Evidence for “the elites” eating children?

You don’t owe anyone an explanation. You can just say that you’re not coming and leave it at that. You can tell them that you have your reasons and you wish not to talk about it but don’t lie. That just makes you the asshole.

Sounds like the left-wing version of pizza gate.

Thank god the service providers here ditched data caps on their plans like 15 year ago.

I’d totally run away with it.

I hate leaving a dying animal to suffer even more than I hate ending that suffering.

I found a wounded squirrel lying on a walk path a few years back. I first thought it was already dead but upon closer inspection it was still breathing. I didn’t see any visible injuries so I have no idea what had happened to it.

I carried it into the forest, placed it on a stump and crushed its head with a large stick. It was as quick as it can be and I think I did the right thing but god damn I felt shitty about it for multiple days after. Red squirrels are my favorite wild animals around here. I just hate having to be the one who has to make the decision to end a life. I don’t feel like it’s mine to make.

I have an old pet gerbil too and I often wonder what I’d do if something happened all of a sudden and it was obvious it’s in a lot of pain and needs to be put down quickly. The quick way is to just slam it onto the ground at full force but holy fuck I don’t even want to think about having to do that. The alternative is a fabric bag tied around my truck’s exhaust but those are some really uncomfortable final minutes. An enclosed container and a bottle of nitrogen would be the ideal method I believe. That leads to loss of consciousness and suffocation without the sense of suffocating (which is triggered by excess carbon dioxide).

In my truck I carry a hatchet for just this reason. A friend had to strangle a dying racoon once because they didn’t have anything to hit it with.

Are you saying you just drill at an angle so you come into the joist at the corner or even at the side of the board?

Not OP but I build stuff for a living - including 3 decks this year. The joist is a little less than 2 inches wide (48mm) so in a spot like this I place the screws about an inch to an inch and a half from the end of the board and drive it in at an angle. That way I pretty much hit the corner of the joist but as the screw goes deeper it digs deep into the solid centre wood of the joist. It just holds the end of the board down. There’s another set of screws on the next joist - the board doesn’t get to move sideways either way. Sometimes there is only half an inch of joist for the deck plank to rest onto. That’s perfectly fine.

Vehicles with a manual transmission similarly start engine braking the moment you lift your foot off the accelerator but I never attributed any sense of motion sickness to that, though the braking force likely is lesser.

The way I’ve always understood this is that since passengers usually sit in the rear they’re looking out the side windows and that scenery flying by so fast is what causes that motion sickness and it doesn’t happen to the driver or front-seat passenger so much because they’re looking forward through the windshield.

6mm is way too much for treated lumber. The wood is wet when new and it shrinks as it dries. If you start with 6mm gaps you end up with 10mm gaps in few months which both look ugly and allow stuff to fall under the deck. The width of a carpenter’s knife blade is plenty which is roughly 3mm. Then you end up with 6mm gaps once it has dried out.

I have the same one but with added grip for furious writing.

It’s self-vulcanizing tape.

No need to overthink reversible decisions. You’re not signing up for a platform for life. If it seems bad then you switch, or if it simply doesn’t work out then you go do something else. You’re not dooming the rest of your life here.

You won’t regret trying and failing but you will regret not even giving it a chance.

Bonus if its pure HTML.

That’s what mine essentially is. I did that myself as well with no past experience and it shows. I’m put off by small businesses with those ultra fancy websites that technically look good but are difficult to navigate and frankly don’t inspire a huge amount of trust. I’m a guy and a van - not a multimillion corporation and I want the website to reflect that as well.

It has a picture of me and some background about what I’m up to and why. There’s pictures of my previous work for reference, a list of examples of work that I do and also what I don’t do, and there’s my pricing and contact information as well as a contact form. That’s it. No fancy animations or graphics. Just labeled buttons and pages with clearly laid out information and pictures.

I even designed my own logo.

If youre a nice person who actually calls me back I’ll probably hire you for work.

Exactly. The bar is incredibly low. Standing out to your advantage has never been easier.

I went from an employee to self-employed and I didn’t exactly have prior work experience in that particular field (renovation work) but my previous job was kind of related (plumbing).

I shared like 2000 flyers to the houses near me over the first year but had to stop since I’m already over-booked and can’t do more without hiring employees, which I’m not going to do.

It’s not exactly easy but it’s not exceedingly hard either. If it’s something you literally can’t stop thinking about then that’s a good sign. Someone who does it just for money has to work so much harder than someone who has a passion for it - and people notice.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

First of all, your over-simplification of why the economy is so terrible is almost certainly inaccurate but I’m not even going to get into that as neither of us has the faintest clue of how the economy even works.

Secondly, I don’t think that’s what people mean by “being stupid” with their money. It’s more about buying things because you want rather than need them which is something we all do to some degree. Only buying what you need would basically mean living in a tent by a campfire eating canned beans. When people tell that to you it’s not to win an argument but to end it. They don’t want to hear it. It’s not like they don’t know what they’re doing.

That is fucking hilarious. This place is such a parody of itself. Poe’s law at action.

Extreme? I’d say that who ever isn’t curating their feed by blocking users/content on a weekly basis is just mindlessly consuming what ever is fed to them.

It’s a single user who likes the attention they get for it. Block and move on.