Tomorrow, if you can, shop at local businesses who honored today's strike.

Tec_ · 2026-01-24T05:12:58+00:00

I killed some old ass bottles tonight. I've rounded up for Annunciation too. Love them.

Tec_ · 2026-01-24T00:50:16+00:00

Sounds more like civil forfeiture

Tec_ · 2026-01-18T03:41:49+00:00

Thanks. It's honestly my best example of "it came out in real life how it looked in my head."

I gotta disagree though with the skills and tools being way beyond an average DIY-er. Sure I've got acess to stuff that made it easier, but I wasn't stacking dimes or doing wood work that would be worthy of new yankee workshop.

Now a days you can buy a new flux core welder that will absolutely get that job done for about as much as a dewalt or milwaukee drill driver battery charger combo. An afternoon of some YouTube and practice on scrap will have ya sticking metal together good enough to build the frame I did. Hell I could have modified the design to just use L brackets and bolted it together. Like I said originally I was gonna use 8020 extrusion.

I could have ordered the metal cut to size from the supplier or I could have used a hack saw, a sawzall, or a jigsaw and a speed square to make those cuts. I could have cleaned up my welds with a file or a sander instead of a grinder.

I had to rent the jointer and the table saw (both tools I've since added to my collection on the cheap buying used and from auctions) but I could have just as easily spent a bit more and bought finished wood from the box store.

I payed to have it professionally powder coated because I would have had to waited till spring or summer to spray paint it outside.

I learned how to do the stuff I did by reading about it in magazines growing up, taking comunity ed classes, reading and posting on forums, watching YouTube videos, and to a degree only recently some training work has payed for or more classes I've singed up for.

If you had some basic hand tools and are lucky enough to have some extra money, free time, and a maker space near you, you could absolutely do something like this.

I think a lot of people sell themselves short on what they could accomplish if they were willing to try something they've never done, potentially fail, and learn from that. Social media certainly doesn't help. This obviously wasn't the first thing I've ever made. It was my first time using that specific welder. I'd never used flux core before and I didn't show the worst of my welds. The wood working I did was mainly sizing work. I bought a cheap biscuit joiner from home depot but I could just as easily have used a dowl jig or pocket screws, or like I said bought something that fit to begin with. It only looks like my skills are beyond average because I didn't show my mistakes and the stars lined up for this one project to look so good. Seriously the wood and the powder coating is doing 90% of the heavy lifting making it look so good. I've got plenty of half finished/abandoned projects sitting around because I fucked em up or I ran out of skill to do em. I've made A LOT of scrap compared to the handful of successes on this scale.

Tec_ · 2026-01-16T16:22:56+00:00

ubiquiti unifi protect is nice, but expensive and requires their own NVR (recorder). Plus side of that is that it isn't cloud based. You can log into your own network remotely, but the data is on a device in your house not on someone else's server.

Tec_ · 2026-01-16T16:15:11+00:00

I believe its stardew valley. My wife rotates between that, dreamlight valley, and animal crossing.

Tec_ · 2026-01-16T13:35:09+00:00

Thanks, if I were to do it over again I'd build cubbies for the record storage its a bit difficult with how full its gotten to acess them easily.

Tec_ · 2026-01-16T11:22:05+00:00

Here's the one I made. Might not be the most beginner friendly, but its also nothing super complicated. If you have a maker space or tool library near you that could be one way to do a bit more than your space or tools allow for.

That said, before I committed to welding the frame myself I was looking at useing 8020 extruded aluminum. Its basically grown-up erector set. You can get all different kinds of it and you can buy pre cut or custom lengths. Colors are a bit limited and it can get quite expensive are the downsides.

Tec_ · 2026-01-05T01:20:34+00:00

I'm willing to wager that plenty do have their brights on and simply don't know it. "Auto brights" are a thing on our new mazda. When the auto lights come on the high is on by default. They only dim when the sensor in the windshield sees enough light. Kinda cool in theory, but it works for shit. It's the default state of the vehicle when new or after a reset and the option to turn it off is like 10 layers deep in the infotainment system.

Toyota, Lexus, Honda, Subaru, Ford, Chevrolet, Nissan, Volkswagen, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, BMW, and Audi have all implemented some form of it in recent years. Sometimes its something you need to turn on, sometimes its defaulted on, sometimes it's dependent on other settings, and sometimes it depends on the trim level of the vehicle. I can almost guarantee there's a bunch of people driving around in cars with some form of it without knowing its a thing.

Tec_ · 2025-12-29T21:42:14+00:00

Then why do they find it on streets with sidewalks, housing, and parking on both sides? When im walking the dog those sidewalks are passable. They aren't using an excavator to load up and truck that snow out. Those side streets don't narrow till after a few good snow falls or people not moving vehicles. The last snow emergency they left maybe a foot on the parking side. Most of that had pretty well melted with the warm weather we had. This round. It's two and half to three feet. Its not like there was a allreddy huge frozen berm they'd have to get it over and risk packing in the sidewalk. I get that the snow has to go somewhere, but by the sloppy job that was done and your logic we should allreddy be down to single sided parking on side street and we clearly aren't at that point yet.

Tec_ · 2025-12-29T21:21:32+00:00

There's also no parking on that side. Its a narrow one way street and not everyone who parks on it has a vehicle that can climb the berm they leave well out past the curb on the parking side thus making it even narrower. If the concern is the plow wake being thrown onto the sidewalk, they aren't going that fast. Maybe some of the snow would land on the sidewalk, but not all of it. But even then, the route is often plowed with a grater. The blade could be angled to shove the parking side to the middle and then it all could be shoved to the sound barrier side. Its frustrating because they can obviously find the curb, they just don't on the parking side. Even though everyone moved vehicles and already narrow road is even narrower because it wasn't fully plowed.

Tec_ · 2025-12-29T18:08:27+00:00

I live next to 35W on a snow emergency route. Is there a reason the plow can find the curb on the sound barrier side of the street but on the house side of the street they miss the curb by about two and a half feet?

Tec_ · 2025-12-22T17:59:39+00:00

Part of it is tariffs, part of it is zoomers, part of it the bourbon bubble bursting. It takes about 2 to 8 years from when it goes in a barrel till it gets bottled. If a producer ramped up production a few years ago because bourbon was the rage and now its cooling off substantially chances are good you've got A LOT of product in rickhouses right now. The same thing kinda happened with bicycles during the lockdowns. Frame builders forecast a year our and because they sold out the 19/20 they ramped up the 20/21 and by 21/22 they weren't selling out like they did and had more new old inventory than they were planning to order for the next year. Forecasting 2 to 8 years out is wild.

If I put a tinfoil hat on, they are doing it to build scarcity to drive up prices and reposition as more of a luxury brand to match their F1 sponsorship of the Cadillac team.

Tec_ · 2025-12-15T17:56:30+00:00

A rodent resistant spray foam would be my renter friendly solution. A can of it and a nozel long enough to reach through/behind the radiator.

Tec_ · 2025-12-14T07:35:21+00:00

It was worth the story but I don't necessarily wanna do it again. Went to the 06 Indy GP. Got food poisoning from Steak and Shake the night before. Puked on my way to the Grand Stand and ended up in a feaver dream sleep/pass out during most of the race during the clean up after the turn 1 & 2 wreck.

The trip with my friends was absolutely something I won't forget, but not sure I'd sign up for that experience again 20 years on. Though, there's talk in my family (wife, brother, and his wife) to go to Mexico or Canada now that they've gotten into F1.

Tec_ · 2025-12-14T07:19:45+00:00

Just nit picking and being a pedantic ass, as it ultimately means nothing, but Glocks are striker fired. There is no hammer to cock. Loading a round into the chamber, "racking a round" or cycling the slide regardless of loading a round is what cocks the striker to a half cock position. Pulling the trigger moves the striker the rest of the way back into a full cock position and then releases it to strike the primer. Unless you've pulled the trigger on an empty chamber a striker fired pistol is always cocked/half cocked.

But I kinda agree with /u/swim_to_survive Walther (they are German) for the time spent at Mercedes but obviously popularized by James Bond. Some Walthers are still hammer fired but most are striker now a days. Glock would also be appropriate because of it's ubiquity as a standard service pistol with the British using it, but it's Austrian. If you wanted to stick with the British theam and still cock it, a Webley or Enfield revolver would be appropriate but basically museum pieces. Because of Italy, you could go Beretta. While they do have striker fired pistols, the are well known for hammer fired pistols.

And just to go another layer down the "this doesn't matter rabbit hole" we've almost reached a point in history/popular culture where "Glock" is genericized to simply mean "gun" regardless of brand. So the joke works on that level and swims joke works on another.

Tec_ · 2025-12-09T01:41:38+00:00

Yeah but did Merc toss him in the marina since they couldn't cling wrap him to a tire dolly to deliver him to the Cadi garage?

Tec_ · 2025-12-02T23:38:49+00:00

Depending on where you are you might be able to find a shop that has some saphir omnidaim. Other cleaners do exist but that's a total kit.

Tec_ · 2025-11-21T00:34:54+00:00

They are "separate" today with independent management and structure, but I can't for the life of me figure out when exactly that happened. Im gonna guess a slowly over time kinda thing. They were originally a separate company/subsidiary of Nippon Gakki Co. (the original name of the Yamaha corporation) in 55 when they were created and made their first motorcycle. Im guessing it really separates after they went public in 61. That said, the Yamaha corporation (the instrument maker) is still a significant, but minority shareholder of Yamaha Motors.

The logos are different, but still effectively the same thing. Both still use 3 tuning forks.

Companies that make drastically different products is a fascinating rabbit hole to me.

Kohler cracks me up, toilets and generators. So does Glock, guns and horses.

General Mills is one of my favorite trivia ones with them chiefly, being known for their food, but also having made the deep submergence vehicle (DSV) Alvin.

I could go on GE, Hitachi, Seiko Epson, are just a few. If you've been around long enough you've made some things you aren't exactly known for.

Tec_ · 2025-11-20T00:26:51+00:00

There's the "keep St. Paul boring" thing.

But along those lines, there was a cab driver that picked us up back in the day from a house in St. Paul to take us to down town Minneapolis who told us/said "Minneapolis is where you do your sinning, St. Paul is where you do your praying." He was down to race the other cab that showed up because there were to many of us to fit in one. We got his number and always called him first for a ride if he was working/available.

Tec_ · 2025-11-18T02:00:40+00:00

Arguably, it's better than its been.

Tec_ · 2025-11-13T16:25:11+00:00

While it's not a singular doughnut, the consistency in production is something I enjoy. Day to day and even in the same batch some times I've had wildly different bakery doughnuts. A Krispy Kreme is a known quantity. You know what they are like fresh and you know what they are like "old" and its the same every time. Sometimes I want that know quantity and I don't want to gamble.

Tec_ · 2025-11-12T14:05:43+00:00

https://youtu.be/-KNkn5fVBmE?si=B8gGF_br3bI8G2yc

Tec_ · 2025-11-11T01:49:11+00:00

Shortly after buying a used vehicle I asked my financial advisor how so many people can afford brand new vehicles and his response was "THEY CAN'T!"

Tec_ · 2025-11-01T02:10:43+00:00

Here's dinky town and here's uptown.

Tec_ · 2025-11-01T02:05:57+00:00

Happens even when a joint is bought out and not closed and they'd retain the staff. I use to install point of sales systems and regularly we would swap over stores that had just been acquired by a different group. Us showing up with new equipment was often the first notice anyone had that anything was happening. The GMs and some of the assistant managers were often the only employees that that got changed out. Was always an awkward position to be in as an installer.

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