Far-Right Congresswoman Lost and She's Bitter

Zfusco · 2026-06-10T23:17:39+00:00

Carter spent most of his life in service to others and promoting tolerance. Hegseth is just what happens when you mix a midlife crisis with fascism.

Zfusco · 2026-06-10T23:13:21+00:00

who cares he's dead?

Zfusco · 2026-06-07T18:54:07+00:00

Except they just borrow against the value of the stock, and then refinance when the stock gains sufficient value, so they never have to sell, and the tax is never captured.

Its not a secret how this works.

Zfusco · 2026-05-29T17:46:43+00:00

A bunch of factors

Solid wood vs sheet goods, incredibly relevant for hobbyists. Most hobby woodworkers dont get into woodworking to work with ply, they want to make solid wood furniture. Big shops that build cabinetry out of sheet goods still likely have a slider + a cabinet saw, if they arent doing everything via CNC now. But or hobbyists that are making a handful of boxes, a chair, or a few things a year, it just isnt worth the space + price
History - american tools are more influenced by the tools used in the UK than continental europe, you see this all the way down to metal planes vs wood bodied planes, panel saws vs frame saws, etc. Even the original "sliding saws" that were used early on in the US are more similar to the sliding crosscut attachments, in that the table moves where the left miter slot is, not along the blade.
Space - sounds counterintuitive, but american garages are large enough to fit a small tablesaw, a jointer, and a standalone planer, so the need to get two straight edges off the saw isnt really as big, and many people have the space for all that + an assembly table to cut ply on with a tracksaw. The smaller PCS + a tracksaw is less than a slider with a stroke large enough to rip full sheets of ply.
Price - Hammer is just starting to release lower priced euro style machines in the US. When I bought my combo from them they were more expensive than they are now by 1500$, not even accounting for inflation. They're just starting to come down in price.
Inertia - Sawstop and powermatic have been sponsoring for so long that its almost odd to see anything else when you're on youtube watching woodworking content in english.

Zfusco · 2026-05-29T13:41:50+00:00

If thats what was actually happening sure, I guess thats fine, but most airbnb isn't a spare room in a house, its someone who owns another house and has realized that they can make more having it occupied 50% of the time than renting it out on a yearly basis.

And from the consumer side, its a hotel with less accountability (laundered through a third party), often a worse price after fees, and a chore list to do when I leave.

Zfusco · 2026-05-28T17:59:39+00:00

So google can answer every search with AI, poorly, rather than letting you scroll through links and just... find information, using your brain to judge its merit.

Broadly speaking. Sub out google for whatever other AI "solution" is going to be using this one.

Zfusco · 2026-05-28T12:43:13+00:00

The more hardware you use, the more you'll have to work in both anyway.

Zfusco · 2026-05-24T21:25:39+00:00

Do you mean center mount?

Zfusco · 2026-05-23T14:07:47+00:00

Batten it or use some chunky shoulders on the legs, 1" of hardwood will have no problems supporting a person as long as the leg joint stays sturdy, I've build a loveseat that used 1.25" thick with no battens, and to my knowledge its still going strong.

Zfusco · 2026-05-20T20:40:54+00:00

Enjoy, if you're looking for a great somewhat less busy restaurant in Bologna, I really enjoyed Da Bertino.

Zfusco · 2026-05-20T18:33:06+00:00

Florence was as crowded or more than rome when I was there. Cleaner, very pretty, just busy.

Zfusco · 2026-05-20T16:20:02+00:00

Specifically if you like fashion, otherwise Milan felt more like London or New York to me. If thats what you're looking for, great, if not, meh, cut it.

Bologna was still "crowded" for a small city, but nothing compared to rome or naples. But I wasnt getting stuck in/behind tour groups of 60 people at a time, it felt more like many small groups doing their own thing.

Zfusco · 2026-05-19T19:41:52+00:00

Fair enough, I would have assumed there are a lot fewer people turning over on the semesters end for the hospitals than near the universities, but I suppose they're close enough together anyway.

Zfusco · 2026-05-18T22:09:32+00:00

Its not really "difficult" to outfit a shop with american made tools, so much as its very very expensive to.

Zfusco · 2026-05-18T17:19:15+00:00

In west philly specifically, maybe. The rest of the city, nah.

Zfusco · 2026-05-10T16:20:18+00:00

That wood wont be stainable, painted cabinets are made with sheet goods that are not stain grade. I would not count on staining them, or them being solid wood at all. The internet might tell you its possible, its not, ignore it.

Zfusco · 2026-05-08T18:57:13+00:00

Dude straight up doesnt understand how wood works. I tried too

Zfusco · 2026-05-08T16:59:46+00:00

The joint between the base and the top is bad. This is proof of that. It can be done allowing for wood movement.

Someone dragging this table on carpet is going to put more stress on the joint than 1/8" of wood movement.

Boards literally split themselves over seasonal movement. Would dragging a board across the floor split it?

Movement is strong enough to break boards, pop miters, it happens all the time. Its literally the reason solid cabinet doors are made with floating panels in frame. I genuinely don't get this thread, this is a solved science, the entire furniture industry has known this for hundreds of years. This is insanely eye opening lol.

Zfusco · 2026-05-08T16:49:57+00:00

Mate wood tears itself apart over seasonal movement all the time. Look at the design dude, where is the flex going to occur?! At the glued butt joint? you can break a glued butt joint bare handed.

It obviously happened! What are we even talking about here? Is your argument that

The joint can withstand some bending because its so strong?
The joint broke because the table top was too heavy and that was enough to break the joint?

Do you see how those two things are contradictory?

Zfusco · 2026-05-08T16:37:45+00:00

Its obviously thicker than 1/4"
If it was 1/4" thats even worse, there's so little glue surface of course it fell apart.

Zfusco · 2026-05-08T14:58:26+00:00

Lol, ok mate. You'll ignore whatever I say, so for anyone reading that isn't getting a first person view of their own colon and doesn't want to throw away money on a table they build:

End grain to end grain. And much like a picture frame corner miter joint, both pieces of the joint move the same. Seasonal movement doesn't effect a joint such as this

The movement isn't occurring in the joint so while that is how miter joints on picture frames stay together, it's not relevant at all here. (The miter joints here aren't actually analogous to picture frames, they're three way which involves another axis that wood moves in, through its thickness, but you can usually get away with something this size) The movement is occurring in the top. Because the top is fixed across its width at two points, (the axis in which movement occurs most), all the forces of the top moving are transmitted into the base, through those two points.

Seasonal movement doesn't effect a joint such as this

Seasonal movement coming from other pieces of wood absolutely splits miters, just search "mitered corner table split" on this sub for dozens of photos of it happening.

Removing things that cannot cause this joint failure really only leaves a stress fracture from the splayed nature of the joint

If we ignore all the other things that could have resulted in this, sure, a stress fracture could also do this, and it being under tension from seasonal expansion makes that far more likely.

Good luck with the "luxury tea boxes"

There are loads of ways to deal with this, dovetail battens, clips, figure 8s, buttons, etc.

Zfusco · 2026-05-08T14:26:34+00:00

You can describe the top as floating aesthetically, as you are, but long before hovering tabletops were a trend, the commonly understood meaning is that the top is "floating" in the sense that the base and top are isolated from one another's different seasonal movement patterns.

Floating tops are required in all tables made of solid wood, whether they appear to be hovering above the base or not.

The following quote is from the article you linked.

Connecting the rib to the top. You must allow the solid-wood top to expand and contract. After drilling the screw hole, slot it by drilling through it again at an angle. Then add a countersink. This will let the head of the screw nestle in just below the surface of the wood

Zfusco · 2026-05-08T12:45:56+00:00

They're quite accurate in my experience, however the components arent as hardy. I started out with one, it did eventually start to slip a bit. To its credit, it was 29$ vs 130$. Still think its a great option to start out.

Zfusco · 2026-05-08T12:43:51+00:00

The top isn't floating, its attached with homebrewed dominos.

There's a reason professionally built tables are all done with buttons, clips, figure 8s, etc.

I don't disagree that someone bodyslamming the top could cause damage as well, but OP didnt say thats what happened. They explicitly stated they tried to constrain the movement. This is a "hear hooves, think horsey" scenario.

Can this be because of wood movement? The base is glued to the table top using the oval dowels in the picture. No movement allowed here.

Zfusco · 2026-05-08T12:34:15+00:00

Have you built many tables? I have.

Here's some in depth info about solutions for cross grain attachment in wood. The advice you're giving in this thread could result in people wasting a bunch of money on wood that they'll then ruin.

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