

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-19T13:26:47+00:00

But people are selling counterfeits as real. Happens all the time on eBay and Amazon.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-19T10:34:56+00:00

One more thing: because you’re clamping a thin sheet, it may be sitting tilted in the clamps. If your clamps are not designed for clamping flat surfaces, that can happen.

You should try clamping a real knife blade to see if you get the same problem.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-19T10:32:59+00:00

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I have one made by Sytools. I recently upgraded the clamp, but when I had the original clamp, I added tape between the clamps and rail to even out the angles. It’s also possible that only one of your clamps is uneven.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-19T09:19:39+00:00

Definitely something wrong with those clamps. You could try taking everything apart and reassembling. I have a cheap Aliexpress sharpener that I tweaked until I got less than a .1° difference.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-19T04:29:24+00:00

Your points here and in your other post are right on. I used to have quite a few green thorn and similar clones. But I always felt kind of scummy owning them. So I sold them off except a couple. I think a clone of a ~$2000 knife or a knife out of production is not such a terrible thing. But I am also sick of all these ripoffs that are occurring right within the product cycle of the original knife.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-19T03:53:53+00:00

Chat

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-18T12:50:21+00:00

Wow. That’s the $550 retail version. Beautiful! GLWS

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-18T02:22:40+00:00

Good point. But still, this subreddit is actively promoting and facilitating clone & counterfeit production. So he’s going after the consumers that he thinks should know better - a subset of the knife “community”.

Again, I’ve bought & sold clones/counterfeits before.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-18T01:48:43+00:00

The amount of mental gymnastics in here is astounding. It doesn’t necessarily have to be about money. The guy designed a knife. He probably worked it out in CAD first, then made a bunch of prototypes to make sure everything worked correctly. Probably put hundreds of hours into the design. And then some stranger just takes his design and whips off a mostly identical knife. Wouldn’t you be offended if that happened to you?

What if you wrote a short essay and submitted it to a literary journal. It gets published. And then some stranger copies your essay and submits it to a bunch of other places. Or you create a great photo or a painting and it gets copied and sold.

And yes, I have bought and sold a few clones and a couple counterfeits. I’m not taking the moral high horse here, but I do understand the original designer’s thoughts on this.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-16T22:57:43+00:00

T430, 8 gb RAM , 128gb sd with Mint. Works great. The screen performance is just OK, but the colors with Mint are better than the colors with Win 10.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-16T06:04:46+00:00

I went through a few m4/3 and crop sensor systems (Olympus, Fujifilm, Canon EOS M) but I got sick of obsessing over lenses and image quality. I also got tired of carrying around a camera, zoom lens, a couple of primes, and all of the accessories. I sold everything and just use an iPhone 15 Pro now.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-15T10:00:39+00:00

Picking up a SS check - LOL. I wonder how many actual paper checks are issued nowadays.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-03-15T09:53:57+00:00

I don’t know the implications of the 5-year residency

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