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.

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

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

Sorry, Edgcumb Pinchon?

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?

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.

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?

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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.

I bet way more people have worn temporary tattoos than have proper tattoos. (limited to living people)

I feel like you could bend the barrel a bit with that forward handgrip. Just a lil.

But unironically I think I agree with Keynes’ idea that once worker productivity gets sufficiently high that the government should start reducing the labor supply by shortening the workweek. I think that would actually get us incrementally closer to communism if capital would ever let it happen. (But it won’t, hence revolution)

Lots of laundromats do have employees; there has to be an attendant and if the owner wants to have business hours longer than they’re willing by to work they’ll have to hire someone.

I think any business with an owner and no employees can probably be classified as somewhere between a skilled laborer and a landlord, depending on how much capital is involved in their business. A web developer might only own $1000 worth of computer equipment and their main contribution is their knowledge. A laundromat owner owns many thousand dollars worth of laundry equipment and a space to keep it in, and only provides a small contribution of their own skills.

And then there’s this banger: https://x.com/sovietvisuals/status/1063311125687746560?s=20

My frivolity is coffee in the opposite (but also not opposite) direction: I grind my own beans, not with a fancy electric ceramic burr but with a cast iron hand grinder from the 1970s. I use a Melitta pour over filter because they’re so cheap, made of ABS plastic so won’t break ever. I have one I inherited from my parents; it’s likely 30 years old. r/BIFL eat your heart out. It’s probably full of cancer juice. I just want good coffee and don’t want to fall into the coffee gadget black hole.

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Commenting for the historical record here, I believe this is not Buena Vista Social club, but Los Calchakis. It’s listed on two of their albums, and none of BVSC’s

You’re right, it’s important that unions have elections; that’s how we finally got a militant UAW.