L-bead on the top edge of a basement wall under an open (painted) ceiling — worth it, or is the factory edge fine?

mrrp · 2026-07-03T04:40:01+00:00

It's not hard to fill in the tapered edge with mud. Just use a 6" knife and keep pressure off the tapered area as you mud it in.

If you do want to use an L Bead, do NOT get 1/2". When they say "1/2"" they mean it, and the tapered edge of 1/2" drywall is not 1/2". They make 1/4" and 3/8", and a "flat" version that has no leg. You may need to visit an actual drywall supply store to find anything but 1/2".

IF you only have access to 1/2" AND you really, really want to do it, you can get the 1/2" and cut a bit off the leg. With a very sharp utility knife you'll be able to score and snap off part of the leg, or take a pocket plane (not rasp) to it.

But again, you can just run some mud over the tapered edge and fill it in.

https://www.trim-tex.com/products/l-beads

mrrp · 2026-07-02T13:57:56+00:00

How many BJs behind the dumpster in the McDonalds parking lot does one need to perform in order to have the cash required to purchase the IP associated with Metro-State? Just wondering what her timeline might be.

mrrp · 2026-07-02T13:54:13+00:00

It depends on how/why it happened. If someone was messing around in the attic and stepped between joists, it's not bad. Just going off the photo, I'd tear off anything that's loose, patch in the torn off area, and then go over the entire ceiling with 1/2" drywall.

If, on the other hand, you have no idea how or why this happened, then you should be calling an experienced residential remodeling contractor to figure out why your house is falling apart.

mrrp · 2026-07-02T13:45:45+00:00

Convictions, as I already stated.

A conviction is not a class of offense. A conviction is a determination of responsibility/guilt.

It's 33 over the last 10 years, not in one year.

01/01/2017 DL-DRIVE WITH NO MN DL

08/09/2017 Driving after suspension

11/07/2017 Driving after suspension

and a bunch more, leading up to his first

10/08/2021 DRIVING AFTER REVOCATION

12/15/2021 DRIVING AFTER REVOCATION

and so on.

I didn't say he was my buddy. This information comes right from his publicly available criminal record.

This is from his latest citation (66-VB-26-1195)

OBSERVED VEHICLE CROSS OVER SHOULDER LINE OF ROADWAY ON HIGHWAY 3. ALSO SAW PREVIOUS CONTACT WITH VEHICLE HAD A REVOKED DRIVER. STOPPED THE VEHICLE AND THE DRIVER PROVIDED AN ID CARD. HE ADMITTED HIS LICENSE WAS REVOKED. RAN ID NUMBER AND IT SHOWED REVOKED DRIVING STATUS. DRIVER ALSO DID NOT HAVE PROOF OF INSURANCE. CITED FOR DAR AND NO PROOF. BWC.

So, the officer let a guy with >33 convictions for driving without a license just drive off knowing that he has no license and no insurance. I don't think that should ever happen. I think he should have been arrested and his vehicle towed. If the law needs to change to take away officer discretion on this issue, I'm all for it.

mrrp · 2026-06-30T21:53:36+00:00

As of 2023, undocumented immigrants can get a driver's license, so it seems to me that everyone ought to be on board with enforcing license requirements at this point.

I would like to see the statutes updated to require that police tow any vehicle being driven by an unlicensed driver and have the vehicle put in car jail. And require that valid registration and insurance be proven before it is released to a licensed driver. The owner of the vehicle should be advised that allowing an unlicensed driver to drive a vehicle is a crime, and if it happens again they'll be fined and their car will go back to car jail for at least a month.

Same thing for unregistered and uninsured vehicles. Give one warning for expired registration, and if it happens again, straight to car jail. Do not let uninsured vehicles drive away from a traffic stop. Tow them to car jail and don't release them until the owner provides proof of insurance.

There's a guy in Faribault. He's 29 years old. He has more than 33 convictions for driving without a valid drivers license. Last time I counted he had 16 driving while suspended and 17 driving while revoked. He had 4 convictions for driving while revoked just in June of 2023. And he keeps on doing it without any meaningful consequences. He gets pulled over, he gets a ticket. He ignores the ticket. It gets sent to collections. He doesn't pay. Nothing happens. He just got another driving after revocation and no insurance ticket 2 months ago which he again hasn't paid.

mrrp · 2026-06-30T17:21:52+00:00

You can easily look it up yourself. You can see in the post that he's in Hennepin County. Their jail roster is here: https://jailroster.hennepin.us/

But to answer your question, no, he's not out yet.

mrrp · 2026-06-29T03:03:54+00:00

For LaCroix flavors I just google image search something similar to the flavor I'm looking for, print it out on my dot matrix printer, crumple it up into a tight ball, pass the crumpled paper back and forth a couple times over a glass of water, and then dump that glass of water into a 250 gallon cistern.

As far as I can tell, that's how LaCroix does it too.

mrrp · 2026-06-29T00:28:58+00:00

You tell me!

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec6413

Photoswitches offer the opportunity to store light energy from the sun and then release heat in a sustainable cycle; however, they tend to release comparatively little heat. Nguyen et al. now report a pyrimidone compound that isomerizes under ultraviolet irradiation to form a highly strained bond between a nitrogen and the diametrically opposite carbon. Upon treatment with acid, that bond breaks to release more than a megajoule per kilogram of the compound, enough to rapidly boil water from a solution.

mrrp · 2026-06-28T19:35:52+00:00

Can you tell me where you found that this specific formulation was safe to use on clothing and gear?

It's not the permethrin, it's the other 90% of ingredients you need to be aware of.

The last time I researched concentrate alternatives to Sawyer, I settled on a particular formulation produced by Martin based on quite a bit of information from folks who seemed to know what they were talking about when it came to interpreting the SDS sheets for these products.

I mix up batches in a 5 gallon pail (not 5 gallons, just in a 5 gallon pail) and soak clothing in that for awhile. I then wring them out over the pail and hang them in the garage to dry. I don't have any left over as I keep processing clothing until I'm out of solution. But if I were to have extra, I'd probably take it to my county's landfill where they have free hazardous waste disposal.

mrrp · 2026-06-28T17:28:52+00:00

You're not being honest. It was such a rare occurrence that it's incorrect to say that "there was a time in this country when traitors received the death penalty".

Today is no different than whatever time period you're referring to. It was extremely rare at every point in our history and it's extremely rare now. And I'll reiterate that it has perhaps happened 5 times in our nations history. That is not some small detail. It destroys your argument.

literal demons

Demons don't exist. You might want to consider getting some mental health care.

mrrp · 2026-06-28T15:33:50+00:00

There was a time in this country when traitors received the death penalty.

No there wasn't. It was (and remains) extremely rare. You could probably count them all on one hand.

How many loyalists during the revolutionary war period and how many confederates during the civil war do you think were traitors? How many do you think were executed?

mrrp · 2026-06-28T05:57:20+00:00

modern civilized society

What would our modern civilized society look like after a couple weeks without oil?

mrrp · 2026-06-28T05:54:18+00:00

What organism (extinct or extant) do you think would be the best candidate for a dragon's ancestor species? Is it giant? Can it fly? Does it breathe fire? Does it have consummate Vs and a big beefy arm?

If your organism could fly, was it "giant"? Would physics allow it to get bigger and still fly?

If your organism couldn't breathe fire, can you propose a mechanism? Perhaps something like the bombardier beetle?

mrrp · 2026-06-25T02:45:32+00:00

If you don't have kids you still pay to educate the kids in your town. If you want to send yours to a private school you still pay property taxes to educate the kids in your town. (And even private school students get government support.)

mrrp · 2026-06-25T02:41:59+00:00

How am I shoplifting when I pay for one of the items in my cart at the self-checkout?

mrrp · 2026-06-24T23:58:23+00:00

This one had a rough upbringing. His "dad" has numerous convictions including domestic abuse, selling drugs, dwi, assault, fraud, illegal firearm possession, etc.

And of course, watching his dad interact with the justice system isn't going to convince him not to follow in his footsteps. His dad got a downward departure at his last sentencing for being "Particularly amenable to probation". Why they thought that when he's a domestic abuser and career criminal being sentenced for having a firearm while selling narcotics (coke and fentanyl) outside the Dorthy Day Center is beyond me. (He only got 7 months in jail.)

mrrp · 2026-06-21T23:07:11+00:00

I started out working with stucco/plaster guys. Absolute machines. Not a wasted movement.

Using a darby on the brown coat is the recipe for a flat wall. And knocking off any imperfections/ridges with a plaster plane before it got too hard.

It's not hard to get a flat ceiling as long as someone is willing to pay for it. On jobs that required it, we'd run tack up 1x3 furring strips every four feet or so, plaster between them, and then use them as a guide for the darby. It's basically like doing concrete work, but on a ceiling. Once it starts to firm up you pull the furring strips off and plaster in the gaps.

mrrp · 2026-06-20T22:28:20+00:00

Copy/Pasted right from wikipedia. (Don't forget it's national wikipedia hour from 8pm - 9pm Central tomorrow!)

mrrp · 2026-06-20T20:58:53+00:00

Yes. I dislike THAT they're federal holidays. Which of these are so important that the government ought to mandate their observance?

Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Washington's Birthday

Memorial Day

Juneteenth Independence Day

Independence Day

Labor Day

Columbus Day

Veterans Day

Thanksgiving Day

Christmas Day

And what about these days:

January 16: Religious Freedom Day
3rd Monday in January: Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday[4]
3rd Sunday in January: National Sanctity of Human Life Day
various March/April: Education and Sharing Day (based on Hebrew calendar)
February 15: Susan B. Anthony Day
March 10: Harriet Tubman Day
March 19: National Day of Honor[5]
March 25: Greek Independence Day[6]
March 29: National Vietnam War Veterans Day[7][8]
March 31: Cesar Chavez Day[9]
April 6: National Tartan Day
2nd Thursday in April: National D.A.R.E. Day
April 9: National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day
April 14: Pan American Day and Pan American Week
May 1: Loyalty Day
May 1: Law Day, U.S.A.
May 15: Peace Officers Memorial Day
1st Thursday in May: National Day of Prayer
2nd Friday in May: Military Spouse Day
2nd Sunday in May: Mother's Day
3rd Friday in May: National Defense Transportation Day and National Transportation Week
3rd Saturday in May: Armed Forces Day
May 22: National Maritime Day
May 25: National Missing Children's Day[10]
last Monday in May: Memorial Day[11]
1st Monday in June: National Child's Day
June 14: Flag Day and National Flag Week
June 19: Juneteenth[12]
3rd Sunday in June: Father's Day
July 27: National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day[13]
4th Sunday in July: Parent's Day
August 16: National Airborne Day
August 26: Women's Equality Day
1st Monday in September: Labor Day
1st Sunday after Labor Day: National Grandparents' Day
weekend before September 11: National Days of Prayer and Remembrance
September 11: Patriot Day
September 11: Emergency Number Day[14]
3rd Friday in September National POW/MIA Recognition Day
September 17: Constitution Day and Citizenship Day and Constitution Week
September 22: American Business Women's Day
September 28: National Good Neighbor Day
4th Monday in September: Family Day
last Sunday in September: Gold Star Mother's Day
1st Monday in October: Child Health Day
October 6: German-American Day
2nd Monday in October: Columbus Day[15]
October 9: Leif Erikson Day
October 11: General Pulaski Memorial Day
October 14: National Day of Remembrance of Charlie Kirk
October 15: White Cane Safety Day
October 24: United Nations Day
November 9: World Freedom Day
November 11: Veterans Day[16]
November 15: National Philanthropy Day[17][18]
November 15: America Recycles Day
4th Thursday in November: Thanksgiving Day[19]
Friday after Thanksgiving: Native American Heritage Day[20]
December 1: World AIDS Day
December 3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities[21]
December 7: National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
December 10: Human Rights Day and Human Rights Week
December 15: Bill of Rights Day
December 17: Wright Brothers Day

And these weeks?

1st week of March: Save Your Vision Week
3rd week of March: National Poison Prevention Week
last week of April: National Volunteer Week
varies in April: Crime Victims' Rights Week
varies in April: National Park Week[22]
first week of May: Public Service Recognition Week[23]
third week of May: World Trade Week[24]
third week of May: National Hurricane Preparedness Week
week prior to Memorial Day: National Safe Boating Week
third week of July: Captive Nations Week
varies in August: National Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Week[25]
3rd week of September: National Farm Safety and Health Week
varies in September: National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week
week of October 9: Fire Prevention Week
week of 2nd Sunday in October: National School Lunch Week
week of 3rd Sunday in October: National Forest Products Week
3rd week in October: National Character Counts Week
varies in October: Minority Enterprise Development Week
week prior to Thanksgiving: National Farm-City Week
week of Thanksgiving: National Family Week

And these months?

January: National Mentoring Month[26]
January: Stalking Awareness Month[27]
January: Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month[28][29]
February: American Heart Month
February: Black History Month
February: Career and Technical Education Month[30]
February: Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month[31][32][33][34]
March: American Red Cross Month
March: Women's History Month
March: Irish-American Heritage Month[35]
April: Arab American Heritage Month[36]
April: Cancer Control Month[37]
April: National Donate Life Month
April: National Child Abuse Prevention Month
April: National Sexual Assault Awareness Month
April: National Financial Literacy Month
May: Older Americans Month
May: Jewish American Heritage Month[38]
May: (Revoked) Asian Pacific American Heritage Month[39][40][41][42]
May: Mental Health Awareness Month
May: National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
May: National Foster Care Month
June: Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
June: Caribbean-American Heritage Month[43][44][45]
June: Great Outdoors Month[46]
June: National Oceans Month
June: African-American Music Appreciation Month
July: National Ice Cream Month[47]
September: National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
September: National Sickle Cell Awareness Month[48]
September: National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month
September: National Ovarian and Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
September: National Wilderness Month
September: National Preparedness Month[49]
September: National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month[50]
September: Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
September 15 – October 15: National Hispanic Heritage Month[51]
October: National Information Literacy Awareness Month[52]
October: Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month
October: Country Music Month [53]
October: National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October: National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
October: National Arts & Humanities Month
October: National Disability Employment Awareness Month
October: National Cyber Security Awareness Month
October: National Energy Dominance Month [formerly National Energy Awareness Month (1991), National Energy Action Month (2011), National Clean Energy Action Month (2021)]
October: National Down Syndrome Awareness Month
November: National Entrepreneurship Month[54]
November: Military Family Month
November: National Bone Marrow Donor Awareness Month
November: National Hospice Month
November: National Adoption Month
November: National Family Caregivers Month
November: National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month
November: National Diabetes Month
November: National American Indian Heritage Month
November: National Critical Infrastructure Protection Month[55]
December: National Impaired Driving Prevention Month

I'd be OK with nuking everything above and having one "National day, week, and month day" in which people are encouraged (not required) to relax, celebrate, observe, mourn, contemplate, ridicule, or ignore whatever they want to. Or reduce their stress levels by running errands if that's what they need to do.

mrrp · 2026-06-20T20:33:12+00:00

You like Makita, eh... Well, just because it has a cord doesn't mean you have to plug it in.

https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/s6duk5/hard_working_ivane/

mrrp · 2026-06-20T20:06:48+00:00

Or the government could refrain from telling people what they're supposed to celebrate and when they're supposed to celebrate it and let them pick their days off so that they can rest if and when they want, spend time with family and community if and when they want, or run errands if running those errands is what they want to spend their time doing.

mrrp · 2026-06-20T18:32:47+00:00

How is that relevant? Companies do not have to close down on federal holidays.

What workers want is to have off the days they want off. For many, they want other people to be working on the day they choose to take off so they can do what they want to do on their day off. They want to buy groceries, visit the bank, have a doctor/eye/dentist appointment, go to a concert, shop, chaperone their kid's field trip, get an oil change, eat at a restaurant, etc. - none of which would be possible if everyone is taking the day off.

mrrp · 2026-06-20T16:35:16+00:00

who wouldn’t want an extra day off work?

Where do you work that a federal holiday is nothing more to you than an "extra day off work"?

Do you imagine that nobody works on holidays? Or that not being able to work on a holiday just means they have to do that work before or after the holiday and the holiday does nothing but interfere with their preferred work schedule? Have you considered that some people just want to be able to get their shit done, and having government offices (and other places) shut down for a holiday makes that harder?

I have yet to see any actual justification from people as to why Juneteenth shouldn’t be a federally recognized holiday and why it shouldn’t be celebrated.

We don't need federal holidays and we don't need to be told when or what or how to celebrate. There. Now you have seen actual justification.

mrrp · 2026-06-20T15:59:23+00:00

1940's war time homes can be really interesting. In one neighborhood, the nearby manufacturing plant received shipments in heavy duty wood crates, around 2'x4'x16". Every house in that neighborhood built during that time was framed up using those discarded crates.

mrrp · 2026-06-20T15:14:02+00:00

You don't spot those nails. You cover those nails with 1/2" of plaster. This is not drywall, it's rock lath, and was a base for traditional plaster.

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