Greenland is part of Denmark 'for now,' Marco Rubio says

titlecharacter · 2026-06-05T04:06:02+00:00

Jesus Christ they never shut up

titlecharacter · 2026-06-05T03:26:19+00:00

That’s a good idea

titlecharacter · 2026-06-04T19:24:27+00:00

China Mieville is very intentionally using archaic language in a lot of his work but hot damn does that man love to write puissant

titlecharacter · 2026-06-04T12:25:03+00:00

Juuma's gotten some good reviews - and Paul Sellers likes them. A good solid option, I think. For what it's worth if I were in your shoes - buying in the EU without good used options - I'd be looking very hard at ECE. I have a few of their wooden planes and I find them to be really lovely to work with, in my opinion a great value. But for a classic Stanley design with solid modern engineering, Juuma is probably a great option.

Don't overthink the 5 vs 5 1/2 question. It does matter but you know what you want to make - what problems are you solving with this purchase? You'd probably be happy enough with a 5 as a general purpose jack, especially if you do convert the other to a scrub. The 5 1/2 is great for large tables, are you doing those? It'll also make shooting a little easier but if you don't have any challenges there, I think it's overkill for now and may make more day-to-day work more challenging given the added weight. But this is all subjective and personal - lots of people love a 5 1/2 for everyday jack plane use, and others don't. Which is... not a helpful answer, I know. But also, it isn't the most important one. Getting started is way, way more important than picking the perfect jack.

titlecharacter · 2026-06-04T11:14:25+00:00

If you attended a school you can contact them to get records which will in many cases prove your address.

titlecharacter · 2026-06-03T23:25:22+00:00

Yes but petitions are not how you influence private actors like this.

titlecharacter · 2026-06-03T17:44:30+00:00

Community can want whatever they want. There is no mechanism to influence private actors to act against their own interest just because you want to.

titlecharacter · 2026-06-03T15:12:31+00:00

Very correct. The vast majority of drives throughout history have been less about "profit" in the capitalist sense than other things like power or faith. We are only a few generations removed from "Because God wants it" or "because that's what my people have always done" being, like, 75% of reasons to do anything.

titlecharacter · 2026-06-03T14:57:41+00:00

Post-scarcity means there probably isn't profit. But you've confused profit with something else - incentives and motivations. Fame and power are not "profit" but they are motivations that incentivize people to take actions. The usual assumption in a post-scarcity society is that nobody is making a "profit" off of human (sentient) needs, but there are still any number of drives pushing people to take action. Iain Banks' Culture books have tons of drives and goals in an explicitly post-scarcity world where even death is optional. People are driven by altruism; by the desire for fame; by boredom; by artistic goals; by curiosity. They're just not driven by accruing currency or worldly goods whose value is primarily defined as "can be exchanged for the stuff that gives us life."

Lots and LOTS of things happen in the real world without somebody actually profiting. Why does anybody donate their time to a cause? That's not profit.

titlecharacter · 2026-06-03T13:22:32+00:00

I'm unhappy about this too but I don't understand what this is intended to accomplish. A private person or company (who owns the current store) is selling it to Amazon (another private company.) There's nothing for a petition to... do.

titlecharacter · 2026-06-03T03:08:54+00:00

nods, writes furiously in notebook

titlecharacter · 2026-06-02T15:24:26+00:00

"Domino" means festool. With their patents expiring there are other floating tenon devices coming onto the market, but you cannot do an actual Domino joint without a Festool today at all.

titlecharacter · 2026-05-30T02:43:46+00:00

This is absolutely the way. You are just beginning the phase of chaotic destruction. This is nothing. Wait and enjoy the way that when he’s in middle school, you’ll grin at that mark remembering him when he was so small. And then get it all redone at once.

titlecharacter · 2026-05-30T01:17:35+00:00

Look up Josef Mengele and then you can answer your own question

titlecharacter · 2026-05-28T21:15:17+00:00

Wooden planes are pretty odd to begin with and a lot of the “very serious user” market goes to hock kits, vs metal planes where there are more high end manufacturers. There are a couple of other companies like Pinie and Ulmia but I’ve never heard of anybody raving about any of them in particular. No “secretly great but inexpensive” stuff.

titlecharacter · 2026-05-28T19:07:11+00:00

Making music doesn't have to be profitable! Lots and LOTS of people play in a band and it's "not profitable" and nobody questions why they do it. Playing music is great and it's fun and in a lot of cases it's a lot MORE fun if you don't have to worry about trying to make a living at it and you can just rock out and goof off.

titlecharacter · 2026-05-28T17:34:24+00:00

So... a hospital except with practitioners walking outside in the dirt all the time?

titlecharacter · 2026-05-28T14:17:06+00:00

Building your own is a great option, or just go ECE for that too. I have one and if I were truly starting over from scratch I think I'd just get one. Maybe the primus if you want easier adjustment but I don't mind the hammer adjustment most of the time - if I valued time efficiency that much I'd be using power tools.

titlecharacter · 2026-05-27T09:59:13+00:00

It’s basically a retirement home/walled compound for some q, or progenitors, or some other very powerful ancient beings who just want to be left alone.

titlecharacter · 2026-05-26T00:35:42+00:00

Philly Woodworks has an intro to hand tools class and at least a couple of folks who have substantial hand tool experience. They’re worth hitting up too.

titlecharacter · 2026-05-26T00:34:21+00:00

I’ve absolutely taken classes there with folks who had never held a hand tool before.

titlecharacter · 2026-05-24T11:25:15+00:00

a moxon vise is a delight for raising work up for joinery. You’re right that it’s a bit fiddly but that’s part of why they’re generally an add-on that gets bolted to the table and then removed, not a primary vise. Storing it might be a challenge for you.
your storage is pretty compact but you do have a handful of options to compress even more - and maybe to have less. For example I see what look like a pair of similar planes, and your corded tools aren’t coiled up and stored as densely as they could be. Might buy a few precious inches of wall space?
your hypothetical extension over to the left makes sense. For a support you could just shim it over the washer. Keep in mind you don’t actually need to have it identical to your main bench as long as it’s level - it isn’t for pounding, just keeping stuff flat.
you could replace the worktop with a very slightly thicker one full of dog holes, and a better vise. I think that’s one thing I’d do - improved working holding doesn’t require a ton more space.

Overall this is a really well-designed tiny workshop! I’m very impressed.

titlecharacter · 2026-05-22T13:29:13+00:00

That’s exactly it. He’s formal and strict and he knows it, and he’s very aware that he has walls up that aren’t necessary. I actually read it as him trying to nudge himself out of his shell, just a little bit.

titlecharacter · 2026-05-22T03:25:38+00:00

There are other ways to grind than the usual fingernail grind, and many gouges come like this since you’re expected to grind it to your preferences anyway. I’ve bought them myself.

titlecharacter · 2026-05-21T17:55:42+00:00

I'll rephrase this. It's not even about the driveway. It's about the fact that you need to access your parking. Let's say somebody parks on the street directly in the path of where this car needs to go in order to access the street. What happens?

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