Construction Capo

@ErasmasFigaro looks fine, i'd add jack studs under the window frame's base plate for more support. and probably block the cripples under the base plate, they look kinda long. go for it king!

Any complaints about turning a standard gable end wall with regular studs into this? I want clerestory windows

yeah this x.com/VaticanNews/st…

in Brothers Karamazov, Father Zosima teaches the monks that they themselves are the worst of all men and I think about this a lot. When you help others, it warps your ego, makes you proud. Reminds me of Ikhlas the moltbots keep talking about. How do u keep purity of intention when ppl shower u with love when you do the right thing?

hahaha i know west coast deck is built different, i bet u guys have cross-lasers even 🤣 my grandpa used one of these to make beams in his backyard, it was cheaper than an ox-cart trip to the sawyer. he still had the saw-person in him, he snapped straight lines on the logs with a primitive chalk line, a literal painted string. i have to try this before i die

@TechCapo Axes????

wanna see something interesting? there are two types of people, axe people and saw people. engineers? saw people. programmers? axe people. despite using mostly saws, carpenters are axe people

@jamesonhaslam tag urself :D btw sent u dm

btw i learned from the greatest. my mentor has a dedicated demolition chainsaw to cut through nails and ytong walls

@ErasmasFigaro lmao i had to look up what a studfinder is that's how much of an axe person i am 🤣

@TechCapo I think axe, given the way I’ve brute forced finding studs on the rare occasion I forget a studfinder

stop mogging and u will not be mogged

screak: portmanteau of screen freak, a person who looks at their phone in public "bro i saw a screak on the metro last night. i broke his phone and his glasses on the spot"

not everything is computer! some things are computers and some things are not and this paper explains how to tell them apart royalsocietypublishing.org/rspa/article/4…

even one day old chicken know kiki bouba 😯 there must be an advantage in associating screetching sounds of predators or high pitched warning sounds of ur parents with pointy teeth/claws and soothing deep sounds with safe mom shapes

live by the mog, die by the mog

@ZyMazza amen brother, good luck with this, im off twitter for this lent too. see u on the other side

Tomorrow is the first day of lent. I’m gonna level with you guys. I’ve not been observant with my faith lately. Just 5 short years ago I was praying every day, several times a day. 6 years ago I was in mass every Sunday and maybe during the week for Eucharistic adoration. These were the most serene times of my life, and I felt so at ease in my own skin. Empirically, it’s undeniable how beneficial orienting my life around God and His love for me is. There’s so much scientific literature about the psychological benefits of gratitude that I won’t appeal to, because I want you to take me at my word when I tell you it helps and I know billions of other people will happily corroborate what I’m telling you now if you just ask them. It’s fascinating, then, how ubiquitous the experience of “falling out” with God reality is. I don’t mean getting angry or upset with Him—although certainly that can happen too. No, what I mean is how quickly we forget. Or put another way, I think it’s interesting how easy it was to take up my habit of smoking (vaping) which was nothing but harmful to me and how hard it was put it down again even when every day with a vape in my hand caused me profound psychological anguish. Contrast that to my prayer life. How hard-won it was to build up a habit of earnestly praying to God 5 times daily, and how rewarding it was! And yet how easily it evaporated into indifference before I even knew it. I haven’t been to mass in like 5 months. I haven’t been to confession in even longer. My soul weighs heavily upon me and I’m in real spiritual peril! Maybe you don’t believe in that nonsense, but take me at my word, please, when I say I recognize that as my state of affairs. It’s interesting too that you don’t need to be religious to see this dynamic at play in your life. It seems to be a universal human experience to watch oneself ruin something with full knowledge of the nature of the ruination yet find oneself powerless to stop it. Lent is essentially a callback to Jesus’ 40 days fasting in the desert. It’s 46 days, but the 6 sundays are “cheat” days not part of the fast—more on that later. Anyway when Jesus was in the desert Satan tempted Him offering Him all the earthly power and indulgences a man could dream of. And Jesus sends him away. It’s a powerful story because even knowing the terrible consequences of sin and the immense benefits of virtue it’s the lived experience of every person on this earth to find it difficult to reject sin and embrace every virtue. Later He says “what good does it to a man to gain the whole world if He should forfeit his soul?” Yet how many of us have sold ourselves out for next to nothing? Lent is a time of penance, so I’m going to be using this time to reflect on my shortcomings. Not an insignificant shortcoming of mine is selling myself—hours of my day, my dignity in what I write and how I write about it, and my mental health, honestly—for the trifling some of a ~$250 biweekly payout. Shameful, really! To be moved to desperately write such bait as I do, jestermaxxing as they say, motivated by nothing but a trifling sum and a false sense of clout. Among other things, I’ll be taking this time to work on improving my relationship to virtue and scorning my long-time false friends of vice and sin. I’ll be deleting this app from my phone for the duration in the hopes it might spur me to have a thought uninfluenced by a recommendation algorithm. I’ll try to publish 6 longform pieces on each of the Sunday’s of Lent, because that’s the kind of writer I want to be. But I might fail. I know to well how easy it is to return to comfortably bad habits. I also know that if I do, it’s important not to despair and give up. That’s the devil talking, accusing! Every moment is an opportunity to try to change for the better. ❤️

@moonsandhues wtf why are there tables in a club?

Hot girls want hot guys

@justalexoki look if u gave me back the 600 combined hours i wasted on factorio and ftl i'd just waste it all over again. they taught me things

video games are 100% a waste of time and if you disagree you're literally just addicted

@nosilverv thank god im retarded so i didnt understand a single word of this and i keep being on time because i don't think im more important than other people

Someone told me a story about a girl they knew: she was perpetually late BUT she always came with such good energy that no one really could stay mad at her. Now, obviously the being late was load-bearing to her good energy. She was probably late bc she came from another appointment, not rushing, smelling the roses, etc. This struck this other person because THEY used to be that girl. But then they took peoples admonishments about her lateness too seriously and stopped being late. Now they were always on time. But they added very little. The same has happened to me: I took people's stated preferences seriously for me to be on time. But that entails them knowing themselves, knowing what they need (over what they THINK they want), understanding the trade-offs being made, having a sort of "systemic" view of the whole thing and not thinking it is merely an inefficiency, that we're merely "far from the frontier of production possibilities": that we can merely press a button and start "being on time" and keep all else the same. "Be on time" "Ok, but I'll be a drag." "Wait what no wtf nevermind". Perhaps sometimes you have to ACTIVELY ignore what people say, perhaps that's more about what they tell themselves ("I really value being on time, and people who are on time."), than about what they actually want.

@DefenderOfBasic sunlight is the most important "zeitgeber" ie stuff that regulates the body's circadian rhythm

is this true for anyone else??? (I feel like there's a lot of confounding factors here)