[–] 6 points 1 day ago

No, but disassembly can be very risky by way of snapping retainer tabs, especially on anything meant to be waterproof and seamless tot eh touch. As good as I've gotten over the decades, such things always tend to show dents and scrapes from my pry tools. But I can also commit to that risk as well as the compromise that I may have to glue it together after the fix, making it a final fix.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I haven't been to that many and I won't say I've been to the other end of the spectrum. But, having been to other corners of the square, I've found that people are the same. There are wildly different cultural norms that can certainly be misconstrued as rude or invasive, but damn, the baseline human experience is so common.

    We all think we need more money. We all know lots of people worse off. We all know several better off. We all celebrate births, marriages, and deaths. We all feed our guests to excess (not you, whichever Scandinavian country it is that makes guests wait in the other room while you have dinner). We all make liquor from anise.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    My setup is gory and unsettling so it's doom metal here. It's like lofi metal. Frayle, author & Punisher, heriot, faetooth, black bile, king yosef.

    There's some other spooky aura sounds like scores from horror movies that I've used. Maxxxine comes to mind, or was it X? Whichever features Chelsea Wolf

    Glad you at least don't have Zombie listed.

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    Her laugh, her huge mouth, Hillary's inability to keep Bill satisfied, "she's a bitch", she can't dress, she doesn't fit

    All this shit is propaganda and a stupid amount of people beleive it. Ask people who dislike these women's politics for specific reasons to disagree and you'll get a lot of weak responses about something non-political. They'll have a short list of buzzwords, at best, like waitress, Benghazi, imprisonment, California, New York. Conservative media has been trickling these little quips into everyday conversation to build baseless opinions about them.

    It's not a theory. It's clear. Conservative media doesn't attack their own women the same way (unless they turn)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    The cool part about that combo (rotary tool and wood) is the tool and bits last forever. You'll make many mistakes, but cheap wood is a cheap medium to practice on. The primary thing you'll lose is time and progress, but that's fine. Keep going with the other squares. You can also go pretty slowly to mitigate mistakes.

    You can also look into wood burning kits. They're soldering irons with various tips. Combine the two arts and you can get some intricate effects

    I haven't done all that much carving, but I've carved little gnome totems I'm quite proud of. Roughly hand sized. I cut the rough shape with a band saw (not necessary, just faster than by hand), then used a mix of dremel bits and carving tools to work the shape. I didn't have all that much confidence in them until nearly the end. All I saw was the flaws and mistakes. But then, you realize, nobody knows what you saw in your head, nobody knows the source material, and, in a world of mass 3D Printing dragons, the wild variance between your crafts gives it a deeply personal and artisinal touch.

    You can make that Ur board. You can make coasters.

    (but the actual finishing work of wood is 50% of the battle and something I skip a lot)

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (3 children)

    My dremel has a persistent dusty orange coating. Veggies are quite wet when the bit is spinning at 15,000rpm. I'm not truly worried about the spray shorting anything due to the heat of the motor, but everything will probably get coated, including your face. Safety glasses are a must. To be fair, I use the wood carving disc (gold diamond crust) to do shaping and thinning, so the linear speed is higher at the edge. I've also never handled a turnip, so you're meterage may vary. A lot.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Are you in that age group? Your age group tends to look younger than expected, younger groups look like perpetual babies, and older generations look like perpetual adults/old timers. Always been a thing. Do you remember being 10 and thinking your 18 year old cousin was a full grown adult? When you're even just 25, you might think your other 18 year old cousin looks like a baby.

    It's not just bodily appearance, it's their style. If I saw a 40 year old man with a combover and sideburns while wearing a short sleeve button down, I'd say they owned a house in 1976 on a used car salesman's salary. I'd have to cognitively recognize that even a 20 year old in 1976 would be 70 now. If I saw a 60 year old in an Arctic Monkeys shirt and cargo pants, I'd probably gauge them to have been a teen with an ipod. In reality, they'd have been 35 when the ipod was first released. There's so many cues we use to evaluate a person. Hair, makeup, clothing, accent, vernacular, interests, activities... Plus, it's not just association of trends to their calendar years, but association of trends to your age. The fang bangs pictured are more recently trending, but if you're ~35-45 now and she currently had whatever that post-goth emo fringe sideswipe blond/black fade style is called, you'd probably still take 10-15 years off your estimate. Meanwhile, take someone like Amy Winehouse. What do you gauge her age to be? Beehive hair, winged eyeliner, vintage sound. Not gonna /spoiler tag but she died when she was twenty seven.

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    It's certainly a topic of interest to me, but I'd like to avoid the "spaceship pyramid" levels of conspiracy and the meatless text-to-speech summaries that will inevitably appear in my suggested feed(s). I thought I'd find it by now, given my feed has plenty of planes. I know it's a distraction, but I may as well be entertained while I continue waiting for the yanks to release the real files we're asking for.

     

    I'm afraid AI has surpassed me, as I still can't draw hands. Seriously though, I miss doodling all through school. I don't know where that free creativity has gone, but I'm working to bring it back. Some early jobs left me in a dark rut, but I've settled into a decent job, a career even, and feel a certain mental calm and freedom trickling in.

    I was aiming for something resembling a pose often struck by St Michael in depictions of him defeating demons. I don't have a goal for the actual identity of the figure, nor what they're doing. Ultimately, I want it to be triumphing over something. The end goal is to explore ideas for a tattoo. It already worked beautifully once, where I took a crude drawing to an artist with a style I liked, then watched them bring it to life with more talent and their own flair. I picked the elements, laid the composure, and outsourced the details to an amazing artist. What better meaning to a tattoo than "I basically made this"? With any luck, lightning will strike twice... Or more.

    crude marker drawing/outline of a humanoid figure standing in a mild lunge, holding a spear
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