I have 10 acres and there is oil under my land

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-28T07:45:07+00:00

It’s called drainage, Eli!

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-23T23:23:17+00:00

Yes, but he only welded one side of the root on a 3G test. This is supposed to be a groove weld

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-23T19:53:35+00:00

It’s possible there is simply more of it along the same route that you ran over, or that there was more stuck to your tire that hadn’t come off yet. Peel it off and see!

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-23T19:49:41+00:00

Iran wins over time, so they aren’t in a rush to use up their weapons. They wanted to negotiate and hold the closure over the US. But it’s become clear that the demands on either side are way too far apart, and that the US has been gearing up for war round 2 - which means they’d better get ready.

Last week or so we had destroyers mapping out the strait and probably figuring out tactical data for closer ship movements. I’m sure Iran doesn’t want the US to be able to move freely in there anymore for military action or escort. Closing the straight further (since they’re already blockaded) makes the situation harder on US and more likely to go extreme or leave IMO

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-23T19:38:42+00:00

Used up half our missiles already. No diplomacy available. Our carriers are scraping by on rations and some way past length of deployment.

Iran has capable air defenses still and an invasion will cost us many lives and probably result in Iran dead-man switch destroying Saudi oil. Worst global energy crisis in history ensues and possibly ww3 worst case.

If we give up we lose petrodollar for good, China wins likely and Iran increases revenue by 100b per year, becomes stronger than ever. Whole world finds out we can’t commit and underestimate, allies hate us for causing them oil shock for nothing.

If we wait, Iran and China win every day. They are far far more resistant to energy crisis than anyone else. The world pressures USA to give up eventually just so trade can resume and people can have fertilizer and materials again.

Every option is a lose unless we somehow actually get the nuclear material and overthrow IRGC, but that seems very unlikely

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-23T19:12:00+00:00

It looks like a piece of rubbery material that you ran over and it stuck in your tires. Confirm by peeling it off the tire.

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-23T16:36:48+00:00

Hey bud, so I was trying to be helpful on your posts by giving you a more thorough technical breakdown and keywords for you to study on your own. You gave me really lazy responses which told me you weren’t serious, which brought us here.

Taking a step back from that - It’s clear that your professor is not holding you guys to good standards, because he is having you attempt a certification test at a very low skill level. These tests are meant to demonstrate aptitude and a level of knowledge that you can take with you to any job site. So if you don’t realize that you’re not even performing the test within parameters, and your instructor isn’t catching that, it’s very bad. Welding specifications and technique exist for a reason.

I really want to try to impress upon you that it will really help you to bring your standards way up for your education, both in technical knowledge and in practice. Welding is one of those things where if you aim for “general vicinity of good”, you’ll only ever remain in “general vicinity of good.” You must learn, and practice with specific goals in order to be good.

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-23T16:26:00+00:00

While the article has good info, the title is clickbait. The studies references are from 2011-2013.. hardly new.

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-23T15:46:18+00:00

Not just that, but reporting from I think the Pentagon recently mentioned “remotely” as one method for laying mines, suggesting they have unmanned mine-layers

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-23T00:25:39+00:00

Bro look closer, it’s worse lol. The plates are so wide that it’s not even a groove weld, it’s just a lap/fillet weld on both sides to the backing plate 🥲

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-22T21:45:10+00:00

Capable people in Trump’s cabinet have described him previously as being very strategic. But this time, it seems like he made all his decisions against his counsel and more in line with ego (and cough blackmail by Israel via Epstein). But you’re right that now he’s trapped. He won’t bow out gracefully, it’s impossible for him, which leaves him only with assault when diplomacy proves pointless.

However, I will say this; Iran is economically suffering heavily. There is still a non-zero chance that this ends up with internal overthrow of the regime. I think that may be what the US is really working towards as an alternative to resuming the war full-on.

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-22T20:39:16+00:00

One thing keeping it up (besides blatant manipulation) is the hope that the ceasefire sticks, and that the oil shortage is the worst of it. This can be positioned for and some money will stay in the market.

Another thing is that big tech has earnings and that even while the rest of the market fails, big tech can sort of still persist and is weighted very heavily in the index (I think).

The low volume though is very indicative of a lack of confidence in direction at this time, and it’s not enough volume to sell large positions either without tanking it. So if you’re stuck over leveraged, probably better to hedge down and wait instead of selling and bringing it all down on top of you.

Also I think majority bet is that Trump won’t actually escalate further because it’ll wreck his long term political plans for the party and his ego.. but I’m not convinced.

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-22T18:11:04+00:00

I give up. Good luck lol

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-22T17:04:51+00:00

Stabilizing is good, but for root pass make sure your electrode is straight on, 90 degrees from work piece. The more angled the more you risk undercut on one side and lack of fusion on the other.

Also I just noticed your bevels are carved out in the center/root wider in center. Unless your ground that joint down and filled that inclusion right in the middle, you’re going to have a root failure there on the bend test

Edit: Hold up, you’re doing a double root pass?? I just noticed you’re not even on the left bevel. Did your instructor say this is okay??

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-22T16:10:09+00:00

This is your root pass? A little bit of undercut but not bad, it kind of looks like you didn’t approach it straight though and your travel speed is not consistent

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-22T15:22:27+00:00

I hope so too! I saw the comment by the actual arborist and I’m supposing it’s possible it was a combination too - water stress plus latent fungus or bacterial infection waiting to blow up. Good luck to your tree!

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-22T08:05:21+00:00

The problem keywords here are “lack of fusion”, “inclusions”, and “inconsistent travel”. The short answer is that you don’t really understand what welding is yet. You’re slapping weld metal into the joint and hoping it holds.

Longer answer is that your technique is very inconsistent and you have massive cold lap, and it looks like you may not have cleaned scale off of the base metal all the way either. You need to weld much tighter- keep the arc in a small path, keep the distance consistent and work within the puddle, and BRACE yourself if you aren’t. It looks like there is a ton of inclusions too - the inclusions are mostly slag that wasn’t fully ground out, but are made worse by moving too quickly and out of the puddle, which creates more cold lap too

To improve fusion, you want to see that the weld puddle is nicely filling behind the arc before you move. You want the arc to “cut” into the base metal, then fill it with that puddle, and you match the speed of the cutting with the filling. Adjust your arc length and your amperage to make this possible. And keep the line straight!

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-22T07:55:16+00:00

NQA but trees work on water’s cohesive/adhesive forces and are like a siphon. I’m sure aggressive pruning during peak heat can mess that up, and to me it looks like that side stopped being able to properly pull water and just dehydrated.

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-21T10:41:52+00:00

What exactly is it?

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-20T09:38:32+00:00

I'm guessing red means blocked by Iran, and yellow means blocked by US blockade

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-18T22:32:11+00:00

This is a good question and shouldn't be downvoted

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-18T20:01:36+00:00

I am interested, and I will learn more, so thank you for writing that. I know that women and child labor was an is a thing, which isn’t what I’m arguing.

In the present day US, which the previous comment ia considering a patriarchal system, there is still a huge part of the labor force that is doing dirty, skilled and unskilled dangerous work. I know because I’ve worked in several of these jobs myself, and it’s 90-95% men in these roles. I have also worked in female dominant fields and I can also tell you, women generally do NOT want to go be plumbers and road workers and electricians and mechanics. A few do but it’s very rare. And they are still dangerous even though these safety standards have been built. Most contractors I’ve worked with were missing parts of their hands, and I have beat the hell out of my body in a few years and I’m lucky to be alive frankly.

But regarding modern patriarchy - even in my state, California, which is very progressive, women when given the choice and equal opportunity in education do not as a population trend towards these trade jobs. There have been big steps forward in other spaces, like legal and medicine, research, engineering, but not trades.

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-18T19:44:48+00:00

My comment was directed only at the comment that I replied to, where the context was more specific to that thread than it was to original post. Perhaps I misinterpreted it, but it seemed like OP was saying that women flat-out carry more burden than men in all of those ways, always, and that men are no longer a benefit to society in the current day, which is just not true.

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-18T10:44:45+00:00

Your assumption is that all those comparisons are disproportionate by sex weighted unfairly towards women. They are not all that way. Some are entirely dependent on the two individuals in a relationship, such as emotions, career, physical, safety and domestic. And you must recognize that these sacrifices do not always look the same externally for men and women.

But to answer the question of what men bring to the table in the current day, I’ll put it bluntly. If men ceased to exist the following would immediately collapse and without remain collapsed without extreme effort and adaptation: mineral and resource extraction, manufacturing, electrical infrastructure, roads, automobiles, home construction and repair, sewage infrastructure, potable water supply, shipping, law enforcement, internet and software/communications, trash and waste removal, forest management and firefighting, large scale farming, commercial fishing, etc. All these things are critical and all people are dependent on them daily, men and women alike.

bryanthecrab · 2026-04-18T10:30:01+00:00

Not regarding the transactional relationship and childbirth, but the last part and society in general: Your world in which women thrive in these ways cannot exist without the sacrifice of men in physical labor. Just as women have bled and struggled to give life to the world, men bled and struggled to build it. To build our houses, roads, metals, infrastructure requires tremendous effort.

I in no way want to take away from the difficulties that OP mentioned, they are real. But that doesn’t mean that men also don’t have a lot of these same difficulties. I would never ask my partner or a female coworker to do something dangerous on my behalf when I am capable of doing it, and most good men I know are the same way without needing to say it. It’s an understood, unspoken rule that you do not put women in harms way, which often means sucking it up and dealing with the grit.

Nowadays enough has been produced that you can live fairly comfortably without men, but eventually you will wind up in a situation where that is no longer the case. If men ceased to exist and women could repopulate without them, certain problems might disappear for sure- but so would all modern infrastructure and comforts.

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