An excellent straw hat

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you can leave out the first fuck and it still stops the AI. But you will have no fucks

There’s no way that few balloons could do anything meaningful. I’ve designed a moored balloon system for a lighting truss and we could barely get it to work. A balloon that could lift that destroyer would cover the bounds of this photo.

Oh dang, Dan Santana’s videos are gold. The Clickspring of bowyers!

I’ll check those out, thank you!

Love this! I’m looking into making bows myself soon, after watching Kramer Ammons on YouTube and noticing how bad his general woodworking skills are… if he can do it, surely I can!

I built a little staked bench some time back, mostly as a quick hit between proper stick chairs. I made it for sitting at my workbench, but recently did baseboards and closet build-out in my apartment and found it extremely useful along with Japanese saws. If I have to go back to apartment woodworking I will definitely be building a roman bench!

Here’s my mostly conjecture answer, based on a) being a structural engineer with no experience in Naval Architecture and b) watching lots of videos of boats go sploosh:

Boats are usually built in large buildings or outside, on level ground. Drydocks are sunk below ground, and they’re expensive. So using them for the long process of building a ship is a hard sell, both for opportunity cost and getting people and material to the boat.

Boats are heavy, so you can’t just take one off the floor and lower it into a dock. That’s why they don’t use drydocks for the first launch of a boat.

There is an alternative, called a marine railway. These are huge rails that slope gradually into the ocean, which you can launch a boat stern in, instead of side in. TBH, I don’t know why side launches are chosen instead of stern launches with marine railways.

Counterpoint: tall ships are cool

Portland is great, and while the PNW is expensive, it’s a lot cheaper if you can live without a car, which is easier in Portland than a lot of west coast cities.

I worked for 11 years as a structural engineer, and am now in software. I will say, while the work is fun, it is not well compensated for the level of anxiety that comes with designing structures for human habitation and the abysmal level of technical review given at most companies.

There’s also a bit of a slump on right now, since people don’t know if steel is going to double in price or not. But that shouldn’t be a concern since hopefully all that will be sorted by the time you graduate.

May the superior poster win!

you damn bastard I have this exact screenshot in my clipboard right now how dare you beat me to the punch

It’s incredible. no I didn’t read it either.

• The top 1% have 31 times the average wealth
• The 49% below them have 1.37 times the average wealth
• The bottom 50% have 0.04 times the average wealth

(All calculated from the chart itself)

That seems like the top 1% are the bulk of the problem. If our richest had less than double what the poorest have, that would be a pretty good start.

I agree, there are a lot of people in that middle band who are not going to give up their 37% extra wealth, but I’m not sure this point is worth making. I’d rather get the lower half of that middle band to understand that they are not much better protected than those below them, than to tell the bottom band that they have nothing in common with half the country. Let’s draw a new chart with a top 10% or a top 20%, it will make this fight seem more possible.