Lemmeenym

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Lemmeenym , to Lemmy.world Support in We have GOT to do something about these bots....

I would assume "on the ropes" was a reference to Andre being a wrestler. Don't think it was meant to be about his death.

Lemmeenym , to Woodworking in Tips on starting furniture making?

So that if one works it's way out it doesn't fall onto your freshly spread glue or bounce into a spinning saw blade.

Lemmeenym , (edited ) to Woodworking in Tips on starting furniture making?

White maple is my go-to for projects I want to keep. I love how clean it is and the large curvy grain patterns. Titanium bits and saw blades help and getting your saw blade sharpened after a couple of large projects is a good idea but you're going to be burning through it a lot of the time even with high quality brand new cutting tools. I leave an 8th extra on and bring it down with a belt sander to deal with the burn marks. Downsize drill bits by one size and use a file for holes that you will be able to see into.

If you use reclaimed wood don't assume all of the metal has been removed. Sometimes nails and screws break instead of working out and that can be easy to miss especially for someone checking a large amount of wood. If a saw blade hits a nail you potentially have a very dangerous projectile. Run a magnet over the wood while you're marking your cuts to make sure. If you're going to be working with reclaimed wood a lot a wand style metal detector is a good investment.

Lemmeenym , (edited ) to Woodworking in Pecan for outdoor furniture?

Pecan is pretty dense so it will stand up to the elements better than most woods. It will require a good moisture barrier that should be regularly reapplied because water is outdoor wood's biggest weakness and if you use something with a UV protection added that will help.

I wouldn't use Pecan for outdoor furniture. No wood will stand up to the elements in the long term and you'll be doing lots of refinishing which is easier with a less dense wood. I like cedar or a furniture grade pine for outdoor projects. Cedar is exceptional at resisting moisture damage and they are both relatively cheap and easy to sand and refinish. Plus they are lighter and outdoor furniture gets moved around more. I save better woods and especially visually interesting woods like pecan for projects that I will give to someone or that I can pass down.

Edit: somehow moisture became moisturizer in the second sentence, edited to fix that.

Lemmeenym , to A Boring Dystopia in If Biden Isn’t the Democrats’ 2024 Candidate, Harris Will Be

She did something about the system. She defended it. On two occasions she opposed the release of people who had convictions overturned by demonstrating actual innocence to appellate courts on the basis of legal technicalities, in both cases her office argued that they had waited too long to file a petition to be released. Her office argued against the release of inmates eligible for parole after a federal court ruled that the extreme overcrowding in California prisons was cruel and unusual on the basis that releasing the prisoners would reduce prison labor.

She helped with a cover up of an employee at the state crime lab who falsified testing results. The truth came out after the employee was arrested for stealing drugs from the lab and hundreds of convictions were overturned. She defended a police detective that falsified a confession to coerce a defendant into accepting a plea deal. She opposed requiring police to use body worn cameras. She opposed legislation that would have required her office to review police shootings.

She consistently declined to investigate allegations of police and prosecutor misconduct including police shootings of unarmed people. Eventually she had to for the police, it got to the point that the justice department eventually stepped in to investigate an incident where a group of officers surrounded a mentally ill man with a steak knife and shot him 21 times after Harris refused to review the case. While she cooperated with the federal investigation into the police shooting, she backed the prosecutor who had his entire office removed from a case because of proven misconduct including hiding exonerating evidence.

Lemmeenym , to cats in Transition from litter box to doing business outdoors

You don't think information about the effects of free roaming cats is relevant to a question about transitioning cats to outdoor roaming?

Lemmeenym , to cats in Transition from litter box to doing business outdoors

https://academic.oup.com/jel/article/32/3/391/5640440

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.13745

Roaming domestic cats are a global problem.

Lemmeenym , to cats in Transition from litter box to doing business outdoors

Pet cats that are allowed to roam outdoors are extremely destructive to local wildlife and live shorter lives. Cat should only be kept as indoor pets.

https://www.americanhumane.org/fact-sheet/indoor-cats-vs-outdoor-cats/

Lemmeenym , to Just Post in How to find great Chinese food

Chinese is a tough one but those restaurants that are just a counter and a table or two in the back of an ethnic grocery tend to be where the really good food is.

Lemmeenym , to politics in Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Media Suddenly Take a Dangerous Turn

We used to have laws that decentralized control of media. An entity could only own a certain number of newspapers, tv stations, or radio stations. There were incentives for smaller news companies to insure that there was competition in each market. Congress kept chipping away at those laws letting larger companies buy up more and more of the market, allowing mergers that restricted competition. Now radio is nearly a monopoly, TV and newspapers are oligarchies. The Internet fell into an oligarchy disturbingly quickly.

The only way to get the media serving the people again is to break up the big companies and restore the guardrails that protected and supported small local companies.

Lemmeenym , to askmenover30 in Men over 30, do you think you are becoming grumpier as you are getting older, or on the opposite, becoming more relaxed and laid back?

A mix of both. I put up with less immaturity and am quickly becoming a "git off my lawn" type for people doing dangerous or disruptive things that they ought to know better than to be doing. At the same time I've gotten more patient in dealing with genuine mistakes and with people who lack knowledge or experience. Young kids, other adults, and most coworkers like me better now and I've been asked to take on a couple of mentoring roles. Teenagers and early 20s people in my neighborhood are starting to avoid me.

Lemmeenym , to Fediverse in Is mstdn.social down for everyone?

Just followed your link. I got an elephant that said something went wrong on their end.

Lemmeenym , to News in It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in North Carolina

Sounds like it would conflict with the ADA.

Lemmeenym , to Microblog Memes in The state of things

It would still be right. The test results are reported on a normalized curve so all measures of central tendency are all equal.

Lemmeenym , to Automotive Industry in Biden rumored to announce quadrupling of tariffs on Chinese EVs, up to 100%

The US can and does set quality standards for products sold on its markets. This doesn't improve the quality of the cars sold in the US, it just makes them more expensive. It may even have the indirect effect of reducing the quality of vehicles sold in the US because increasing price instead of setting and enforcing quality and testing standards means lowering quality to maintain or increase profits is still an option.

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