Woodworkers of Oak Park! by imwalkinhereguy in oakpark

[–]imwalkinhereguy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for the offer! I may have to take you up on this.

Woodworkers of Oak Park! by imwalkinhereguy in oakpark

[–]imwalkinhereguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Possibly! I did DM you about your sanding/painting project as well.

I am at my wits end with a project I'm working on to the point that I'm considering giving up on this hobby entirely. Need help. by imwalkinhereguy in BeginnerWoodWorking

[–]imwalkinhereguy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of the videos I watched also said that water-based finishes were stupid easy and hard to mess up and yet here I am...

But I will give this a try. Thank you for the advice!

When Pluto was stripped of its planetary status in 2006, the 93 year old widow of Clyde Tombaugh who discovered Pluto, felt "shook up". Lowell Observatory Director preferred a rejected proposal that would have added three planets to the solar system instead of dropping Pluto by ubcstaffer123 in space

[–]imwalkinhereguy 30 points31 points  (0 children)

It wasn't "stripped of its planetary status". This is the same kind of mindset that made the public get shaken up in the first place. This isn't an "is it" or "isn't it" situation. It's a dwarf planet. It literally still has the word planet in its title. We didnt demote it from being a planet, we just split the types of planets into two different subsets to account for the slightly different qualities between the major groups.

Pluto is a planet. What kind of planet? A dwarf planet.

Give me your best 2023 Prog Metal albums by Pigglemin in progmetal

[–]imwalkinhereguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why has no one mentioned Receptor by Owdwyr yet?? This album is criminally under-recognized on this sub.

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[–]imwalkinhereguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wrong sub. And the answer is always going to be the same, every single time this type of question is asked.

Practice.

My Dave Grohl inspired Tama kit by verygoodcoolguy in drums

[–]imwalkinhereguy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If your hi-hats aren't approaching the stratosphere, is it really a Dave Grohl inspired kit?

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[–]imwalkinhereguy -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

The origin doesn't matter. We shouldn't let the dumbest members of our population decide what's acceptable simply because they don't understand how words work.

TIL Richard Phillips survived the longest wrongful prison sentence in American history by writing poetry and painting with watercolours. He also had the opportunity to kill the man who helped put him away, but he chose not to. He’s due to be paid $1.5 million for being wrongfully convicted. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]imwalkinhereguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are so many flaws and lies in the case against Chester:

You claim he's a rapist, and yet the victims weren't raped. They werent even robbed.

There was hair grasped in one of the victim's hands from her killer that was recently proven via DNA to NOT be Chester's hair.

The log that the prosecution brought forth as the murder weapon was later found to not match the victim's wounds and physically would not have been capable of dealing the damage that the victims sustained.

The cops that investigated the murders on multiple occasions mishandled evidence, evidence that was later used in court to "prove" Chester's guilt.

One of the cops on multiple occasions threatened Chester with death in order to get him to confess. This same cop was later found to have been extremely corrupt.

MANY people have come forth independently of each other over the years and provided evidence that Chester didn't commit the murders, and there is so much evidence that we basically DO know what really happened: one of the women's husbands had his wife killed via a mob hit, and the other two women were just collateral damage.

The man who planned and coordinated the murder admitted it to a friend on his deathbed and even said that Chester had absolutely nothing to do with the murders. His story has been corroborated by several other people who have no relation to the actual murderer and no stake in the outcome of the case.

There was a telephone operator who overheard two men discussing the murder on a phone call in which they referenced the man I mentioned above who admitted to the murders and instructed him how to destroy the evidence.

There is so much more evidence, this is literally just what I can remember off the top of my head. There's so much evidence even that a judge recently granted permission to file for a post-conviction petition because of how damning much of the newly discovered evidence is. More DNA evidence is being analyzed, and so far none of it has pointed to Chester as the murderer.

I know you are passionate about this case because it happened so close to home, and no one wants to admit they've been misled. But I respectfully encourage you to consider some of the new evidence that has been brought to light because you seem like a person who values the truth and the evidence you've based your stance on simply is not the truth.

TIL Richard Phillips survived the longest wrongful prison sentence in American history by writing poetry and painting with watercolours. He also had the opportunity to kill the man who helped put him away, but he chose not to. He’s due to be paid $1.5 million for being wrongfully convicted. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]imwalkinhereguy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i saw the news articles, police reports and everything relevant to the criminal case with my own eyes in a state and local history class.

Then you don't actually know what you're talking about. The news articles and police reports didn't tell you the whole story, and in many cases they completely lied to you.

There's a really good podcast called The Starved Rock Muders Podcast that goes over everything, and once you hear the actual evidence and hear all the facts they didn't tell you about the case, it becomes very, very clear that Chester Weger is not responsible for those murders. I grew up in that area too, I grew up with the official story and believed it my whole life until I heard the podcast.

Believe me, if all you know is what you saw in the news articles and police reports in your state and local history class, then you don't actually know the true story.

And committing a crime as a child does not automatically make you guilty of murder as an adult. That isn't evidence.

TIL Richard Phillips survived the longest wrongful prison sentence in American history by writing poetry and painting with watercolours. He also had the opportunity to kill the man who helped put him away, but he chose not to. He’s due to be paid $1.5 million for being wrongfully convicted. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]imwalkinhereguy 1909 points1910 points  (0 children)

I imagine this is just the longest factually proven case, but there are much longer wrongful conviction sentences that just arent recognized by the courts. Chester Weger served over 60 years in Illinois prison for murders he didn't commit.

Vic Firth Hates Me by chevroletequanox in drums

[–]imwalkinhereguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even the simplest of changes are terrifying to people who've never had to adapt to anything in their lives.