I have it on good authority that the loose/for parts/damaged consoles that McKays currently has in the downstairs corner are totally unsalvageable. They were dropped off by another local video game store that used parts out of them to fix other consoles. Don't go buying a $17 Sega Genesis thinking you'll be able to fix it. You'll end up spending more than getting a functioning one.
Also shame on McKays for price gauging those systems. They used to be between $5-10 apiece.
An album of the places that need the most work
I have no idea what I am doing, but am humbled by the responsibility. I can realize when something is far beyond my ability, and worth spending a professional on. Is this even salvageable?
It just saw it's 6th Generation.
The blade cannot sit flush to the frog and extrude from the throat, even when the frog is adjusted maximally forward. Am I doing something wrong or is this hand plane doomed?
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I picked up a Central Forge hand plane at Harbor Freight to have a beater for practicing maintenance and blade sharpening. The plan was to upgrade in a month or two after I feel comfortable with the parts and a whetstone. I have no prior experience with hand planes. I also have read the online reviews that say CF makes terrible hand planes. Most of those reviews were able to get them assembled and cutting at a minimum, though, so I didn't want to discount the potential that I missed something.
Do you believe this country is a goner? Should we just migrate to more conservative countries (e.g. the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Switzerland, etc.)?
Honestly, everyday that I read the news, I just get more and more cynical and pessimistic of Canada and Canadians. The vast majority of people here seem to be leftists or progressive, and a lot of this is embedded in a culture of anti-Americanism. Even when Harper - the role model for conservatism - was finally in power, Canadians casted him out with sheer hatred; hell, Harper arguably only won a majority in 2011 because of Layton, and lost it to an imbecile in 2015.
So, is this hopelessness justified? Should we just leave?
My dad has been kicking around an idea for a novel for a long time now, and apparently took advantage of the COVID lockdowns to actually sit down and hammer it out over the course of the last year and a half or so. My mom insists he's wasting his time, but I've been encouraging him, thinking that it's good he has a hobby and is trying an artistic pursuit. As a result, he wants me to help proofread and edit his work, offering feedback whenever I can.
I received a draft from him, and, well, it's awful. Middle school level writing, to be brutally honest. His grasp of grammar, mechanics, and syntax is so poor that it's difficult to read, he does that weird thing Boomers tend to where they Capitalize random Words That they Shouldn't, and he has no idea how to use commas or quotation marks properly. I can't even really speak to the actual content of the thing, as it's so badly written that it's impossible to pay any attention to plot, characterization, or themes.
I don't want to hurt my dad, nor do I want him to get discouraged and give up, but I really have no idea how to approach this.
This might come across as transphobic but I'm at the point where I really don't give a shit and need to vent how I feel.
I'm a trans woman, I've been on HRT now for over a year and the worst experiences I've ever had about being trans are from other "Trans people". It's degeneracy at its finest and people are far too open about how the feel. Like yeah talk about it but I don't want to hear about your kinks or anything else.
Why does every "trans" person seem to have some other bs disorder too that only a small minority of actual people have but they seem to have like did. Are you actually transgender or do you just have mental health issues that make you upset with who you are? Is your life not good enough that you have to fake being someone else at the expense of others who are genuinely suffering from what you claim to have?
The Internet and social media as a whole has made being trans absolutely suck. People have realised that you can claim to be trans (because apparently you need no proof and a gender dysphoria diagnosis is transphobic) like how the fuck do you know your transgender if you don't have gender dysphoria? That's the whole point?
We're at a point where it's transphobic to be transgender.
I'm so done with all the bs.
/rant
I won't go into my high life story,but what the title says is true.Im pretty much a failure in every way im unattractive skinny fat,high school dropout,never had a real relationship I have dated a little bit. I really don't know if my life can be fixed at this point. I don't even bother with dating anymore because what person would want someone like me. Im worthless in every way possible.
Most people in my situation would have ended their life a long time ago and im not far off from doing that,it's the smart thing to do it would end my suffering and have the means to make my death a swift one. I do still think maybe there is a chance for me to make a better life,but maybe that's foolish.
And what would I do if I actually wanted to act more rationally, rather than LARPing AGI?
I have an advanced STEM degree, I know how to read papers, but lord, there's just so much, and it's all so bleak, and I see people who are educated as I am "doing their own research," and I just lose any hope of being able to make my own, truly informed decisions.
What do?
Apologies for the length...
Me (20F) and my boyfriend (21M) have been dating for almost a year now, and were close friends for about two prior to dating. I've always told friends that the ideal s/o for me is someone I could be great friends with first, and so once we began to mutually show interest it felt like the perfect scenario.
I've never been in a relationship before, meanwhile he's been in a handful of short-lasting ones but not since he was in school. He pretty much does nothing but play video games in his bedroom, and has ignored most of his friends trying to reach out to hang out. But that wasn't exactly a red flag cause the pandemic messed everyone up and I understood.
Where he was this really funny, kind guy before - very respectful and sweet and a little shy - that façade began to slip away after we became official. It was really slow at first. It started when he guilt tripped me into coming to visit him out of state. I live in a different part of the country than him, and I wanted to stay inside cause I have asthma and was really nervous about getting covid. But he made it seem like I had to go visit if I loved him (which would require exposing myself during the pandemic), to the extent that I cried multiple times on the phone cause he made me feel so bad about it. But those instances of cruelty were so few and far between, I guess I didn't notice.
TW: Sexual assault & substance abuse in this paragraph/
When I went down, he pressured me have sex with him on day one. I'd never had sex before and I remember feeling so disgusted the few days after, despite not being especially religious or having any intent on waiting til marriage. It soon escalated to badgering and pressuring me into oral sex without any effort to even try to do anything for me. I'd say no and he'd lay on top of me or whine or get angry until I said yes. One time in particular I remember wandering off to the kitchen and taking so many shots of rum after just because I didn't want to feel gross and used.
/End TW
After I left his home and went back to mine, his behavior began to change. He got really angry. There were things regarding my beliefs that he knew about me prior to dating and had pretended to agree with, but now was trying to get me to change. He'd yell at me over tiny things. He throws these big temper tantrums in which he says mean things and acts like a child, and it's kind of scary. He wasn't even afraid to throw these yelling fits in front of his own mo
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Tweet >Unsalvageable? They even get fined together ππ
Context:
In April this report came out after Rudy testing positive for COVID-19 suspended the NBA season: >The relationship between Utah Jazz teammates Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell β the first two players to test positive for the virus β βdoesnβt appear salvageable,β a source familiar with the situation told The Athleticβs Shams Charania, Sam Amick and Tony Jones. Despite efforts by the Jazz to mend a partnership crucial to the teamβs success, Mitchell reportedly βremains reluctant to fix what might have been broken.β
And today:
>The NBA announces it has fined Utah's Donovan Mitchell $25,000 for public criticism of the officiating and his conduct while exiting the playing court and Jazz teammate Rudy Gobert $20,000 for public criticism of the officiating.
Lmfaoooo Ingles is hilarious
Some nice people like to believe that if you just dig deep enough into the psyche of a criminal, you can get to the root of their pathology, fix it, and 'cure' them. And I'll bet for a good number of people who find themselves with drug or anger management issues; with authority issues stemming from family strife at an early age, etc, that it's true. They can be redeemed. They are not 'evil' per se. No one of us is without sin.
When it comes to people with those issues, trying to go through programs to help, they often refer to a 'rock bottom' moment; a singular personal descent into the abyss in which they had degraded/debased themselves so far, that they could now see their inner core, compare it to the actions they were taking, and be shocked/revolted/shamed/disgusted into deciding to NEVER get to that level again; to take the steps necessary to get out of the mess they were in, hopefully never to return.
In chemistry, the smallest unit you can break something into, and have it retain it's essential character is called an element. Thus the term, 'elemental', meaning primary. That rock bottom moment typically exposes the elemental self -- loosens the defensive layers and lays the soul bare.
Amazingly for us observers, in Jeremy we got to witness something that is usually only seen by the person plumbing those depths on their own, or perhaps by a counselor, therapist, or loved one: We heard Jeremy hit his rock bottom. He bared his elemental self to us. He did it when he had been pressured by wife, mistress, authorities, finances, and circumstances to break down in his house, his inner sanctum, and to wail, thrash, and cry out, like a child or wounded animal. His message? His 'core truth', as far as his inner awareness would go?
"I've done nothing wrong. I've done nothing wrong. I've done nothing wrong."
That was Jeremy's deepest possible revelation. Not that he had been acting out due to some deep seated emotional wounds. Nope.
That's why the moment he got out of sentencing yesterday, he popped on a costume of respectability, acted like he had the world by the tail, and was ready to take on all comers. In his mind, "I've done nothing wrong."
This is a man who has terrorized the streets on a 160mph motorcycle, riding against traffic. Pounding hoods, screaming, stopping traffic, instigating fraudulent insurance scams, involving himself in deviant sexual situations, the whole list would take pages to detail. 20 felony charges open right now.
... keep reading on reddit β‘I'm just getting back into sewing for the first time in 20 years (I was under 10 last time I touched a machine), and I'm realizing one thing about my future in this hobby: mistakes.
Unflattering patterns, wrong fabrics, unsalvageable mistakes, they're all going to happen to my finished projects at some point.
And I have absolutely no idea what I'm expected to do with them.
What do you do with unsalvageable makes? Or mockups that aren't suitable to wear long term? Or is there no such thing as unsalvageable and I'm just not thinking creatively enough?
I would feel so bad for throwing it away but I don't know of any good fabric recycling programs off the top of my head.
After TLJ do you think a better version of episode of 9 could have been born from it or was it just to little too late I donβt think JJ helped and I sometimes wonder if it had v]been given to someone else would it have turned out better?.its biggest issue seemed to be thatβs its trying to please both sides of a heavily fractured fanbase as well as the general audience
I have the elephant,train toy, and all the dolls but I know thereβs a lot more items so can you tell me what they are?
