Man, this shit’s kinda wild to me. A hundred years ago, laundry was a whole day, heavy labor affair, at least once a week. Hauling water, mixing and soaking and scrubbing, and scrubbing, and scrubbing, and scrubbing, and scrubbing, and scrubbing, and scrubbing dumping water, hanging and wringing and drying
Now we have machines ad utilities that do 98% of the job, and it still feels like all I fucking do
I’ve had tools, teachers, and time.
I can’t solder or braze to save my fucking life, but I’ll weld circles around you with oxy, stick, mig, or tig.
Doesn’t make a damn bit of sense to me
ITT: men somehow making this about themselves
I dabble with blacksmithing. I’d take it in a heartbeat
Buddy.
JC Penny, some years ago, tried to change their pricing scheme, from the typical “$29.99 +tax” to flat “$30, tax included”
Their sales dropped so hard they reverted in two months.
Americans are born, bred, raised to be fucking stupid, and forcefully shoved into shitty educational systems that make them that stupid. The design of American cities is built for people to be stupid and isolated.
There’s a reason other countries refer to the people that live in them as citizens, and we get branded as consumers.
There’s a level of respect from the top down that is sorely lacking
Well fuck it, I’m voting for taylor swift
Ah yes, the sun, heating up my car to millions of degrees with its nigh-infinite fuel source. As it does.
Yeah, insulation matters, that’s half the point of the forge. The other half is the fuel you’re using. Regular wood fires cannot get hot enough to melt steel.
Oxy/acetelene torches burn hot enough they need no insulation to nearly instantly liquefy steel. Propane cannot do that. Even with the oxy.
Anyway, are you talking about the live footage I watched in school? Where they clearly collapsed from the bottom, like a controlled demolition? The day it happened?
We had a half day
Different fuels absolutely burn at different temps.
I’m a welder and a blacksmith.
When you’re using coal, you use an easily ignitable fuel, like wood or naptha to get the coal to burn.
The coal burns hotter and is harder i start than your starter fuel, and cannot be started with just a spark.
The coal burns down into coke, a totally different substance, which burns hotter than the coal.
Even still, on your third level of fuel, in order to actually get steel to a workable temp, you’ve got to add more oxygen, to make it burn even faster and hotter.
This is all inside a forge, a device that’s well insulated and made to heat steel to a workable temp.
There are other fuels that can be made to work, and they all also require blower fans, to add more oxygen.
Or in the case of an oxy/acetelne cutting torch, a bottle of pure o2
Charcoal, derived from wood in a similar fashion to coke from coal, can sort of be used, but does not and will not burn hot enough for anything much larger than a spoon, and aimply can’t get hot enough for forge welding.
Now, essentially a giant housefire, getting hot enough to get those steel beams to fail? Sure!
Why’d they collapse from the bottom, that wasn’t on fire?
Peta is a front by the meat industry, to discredit vegans and environmentalists.
The concept of conspiracy theories as you understand it is a ruse, a misinformation tool.
Look up mk ultra, and some of the other shit the cia has actually gotten up to.
Or hemmingway, being paranoid and crazy. Ah, turns out they were following him and fucking with him, even inside the loony bin!
Nowadays you get qanon and other obviously stupid bullshit rolled under the conspiracy theory label, and that’s the fucking point
So sinclair, the one company that runs basically all major news outlets in the US, can discredit anything with one turn of phrase.
So like yeah, you’re kinda right. But there is real, fucked up shit that gets swept under that label, and ignored at large because of it.
Yep, I dabble in blacksmithing.
You get it going -smokey as shit at first-and it melts together into a lighter, more solid piece that burns hotter and cleaner. That’s called coke.
Then you toss your irons in
Ah, here he is.
The reason for warning labels on everything
Dumb used to mean mute. The phrase meant deaf and unable to speak.
Of course, not being able to communicate leads a lot of people to think someone is stupid, and I imagine that’s why dumb is now synonymous with it.
I once met a lady with some severe disabilities, no idea what, in a powered wheelchair at a bar. She couldn’t talk, and had a massive keyboard she would sort of flail at until she spelled out the words she was trying to say. It audibly spoke for her.
This lady has two college degrees, writes books, and does art to help promote the concept that disabled people are people too.
Pretty damn impressive. Her and her husband’s main gripes were how infantilizing most people are to them. And how expensive good wheelchairs are, lol
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This was overtly happening and reported on a couple weeks ago
Jesus, we were paying $55 an eighth in utah when it was illegal.
Plus all the fuckery, convictions, probation, and etcetera
Your post reads like a buzzfeed article.
Next you’re going to tell me to lay off the avocado toast
The scenery is great, the culture is not worth sticking around for
Hey I own my own home too!
It has four wheels.
I don’t actually know anyone who straight up owns any land
Hang on, got another load