WhiningCoil
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WhiningCoil
1hr ago
Naw, wasn't that. Was way dumber and less skilled.
WhiningCoil
1d ago
RE: The burning, make sure the bit is clean. I use a spray like this, and so long as you haven't worn the bit dull, it works wonders. I generally clean all my blades and bits after every major project. If you are scorching the wood, that means there is too much heat, which means you are also dulling the blades of the bit. There are some, well not exceptions exactly, but times when this is less the case than others. Maple scorches notoriously easy as I found out the hard way. Just make sure you keep feeding at a steady rate and don't linger for too long in any one area. If you need to reposition, pull the bit away from the workpiece a little and then get back to it.
The other thing is to invest in good bits. In the US Whiteside is a reliable brand that has proven sharper and more durable than anything I'd find in the store, or whatever cheap chinesium shows up on Amazon. I actually grabbed a fresh Whiteside template bit before I began my current project because the one that came in a (I suspect counterfeit) Bosch set was a fucking joke.
I'm also looking forward to building a router table. I have one that came with the first router I bought, and it's ok. I had to buy a new fence for it though, since the one it came with had a problem where the left side of the fence wasn't flush with the right side of the fence. Wrestled with that always taking a slight divot out of the last inch or two of a workpiece for 2 years before I splurged on a $100 "high quality" fence. Was definitely worth it though. Lately I've been desiring a higher quality router lift to build into whatever table I make. Debating building it into the miter saw station I have in mind. But it might have to wait since that's a pricey bit of kit, and this project is supposed to be on the cheaper side.
WhiningCoil
2d ago
My sense is that all of the university teaching programs have been captured by folks who teach all the new teachers that the most important part of being a teacher is being an activist.
Once upon a time, when my wife was in her 20's she worked at an organic grocery store. The pay was shit, management were assholes, and the benefits sucked. While this is broadly true for grocery, it was especially true there. Anybody with any sense went to go work for Whole Foods or Trader Joes instead. The people who stayed were true believers in organic food. They'd do all kinds of weird shit, like refuse to help customers find products (like honey) because they were vegan and they didn't think it was ethical.
Increasingly I'm finding the same to be the case with teachers. They are overworked, underpaid, and increasingly the only ones sticking around are the ones with some sort of radical agenda that it's worth sticking around to push. Vaccine mandates, like most ostensibly public institutions, flushed out a huge proportion of the dissenters. Though they occasionally still shitcan a few especially stubborn teachers who've manage to hang on this long over their conscientious objection to trans policies.
WhiningCoil
2d ago
Sometimes I try to remember things I used to find funny on the internet. This is one of those times. I need help.
There used to be a really low brow humor website back in the day. It went hard, and crass, and one of the pages I thought was hilarious was Fuck Zombie. There was some page about him running for president, and really having a thing for women in nursing homes because they are so soft. And I'm drawing an absolute blank on where i saw that, what the site might have been, how to look it up on archive.org, anything.
The perils of finding joy on the internet when you were a teen. Unlike a box of old comic books, or a collection of cassette tapes or CDs, a lot of old niche pages on the internet are just gone forever. No going back.
WhiningCoil
2d ago
I do support political solutions that are bad for public schools as institutions, whether it’s schoolchoice, permissive homeschooling, forced budget cuts, whatever. Many of these can actually get done.
WhiningCoil
2d ago
It would help if we weren't constantly gaslit about the nature of what's happening.
For example, the relentless bait and switch around Title IX "interpretations". Obama's DOE famously published that "Dear Colleagues" letter, and all the colleges wrung their hands and went purposely insane under the premise that if they didn't, the DOE might withhold their funding. Trump's DOE rescinds that guidance, and those same colleges turn around and sue him in court. Biden's DOE does an even more expansive Title IX "interpretation" making it so there can be no local discretion in how the school system handles trans issues. You need to flee the country if you want to live in a school district that can't secretly trans your kid. The schools "begrudgingly" comply, none sue. Now many states sue, but the schools, suspiciously mum about it. Trump rolls in, rescinds the guidance, even forcefully reverses it, schools sue again.
It's a constant shell game. When a Democrat DOE is top down forcing local schools hand it's "Oh, elections have consequences, don't want this to happen vote harder next time." You win that game and suddenly the locus of control shifts to the local level "Oh, you have to win at the local level too, too bad, so sad". You can't win both in perpetuity, and somehow things never ratchet back in your direction no matter what you do.
The truth is, public schools, pedagogy, teacher training, the unions, etc have all been deeply captured institutions. It doesn't matter what battles you win against them, they are hostile to your interest, and will never comply. No matter where or how you win, they just gaslight you that the "real" battle was over here. In reality, they are just doing what they wanted to do the entire time, and coordinating with where ever they can to launder legitimacy on their immoral actions.
WhiningCoil
2d ago
Berserk (1997), rating pending. A delightfully old-school anime I had never gotten around to watching. The opening theme is probably the most discordant I've ever heard: what kind of song do you pick for your grimdark fantasy anime with gallons of blood and a protagonist that is named after the lower digestive tract? Yep, some upbeat Japanese pop punk must be perfect.
I can't rate it because I abandoned it after three episodes, again. Maybe he gets better, but Guts is the kind of character that inspires rants about toxic masculinity.
Berserk 1997 is more or less the only Berserk adaptation worth watching. I'm trying to remember how much we know about Guts 3 episodes in, and if they had the flashback episode to his childhood yet. He goes through quite a journey over the course of this series, and the manga is one of the few I bother to keep up with for over 20 years now. Other manga series either concluding, or going too far up their own anime asshole to be entertaining anymore. Berserk I can sit down with like an old friend like no time has passed and reread. All that said, if you are the sort of person who views the tropes Guts plays to as "Toxic", so much so that you quit the show, you don't deserve to bask in it's greatness.
WhiningCoil
2d ago
There Are No Viable Political or Legal Solutions (Drooling Retard Edition with words, words, words fo the slow kids in the back who have hammers they can't be trusted with)
Imagine, hypothetically, your daughter's teacher was a fucking machine. You might have concerns that this literal automaton that is only capable of fucking might fuck your daughter. I mean, you can plainly look up it's product page, seems pretty cut and dry. This machine fucks. You goto your local school board meeting, but inexplicably, the school board is like 70% fucking machines, and they are struggling to understand the nature of your complaints. They actually find them rather hateful, like some sort of personal attack. The police pull your pants down, drag you out of the meeting, and arrest you.
You vote as hard as you can, and bless your heart, you even win! The schools don't care. The dude you voted for specifically tells the schools to tell the fucking machines to stop fucking. They simply can't stop.
When you think about it, it is rather silly to imagine you can vote or law your way out of having a single purpose machine fulfill it's singular purpose. You might as well vote or sue to make a mouse into a lion.
Now, I'm not saying the public education system is literally a machine that fucks kids. Although... No, this is more an allegory that it's impossible to change the nature of a teacher, and the hill they've chosen to die on. Around me free public institutions are risking it all, to make sure kids can keep viewing cock sucking. Libraries are forgoing the majority of their funding from the county, schools are grandstanding on it, it's a world I can scarcely comprehend. Neither politics nor the law provides any solution. Turns out the physical reality of these people's nature, and the fact that they have exclusive control of your child for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week is just immune from votes or the law. It would probably takes the 101st Airborne stationed in every classroom to make it stop, and even then teachers would still do it, confident that the government would never use their monopoly on violence to actually stop them from showing middle schoolers some queer cock sucking.
I repeat, there is no viable political or legal solution. What you do with this knowledge is between you and your own conscience. I've chosen to move counties, keep my child out of public school, and look towards joining a church that shares my values. It's been at great expense, and to my eternal sorrow likely cost me the opportunity to have more children. In a shameful sense, I've chosen to run, because I view my family as something too precious to risk. Other people might have different views, less options, or have already lost the one thing they lived for. I refuse to condemn them for the different choices they may make, nor preface this bare fact, that there are no viable political or legal solutions, with some smooth brained pre-emptive disavowing.
If pointing out the hopeless position we are in amounts to a "call to violence" to you, that is between you and your conscience. It's not illegal to shout fire in a crowded theater if the theater is actually on fire.
WhiningCoil
3d ago
Definitely do not care. Schools and libraries near me have basically taken the position that nothing short of the 101st Airborne will get them to stop showing pornography to children. They don't care about elections, court cases, funding, irate parents at school board meetings, nothing. Showing sexually explicit material to children is their terminal goal, and nothing can possibly stop them from doing their favorite thing.
All the viable solutions are outside of the law and politics.
Edit: Awesome, I make a neutral post in line with the choices I've lived and personally spoken of repeatedly. But someone fedposts near it after the fact, so now I look sus and eat a ban. This place is a fucking joke. "Well, he didn't say it, but next to this thing someone else said later, maybe he's thinking it."
WhiningCoil
4d ago
It is completely fucking wild to me that some random 4chan slur gets adopted by it's target nation for their own underclass. Is this widespread? Is it just their westernized too online NEET class? I must know more.
WhiningCoil
4d ago
"Own the racist" is a funny way to say "Dunk on the poor victim's cuck father".
Allegedly there is some NGO that goes around coaching/bribing/threatening victims families into saying a bunch of "Let's not make this about race" bullshit. It's quite the contrast to when some black teen commits suicide by cop. But regardless of whether the father's calls for forgiveness, lenience and understanding are sincere or coerced, the degree to which the murderer's family is adding insult to injury should be unforgivable. Not a single ounce of contrition, reflection or humility. I get that people are framing this as the father being a "Good Christiantm", and I'm no Christian myself (yet), but I'm under the vague impression even God requires you to ask forgiveness with some sincerity. It's not just on tap for everyone all the time always regardless of how remorseless or sociopathic they continue to be.
Scott Adam's continues to be correct. It's a hate group, and it's not safe to be around them. If you had doubts before, they are literally putting their money where their poll results are.
WhiningCoil
5d ago
When last I left you, I had milled most of the parts for my set of chairs, glued up the panels for the seats, and made a template for the back legs.
This week was all about trying to get ready for the weekend when a buddy came over to help me out. This was a fairly repetitive process of doing 96 tenons on 48 work pieces on my router table. I keep thinking it would be faster to do this on my tablesaw, with the proper jigs to support a workpiece on it's end. I should probably try that one day. Doing a handful of tenons on the router isn't bad. Doing 96 of them feels like an enormous waste of time when you know the tablesaw would make quicker work of it. Ah well, maybe next time.
I used a palm router for the mortises in the back rest pieces. It went ok, and since these just hold the slats in for the back rest and are less structural than the mortises in the legs will be, it was sort of an experiment to see if the palm router is sufficient at scale. Pretty sure my answer is no. The mortises came out okish. I had to do them in 4 passes, reaching a total depth of 3/4", and weird things happened where it would grab a side just slightly wrong and rip out huge chunks on a deeper pass, or reach the end of a pass, contact the end wrong and somehow explode a chunk out of it. The nice thing about mortises, I think, is they can not be perfect. Glue does most of the work, and so long as there is enough good contact, they'll be fine. Any imperfections get covered up when the tenoned piece overlaps it. All the same, I want to do better on the legs.
So I got a plunge router from Harbor Freight. Short of a dedicated mortising machine, this is what I've seen used most often for mortises. I got started on a jig for it, which was super easy. Slapped on a fence, used a 1/2" bit to route out a 1-1/2" and 2-1/2" slot, and then a 1/2" bushing with a 1/4" bit will make the mortises easy peasy. I do need to pay more attention to some sort of clamping contraption on the back side though, because when I used it on a test piece, all clamped down to the table, the work piece walked off a huge amount. So some improvements will need to be made before I use it on the legs. Either adding a fence to the bottom, gluing some sandpaper to it so it had a bit more grip against a workpiece, or somehow adding rails to the bottom that clamps can be used with to clamp the piece directly to the jig.
Speaking of the legs, I picked up the 6/4 walnut I needed for those, and when my buddy came over we got to work. I didn't stop at all to take photos cause it just didn't occur to me, but here is the finished product. At least the first one. The template worked pretty well. Has a lot more milling marks than I anticipated, but those will sand out. Took about 90 minutes from rough lumber to semi-final product, which may not be bad? Usually I'd do them all in a batch, but I wanted to take my friend through the whole process on one leg so we weren't just on the jointer all day.
Only thing that went wrong was at one point the weight of the leg caused it to lift off the router table, and the router took a small chunk out of the template. I need to repair that before using it again, otherwise it will just transfer that mistake to all the other legs. I'm thinking sawdust and superglue, or something more temporary, but making a fresh template off it that will hold up better. I may do both just so I have a backup template if it happens again.
WhiningCoil
5d ago
One of my brothers in law is a "pagan". Which basically means fat slob reddit atheist cosplaying to "own to the cons" and just being a complete degenerate manchild. As well as some bizarre victim identity because "Christian's killed my forbearers and stole all our holidays".
WhiningCoil
6d ago
I mean... anecdote and all, but my wife and I are trying to find a church right now, not because Pope Francis made Catholicism more progressive, but because that was nearly the last straw. We feel like all the promises of a secular, expert run society we were promised in the 90's just opened up fresh new horrors we could have scarcely imagined, and are ready to try to retvrn and believe in Christ. I find myself questioning 40 years of staunch atheism by the fruits it's bore, and am totally ready to just start going to church and see what happens.
And in that search, Catholicism is virtually the top sect we are most hesitant to consider, behind "Unitarian" which at least near us codes to "Whatever goes man" loosey goosey "spiritual but not religious" non-faith.
Then again, we've encountered a lot of very conservative Catholics near us that have invited us to services with them next week, so we'll see how that goes.
WhiningCoil
8d ago
Oh shit, I never knew that got translated. I'd wanted to read those since I saw the original movie during Japanimation Week on Sci-Fi channel in the 90s.
WhiningCoil
9d ago
So, are we inferring he's an anchor baby all grown up? That his noncitizen mother came here for a short span of time to have him, and then left?
Look, I understand the current legal framework that makes this foreign national a "citizen" on paper. Justify it to me though, morally or philosophically. What makes him a part of the same polity as me? Is this the sort of person we want eligible to become President one day? Is he, and those like him, going to craft and enforce government policy against me one day?
Well... more than they already have...
All I see is a legal tangle of obviously immoral and nation destroying nonsense, where all the viable solutions are extralegal.
WhiningCoil
10d ago
Ibram Kendi said it wasn’t good enough to not be racist, you had to be anti-racist in a very specific way. And there’s a counter-view, perhaps most forcefully articulated by Nathan Cofnas, that it’s not good enough to reject Kendi’s brand of anti-racism, you need to work to rehabilitate racism so that people can hold their heads high and believe in a hierarchy of races.
Man, it's remarkable when people launder such a straw man into a piece. Because people on the right, and I'd wager a majority of moderates and even liberals, would probably believe Kendi's views that he's branded "anti-racism" are just regular old racism. Kendi's screeds didn't "create" a backlash which normalized racism, they were the racism that got normalized! So yeah, a lot of people are looking around going "Wait, is it ok to be racist again?" A lot of people are now living in the country of their birth, replaced down to a local minority, and are being openly discriminated against. Now I don't know if you can racism your way out of that looming pogrom. But forming an ingroup bias, identity and maybe a few institutions might not hurt.
But of course, it takes someone deep down the rabbit hole of intellectualizing how it's different when they do it to completely miss this point.
WhiningCoil
10d ago
I'm pretty sure 2 handed swings are good for stability in the same way a machine is. Which is to say, you don't feel it because you aren't using it. I've had better luck dropping down to a lower weight so my stabalizing muscles aren't as taxed, but still getting worked.
WhiningCoil
11d ago
I stated previously I had a goal of doing 200 54# kettlebell snatches in a row. That was maybe 2 months ago? Maybe a week after I posted that I fucked up my back royally after maxing out at 120 reps. Oops.
No clue what I did. Felt like the mother of all knots in a really bad spot in my mid back, off towards the right. But it was so bad I'd wake up in the middle of the night, my entire torso seized up in pain, struggling to catch a breath, because I rolled over wrong. Almost made me wonder if I tore some cartilage or got a stress fracture in a rib or something. Or maybe I'm just a huge baby and/or getting old and that's just what really bad knots feel like now. I don't know.
Took a rest, added more warmup and stretching to my workouts, started off slow again, added more variety, and reduced my marathon snatch days to once a week. Doing more 70# one arm swings, 88# goblet squats, pushups and pullups never hurt, and oodles of stretching and the occasional run.
Managed 110 snatches today and felt like I had more in the tank. But I also didn't experience any pain, nor feel any creeping up, so yay.
My only advice is don't get old.
WhiningCoil
11d ago
Well, the thing about 4chan when I was a regular user, was the churn. A meme would get posted, and everyone was falling over themselves to make it more potent. The cream would rise to the top, and then break out into the broader internet. It was an amazing incubator for incredibly potent memes. This was largely a product of the size of it's user base, it's anonymous posting, and it being an image board. There were no upvotes or downvotes, just people constantly reposting the best memes on a fast moving and low quality board.
This simply isn't possible anywhere else, either because of technical reasons (ui, account requirements, small user base) or policy reasons (moderation, 3rd party terms of service, etc). If 4chan lost it's place as the black beating heart of the internet, the closest successor seems to be twitter since effectively anonymous accounts just spam bullshit hoping to get picked up by the algorithm. In much the same way 4chan was fast moving and low quality with a huge user base, so is twitter. And the policy reasons twitter couldn't generate 4chan level memes have been removed.
WhiningCoil
11d ago
I mean, so long as Musk isn't trying to make everyone live like he is, or trying to add my wife to his harem, why exactly do I care?
Am I happy he goes around impregnating every woman who will let him, by virtue of being the worlds richest man? I mean, it's not the greatest example in the world. That said, definitionally, very few men have "Accumulate so much wealth you can impregnate anyone you want" as a viable reproductive strategy. Also, it's not new either.
All I see is the isolated demand for rigor, and the distraction away from Elon's political activities. An attempt to change the national conversation into a referendum of Musk as a human being, appealing to a morality that his attackers don't even believe in. It's just mouth sounds they make to get people who like him to feel bad, while their own deviant behavior is probably objectively worse in the moral framing they are using to condemn him.
WhiningCoil
11d ago
There are a number of both ideological and state actors that could be responsible for the attack: the Israeli Mossad, the Ukrainian SBU, the American Central Intelligence Agency, any number of Democratic Party functionaries. But at this time the provenance of the attack is unknown, and no one has taken credit.
From what I understand, the hack that took down 4chan (a 10 year old security vulnerability in what files they allowed people to upload) was way too stupid to have been a state actor. By which I mean, it would have been effortless for a state actor to have taken 4chan down at any point. There is no reason for them to do it now. So instead I'm more willing to chalk it up to random belligerence.
If details of what the hack revealed are remotely true, it seems like 4chan was co opted by state actors anyways. Lots of moderation and bans nipping at the edges of "noticing". Lots of .gov and .edu addresses on record. There is a sense that there were forces trying to sheep herd 4chan gently closer to The Message.
WhiningCoil
11d ago
It's tough. I haven't been a 4chan regular since the 00's, and back then it was easy to think Digg or Reddit were coming up with memes. But if you were in the know, you knew they came from 4chan first. I haven't been to 4chan in ages, and the last few times I tried I found the UI too painful on the eyes. Which is funny because I don't think it's changed at all, but I guess my expectations of a site have. So that said, I could believe twitter is now the fountainhead of memes... but I could also believe they are all stolen from 4chan and I'm just an ignorant normie now.
I mean, I didn't block amadan because he's a mod, I blocked him because of his armchair psychology every time he engages with me, seemingly for the sole purpose of goading me into breaking the rules further. Whatever warning I'm missing is worth it to avoid the incitement.
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