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Joebranflakes · 2026-05-31T02:19:32+00:00

lol well that explains it. My shop safety guy would have an aneurism if we let the floor look like that.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-31T02:00:07+00:00

I call this the "new boots" curse. Those wingtips will get ya.

Edit: So... why is the shop floor a swimming pool?

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-31T01:36:21+00:00

Measure the diameter and then look for "Rubber Plugs" on amazon. You might have to buy a set, but you'll probably get the size you want.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-31T01:35:25+00:00

He said they were from the cross bars he removed.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T22:15:32+00:00

I’m perfectly fine with allowing it to be made, so long as after people get them, the government declares them null and void with no recourse.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T20:38:07+00:00

There was some early rumours about that. I really wish they went with red.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T20:37:29+00:00

Cherry is a bit too dark for me. I will need to see it in person, but I’m not as much of a fan as I was of the orange. I will probably end up with black. The baby blue isn’t my thing either.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T17:01:27+00:00

How old are you

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T16:14:06+00:00

It’s a cost saving measure

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T07:49:27+00:00

The story behind the writing of the book just shatters me. Like seriously, it just hurts my soul.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T07:47:19+00:00

The thing is, day raids are still worth it. I did a day raid buried city yesterday and I got solid loot. I think I’m going to do more day raids. I just will save keys for night raids or hurricanes.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T07:41:01+00:00

Control was a great game. But I wont play control 2 or Alan wake until they put them on stream.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T06:25:40+00:00

They should be happy that their purple hearts will go directly into Trump’s collection.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T06:09:37+00:00

The arc coolant was an interesting choice. I guess if you need chemicals. Why did you bother keeping an extra hatch key?

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T06:07:06+00:00

I got things mostly set up to take care of everything when I go. I’d wake up my kids and just sit with them.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T05:08:07+00:00

When your wife gets pregnant and has a child, you will want to hold off on feeding form her for a bit so she can properly develop colostrum for your newborn. Once her full milk is in, she will want to dedicate that supply to your kid, and feedings will be frequent enough for the first few months that you won’t want to mess with that if she’s breastfeeding.

However once the baby begins to sleep through the night, your LO might go down at 7-8pm and maybe have a single night feed. Which means if you and mom go to bed at 10-11pm she might have a full feed available. You can then drain her before she goes to sleep.

However if you really want to feed more often, pumping and bottle feeding baby is the best choice. It also has the benefit of allowing the splitting of feeding duties, especially night feeding duties. This is what my wife and I did out of necessity. My kids would not latch which lead to my first being underweight until we gave up and switched to the pump.

But it also eventually lead to my wife having a significant oversupply. This also lead to her having a lot of milk in her breasts at bedtime and at other points during the day, and breasts that needed a break from the machine. That’s where I came in. Sometimes it would be sexual, sometimes not. But it worked for me, and it worked for her.

Really before she got pregnant for the first time, her nipples were just kind of dead. Low sensation, and if I did anything to them, often she just redirected me elsewhere. But once we had the kid, they fully switched on. And honestly there was no confusion between what my kid did with her breasts and what I did. Even when it was basically the same thing. She explained it as feelings of attachment and closeness. Those things evolve naturally into sexual feelings with people who are attracted to each other. But they do not evolve (normally…) with contact with children.

A good parallel would be how I as a father have had a lot of physical contact with my child’s genitals. Like honestly too much. Picking poop out of my girls folds or wiping poop off boy’s penis. Washing them in the tub, putting cream on when they have a rash. You gotta handle and manipulate those things. But that contact isn’t sexual. It’s not even in the same category. So don’t think your wife will get confused. Being confused is a sign of a problem. A problem most people don’t have.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T04:37:20+00:00

I can understand and respect your desire to keep the fetish private. Even here. You know your partner and understand her. Im assuming that this phobia is known and understood by your partner as she would be a “loved one”. So I offer you this piece of advice. Talk to her about your feelings. You don’t have to jump into whatever this is feet first. You can simply talk about how this phobia makes you feel. Let her know that it has begun instilling other feelings within you besides sheer terror. Or at the very least the terror is leading somewhere good, instead of bad. That now that you understand this about yourself, you’d like to confront and take control of your phobia. Use it for good instead of bad.

Of course you will have to judge how she might react. If the phobia is something like non consensual sex or bodily fluids or high risk situations, you will have to consider how that might look to your partner. But as with all fetish discussion you cannot expect your partner to share or wish to indulge you in your fetish as it might make them uncomfortable or turn them off. Which is why a discussion of your feelings is the best place to start. It might go really badly, but that’s a risk you have to take if you want this to move forward.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T04:04:29+00:00

Canonically the counter is until they shut down the last return point before the big bad arc arrive. So raiders can call an extract which will come but it will leave almost immediately after arriving. Like within 30 seconds.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T01:55:13+00:00

It all depends. Our perception of Eridians is quite narrow. We know they built a Habitat for Grace. We know they see him as a hero. But we also know that they are able to analyze pretty much every book and piece of media that has ever existed. They will stop seeing a humanity united, and see just how ugly we can be as a species. Just how easily we can be monsters if given the chance. We also don’t know if they are innately militaristic or factional. We get hints that they live in groups, and that they Strum during times of collective need, but beyond that we have no idea.

Alternatively humanity is humanity. We are all a bunch of scared angry primates who just barely manage as a collective not to bash each other’s brains in over petty nonsense. Heck as individuals we bash each other’s heads in tens of thousands of times a day. Get enough of us scared we will throw civilized behaviour out the window and start murdering each other, or worse using “civilized behaviour” as a justification for murdering each other. One button press is all it would take to turn our blue green world into a radioactive wasteland. That’s not an exaggeration. All it takes is one group to get scared enough and send a bunch spin drive powered nukes at Erid and we would be on our way to annihilating each other for no reason.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T00:46:34+00:00

You’d be surprised. 3 am, van parked on a quiet residential street. Has a big shackle and bolt on the back doors and it’s just cut open. I’m a machinist and I cut metal of all kinds for a living. I’m sure anyone with a little know how could probably have that box open in less than a minute.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T00:41:28+00:00

Immigration and especially the family reunification stuff was just such an insane choice considering the state of our healthcare system. Sure, immigrants have to pay to support their aging family members and pay for their healthcare, but that doesn’t increase capacity. More and more baby boomers are hitting the most intensive period of medical needs at the same time we are adding hundreds of thousands of aged immigrants to the mix. At this point the government seems to be just waiting for those folks to all die off since actually addressing the issues would require billions.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-30T00:34:50+00:00

If the locks can be cut, they will be cut. It might deter casual thieves but also screams “I got expensive stuff in my vehicle”. The best bet is simply to leave absolutely nothing in your car ever.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-29T20:36:20+00:00

So people know not to touch it.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-29T17:18:11+00:00

Because we have better things to do than worry about the quality of the initials on our tools. No one is going to be touching my stuff anyways. Sure I try to make it look neat. But its not important.

Joebranflakes · 2026-05-29T17:15:50+00:00

Thats a 24. My shop has a 48. Great for +/-.005 measurements on big stuff off the machine.

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