Like, no. All sorts of carbide bits, including drill bits.

Lot of tungsten producers and recyclers in the US, kennemetal for instance. They would be happy to come get that cube, might have to crack it into smaller pieces.

I might die if I couldn’t cuss while working. I’d just fucking explode.

I cuss during job interviews, both as the interviewer and applicant.

“cornbread with no Jiffy”

Real cornbread isn’t that sugared junk that comes in a box.

Dang. My grandmother died last fall. I visited her right before she passed. I’m estranged from the family. Didn’t go to the funeral. Found out she’s buried next to my father when I went to visit his grave before moving.

She had two cast iron skillets she made cornbread in. Crunchy crust. Beats anything you’ve had in a restaurant. When I was little she’d put a hot slice in a bowl of milk and I’d eat it like cereal.

My girl has her grandmother’s skillet. Her and the kids like the Jiffy stuff but she makes me real cornbread because she knows it’s important to me.

Pomme de terre (IIRC) is a sad version of a underground apple.

Pineapples look like a pinecone but with a sweet fruit inside. Makes sense to me.

Then again horse apples, i.e., horse shit doesn’t taste great at all. Then again, again: horse apples, the Osage Orange fruit, are inedible. Osage Orange is neither an apple or orange tree.

English 'tis a silly language.

Ahh, someone else who views the risks correctly. Spent a lot of time in the swamps in Alabama. Wore snake gaiters for the giant cotton mouths. Soaked my clothes in permethrin. Still way more scared of the ticks than the snakes. Especially that Alphagal stuff.

I’ve used my Kyocera Brigadier as a hammer on wood and plastics before.

It also really upsets people when I rap it on a table or throw it at the wall to show how tough it is.

Had it for five years, maybe a little more. Battery is getting weak. Needs a factory reset. Storage is 96% used. Keeps on working, it fits in my pocket, no case required.

Damn. It had the drowned prison ghost and the casket bobbing up while the two guys were fishing. I need to get a copy of this. Forgot all about it until just now. It was genuinely frightening in an eerie way.

I’m starting to think it is part of an insulator. It’s just so big to be one. It’s almost double the size of the the vintage 1950s one above. Maybe one section of a huge high voltage assembly?

The surface is too rough for use with food. It’s like small gravel or big sand at the surface.

It’s absolutely huge if it’s an insulator.

Obviously I can block them. I wouldn’t call bot spam a community, however.

Coil was originally aluminum, so it had a higher resistance. Even with a ‘perfect’ wind, the resistance might still be low.

Scramble should be fine, it’s a DC application. So long as i get close enough: it should work.

Hay is generally cut from fallow fields in late summer/early fall. It contains sugars in the stalks as well as the seeds/grain of whatever grasses it is cut from. It is used to feed livestock year round and is the primary feed in winter. It is often supplemented by grain or feed.

Straw is basically an industrial byproduct and is the leftover stalk from grain harvesting. Usually produced from wheat after harvest. Used as bedding.

Die Hard is the best Christmas movie. My son demands we watch it every year.

I’ve had some dark times. Especially when I lost my religion.

Existential crisis is depression’s brother. They often travel together.

Figured out that my purpose is taking care of my people.

My people are my immediate family, friends, people in our small alternative subcommunity, pets. It’s sort of like a tribe and is small enough I can wrap my head around it instead of the world and society at large. It appeals to the pagan inside my inner atheist.

Find someone or something external to yourself to care about that you can meaningfully help and take care of. I’ll give my wife a hug for you.

Most mowers are four stroke like automobile engines, this includes pushmowers. Modern ones even have oil filters. Generally, riding mowers have two cylinder v-twin engines and pushmowers are single cylinder.

Two stroke engines are generally found on smaller things like chainsaws and weed eaters.

You mix special oil into the gas for two strokes. They do produce more smoke, especially when first started.

Very fair and accurate criticism. There also wasn’t a ton of character development.

The vividness and internal monologues caught me. As did the constant tension. Stress and tension were very well portrayed such that action was a relief.

IDK, my son took the pictures for me. His phone has a better camera than mine. 98 Ranger XLT. It’s my fourth vehicle, lifetime. Throws no codes, I keep it running tight.

Lemmy isn’t letting me upload a better pic of it right now.

Looking into it more, I agree that it’s slate. Didn’t realize it could be this size, only ever heard of it being used for tiles.

Accidentally poisoned myself and was talking out of my head.

I’ll read more tomorrow, seems like a very good book so far. I especially liked the part where he cussed the pope and cried into his lap.