9? I feel like there’s one or two I’m not thinking of.

Edit: There were. So 11.

I’ve never actually tried to count before, I’ve always felt like i’d been with fewer partners than most others. I guess not.

I’ve never really gone looking for one time things though, so even though I started at 13, it took twenty years to get to 11 people.

Edit again: 13. Can’t remember shit anymore.

You’re putting textbooks together from loose pages by reading the numbers on the pages. Each time you finish one, you give it to the publisher, that photocopies it and sends it to the schools. Some pages from other books ended up in your boxes of pages. It’s easy to tell if they don’t belong there if they’re the wrong size, different font, different color, etc. Some pages have typos, but if they end up in your book, it doesn’t necessarily hurt anything. Unfortunately, some of the pages have bad information on them. They have the right number, they fit in the book, but what is written on the page is totally incorrect. If you accidently include one of these pages, the next generation of students are taught bad information. If this information was really important, like building code or growing crops, and the next generation of students start building and farming wrong, society falls apart.

Prions are the bad pages.

Oh shit, I just realized AI summaries are prions.

If you aren’t aware of them, look into scleral contacts. They’re large lenses you fill with saline before putting in, so they bypass your cornea entirely. They’re not cheap, but they last for years and give you vision that’s much better than normal lenses.

I’m not the suicidal type, so I won’t pretend to know the dread you’re dealing with. That being said, to me, rock bottom is less of a temptation to leave, but a temptation to change drastically. You could absolutely just jump off a bridge, but afterward there’s no other choice to make, no change is possible. Instead, why not take the chance to do literally anything else? Try living in a forest. Try breaking into buildings. Try walking to a warmer climate. Try to start a cult. Try being a vigilante. Try being a criminal. If it doesn’t work out, or it’s not fun, try something different. Worst case scenario, you can always kill yourself later, once you’ve tried all the interesting ideas you could muster.

Life always ends in death anyway, no point in rushing into it before you’ve experienced as many unique things as possible.

Side note for your analysis paralysis, I’ve used a few box sets and can give opinions. Milwaukee is too expensive and the connection system is irritating and overcomplicated. Klein and stanley are both a lot more flimsey than the major sets, but I still haven’t broken my stably box after several years of abuse. It just bends a lot. The FLEX toolboxes seem like the highest quality of the bunch, but I have no idea how much they cost. If I recall correctly, they’re also slightly smaller than the toughbuilt and Milwaukee, in a way that makes them seem more convient.

I looked at some clones by Keter, but the quality seemed like a major step down for not much of a discount.

I got a killer deal on toughbuilt boxes when Lowes first got the stacktech. They’re great. Heavy as hell, but I’m big so I don’t mind it. With how expensive they are, I’m not sure i would get them again if they were normal price, though. I also lucked out when the toughbuilt modular belts were being clearances out through menards a year or two ago. Got way more pouches than I’ll ever need for 3 or 4 bucks each. Again, at the regular price, I’d stick to my leather apron belt. 50 bucks for a tool pouch? Get fucked.

Menards just recently got stacktech stuff in, but it’s regular price at the moment. Anything that ends up there will eventually be on clearance though, so if you live near one, keep an eye out.

I use a modular toolbox setup. Each chest or box has everything I need for one task. One box for electrical work, one for plumbing, one for painting, welding, simple repairs, power tools, etc. I also have a modular tool belt, and the most used tools in pouches on the outside of the box. On top of that, I have a small drawer with my inside tools in the house, screwdriver set, multitool, tape measure, utility knife, markers and hammer.

It helps immensly

Some of the projects have to be isolated, since they’re so drastically different. I don’t totally understand it, but I can’t woodwork and homelab in the same evening. It’s like they use such incompatible parts of my brain they have to be separated by several hours, or I’ll just stare at the terminal or workbench and not know what to do.

I’ve been trying to be for 20 years. You’re the second person in that time to call me that, and you made my day for it.

Hand tool woodworking, refurbishing antique tools and furniture, building a home lab server, learning Ubuntu/Debian/arch, welding/soldering eyeglasses, 3d printing, milling rifles, lockpicking, cooking Indian, Japanese, and Cajun food, building custom furniture, fixing clocks, rebuilding engines, removing rust and japanning metal, playing piano, identifying specific architecture, being more supportive to friends, building a community action group, sharpening blades, trusting others to make decisions, sign language, and raising a daughter to be an assertive mastermind.

There are some valid reasons I can entertain that 9-11 was either planned by the US, or at least allowed to happen without interference. I don’t have a strong belief either way, but I’m open to conversation.

I will not, however, engage with someone who brings up jet fuel melting beams. You sound like a dolt, and the exact mechanism of destruction doesn’t factor into the matter.

Looks like a binding of Isaac boss

Because hair color isn’t homogeneous. Every hair is a slightly different color, and it’s significantly more noticeable in lighter hair. Blonde hairs are predominantly gold, but range from white to brown. In cartoons, gold is also usually just yellow, because animating something metallic is a pain in the ass. Hair is shiny as well, so they picked the average color and called it good enough. Grey hair is the same way.

As for only existing in humans, that’s just not true. Yellow labs and golden retrievers come to mind immediately, and plenty of rodents are blonde. While those are fur, not necessarily hair, golden doodles have hair, and are usually some manner of blonde. Golden macaques, flying squirrels, lions, etc.

Left front phone. Right front knife or multitool. Coin pocket zippo. Rear right wallet, rear left key fob. On the occasion I have my keys me, they’re on a short leather strap clipped to my belt loop in my right front.

Due to my job, all my jackets have a millimeter ruler and a staedler 319f marker in the front pocket, and my left inside pocket has a fountain pen with blue ink, and a pilot gtec C4 with black ink. Right Inside pocket has a hairtie, toothpicks, and a carved jade turtle figurine (skjoldpada).

If I recall correctly, (ignoring that I could look it up right now) I believe ferrets were specifically bred to run cables underground.

Edit: I’m apparently full of shit. That being said, I really appreciate that the wikipedia page has a dropdown section titled Other Uses.

Cross out “of PC gaming” and you got it.

English and French. I can understand a bit of Spanish, but learning French ruined my pronunciation. I can read Cyrillic, but know almost nothing about Russian.

Remember kids, you can’t be a good communist if you don’t have any skills. We already have people well practised at arguing on the internet.

If you live somewhere it’s dark in the morning, start school an hour later. Don’t demand the entire populace fuck up their sleep schedule. If DST wasn’t already implemented, it would sound like an insane overcomplication to solve relatively simple inconveniences in the modern age. No matter what the clock says, you only exist for a certain amount of time every day. If you want to get up earlier or later than usual, do it by yourself and leave me out of it.

I’m pretty sure Tool wrote something about that