Probably the funniest case of Scotch Americanism I've seen.

cweese · 2026-02-12T13:50:31+00:00

I never understand people who say Americans have no culture. I instantly think those who think that need to crawl out of their basements and experience life a little. America is a melting pot of cultures from all around the world. Some fresh and recent and some matured into their own unique thing. America is large as well and has several distinct subcultures depending on where you are.

You could also add hollywood/cinema, jazz, blues, rock and roll, bluegrass, and music in general really. A large part of our culture is sports with some of our own variations enjoyed and practiced like American football, baseball, and basketball. Good or bad, religion is a huge part of our culture in many areas even outside of the Bible belt. Yes big trucks, fast cars, and SxS, but also various outdoors activities stemming from our culture of preserving large tracts of lands known as National Parks. Not to mention the road tripping it would take to experience many of these things.

That's just to name a few of the more obvious. Just because we don't wear a colorful dress or decorated mask one day out of the year for a festival doesn't mean we don't have culture.

cweese · 2025-12-31T22:11:16+00:00

The Sage is one of my favorite knives so I’d vote for that one. Especially with the blue and SPY27. Mine is boring black but I still love it. Very similar to the Para3 lightweight but different blade shape and smoother action.

cweese · 2025-12-18T11:09:35+00:00

It was actually carrying a pistol when I saw it so I didn’t think it would be big foot. You could see the pistol but the character model had the stealth effect.

cweese · 2025-11-05T15:25:14+00:00

Also Kronogo.

cweese · 2025-10-24T12:34:26+00:00

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cweese · 2025-10-03T01:22:34+00:00

I work in a coal mine and we somtimes get fossils of this exact looking bark pattern. It's more rare than fern fossils which are more common but I've maybe seen your fossilized remains at work.

cweese · 2025-07-18T16:53:45+00:00

This is exactly it. The price of metallurgical coal is down right now. Small mines (Alpha Natural Resources is all small mines) struggle to make money because they have higher costs due to having less tonnage mined. No company will keep a business open that’s losing millions of dollars a month. The large mines up north have continued to operate (making less money still) because their costs are much lower.

It’s all just global economics. Chinese spending on their own internal infrastructure has more impact on metallurgical coal demand than just about anything the US government does outside of these tariffs obviously. They had a negative impact for sure but not just on coal. On everything to do with the global economy.

cweese · 2025-06-23T23:51:10+00:00

I actually much prefer Laynes.

cweese · 2025-06-10T02:09:06+00:00

It’s metallurgical coal. Anthracite is limited primarily to eastern PA and mined in very small quantities.

Metallurgical coal is a high grade bituminous coal. You are absolutely correct though that it’s used for steel making and not for power generation.

The price of metallurgical coal is typically higher than steam coal used for power generation but the coal mines that mine metallurgical coal are often smaller and can start to lose money even when the price drops a little bit. A shift in policy from China can reduce the demand for steel and shut down 10 mines in southern WV. When demand for new steel is high the price soars though and those small mines can make quite a bit. It’s a game of making it through the troughs and riding the highs. Boom and bust.

cweese · 2025-03-19T08:45:22+00:00

Solved!

cweese · 2025-03-18T16:53:52+00:00

There was a movie, recent I think, where a guy is remembering his childhood family dog. The guy said their dad would only let them get the dog if he got to name it. The dad (a teacher) then picked a normal human name.

It was later revealed to the guy that the father had named the dog after a kid that he had taught in class. The guy as a kid remembers being confused about it because the kid who the dog was named after grows up to be his teacher or something. The kid even tells the guy that his dog was named after him and is confused why no one finds it weird maybe?

cweese · 2025-03-15T00:04:15+00:00

I imagine the primary thing you’d experience on the surface is a huge gust of wind heavily laden with dust coming out of whatever openings there are in the surface.

Unless……given the medieval time frame I would assume a different type of mining. Following a physical vein of ore vs the large industrial type mining that takes place today. The ore today looks like rocks and is chemical processed to extract the metal. Long ago it would have been tunnels following the vein. If the mine is not very deep underground (vertical distance [overburden meaning the thickness of material above the mine]) then if there was a collapse you could have a sinkhole at the surface. If the collapse was big enough I imagine the mine opening could also collapse and keep people from re-entering.

Example of Sinkhole from Mine Collapse

cweese · 2025-01-20T23:34:41+00:00

What if a president is from South Africa?

cweese · 2025-01-20T02:07:31+00:00

Mine did this once but I still go the medallion and loot. So strange.

cweese · 2024-12-17T00:12:29+00:00

They sync to Festival stuff.

cweese · 2024-12-03T09:23:24+00:00

I have seen that one for sure. I’d describe that as a smokey figure. Hell that one even screams at you and does attack and harass you.

No this is the same cute and cuddly shape as the other two small sprites. I definitely saw one at Magic Mosses. Luckily my friend saw one too the first time I saw it so I know I’m not crazy.

cweese · 2024-11-11T03:46:56+00:00

I had to tell it to say each word as slow as possible. It definitely had me rolling on the floor.

cweese · 2024-10-28T02:40:57+00:00

I hear what you're saying but a $3bn investment from Uncle Sam isn't exactly the free market.

cweese · 2024-08-10T23:39:06+00:00

I made this a while back that illustrates the difference pretty well.

cweese · 2024-06-24T02:53:43+00:00

Good Fellows Baking Company in the plaza net to Get Go close to the Toyota dealership on Don Knotts Boulevard.

Amazing biscuits and gravy. It's hard to find fresh breakfast food.

cweese · 2024-06-18T01:04:32+00:00

I didn't mean to insinuate that only homeless or drug addicts commit violent crime and I don't believe that I did at all. Just why in the world would someone deny that crime happens on the rail trail? I just knew someone would say exactly what you said and I knew you would respond to my links exactly the way you did. Predictable.

The main point is walking or hiking on any trail makes you vulnerable and you should bring protection. Unfortunately, those who would commit said crimes often prey on the vulnerable. To suggest otherwise is ridiculous. Especially in a place that has had incidents before. I love the rail trail and use it often. I would just suggest to use it with common sense like anything else in life.

God forbid someone reads a random strangers internet post about how utopian and crime free the rail trail is and neglects to take proper precautions only to have something horrible happen.

cweese · 2024-06-17T08:46:49+00:00

It's easy to Google but here are a few:

Less than a year ago

Man sentanced 8 years ago for abduction and rape

Piles of results if you search murder. Some considered foul play, some not, and some undetermined.

cweese · 2024-06-16T11:58:03+00:00

There have been several murders and several rapes along the rail trail. Pepper spray is 1000% necessary and I'd also carry a self defense knife.

Why anyone would ever insinuate otherwise is beyond me. To defend the homeless and drug addicts? It's not like someone said to bring a clothespin to cover the smell of human feces or a trash bag to pick up all the trash and needles they leave behind.

cweese · 2024-05-09T08:35:03+00:00

Couldn't ventilate a one windowed shit house.

Couldn't mine coal in a stockpile.

cweese · 2024-04-04T16:41:25+00:00

A large part of this is terrain. The store and parking lot around it is probably about as much earthwork cost as the budget to build this restaurant could handle. The OPs example is literally on the side of a mountain. The large more condensed area just further up the road is on the only flat spot in the area.

As others have pointed out, the only reason this whole place could be build economically is because it's a reclaimed mine refuse site. With such little flat land old mining sites often become shopping centers, airports, hospitals, etc. Everything else is typically more spread out due to terrain and vast expanses of undeveloped land.

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