FuglyDuck

…and you need old experienced voices who have seen all this shit before and know how to deal with it.

The problem with this is that the majority of Biden’s experience, just as an example, is of a world that no longer exists. Most of his life literally predates the internet.

His experience doesn’t include crippling college debt. It doesn’t include wage slaving at poverty levels.

It doesn’t include a time when you couldn’t afford a house if you had a job- any job.

Doesn’t include a time where you needed a 4 year degree to be an intern in the copy room.

Doesn’t include a time when loyalty to a company wasn’t repaid with more exploitation.

Doesn’t include a time where the us government could be the fascist bastards we are today.

And that’s part of how we got here.

Not only is the lived experience of most people in their 80’s fundamentally irrelevant to the modern world- it’s actively hurting us. Never forget that people like Biden allowed the oligarchs to exist, allowed the closet fascist party to fester into the openly fascist party.

True. But there’s a difference.

While hallmark certainly didn’t create the holiday, a large part of how we celebrate it today was shaped by hallmark and other companies using it to drum up business.

Oh, I fully expect it to turn ugly and then we get dumped on.

All this warm moist air hitting cold air making little snowflake babies.

Not really, no.

Water stones are designed to abraid off. Their reason they were the gold standard is that the slurry it formed from that abrasion is what removed material (and it did so quickly.). But it abraided only where you used it so it would eventually need to be lapped back into flat.

Diamond stones are diamonds that are sintered or otherwise imbedded into steel plate. Once they’re worn in (basically weakly bound diamonds rubbing off,) they’re generally going to last.

Sometimes there’s issues with them, and the thin ones (like what I linked,) sometimes get bent or whatever (which is why it’s common for woodworkers to glue them to a board,) but with a modicum of care, they’ll last a long time.

(keep some water on the stone, wash it off and dry it, don’t store it someplace it’ll get rusty,)

For the record, diamond stones are now the lapping plate for most people who still fork over for the water stones. Another option that was good enough was to go outside and find some concrete that looked flat.

forgot the giant cross.

lol, even mother nature is like "fuck this corporate holiday!"

this guy clearly unimpressed with this early spring we're having. (well. It's like fifties in minneapolis. I assume Canada is experiencing warmer-than-normal weather too.)

Because you want people helping people. It’s the right thing to do. It’s community. It’s the very most basic aspect of being social animals.

They’re not using this tactic because it’s effective. They’re using it to attack the community that makes us strong and able to oppose them.

Now, people are going to be less likely to help. Because it might be. It isolates us from each other that little bit more.

And fuck them for that. They will not break us. Minnesota will not stop. We will not give into the fear, the hate. Love is stronger. Kindness is stronger, community is stronger.

So, I would recommend starting with Basic knife skills.

I have a few guesses here, the first being is that you’re moving the knife weirdly. Maybe it’s a Dull knife and the extra force required is making things go whonky.

Maybe you just have a small cutting board. And would benefit from a large one that just lives on the counter. (Small boards are for presentation, imo.)

Edit: As a side note, if you do find your knife isn’t sharp… you don’t need to spend a whole lot on water stones. They’re “the best” because of tradition. the aluminum oxide stones he mentioned sucked. Arkansas stones are good, but you were never going to get a razors edge on one. But the modern standard is the diamond stone.

And diamond stones turned out to be pretty inexpensive lately. You can get a lasts-a-lifetime stone for 15-20 bucks

If you don’t want to use Amazon (please consider not,) you can get them from any woodworking supply store like rockler or woodcraft or whatever you have where you are.

So I got myself a mandolin, and the hippie who sold it to me asked if I wanted to join his band. Now I play the mandolin (very badly,) for a hippie band. The music sucks but the weed is great.

The sharp knife is for later. To deal with the giant brick that’ll come. Eventually.

It’s amazing how a year ago, certain of my neighbors insisted I was being paranoid. That they weren’t just handing cops surveillance without any questions asked.

So I went to their portal, asked him for a day and time, walked through the form, got the video.

And I’ve not been successful in bleaching that image out of my mind.

For the record, I’m not a cop (nor did I ever claim to be.) they just expect only cops know about that portal so they don’t do any vetting.