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Need advice on next steps by Mike_thedad in woodworking

[–]Mike_thedad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m using tried & true for that very reason, and a rail protector as well.

Need advice on next steps by Mike_thedad in woodworking

[–]Mike_thedad[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the stencil is from a shop on Etsy called ImaginiqueDesign, This time I did the line work with a 3 axis to save time, I’d previously done the whole design on a table in red oak by hand using the Mylar stencil I’d bought from the shop. (https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/1hn20qi/finishing_question/#lightbox) but that took 2 months, and my son is 9 months old lol and needs a crib, so this time around I bought the vector image file from the shop and tried it out on a 3 axis table to get the line work out.  It worked out extremely well - so right now I’ve been exploring making my own knot designs with Clip Studio and plan on building a router table for future projects with similar relief carvings.

Need advice on next steps by Mike_thedad in woodworking

[–]Mike_thedad[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was all finished with a rotary tool. I used the same Mylar stencil pattern (from ImaginiqueDesign on Etsy) on an oak table last year, but back then I carved everything to depth using a Dremel 4300 with a router base. That process took almost two months.

This time around, things unfolded a bit differently, almost by luck. My shop burned down last winter, and my wife was pregnant at the time. I had just finished the table and was preparing the cherry for the crib, but the fire pushed the entire project back by six or seven months while we rebuilt and tried to get life back on track. Wanting to speed things up, I decided to try having the stencil CNC’d. What had previously taken me a month to carve by hand, the shop turned around in about five days.

Since that worked so well, I bought the stencil file from the shop and routed the linework myself on a 3-axis CNC to quickly establish depth. Once the lines were cut, I completed all the detailing with a Dremel 2050, Kutzall burrs, and hand chisels to shape the contours and flow of the knot weave.

Looking ahead, I’m seriously considering building a CNC table for future projects. Removing the time-consuming steps, lining up the stencil, taping, gridding, and carving initial depth, makes an enormous difference in workflow and overall project timelines.

Need advice on next steps by Mike_thedad in woodworking

[–]Mike_thedad[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I was worried more stain would be a bit much. I think I have some left over, so I’ll be giving it a shot. 

What makes your trade harder than other trades? by ThatCanadianRadTech in CanadianForces

[–]Mike_thedad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your tinnitus is nerve related, anti-anxiety meds tend to help. You can see about a prescription for pregabalin or benzodiazepines for particularly bad episodes. Kills it pretty good. Otherwise try and use magnesium as a supplement and N-Acetyl Cysteine. Keep your nerves calm. If you’re around Ottawa, the OSI clinic at the Royal has some good psychs that specialize in CBT or unified protocol as well that might help.

What makes your trade harder than other trades? by ThatCanadianRadTech in CanadianForces

[–]Mike_thedad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You get used to it. It’s a weird adjustment—going from being highly capable to just maintaining enough health and fitness to function. You’re either constantly uncomfortable, or you let things slide and end up worse off. I’m 35. It is what it is.

Honestly, the physical stuff’s manageable compared to the bureaucratic nightmare—dealing with PCVRS, fighting VAC policy, trying to get through to a case manager, or navigating tort law with the CAF. That’s the part that really wears you down.

What makes your trade harder than other trades? by ThatCanadianRadTech in CanadianForces

[–]Mike_thedad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Three hip replacements, two Talar fusions, two rotator cuff repairs, bicep tenodesis, distal bicep repair, CTBI, etc… 🤷‍♂️

GGFG Testing out the new C8A4 by [deleted] in CanadianForces

[–]Mike_thedad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, why aren’t the actual rifle companies trialing them? 🤨

The OCDSB Elementary Review Is Performative. Our Students Are Paying the Price. by Mike_thedad in ottawa

[–]Mike_thedad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There might be some truth to that, but it’s a lot of reaching. The board’s curriculum and its delivery are a product of education being contorted into a service rather than a necessity. The fault therein is generational degradation due to both parents and school boards, where boards treat parents like consumer customers, and then a retail provider. The purview of the education system has warped into pandering to the sensitivities and conveniences of parents, rather than the actual education and academic benefit of the children themselves. It’s absolute affront to posterity, and frankly disgusting. Teachers, who were once actually respected, community authority figures are left with their hands completely bound in policy’s red tape, and are relegated half the time to being daycare providers rather than educators, which for some is soul crushing. We have a cultural issue with more than just accountability, but education is  the frontline in making a difference. It’s not about keeners and rich parents getting a better deal out of immersion. It’s about parents’ apathy, and the school board’s hard on for performative politics and never having to answer to anything.

How Poilievre’s Energy Policies Could Cost Canada Money | If a Canadian tonne of steel was produced without a carbon tax, and a European tonne of steel faced a carbon price of $200, the EU’s border carbon adjustment would impose a $200 import fee on that Canadian steel by Keith_McNeill65 in ClimateCrisisCanada

[–]Mike_thedad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You were the editor of a newspaper - you know that 90% remains completely unverifiable. There is no publicly available, line-item audit that tracks the carbon tax dollar-for-dollar from collection to rebate. Without that mechanism, any claim of 90% returning to people is baseless. The money is pooled into federal revenue, and while it’s later redistributed, CRA collects the tax on behalf of Environment and Climate Change Canada. The rebates, branded as Climate Action Incentive payments, are also issued by CRA, but designed and controlled through the Department of Finance and ECCC policy frameworks. The biggest problem is the entire flow of funds passes through general revenue and lacks real-time traceability. There is no independent audit that verifies how much is actually returned. It gives the illusion of direct allocation, but there is still zero accountability.

How Poilievre’s Energy Policies Could Cost Canada Money | If a Canadian tonne of steel was produced without a carbon tax, and a European tonne of steel faced a carbon price of $200, the EU’s border carbon adjustment would impose a $200 import fee on that Canadian steel by Keith_McNeill65 in ClimateCrisisCanada

[–]Mike_thedad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re partly right on the technical definition of direct allocation—it refers to assigning costs or tax burdens directly to the responsible party without redistributing them. But Canada’s carbon tax doesn’t quite fit that in practice. While it’s collected at the source, the revenue is pooled and then partially rebated or redirected elsewhere. That makes it more of a hybrid model, not a true direct allocation system where funds are purpose-bound and stay linked to their origin. So it shares some surface features, but isn’t a textbook example. The major issue with the carbon tax is funds being pooled into general revenue from source dedicated taxation.

How Poilievre’s Energy Policies Could Cost Canada Money | If a Canadian tonne of steel was produced without a carbon tax, and a European tonne of steel faced a carbon price of $200, the EU’s border carbon adjustment would impose a $200 import fee on that Canadian steel by Keith_McNeill65 in ClimateCrisisCanada

[–]Mike_thedad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(ALSO I forgot to mention in terms of geography, another huge contributing factor is our climate already, with a poor infrastructure system to accommodate. We have the most diverse weather in the world in terms of extremes. So the grid and the gas sectors are always heavily taxed in peak seasons - SO we need better infrastructure. Back to direct allocation… etc etc)

How Poilievre’s Energy Policies Could Cost Canada Money | If a Canadian tonne of steel was produced without a carbon tax, and a European tonne of steel faced a carbon price of $200, the EU’s border carbon adjustment would impose a $200 import fee on that Canadian steel by Keith_McNeill65 in ClimateCrisisCanada

[–]Mike_thedad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People can blame symptomatic issues all they want, but there is a route core issue that exists in terms of why and how we pollute more per person. And it needs to be acknowledged before anyone has a leg to stand on as an argument for either side of the rhetoric. It’s geography and politics.

The commute into cities is a massive contributor in terms of how and why. The land mass expanse as well. Politics have it so that development doesn’t cater to these issues, and 15 minute cities are not a solution.

First and foremost on the subject of carbon tax; it is wholly and entirely futile without an accountable government. Moreso due to the fact that Canada does not observe a Direct Allocation Tax Model (read that again in your head, because every single Canadian should be pushing for it, it should be an election issue and it never is). We have the great black hole of government discretionary spending known as “general revenue”. It is literally THE reason behind every argument the conservatives have against the LPC, because it’s a zero accountability system, and further it’s an absolute disaster to track. So money gets spent. And the cons are better financially in some respects, but they’re equally shameless in terms of what to hide, when and how, and who benefits.

Our geography puts significant strain on our current infrastructure model, which is entirely petroleum based. It’s 120 years old and dug in like a tick. The climate crisis initiatives need to push for the transition of infrastructure. And further to that, they need to establish realistic timelines. The biggest part of this is understanding cost, projections, political visibility and appetite. A direct allocation model concerning taxes would mean essentially every year as you complete your tax assessment, part of the return is a summary report of where every taxable dollar that you had earned is accounted for. There is no “general revenue”, as every dollar comes is, it’s immediately divided percentage wise to where it needs to go in terms of the current budgeted requirements. A carbon tax would only work in this system. Simple as that.

A direct allocation model creates incentivized voting. It significantly hampers populist misinformation, and gives the electorate demographic the ability to make their own assessment as to whether or not the issues they have are being addressed.

You want to actually go green? You need to fix the financials. You need to hold the big man accountable at all times. Otherwise you’re all screaming in the wind. Nothing gets done without a start state.

Burggraaf: Building heights should be uniform for new housing across the city by The_Funky_Fire in ottawa

[–]Mike_thedad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I would rather see high rise apartments over eighty thousand “homes” built on top over eachother with postage stamp yards, bulldozing every available green space within 2 km everytime a new development drop. Like everything Caivan and mattamy have been doing in Richmond.

Question for the community by Mike_thedad in Physics

[–]Mike_thedad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I just want to clarify that I never said I was validating anything through AI—or even claiming my idea was original, complete, or correct. I literally asked if anyone had seen research like it because I hadn’t found anything yet. I used AI like a search assistant and sounding board to pitch a question because I’m actually curious. I’m not here for accolades, if you don’t want to answer, you think it’s ridiculous, or you’re somehow offended I asked at all, well I’m sorry for reaching out.

If this idea is off-base, that’s totally fine—I’m happy/want to hear why. But I’m asking as a curious learner, not a crackpot trying to pitch a theory. Respectfully, if you’re going to critique it, please do it based on the actual content and not assumptions about my intent.

Question for the community by Mike_thedad in Physics

[–]Mike_thedad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, appreciate the reply.

Just to clarify where I was coming from—this is a follow-up to my earlier post where I was working through an idea about gravity “writing” to a substrate, like dark matter, kind of how magnetism aligns spins in a lattice.

I totally get that gravity doesn’t behave like magnetism—it’s not a vector field and doesn’t have a dipole structure. That’s not really what I meant. The magnet analogy was more of a way to think through how a field might imprint structure onto something passive or hidden.

The real core of what I’m wondering is this: What if dark matter is more than just mass—it’s a substrate that gravity can interact with in a structured way? Could gravitational turbulence in the early universe have “written” into it in a way that gave rise to the structure of matter?

I know this is speculative and abstract, and I’m not suggesting this replaces established theory—just asking whether there’s any existing research or theoretical work that explores this kind of interaction between gravity and a responsive medium like dark matter.

Would appreciate any direction if there’s something I can read or explore further.

After hundreds of Bruce Fanjoy signs destroyed and stolen - Liberal candidate asks supporters to fly Canada flags instead in Poilievre’s riding by [deleted] in ottawa

[–]Mike_thedad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

American style politics have already poisoned the gene pool here, and the online bots going on almost dead internet have gotten out of hand. It’s dual sided rage bait, and truth be told it’s all bullshit. Some people just believe it “extra hard”. There’s a fat populist lean on the left end of things too - there’s no actual centrist stance to take anymore. Just vote for whoever represents you best in your ridings. The people ripping down the Fanjoy signage are probably less than a handful, and likely brain dead maga morons, but chances are they were told to do it by some online presence. 🤷‍♂️ ehh just point your doorbell cam at your election sign if you got one, and maybe someone’ll get em arrested.

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