Rock Taster

Dollars have been printed into existence, for things yet to come into the World; every ear of corn, when all we have are kernels, every tonne of ore, when all we have are promises, and every piece of lumber, but the forest is saplings.

@ANC_Historian Gotta say it's pretty cool.

In 1969, Bill Tandy of Tandy Industries of Oklahoma proposed building an all-inside (often described as domed) city across Knik Arm from Anchorage, despite a complete lack of demand. Something about Alaska seems to inspire mad megaprojects. Much more in my article later today.

@MAGAVoice Has @ScottPresler actually influenced any election outcomes wherever he goes? All he posts are videos of himself with a bunch of old ladies holding red signs. Please provide a list.

Outsiders only want you to have two choices. Why is that?

@ShellyShupeAK @interiorpatriot Wow, good thing you had an ADA-compliant structure to get all 75 people in there safely.

If you close one eye and squint the other one you'll see me just above his right shoulder. @interiorpatriot Kelly Nash is right in front of me. We're famous lol Scott Pressler is one of the most genuine, gracious, patient people I have had the pleasure of meeting. His commitment to saving America is a tangible thing. You can feel it when you meet him and chat with him. Such a lovely young man.

@OutSideDaBox_ Yes there is absolutely no reason this should be performing this poorly with this cashflow. Not a fan of the share structure PE left, or Dick Portillo running his own little MCD-style RE empire.

$PTLO Dick Portillo’s sold 38 locations generating $300M in revenue for $1B in 2014. Now a 100+ location business doing $750M in revenue is valued at $350M?

@SnapRYRY89 @innoutburger_ Clearly you all need a $PTLO location. Get some real fries, Italian beefs, and sausages.

@innoutburger_ i wish they would open more in-in-outs in WA. 5 guys and habit just dont compare

In-N-Out’s drive-thru time lapse - Ridgefield, WA.

@pnwguerrilla The fries are mind-blowing in comparison. Frankly all the food is.

@pnwguerrilla They are always busy. The only other casual restaurant that has this same kind of constant traffic is $PTLO

This in-n-out is one of the most packed fast food joints i have ever seen in Washington. It’s actually impressive

@shagbark_hick Sounds like the kind of thing a property owner would call in the A-Team to defend them from

Conversely, suppose you created a "mobile de-gentrification unit". A fleet of rusty RV's inhabited by drunkards, pit bull owners, petty criminals, and so on. You roll up on a heavily-gentrified area, park the RV's, and commence creating havoc. That'd fix housing cost issue very quickly. I'm not even joking. A thousand ruffians in RV's, liquored up, engaging in petty crime, keeping the police consistently overworked, causing mass-scale pearl-clutching amongst the propertied. Besiege them long enough and houses start to go up on the market quickly. Then you buy them up and pay your ruffians to move on to the next target. If you're mad about the price of housing, why not take some ACTION? I'm sure it'd work in many places. Total chaos.

@condiricenbeans Where'd you find that weird brine?

tonight I made homemade fried chicken sandwiches with pineapple vinegar coleslaw and pickled red onions. i brined the chicken in this beer and used it for the batter as well

@vidsthatgohard They can at least communicate in real-time, and have support on the ship right outside their pressure vessel.

Bruh honestly this is probably more dangerous than the astronauts doing spacewalks on the ISS

@Gaurab Maybe letting the bankers decide, instead of engineers, for 5 decades was a bad idea?

America stopped making titanium sponge in 2020. China and Russia produce 75% of the world's supply. Two Japanese companies, Toho Titanium and Osaka Titanium, supply 70% of America's imports. Sponge is the porous metallic form that every titanium part starts as. In 2018, Titanium Metals Corporation warned regulators that without tariffs the US military would depend on geopolitically risky countries for titanium. No tariffs came. Two years later their plant closed. This month the Air Force announced an $8.4 million program to 3D-print titanium aerostructures. The sponge still comes from overseas. I manufacture chemicals. The same molecular structure that lets titanium survive the most corrosive reactors in our industry is the structure that punishes you when you try to shape it. It conducts heat 30 times slower than aluminum. Machine it and three problems feed each other. The heat stays at the tool tip. The metal bonds to the cutting tool. The surface hardens the moment the tool touches it. Each cut hits a tougher surface than the one before. Aerospace-grade titanium has no substitute. Nothing else matches its strength-to-weight at jet-engine temperatures. Every F-35, Falcon 9, and chlorine plant depends on a metal the US imports.

@BigDickBarclay I meant just plain old scissors, it doesn't take that much more effort to pump most sealant tubes. Cutting sheet metal takes force.

@rock_taster I have like five different versions of electric scissors for sheet metal and other things. If you have to use scissors all day at work, you kind of want a little help

Are the battery powered caulk guns worth it? I go through about three tubes of vulkem a week and I need to protect my baby hands

@ANC_Historian Oh the tall tales of the Seamen of the Sperm

May 25, 1918, the "Sperm" is launched at Anchorage. Sperm was an old barge converted into a dredge by the Alaska Engineering Commission, which was charged w/ building & operating the Alaska Railroad. #alaskahistory #anchoragehistory #alaska

@librarianhell @Justa_Guy907 I do love the smell of soil in the Spring, but I don't know about a slop pile. Beats outhouses and dog turds.

@rock_taster @Justa_Guy907 My old neighbor in Lemeta would throw his organics into a slop pile all winter long. Come summer people would ask what was growing because it smelled so good.

Every Year.... 😅☠️

@alaskanwellness @Justa_Guy907 Not there yet

@Justa_Guy907 Yes, when is the right moment to move your starts into your raised beds? My guess is it's still too soon. This has been cold spring...

@TheWapplehouse Considering the petrochemical landscape right now, can they though?

In the coming months congress will introduce legislation that bans this for national security reasons or some shit