ArtieShaw

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I’d be !00% on board with including women in the draft. Fair is fair.

Personally - like I told the recruiter from Annapolis 30 years ago, “trust me when I say that you don’t want me anywhere near your military.” If I were drafted I think I could fail out of basic on my own lack of merit.

If there were other service options, I could happily do other work. For example: Math, science, or language tutoring for teens. I could have helped out a kid who actually wanted to get into Annapolis but didn’t have strong enough academics.

Speaking as a new hobbyist (2 months), I went with an Creality Ender 3 V3 KE. The cost was in the $250-300 USD range and it had a decent range of features.

I’ve used it almost every day since unpacking it. It’s pretty easy to get to know. The Creality cloud slicing tool is good enough for me (for now), and can be run via a browser or app.

Microcenter has a variety of display models that you can check out. If I had known about it I probably would have gone prior to making my selection. I’m not sure my choice would have been different, but a little extra knowledge never hurts.

I have a low key interest in birds and have been using the Merlin app to ID them by photo, description, or their song. You can set it to record, then just chill in the backyard while it lists the birds it hears.

I’m not a soda drinker, but Green River gets me right in the nostalgia.

Occasionally, I’ll have some club soda with a bit of vanilla or hazelnut syrup. Not too sweet, but enough to taste. Plain soda water is also good.

If you watch enough old scifi and adventure movies, you’ll learn to welcome the “so that’s where Lucas took that idea from” feeling as an old friend. He lifted a lot.

You’re right, of course. But I think it’s equally plausible that the original writer didn’t really grasp the difference and mixed some things up.

Many many years ago we watched an ancient movie in a theater. (It may have been Haxan). In any case, it ended on a dark, poignant and brutal note. There was silence until the word “slut” appeared and the entire theater erupted into laughter. Definitely an unintended mood lightener for the anglo audience.

I have an at-home laser hair removal gun. It works best on dark hair and very pale skin because it uses the absorption of UV light to heat and kill the hair. It has a safety feature that makes you validate that “my skin is pale enough to use this” before it will turn on because it will burn anything dark. Hair, skin, whatever.

It won’t work on blond or white hair, and there’s no real workaround to that. Electrolysis is an option for light colored hair, but I think that’s more invasive. Not an option for me, so I haven’t looked into it.

They couldn’t ask the creeper on the left to move out of the shot?

Cut the Mullet. A classic. And good advice in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roxMH07qHmc

For some general Milwaukee style weird, there will always be Wooden Robot. I really liked Wooden Robot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOmtl8Lmeps

I don’t agree.

It’s early afternoon and you’re on the front end of a 48 hour work trip. You just got off a plane in Cedar Rapids, found a rental car, and drove to the hotel. You’ve been traveling since 7:00am, the water bottle that you refilled at the connection in Chicago and again at the destination in Cedar Rapids is both disgustingly warm and mostly empty. The rental car was hot as fuck because it’s Cedar Rapids in July and the rental cars are sitting in an open lot rather than a garage.

Let’s Zork this out.

You need to cool down and rehydrate. Do you: a) buy a single use refrigerated bottle of water b) remember that there’s a fridge in the room and wait for 2 hours c) go east d) get yourself some bucket ice and tap water

Side quest pro-tip: do not pick up the metal bar

Oh, my parents take the prize.

To pick just one thing, I remember a disagreement about how to re-arrange the furniture my bedroom. I remember saying (and with regret as the words were leaving my mouth), “well, it is my room.” Instant shitshow. She announced that since she wasn’t needed she would be Running Away From Home.

Even at 5 or 6, I knew that this was the stupidest thing ever, but that she also wouldn’t back down unless I cried and chased her and begged her to stay. She got out the front door and slowly walked towards the street, stopping every few feet to look back. She had nowhere to go, obviously. If this were going to be a battle of wills, I held all the cards. I was also six. If I had been 16, I might have thought to lock the front door behind her. In any case, even at that age I knew that if I somehow won this, things could only get worse.

Yeah, I whipped up some tears and ran after her. But she never tried that one again and I like to think that it was because she got all the way to the street before she got her intended outcome.

Glad you saw it! I skipped travelling for it in 2017 because the weather forecast was so dismal.

Southwest Ohio got lucky this year.

It’s lovely. We watched from our backyard. And I know my strength is not photography, so thanks for this.

It’s hard to describe “it looks like non-directional sunset but there’s a deeply uncool eye in the sky.”

Yeah, sardines were one of those foods that were both “too expensive” at my house and “poor people food” at my friends’. Whether someone thinks they’re revolting or delicious may hinge on that.

Also - One of my nicest lunches ever was sardines with bread and butter at trail head in Italy.

I don’t eat filters though. It’s a texture thing.

I wouldn’t blame you. We live in the path, but early spring is a 50/50 chance for rain and clouds vs clear weather.

That’s just it. No one is shocked because this is completely normal. We could argue whether parts of Idaho are worse than parts of Ohio - which you seem to confuse for some reason - but no one with a passing familiarity with either is going to be surprised to hear that this happened quite openly in Coeur D’Alene, Wapakoneta, Piketon…

It’s not some secret.

It’s bad, definitely. And it should be reported. But if we’re being honest about our neighbors, no one can be surprised.

I think you’re vastly underestimating the size of that boat.

Well that’s just a solid banger. It’s also a cover.