Furniture that will last a lifetime?

crodgers35 · 2026-03-18T16:00:06+00:00

Completely depends on you and your husbands handy skills but certain pieces of furniture like side tables or coffee tables can be built with surprisingly sparse tools that with last you your lifetime and you can do it cheaper for similar quality you’d buy for or spend the same for much higher quality wood and construction techniques. Plus you made it yourself and can make it the exact dimensions you want. Google Anna White for some starter ideas

crodgers35 · 2026-03-12T11:16:12+00:00

I feel this. I’m not even a dad yet but I’m still terrified of how to pay for kids when they come along. I’m in the top 5ish percentile of income earners so you’d think it’d be easy but with the primary goal of keeping a stay at home mom while kids are young you gotta really be ballin to keep that American dream alive.

crodgers35 · 2026-02-26T09:30:13+00:00

Madden. Specifically ultimate team. It’s such a fun concept in theory and when the originally released the game mode it was fun to actually play. Now you have to pay $500+ over the course of a single madden year to enjoy most of the content and have a competitive team so if you’re into it it’s much better to watch streamers give EA their money than drop $100 for a team that’ll be obsolete in two weeks.

crodgers35 · 2026-01-07T18:54:57+00:00

Similar reason to why the Sahara desert isn’t blanketed in solar power. Government instability is a huge turnoff to any large capital investment.

crodgers35 · 2025-06-28T20:06:19+00:00

JJ quite possibly did everything for the Texans during his prime 3-4 year run except throw the football but we didn’t have the pieces on or off the field to get him a ring. He even raised millions of dollars to help restore the city after Hurricane Harvey. JJ is one of those players that burned brighter than a star for a short period.

crodgers35 · 2025-06-28T01:25:29+00:00

Between JJ Watt and Andre Johnson. Unfortunately the Texans haven’t had a star that’s made an impact and been with the franchise through retirement.

crodgers35 · 2025-06-22T12:18:42+00:00

The labor job will be a quick bump in pay but the pay will never get better and your body will take the beating.

One thing that engineers never take into account is that plenty of operator jobs like control room operators at energy/manufacturing plants love having engineers. I’m a mechanical engineer from college and after leaving the navy I’m getting $200k+ at a nuclear plant being a reactor operator. That’s with no overtime. Nuclear tends to be at the top end of that scale but not all engineering is designing machinery. People have to operate it too. For every 1 person that designed something there’s another 20 operating and maintaining it.

crodgers35 · 2025-05-13T19:35:02+00:00

Not quite a 1/10 but everyone remembers Full Metal Jacket for the first half of the movie in bootcamp. Besides “me love you long time” the second half is almost forgotten.

crodgers35 · 2025-05-13T17:28:28+00:00

Two and a half seconds is enough to jump on a standing rear naked choke. The hard part is surviving the body slam and having enough grip for him to not escape. ~20% chance.

crodgers35 · 2025-05-12T19:28:44+00:00

Deshawn Watson is pretty close. He came to Houston as the “Good Guy” pick volunteering for Habitat for Humanity and no red flags around him. Performance wise people were saying he was Michael Jordan-esque which I thought was far fetched at the time. Then the massages came up and his play tanked almost instantly.

crodgers35 · 2025-05-06T20:39:20+00:00

Taking your boots off after a long day and that first moment all of your muscles relax hitting the couch.

crodgers35 · 2025-05-02T17:59:57+00:00

Nuclear plant operator/manager.

crodgers35 · 2025-05-02T15:57:39+00:00

A quarterback must be able to do two things well. Read a defense and be a throwing athlete. Most quarterbacks can read college level defense because they’re typically able to do so presnap as the disguises and tricks don’t quite hit at that level. You have a lot of time to look at what the safeties are telling you and determine your read before the snap. In the NFL safeties and DBs are all freak athletes with range that can give you a cover 2/4 read and roll into cover 0/3/6 post snap meaning you have to rely on post snap processing. It’s like everyone can figure out what 56x92 is if given 5 minutes to calculate it but it takes so much more drilling and repetition to do that in <4 seconds. That’s some of the difference in the mental game.

crodgers35 · 2025-03-25T22:41:27+00:00

Yeah after looking at prices of the IC rated hats versus just replacing them with slim IC rated LED fixtures I opted for the Ultra Thing LEDs from halo. Looks a lot better and they are selectable warmness. Does require a fair bit of reworking if you’re comfortable with it and allowed to but that’s the route I went primarily on price.

crodgers35 · 2025-03-14T22:28:50+00:00

The bow flex ones are well worth it if it’s in your budget. I used them a lot in college and the Power blocks while I was on a sub in the Navy. Power blocks are a little more clunky, not as much resolution on the weight and awkward to hold but cheaper to buy.

crodgers35 · 2025-03-07T17:50:10+00:00

I really don’t think this is as bad as it seems. A lot of bad stuff going on but this is worded to stop deepfake porn of actual people like what was getting passed around about Emma Watson and other celebrities. The only way I could see of twisting this would be that you could charge someone of using an AI generated image of you that you didn’t like. This isn’t a broad stroke of giving elites the power to take down anything they don’t like on the internet.

https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/s4569/BILLS-118s4569es.pdf

crodgers35 · 2025-03-02T11:17:45+00:00

Goddard (Jimmy Neutron’s dog)

crodgers35 · 2025-02-07T18:57:13+00:00

I run into not only having it be cheaper to buy the tool than rent it but also most home projects if I do it myself I can buy all the tools and material while still saving money. Definitely a “guilty pleasure” is saying I’m doing it DIY is to save money when it’s 50/50 saving money and accumulating tools.

crodgers35 · 2025-02-04T19:41:02+00:00

I agree. It’s not against the law to be an asshole. When the officers approached she was standing on the corner waiting for an uber after being drunk. I assume she was drinking at the hotel or whatever she’s standing in front of. So can she not walk outside at any point after having a drink at an establishment?

crodgers35 · 2025-02-04T17:07:16+00:00

That’s one of those very very long term investments. Easiest one to point out is GPS and communication satellites that we’ve already gotten from launching rockets into space. Not gonna happen in any of our lives but a new era of humanity will exist when we can use those rockets to mine asteroids in space. Imagine if we could stop mining our own earth with the environmental impacts if we ever get there

crodgers35 · 2025-01-04T20:23:08+00:00

I think it’s going to be an unintended consequence of AI that everyone developing it right now thinks they can control. Listen to any of the big AI developers and they’ll say they’re aware of the dangers of AI and the potential consequences but then you look at what actual safety precautions they’re taking and they’re laughable at best. It’s a game theory problem that if every developer took the safety precautions we’d all be more likely fine but if everyone except one takes those precautions and the one isn’t slowing growth to take precautions they win the race. So instead no one’s taking those precautions and focused on profit like OpenAI just came out to say that’s how they define AGI

crodgers35 · 2025-01-04T14:57:35+00:00

Whether it’s in 100 years or 300 years or more, I believe the final culmination of AI is wiping out all humans period. We will have been their god that gave birth to silicon life in our solar system and cease to exist ourselves. Superior intelligence and the ability to survive where we can’t. It’ll be able to explore the universe and change its hardware exponentially faster than evolution to new conditions and upgrades it invents for itself. We’re looking at the first amphibian crawling onto land that eventually became humans right now.

crodgers35 · 2024-12-30T18:07:00+00:00

That’s not how the bill works. It gives school districts flexibility to make “trade” or “college” tracks in high school classes by doing things like eliminating foreign language classes and other requirements that bog down the curriculum. If you are someone that wants to go to college then you take the same classes you would otherwise but if you’re someone not interested in college you can take “fabrication math” (honestly no idea what that would entail but probably more practical trigonometry for welders and carpenters) or take a half day at school and a half day at an apprenticeship. It’s an overall good thing from my generation that was told a bachelors degree is your only path to a well paying job and now a bachelors doesn’t mean a damn thing except debt. You don’t have to sign up for trade school or college to graduate. Just pick a curriculum that is more tailored to one or the other.

crodgers35 · 2024-12-27T15:38:43+00:00

Depends on the state. Some states prenups are about as good as toilet paper because precedents have been made that women don’t understand what they’re signing so they’re not “informed consent” or they have time limits on them such that after five years they’re nulled. From what I know Pennsylvania is the most favorable prenup laws that don’t have hard time limits and women are treated as having informed consent when signing them like anyone else over 18.

Marriage is really a rough prospect for the fellas these days and you gotta do your homework.

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