HelixDab2

...And yet again, Gen X has been forgotten.

Cool cool.

You'll have to remove a slice; if you just cut a slit, you'll have to overlap them, and you won't have enough seam allowance to connect them once you start getting to the point of the slit. If you cut a piece out, and have a backing piece of leather, you'll be able to sew all the way around.

This kind of stitching would be easiest on a post-bed roller foot machine. It's going to be a real challenge with a flat bad machine. Otherwise, I'd use contact cement to hold the backer on temporarily (or even just rubber cement), and then stitch by hand.

You won't be able to do any of this in leather--except for the very lightest weight leathers for fashion garments--due to the thickness of the material. The darts shown in the image appear to be cut, and sewn to a piece that is behind them. You wouldn't do that in fabric because you'd have raw edges of fabric showing, and it would ravel. That's not an issue with leather.

Leather apparel doesn't typically use darts; it's more common to see the shaping built into the pattern pieces.

I doubt that they would show their hand publicly; they don't want to poison a jury pool.

On the other hand, if they had better video of the shooter, I'm sure they would have released it, because they were trying to get people to ID the killer. One shitty video of half of a face doesn't really help a lot.

Not really; without the items that were seized, they don't really have much of anything that would link him to the location, aside from some bad security camera footage that, IMO, doesn't really look like him. Insisting that he needs an alibi is reversing the burden of proof; it's saying that, unless he can prove he was elsewhere, then their claim must be correct. But they have so little without the evidence seized at the arrest that the case would be very thin.

Look, if you asked me where I was when The Asshole Brian Thompson was shot, I'd have no fucking idea unless it was something that was a big enough deal that I noted it in my calendar. I don't even remember where I was when 11 Sept. happened.

A lot of the prices have corrected, just not all the way down to pre-pandemic level. I remember that primers were flat-out unavailable for a long time, then they were breaking $.10/ea for really cheap SPPs. 9mm ammo was >50cpr for a while, too. Both are down now, but not down to the $.03 for primers, or 20cpr for 9mm. Some of it is inflation in general. Some of it is that there are more people buying guns and ammo now, and there's a pretty sharp lag between demand and production, since no one wants to build new factories for temporary demand spikes; increased demand is driving up prices. Also, fun fact, a lot of companies that make AR-15s are getting very close to insolvency right now. Each person only needs so many AR-15 variants, and the market is super-saturated. That's less of an issue with ammo, since it's a consumable, but it still worries the companies that would be building new plants.

Yeah, I still wish ammo was a lot cheaper, but it is what it is. Instead of high-volume shooting, it means more time dry-firing.

Maybe skip Varusteleeka; IIRC, they invited a whole bunch of Christo-fascist guntoobers from the US to their Winter Brutality, and didn't understand why that was a problem.

Liver and onions and corned beef hash are delicious, and I love them. They're also absolutely awful for you. I have Cream of Wheat in the cupboard, but I prefer grits. Honestly, I mostly make steel-cut oatmeal now.

"I have not seen mincemeat pie in ages, and you could get it à la mode."

I've made real mincemeat pie before, and it's absolutely nothing like what you can get in cans. For starters, it actually has, yes, real meat in it. The recipe I used was from the late 1800s , and it took most of a day to prepare. And goddamn, it was so delicious, probably something like 2000kcal per slice. You can find the recipe here, on page 393.

Corned beef on rye

That's mostly a delicatessen thing. If you go to an authentic deli, you should still find it.

One of mine doesn't watch, she jumps into my lap and curls up.

:|

I think my cat is a perv.

Also, armadillos tend to carry leprosy. So, maybe don't touch them.

If I was going to guess, the actual numbers killed are far, far lower than that. Especially since there are a lot of very large private hunting preserves that intentionally try to keep their feral pig population high so that they can attract paying hunters.

Man, I wish good .308 ammo was only $1/round... Even if I'm loading it myself, good 6.5CM ammo (defined as sub-MOA performance) costs about $1/ea. with Hornady 147gr ELD-M bullets, and that's only if I ignore how much I've sunk into a press and case prep.