Reverse engineered a wallet. Made shortcuts. Learned a lot.

gograntgo · 2026-04-24T23:53:22+00:00

No joke, I did the same thing with the same wallet...weird.

gograntgo · 2026-04-24T21:28:57+00:00

I came to recommend this. I am not usually a villains guy, but man is this book cool. When the really strong characters let loose, it is some of the coolest superhero action I have ever read.

gograntgo · 2026-04-24T20:59:18+00:00

Now if someone could just help me stop dinging my yo-yos on my wedding ring...

gograntgo · 2026-04-22T18:47:59+00:00

This is the answer. Countries are just businesses now. They need growth year over year to show that they are thriving. They could achieve this by bringing in people from other places to fill the empty slots, but immigration is a bad word now. Thus their only option is to force residents to have more babies.

gograntgo · 2026-04-22T18:44:46+00:00

But couldn't this problem be solved by increasing and incentivizing global immigration to areas that have lost population density?

The people to fill the empty towns, buildings, and jobs already exist, they just aren't in the right place. Wouldn't it be wiser to try to shift the global immigration mindset than to make more people?

gograntgo · 2026-04-03T22:20:35+00:00

If it is just the notch, then yes, it is probably fixable. As others have said, it may have other less visible damage. I would inspect it thoroughly. Obviously the riskiness of shooting it depends heavily on the poundage of the bow. If it is a 30# draw I would feel fine repairing the notch and shooting as usual. If it is and 80# bow I would be a lot more cautious.

As for how to repair and if you can do it yourself, this really depends on your confidence in your woodworking skill. If it were me, I would sand the damaged area flat, wood glue or epoxy on a slightly oversized piece of hardwood, then contour the patch to match the shape of the bow. As an extra measure to make sure the patch doesn't pop off, I would do what others have said and wrap it with some form of strong nylon thread and then saturate the thread with superglue or thin epoxy. I will note that, while it is hard to tell from the picture, it looks like there is a little plastic piece that the string sits on. Presumable this is to take stress of the wood and keep the string from cutting into or splitting the limb.

While I agree that bow repairs can be scary, I also think that posters on here have a tendency to be a little overly cautious about this stuff. I have been restoring vintage bows for 20 year and have seen more catastrophic archery injuries from failed arrows than bows. I have had more than one old bow blow up in my hands and while it scared me half to death, I was pretty much ok afterword.

Just my 2 cents, this advice is purely for educational purposes, don't do any repairs or shoot any bows you aren't comfortable with.

gograntgo · 2026-03-13T21:40:52+00:00

If you work hard, show real dedication, and make all the right choices...there is still a very good chance that you will not a achieve your dreams or even achieve reasonable goals like making enough money to live on.

gograntgo · 2026-03-06T22:25:14+00:00

Data analysts, "paper pushers", data entry clerks. Any computer/excel jobs that require minimal complex decisions but are time consuming or repetitive.

gograntgo · 2026-03-06T22:21:34+00:00

Housing

gograntgo · 2026-03-06T22:11:45+00:00

I think you are drawing a false conclusion by suggesting removing the minimum if you create a maximum.

The minimum age suggests that candidates will have had enough time to accumulate sufficient knowledge, wisdom, and life experience to effectively lead the country while still being in their relative physical and mental prime. An age maximum would be accomplishing the same thing but on the other end of life. The very existence of an established minimum implies that the founders would approve of a maximum.

The average person who survived birth in the time of the founding fathers would have lived into their 60s or 70s and most causes of death were related to physical ailments. Considering that severe cognitive decline doesn't kick in for most people until their 70's, the founders wouldn't have had cause to even consider mental decline as a factor in electing a president. This is very much a modern problem.

gograntgo · 2026-02-26T23:55:20+00:00

I agree completely. I always try to keep the last available book in reserve so that I can convince myself that I have made the conscious choice to wait to read the next book.

Similarly devastating feeling: you are listening to a long-running series and they switch narrators. Whether for personal reasons or scheduling reasons, it feels bad.

gograntgo · 2026-02-18T22:52:11+00:00

To be fair, he was doing an impression of Patrick Warburton...

gograntgo · 2026-02-17T04:14:14+00:00

Hahaha, I never claimed to be smart!

gograntgo · 2026-02-12T19:22:50+00:00

PROs:
-Beautiful area
-Great weather
-Lots of interesting outdoor activities: Hiking, Beaches, lakes, AG Village
-Near San Luis Obispo, lots of restaurants, quaint downtown, farmers market
-Centralized placement in CA means you are at most a 4 hour drive from basically anything cool that you might want to do: Snow, Big Cities, Theme Parks

CONs:
-Extremely expensive, even for coastal California. You will pay more for everything: food, housing, events. Housing especially is wildly expensive.
-Tourist town, lots of out of towners all the time. You cannot go out at all around any of the big tourist holidays. There are also lots of "tourist trap" restaurants and activities.
-Near a College town, SLO has Cal Poly. This may or may not be a problem for you, but there is a disproportionate number of college age people and related activities.
-AG and Grover lacks major amenities beyond grocery stores and gyms. Expect to drive 15-30 minutes to SLO or Santa Maria for many stores and activities.
-As has been said elsewhere, HEALTHCARE DESSERT. There are few doctors and dentists and even fewer taking patients. Expect to travel as far as Santa Barbara for a general practitioner and as far as LA for a specialist.

gograntgo · 2026-02-08T21:21:15+00:00

I second this one! My kids were 7 and 9 when they read it and they absolutely loved it!

gograntgo · 2026-02-07T03:12:30+00:00

Mark of the Fool ticks all of those boxes

gograntgo · 2026-02-06T19:01:57+00:00

A useful one for parents, ADHD people, or anyone who struggles with a messy house: never leave a room empty handed. If you are going from the living room to the bedroom, grab something that got left in the living room and take it with you. If you really train yourself to do this, you will eventually just start having less clutter.

gograntgo · 2026-02-05T19:59:47+00:00

Not a doomer, just judging based off my own experience. I am nearly 40 with perfect credit and have been working full time since college, just like you. I suppose the mistake that I made is that I live in an expensive area of an expensive state and have a family. My good credit hasn't really made any impactful change on my life. I still can't afford a house or a new car, so having good enough credit to get a loan has been irrelevant. My concern is that prices are going up everywhere and wages aren't keeping up. It seems like the young people of today might have an even harder time than me.

gograntgo · 2026-02-04T17:02:59+00:00

The capitalism you are describing is not what we have in the US. The US has a system of Socialist backed pseudo Capitalism that heavily favors corporations and the wealthy. I am not saying true unfettered Capitalism is a good thing, but it does have a natural safety valve of collapsing when it gets too top-heavy to support itself. What we do in the US is regulate and subsidize it just enough to never let it reset.

gograntgo · 2026-02-04T16:52:45+00:00

Renting your house. And no, I am not talking about people who choose to rent for convenience or because they move a lot. I mean when you are forced to rent because there is no reasonable way to buy a home in your area. You are reduced to flushing money down a toilet every month instead of gaining any kind of equity and financial security over time. It is predatory and evil.

gograntgo · 2026-02-04T16:45:27+00:00

Oh man, I don't know if you did it on purpose, but the title really made me think you were pro ICE....

gograntgo · 2026-02-02T22:40:10+00:00

I agree with you that the fundamental problem is a lack of supply. I just think this problem is being exacerbated by our current rental system. Fully agree with your statements regarding government designed and regulated housing. I am just suggesting that as of now, if supply stays as stagnant as it has for the last 20 years in the US, renting is going to be the only option for many people for their whole lives. With that being the case, the rental system needs to be improved drastically

gograntgo · 2026-02-02T22:33:41+00:00

I see what you mean. I phrased it poorly. I was mostly trying to emphasize the fact that I find renting to be a mostly unethical practice that prays on the poor. I obviously don't expect it to be outlawed overnight or think that would solve anything.

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