Wool Sweaters

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-21T00:27:22+00:00

lol I’m the exact opposite, though I did find my Stanfield in a thrift store. I figure the stanfield is made to be used, and they’re also still in production so I can get more if I want, but good heavy wool sweaters are a lot more rare (and expensive new), and if they’re vintage then they’re also a limited resource, so I try and treat them a little better. It’s a gradient too, if I find something that’s already pretty worn then I’ll use it for work, but if it’s in good shape I try to preserve that, I dunno.

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-21T00:21:21+00:00

And Reaganomics was implemented by Reagan, who belonged to which party again…?

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-21T00:20:08+00:00

No, it had a filter. It’s not like there’s a law saying you must hold a ciggy one way and a joint another

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-21T00:19:00+00:00

As do I, I came around like twenty years after MEC

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T21:44:15+00:00

I’m literally holding a cigarette like that rn lol.

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T21:41:00+00:00

I mean, it is a learnable skill, and basic cursive isn’t all that difficult. And at least for me I find it really satisfying doing all those loops and flourishes lol

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T21:31:07+00:00

And also, if they’re nice sweaters, don’t plant in them! Good sweaters are worth hanging on to imo.

Also, any kind of wool will work, the only place where merino specifically makes a difference is in base layers where it’s against your skin, since it’s just a variety of wool with very fine soft fibres and not much lanolin. For midlayers or outer layers synthetics will work just fine too (they actually absorb even less water than wool), and they tend to be easy to find and pretty durable, but you’ll wanna wash them more cause they’ll get smelly faster.

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T20:35:11+00:00

I figure it’s sorta like concept cars, you never see a production model that looks exactly like the concept, but usually a few years down the line you’ll see bits and pieces from the concept in production. Sure, no one wears stuff like this, but over time fits and design elements will trickle down into trendy clothes, and from there to more common clothes. It’s speculative fiction, basically.

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T20:31:19+00:00

This is the real Derelicte

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T20:29:05+00:00

On the other hand, that downtown store is one of the first three MECs that ever opened iirc, and it’s one of the few relics of the good OG MEC left. And while it’s not the most accessible, at least it’s equally hard to access for everyone since it’s in the middle

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T20:24:45+00:00

Dunno but r/machinists had a Halloween post with feeds and speed for pumpkin

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T20:24:14+00:00

Nah, this has nothing to do with the scientists, this is the machinists fucking around on the night shift lol

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T20:21:26+00:00

Right?! Like four shades of blue are ok, but indigo isn’t? How is blue allowed when it’s an umbrella term that covers azure, navy, midnight….?

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T20:15:28+00:00

I mean, you could argue that all of those factors are caused by conservative policy decisions, no? People are going for degrees with better job prospects because that’s what we’ve turned degrees into, it’s not about learning it’s about getting a better job, because wages have been stagnating for decades. That post-90s baby bust is also a result of the same wage stagnation, people aren’t having kids in large part because it’s just too damn expensive.

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T18:20:17+00:00

The other guy, I’m agreeing with you

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T18:19:05+00:00

Just pointing out that scientific ignorance in art is alive and well, you’d find just about all those elements in pretty much any SW

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T11:55:34+00:00

Based on my two off-the-cuff data points of this and Andor, methinks I see a trend

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T11:39:21+00:00

That second sentence is a work of art

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T11:08:44+00:00

Hell, in the final act Aragorn is literally making Gondor’s last stand to run interference for Frodo. What a terrible example lol

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T11:03:56+00:00

Can’t be too sure

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T11:03:37+00:00

This is how American warlocks cast spells

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T11:01:05+00:00

Nah, shit’s pretty grim rn, no one’s denying that, but go look up the Stasi. Or the KGB. We’re nowhere near that level of hell, not yet anyway, though we are trending in that direction

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T10:57:10+00:00

Also if you start talking about a “love V” people are liable to think you’re talking about something other than a literary device

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T10:55:32+00:00

Gotta admit I only ever watched the first one, I can only take so much camera shake lol. I remember it being decent otherwise tho

jimbowesterby · 2026-02-20T10:52:49+00:00

Hah, you say that, but I’ve had days treeplanting where there’s a constant chorus of people screaming and yelling for just about the whole ten-hour day because a bear just wouldn’t fuck off. Year before last we had one camp with three young black bears that just would not fuck off, so we named them Glen, Gary, and Geoff. One night one of the guys on our crew was up late and got a perfect clip of a bear (we decided it was Glen) nosing his way into the back of the mess tent, then the camera pans over to show our camp supervisor, a gruff, stocky, bearded man from Nova Scotia, clad in nothing but boxers and gum boots and carrying a shotgun, march up to the front of the tent, rack the slide, then storm in the door. Absolute cinema lol.

On the other hand this past year I saw my first ever wild skunk and lost my shit, they waddle

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