I virtually never discuss politics with my parents. I don’t have a clue about which party they even vote for.

As a Finn, “scandinavian method” sound hilarious, though technically we’re not part of Scandinavia. And yea, ofcourse people have their own blankets. You don’t share a pillow either …right?

About to be my first full year next month. Among the best decisions of my life - so far.

Going to be pickle stonks. Get them while hot

But now it’s official.

I thought of this while pre-cutting the base of a plastic bottle cap with a knife so that, when I unscrew it, it comes off cleanly - like they used to - without sticking to the bottle or leaving behind sharp, poking bits. This is a thing in the EU nowdays, and obviously, this is the correct way to open them from now on.

A little, but in the opposite way from what OP is describing.

I saw a second Trump term coming from a mile away. Not because I had any insider insight, but because I would have been genuinely amazed if he didn’t win and I place the majority of the blame for his victory on the left. They had four years to course-correct, but instead, they doubled down on the very things that made them lose the first time. So even though I didn’t want him to win, I can at least take some satisfaction in the fact that the people responsible for it are now pissed and got exactly what was coming to them. Their refusal to give an inch made them lose everything.

Grand visions of a utopian future are meaningless if you can’t even win an election. Trump’s ad campaign summed up perfectly where the left went wrong: “Kamala is for they/them - Trump is for you.”

Andrew Camarata (heavy machinery), Advoko Makes (bushcraft), Blacktail Studios (woodworking), Foreyes Furniture (woodworking), Foresty Forest (van life & hiking), Alec Steele (blacksmithing), Animagraphs (3D models of how stuff works), Berm Peak (mountain biking), Chris Fix (mechanics), Cleetus McFarland (cars, flying), Colin Furze (making), DIY Perks (making), Garand Thumb (guns), good Times Bad Times (geopolitics), Grind Hard Plumbing Co. (custom vehicle builds), Jon Gadget (EDC gadgets), Lincoln St. Woodworks (woodworking), Matthias Wandell (woodworking) Project Farm (product reviews & testing), Max Maker (making), Müjin (home improvement), Night Shift (scale models), Northmen (woodworking, building, blacksmithing), Outdoors55 (knife sharpening), Peter Santenello (travel / people), Practical Engineering (civil engineering explained), This Old Tony (machining)

A house by the lake and early retirement are the only goals I’ve yet to achieve. Ones I’ve already acomplished include getting fit, getting a girlfriend, house, pickup truck and being self-employed.

Your body is paralyzed for the most of the time you sleep so that you don’t physically act out your dreams, so probably not.

There are multiple schools and apartment buildings for example that would lack heating, running water and sewers were my contribution to be removed from them.

I don’t believe in it in the traditional sense, but I do have a feeling that there’s something deeply mysterious about our minds and consciousness. I wouldn’t claim with absolute certainty that death is the end of experience.

Take general anesthesia, for example - it’s one of the closest things to dying that we can experience and still return from. What does it feel like? Nothing. By definition, it cannot be experienced. You might have been under for ten hours, but from your perspective, you simply go from feeling drowsy to waking up in another room, with no sense of time having passed in between. You can only experience being, not not-being.

Who’s to say something similar doesn’t happen when you die? Your experience could simply continue elsewhere. Whether it happens instantly or after a ten-thousand-year gap is irrelevant - because from the standpoint of your subjective experience, it would feel instantaneous. We could take this even further and consider the possibility that consciousness is something universal - something we merely tap into rather than generate individually. In that case, who’s to say you weren’t “born” this morning into this already existing body, complete with prior memories of a past life, simply continuing from where “someone else” left off?

I tried looking it up but only found TikTok links, so whatever it means shall remain a mystery. Suffice it to say, though, that the term is probably about 14 hours old.

Eh… If I need to pretend to be something I’m not just to be “accepted” then I’ll rather not be. In most cases when people are changing their behavior to meet the expectations of others it’s actually their own imagined expectations they’re trying to meet rather than that of other people. As long as you’re not causing harm to anyone, most simply don’t care if you’re a bit weird.

No wonder I feel like such an outsider here. I’ve been on youtube for almost two decades and there’s not a single channel I follow mentioned here in this thread.

EDIT: Well there was one match: Primitive Technology

That’s crazy. How are they keeping up with news about Trump and Musk then?

No, I’d be extremely suspicious of such person.

Some people just have hate in their hearts and they will use any physical differences to lump people together.

Being skeptical of people looking different from you used to serve a purpose in our history. It no longer does but the bias can still be found in our biology. It’s not that some “just are hateful people” - it’s that they’re human.

I basically see it as racism every time someone is treated differently because of the color of their skin. There’s racism with bad intentions and racism with good intentions but it’s all still racism. In my ideal world we’d care about skin color as much as we care about hair color now. Most of the attempts to “fix” racism by paying more attention to the ethnicity of people that’s been coming from the left over the past years has just maken things worse and is one of the big reasons for Trump as well.

Yes, I feel pretty confident in saying that in this case you are the problem. I have sympathy for antisocial behaviour as I’m that way myself too but you seem just straight up rude if not even mean.

because I know they will be there for me when I need it

I wouldn’t count on it.