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Next on the list for a ban. They came for my neighbors ID, and I said nothing, then they came for my neighbors VPN, and an I did nothing, and now they are coming for me on I2P, and there is no one left to speak for me…

The American Civil War was about “States Rights”

TRANSLATION: Optimus is programmed to kill poor people…

ISP doesn’t care unless they get a DMCA from a copyright holder. They don’t prove or disprove anything, they just kick you off their network if they recieve to many DMCA notices linked to your IP. If your IP is used to download torrent files with no obfuscation, expect DMCAs in your future

It only took like what, 7 hearts and the blood of untold numbers of innocents…bout friggen time

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHH

On the face of it, it would seem so, but despite those big numbers, the bigger picture they fit into says no. The AI bubble is poised to burst and have an effect on the economy orders of magnitude greater than SNAP can or will. Right now, the top 7 companies on the stock market are all AI related and account for about 30% of US GDP. Cerebralhawks has the gist of what is going on, i.e., this is all a standard part of the dictator handbook. I would posit that this isn’t about politics so much as it is about the realities of the two economies mentioned colliding. The “real material economy” is constrained by physical limits and laws, such as oil is a finite resource and thermodynamic efficiency limitations, whereas the ability to make more money is limitless. I think that the rise of tRump, his dictatorial policies, and the rise of right-wing authoritarianism worldwide are all symptoms of the real problem, which is that the days of cheap energy that enabled the “golden years” of capitalism in the post-WW2 era are gone, never to return. When capitalism falls on hard times, fascism and authoritarian policies come to the forefront as a last ditch effort to maintain the status quo.

Yes, everyone should prepare for the worst eventuality. Societal collapse has happened many times throughout history, and while the commonality in those collapses is the extreme inequality of wealth distribution, our particular coming (happening?) collapse is unique in that unlike past times we live in society that spans the globe, and is full of people who do not have the knowledge or ability to be self sufficient. As such, most people won’t benefit, like happened in past collapses. After the fall of Rome, people got taller and healthier. This seems to be attributed to relief from the tax burden of the state. These days, with most our population in large cities, and with so many of the world’s natural resources either used up, or replaced by humanity and our foodstuffs, most people would not be able to capitalize on that same relief. So, yeah, buckle up, cause the next couple of decades is gonna be a wild ride very much unlike anything humanity has experienced before.

Very good points. I apologize for making assumptions. There’s a lot of anger out there, mine included, keeping people from being their best selves, and my assumption is symptomatic of that. No excuse; sometimes explaination is necessary, IMO.

I like to think of the “economy” as two economies, the real material economy, and the fiscal or money economy. The former doesn’t really seem to matter to economists, as they believe that enough money can solve any problem, hence they only reference the latter “economy”. So, to my way of thinking, as SNAP amounts about 8 billion $ a month and the US GDP as defined in the “fiscal economy” is around 2,542 billion $ a month, it’s a very small drop in a very large bucket, in those terms at least. I would imagine that with the stock market being so enamored with AI right now that there won’t be any appreciable reaction there to the slight change in Walmart’s bottom line. The General Merchandise side of such super-stores is vastly more important to profits than the grocery side due to very tight margins on groceries, so probably no perceptible change there. I think the biggest effect would be on those few small and local grocers, as they are more “real economy” based, so a decline in their sales would further exacerbate the “business as usual” of them being forced into insolvency by competition from big box stores. The biggest consequences I forsee from the lack of snap benefits os a speeding up of what is already a well established pattern. One more thing attributes to the opinion asked for in the original post that I am finally and at last getting around to; the top 10% of earners account for 50% of consumption. So with all that crap in mind, I think that until the people at the bottom are squeezed hard enough that they are forced to turn from single person shoplifting to organized group theft, looting I guess, that there will be no real change in grocery prices.

I was employed as Loss Prevention at a big box store once upon a time. It’s a big part of the training.

Very good points.

It is interesting that you seem to assume that your average person who will be unable to purchase food with SNAP will be stealing food. People also have the option of not paying other bills to afford food, or going to food banks. The majority of theft in the retail setting comes from employees. Also: Is it worse to steal to eat, or to steal to make your bottom line look better? Wage theft grossly outpaces losses from theft year after year. Maybe stop villanizing the disadvantaged folks in our society, and put that anger towards the people who have stolen so much from the majority that they put the disadvantaged in the position they are in.

You are right about that. America voted him in. Birds of a feather, I guess. Or, as my Grandpa used to say, Baaaarf.

How strange that a nation led by someone who has declared bankruptcy 7 times is going bankrupt… What a twist!!!

No doubt about that. A hollow or soft point deposits more energy and creates a much larger temporary cavity, but a FMJ can certainly do plenty of damage. The FMJ would be much more likely to be intact, and not fragment, so “clean” is certainly a relative term in this context. Any gunshot wound is gonna be a mess, regardless of caliber or bullet type, some moreso than others.

.30-06 round weighing 180 grains leaves a 24" barrel at about 2,700 feet per second, which gives it a kinetic energy of around 2,900 ft-lbf. With this much energy, that round, if full metal jacketed, will reliably penatrate 20+ inches of ballistic gelatin, a common substitute for animal muscle tissue, and if that round is a hollow point it will reliably penatrate 16+ inches of ballistic gelatin. My neck is about 7 inches thick as an average size person. Unless a person has a cervical spine made of titanium and Kevlar, and/or are just about 4 times as dense as your average Joe, an impact by a typical hollow point .30-06 round with that speed and energy in the human neck region would most often decapitate, or nearly so, and a full metal jacketed round would easily pass clean through. In contrast, the handguns carried by many police officers, the Glock .40 S&W, firing a 180 grain round out of a 4" barrel scoots along at about 1,000 feet per second, having a muzzle energy of about 400 ft-lbf, this being the defacto gold standard for killing human beings. .30-06 is quite literally a round made for war, and is typically used to hunt large game, as it has a tendency to completely and thoroughly rapidly disassemble smaller game into unusable sized chunks.

Nothing is impossible, but not all things are likely.

Somewhat, but primarily it cuts on the bottom. The most special thing about a rabbet plane is that the blade cuts just as wide as the body, whereas a normal plane will be at least 1/8" from whatever the side might be riding on. The blade is a slight bit wider than the body, and depending on how you set the blade, can protrude enough to slightly scrape the side. My Lie-Nielson rabbet block plane actually has little spurs on both sides that you can put down to make a clean cut, say on the shoulder of a tenon, or the bottom of a routed v-groove that is full of fuzz. The ability to cut precisely into corners is what gives the rabbet plane it’s versatility, and that whacky shape of the #92 is what makes it my favorite. It seems that no matter the position, there is some comfortable way to grip that body. It really has an amazing feel to the hand. It is very evident when you pick it up that it was meant for the human hand to create with. I’ve been building doors, entry systems, free floating curved staircases, and anything and everything else that can be made of wood for most of my life at this point, so that’s the base for my advice. I don’t sell tools, I use em, and I love to be able to share some of the things I’ve learned in the thousands of hours I’ve spent working wood. It is a dying art; there aren’t a lot of people who know anything of mortise and tenon, or cope and stick, and knowledge of how to build and accommodate to wood movement is practically nonexistent. This knowledge that has served humanity for millenia is down to a handful of folks, most aging out, dying, and that valuable skill die with em. There’s nothing else that compares to working wood, and to me at least, there’s not much better than making a piece that you know will last several lifetimes, if not indefinitely when cared for.

The captain is referring to the fact that if your guide, or shooting board is riding under the sole of the plane, the plane will damage the shooting board because the blade goes from edge to edge, unlike a typical plane which has small pieces of the sole on both sides of the blade that prevent it from cutting too deeply into the shooting board. With a rabbet plane you run any guide on the side to prevent the guide’s destruction. The Captain is correct that a traditional shooting board does not work as well with a traditional shooting board setup, however even this can be ameliorate by simply skewing your plane at a 25° angle to your forward motion, and the sole will then be partially out of line with the blade, and act as the small pieces of sole on either side of the blade to limit the depth of cut.

Yes. A machine planer will not remove warp, twist, or bow from wood, it just takes the wood to a very certain thickness repeating whatever shape the wood riding on the bed has. You need a machine called a jointer to quickly straighten and square stock before it is run through a machine planer. A jointer is a machine with a steeper learning curve than a planer, but it will not be as steep as learning to eyeball and flatten stock with a handplane.

Yeah, you are on the right track thinking about riding the side of the plane on a guide. This is typically called a shooting block, and is not limited to 90°. You can make a guide of any angle and those wide sides make it really easy to maintain consistency.