[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago

We all know that's not true. He hates his supporters. He just didn't realize the first time through that they were trashy and ::gasp:: poor.

[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 19 points 4 months ago

Toilet paper over the top

[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 25 points 5 months ago

Pat dry with toilet paper

[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 26 points 5 months ago

Not a chance. We'll pay them to develop the product they'll then sell back to us. Yay!

[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 25 points 6 months ago

That's redundant

[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Before Barbie came out, I thought your profile was a marketing/PR team promoting the movie. I'm kinda convinced now that this may just be your account. Celebrities are regular people too and frankly, I only know your characters, not you as a person or how you care to spend your time. But we're all just people being humans.

I go to my little local movie theater all the time. Three times just this week. My wife and I LOVE the cinematic experience!

I just want to tell you, I REALLY enjoyed Babylon! It felt like an epic tale of the rise and fall of "empires", whether referring to eras of film making, industry magnates, prolific celebrities of the time, all changing/growing and then devolving through debauchery to depravity and finally, collapse (I imagine the point of the title.) All the characters intertwined through separate, steep trajectories. Reminded me of Casino. I don't read many reviews or critics; I'm not really sure how it was "officially" received, but from an avid movie-goer in a tiny little mountain town in the US, I thoroughly enjoyed your performance!

[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What rational argument is there for citizens to lose their right to vote?

Say you lose your right to vote over possession of drugs. Why? You shouldn't you have representation?

While in prison you become slave labor. For profit prisons get money for housing and feeding you. They get money from the contracted work you do. They double and triple dip profits. There's all kinds of under the table deals being done on your back. But why did you lose your right to vote? It all goes back to controlling certain groups of the population. That's where it started, that's where it still is. Sure, restrict gun ownership for felons, that's a constitutional right that has long needed overhaul for so many reasons, but the right to vote, why??

[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Keep experimenting and refining.

Pine can be stained and finished. Oak, cherry, and maple can sometimes look like crap. It's a matter of preparing the wood properly. Try making sample boards. Sand consistently, don't skip grits, don't apply much pressure to the sander (let it do the work,) experiment with a pre-stain conditioner. It can help minimize splotching and some tooling marks.

Traditional (penetrating) stain needs to be applied evenly and benefits greatly from pre-stain conditioner.

Gel stains (sometimes called wiping stains, but that term gets misused) are wipe on, wipe off excess about five minutes later if you weren't already doing that. They are made to sink in a certain amount and stop.

Urethanes don't typically do well with back brushing, especially fast dry varieties. Spread urethanes thick and consistently and try not to go back over it. Lightly sand at 220 or 320 between coats and remove swarf with tack cloth or lint free cloth lightly dampened with alcohol.

Tung oils are rubbed in. Danish oils are applied thinly. These are relatively similar. Lightly sand between coats like above.

The book "Understanding Wood Finishing" by Bob Flexner is an astoundingly comprehensive book on the subject.

Don't give up on pine just yet. Hemlock, heart pine, many others can all be quite beautiful in the right setting and application. For rough stuff, try the pre-stain conditioner

[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

I just told my wife Mint was shutting down and she gasped, frozen in shock. I was thinking she was taking it really hard. Took me a minute before I realized she thought I was talking about our favorite Indian restaurant.

[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

Let's not get ahead of ourselves

[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

Pun aside, this I've done. I could even hear the worms chewing during especially quiet moments. We put cherry slabs under clear plastic in the sun, then peeled the bark and smashed the larva with mallets. Not sure why my boss didn't want to use borax.

[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

The invasion of Afghanistan saw a (iirc) 900% increase in poppy production. This was after reports of how they would work with farmers to reduce production.

Drug control isn't about suppression; it's about control. The opium wars emphasize that. Look at the countries that banned it, but then turned around and produced/bought and sold it to other countries for profit and societal destabilization.

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