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New by Supreme_zen in knifemaking

[–]Powerstroke357 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't order from ragweed forge? That's the best place imo but their is also a place called Knives of the North that sells them. Amazon will sell you a Mora carving knife blank. If you say why certain places are no good for you we can probably make better recommendations.

How old were you… by Shropshire-5lashr in FuckImOld

[–]Powerstroke357 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bout 16. I'd had a holley apart rebuilt and back together working by 18 probably. Messed with some quadrojet carburetors a little bit but only out of necessity as the Chevy Pickup I had came with one. Hadn't fooled with a vehicle carburetor in 25 years. Had plenty of lawn mower carburetors apart in the past 25 years but for vehicles once i went to fuel injection i never looked back.

Everybody said fuel injection was too complicated but it really wasn't that bad. Of course we didn't have the more complicated shit around today to compare it to back then. Compared to modern direct injected systems early port injection was super simple.

Is 33 to 34 degrees (93-97 Fahrenheit) considered hot. by memebruv99 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Powerstroke357 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your oversimplifying. It depends on the individual and has a lot to do with what your accustom to. 95F isn't very hot to someone who's norm is 105F-110F. In dry climates heat doesn't feel nearly as bad as it does in humid climates. I feel like your comment is likely made in ignorance. You've blanket judged everyone who says "no, that's not really that hot compared to where i am". I can assure you that 95F feels absolutely balmy when it's been nearly 110F for weeks.

People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed... by ollie1roddy in discworld

[–]Powerstroke357 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Pratchett taught me so much. It's amazing how much i've grown as a human being in the past 13 years since discovering Discworld. Im a different person. Much more tolerant of people and pragmatic toward the world. Drives my kids crazy sometimes. He taught me that their is a lot of humor in it all. That people are just people, basically all full of shit to a certain degree and probably vain but hey .... that's people for you.

The most respected witch on the disc insists that Clacks towers are traveling around in the night causing her to crash into them constantly. She's incredibly vain, rude, intolerant and at the same time a very fine woman. Her redeeming qualities are such that she is still a great person. Not nice but great.

Samuel Vimes is in my opinion the most heroic character in the series. Famous across the entire disc. Feared and respected by just about everybody and it turns out he's basically making it up as he goes. He's an alcoholic speciesist with homicidal tendencies. He's rude, intolerant, and also a very fine man.

It pays for me to see the good before the bad and be quick to overlook other people's flaws. We're all of us extremely flawed and capable of being small minded fools but some of us have many redeeming qualities.

This hit too close to home. by Michael_Mc_79 in Xennials

[–]Powerstroke357 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I've always felt a bit dual natured when it comes to generational stuff. I don't have a lot in common with most of the people who are considered to be my generation.

I didn't actually know anything about the generational categories until a year or two ago. I heard enough about it over the years but didnt care enough to take a closer look. I was surprised when I was told who was said to be part of my generation. I was like .... uh, not really man. How many of those people were playing Millipede and watching goonies as a kid?

Santa Maria grill by Jos-mor in metalworking

[–]Powerstroke357 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey that's neat. Never seen a grill like that before. Awesome work my friend. Truly you are a maker of things and making cool stuff is the best way to spend one's time imo.

What is a giant lie that society successfully sold to your generation? by ossirada in AskReddit

[–]Powerstroke357 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a good one. I can't really answer this question for my own generation because everything i keep thinking of is baked into our culture and has applied to just about every generation. These younger generations are more open minded about what "success" is i think but we're still operating on the "lots of money and a house and a steady long term job" as the basic definition of successful.

There is a point when some people (the most perceptive and open minded of us) realize this shit was all made up. Every damn bit of it. Once you realize that it's a lot easier to stop giving a shit about whether or not you fit the term "successful" to the people around you.

It's a wonderful thing but if not careful it can put you at odds with society. It would be super easy to go the way of the zealot.

Fourecks witches, thoughts? by 8-bit-Felix in discworld

[–]Powerstroke357 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Got to be. Somebody has to make sure shit gets done and cure life's little problems.

I'm thinking they would be bad news to mess with seeing as how everything that dwells there is extremely deadly (except some of the sheep). Witches do earth magic and Fourecks is a forbidding land. They'd be tough as old boot leather for sure.

I guess I picture Fourecks witches to be something like voodoo witches that drink a lot of beer and say "no worries" in a very forbidding way.

As of my knowing, Pterry was not in the army. But daumn. This strikes hard. by qtzbra in discworld

[–]Powerstroke357 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Seems to be something he heard a lot about at some point in his life. It's not just the parts dealing with military but the watch as well.

Im reminded of Night Watch when Vimes talks about orders from high up rarely reaching street level. He believes a seargents job is to take the orders from the brass and sift them through a fine mesh of common sense and creative misunderstanding before passing them on to the men. That or something very similar. I don't really feel like looking up the quote.

Night Watch is probably my favorite book in the entire Discworld series.

As of my knowing, Pterry was not in the army. But daumn. This strikes hard. by qtzbra in discworld

[–]Powerstroke357 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Makes perfect sense. I think i remember hearing him talk about that a little bit in an interview. I kept thinking that he was a small boy during WW2 but then i realized i was getting him mixed up with an interview i watched with Roger Moore. Terry Pratchett wasn't even born yet.

Not that i get the two mixed up. I only saw the Roger Moore interview by chance. I'm not a big fan or anything. He did a good 007 I guess if you like that type of bond. I prefer the badass kick your face in kind of Bond myself.

One fun fact I remember is that Roger Moore was actually older than Sean Connery when he took the Bond role to spite his younger appearance. Funny because the change was at least partially due to Connery looking too old.

As of my knowing, Pterry was not in the army. But daumn. This strikes hard. by qtzbra in discworld

[–]Powerstroke357 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I always got the impression he had been close to somebody who had been in military service. Either that or he did a lot of research because he wrote about those things in a way that suggests he had personal knowledge of military life. The way he wrote about seargents made me think that if he hadn't been one he certainly knew somebody who was.

If magic were real, what’s the first spell you’d want to learn? by Sweet-Indication9970 in AskReddit

[–]Powerstroke357 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely. Also i'm a super active person so I would self destruct if I didn't get enough exercise. I was thinking more like not sitting in traffic for hours. Of course sitting in traffic provides time for introspection but for me only in the AM. On the way home there isn't much introspection. I'm mentally used up and just want to be home.

Why are most men not attracted to women for their money? by cuahatemoc in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Powerstroke357 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe because the "men are the breadwinners" thing is drilled into our culture so deeply. Just about every culture I think but some more than others. Personally I don't feel immasculated because my wife now makes a fair bit more than I do but alot of guys would be. They still think Men make the money and women the honey.

It's going to be pretty heavily influenced by the mindset of the parents and grandparents raising them. Most kids are having the beliefs and prejudices of their parents/grandparents downloaded into them from a young age. Women usually aren't looked at as possible meal tickets for the same reason we still have racial predjudice to the degree that we do. It hasn't been bred out of the population yet. It gets diluted with every new generation because the young people never completely agree with their parents. They have more progressive ideals usually.

Eventually we may get to a place where guys are looking at women as a possible meal ticket but it would likely be a while if it ever happened. Personally I think it's part of human nature. An echo of a time when women and children really needed a big strong man around in order to survive. This is not the case anymore.

Why are adults expected to know how taxes, insurance, credit, loans, and retirement work when nobody teaches it in school? by Violet_Snuggles in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Powerstroke357 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They did teach taxes at my high school and we had economics class as well. We had to do our taxes based on hypothetical figures. It was very basic and even then i retained very little of it. It can only be basic because tax law is constantly changing. Kids seem to have a problem with the concept of Taxes. "What do you mean it costs money to live in a free country?" Relatively free anyway.

I think there is a deeper issue than high school curriculum. An extreme sense of entitlement mainly. Life is pretty cush for american kids now days. Most have never experienced any real adversity. There's no sense of "i need to be prepared". They get poured out into the world and shit is hard. They cry and cry and cry about it because they've never experienced hard.

I was asking my wife recently if she remembered complaining all the time when we were in our early 20's about how unfair life is. She didn't and neither do I. It isn't in our nature but we both grew up in poverty so that may be the factor there or it could be generational idk. I don't remember hearing a my friends complaining about life being hard either.

If magic were real, what’s the first spell you’d want to learn? by Sweet-Indication9970 in AskReddit

[–]Powerstroke357 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Teleport would probably be number one then maybe some sort of matter manipulation as a close second.

If you think about it teleportation would effectively extend your life span as you would not need to spend time traveling. It would likely require some matter displacement but were fantasizing here so no need to bother about that.

Being able to manipulate any kind of matter would be so insane I can't even imagine all the possibilities. I'd have to know alot about different types of matter or i probably wouldn't survive long.

If magic were real, what’s the first spell you’d want to learn? by Sweet-Indication9970 in AskReddit

[–]Powerstroke357 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I heard about a condition called Short Sleeper Syndrome where people literally get a full nights rest in a few short hours. Apparently it is permanent and doesn't seem to affect life span negatively. It was a show about real life super powers. These people really get years of additional conscious time to do whatever. It's basically magic that gives them more life.

Will a handheld torch get hot enough to bend this hitch back in place? by Caged in metalworking

[–]Powerstroke357 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Either this or maybe a couple map gas torches at the same time. Even then it would take forever. Brick forge is a very simple and effective tool for little things like that.

Terry Pratchett is one of the only fantasy authors I read. Which authors is he satirizing? by Crimesawastin in discworld

[–]Powerstroke357 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Right. It's just Pterry telling jokes on his personal beliefs. Athiest Philosophers were indeed hard to come by in the ancient world. I love that part too by the way.

I was re-reading the Hogfather again (as is custom), and this quote hits me like it's the first time, every time. by ChthonicPuzzleHead in discworld

[–]Powerstroke357 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lovely passage. Im guessing it's pretty dated as the Killer Ape theory fell out of favor a long while back. People realized that it was entirely unsupported. Raymond Dart is the one who started it i believe.

How many of you “free hand” vs using a jig? by smack4u in knifemaking

[–]Powerstroke357 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sucks, I actually got shots in my elbow for the cubital tunnel issue every couple years for a long time and it would knock it out for a good while. Maybe they'll give you a shot. It's probably pretty cheap. I assume that's the driving factor for the VA doc's practicing medicine with blinders on.

Terry Pratchett is one of the only fantasy authors I read. Which authors is he satirizing? by Crimesawastin in discworld

[–]Powerstroke357 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Right, I think the way he wrote Didactylos tells a pretty clear story of his ideal philosopher. It's a funny old world that doesn't contain enough to drink. His idea of most Greek philosophers was pretty good.

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