There's an area in the cascade range (western US, specifically oregon) that is a giant field of knapped obsidian, that was used as a training ground for young knappers, as well as a trading ground to trade knapped obsidian that has been found all over the western US. Not just miles, but many many miles. I'll see if I can go find a link.

I dont think it's a banjo fitting. Fairly certain banjo fittings are not meant to move once tightened down. Another poster is right though, if you take it to a hose shop, they will probably be able to cut the old hose off and crimp a new one on. Just google "hose shop in [your town]" and there's likely to at least be one in the next town over. I live in a mid sized city and there are like 3.

I have a tree like this in my front yard. It fell down in the 60s during a windstorm when my dad was a kid, and then the stump grew a new shoot. The "new" tree is 60 years old and covers most of the front yard. Every may, it turns into a giant pink ball almost overnight.

Wow. What a throwback. He ranted about those movie titles on harmontown how many years ago? That had to have been close to a decade ago.

A bit late to the party and maybe you've already come across this in your search. But i figured just to add to the conversation, here's an article about how to sew a dart (more in the non leather sense. Apparently there's some a real skill to it, but I'm sure with some practice, you can nail it.

https://www.westada.org/

As close as I could get. I couldn't find in a brief search of the site if there was a staff lookup. But I'm pretty sure you can look up an licensed teacher if you know what state they're in, which Is how I found that she's licensed and active in that district.

Hooooo boy. There's a lot you can't do. If you have a rifle (that uses a 'rifle' round as opposed to a pistol round), your barrel must be over a certain length. But if you have a "rifle" that is chambered in say 9mm (a pistol round), doesn't matter. Barrel could be 4 inches long. But then it can't have a stock. So you have a "wrist brace" (read:totally not a stock I promise) instead. There's a bunch of wacky shit the atf and congress have come up with.

Liver spots are a skin condition that fairly old people sometimes get. They're like big, dark freckles. Usually pretty harmless. The above poster is referring to Debian not accepting packages unless they're quite old.

You're correct that slop in the threads just means some extra backlash. I could see, depending on the construction of the vise, having some axial play due to that slop being bad, but vises usually have some other means to control movement in that direction. The only thing the threaded piece does is push or pull.

I get that you probably didn't mean much by it but don't let if be "a balm to your soul" let it inspire you to action and speaking up against this regime.

Thanks for the info. I'm stoked that they didn't get buried by the lawsuit. They employ a lot of people in my community and their Chilipeño chips are the bomb!

I just noticed the Juantonitos instead of Juanitas thing in the store tonight. And I felt like I was being gaslit. Like a Bearenstien bears gag. When did that happen? I would have thought I would have heard about it because they've got a factory in the next town over.

If someone made half a million a year I'd say they were rich... half a million in total assets would just mean you own a home and might have something saved for retirement.

I'm not saying that it's poor, and I know that there's a good chunk of America that's "worth" less than like 10k, and probably a good number of people who are in the negative, but half a million isn't fabulously rich.

Half a million is within reach for people who didn't start out dirt poor, got an education, and a professional gig. I say this as someone who would be worth less than 10k if I didn't inherit my home. A lot of people's Net Worth Includes things that they can essentially never turn into actual money, but it still acts as a money saving asset.

Congress just confirmed a guy that's gonna take away their power to act as a check on the executive?

First, check your oil and coolant levels. Only when you're sure it's not going to damage itself further by running without fluids, run it in neutral and Rev it up to the engine speed that make it make funny noises and try to isolate what's making noise.

I don't think your radiator is making noise. If the noise is coming from the radiator, it's the fan. Otherwise, I would suspect that something in the engines top end isn't being lubricated properly (if I'm imagining the right kind of noise).

Someone who just wants someone who is easy to manipulate and control. Some high school grads can be incredibly brilliant in technical fields, but what's much less likely is to be ethically experienced and world-wise.

I can't speak for all of them, but the I5 border station near the Oregon border hasn't even been manned in several years. This gal is so full of shit.

I can't speak to that, though I tried to look them up and find out but there are just a couple of articles from a year ago. But they basically just joined a much larger union of 50k+ actors and stage workers. I imagine they're making headway.

In a win for unionizing sex work (albeit in a different form than prostitution), a group of strippers in a Portland Oregon strip club have unionized!