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I've operated an electric chainsaw today for the first time. It went easier than thought. I wanted to use it weeks earlier but the fuse in the electrical box always triggered because the starting current of the motor was too high. I bought a current limiter for this case and now it triggers only half of the time instead of always. The current limiter is just on the limit of the fuse's limit at 16A. At least I can use the chainsaw. Also I have a miter saw that also is kinda trigger-happy, so the bought current limiter is useful for more than the chainsaw.
about a day ago from web-
@adiwan They're pretty nice, but the cable gets annoying sometimes when you're on a tree
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@nerthos I am not that bothered with a cable. I throw it over the shoulder and it mostly works out. I rather prefer power tools with cables. I am annoyed by batteries not performing as long as I want and by the need to charge them at the most inconvenient times. The only tool I accept being battery-powered is a drill and even that sucks. I have two batteries and at times I was using one while charging the other and constantly swapping them back and forth.
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Delving into smaller youtube channels. The sponsor segments are definitely weirder than the ones of the bigger and more established channels. It surely shows the desperation the creators have. A furniture modification/restoration channel that is sponsored by a LED beauty face mask? Questionable meets desperation.
about 4 days ago from web-
@adiwan As someone who shaves maybe a fraction of their face, maybe once a week, I just laugh at the wasted sponsor money every time I see one
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@scribus Me too. I shave once a month and wait until it gets itchy. I only have a simple safety razor and an electric shaver. It is sufficient but I like neither of those because my skin is easily irritable. I'd like to permanently remove my beard with lasers but I fear it'll destroy my skin.
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@adiwan I go the easy route and trim with scissors, then correct with the razor. Should probably buy an electric shaver but eh
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always feels good when your background check comes back and says “not a sex offender”. gonna put that on my resume.
about 4 days ago from web-
@zeldatra Sex defender
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Oh gawd I'm not back around to Fluttershy now, am I???
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Who wants to get in a heated fight over who is best/worst pony like the old days? No guns, but knives and clubs are ok to bring
about 7 days ago from web-
@scribus I know she's so cute
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@firestormdangerdash That smugness is why she's my favourite, even 15 years later.
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@adiwan Wife tbh (mushi will kill me for this post)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0rvFX3EQV0
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Can... can we use RDN as the log in server to log into bluesky? I dont want to make "another" account for 1 thing. Heh...
about 13 days ago from web-
@firestormdangerdash Pls don't touch the relic-engine, it suffers from mr burns disease and any minor change might kill it
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7 hours into my 32th birthday I've already caused all sorts of romantic chaos, had my crush hint very overtly that she would like me to fight with her boyfriend over her (won't, she made her choice) and had a drunk gay friend confess to me in an absolutely obsessive, self-destructive and pathological way (which would have been really hot if it was a girl)
It's turning out to be a VERY eventful day and I'm very happy for it.
I joined this place when I was 18 and I'm glad I haven't mellowed out at all in that time. Here's hoping in another 14 years things will be just as crazy still.about 2 months ago from web-
@adiwan Pretty sure I'm not! but it's a funny life for certain and I put in a non-insignificant amount of work into keeping it that way.
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@nerthos "Death and illness aren't scary to me, being bored is." Words to live by right there
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@elli I'm a stress free kinda guy
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To be perfectly honest with you crashing the stock market was just about my biggest hope for Trump, I just didn't expect him to do it in three months. Cheers to my brand new stock portfolio! ...once things cool down.
about 21 days ago from web-
@zeldatra He said he'd lower the prices and he did
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Wow, talk about a throwback. Hi RDN, you probably don't remember me XD
about 2 months ago from web-
@pandaexpress Around that long yeah, glad to hear it came around for you in the end.
I've been pretty well all around. 2017 was kind of a mess but other than that, there have been a lot more upsides than downsides. Some losses sure, but death is unavoidable, all that is within my control ticks under my rythm and that's all that matters to say life is good.
Made a lot of friends, got new certifications and a different job, dropped my ex and had a lot of fun these last 8 years. All I can possibly complain of right now is that the stock market is not as good as I'd wish lol.Emily likes this. -
@pandaexpress much the same. Purpose in life does wonders for a person.
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My tomato plants are growing faster than anticipated. Barely one week in the dirt and half of the planted seeds pushed through the surface. Last year it felt it took longer until there was some development.
about 2 months ago from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@nerthos Fruit... Vegetable. I tend to say (jokingly) it is a frugitable. I hope too that they will be growing and do not rot away like last year.
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@adiwan Have you built a roof or pseudo-greenhouse for them? usually just a transparent nylon cover to prevent rain damage is enough to keep them safe
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@nerthos Not yet. I have to acquire free trampolines with side-netting for the sole purpose to get the metal tubes to build such a cover. I could buy it ready but due to my bucket solution of a raised bed I'd need 30-40 cm more than purchasable.
RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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every time I see a Hispanic dude in my store who I had previously seen wearing a Trump hat every single day now no longer wearing one I have to physically hold myself back from asking what happened
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Well I'm trying to do a House-aligned playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas, but I very really truly hate him and the terrible asshole things he says :-/
about 2 months ago from web-
@scribus Interesting, he's my favourite faction to side with on the grounds of pragmatism, he's the only one with a plan (and the actual capability to make it happen) to make humanity go anywhere other than "we'll just be hobos in perpetuity"
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@nerthos Yeah, I want to not hate him - I mean, a retro-future spaceVegas? Hell, yeah!! He's not even that unlikable, there's a wry sort of amusement to his bearing. But he's too egocentric; he's not preserving humanity, he's feeding his ego and seeking to create a thrallhood underclass to prop HIM up. Ultimately, I don't consider him sufficiently distinct from Caesar. Both cling to old-world ideals and play up some fantasy of the "inevitability" of "their" power. So, I kill him, take his city, and in my mind carry on with developing the space plans in a little more cooperative, ground-up fashion. (Though in all honesty a spacefaring future would be just as hellish as the vaults so iunno w/e i guess lol) Also I make The King governor or something :p
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@scribus That all sounds good until you factor in the kind of human resource you're dealing with in Fallout. Ironically the tv show is the best illustration of this, with the main character trying to behave like a civilized person and consistently getting banana'd by everyone.
House's narcissistic approach is a necessity in the world he's operating, without the army of robots forcing the wastelanders to work at gunpoint nothing will get done (example: they're still living in shacks near 200 years after the war)
Plus, he has civilized some factions already, so it's not like he won't uplift the competent and decent wastelanders into better positions. He has to do that for any space settling plan to work, since good people are needed to populate those colonies.
Sometimes, a competent megalomaniac is the only option that can get the job done.
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i think they should add pirate majima to the new monster hunter game because who else is more fit to hunt monsters? not your hatsune miku character creation, that's for sure
about 2 months ago from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@liquidusmira Fortnite proved that Hatsune Miku, if given an assault rifle and a jetstream sam sword, is more than capable to go hand to hand with Godzilla.
You underestimate her.
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a game show where the final challenge is to talk about eugenics while the host records you with an iphone
about 2 months ago from web-
@zeldatra I've done that at work staff room, and also argued to a full room of coworkers that the axis were the better faction in WWII, nothing happens if you have enough points in CHA.
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ayo what's up?
about 2 months ago from web-
@chomper The sky :D!
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Goodness you are all still alive, HI RDN MY GODS YOU ARE STILL GOING?!about 2 months ago from web -
Let’s say I have five million dollars, cash. Do I a) move into a house on stilts in the most expensive state in the country and declare bankruptcy in a year after being unable to pay property taxes, or b) just buy a bigger house in the DC suburb I already currently live in for one million and then still have four million to play with
about 3 months ago from web-
@zeldatra Even at a 3% godawful return investment fund, you'd be getting 150k a year from 5 million.
Just invest it all in a low risk profile and pay a mortgage with the interest.
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Very fitting that Hell on earth started with the fires in California just before Trump gets in office again.
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Today is kind of like if on the anniversary of 9/11 we made Osama bin Laden president
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And so tonight my laptop dies because God just seems to want me to kill myself or something idk we
about 4 months ago from web-
@scribus You need to open it, disassemble it, and clean it with isopropyl or distilled water.
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@nerthos And I super don't want to take apart a MacBook, lol, I will never get it back together again. I totally know you're right, but a 10+year old laptop with no-doubt irritating construction just felt more like a spray isopropyl situation in the moment
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@scribus The just reward for the apple user lol
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I hope 2025 is as exciting as 2024 was
about 4 months ago from web-
@scribus Year of Luigi every year!
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the party of family values sent me some chick’s boobs in the mail and told me to go vote for them in a special election that I did not previously know about, but now do
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new year
about 4 months ago from web-
@dezzierose New year new dezzie!
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Life lesson: It's easier to solder two stacking PCBs together via pins than to remove all that solder to disassemble. I got a new solder sucker and it sucks. I mean it is not very good. That solder sucker is an iFixit solder sucker and i'd give it a rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars. The nozzle is way too big for 2.54mm pitched pins and the suction action itself is a little bit too weak.
about 4 months ago from web-
@adiwan Get one of those solder stations that have both and an hot air pistol, they're only like $100 nowadays.
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Am chaffing a laff at the FrankerZ I said but oh my god I didn't understand tone at all or social context wowwwww
about 5 months ago from web-
@metaltao You can see it as "personality flaws" or as "unique appeal"
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Hello Chat
It's been years, and I'm 2 years on HRT. Life has been hectic but great.
What's up?
Also grug, can't upload image on phone >:(about 5 months ago from web- dezzie again likes this.
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@metaltao Been a while
One of the two life paths for pony fans lol
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There are theories about a hollow earth, which are obviously stupid. I have have also a theory on my own: the hollow head theory, which shows more and more signs each day that provide evidence that it might be true.
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At this point the US is a third world banana republic... Orange republic.
about 6 months ago from web-
@adiwan Always has been
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Crazy idea: A bed that is basically a bean bag, except the outer layer is airtight. When laying on the bed the body sinks in and with an applied vacuum to the bean bag the sleeping position gets fixed. I don't know how comfortable or uncomfortable this might be but at least it prevents contorting oneself into a painful position. I cannot count how many times I slept in a way that made my back hurt or pinched a nerve or even restricted blood flow to my arms.
about 8 months ago from web-
@scribus Eventually we, as a society, will end up in a dystopia that is Demolition Man before cryosleep will be possible. I had a discussion with a friend about cryosleep. He says if all the cell tissue problems are solved that come with cryosleep then cryosleep won't be necessary. It means that if a method exists that repairs or reverses all the damage that cryosleep induces then there is a method for making a person live forever and thus making cryosleep not necessary.
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@adiwan There have been huge developments in aging reversal and prevention these last few months actually, working off potential treatments for premature aging disease they discovered what part of the organism codes the timeframes for aging, and they can be modified to force the body to slow or reverse it, thus greatly extending the "good years"
Current testing is on organisms affected by the disease originally investigated.
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If anyone wants to keep in touch and doesn't yet have me added somewhere, you can find me on steam and discord under the same name. You're welcome in my tavern forever. Tavern forever.
about 6 months ago from web-
@nerthos Also hit me up if you ever want to play a game of helldivers or whatever.
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