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Progenitor of the Weird Knife Wednesday feature column. Is "column" the right word?

I make knives now, too. Why not buy one at flightlessforge.com?

Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds

1d 3h ago in birding

The answer is shutter speed. 1/4000, 1/6400, even 1/8000; do whatever it takes to get there. Wind your ISO up to a million if you have to.

Because it de facto requires everyone using the internet to provide their identity, which is something that gives authoritarian types a huge boner. Once there is no such thing as anonymous discourse, it becomes trivial to target/arrest/harass/brutalize dissenters or indeed anyone the current regime simply doesn't like.

We are lucky they aren't that smart

2d 2h ago in fuck_ai from lemmy.dbzer0.com

The word you're searching for is "fabricate."

3d Printed Scales for QSP Penquin

3d 6h ago in pocketknife from midwest.social

Okay, this is awesome. You beat me to it!

One suggestion I'll make is not to use PLA for the final product. If you do (you already did), stay on top of keeping your screws tightened. PLA cold creeps which will release the tension on the heads of your screws over time, which will loosen them and they'll fall out.

How I know this: I already lost a screw from under one of the 3D printed scales on my Böker.

Palworld lawsuit nears end with Nintendo reportedly poised to gain almost nothing

4d 3h ago in pcmasterrace from www.videogameschronicle.com

To put the potential $30k settlement into context, Nintendo’s most recent annual report stated that it had made a $40m loss from patent litigation in its last business year.

Hey guys, I think I just figured out why first party Switch 2 games are $80 now.

"We all live in the Yellow Sub-Sedan..." (notes in post)

4d 20h ago in cassettefuturism from media.piefed.social

Maybe not. You could always create it!

A lot of these early century sons of bitches were genuinely enormous. For instance:

Here is a 1930 Franklin Series 145. It has a wheelbase of 125" which is 2.5" longer than a current bloated regular cab F-150. This is their "sport runabout" model and therefore has... two seats. (It does have a rear facing jump seat in the back as well, I believe.)

Here is a 1913 Stanley Mountain Wagon. It seats twelve. It's a friggin' school bus. It has a wheelbase of 136" and the rear seats also overhang out the back by about an additional three feet. It's also absurdly tall, since early cars were based more or less directly off of horse drawn carriage chassis and parts, so he floorboards start at about 18" off the ground. It has 36" diameter wheels. I can't find a statistic online and if you want numbers for the track you'll have to wait for me to fly back to Nevada with my tape measure. But you could easily park a mid sized modern car between its tires.

When you stand in front of these things in person they're monumental. There were plenty of small early cars as well, of course, but a lot of them are surprisingly gigantic.

Taking the notion of "land yacht" rather literally, I see. The blue one there has to be pushing three lines wide.

It gives me a giggle whenever I see people in online spaces these days howling about cars getting "bigger and bigger" while utterly failing to realize that motor vehicles have been comically massive throughout more of their history than not. The sharp compactifying of vehicles during the '70s oil crisis and to a lesser extent as fallout of the the 2008-ish financial bust were outliers in the American car landscape. (Europe is a bit of a different story, of course.)

I had occasion to stop by the National Automobile Museum in Reno a short while ago and it's incredible just how stark raving humongous the footprints of so many early cars are. Quite a number of them absolutely would not fit between the stripes of modern highway lanes. I wonder if some of the 8 or 10 seater oldschool touring cars would require a class A license by today's rules.

Benchmade Model 82: Fly.

4d 21h ago in pocketknife

Seizing The Means of Production

6d 14h ago in pocketknife

I see 'em! I'm processing these now. Thanks!

Wabi-Sabi [Sold Out!]

13d 16h ago in pocketknife

Beaks Up [OC]

16d 18h ago in birding

A Catch [OC]

16d 18h ago in birding

The Eye [OC]

16d 18h ago in birding

White Breasted Nuthatch [OC]

25d 20h ago in birding

Spotted Sandpiper [OC]

25d 20h ago in birding

Ribb

26d 15h ago in photography