luddybuddy

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[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago

Right? Is the vomit emoji an ancient anti Semitic trope?

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah, I forgot we were talking about vintage furniture. Bad paint sucks but people have got to get over this obsession with looking at wood. Color is fun and not every piece of wood is imbued with sacred beauty.

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I need a link. I must see this natural great looking wood for myself, though I know it to be pine and spruce from a pallet

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Totally. My gender is long red beard. If that’s “man” in someone’s eyes, fine.

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Sorry, Edgcumb Pinchon?

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I’m a big fan of this style of hollow wall anchor: https://toggler.com/products/snaptoggle-heavy-duty-toggle-bolts-zinc-plated-carbon-steel-channels Like the butterfly you describe, but the non-structural plastic bit keeps it in the wall while you get a bolt into it. The steel toggle is stronger than the folding type.

Even with the larger anchor however, there’s some chance that the wallboard is damaged, either as a result of the anchor failure, or as a cause of it. If it doesn’t feel sound, I like dem bosain’s idea of fastening a 1x4 to studs, then mounting the radiator the 1x4. What do you call those outside of burgerland? 20x95?

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Argh I’ve got a 2017 with the dumb battery that also needs the proprietary SSD replaced. I was going to replace them but it’s so time consuming so I bought new, and now I feel bad and it’s just sitting in the corner un-fixed.

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Some guy is writing the names “Esau” “Amalek”, “Isaac” etc in sharpie all over the neighborhood; I’m sure this is about Palestine but I can’t put together if they’re trying to say “we must destroy the children of Amalek” or “this is a religious war that cannot be explained or solved by political processes” or “Israel is fighting a war on the premise of Jewish supremacy as shown by all this biblical nonsense”.

I wasn’t really curious about the explanation until they wrote “Esau” on my door. I don’t know if they chose my door because I have a Palestine sign in the window or because my door has a gloss enamel surface that’s very attractive as a sharpie substrate (it was very easy to clean off at least). Am I being threatened?

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

#Tradle #780 3/6
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[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

#Tradle #778 2/6
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https://games.oec.world/en/tradle

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/23/intercepted-doctor-gaza-interview/

But [Palestinian medical workers], they are working on a daily basis on the most horrific, explosive trauma that you’ve ever seen. They’re doing sometimes 14, 15 amputations, mostly on children, per day, and they’ve been doing it for six months now.

 

Butlerian Jihad now

 

Reading Giblin and Doctorow’s Chokepoint Capitalism and they used a term “freedom of contract” I hadn’t heard before, and which I realized that I have over-valued in my brain.

I’ve already broken through in a few spots, for instance employment contracts can obviously be exploitative and workers have little ability to negotiating the terms on their own.

Or bank loans, not because of the negotiation so much as the moral stigma attached to defaulting on loans. I can see that the bank took a risk, they can take the consequences too. Why add moral consequences to an action that already carries financial consequences?

I think this loans issue comes back to an association of business contracts with social promises, which I’ve spent some time breaking down.

The employment issue is another kettle of frogs. That comes back to consent and whether a person who is not entirely free can consent. I guess that’s the whole point of a revolution though. Any attempt to make contract law fairer to respect the fact that some parties are signing under duress will be thorny, because all people are under duress under capitalism.

There’s barely a question in there, but … thoughts?

 

This is showing up everywhere, can’t be a coincidence!

 

Why do lantern flies congregate next to modern commercial buildings, specifically those with aluminum storefront system facades and black granite?

I just killed thirty in front of a high rise. The next block, a neoclassical building, had none. Crossed the street to a grocery store on the ground floor of another high rise and killed probably 40 in half the time.

Is it warmer at the base of these buildings? The two modern buildings faced each other so were in very different sun.

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