I never really figured out you had to drive as fast as possible and that the fuel level was actually a countdown timer. I was crazy about the cartoon and remember being so disappointed with the game.

That’s really funny to me. What was his name and what was he like?

Rock and Roll!

What cheap woods are the most impact resistant for splintering and splitting?

What is the best way to cure wood to prevent splitting without a kiln? Slap a heavy coat of latex paint on a log/burl/root and let it sit 6mo/year?

What are the most machinable hardwoods? (In particular as regards tearout, warping, and tolerance of thin sections)

In your opinion, what is an available underappreciated or interesting wood to work?

Are you actually a wood scientist, and, if so; can I pick your brain?

Nice saw, BTW!

Creator’s blog post.

I’ve always heard this. Helped with pit on a friend’s dad’s drag car when I was a kid. It makes sense, but I’ve never looked into how large of an effect it actually is.

The English Offical Table of Drops for hanging. Helps prevent the head from popping off or doing the air run.

This is actually wisdom. I use a 4x fudge factor.

beat me to it.

I’ve always heard:

Respect is given, not earned.

Trust is earned and easy to lose.

Don’t confuse politeness with respect.

Alcove in blue. It didn’t extend into her intestines or anything, it was just a small pocket in the back wall.

It was in the back wall of the vagina, a little bit before her cervix.

I actually dated a girl who had a chambered pussy. She was born with mild spina bifida, and there was a scar on her tailbone.

Anyhow, she loved doggy style. I’d get going good and then pop the head of my dick into the alcove, she’d cum her brains out.

Fun times.

Your logic is sound and I’m not heavily disagreeing with you. My gut says the claim is hinky. (Obviously, my gut and hinkiness are the gold standard for truth and reason.)

I’m skeptical but you might be right. It’s real fucked up that we have to even consider bullshit like this.

I’m waiting to pass judgment on the flyover. He’s totally that petty, but, I don’t think he’d plan that far ahead. He’s way more reactive than proactive, especially when it comes to stupid stunts.

While it’s possible the flyover’s purpose was to intimidate the victims, it feels like disinfo or convenient rumor.

Correct, specific to his fiction. I don’t know if I’ve read a non-fiction book of his. However, I’ve never read a bad article or essay by him. He has great insight.

There really is no one in control. Not really. There are people and groups with spheres of influence and power. I wish there was an evil illuminati out there in control of things, at least it would be organized.

Best I can figure, most everyone is faking it. I’ve spent time with CEOs, military officers, rich people, big time evangelists. They’re mostly faking it, some even feel imposter syndrome like normal people do.

This isn’t to say that they don’t perpetrate great evil, but they’re also not superhuman or super intelligent. Many of them are of average intelligence at best. They’re just lucky or lack morals as we know them, reframing their moral system to excuse their actions. Everyone is the hero of their own story even when they are corrupt to the core. Hitler was a dog lover and vegetarian.

All this to say, there is no silver bullet for cancer. There is no magic carburator invented in the '70s that gets 100mpg. There is no over unity generator that will provide free power. Somebody would steal those secrets and sell them for millions.

I half expect that the insurance companies will run the numbers on end of life costs and maintenance costs of disability and still cover the standard schedule of vaccines. Deaths/crippling get expensive enough and they may even require vaccinations to keep insurance.

The wingnuts in question here likely believe the antivaxx shit, or see enough politcal advantage in parroting it that it has resulted in this. In some sense, the GOP has been too successful, now they are married to the lunatic fringe and have members from that fringe. They’re stuck on this ride as well. Hope they choke on it.

His ideas are fantastic. Execution and characterization are spotty. Been a while since I read anything of his, but IIRC, he has a tendency to dip into surrealism or absurdity that feels cringey instead of his artistic target.

In some ways, it’s similar to a lot of Golden Era SF. You read it for the ideas, not the story.

I do have a favorable opinion of him and his work. I’d really enjoy Doctorow being paired with a traditional fiction author and both being rode herd by a hardass SF editor.

A conspiracy like that would require a level of organization that isn’t present.

It’s willful ignorance and cultic tribalism gone real bad.

They really believe there is a vaccine conspiracy that causes autism and is being used for mind control or whatever.

Jesus fucking a goat.

If this goes on for long there will be so many dead or crippled children. So many dead people. It won’t stay constrained to Florida. This will put immunocompromised people at risk all over the country. Herd immunity is fucked.

Also, if it lasts long, expect other willfully ignorant states to do the same.

Fuck, I’m tired.