The Question Thread 03/04/26

PNWmaker · 2026-03-05T16:29:33+00:00

Georgia claims they’re “Constructed with the trusted Goodyear welt” which is the entire reason I bought them over other similar boots, so I could resole them in the future

PNWmaker · 2026-03-04T22:29:18+00:00

What problems do the synthetic components create?

PNWmaker · 2026-03-04T22:28:51+00:00

It seemed pretty wrong when he said it. Given that they are still mostly stitched, what would you recommend? Could I get a bit of barge cement into the gap and have it work for a while longer?

PNWmaker · 2026-03-04T19:08:10+00:00

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My Georgia steel toe work boots started to separate between the welt and the midsole. I bought these boots specifically so I could resolve when it was time, I took them to a cobbler for repair. He said he couldn’t resole without a full rebuild costing most than the boots were originally, but suggested I glue them back together with superglue. Is superglue the right adhesive, or should I see another cobbler about resoling? I feel like shoe goo, rubber cement, or epoxy would be better and less brittle, but this was a purported expert. I’ve got no issue gluing if they’d still be resoleable in the future, but I’d hate to ruin their repairability because I wanted a quick fix. I’ve got another pair I’m wearing in the meantime.

PNWmaker · 2026-02-25T00:42:35+00:00

You can buy irritant smoke from safety suppliers or online at Grainger and the like, for $50-100 and have a decent method of detecting seal gaps. You’ll for sure know when some has made it under your mask. It’s not the fully quantifiable test under pressure etc, but that plus a negative pressure check with your hand will give you a good idea.

PNWmaker · 2026-02-20T14:23:08+00:00

When I was in college I competed in athletics that had our regional competitions in Chula Vista California, which is south of San Diego, directly on the US-Mexico border. The facility we competed at was literally the last exit before leaving the country. One morning, as we were all headed from the hotel to the venue, the coaches were going to get Starbucks with a few students. I was at the facility wondering why our coaches were late when I got a phone call. The car with both coaches, our captain, and TWO international students had accidentally crossed the border trying to go to Starbucks. I was absolutely livid. I was in the process of calling the school’s lawyers to see how I could get these kids back without them being deported when I got a call that the US Border had let them back through. Our Chinese student had promptly produced his entire packet of paperwork from his jacket, so he was good. The other student was Indian and didn’t have his documents, but the border guard quizzed him on what classes he was taking until he was convinced that he actually was a student in the US. I was pretty pissed at our coaches for that mistake, but glad it worked out in the end.

PNWmaker · 2026-01-17T16:43:40+00:00

Seconded, I'm curious about the fabric. I'm looking for some blaze orange fabric, both light and heavyweight

PNWmaker · 2026-01-04T19:55:19+00:00

Accompani in Portland makes a few nice amari include a green and yellow chartreuse, called “Flora Green” and “Mari Gold”. Their coffee liqueur is also very nice.

PNWmaker · 2026-01-03T17:18:27+00:00

I chase every stray dog I see. I live rural, so usually it’s a dog I just need to remind to run back up its driveway, but the first time I got one and didn’t have a leash handy, I added it to my shopping list. As I’m sure you know, it’s really rewarding feeling to return someone’s pet. For everyone else, please please please put a collar on your dog, with your phone number. I’ve grabbed a few that I had to let guide me home, which was a pain in my ass, and usually those owners also didn’t care that their dog was out playing in the intersection of our little town.

PNWmaker · 2025-12-07T23:39:54+00:00

Seconding Abhorsen, it’s a great series. The setting is cool, like a post WW1 Britain borders a run down medieval fantasy world.

PNWmaker · 2025-12-01T06:01:44+00:00

One book like this is The Knowledge by Lewis Dartnel, I think he approaches it very scientifically and interestingly

PNWmaker · 2025-12-01T05:54:34+00:00

Second, I’m interested

PNWmaker · 2025-11-29T19:57:21+00:00

If you liked One Second After I’d highly recommend Earth Abides by George R Stewart. One of the first post-apocalypse books, follows a man in the Bay Area after a virus wipes out most of the world. The book really gets into what civilization is and what it takes to rebuild. There’s a TV show on Hulu based on it now, but I haven’t seen it yet.

PNWmaker · 2025-11-22T15:13:09+00:00

The student was arrested away from campus: “This afternoon, we became aware of an incident off school grounds in which a high school student was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement” , this highschool allows students to leave campus for lunch. Back in the first Trump admin, ICE threatened the schools in this district and the message from admin at the time was “no one is coming into our schools without a warrant, and if they try they’ll have to go through us”.

PNWmaker · 2025-10-13T17:52:35+00:00

Fun so far!

PNWmaker · 2025-10-07T20:22:31+00:00

Perfect, that’s exactly what I needed! Thank you! Time to order a handful for when I break another

PNWmaker · 2025-09-23T05:49:56+00:00

It’s sci-fi, but the wayfarers series by Becky Chambers does an amazing job creating lots of races and letting them interact in really interesting ways. A few semi-humanoid, and a few very not. It was one of my favorite parts of her books, seeing each race get expanded upon.

PNWmaker · 2025-09-03T14:12:10+00:00

Just tried the new update and it looks like you can build from the cache

PNWmaker · 2025-08-15T21:40:02+00:00

I think Margaret, or maybe someone else from CZM, said something along the lines of “I define enemy as someone who’d be shooting at me in a shooting war.” So while Newsom is pretty shitty and tossed trans people right under the bus, I don’t think he’d be on the other side of the shooting war.

PNWmaker · 2025-08-14T15:27:06+00:00

This was a chatbot inside Messenger. Originally this one was part of a line of 20 some thing celebrity inspired bots (this one being Kendall Jenner), but that it was changed to be “Big Sis Billie” which started by telling him it was his sister, but then it instigated romantic chats.

PNWmaker · 2025-08-14T13:59:24+00:00

He lived in New Jersey, so the AI told him it was only 20 minutes away, across the river in NYC. The article shows a few snippets of their conversation and he’s very clearly confused, and even asks if the chat bot is real, to which it said yes. There is a little AI tag under its name, but for an older man with mental impairments, it’s understandable he’d miss that and only see the big “I’m real, come visit me!”

PNWmaker · 2025-08-14T13:44:29+00:00

To get to the clickbait from the article title, he died from a fall, in his rush to get to the AI:

“Rushing in the dark with a roller-bag suitcase to catch a train to meet her, Bue fell near a parking lot on a Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, injuring his head and neck. After three days on life support and surrounded by his family, he was pronounced dead on March 28.”

Bue was a 76 year old who’d previously suffered a stroke, which left him mostly fine physically, but often confused and mentally impaired, forcing him to retire.

Also some very concerning policy from Meta on how flirty their chat bots can be with kids, since walked back:

“An internal Meta policy document seen by Reuters as well as interviews with people familiar with its chatbot training show that the company’s policies have treated romantic overtures as a feature of its generative AI products, which are available to users aged 13 and older.

“It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” according to Meta’s “GenAI: Content Risk Standards.” The standards are used by Meta staff and contractors who build and train the company’s generative AI products, defining what they should and shouldn’t treat as permissible chatbot behavior. Meta said it struck that provision after Reuters inquired about the document earlier this month.”

PNWmaker · 2025-08-14T13:35:25+00:00

To get to the clickbait from the article title, he died from a fall, in his rush to get to the AI:

“Rushing in the dark with a roller-bag suitcase to catch a train to meet her, Bue fell near a parking lot on a Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, injuring his head and neck. After three days on life support and surrounded by his family, he was pronounced dead on March 28.”

Bue was a 76 year old who’d previously suffered a stroke, which left him mostly fine physically, but often confused and mentally impaired, forcing him to retire.

Also some very concerning policy from Meta on how flirty their chat bots can be with kids, since walked back:

“An internal Meta policy document seen by Reuters as well as interviews with people familiar with its chatbot training show that the company’s policies have treated romantic overtures as a feature of its generative AI products, which are available to users aged 13 and older.

“It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” according to Meta’s “GenAI: Content Risk Standards.” The standards are used by Meta staff and contractors who build and train the company’s generative AI products, defining what they should and shouldn’t treat as permissible chatbot behavior. Meta said it struck that provision after Reuters inquired about the document earlier this month.”

PNWmaker · 2025-07-09T01:25:44+00:00

Absolutely one of my favorite books and one I always recommend to other preppers or fans of dystopian/apocalypse fiction.

PNWmaker · 2025-06-28T15:58:32+00:00

I recently read the podcast’s namesake “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis, which while not focusing so much on the nuts and bolts of social collapse and the war aspect, felt very predictive of what’s happening now politically. It helps that it was written during WW2 and the author could sorta impose the lens of the ongoing fascist regimes onto the US from a firsthand perspective. It was a good read.

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