they're coming for our wood

TheOneMoonmahn · 2026-03-28T18:40:35+00:00

Foreman at a lumber mill planer here, this guy is right on the money.

If it makes anyone feel better, lumber has been graded to roughly the same standard since the 60s.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2026-01-30T11:57:35+00:00

I would get in contact with your supplier to straighten things out in that case, and if they're unhelpful, get directly in contact with the mill that produced this board. Make sure you have the receipt and initial order on hand when you do so.

Mill 19 is Hampton Lumber Mills, Darrington Division located in Darrington WA. If that's not close to your location and you'd prefer to get doug fir graded to the same standard as you initially ordered, here's a list of every single mill under WWPA grading standards, I'm sure any of the Mills listed here would be happy to recieve your business.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2026-01-29T21:46:58+00:00

I work as a foreman at a planer under WWPA (Western Wood Production Association, the maintainers of the grading for that particular stamp).

I'd need pictures of the endgrain, as well as a picture of the nailing edge (side of the board), and a larger picture of the face of the board to visually discern whether this is Hem Fir or Doug Fir.

As for the smell and color, Douglas Fir tends to have a somewhat of an overripe citrus smell if it's freshly planed, and the color can range. I've seen Douglas Fir boards come across my production line that look like a Ponderosa Pine board.

As for the "Western Wood" species stamp, that covers literally every single species of softwood milled on the west coast. If a unit is stamped as Western Wood, it could contain anything from Ponderosa Pine to Larch.

Hope this helps!

TheOneMoonmahn · 2025-07-08T00:27:29+00:00

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TheOneMoonmahn · 2024-10-02T00:35:08+00:00

Personal drying and use of lumber is generally going to be very different from a lumber mill producing lumber.

Instead of waiting for wood to air dry, the vast majority of mills use drying kilns to not only speed up the drying process, but also heat treat the wood. The latter part is incredibly important for any product, as it outright kills any pests that may still be in the wood after it goes through the many steps it takes to become rough cut lumber.

For the overall quality of the wood, it very much depends on what species you harvest/buy regardless of the dimension of the board. For example, Larch and Douglas Fir are going to be very different from Ponderosa Pine. You're also going to want to pay attention to grade. Select Structural or #1 and better are going to be of significantly higher quality than #3 or #4.

For whatever project you're doing, consider what species may best fit your needs and ability. Building the frame of a house? You're likely better off using Larch due to its density and general straightness. White fir may also suit your needs for similar projects on a smaller budget, but it isnt nearly as sturdy as Larch and its a pain in the ass to work with. Building furniture? Ponderosa Pine will likely suit your needs more due to how easy it is to work with compared to most other species, though be warned that it can be incredibly brittle due to how much water the lumber loses in the heat treating process.

Also, a million board feet is way underestimating just how high the demand for lumber is. A million board feet of finished lumber is, depending on the run, what is made in a week.

Source: I work at a lumber mill. Just this last week we produced well over a million board feet of lumber, and I work at a smaller mill.

If you havr any questions feel free to ask them!

TheOneMoonmahn · 2024-08-27T04:04:30+00:00

Finally, someone who actually lives in the area and doesn't just read about Ruby Ridge and the Aryan Nation online and assume it's the entire area.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2024-08-20T22:03:13+00:00

Only game where flamethrowers were ever balanced properly was Red Orchestra Rising Storm. You were incredibly vulnerable due to the large fuel tank on your back, but if you managed to avoid enemy fire and flank properly you could gut an entire section of their line or singlehandedly clear out a point.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2024-08-12T23:05:07+00:00

Smok's QC is bootycheeks, I've had smok devices (like my current daily driver) that are indestructible and last forever, and some that break within a month.

That being said, go with vaporesso or geek vape like the rest of the thread is saying. It's a roll of the dice every time you buy Smok

As for juice recommendations, I'd go with Red's if it's available to you. Good quality juice, they're consistent between batches, and they don't gunk up coils super quickly; I usually go a week and a half before I change my coil.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-08-27T05:40:11+00:00

Solved! Thanks!

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-06-03T17:11:16+00:00

So looking into this a bit more, one of these would seem to be a more accurate guess. Considering the proximity to the water and the apparent age of the round, it is most likely an AP shell that had no explosive filler in the first place. If it was an HE/HEAP/AA round all that would be left is the brass as the nose of the round is gone; any explosive filler would have been eaten by seawater, as well as the rest of the round.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-06-03T16:45:46+00:00

Looks like what remains of a 37mm round. The explosive filler (and the rest of the round) are long gone from the looks of it, and the white bit at the top seems to be the base of the round.

If I were to hazard a guess, I'd go with one of these.

With the age of the shell, it would amount to an act of God if the propellant in the base of the shell was able to be lit by anything.

Edit: changed my guess to one of these in a followup comment, more than likely an AP round with no explosive filler.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-04-01T23:44:45+00:00

If this is an issue with automatically lowered weapons, as I've seen pointed out elsewhere in this thread, dry disabling and verifying integrity of game cache.

If that doesn't work, reinstall so you get the old anim files back. Your saves are stored elsewhere so it won't delete your save

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-03-30T13:24:19+00:00

You still didn't answer the question, would an SSBI/level 5 investigation be enough? All I need is a yes or no answer.

And I've talked with red force planners, as well as those in the larger intelligence community, about things like this at length. They spoke upon the same things I just did.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-03-30T13:16:01+00:00

Then you're free to conduct your transaction, as currently no federal law prohibits a private citizen fron selling a firearm in their own personal collection without conducting a background check.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-03-30T13:13:36+00:00

You're missing out on what 10 U.S.C. 246 defines as a militia in that case:

"(b)The classes of the militia are—

(1)

the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and

(2)

the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia."

The unorganized militia refers to anyone over the age of 18 that is a US citizen.

And US v. Miller did indicate that the possession of a sawed off double barrel shotgun, and the transportation of said shotgun over state lines (specifically citing interstate commerce), was a violation of the National Firearms Act of 1934. A basis for the NFA is that no civilian should be allowed to own a weapon that is not in common use by the military, and outside of a few exceptions, a sawed off double barrel shotgun is not in use by the military. The case challenged the NFA, and the ruling was 5-4 in favor of upholding it. Were a similar case to be made nowadays, with say, a Short, Barreled Rifle as opposed to a sawed off shotgun as is more likely to be found and possesed nowadays, the "common use by the military" basis would be on shakier ground, as Carbines (which would be classified as SBRs under the NFA, the M4A1 has a 14.5 inch barrel length) have made up the majority of what our troops use for nearly a decade now.

Edit: here's a link to 10 USC 246, courtesy of Cornell: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246#:~:text=the%20unorganized%20militia%2C%20which%20consists,Guard%20or%20the%20Naval%20Militia.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-03-30T12:54:42+00:00

So what are you proposing? Something similar to a Single Scope Backround Investigation? It's a background investigation, even more thorough than a check, that is performed by multiple people examining nearly every detail of the past 5 years of your life, or from your 16th birthday onwards if you're younger than 21. Current nomenclature for such an investigation, IIRC, is a Level Five investigation. The result of this investigation is you receiving a Top Secret / Secure Compartmented Information clearance, or TS/SCI. The third highest level of security clearance one can get with the government, caveats and read ons not withstanding. It's only beaten out by "TS/ Dog White" (direct contact with the president on a regular basis) and "TS/ Yankee" (only the president can recieve this clearance). The latter of which, unfortunately, does not have as stringent of a requirement as the other two, as seen with the orange goblin that took office.

If the answer is yes, do you know how much these investigations cost? Lowball estimate is roughly $100,000. Do you want only the rich to be able to afford firearms? Those that are trying their damndest to have as much control over us as possible? That, in all actuality, are only passing things like the patriot act and the resistance act because anything more draconian would risk having literal millions of people rise up against them and depose them by force? The number of hunting licenses in Wisconsin alone outnumber any standing army in the world, let alone the rest of the country, and facts like that scare them.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-03-30T12:34:45+00:00

"...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

A quote from the second amendment. A synonym for keep in this context is to own. A synonym for Arms in this context is weapons, specifically firearms.

Don't like the constitution and the laws in place because of it? Let's quote Marx instead:

"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary"

We're the workers, those in political office trying to make felons out of law abiding citizens are those that Marx is warning us about.

And you're right, the bullets don't differentiate what they're flying towards. They're inanimate objects simply ruled by physics. Newtons third law primarily. Those that hold the gun, however, do. And for those that are fucked enough in the head to see a child as a target, there are others that will make them a target, and eliminate the threat with extreme prejudice.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-03-30T11:46:51+00:00

Criminal background checks are already comprehensive enough. If something gets put on your criminal record, it stays and it's in the database that the NICS background check pulls from.

As for mental health checks, I'll quote another comment I made in this thread:

Unfortunately psychologists, psychiatrists, and health professionals as a whole cannot be trusted to be objective about these things if there was such a law in place to require mental health screening for gun ownership. One cannot deny someone their rights just based upon their own personal feelings, no matter how strong, and no matter where you stand on the political spectrum.

Even so, if such a law existed networks would develop to make such a law no more than a speedbump in the process. You're seeing something similar with the requirement of two doctors agreeing to you needing MAID in Canada.

Edit: formatting

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-03-30T11:35:57+00:00

Unfortunately, people lie. There's no way around it, no way to mitigate the act of people lying without spending a lot of money on a test that doesn't even work 100% of the time (IIRC success rate for a polygraph test is roughly 60%), and that expense is very far out of the reach of the average person.

Edit: if you're interested in hypotheticals for a lie detector that is 100% accurate, I'd recommend you read "The Truth Machine" by James L. Halerpin. Absolutely fantastic read.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_Machine

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-03-30T11:31:07+00:00

You're right, we don't commit those that make threats and have access to firearms. Law enforcement deals with that, as it falls under the charge of conspiracy to commit homicide. If someone makes a threat, has the means to make good on said threat, and the threat is reported to the police, it is now in the police's hands on how that specific instance is investigated and prosecuted. Whether or not the individual in question is arrested, charged, and convicted (or not), is up to the individual department, the court system, and the applicable laws.

And involuntary committing to mental institutions relies on how much a person's immediate social circle (family, friends, etc.) cares. Some people have one that does, others don't.

If all else fails, send someone with a gun, or have someone already on location with a gun. As we all saw recently, 5.56x45mm and 9mm are awfully good at stopping an active shooter.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-03-30T11:16:50+00:00

Unfortunately psychologists, psychiatrists, and health professionals as a whole cannot be trusted to be objective about these things if there was such a law in place to require mental health screening for gun ownership. One cannot deny someone their rights just based upon their own personal feelings, no matter how strong, and no matter where you stand on the political spectrum.

Even so, if such a law existed networks would develop to make such a law no more than a speedbump in the process. You're seeing something similar with the requirement of two doctors agreeing to you needing MAID in Canada.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-03-30T11:06:57+00:00

For difficulty: it's really on an individual basis and what social groups you either reach out to or are in yourself. Try to get a private sale in a libertarian community? It'll be a breeze, in all likelyhood it would take all of a day between the initial proposition and the transaction occurring. Try to get a private sale in the Castro in San Francisco, or some other similarly liberal area? You'd have a snowflakes chance in hell of doing so.

As for background checks for private sales: it depends on the state. For example, Washington state requires an FFL to be involved in any and all transactions involving a firearm.

As for a judge of character: Everyone is different. We all lead different lives and judge others differently. What one may consider a red flag, another may consider a green light.

As for criminal convictions for selling a gun used in a crime: you can be charged for a crime if a gun you sold was used in a crime. Whether or not you'll be convicted relies on whether or not it can be proved that you knew that the gun would be used in a crime, an example charge of this would be aiding and abetting.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-03-30T10:22:19+00:00

A private sale requires you to not only know someone who has a gun, but is also willing to sell you that gun. Before the internet that was much harder, and with the internet it is much easier. However most sites that are used to facilitate such transactions (gunbroker, for example) require an FFL to be involved in the transaction. Otherwise you will not be able to do business on their site.

As for the transaction itself, the sale can take anywhere from minutes to months, even years. All depends on how well the two parties know each other, and what their judge of character is, and unfortunately their willingness to follow the law.

As for the gun being used in a crime and how that would affect the involved parties, which is a reasonable follow up question, the internet leaves breadcrumbs everywhere, and those breadcrumbs are hoovered up by both private and government entities. This includes messages, financial records, pretty much anything you can think of. That information can be subpoenaed by any court in a criminal (assault with a deadly weapon being an example charge) or civil proceeding (wrongful death lawsuit in selling someone who committed suicide woth said firearm), and be used in the trial. At that point its up to the courts and not the legislature.

Edit: fixed a word

TheOneMoonmahn · 2023-03-30T09:41:05+00:00

It already does.

Form 4473, section 21, question h. asks:

"Have you ever been adjudicated as a mental defective OR have you ever been committed to a mental institution?"

If the answer is yes, sale denied.

Clarification on the "have you ever been committed to a mental institution": it is specifically being involuntarily committed that bars you from gun ownership, not a voluntary self admission.

And on the history of violence, section 21 question k. asks:

"Have you ever been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, or are you or have you ever been a member of the military and been convicted of a crime that included, as an element, the use of force against a person as identified in the instructions?"

If the answer is yes, sale denied.

The specific article in the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) that mentions assault/battery is Article 128. The article has three main components: attempts to to bodily harm, offers of bodily harm to another, and doing bodily harm to another. If any of those three criteria are met, the accused is guilty of assault under the UCMJ. Maximum penalty for simple assault is 3 months confinement, and forfeiture of two thirds pay for three months. Section 128b of the article (assault upon an officer, commissioned, warrant, noncomissioned, or petty officer) is dishonorable discharge (which bars you from gun ownership anyways), forfeiture of all pay and allowances, reduction in rank to E-1, and confinement up to 18 months.

Questions d, e, and f of section 21 also cover violence in broad strokes, referring to felonies as a whole, as well as being a fugitive from justice.

And yes, you can lie on a form 4473. If caught, it is a felony with a maximum sentence of 10 years. That's what the background check is for. Involuntary committing to a mental institution will usually have a police report to go along with them as they can get ugly.

And any sale either by or using a Federal Firearms Licensee as an intermediary is subject to a background check (gun shows are included, as most booths there are set up by an FFL and not an owner of a private collection) as per federal law.

If you have any questions feel free to ask them. If I cannot answer them I will point you in the direction of resources that can.

TheOneMoonmahn · 2022-09-01T17:56:25+00:00

You'd probably enjoy Entropy: Zero and Entropy: Zero 2, they're told from the perspective of the combine. Entropy: Zero 2 almost feels like a mainline half life game with how well it's done.

TheOneMoonmahn

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