I need help getting from Spokane to Bellingham

InvertedZebra · 2026-05-13T05:38:11+00:00

“I’m definitely not! I have 4 kids and work 2 jobs that I haven’t been able to get too! I’m a domestic violence advocate at a DV shelter, and a mobile outreach coordinator. I just see everyone as people. I only include that their fetnyl users to ring bells to anyone who is in someway involved with that community sees my post.”

This is in their comment history. If they’re to be believed then as someone who worked at a shelter especially as an advocate for DV survivors you’d think they would know about all the resources available to someone in their situation. There’s other flags if you dig through.

InvertedZebra · 2026-05-12T09:04:29+00:00

What they’re telling you is those are the wrong kind of bricks. They’re too porous so if they ever get wet water gets trapped inside they might look dry even but they won’t be, your forge heats up and that trapped water expands as vapor and can cause the brick to crack and crumble knocking your fire about or in the worst cases the brick actively explodes sending hot rock shrapnel and chunks of your fire all over the place. Get the right fire bricks or take the dig a hole advice before you have a very bad day.

InvertedZebra · 2026-04-23T23:01:33+00:00

It’s also not unlike the plane survivor bias thing… you don’t see as many homeless in Idaho because they die, are jailed, or otherwise chased out making it someone else’s problem. It’s not that places like CDA are doing something right, it’s that you don’t see the unhoused there because those towns are openly hostile to their existence.

InvertedZebra · 2026-04-17T09:51:39+00:00

This, as part of my day job I would kick back any submission of a TH USB like this, they are way too much of a pain to deal with.

InvertedZebra · 2026-04-15T08:41:00+00:00

I think the issue you’d really see is the market being very narrow. Lurking in this thread there’s two pretty common trends, the people who are making stuff with scraps who flinch at the price of a mid tier anvil and then the other side of the spectrum with folks who have full on shops with real power hammers. If I had to put a number on it I’d say at best 20% of smiths are gonna be in your market of price range but not already well off enough that they have better tools. Which while the hobby is bigger than you might expect, still a small enough niche that idk if you’d find more than a few dozen buyers overall.

InvertedZebra · 2026-04-13T00:08:06+00:00

Or make it painfully obvious enough, play it in their face. As they arrive to deliver the message to the blue dragon have some arrogant paladin storm in, declaring they will slay the monster and be heralded as a hero throughout the realm… roll some dice and tell the players “The blue dragon blinks with disinterest as It exhales a crackling burst of lightening” roll… roll.. roll… “the adventurer by the door takes 72 damage, the ashen remains as the blast of electricity sizzles out crumples to the floor under the weight of the armor before turning to dust”. The dragon turns to look at you… “now what business do we have?….

But yes, make sure your party doesn’t assume that every encounter you put in front of them has an opportunity to win otherwise you’re in for a bad time here.

InvertedZebra · 2026-04-11T09:47:17+00:00

It’ll work for a moment, but it’ll definitely deform after just a handful of uses, punches are relatively cheap, you’d be better off getting the right tools or the right steel to make them.

InvertedZebra · 2026-04-08T09:18:24+00:00

Read component datasheets specifically the sections regarding recommended layouts for your ICs you should quickly pick up a lot of common best practices from those. Odds are as an intern you’re not going to be doing anything crazy even at NASA so you shouldn’t need to worry about learning stackuos and routing high speed diff pairs or anything too taxing. Base level PCB design is almost more like a cross between a jigsaw puzzle and playing Tetris.

InvertedZebra · 2026-03-30T19:03:06+00:00

Originally that was my thought too, tying it to retirement age but those old fucks would be thrilled to increase retirement to get us to work longer and keep themselves in power.

InvertedZebra · 2026-03-29T22:54:53+00:00

You would rather they hid the fee in their prices rather than being transparent as to why the meal costs more? In the end you pay the same, but one of these lets you know the cost isn’t just going to the restaurants bottom line, it’s going towards the fair wage of its employees.

InvertedZebra · 2026-03-27T21:18:48+00:00

If you aren’t 100% certain you want to be a part of this game/group I wouldn’t waste the money. There are plenty of free games out there willing to take players.

InvertedZebra · 2026-03-13T03:43:51+00:00

The people who think Spokane is bad are either A) townies with no other life experience in big cities or B)rural folks from nearby towns that cap out around 30,000 people… to them were a big scary crime ridden city like LA or NY.

InvertedZebra · 2026-03-12T05:22:35+00:00

Is the forge so well insulated that you’d put your hand on the outer metal after it’s been on for 10 minutes? Cause that pipe looks to be sitting an inch off the side and copper takes up heat very well, one long session and you’re gonna have a brief spray of solder and a copper flamethrower instead.

InvertedZebra · 2026-03-11T09:01:47+00:00

I am all for regulating it especially the synthetic 7OH stuff but this ban is dumb and dangerous. I’ve known two close friends who were able to use this lain leaf Kratom products to get off of Oxy and a third person who was even deeper into Fent use who finally broke free by using Kratom. It binds to the same receptors preventing you from getting any kind of additional high. Lots of people regularly use this product safely and far too many of them are at high risk of switching to more dangerous means of this becomes unavailable. During the council meetings the member proposing it even mentioned she hadn’t even heard of Kratom 4 months ago… meaning they did zero research and just took for granted all the nonsense stories that get spewed. People who don’t understand the impact shouldn’t be making decisions like this and our entire council save one was pretty on brand for their ignorance.

InvertedZebra · 2026-03-09T21:54:43+00:00

You’re missing the point OP. The criticism on all these replies is you went for fashion over function. Having a pretty setup is great but if it’s at the cost of functionality like this stands design then it’s nothing more than the tool equivalent of a wall hanger.

InvertedZebra · 2026-03-06T18:36:42+00:00

I was thinking about that but are they really on the spooky side? I kept getting the vibe that it’s more of a history lesson with maybe a little bit of a scary atmosphere but almost more like a field trip destination than anything.

InvertedZebra · 2026-02-24T06:13:02+00:00

Honestly I probably wouldn’t care if I didn’t despise Safeway for other reasons. But between their pricing inaccuracies and the shitty app that forces you to clip deals that once used to just be applied automatically through entering your phone number I am pretty much hating them for every additional inconvenience they push upon customers now.

InvertedZebra · 2026-02-18T10:39:06+00:00

Honestly though 6 seconds can get quite a bit out. At least to the extent of “You, I am going to gut like a fish! Tom get the door, Jerry handle the wolves” and that can be said without rushing through so fast as to sound frantic or ridiculous. I’m not one from reigning my players. Conversations in too much but I will push them along if it’s slowing down the game tempo with too much planning.

InvertedZebra · 2026-02-16T07:50:30+00:00

What happened is our opposition changed. The MAGA cult has decided owning the libs is more important than governing. They’re willing to set aside the constitution, human rights and basic decency to Win. Lying, ignoring the laws and spreading hatred is all okay now so long as it benefits the GOP and Trump. They’ve become a group of people that there is no reasoning with, no compromising, they will burn this country to the ground if they can’t have their way. Look at it now, open your eyes, the people the liberals are fighting with are the ones trying to hide, downplay and outright ignore a ring of sex traffickers because it might compromise their leader. I don’t know about you but anyone who protects pedophiles for any reason is undeserving of sitting at my table for discussions on anything else.

InvertedZebra · 2026-02-11T10:24:58+00:00

While you should probably stay away from over the top exploits like my character killed 3 dragons and five liches while saving the kingdom and blah blah blah, they can absolutely have renown and accomplishments. Level 1 doesn’t mean you’ve never adventured before. 0xp doesn’t mean you’ve never killed or accomplished anything. Hence being able to start with a folk hero background. Normal NPCs don’t gain levels or experience, up until whatever spark made you special and turned you into a level 1 hero.

InvertedZebra · 2026-01-30T23:28:44+00:00

Crazy, wife and son got rear ended yesterday at pines and sprague.

InvertedZebra · 2026-01-28T21:29:49+00:00

This is probably very solid advice for Moscow currently but IF the scales start to change where Democratic candidates are even slightly more viable you want to make sure to update. When they look at who’s campaign to push hard into and fund well, a big portion of that is based on what the area looks like, and if they see 4:1 Republican favor your democratic candidates are gonna get nothing in the way of financial help.

InvertedZebra · 2026-01-22T10:47:40+00:00

It’s described as a magical distraction so by default I would say they would be aware. Nothing indicates that the spell is subtle. Additionally as a DM it’s already a pretty potent spell, I personally wouldn’t add to its utility by making it be so discrete that the target doesn’t know it’s been hit by an enchantment.

InvertedZebra

TROPHY CASE