Now I want to print this.
Joking aside, I might be developing an allergy to the crazy threadā¦
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@Az_F How will I know when it is time to grab the new APK from your Patreon page?
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I post about every update on Patreon first and then here and on discord 
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I blocked that entire thread for my own well being long ago, and I absolutely do not regret it. I realized I could not help, but only make it worse, and there was no reason to be burdened by it if no good would come of it.
The only time Iām even aware it exists is if someone references it, or the couple of posts that a new person posts before being transferred to the invisble thread.
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The original gif was with popcorn but that meme version surfaced back in the day when a bunch of idiots decided to experience evolution first hand with the tide pod challengeā¦
And well, the crazy thread makes me want to eat a tide podā¦ Itās infuriating!
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Give it a try. After a week you wonāt even remember or be bothered.
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yeahā¦ but there is only one ground / neutral bar in the box. This is why I have to double up some of them. I did ensure the doubled up gauges were the same and to place them flat against the screw edge so pressure was equal on both wires from the screw. I also used the square drive bit with a descent amount of torque to ensure the screw was solidly seated against both wires.
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Itās not really capitalismā¦ it was lack of proper drying processes and mixing various wood types which all have different drying / shrinking processes. There was a lot of variance between these types and the drying process, so what was cut as 2x4 green wood shrunk to various different sizes once dry.
It wasnāt until the 1920s when Hoover pushed regulations on wood processing to unify things under specific sizes. The actual sizes we ended up with today are what is required for structurally sound constructionā¦ but the old names ātwo by fourā stuck because itās simply easier to say. Humans are funny that way.
Even though my house was built in the mid-1930s we still have actual 2" by 4" wood beams in various placesā¦ and this wood is super hard. Nails bend trying to do anything so I use pre-drilled guide holes and screws when I have to deal with them. Funny enough, the nail plate wasnāt invented until the 1950s so all the roof trusses and framing is very strange and a little concerningā¦ itās kinda why you see old pre-1950s homes here where the roofline is sagging a bit here and there.
Honestly I think standardized bed size regulations came about around the same timeā¦ before it was just āa bedā with no specific sizesā¦ sheets and blankets were all hand made custom to the bed size. As the industrial revolution took hold, this became a problem so regulations were put into place to standardize things. This is one of the reasons bedding still has tags that say itās illegal to remove the tag unless you are the end customer.
Another fun regulation was the requirement to share telephone lines and poles. Back when phones were new, there were like 5 phone companies in various large cities and each had to run lines to your houseā¦ and companies fought over pole rights because otherwise each company would need to put their own poles in. For a time, this was the caseā¦ and if you had AT&T but wanted to talk to your buddy who had Bell service, you had to also get a Bell phone line installed. People had multiple phones sitting on tablesā¦ it was stupid. Regulations came in and forced these companies to share infrastructure and to allow cross-company calling.
Iām old enough that I remember when SMS messaging came into being for mobile phones, but also at that time you could not SMS between phone companiesā¦ so if I had AT&T then I could only SMS with AT&T phonesā¦ I bet you can see where this is goingā¦ anyway I actually remember the day I was able to send an SMS from a VoiceStream Wireless phone (eventually aquired by T-Mobile) to a Bell Atlatnic phone (later merged to form Verizon)ā¦ it was magical.
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Didnāt even see it! Just assumed it was popcorn 
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Sorry I missed the point about the February update.
I want to calibrate a few things in the new tests and like an idiot I forgot to bring a pico with me when moving to France. So Iām waiting for my boxes to arrive which of course are delayedā¦
Also I just got a job which might also delay things.
TLDR: expect the update for the end of March or very early in April 
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I have a great sugestion. My tree house lights ā¦ they are those round circle push lights that run off 1 AAA battery. I added a" mini 360" buck converter to it and it will run on 3 to 17v input.
Tide Pod challenge
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In 2018, following the memeās surge in popularity, media publications started reporting about people participating in the Tide Pod challenge,[27][28] an Internet challenge in which an individual consumes Tide Pods.[18] Teens were the reported demographic participating in the challenge; they would record themselves chewing and gagging on pods and then daring others to do the same. Some of these videos were posted on YouTube.[28][29] Some teens cooked the pods before eating them.
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Thatās exactly what a capitalist would say. 
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As a capitalist, thatās not what Iād sayā¦
Please donāt lynch me.
I work at a resaw mill. We get them in all different sizes, sometimes smaller and sometimes larger than the ātwo by foursā they qualify as. Wood on the threshold between two sizes can qualify as either, so we may sell whichever we have in stock.
Also, because saw blades saw, they donāt actually cut, you lose a little bit of wood with each ācut,ā but itās easier for everyone to think of a board as getting half as big each time you rip it in half instead of having to figure in the thickness of the blade.
And, yeah, drying out definitely affects the size of the wood as well.
We buy a weird amount of our wood from China. Also from Brazil. Those are our fancy expensive woods. The mill is surrounded by forests but we import and export all over the world more than we seem to use local lumber. And the military is having us turn a lot of that lumber into air drop crates lately, which makes me wonder how many more theyāre ordering from other mills, and why theyāve suddenly decided they need so many.
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Well, I think Iām going to start getting more residence permits just in caseā¦ I have no intentions of going to warā¦
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