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  • Something that really impressed me with Bernie was that in 2015 he gave a speech at Liberty University.

    Liberty is the among the most conservative of conservative "Christian" colleges. As surprised as I was that they allowed him to speak, I was more surprised that Bernie went. I was raised in Christian fundamentalism. I know how hard it is to break down the barriers between you and people who belive you're going to hell for A.) Being Jewish, and B.) supporting 'baby murderin'.

    That's a wide gap but he tried to bridge it anyway and find common ground. I thought he did a damn good job. He showed more backbone than any other major player in the democratic party when everyone else thought it was a waste of time to talk to anyone who isn't a "swing state" voter.

    It was one of the reasons I voted for him twice. It was clear that Bernie was/is interested in the welfare of all Americans and that he wanted to be president for all Americans. Even ones he might have significant ideological differences with. The Democrats can't whine about their dwindling support when they're too chicken shit to go talk to people in Red states. Trump is and will contibue to be a collosal failure as president, but he proved one thing for certain. The days of the "safe" candidate being a winning bet are gone.

  • Mythology
  • God: Go tell Joseph I did it.

    Gabriel: Yeah... It was God.

    Joseph: Oh... Uh... Well Ok then.

    Gabriel: And you're gonna be cool about it.

    Joseph: Yep. I'm cool. It's all good. We're cool.

  • Enshittification only hurts product itself.
  • To be fair, Windows has huge, maybe even unreasonable, demands placed on it for backward compatibility due to corps not wanting to dump their 30 year old legacy software. And to Microsoft's credit, they actually manage to do that pretty well while maintaining a reasonably stable OS. Most of the time, anyway.

    The increasing interest in using Windows as a conduit for ads and data collection is what they really chafes me and is the primary reason I'm slowly moving away from Windows.

  • Overhead light shorted?
  • Took me days to figure out what was going on, because it didn't occur to me that the outside GFCI would be protecting my kitchen lights.

    I hate that. Some genius was either too cheap or too lazy to wire it correctly and just tied it into an unrelated circuit.

  • Horsepower required for 10 Gbit router?
  • Horsepower is a very rough "average" of work output over a given period of time. It doesn't really account for spikes in load. For that we'll have have to consider the torque. So the real question is, how many foot/pounds or newton/meters does OP need to handle 10 gigs of throughput?

  • Global leaders congratulate Trump but his victory looks set to roil the world — again
  • That's the real danger in my opinion. Trump is probably a malignant narcissist. Everything he does, he does for himself and his very thin skinned ego. This is sort of balanced out but he fact that he's a moron and is easily manipulated. But, there are people right on his coat tails who are straight up malevolent and do things because they enjoy watching others suffer.

    As bad as Trump is, it may get much worse after he's gone and leaves a crater sized power vacuum in the GOP.

  • "He's hurting the wrong people" in five... Four... Three...
  • Trump should absolutely lower the price of evertyhing. Pressure the federal reserve to hike the prime rate to 25%, push us straight into a depression, and watch just how fast the price of eggs and gas plummets.

    I mean, lower prices are the most important thing apparently and since the majority of Americans want that at all costs, this strategy should be ok with them, right?

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    "He's hurting the wrong people" in five... Four... Three...
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    me_irl @lemmy.world jubilationtcornpone @sh.itjust.works
    Digging My Own Grave

    cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27167002

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    Possum Lodge Skunk Works @sh.itjust.works jubilationtcornpone @sh.itjust.works
    Leaf Vacuum

    If necessity is the mother of invention, laziness is the grandaddy.

    I have almost a half acre which gets covered in oak leaves during the fall. I have to get them all to the burn pile on one end of the property which usually involves blowing them into separate piles and transporting each pile to the burn pile a bit at a time.

    I figured there has to be an easier way to do this. I used a leaf blower/vac, a 4" flexible hose, and an insulation disposal bag that I had leftover from another project. It works pretty good. Actually better than the vacuum does with the shoulder bag probably because the airflow isn't as restricted.

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    Periodic Limb Movement Disorder

    I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult although I've demonstrated clear symptoms since early childhood. I manage pretty well with medication.

    I tend to "fidget" a lot throughout the day with involuntary movements that tend to vary periodically for reasons that I've never understand. Sometimes it's popping my ears or clenching my jaw. Sometimes it's "popping" my toes, bouncing my leg, or snapping my fingers, etc.

    Recently, my wife told me something that I did not know. Apparently I do the same sort of involuntary movements at night to the point that it wakes me up. She said it's been going on for years. I honestly had no idea. It kind of fits the description of "Periodic Limb Movement Disorder." There are some theories that "PLMD" can be a comorbidity with ADHD although the research on this is pretty sparse.

    Has anyone else experienced this sort of thing and are there any viable treatment options?

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    Bella Vista, Arkansas @sh.itjust.works jubilationtcornpone @sh.itjust.works
    Bella Vista City Council Candidates Participate in Forum
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    Bella Vista Community TV, a nonprofit organization, recently live-taped interviews of the candidates running for City Council in the Nov. 5 election. The candidates were invited to participate in three separate sessions, by ward, and given time to respond to a set of pre-determined questions posed b...

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    New (To Me) Planer

    I had to show off my newest acquisition. Picked up an old Rockwell 22-650 planer from a guy on Craigslist. I replaced the knives, greased it, and dialed it in. It works great! If I ever have to move it again, I'll get someone with a tractor to help. Still not sure how I managed to muscle all 400+ lbs of it into the basement by myself. I was dumb enough to try that once but not enough to do it twice.

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    "Daily Pay" Is Just Another Way to Keep You Living Paycheck to Paycheck

    I've seen several big chains, mostly gas stations and fast food, advertising "daily pay". If you are worried about how you're going to make it until your next paycheck, whether it's tomorrow or next month, or you have no savings to cover any sort of emergency, then you live paycheck-to-paycheck.

    Don't be fooled. "Daily Pay" is just a shitty attempt at avoiding paying better wages by giving you your shitty wages faster. It's designed to benefit the company, not you.

    Edit: If you don't get to hold on to your pay check long enough to earn interest on any of it, then getting paid daily is not benefiting you.

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    Possum Lodge Skunk Works @sh.itjust.works jubilationtcornpone @sh.itjust.works
    The Mean [Not] Green Grass Eating Machine (Version 1)

    That was my first attempt at electrifying a gas mower. I used a 2 HP induction motor attached to a mount designed to be a drop in replacement for the engine. The first version used the frame from a Troy Bilt front wheel drive mower. This one only had a single speed transmission and couldn't handle the added weight from the motor. I think I used it for one season before replacing it with Version 2.

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    Possum Lodge Skunk Works @sh.itjust.works jubilationtcornpone @sh.itjust.works
    The Mean Green Grass Eating Machine (Version 2)

    If you want to buy a new lawn mower, you can go down to your local big box retailer and find that most of the available options are probably battery electric mowers.

    But, not that many years ago, electric mowers kinda sucked. The few choices you had were all corded but more importantly, they were cheaply built and lacked power. They also had none of the features of gas mowers, like being self propelled. After wearing out two of them within a couple years I thought, "This is cannot be that hard. I bet I can build a better electric mower."

    A rotary lawn mower is pretty basic. Engine spins blade, blade cuts grass. That's pretty much it. If you wanted to "electrify" a gas mower, you would need a motor that could supply sufficient torque and keep the blade speed within the right range.

    I picked up a 2 HP induction motor and mounted it on a frame which would basically serve as a drop-in replacement for the engine. I also built a switch which connected to the dead-man switch/engine brake bar, allowing the motor to be turned on and off.

    I quickly learned the importance of selecting the right mower to convert. My first attempt was a Troy Bilt front wheel drive, which did not work well. Electric motors are heavy and the induction motor was substantially heavier than the engine it was replacing. The front wheel drive mechanism was not designed to handle the extra weight and it made navigating difficult.

    My next attempt was with a John Deere rear wheel drive. That one was a winner. I ended up building a really solid electric mower that performs nearly on par with a gas mower. The only downside is that it requires a heavy extension cord due to the power draw but once you get used to the cord it's not that bad.

    I used this thing for probably 8 years without any problems and no maintenance besides sharpening the blade and greasing the bearings about once a year. I replaced it with a cordless mower last summer but I'm not getting rid of it. It's in my shop getting a badly needed rebuild and a safety upgrade (adding an electric brake). It'll be back on the job, at least part time, whenever I get a chance to put it back together.

    More photos in the comments.

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    Sewer Vent Through Middle of Standing Seam

    Recently had a new standing seam metal roof installed. Roofers could talk the talk but I was not impressed with the quality of work overall. My main complaint is that they installed the roof so that most of the sewer vents go right through the middle of a seam. The boots are clearly not designed to accommodate this and they've succeeded in creating more work for me in the future; which is what I was trying to to avoid by spending the extra money to upgrade to metal. The boots are going to leak. In fact, they already have.

    I was pretty pissed about this initially and told the owner of the roofing company that if they had bothered to tell me this was going to happen, I would have moved the damned vent pipes myself if they weren't going to. The right fix would be to replace the panels and move the vent pipes but I have a feeling getting them to do that is going to be difficult if not impossible.

    Is there a boot that's designed for this kind of install or a better way of sealing these? Or, am I going to be stuck checking and resealing them every couple of years?

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    Chimney Gaps

    Edit: Resolved. Decorative brick is actually a chase and doesn't need to be completely filled in. Thanks to @Death_Equity@lemmy.world for advice on rebuilding the crown.

    I have a double sided wood burning brick fireplace which is honestly just a big collection of code violations. It was converted to propane shortly after -- I'm assuming -- the people who built the house 50 years ago discovered that it smoked badly in the house. I fixed all the major issues with the firebox and smoke chamber and converted it back to wood burning this past winter.

    I had a new steel cap fabricated to replace the old brick and concrete cap, which I removed. During this process, I discovered that the brick is basically just a facade. There are huge gaps on either side of the flues which are encased in 4" cinder blocks. My understanding of fire code (at least in the US) for masonry fireplaces is that the material surrounding the flue is not permitted to have any gaps in it. NFPA says all gaps in the brick should be filled with mortar. However, I'm not sure what to do with a gap this large. I'm not sure if filling it with mortar or concrete is an option. I've considered installing a steel flue liner but those are expensive and there are two flues. I'm also concerned about steel liners changing the draft characteristics since the chimney is on the short side.

    If money were no object, I would tear this thing out and put a more efficient steel insert in but that is cost prohibitive.

    Anyone have any experience fixing something like this?

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    Extra Thick Bread Slice

    Found a piece of bread in a store bought loaf that didn't get sliced properly.

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    Home Ownership is Just One Persons Fight Against Water

    Had a nice little foundation leak during the last rain storm. Installed a drain line last fall to divert two downspouts and front walkway run off away from the house which helped a lot. Front walkway and a big retaining wall next to it ultimately need to be removed and reinstalled with proper grading and drainage. That's going to be a huge and expensive project so for now I'm just replacing all the worn out concrete sealant and hoping for the best.

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    Lake Mead/Hoover Dam

    Took this picture from the top of Hoover Dam about 6 years ago.

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