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  • Now this is a properly nuanced take.

    Former evangelical fundamentalist raised in this stuff. Just curious, don’t answer if you don’t want to, what’s your background?

    Also, if you have the time and energy:

    What are your thoughts on modern day efforts to breed red heifers/resume sacrifices?

    Connections between the US evangelical right and fundamentalist judaism?

    Mike Johnson scares the fuck out of me, how dangerous do you think he is?



  • Black Hole Sun and Beavis and Butthead were both on MTV back then. I don’t remember if they watched the video on the show.

    Anyhow, that video was up there with NIN’s Closer for general weird awesomness. The crazy smiles and expanding eyes are burned into my memory.

    Also, proto Hank Hill on Beavis and Butthead.

    I remember my grandfather being very upset about the “Beaver and Butthole” show.




  • Rock and Roll!

    What cheap woods are the most impact resistant for splintering and splitting?

    What is the best way to cure wood to prevent splitting without a kiln? Slap a heavy coat of latex paint on a log/burl/root and let it sit 6mo/year?

    What are the most machinable hardwoods? (In particular as regards tearout, warping, and tolerance of thin sections)

    In your opinion, what is an available underappreciated or interesting wood to work?











  • Yup. I have a play farm, not a real farm. Real farming is an industrial process that requires duallys and such. However, those are also real trucks. Beat to shit, tools in the bed, not lifted so much you can’t load them, etc. They look the part. I do also have a 98 Chevy 3500 box truck. Drinks way too much gas to use it for anything other than its purpose, don’t even have it registered right now, bad cats.


  • I wish I had AWD/4WD sometimes. That’s really the only thing I don’t like about the truck.

    Before this truck, I had a Malibu, kept folding the seats down, toting 2x4’s and such. Ripped sheets plywood in the parking lot with a battery powered saw to fit it in before.

    Parts are still pretty cheap for this truck here. They made so many of them. I only gave $3500 for it, but that was before prices on used little trucks jumped so high.

    I’m hoping I don’t ever have to replace this truck, but if I do, I would be looking at a V6 minivan, especially if I could get in AWD. Gut one of those, and it’s basically a little truck. I think it would do everything I needed, better on fuel costs, etc. I’m not much for lifitimg suspensions, but a truck-minivan with AWD I might lift a little to get into standard truck ground clearance range.

    Trucks/utility vehicles are tools and should be used and maintained like a good tool. If it doesn’t have a few scratches and dents, it’s not a real tool.



  • Machinist@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldCan't have nice things
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    3 months ago

    98 Ranger XLT extended cab. I’ve added trailer brake control for livestock hauling and a modern stereo with bluetooth, handsfree calling, and a sealed 10" sub cause I’m a metalhead.

    It’s got the pushrod V6 that will last forever, in 99 they switched over to those awful self-destructing cassette timed V6s.

    It throws no codes. Redid intake manifold and valve gaskets about 18 months ago, but I’ve got increased Idle RPM and minor oil leak again. So, I have to redo it, looking for a more permanent fix.

    My truck does 10x the work most of those oversized pavement princess trucks do. It’s a little truck for our little play farm.