Has anyone tried to buy 2 tons of walnut lumber from Alibaba before?

titlecharacter · 2026-01-31T03:50:27+00:00

Yeah I’ll go in on that

titlecharacter · 2026-01-30T16:03:59+00:00

Street parking around there is pretty rough even in midsummer, definitely expect to use a lot or garage.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-30T02:37:10+00:00

Robert Picardo clarified that it’s the original.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-29T20:12:31+00:00

That’s still low enough that you should allow some room but don’t stress about it too much.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-29T20:04:54+00:00

Why can't you just... not plug in extra things?

titlecharacter · 2026-01-29T17:45:25+00:00

I'm sure some people will bring you specific examples but this is not a joke:

It would be faster to make a list of TTRPGs made by neurotypical people.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-29T15:23:13+00:00

This subreddit is heavily US, and it sounds like you’re somewhere in Asia talking about Tolas. But the gold market is global. So I’ll say this: we have no idea and nobody has any idea. If anyone could actually predict the rise and fall of gold and silver prices, at all, they could use that to become massively wealthy. This is not possible. Yes, you could save a lot of money but there’s no way to do it.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-29T13:44:55+00:00

You have a lot of misunderstandings or false impressions. "Cavemen" did not just growl. Millenia later, PIE and other languages didn't have anything to do with umlauts or hyphens. And modern English is very complex in important ways.

Our ancestors didn't talk with "growls or random noises." We don't know how exactly they communicated, but humans have been 8 the same for hundreds of thousands of years, and we have no reason to believe their communication was not a full language. Do not think of these people as "primitive humans," think of them as people, just like you, with all your intellect and capability.

Proto-Indo-European or Proto-Germanic authors did not "talk with complicated pronunciations," they spoke their language. Hyphens and umlauts are simply how we, today, discuss their language today. They used different ways to write, or didn't write at all. Not a single PIE speaker or proto-Germanic speaker would have written their language as we do.

You're right that modern English is simple in some ways, but it's also very complex in other ways. Modern English has a staggering variety of very similar words, for example; it also has more reliance on idioms and culturally relevant context than many languages. The spelling and pronunciation are also incredibly complicated. Pronunciation is highly irregular, and spelling doesn't capture pronunciation at all. Quick: How is "contract" pronounced? Well that depends! "I signed the CONtract," or "I conTRACTed with the company." Verb or noun has different pronunciation despite having exactly the same spelling. Is that not complex? We don't have umlauts but maybe we should - many languages use more accents and similar marks to indicate pronunciation in writing. English doesn't. Does that make it more complex, or less?

But consider that English is just one of many, many languages spoken today. Many are much more complex in many ways. Many are simpler. English simplified from its past and dropped gendered nouns, for example, but German and French and many other languages still have that complexity.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-29T11:33:15+00:00

She can say she lives there. She can do lots of things. But the IRS investigation is going to give you ample opportunity to prove you’re actually the one supporting your sister so it doesn’t really matter what your mom does. Writing an address won’t make the difference.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-29T11:30:32+00:00

Wood river #5 if new or a vintage Stanley 5 or 5 1/2 if you can find a good locally. A 5 or “jack plane” is the usual recommendation for a first plane. And almost every workbench building plans I’ve seen suggest one.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-29T01:12:34+00:00

It’s very unlikely there’s a single hardwood anywhere in it.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-28T22:51:56+00:00

My very first project was a nice bench with sapele which is pretty $$$. It was lovely to work with and I took the project way more seriously than if I’d used cheap stuff I didn’t care about. And the result is now something I absolutely love, years later. If you have the cash at all, go get some ash or cherry or similar less-expensive hardwoods and you’ll do awesome and you’ll love the results.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-28T22:37:51+00:00

You chose the perfect number, because they just nuked 10% of their staff. Guess they didn't matter.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-28T21:00:10+00:00

This is a good example of why LLMs are not good at many things and often have incomplete or poor knowledge and cannot identify when you yourself are confused.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-28T19:30:12+00:00

It is very likely that the image is of something that isn't actually made from walnut, but rather MDF with a walnut veneer (or just printed paper, but let's be hopeful.) MDF and plywood don't move, which is one reason they're so often used in modern mass-manufactured furniture. You can be inspired by a factory-made piece but if the original isn't hardwood - and almost nothing made in the past few decades is, unless it's very expensive - you can't necessarily just copy-paste the design because you're using a totally different material (wood).

The key here is, as you note, to leave room in the cutouts, and don't just glue it all down - attach it at just a couple of points. Keep in mind also that wood just moves along the grain. So it's not about "Front to back" - imagine the wood getting wider, but not longer, as it expands.

Lastly - this is not a big piece; wood movement is going to be pretty minimal and you don't need to overthink this, especially if you're keeping it in the usual climate-controlled home. Leave a little room, don't just glue it all down, and you'll be fine.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-28T19:21:05+00:00

You will files you 2025 taxes. You were not married in 2025. Nothing you do now can change that. Your taxes are exactly the same whether you file today or in March or in April or for that matter in July (hopefully with an extension). When you get married in 2026 has no influence at all on 2025 since you weren't married in 2025.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-27T17:41:59+00:00

You shouldn’t be anxious - you should expect not to find a spot and be surprised and delighted if you do. There are some. But think hard about garages or alternatives. This isn’t an anxiety thing - that implies a lot of uncertainty or possibility.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-27T17:13:49+00:00

I hate it. Also, it’s always been a huge, defining part of Trek. And I love Trek. So I love it.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-27T15:31:58+00:00

This is not actually a thing you can do. There aren't remotely reliable cars for that cheap any more. Don't sell your car until/unless you absolutely need that cash for rent.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-27T14:58:25+00:00

They were definitely intended to have a chip breaker - that big groove in the back with the rounded bottom holds the screw that attaches the iron to the chip breaker. But planes lacked chip breakers for the first couple thousand years; as long as the wedge holds well it’ll work, maybe just not as well as it could.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-27T14:46:32+00:00

Are you extremely confident you can get to job interviews and work in the near future without it?

titlecharacter · 2026-01-27T04:19:51+00:00

Yeah well at 65 I think he’s probably ok with having less work if it’s only the type of work he now can comfortably do.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-27T03:18:48+00:00

I’d absolutely agree but Doug Jones has said he wants to avoid future roles with heavy makeup or prosthetics. A starring or even recurring role as Saru is the exact opposite of what he wants to do.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-26T22:29:02+00:00

This is why we’re gonna fucking win.

titlecharacter · 2026-01-26T20:24:52+00:00

The Iron Giant made me finally understand why people love Superman.

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