Nothing dull about creation, mate. Most people just look at screens all day, making something is major task in our current world of digital pacifiers.

My tools. I’ve amassed quite the arsenal of hand and power tools from 1840-1970. I refurbish and rebuild them into much higher quality workhorses than you can get these days for a fraction of the cost. Even if the price of modern tools wasn’t of any concern, outside of two very premium niche manufacturers, you literally can not get good tools anymore. Nobody makes them. Home improvement stores are full of poorly designed, low quality garbage for people who have never used an actually good tool before. No one has made a made a good combination square in so long that most people have never used one. Chisels and saws are a goddamn tragedy. Power tools are all run with chips than burn out, are covered in plastic guards that break or melt, and are running entirely on brand favoritism from people that don’t know they’ve been had. My table saw is from 1953. It cost me 40$ and an hour of sanding rust and tuning. It has one mechanism and will eat through anything. My band saw is from 1968 and cost me 60$, plus 28 for new guides and tires. My favorite chisel is from 1884, and cost 5$. I still can’t find one I like nearly as well in any other size. My favorite block plane was 6$ and an hour of tuning. It’s from 1878 and kicks the hell out of the 40$ Irwin dogshit I picked up before I knew better. My panel saws have been used hard for 160 years, and will not only outlive the disposable garbage from home depot, but will do a better job and outlive me.

I’ve made a hobby of bringing anything I can find at thrift stores back to life. It prevents waste, and keeps a tool that had real care put into it’s development from ending up nailed to the wall in applebees. As a bonus, collectors generally hate refurbished tools, and I hate someone removing things from the shrinking pool of good, cheap tools so they can put it on a shelf or try to sell it for hundreds as a rarity.

I wanna try arcarsenal but i don’t think I’d be able to speak afterward

I fell in love with them while I was finding my singing voice, so that’s where my range ended up

Good to know, although my range is unreasonably high for the way I look. While on the topic of tips to help with karaoke, if you have the option on your setup, or can ask the DJ to do so, add about 10-15% reverb to the microphone. It allows the singer to hear themselves and pitch correct on the fly.

Depends on the setting.

Nobody seems into it? Kiss from a rose- seal.

Need to set the bar? The Widow- Mars Volta

Classic crowd? Plush- Stone temple pilots

Easiest for my voice: There’s a reason these tables are numbered- Panic at the Disco

People are worried to be embarassed? Brand new key- Melanie

And on the occasion I want to make everyone laugh and impress them: It’s all coming back to me- Celine Dion.

I’m a large, traditionally masculine guy. It’s a lot more fun to subvert expectations.

Edit: forgot one. If I’m attempting to impress girls: Mon amant de saint-jean- Patrick Bruel

Ugly Casanova. Someone left modest mouse on the burner for too long and made a powdered concentrate.

Literally every album by The Mars Volta. Each one is unique and I’ll never find anything like them again.

Yanni-live at the Acropolis. There’s was a brief moment in 1994 when yanni actually achieved world peace. Also Tribute, another live album, that shows how unbelievably massive yanni was. He sold out a show at the fucking Taj Majal.

Anna ash and the family tree- hello friend, from bird above. An indie folk album that’s a perfect cross between a prairie home companion and the hipster folk Renaissance of the early 2000s.

Pity sex-dark world. One of the best albums out there. Emo shoegaze garagy jams with killer guitar work.

It’s like they took they’re sucess as a pop rock band and used it to make a proper art piece.

I immediately thought styracosaur, but I guess I’d need a definition of horn. Does and anklyosaur count? They’ve got spikes, but not really horns. Do the spikes on a pachycephalosaur count? Do they have to be facing foreward? Do they have to be on the head?

Now I feel like I don’t know as much about dinosaurs as I once did.

My computer has been torn down for a while due to a move and renovations, but as soon as I set it up again, the first order of business is to migrate it to mint.

I’m the bad guy here, I’m aware. No one is doing as good of a job as they think. Everything is falling apart and everyone is getting dumber and every service and product is gettting worse, and everyone responsible for the decline seems to think imposter syndrome applies to them. I am a licensed proper professional, with a constant urge to learn more and better myself. It’s so rare to meet someone in my industry who isn’t faking it or going through the motions that I’ve made a point to stay in contact with anyone I meet who actually knows what the fuck they’re talking about.

That’s four people. In 11 years.

Companies send reps to my offices that can’t answer basic questions. Customer service for any company can’t help with anything. Websites for multibillion dollar companies have broken and missing links, and their tech support has no idea what the words I say to them even mean. Companies will try to set up meetings with me to buy their 100k machines or bring their new tech into my offices, and they can’t even tell me what it fucking does outside of promontory buzzwords that have no real meaning.

Classes I have to take to get CE credits every year are full of braindead dipshits with no hope of ever advancing their accreditation who don’t realize this isn’t high school and you’re not going to be given a multiple choice exam you can bluff your way through when you’re actively defending your right to have the title to the fucking board.

I rip these people apart when they try to do business with me. If you want to be seen as a professional, be a fucking professional.

Imposter syndrome is real, but the majority claiming they have it aren’t good enough to be an imposter. Someone in this world needs to know what the fuck they’re talking about, and i guess I have to be the one to expose anyone who doesn’t. So I’m the bad guy, the person the imposters are afraid of meeting.

Being polite would be a disservice to anyone who has to deal with the problems their incompetence will cause.

Sounds like you should be sober from weed too.

If your default state is high, you’re never sober. You’re just experiencing the hangover state between highs. Think of it as the weed version of delerium to an alchoholic. It’s not a physical hangover, so it’s not as obvious.

Stay sober for a few weeks. It’ll drag at first, but it’ll go away after a bit. You’ll even out your neurotransmitters and feel like yourself again. Then getting high on occasion will be an event, not a medication.

Anecdotally, people I’ve known who smoke everyday tend to be okay with things they shouldn’t be. The chemical joy seems to make them content with having a kind of shitty life and never actually doing anything. High activities just became their only activities when weed changed from weekends to everyday. I’m not saying this is true of everyone, but I’ve seen it happen more often than not to daily smokers.

Drugs and alcohol should be occasional modifiers to your life, not the default state. Give your chemistry a rest.

Dionysus in hades. Dude amps me up so well I pick him over boons I like better.

Like I know legality has no meaning anymore, but isn’t that like, really a lot more illegal in a way that there are standards that can’t be ignored? Retaliation against a whistleblower?

That makes sense. It didn’t come with the other part, but there’s a bunch at a thrift store nearby, which must have been where I’ve seen it before.

I understand that the dems are dogshit and couldn’t get a rally behind them. But the fascists needed to be wiped out completely. We could have rallied against the rebublicans, and had more time to change the parties in power, but now we won’t be likely to get the chance to oust them ever again. We have been shown with every election for the last half a century that anytime conservatives get power, they make it harder to take away, and make the world a worse place.

I don’t blame the voters, but I’m unhappy with all the people who thought this was the time to try to make a point to the dems by convincing others they shouldn’t vote against fascism. They didn’t try it when it was romney. They didn’t try it when it was bush and Carey, they decided the correct time to sow infighting was an actual real fascist with a team of sycophants who want to make him a king.

And most who decided they didn’t want to support the dems probably didn’t go to the polls at all, since it’s far too common for dipshit Americans to thinknonly the presidential campaign matters, so now not only is the president a king, but the down ballot positions support him as well.

The christofascists were always going to vote en mass for one side, as they always have. We were supposed to try and stop them. Now antifa is a terrorist group. People are being arrested for wearing free palastine shirts. Being queer is considered a mental illness. Wearing a mask at a protest is a crime. The mass surveillance that never should have started in the first place is not only strengthened, it’s data is for sale.

Everything just got a lot worse, and changing it just got a lot harder.

That’s exactly what I’m saying. There are so many other issues to consider, but they were disregarded because of one issue that has not changed.

It’s still happening, and now we’re also building concentration camps.

Direct action does not mean “don’t also vote to make it harder for the fascists.” Only two options were valid for the majority of election positions. We could have bought more time to fill local positions with third parties and progressives, but instead we’re building concentration camps and cutting any progress we’ve made in the last 20 years.

Let’s say everyone who isn’t Maga voted third party. What does the electoral college do?

If only two candidates had the possibility of winning, and neither of them were going to change that particular issue, then it held no bearing on the election. Pretending that it could be changed and sowing apathy in voters gave full power to the fascists.

So, is the world a better place now? Or is everyone worse off than we could have been while the genocide is still happening regardless?