@mcdanlj that must have been obnoxious to rehearse.
Genius.

Finally made up a drive pulley for the new-to-me 5HP motor for my bandsaw. The interrupted cut in the 4" square aluminium blank was stressful. I'm looking forward to getting the flat belt on so I can remove the 2HP and v-belts and get some heavier planks resawn.
#machining #woodworking

@GustavinoBevilacqua Can't vote. I eat all of these.

I don't want government to allow me to declare my gender. I want government entirely out of the business of tracking gender. That's between me, my lovers, and my physician. Keep the government out of everyone's pants.
(Yes, this is oversimplified and broken particularly as regards the carceral state as well as diversity/equity/inclusion efforts)

@GustavinoBevilacqua also for splicing cables - two are used for that: https://images.app.goo.gl/BfLPuR97ZynZ8HH56

Potatoes are in. Rest of garden is ready for planting. Peas and radishes in the morning. I'm tuckered out.
I need to get some onion sets in there as well. Next trip to town.
#Gardening

How do I find out what the dollar volume of a few days of trading was?
It's all good and nice to say "the market lost $5T in value", but that's market cap, not the actual churn of the day. How many dollars changed hands in the reduction of share prices?

I recently installed a pretty fancy induction cooktop. I was just reviewing the print documentation that came with it and found this. This is the first time I find a *print* version of this information with any product.
Good job Gaggenau/Boschj.

A real trove:
Atheros bus driver
FreeType
Flexible and Economical UTF-8 Decoder
HarfBuzz
Imagination Tech. GPU drivers
Khronos EGL
Mcapi
The Wide Project
TropicSSL
wpa_supplicant
OpenBSD
Opengl ES
TI Starterware
U-Boot
ucdn
Virtio

Yep, real software.

@GustavinoBevilacqua Ti servi uno smagnetizzatore!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZsYHLHlIso

Saturday is a great day for the idles of March!
Oh, there's no 'l'? Well I'll try to be idle nevertheless.

@GustavinoBevilacqua hai un generatore? Ne ho comprato uno piccolo (2kw) qualche anni fa per il mio freezer e la pompa della cantina.

@GustavinoBevilacqua A dollar is already called a "loonie", from the loon on the back. So we already have an alternate!

This beauty by Jeff de Boer just arrived. I've been wanting one of Jeff's mouse armors for over thirty years.
#sculpture #art #armor

An important translation for our American friends: When a Canadian says "Sorry" that's not an apology. It's shorthand for "This is the way things are, I know you don't like it".
Sorry.

No man can eat 50 eggs.

Especially at today's prices.

Trump can't tell the difference between his personal chequebook and the US's balance sheet. Congress should think about that.

@juc In Canada siamo uniti, Trump ci ha costretti a farlo. Il commercio al dettaglio si è già allontanato di oltre il 5% dai prodotti americani. Si prevede che crescerà in modo significativo questa settimana.
Questo numero sembra piccolo, ma è *commercio al dettaglio*. Normalmente questa cifra non cambia.
Boicottaggio.

Ah, running America like a business! Where the business is money laundering.

@nogodsnomasters This is grossly idealized, and the distribution in most implementations is wildly uneven, as is the application of the systematized force that comes with it. But the solution is to continue to organize from the ground up instead of believing the top is somehow going to reform itself.

@nogodsnomasters Oddly, when enough people work together and form a critical mass, they can organize a system that redistributes resources so that everyone can prosper.
After which they forget how they got there, and forget that they have to work together to keep the system built on their collective action from going to shit.
Their apathy then leads to capture by the worst elements in society, and we're back to square one.