Adam Conover did a good job explaining the phenomenon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol4X6oc-tz8

My favorite is truck nuts. Did the truck want bottom surgery?

As someone who has a truck that does truck things you are being too generous with “most”. That’s almost all truck owners.

As someone who has decades of experience safely hauling loads of all shapes and sizes I’ll add my two cents:

Any load hanging out the back of the truck needs to be flagged. If a car behind me could hit the cargo before my truck, it’s getting a big bright flag. (most big box stores have them for free right by the exit)

Hauling anything with the tailgate down is asking for problems.

Composite decking is surprisingly easy to snap when unsupported. He should have pulled the back of the unibody off with a trailer for this. (Or jackknifed it into the shiny dumpster failing to back it up)

Anything that you could see blowing around in a tornado needs to be strapped down. Almost anything will fly out of a bed at highway speeds. Ratcheting straps in an x from corner to corner for 90% of the time.

Every truck has ratcheting straps ready to go. Otherwise it’s just a pavement princess/dick extender/soothing balm for fragile masculinity.

I completely get where you are coming from.

The Republicans have been pushing all this shit since before I was born and the Democrat’s answer has been small business loans to compete against the corporate consolidation they take no steps to slow and other neoliberal bullshit. The Democrats complete capitulation to the right wing surge, and complete fumbling of creating economic policies that doesn’t breed disillusioned youth ripe to be picked by fascists, has left a festering wasteland. I don’t think more hurting will somehow make anything better or convince people that the grifters selling them snake oil are wrong. I’m worried that the muscles of empathy and compassion are too weak to pull anything good from the ashes.

I don’t know how to convince more people to care about their neighbors, but I do know that is the only way to make anything worth having. Even if they are an asshole. The system doesn’t need any help destroying itself. Capitalism and fascism are death cults. What we need is more people showing good examples of horizontal mutual aid. Helping someone who needs help can teach a better lesson than hurting them. Even if they are an asshole.

You have a very good point. When left alone too long they reinvent Stalinist and Maoist failed policies like the OK politician with the “no man, no problem” approach to journalists and the “Every american should have to be a farmer for a year” from a bit ago.

Needs an Ash Williams style chainsaw hand and a skidding winch grundle

A couple years ago I got a handful of F clamps for christmas.

My wife: “I thought you already have clamps”

Me: “Yes, I do. But not enough.”

Wife: “How many is enough?”

Me: “One more than I have.”

Also a little 18ga brad nailer makes those glueups way easier.

touches nose Why risk your money on gold or silver when you can invest in brass? Pretty good odds on another spicy summer in America.

The knob should just pull off, but sometimes they require full chooch. If she breaks it, it’s not a big deal. If Habitat Re-Store is a thing near her they usually have a shelf of these knobs for almost nothing. If not the big box stores sell them too, and the lights can be turned on and off without the knob until she can get a replacement.

Back when I worked as a handyman I used the old knobs for many things. Some people get very weird about change. I’d usually ask if they wanted the new one to wedge into their junk drawer, though.

Remember, folks: “Private School Choice” has always been a trojan horse for segregated schools. Anyone who supports it is either a rube or a racist.

That’s what I thought, but my mom said the money had already cleared and was removed as a separate transfer.

When my dad died ss went into my parents joint bank account and withdrew the amount of his latest payment. It’s not just fear mongering. It is possible. I don’t think even this administration is ballsy enough to do it, though. The backlash would be enormous, and as another poster mentioned civil asset forfeiture already exists.

regulations like these are written in blood

Absolutely 100% completely. But in this case it I’m not sure the church is actually violating codes, but rather the city is using the claim as a smokescreen to punish them for helping homeless people.

This article quotes the city.

Bryan’s planning and zoning administrator gave the church 10 days to stop housing people, saying it was in a zone that does not permit residential use on the first floor.

I got better.

Hollow doors have about a 1" frame of solid wood around the perimeter.

All vaping products are flavored in some way. A tobacco flavored vape would not be banned under this, but it is still flavored. As to why people move to cigarettes, in my experience not-so-popular flavors are not easy to find and cigarettes are everywhere. Also the second cigarette tastes way different than the fist.

He’s gonna cry himself to sleep on his huge pillagh!

If lemmy was the entire EU voting block the world would be a very different place. It’s not encouraged here, but here is not the entire EU.

in other news, Charelston PD announces their new MH-139A helicopter