I’m no communist but I agree.

I like you a lot more than any conservative.

Start collecting spiders and place them near gnat hotspots.

Once had a fly problem with my plants, plopped a couple spiders there and they were gone in a week or two

Break a leg

How does telling someone to sustain serious injuries imply you want them to succeed?

Frequently when I’m making lists and I am reorganizing the order.

Or I’m wiritng a recipe and get the directions in the wrong order.

Sometimes I’m writing an article and I move sentences around to improve the flow of the article.

Cause they aren’t, they are just the “better guys”.

Handtools in woodworking. There are some people who refuse use a tool without a cord.

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Spend some time learning to fix everything. EVERYTHING. Knowing a little bit of plumbing, electronic repair, woodwork, carpentry, and cad can save you tremendous amounts of money. Contractors cost crazy amounts of Money, even for simple fixes.

Yoy dont even need to practice, just read up on it. Recently my sink started leaking, so I though I’d just mess with it. Fixed it with 30$ worth of parts. Dishwasher broke and I fixed it with a 70$ PSU.

Dont learn how to do oil changes though, most of the time it won’t save you any money. Autoshops save a lot of money with volume oil changes.

Woodworking is a hobby that can pay for itself, and yoy dont even have to sell anything. Wood is everywhere, and free. You have to wait months for it to dry but afterwards you can make anything.

Ive made spatulas, spoons, snack clips, furniture, tools, storage, cabinets, bookmarks, bowls, cutting boards, knife covers, drying racks, shelves, etc. It gives you a level of self sufficiency that can never be taken from you. It shouldn’t even be called woodworking, it should just be called “making shit”. It’s an extremely useful and valuable skill. Ive even used it to fix computers by making custom brackets and stuff, and a special heatsink mount for an old heatsink.

Bold to assume leaders would ever suffer the consequences of their own policy.

Maybe add a “Lemmy mode” since Lenny uses symbols to mark italics, bold, etc, and causes a lot of emoticons to bug out

Like ¯_ (ツ) _/¯ when it should be ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯

Yep. Same thing happened with me.

How fucking hard it is to remember daily and recurring tasks. Taking meds, brushing teeth, checking email, cleaning up, cooking, laundry, on top of stuff related to work.

Another one is that we are blind. Unless I expect to see it, I cannot see it. I literally dont see clutter. Only when I force myself to think about what I’m staring at do I realize there is a bunch of crap on a table. Its really easy for my room to get messy because of this. Because it hardly exists for me.

I dont feel like government forms and taxes are any more intuitive.

Ok, make sure not to change the password again, and use your password manager.

She can get past the master password, but she can’t comprehend finding the password for the correct service, copying it, and pasting it. I don’t really know why she can’t scroll down the list to find “CVS” and copy the password, but she can’t.

I’m looking for a system that a baby could use.

Can you do this? I’ve tried setting other passwords managers as default, but it seems like with apple’s fuckery, they only allow you to use the internal manager.

There reaches a point in human stupidity that it suddenly becomes impossible to realize one’s stupidity. These people cannot be fixed and cannot be helped in anyway that benefits anyone else around them. Even therapy won’t do anything as they’ve become so stubborn and self righteous that they’d never believe the therapist, or bother to improve.

There is a reason this saying exists. “You can’t fix stupid”.

Ive been dealing with something similar to my mom. She’s extremely abusive and entitled. She insists that I “owe her”

It’s repeated a lot but rings loud for a reason. Cut them out.

Coarse diamond stone and a thin cheap knife. The coarse stone is fast so you get immediate results and feedback, which is crucial for learning. You want to use a cheap knife since you can damage knives with bad technique. Cheap knives are also softer and sharpen faster

Diamond plates are much more straightforward than waterstones. You dont need to soak it, water it, flatten it, etc. They aren’t necessarily better, but they require much less maintenance

Also I highly recommend freehand. Youll always encounter a knive that doesn’t work with this, or that system, but you can sharpen every knife, tool, scissors, etc, on a normal sharpening stone.

I use a 9k stone and sharpen for like 10 seconds, so its not that much material. I have an extremely high standard of sharpness.

For the first 30 mins to an hour of work, the edge absolutely flies through food. (Hair whittling/hair popping)

Afterwards its still very sharp and cuts very well ( clean shaving)

Then it starts to struggle with tough skins and delicate foods (bell peppers, tomatoes, etc) this is usually where it stops shaving.

I like to keep my knives so sharp that it flies through everything.

Sharpening stones and files. I can’t imagine using dull knives. I can’t stand knives duller than hair popping sharp. I have excellent knives that hold a crisp edge and I sharpen those every 30 minutes of super fast chopping (10 seconds on a 9k stone).

Not just knives but scissors, trowels, shovels, cooking spatulas, dust pans, vegetable peelers, can openers, toenail clippers, all need to be sharp. Not being able to sharpen all of those would be a tragedy.

If you are delaying getting into sharpening, just do it. It will serve you for the rest of your life, and I sharpen every single day (I’m a woodworker). Its truly a luxury to have sharp tools, all the time. So satisfying.

Aside from that, chocolate. The cravings will never go away.

Air conditioning, but I would argue that is a very expensive necessity.