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ForgottenFixers
@ForgottenFixers
Rebuilding a 1950s motel from the inside out. Sharing all my lessons learned the hard way!
Katılım Mayıs 2023
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@AlexForbesOps advantagelumber.com
If you redeck, I have never regretted using exotic hardwoods from these guys for exterior projects (accents on siding projects) and the pricing tends to be competitive with other common materials like trex.
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My wife and I demo’d the deck today in prep to either re-deck it or do a patio.
My wife is a beast. She’s half my size and has helped with just about every home project since we bought our first house.
Never complains.
Fun fact. We bought our home in 2019 and spent 10 months of nights and weekends renovating every square inch of the interior ourselves.
I received a Masters from YouTube University that year and didn’t hire a single contractor.
We took a 2 week break halfway through the renovation to get married, did a quick honeymoon, and were right back to it.
That was one of the most challenging years of my life. Growing a young business figuring everything out for the first time and learning everything I could about working on houses.
I’m super proud of that year but I still get the itch to do major DIY projects and 10 years later my body has a hard time keeping up.
Hence the back brace during my Jersey Mike’s break. Which was only halfway through deck demo and I was absolutely cooked.
Anyway, should we go budget friendly and re-deck it or get quotes for a stone patio and pergola?
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@mhp_guy Buy what tool the brand is known for. Milwaukee is known for their power hand tools. That's also why you don't buy the Taco Bell pizza.
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Everyone says you should buy the best tools.
No one mentions how often the “best” tools are just as bad as the cheap ones.
I had a $100 Ryobi polesaw for ages. I know I know, sue me. It worked great.
Swapped it for an $800 Milwaukee pole saw. Been nothing but problems.
And before you say “it’s bEcAuSe it’s eLeCtrIc!!”
No, the battery life and power are both insane.
The stupid bar and chain is terrible. I’m forever adjusting it. Always stuck. Too tight. Too loose. Been using chainsaws for 20 years. This is the worst I’ve ever used.
Taking it back to Home Depot after less than 2 months. Not about to throw good money after bad and start swapping parts.
They couldn’t even bother to cover the oil tank.
My Echo 18” is great.
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@SandyofCthulhu Audie Murphy.
Then again, Audie never got an overly dramatic yet very generic name like the...checks notes, "Angel of Death."
The guy to be scared of doesn't have a dumb name. Or is called Boogerpicker by his buddies.
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The underlying stupidity in this, which I admit has been greatly bolstered by TV and movies, is that in war, one single man is unimportant and can do nothing.
It's the team that's deadly. In real life, a commando team who knows how to work together would easily kill Batman working alone. It's been the case since ancient times. But we hate this idea, so we invent the concept of Achilles and Lancelot and so forth. Of course there are exceptions. A great team leader can make a difference to his team, but it's still the team that is winning. A skilled sniper can help protect his team and clear the way but again if you don't have a team you're just killing people.
So the infamous Ghost of Kiev I predict is not going to be scary to any squad in the entirety of the United States Armed forces. Because even if he also leads a team, our team is going to be better, man for man. We've seen the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in action and they are only good at killing civilians.
It's my hope that the Iranian army itself still has some confidence and self-respect and will eliminate these thugs on its own.
However, I have to say, the "Ghost of Kiev" I'm sadly tempted to like, because he looks almost exactly like my 100% German friend that I see every year.
Fight With Memes@FightWithMemes
Someone tell me, and be honest: Who is the target demographic for this kind of blatantly transparent propaganda? Did anyone actually buy the "Ghost of Kyiv" story? Who buys this now?
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@skylarromines Post license, get a honda 250 or something equally forgiving (and cheap) because you're going to need to build muscle memory to safely ride in traffic. The license is just the starting point.
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Getting my motorcycle license this week.
Dreading the 3 hour Zoom course tonight & decided to share a story, mostly to convince myself to follow through with this.
Why would someone who can barely operate a motor vehicle even decide to get a motorcycle license?
As always, my reasoning was - do it for the plot.
Last summer, after a series of events which are too long to detail here, I found myself alone in Romania for several days.
Like any normal person, I wanted to leave Bucharest and get into the mountains so I could play with brown bears.
The problem? Traffic in Romania is absolutely terrible. Would take 8+ hours to get to the mountains.
The solution? Met an Australian with a motorcycle license who agreed to delay their flight home one day & drive me there on a bike. This cuts the commute from 8 hours to 2.
Found a grumpy but helpful old Romanian man with a garage full of motorcycles who would let us use one for ~$200.
The outcome? Met a few bears close up. Saw a mama bear with cubs. Explored old soviet era tunnels with a pack of wild dogs. Soaked in the beauty of the Carpathian Mountains from the back of a motorcycle [this is how I imagine a dog feels hanging his head out the window of a car - pure bliss]
Got back that night & decided I didn’t want to be at the mercy of finding someone with a motorcycle license next time I find myself in a similar scenario.
So, I’m getting my motorcycle license this week.
When will I use it? I don’t know. Maybe never. But next time the plot calls for it, I will be ready to go.
[including a few pics because any time you share a half decent story on this site, you get accused of making it up]
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Orbital Mechanics is simple if you understand physics.
This is the book we studied from. Very easy to follow.
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The first year I transferred from CC to a (very liberal) university, I had to take a humanities class that ended up just being Republican bashing
So I dropped it, decided to take it over the summer, and looked for another class to enroll in to meet the minimum 12 units
A friend suggested Intro to Spacecraft Guidance
I was like, what's that. I was still on the Mechanical Engineering path so it wasn't on my radar.
I sat in for a class and fell in love with it.
It was basically all orbital mechanics, aka how a spacecraft gets to the Moon, Mars, Venus etc.
I literally couldn't wait for class the following week.
After this semester, I switched to aerospace engineering.
It was my favorite class in college and I took it completely by fluke.
OLA 🇨🇦@danielholkss
I don’t really understand the maths it takes to send humans behind the Moon and bring them back safely. And the more I sit with that, the more it genuinely messes with my head even tho my love for physics and my knowledge of physics is astounding to a point Somebody had to work out a path where the Moon’s gravity is pulling you in, the Earth is pulling you back, and you’re moving just fast enough and not slow enough not to get trapped by either. They had to figure out the exact angle to come back into Earth’s atmosphere too. Too steep, you burn up. Too shallow, you bounce off and drift into space. And they had to get all of that right at the same time, for real people sitting in a small metal capsule about 400k kilometres away from home. Nothing in that system is standing still. The Moon is moving. The Earth is moving. Even the Sun is pulling on everything. And still, some people looked at all of that motion, all of that chaos, and turned it into numbers you can follow. Go here. Adjust here. Come back here. And unlike nepa light, it infact works. There’s also that moment in the journey where the crew passes behind the Moon. No contact with Earth. No signal. Just silence, with a massive rock blocking everything they’ve ever known. The only reason they can stay calm in that moment is because someone, somewhere, did the maths and proved they’ll come out the other side. I don’t know what it feels like to trust something that much. To put your life in an equation when you’re that far away from everything. But I do know this for sure, whatever that level of thinking is, whatever it takes to reach it, it might be one of the most extraordinary things human beings have ever done...
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Maybe in cities. I imagine in the long spans of interstate across the country, it would just be easier to decouple the trailer and haul it off. Freight insurance rates are going to skyrocket. Imagine ordering a low boy with a million dollar generator or something truly high value and only having the truck show up.
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@maybedanielleee I feel like freight theft will become a much larger problem than it currently is. Just block an interstate at night and wait for the autonomous truck to stop for the obstruction, then unload it.
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Suddenly, the current driver population of Indiana and Ohio makes total sense.
> Open the floodgates for unqualified, incompetent truck drivers.
> Let them run for a few years.
> Oh no. This is bad. So bad. Who could’ve known?! What will we do?!
> Autonomous trucks! That’ll fix it!
Local 12/WKRC-TV@Local12
Multiple automated semi-trucks have been deployed on freight runs between Indiana and Ohio in a pilot program aimed at accelerating “the adoption of truck automation technologies and transforming the logistics industry across the region.”
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@308Greenfield The first one is good, but I remember #2 was amazing. (and beautiful) Those memories are 20 years old though, so I hope they hold up.
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@ForgottenFixers Will def be adding Freesspace and adding them to my steam family acct
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My nephews are going to love this.
Dual birthday gift. Their birthdays are a couple days apart + a few years.
I’m going to put Win 11 on it. Let’s face it. It’s the best thing for them.
Honestly, have we really peaked when it comes to gaming? At their age they won’t notice or care the quality difference between a 5070 and 3060. They’re running 1080p on a 27” monitor. Have perspective.
I have less than $350 in this build including the 27” curved monitor. Mostly, because I have these parts through trade / repair
The motherboard was DOA, $20 and revived
CPU hand me down from a previous upgrade. I have an i9 10th in a different PC which is where the i5 came from.
The GPU was donated by a friend who didn’t care or need it. (Get lots of friends like this if you can)
Ram was salvaged from donated PC’s I received last year (hence why 2 dif brands.
Fans are a mix bag. One is a salvage and the other is a clearance fan I bought for $6 .. it’s Niles powered though. Kinda funny to have a molex pci power coming out of the PSU … just for the 1 fan but hey yolo
Case was $100 on Amazon. If I was 11. This would be a case I would consider. Gives me the mech warrior vibes. Maybe even Transformers.
Anyways, they wanted to be able to do the flight sim games like I have. This will do that with no issues.
If you read this far, drop a comment. What game do you think they will play first?
Trent Von Holten@308Greenfield
Building a gaming PC for my nephews 3060ti 12gb I5 10th gen 32gb ddr4 Not a bad starter rig
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@AniseNot Time to start him on the John Carter series. He probably won't sleep until he finishes them. Ironically, the first book is over 100 years old and is still great.
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My 7yo’s reading list:
-Wings of Fire series
-I Survived…
-Who Would Win (animal vs animal)
-Minecraft novels
He was brought up on all the beautiful gentle classic children’s stories, I read to him 5-10 books every day for 90% of the days he has been alive
But he didn’t want to read them. He likes dragons & natural disaster survival stories & predator battles & Minecraft
Once I got him the right books he started staying up all night reading, bringing books in the car/restaurant/bbq. To the point where I have to regulate his reading time
Leanna Rapier ⚔️@LeannaRapier
Them: Boys don’t read. Me: Give them something they want to read that’s not 100 years old.
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@forestmanjohn All these people wanting a timer. That's just letting the oils and flavor evaporate over 8-12 hrs. The herecy!
Also reserved.
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3 months ago, I quit my job to chase a dream: to build an affordable, convenient, plastic-free coffee maker.
Grateful for everyone who has reserved ❤️
puresteelco.com
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Ideally, they'd start by integrating small components (i.e. trusses) and then growing from there.
Flooring or window company isn't probably going to do that easily, but a company that builds residential trusses or other structural components could probably build a factory to provide full houses fairly quickly. I see rebuilt trusses shipped in on semis to subdivisions all the time, they probably already have the systems built that could handle that complexity.
Having done one large reno, I suspect the reason we don't see more of this is that city inspectors would reject a lot of homeowner kit builds or drag their heels on inspections. Selling rebuilt trusses to contractors is a much smaller headache for a company like that than having to deal with the red tape involved with direct to consumer kits.
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@ForgottenFixers Agree, its the production sequence and pairing them up that gives me the hives.
However you want to think about it - taking independent parts out of 10 business units, getting them independently correct and then put together correct.
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Think for a moment about the level of industrial engineering going on at a place like this, and if we collectively have the skill to do it again.
Talk to an engineer at a flooring plant, or window plant and then ask them what would happen if you 10x their SKUs by putting them all together.
All by paper too, no ERPs.
Rust Belt Kid@rustbeltkid1
Wild that Sears and Roebuck had a warehouse the size of a small European country and you could basically put a letter in the mail and a few weeks later your house showed up in pieces at your nearest railyard
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@Mike_M_Klotz I have that exact saw. It's never held a zero and is so heavy it might as well have been made from depleted uranium.
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Working as a Craftsman salesman was the best thing ever.
I made $3/hr plus 10% of all sales. I was averaging $20/hr on a typical shift. On Black Friday I made $200/hr.
We used to take scanners through the inventory cage in back looking for clearance items lost on the rack.
I got a Craftsman Professional reciprocating saw for $15. I got a 9” benchtop drill press for $10. Clearance mechanics tools sets for pennies on the dollar (3yo discontinued 99pc kit lost on the top shelf of the back room, replaced in the catalog by an identical 102pc with two extra Phillips bits).
Half my tools came from the back room, and every single one is still in pristine condition 25 years later.
Frank Brown@FrankBr05713205
One of the best tool catalogs ever. I miss Sears and the made in USA Craftsman tools. More good things lost, sad
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I would imagine if they are still interested in technical subjects like engineering, there would still be a place for humans in that role.
Think of how computers are depicted in Star Trek, its close to what AI looks like and people still benefit from having an understanding of physics or engineering.
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I could use some help.
My kids (middle/high school) are already thinking about college and life after graduation.
Looking 5–10 years out, it’s hard to find a path that doesn’t look like AI could replace it.
If you were them, what would you study or do after high school?
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To your point, the one benefit of the metric system is supposedly the easy coversion from smaller to larger units. The idea is that you can go from cm to mm or m in your head. Nice idea, but if you're doing any measurement activity, no one EVER converts units. That's what fractions are for. That's why google will tell you to turn left in 1/4 mile. It's not like, whoopsie! We're three miles away from home, lets finish our road trip in furlongs for the last little bit!
So, the only real benefit is never even utilized in daily life. It's never used in technical subjects either. I worked in engineering and only used inches the entire time, never converted into any other unit for decades.
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You notice how all the "oh we're so rational because we use metric" countries of the world DO NOT USE the metric clock or the metric calendar.
You think a day has 24 hours? No, no, no my little illerate barbarian, not a METRIC DAY.
A metric day is 10 metric hours each of which has 100 metric minutes, each of which has 100 metric seconds.
Does that sound ghastly and inhuman, albeit "rational" in the worst, most sterile and unreasonable way?
That's because it is ghastly and inhuman and no one tries to live that way.
Same thing with the metric calendar. Happy Thermador.
So ...
You know how some major parts of the metric system turned out to be ghastly and inhuman and diminished us all personally as human beings? You remember since I just told you about it.
Why would think that wouldn't be true about other parts of the metric system.
Seriously, in what way is the kilometer, based on the distance from Paris to the North Pole, superior to the mile?
I understand that metric is the preferable tool when technical precision is required, viz. engineering or science. That doesn't make it the superior tool inherently though. You do know that becoming a scientist requires you to become a bit of an inhuman ghoul, right?
Scientific progress is probably worth scientists being like they are, but it is a trade off.
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@DillonLoomis Find a small engine repair guy, they usually sell used models too. They will hook you up with the most reliable unit they have. I'm running a ~50 year old Toro that never fails.
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PSA: do not buy Ryobi products. My experience has been abysmal
Lawnmower. $1,000 purchase. Year two it starts falling apart. Luckily I get bailed out with a recall. After a painful experience proving I qualify, they send a new mower. Was still without one for over a month
Snowblower. $1,500 purchase. Year two it stops working. I troubleshoot it for hours to no avail. Call customer service - they're aware of the issue. Problem is they are completely out of the part they need to fix it nation-wide. Been without a working snowblower for over a month. Rather than just sending me a new snowblower since I'm under warranty, they say "there's nothing they can do" until they try the new part
Which leaves me spending hours shoveling feet of wet snow. Could it be bad luck? Sure. But from where I'm standing, Ryobi products are overpriced, unreliable garbage @RYOBItoolsusa
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I don't remember who it was, okuda or doug drexler, but one of those guys said the TNG season 1 team was going to do Andorians in the next gen, but screen tests with 80s cameras made them look super fake, so they got pushed to the background (Datas daughter has an option to choose an andorian body and I think you see some as background characters elsewhere) until they could work out better looking prosthetics.
And, I also end up proving Sandy's original point right here.
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@EsotericCD @SandyofCthulhu Another prequel Andorian. So somewhere in the timeline between the original series and next generation, the Federation genocided one of its allies.
GIF
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They chose the franchise which MORE THAN ANY OTHER FRANCHISE SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN has the most nit-picky, obsessive fans. They know EVERYTHING about their universe. Then they went ahead and just made up stuff.
Tolkien fans can differ about the nature of Tom Bombadil or whether Balrogs have wings. Star Wars fans can argue over just how dumb the Holdo maneuver is and whether it breaks canon. Marvel fans can ponder whether Magneto can lift Thor's Hammer with his magnetism.
But Trekkies don't have these kind of arguments, because it's already known. Instead, they boast to each other about who knows the more obscure information. Where is the entrance to the toilet on the Enterprise's bridge? What is the digestive tract of a Klingon like? Why do Cardassians have neck ridges?
The answer to these questions are ALL KNOWN. (The toilet is on the opposite side to the elevator. Klingons have two duodenums opening into their stomach for super-fast digestion. And Marc Alaimo has a really long neck so they designed the Cardassian makeup to use that.)
You don't get details like that in Tolkien, Star Wars, or Marvel. Only Star Trek. It's the worst possible franchise to play it by ear. They blew it.
Jon Del Arroz | Pop Culture & Gaming 🎮@jondelarroz
I feel like Alex Kurtzman got in a room with the writers of Starfleet Academy and said "Okay, everything we can possibly do to make Star Trek fans hate the show, let's put it all out on the table and throw a ton of budget at it."
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@SBA_Matthias You had a couch??? I had an upholstered table they called a bed.
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I arrived at the birthing center ready to be present, supportive, and meet our baby
I was not prepared to test the structural limits of a couch that feels more symbolic than functional
Across the hall sits a vending machine selling Diet Coke for $2.75, plus a $0.10 upcharge for using a credit card, which feels aggressively on brand
I can only assume @chasedownleads owns the machine and personally approved the pricing model
To be clear, the priorities here are exactly right, mom and baby first, everyone else builds character
Back aching, wallet lighter, spirits high, I could not be more excited to meet our baby
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@StaceyMonette27 Did it get stopped in front of the Cosmopolitan? I was inside when that same thing happened and the building locked down. Couldnt go anywhere and we watched the standoff on the tvs in the buffet at the back of the building.
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Was walking down the Las Vegas strip once while on a girl’s vacation. Shop owners started coming out telling everyone there was an active shooter.
So many people just carried on shopping & walking. I grabbed my daughter & headed back to our hotel room.
Later found out it was a tourist bus taken hostage & a passenger was shot.
Call me old fashioned but the first sign of danger, I’m out. I’m not sure where along the line people lost their grip on reality but I hope they find it once again. So sad.
BNO News Live@BNODesk
New video shows fire spreading at bar in Swiss ski resort, with guests failing to react. At least 40 people died
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