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  1. I was doing some garden work today. Within an hour or two I managed to fill up the trash can for all the biodegradable garbage. I have to wait two weeks in order to continue cutting down the bushes. The weather will be bad anyway in the coming days, so I wouldn't do gardening anyway. If I am at the same point next time I'll probably have to ask a neighbor for using their trash can capacity.

    about 19 hours ago from web
    • @adiwan Any way to get issued another one? Especially if you'll need to be doing a lot of work often.

      about 8 hours ago in context
    • @scribus I could get a bigger one but the monthly costs are way higher. 120L (the one I have) costs 15€ a month and the next size up would be two of them for double the price. In average I overpay for the size I use. In Winter I barely used 1/5th of the capacity. From May to November the pickup frequency increases from once every two weeks to once a week. That will do basically the same without paying more. In this regard I have to wait a month. Being patient.

      about 6 hours ago in context
  2. There is a ton of talk from boomers that millenials and genz are social garbage. Yesterday I saw a pair of self-entitled 70-80 year olds (man and wife) packing out their shopping cart at a closed checkout line while the super market was clearly understaffed AND were demanding another checkout line to be opened and then saying (more to themselves) that they will go without paying.

    about 2 days ago from web
  3. 20 minutes later it is fixed. I fixed it temporarily with a zip tie and went to the hardware store to get the right screws and nuts. Obviously I bought more than I actually needed to fix that. What I learned is that I don't have enough screws and nuts.

    about 5 days ago from web
  4. My favorite mug that I own for about 25 years has finally cracked. The handle broke on its own from the handling and the temperature changes. The crack was relatively clean. I "fixed" it with super glue but I have little confidence that it'll hold more than a year and I think it'll show other crack in that time.

    about 7 days ago from web
  5. “Are you better off now than when people were dying by the thousand and unemployment was at 10% and there were riots in the streets every other day” like yeah I think most people are

    about 9 days ago from web
  6. This toon is ten minutes and is fully PG in content, might be the first time I’ve done something so long and so tame in about eight years

    about 13 days ago from web
  7. I am dissatisfied with the way x candidate has handled y issue, so I will be voting for his opponent who has promised to handle it even worse

    about a month ago from web
  8. if anybody's wondering what the worst thing i've ever animated is, it's that

    about a month ago from web
  9. It has been finished!
    https://www.tumblr.com/adiwan/743211519247089664/i-finished-a-set-of-magnetic-unown-alphabet-tiles

    about a month ago from web
  10. The live-action Avatar The Last Airbender is pretty decent. I only watched the first episode so far.

    about a month ago from web
  11. I bought a tool for splicing 3d printer filament. It's difficult as hell. I bought it so I can use up all those "too much to throw away but too short to print anything usable" spools. The main problem is that I end up having a splice that is way too thick to fit through the PTFE tube that will definitely end up as a print failure. At this point I think it is a operator failure than a failure of the tool. I give it more tries until I throw it into the corner.

    about 2 months ago from web
    • @adiwan Yeah, I bet there's a "touch" to it that'll take a bit to find

      about 2 months ago in context
    • @scribus I think too. Also I have the suspicion that the tool I bought is kind of flawed in both handling and execution https://i.imgur.com/rWLHU0z.jpeg It is made such that you put one end into the area with the Teflon sleeve and the other end to the metal hole. Both ends are then heated by a flame (candle, lighter) for a couple seconds and then pulled into the Teflon area and there the ends are pushed together while the plastic is hot. After it has cooled down the screws are loosened and the tool can be removed. The hole in the Teflon area is about 2mm in diameter while the plastic filament is 1.75mm. Ideally the hole should be the same or close in size. Either way pushing the filament into the hole while it's melted is hard as the filament itself tends to naturally curl because it has been wound up on a spool before and hand-straightening is not really easy or effective enough. I need to shave off the extra bulge back to 1.75mm in order to prevent clogs. Wasn't expensive tough.

      about 2 months ago in context
  12. A group of dudes stole $2000 in merchandise in a single night at my store, and my dumbass hothead of a cart pusher threw hands. They came in again last night and brought mace. Now I kind of wanna wear goggles tonight in case they come in again but at this rate if they discover I’m immune to mace they’ll bring a gun tomorrow.

    about 2 months ago from web
  13. Was at my tax guy. I'll gonna get 80€ back!

    about 2 months ago from web
    • @adiwan Woo, not paying!!

      about 2 months ago in context
    • @scribus It would be more if I didn't had the tax guy and did it by myself but it's a piece of mind worth the loss. Cannot tell how much time it saves me. It took me half an hour getting through all my papers, optimize some little things, berating me not having enough expenses as I didn't reach a threshold for a bigger tax payback, and getting it ready to send to the tax office.

      about 2 months ago in context
  14. Pokemon is loved by most. Palworld is a the new kid on the block. I am a Sujimon connoisseur.

    about 2 months ago from web
    • @adiwan And we don't even speak the name "Digimon" in this house

      about 2 months ago in context
    • @scribus At this point it has become a footnote in history and lost any kind of cultural significance beyond furry porn. There were a few films in the cinema but they were purely driven by nostalgia. I haven't seen any child wearing any kind of Digimon T-shirt or alike in a very very very long while. Also the name only pops up in conjunction with: "Do you remember Digimon?". Digimon can be considered functionally dead from my point of view. My interest in Digimon died somewhere in the first third of the Digimon Tamers TV Series and it was not big before.

      about 2 months ago in context
  15. More forbidden cookies https://64.media.tumblr.com/6e4358980dd6c02305160c8d32a32aa3/599ec872b0366322-6e/s2048x3072/f284b69621c3fec3b321fb2ba5fbb839bd5ec8ba.jpg

    about 2 months ago from web
  16. Tying braces is trickier than anticipated. I worked up to a technique that is fine, especially handling the extra piece of string. Had it known that it would be such a hassle I'd take the ones with belts and buckles.

    about 2 months ago from web
    • @adiwan I found some one-handed shoe tying methods that might help, think it was actually on some disability-related site. I use one where you tie one end of the string to the uppermost eyehole so you just pull to tighten and kind of finagle it around at the wrist into a knot

      about 2 months ago in context
  17. I bought myself very cheap and simple black leather bracers (~15€), the type that tie only with a string. I intent to wear them next time the roads are slippery in order to prevent scratches on my arm, as my jacket didn't do anything to prevent that. These bracers slide constantly up and down as it is really difficult to put tension on the string and it is easy to overdo it for a comfortable and tight fit.

    about 2 months ago from web
    • @adiwan Research I should have done earlier say that is normal that they slide and don't fit right away. Either they have to be worn long enough that they mold to the arm shape and create more friction area, or some cloth or else is worn under the bracers, or the bracers are tied/sewn to the worn shirt.

      about 2 months ago in context
    • @adiwan I got a pair of leather bracers for LARP, they definitely have seemed to fit better over time. I usually have the sleeves of my puffy shirt tucked into them, so that probably helps, too, but I also mostly only do it that way because the inner side of the eyehole brass thingies that you run the lace through are irritating directly on my arm

      about 2 months ago in context
    • @scribus As a 100 % T-shirt wearer I feel that what you mean. Right now it's the rough side of the leather that feels a little scratchy as well as the stitching.

      about 2 months ago in context
  18. Dudes... An empty high caliber military ammunition box is cheaper than a flimsy tin box of similar size. I cannot comprehend.

    about 3 months ago from web
  19. Gonna assemble myself a first-aid box. I have the feeling that all the ready-to-go purchasable ones are lacking in material and actually useful bandages. Also the ones with any number of pieces in the title are even more scummy as they count every single safety pin and other useless small piece. I want middle to big band-aids. Furthermore I don't need a hard plastic case or yet another nylon zip bag. For my car I need one of those ready-to-go ones that are mandated but that is a different thing.

    about 3 months ago from web
  20. OK... The birthday present was a huge success. It was received very well. Too well... To my dismay I got a request to make Unown tiles (from the 3rd Pokemon movie) for their birthday.

    about 3 months ago from web
  21. It's weird when acronyms have overlapping meaning. For example POS. I read it as Point Of Sales but the Internet abbreviates Piece Of Fluffle Puff that way. When the cashier is an asshole both can be applied.

    about 3 months ago from web
  22. For a birthday gift for a friend, and a small pokemaniac, I crafted a Mew stone carving (from the first Pokemon movie) out of polymer clay. I used Adobe Illustrator to trace a screenshot and 3D-printed a cookie cutter and stamped it into the polymer clay and added additional stone texture with a ball of aluminium foil. After baking it at 130°C (266°F) for 40 minutes I used the crappiest acrylic paint I own. It did the job but the paint is darkening so much when dry that they turn almost black. With a liberal amount of white and other brighter paint (yellow, orange, red) I got to the end eventually. https://i.imgur.com/D7Nsjy5.jpg

    about 3 months ago from web
  23. I just ordered a pack of blank ID cards. i want to use them as mini dry erase whiteboards for notes inspired by https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5772876 However I want to put magnets on the back so I can place and reorganize these notes on my whiteboard. I could write directly on the whiteboard but I'm quickly annoyed on how any bigger change needs to redrawn and thus rarely used. This is an effort to get more organized.

    about 3 months ago from web
  24. Hope everyone checked their kids’ champagne glasses for razor blades

    about 3 months ago from web
  25. AI image generation is dangerously addicting. It's like a loot box where one hope to get a good image or the perfect image. I've spent too much time yesterday generating portrait images for preparing to my D&D adventure. Also Bing's Dall-E has a content filter that makes it a little bit more tricky to make grotesque images. For example I wanted to create a fleshy and bloody amalgam of unicorn body parts that assemble into one giant and colossal unicorn. The background is that the heroes have defeated the wizard that used unicorns and their blood to fuse animals together. However the remnants of that magic and unicorn blood and the disposed bodies were tossed into the sewers and spread through the rivers. Now they have to "clean up" the whole mess and be some kind of Ghostbusters but with bloody unicorn blobs with veiny tendrils instead of ghosts.

    about 3 months ago from web
  26. I think I unwrapped my blood donation bandage at least an hour too soon O_O

    about 4 months ago from web
  27. Hot baths (above body temperature) feel good when sitting inside the bathtub but feel awful when getting out of the tub. My whole circulation system of my body is then out of whack and I feel sickly numb and real sweaty. I get it that it's a very fever-like reaction but damn it is not on my mind when sitting relaxed in the tub.

    about 4 months ago from web
  28. Can’t believe they let Hunter Biden present an award at the Game Awards

    about 4 months ago from web
  29. My morning cashier would’ve been real popular in the Miami clubbing scene in the 80s if you catch my drift

    about 4 months ago from web
  30. My final boss in Lost Judgment is Poker. I'm in a chain of side missions that need me to win in Poker (Texas Holdem). Sad thing is that I get always the worst cards and have not even got a dumb pair in 20 games.

    about 4 months ago from web