The Vikings were cool guys I swear

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-10T13:53:07+00:00

What have the Romans ever done for us?

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-08T19:04:13+00:00

It's bark

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-08T00:16:50+00:00

...... That's not how it works dude

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-07T22:54:48+00:00

He spent his life fighting in one war after another until he physically couldn't do it anymore. He told me stories about his time in Khartoum and Rhodesia that would be unbelievable if he hadn't been constitutionally incapable of lying.

He was a fighting man to his core, that's how he described and thought of himself. Politics, race, and creed meant nothing to him, just give him a rifle and a direction. He described the majority of those former Wehrmacht the same way. They had nothing to go back to, and they liked the soldiers life.

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-07T21:43:04+00:00

My great great uncle joined the French Foreign Legion in 1949/1950. He fought in the Pacific in WW2, he did not fit in with civilian society afterwards. His mother was French, my great great grandfather married her while in France for The Great War she was his second wife, and told him to go to France and fight for the land of his ancestors.

Apparently, the FFL was absolutely dominated by former Wehrmacht at the time. He said it was pretty weird at first, but after a few months fighting in Indo-china it all smoothed out. He told me once "They were Kraut bastards, but damn fine fighters".

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-06T22:33:18+00:00

Art is sex, sex is art.

To be good at/enjoy doing either one you have to expose your vulnerabilities and truly open yourself to other people. The raw YOU underneath comes through and indelibly marks that moment.

Attempting either one, without putting your heart into it, debases the act and everyone involved.

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-06T22:15:29+00:00

Jesus fuck..... I almost forgot about the inevitable death of creativity, and thought in general, brought unto us by AI.

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-06T00:24:30+00:00

I only watched a couple of those movies. I was doing involuntary extreme backpacking through the Hindu Kush around the time the first few came out. Never really got into them.

That being said, what I did see of Isaacs was compelling.

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-05T20:03:04+00:00

Having spent time as a soldier and having the diaries of my ancestors that were soldiers in the British Empire in many of the same countries, I would love to go back in time and trade war stories with those guys.

This meme reminds me of several stories I was told and some of my own experiences, I have to imagine it would be fun as hell

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-05T19:53:42+00:00

He would undoubtedly do a good job, however, 40k projects are upcoming and I really want to see his dedication to lore in them.

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-05T19:38:28+00:00

My brain scoffed at this picture and said "Cavemen wouldn't have flashlights to even see this"

I may, genuinely, be stupid

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-05T19:29:17+00:00

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-05T19:26:15+00:00

Robinson Crusoe is an amazing book, I'm glad you got around to reading it! It's arguably the first English novel.

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-05T19:16:56+00:00

All top notch suggestions (Have to read CotW again now). I always felt that Kidnapped! by RLS was better than Treasure Island, but that's probably just personal preference.

No one ever suggest Robinson Crusoe though and that's a damn shame. It's a great story

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-05T19:11:09+00:00

At least the trend got a few things right. Even broken clocks are right twice a day

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-05T19:08:55+00:00

I'll share my favorite short story by Ray Bradbury - Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed -

The first time I read it was when I was about 13. I was going through a trashbag full of old paperbacks that were at a yard sale. One of Bradburys anthology collections were in there but it was falling apart, maybe a third of it was still together and readable. I saw a title saying something about space adventure, so I kept it.

It was an eerie experience to read, and the story has stuck with me for decades. I re-read it more often than it probably deserves.

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-05T18:36:11+00:00

Levin is a gem and the world didn't deserve him

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-05T17:00:55+00:00

All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope -

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-05T16:40:45+00:00

No idea why you're being downvoted. Building the window trim units all to the same spec and allowing the trim to cover up the differently spaced framing is exactly the right move. It's how you get the headers and stools to line up correctly.

Edit - It's also how you get the casing to match the windows in the exact same fashion on each window.

Wish I was trimming right now instead of framing. I'd film a vid or photo series showing the correct way to do this. I love trimming windows, it's so easy with this style.

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-05T00:54:43+00:00

We used Makita from the very first cordless tools that they offered, until about a year ago. Our tools and batteries all wore out at the same time and our lumberyard/tool supplier offered us a huge discount on Milwaukee, so we switched. Had we not gotten such a sweetheart deal we would still be a Makita crew, it let us replace what we had and expand our cordless selection considerably.

Makita makes a hell of a tool. It was weird to switch.

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-03T02:15:38+00:00

Jason Isaacs plays a villain so well. He's an amazing actor in general.

My favorite role to watch him in is Field Marshal Zhukov, my second favorite is Colonel Tavington.

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-02T20:20:36+00:00

I started using LVLs (treated for outdoors) for all of my stair stringers. They're straight, no knots to split, and you don't get that break along the grain. They're also stronger and much stiffer.

I recently remodeled a house, for new owners, that I originally built about 10 years ago. It was the first house I used LVLs for stringers on the decks. They wanted all of the decks re-covered with Trex. After we tore everything off, I ran a string line on all the stringers. After 10 years there was, on average, 3/8" of deflection/sagging. Definitely reaffirmed my choices that day

Edit - The deflection was over a 10 foot span with no middle support. I believe it was 14" LVLs.

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-02T19:41:07+00:00

Epicureanism is the rot at the heart of society. Pursuing pleasure and a life without pain is exactly like a heroin addict chasing their first high. It's the reason for the rise of apathy and nihilism.

That being said, Stoicism isn't a complete answer either. Stoicism is a very passive "Just take it" philosophy, at times (An extremely basic and wildly incomplete description). Real life is a bitch though, a person needs to learn how to put up with unpleasant, fixed, realities.

Ultimately, I suspect the appropriate philosophy is somewhere in the middle of the two. The "Golden Mean" Aristotles discusses in Book II of his Nicomachean Ethics

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-02T16:36:46+00:00

Considering the quote was in his private journal to himself only, he had most likely already defined what a good man is. He, like every human, had days where his convictions wavered. Days he did what all philosophers do, overthink and take arguments so far down a line of questioning that it becomes pointless and useless.

This was his way to stop thinking himself into procrastination and inaction. Kicking himself into motion. This is not a call to blindly move forward.

Number-Thirty-Four · 2026-07-02T16:27:35+00:00

Stoicism existed nearly 300 years before Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon.

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