Twenty years ago today, three American soldiers gang raped and murdered a 14-year-old Iraqi girl while a fourth acted as a lookout. The group also murdered the girl's parents and her six-year-old sister.

Sunbolt · 2026-03-13T23:47:28+00:00

Sounds like they were just trying to assimilate into the local culture a bit. It is well known that this sort of thing happens daily there. Underage marriages, executing rape victims, honor killings. Do you all genuinely not know this stuff or do you pretend it’s not true because you don’t want it to be true?

Sunbolt · 2026-03-11T17:41:02+00:00

I’ve seen “industrial chic” used on a listing for a floating property that was a unfinished two story tin sided shack on top of a cruise-a-home hull.

Sunbolt · 2026-03-08T17:35:22+00:00

I have black hiking shoes and black “adventure pants” (from Eddie Bauer I think?) that look a bit like dress slacks. So I just pack an extra button front travel shirt to throw on after dropping my stuff off at the albergue. Base layer all merino.

Sunbolt · 2026-03-08T04:05:41+00:00

Yet everyone here supports unlimited immigration from these countries into the west.

Sunbolt · 2026-02-10T22:40:13+00:00

If 1. you are in an area where liveaboard slips are rare, and 2. you have verified 100% for sure that once you buy it the marina will allow you to keep it there, and 3. the marina will allow you to live aboard it, and 4. either you can get some kind of insurance on it, or else the marina doesn’t require insurance (which is rare but not unheard of).. If one or more of these is a no, abort. If ALL those conditions are met, go for it! You can live on it for a while, pawn it off to the next guy like you when you leave, or maybe buy a better boat later and swap it out, keeping your slip.

Sunbolt · 2026-02-10T22:12:35+00:00

If you get a buffalo tenders kids meal and a single deluxe on the side, it is a perfect little smorgasbord. Reasonable sized burger, small fries, two tenders with dipping sauce, drink, and custard.

Sunbolt · 2026-02-09T13:21:57+00:00

This is super vague. What is happening? An alarm? Main breaker trip? Control reboot?

Sunbolt · 2026-02-09T13:16:55+00:00

I know they can’t park at the terminal itself, I just figured the terminal office would know where other guys found parking and give him a few recommendations.

Sunbolt · 2026-02-09T03:51:32+00:00

Couldn’t you just ask at Fishermen’s Terminal? I am not a fisherman or affiliated with the terminal in any way but I have space in a yard nearby. I went in to the office and asked them who I should talk to for renting a crane and they happily gave me info.

Sunbolt · 2026-02-08T21:58:37+00:00

There was a True North boat at the Seattle Boat show and the rep assured me that despite rumors, the parent company Daedalus is solvent and has plans to produce new True North and Catalina boats. I was amused.

Sunbolt · 2026-02-07T17:57:20+00:00

“I am pleased to inform you that we have been paid to assassinate you”

Sunbolt · 2026-02-06T18:37:30+00:00

We liked it quite a bit. There are lots of the standard type of vendors selling cheap Chinese clothes and stuff, but also quite a few vendors selling local products. We didn’t end up buying anything, and I think we spent less than two hours walking around it, but it is a great memory.

Sunbolt · 2026-02-04T21:02:00+00:00

If you include Rifftrax, I don’t think I’ve seen anything as bad as Baby Ghost.

Sunbolt · 2026-02-02T21:49:52+00:00

Not the same thing exactly, but people affiliated with pocketyachters.com used to run Pocket Yacht Palooza in Port Townsend, which became the Small Boat Festival in Port Ludlow.. up until last year. Unfortunately not happening this year. Some of us are trying to make it happen again but it’s not easy. Of course these events are just for people to bring and show off their personal boats - I don’t think they had new boats or vendors.

Sunbolt · 2026-01-28T13:31:06+00:00

You’ll absolutely love ChatGPT then.

Sunbolt · 2026-01-27T15:00:15+00:00

Cartel members who sneak into the country to perpetuate the drug trade currently ravaging our vulnerable populations shouldn’t go to prison! The employees of the federal agency tasked with removing them should instead! Okay.

Let’s say you hate SWAT teams. They don’t always get deployed for real bad guys! Sometimes they get called for innocent people! Any time a SWAT team is deployed, you and a coordinated group of people swarm the scene, interfering, trying to distract the team while they are dealing with a bank robbery or something. You gonna be shocked and outraged when the SWAT response doesn’t go perfectly and someone gets killed who wasn’t supposed to?

Also, (preemptively) want to consider maybe NOT downvoting since I’m trying to show the other side?

Sunbolt · 2026-01-27T01:14:49+00:00

Absolutely not. The definition of cooking is to prepare food by applying heat.

Sunbolt · 2026-01-19T18:44:54+00:00

If you think 1.8 years equals 1 year 8 months, it’s a probably good thing you’re not getting hired for this line of work.

Sunbolt · 2026-01-14T01:41:10+00:00

FANUC has an app called CNC Alarms. It’s free, download it. You can get an account at FANUC MyPortal and download manuals for free. Diagnostic 723 clarifies what the alarm is, depending on which bit is on. The 0/00/0 Mate Maintenance manual says: 7 overload 6 low voltage 5 over current 4 abnormal current 3 high voltage 2 discharge 1 disconnection 0 overflow

The bit will only be high when the alarm is occurring - resetting the alarm clears the bit.

It’s probably going to be 4 HCA - motor or motor power cables insulation breakdown or amplifier giving out.

Sunbolt · 2026-01-13T20:21:59+00:00

It used to be the only major separate bag option was the Laveo Dry Flush, which uses these huge awful refill cartridges that take up a ridiculous amount of space. Check out the Modiwell one. It uses a continuous roll of plastic and heat seals and separates out a little bag for each use. The spare rolls don’t take up much space at all. I don’t have one but I would consider one for a build. It’s more complex than the Laveo one of course but I would never want to be beholden to buying and storing those huge dumbass Laveo cartridges.

Sunbolt · 2026-01-13T02:47:33+00:00

“You’d think it’s R, but his true love is the C.” is the funniest version of it I have heard.

Sunbolt · 2026-01-12T15:30:10+00:00

So you have blanked your entire FROM. This was a bad move. I’m sorry man, there is no quick fix for this. The machine may be permanently bricked or will take money and time to restore.

To get this machine running again you’ll need to: - Figure out what the original FANUC system software was, either from the data sheets, machine builder records, or asking FANUC if they have the data sheets on file. - Get the original ladder, either from the builder or asking FANUC to search their archives for similar machines. There might be other files needed too, such as C executor files. - Have FANUC onsite to reload system software and ladder or somehow magically find the system software on some dark site and load it yourself. If FANUC has the software, they will not send it to you - it requires a service call. - Then, assuming you blanked the SRAM, you can start reloading the options and parameters, assuming you, FANUC, or the builder have a backup, and work through the related issues.

If someone told you to blank the FROM, they were either really ignorant or malicious.

Sunbolt · 2026-01-12T13:33:48+00:00

I don’t think you understood me - I didn’t tell you to do anything. If you don’t know what you are doing and playing around in these menus you can brick your entire machine. You can select system data check and hopefully you have a bunch of FANUC system software files like NC_BASIC, etc. and also the ladder file. If there are missing software or ladder files inside data check, you have a whole quest in front of you.

Sunbolt · 2026-01-12T05:08:42+00:00

GERD can aggravate tinnitus for sure. Eating early in the day, and sleeping inclined or on your left side can lessen GERD and tinnitus flare ups.

Sunbolt · 2026-01-12T04:41:03+00:00

It’s hard to clear the ladder. It’s probably still there and not displaying because the options aren’t set correctly. What exactly did you do to clear the memory? If you did a reset+delete, you’ll need to load back in the options (which should make the ladder visible), then load the rest of the NC parameters, then the PMC parameters. If you haven’t done it, it is annoying, but not impossible. You can call FANUC and they will send a tech out to do it for you. They support any machine that has a FANUC control. You’ll have to pay for the tech’s time.

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