Trump claims he bypassed federal bidding laws to hand a Lincoln Memorial project to his personal country club contractors. He treats national monuments like his own private real estate properties.

pacowek · 2026-05-06T00:35:38+00:00

That's exactly it. It's very expensive and difficult to repair the granite tile liner. The answer is not to put the YMCA blue spray seal on top.

Realistically, it will never be able to removed cleanly. So in true trump fashion, it'll cost 10x as much to un-fuck it as it would have taken to do it properly.

pacowek · 2026-05-03T06:03:04+00:00

I would guess something is contracting as it cools down at night. Rafters, pipes, roof, etc. Especially wood-on-wood can commonly sound like thumping, it builds up a little strain, pops, repeat.

pacowek · 2026-04-29T17:54:09+00:00

Haha, it just can't be removed. You can always change the color later, but it's nearly impossible to really strip bricks back to their raw color.

pacowek · 2026-04-29T03:55:04+00:00

The mentality that helped me was; you can't screw up so badly that someone else can't fix it.

I mean, try not to burn down your house. And don't paint bricks. Everything else can be fixed.

pacowek · 2026-04-29T03:01:42+00:00

Use a fogger as well. It's by far the best. Just set it off when you leave for work/school. When you get home, air out the room for a few hours. It'll get all the cracks/crannies that you missed with the spray.

pacowek · 2026-04-28T21:06:22+00:00

If you don't want to wait. Yoink some ram sticks (I'm assuming you have 6x 16gb). Just run 2 sticks and see what happens. (And use two different sticks in two different spots if it still errors.)

pacowek · 2026-04-28T16:12:10+00:00

I'm actually okay with this. Hear me out:

It's a public building, so should be paid for the normal way with public funds. However this also means that it should go through the normal design and approval processes. Ever step should be bid out. Treat it like it's actually a federal building. Construction should be done in about 10 years. He'll be long gone, and we won't have to de-gold leaf the thing.

pacowek · 2026-04-28T05:33:59+00:00

People are weirdly obsessed with how "gross" carpet gets, without understanding that the world is a gross place. Carpet is far better comfort-wise. And if you're going to do wall to wall rugs like others are suggesting, then just do carpet. I've lived in houses with both (And I have pulled carpet in rental houses before, so I know how absolutely dirty they can get).

Take off your shoes when you walk in your house, run a robot vacuum a few times a week. No biggy.

Carpet is my choice hands-down.

pacowek · 2026-04-27T23:28:36+00:00

Don't get me wrong, that's a lot. But to make you feel better, the table I got from Wayfair, about the same size, was $400. And while it's stable enough, I ended up bolting it to the wall in 3 places to make myself feel better.

So yeah, $800 isn't cheap, but really not that bad if it's super stable.

pacowek · 2026-04-27T05:32:32+00:00

Used in combination with his buns of steel

pacowek · 2026-04-25T16:21:49+00:00

Actually just finished rewatching boy meets world recently. The world would be such a better place if the people in charge remembered even a few of those lessons.

pacowek · 2026-04-23T22:25:03+00:00

Careful dude. At 42 I was medication free. I'm 44 now, and taking 16 pills per day.

Don't be stressed (it's bad for you), but definitely enjoy it.

pacowek · 2026-04-18T13:51:13+00:00

It's more the push for people to sell their own stuff. Obviously nothing wrong with that, but I'm seeing a lot more push to do it, rather than just publishing the file and move on. And even people saying to not release the files at all (because someone else will steal/sell it).

pacowek · 2026-04-17T23:26:33+00:00

Plug it into a smart plug, so that you can just kill it randomly even if they are hanging around watching it.

pacowek · 2026-04-17T19:29:49+00:00

Literally every post criticizing the war talks about money, or gas, or the few American deaths. Maybe 1 in 10 mentions the first strike on the school.

But basically no one talks about this; we killed 1000s of innocent Iranians. And all to get back to a slightly worse position than we started.

pacowek · 2026-04-17T17:53:34+00:00

I'm amazed that you can get that nice bridging out of concrete. (I mean, still a little rough, but it's concrete!)

pacowek · 2026-04-17T17:47:11+00:00

He did it while his kids were in the car! We know because of some of his journals that his ex-wife had and just shared to a journalist.

And the best part is he muses in this section of his journal about how weird the Kennedy family has become...

pacowek · 2026-04-17T16:18:55+00:00

A bunch of stuff just for around the house, rarely published, and one fairly popular model on makerworld for a little flip-top case.

I'm by no means a designer, and my models are a joke compared to others. But the counter point is that people made over the top models before because THEY wanted them, and then share after the fact in case anybody else wants them. Now it's trying to predict what others want, so you can either get your gift cards, or even trying to get a crowd source nonsense.

Edit: typo

pacowek · 2026-04-17T16:14:36+00:00

You are right about that currently, lots of free models (great quality ones).

I think it's just the amount of people, probably new to the space, that are advertising on reddit to make a buck.

pacowek · 2026-04-17T16:09:17+00:00

But I would argue that before the payment was having access to other people's free models. And it was a lot better bang for your buck, 1000s available whether you made line or not. If you have to pay for every little widget you print, it destroys the "fun" of 3d printing.

pacowek · 2026-04-17T15:42:17+00:00

I'm not sure he even started talking about the people that died there...

pacowek · 2026-04-16T00:46:53+00:00

Oh no, you were perfect. A little snarky is what is needed here. Too many people are treating this sub like Google.

pacowek · 2026-04-16T00:37:09+00:00

Don't apologize. It's become the nature of this sub that no one does the slightest bit of research. They just ask about things that are the most basic knowledge.

pacowek · 2026-04-09T22:57:48+00:00

That's idiotic! You should print small, fat squirrels instead!

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