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I pour the lead in silicone molds which I have from making resin doodads. Made a Han Solo in carbonite! Also have a Death Star, an octopus and a little pyramid. Takes a long time to gather enough for even a small project. I got the melter because I was going to try my hand at making bullets for my black powder guns but I've since soured on that project.
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My wife is from the Philippines. You can be damned sure we have a rice cooker. :)
Jo Koy has a bit where you can always find the dark kitchen in a Filipino house. Aim for the red light on the rice cooker. Also, that video taught me to cook rice. My wife was laughing her ass off because it's perfectly true.
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My combat boots were the first thing to come to mind, along with the socks. Bought both 3-years ago and none show any real wear.
I've abused hell out of the boots, and they're stained with oil and god knows what else, but they fit perfectly and don't have any "mechanical" wear, only cosmetic. I was a little leary of the low price, but damn, they're a steal. I'd buy them again but I'd have to drop the original pair in a wood chipper to fuck them up.
The socks are still elastic and warm, cushiony, never popped a hole. Wish I could afford another set and I wish I hadn't looked that up. Just too broke ATM, and will be for some time.
Lately I've been on a kick wearing stretch pants. Like yoga pants for men? What are those called? Got a pair at TJ Maxx, went back the next day for another.
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The Firebird get you thinking on that too? :)
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The Firebird has a thought guided, thought controlled arsenal..
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One extra step, the judge has to allow it.
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Just got one the other night, first time in ages. Sounds exactly like a shotgun going off.
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LOL, we has 2 and have never used them. One is at camp, where we have a gennie, and we sold the other at the flea market.
The only hot drinks we make are coffe and we have 3 machines for that. If we need hot water to cook, we heat it on the stove top. I just can't see why we would want one. Am I missing out?
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Drive through rural Mississippi. The wealth gap is nuts just from what you can see on the highway.
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Only place I've live where this is taboo is Chicagoland. And that's to be expected with the muddy snow.
Here in the South we usually don't have carpets, no reason to take our shoes off.
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That's very surprising. Where have you visited?
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That's not even close!
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Poor person snags a rabbit for dinner. State pays a warden more to nail him than it would have cost to pay for his food. Some things never change.
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Y'all know that's a flare gun, right?
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I'm on the water a great deal and haul in everything I can find. Cleaned up Tuesday's haul and ended up with about 15 sets of hooks, swivels and sinkers. On Monday I found a whole cast net by the creek, without the lead unfortunately (I melt it down).
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These surgeons were moving fast, I can see it.
I was sawing wood one night and barely touched my thumb webbing, split open like a mouth. Bet you could take 3 fingers an single forward and back stroke. You can for sure with modern blades.
(If anyone is considering a new saw, get the kind with this sort of edge: https://www.amazon.com/REXBETI-Folding-Camping-Pruning-Quality/dp/B07BLQBN8X/ Those are modern day light sabers.)
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Damnnit! Came here to post that.
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Ah, wondered why they didn't mention an A-list star.
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It's a joke.
Sorry! BOOMER BAD! (please with the upvotes now)
Finished a short horror tale yesterday. Is there a spot on lemmy that would get it read and criticized?
She had interviewed and met both remotely and in person, this guy was merely an HR drone confirming her documentation. I was a little bent when she told me he had asked her to remove her blur filter "to have a look at her working environment, make sure it's not cluttered" (something along those lines). No one else at this company requested such. Was he way out of line? I should note, this is my PC in our living room and not where she will be working from. And this guy wants a look around our home?! Told my wife to bring this up once she's settled in, ask HR if this is policy. She started today! She thinks it's a racism thing. I'm not so sure, but I don't have any other explanation.
Where do I begin to even see if I'm interested?
I'm wanting something to run around the hood and offroad, mostly in deep sand. An electric version of this: https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/coleman-mini-bike-bt200x-g What else do I need to be concerned about?
Got a couple of acres in a NW Florida swamp. Been hearing Barred Owls for years. How do I spot one? And tricks other than sitting still and being quiet? They seem to come pretty close. Can I "bait" them somehow with a box or something they would like to visit? Funny story: First night I camped, three were doing their call/response thing. Every time they called, closer, and *closer*. Freaky sounding, one of the calls sounds almost like a child crying out. For some reason, my idiot self thought coyotes were closing in. (Yes, I know *well* what coyotes sound like.) Got a little freaked, grabbed my .410 (tiny shotgun) and decided to take the fight to them, scare 'em off (didn't want them rooting around my site). Again, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, promptly got lost. Got home, "Hey Google! What do coyotes sound like?" Oh FFS. [I am not a clever man](https://imgur.com/gallery/a4CVG). Saw a Pileated Woodpecker the other day though! Super cool and way bigger than I thought.
Saw this on the table. Been waiting all year for the prism to start working well!
It stands to reason he must have been doing *something* right to have stayed so close to the halls of power. I was a toddler when he was carpet bombing Cambodia, never knew him as anything but "an important person" that was sometimes on the TV. Only learned of his crimes in the past decade. How did an in-your-face war criminal retain such influence for so long?
I'm an old (GenX), straight, white, American guy, but I'm right with you all. I might say things that are offensive, because I can't pretend to be in your shoes and might get something wrong. I'm often just trying to understand. Hell, I didn't figure out that gay rights are *civil* rights, *my* rights, *our* rights, until 10+ years ago. It's 100% OK if you want to keep this a non-cis space. I get that and won't be butthurt. (If shotguns are your jam, I got many more to post! Weirdly, of all the antique and vintage shotguns I have, this cheap-ass Turkish thing runs like a dream.)
Just what it says on the tin.
Nothing fancy, neither is terribly new or old. Not being able to sew is really holding me back on DIY projects. Is there an "Operating a Sewing Machine for Dummies" video or tutorial you like?
Nothing fancy, neither is terribly new or old. Not being able to sew is really holding me back on DIY projects. Is there an "Operating a Sewing Machine for Dummies" video or tutorial you like?