Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill

Back side of aforementioned piece. You can see the epoxy filled crack all the way through it. The extra dark area around it is indicative of further rot, also stabilized with epoxy.

Here’s the back side of it, you can see the huge crack down the middle that I stabilized with epoxy.

This was hugely labor intensive and probably not worth it but I do think the effect is cool.

End grain of aforementioned gift. You can see a huge vein of rot that I’ve filled in with epoxy. This wood wouldn’t really be useful anywhere else but I decided to spend a ton of time and energy saving it anyway.

I didn’t really have any other use for this piece of wood, and I’d wanted to do *something* with their wedding matchbooks for literally years so I thought, what the hell?

I’ll post pictures of it finished but I’m happy so far. Here’s how rotted out this section was.

The front and back of a blue matchbook encased in resin within the valley of a rotted section of walnut I had. The wood has not been oiled yet, but it is sanded.

The wife took the kids over for breakfast at my mom’s earlier so I had some time to finish a project.

This is a gift for my in laws, it’s a matchbook from their wedding day encased in resin within an old piece of walnut. This is just after sanding and doing some polishing on the resin.

Hell yeah, man. Didn’t realize they had an urban fishing program but that’s cool.

Yeah, like - I know some fire departments are using drones for incident command to get views of a structure as operations are ongoing, but in those scenarios a tether would be a huge liability.

Devastating news, folks.

The seller advised someone came and picked it up fifteen minutes before he saw my message.

One day…

If there is one positive outcome from the Trump administration's delusional gurgling it is in forcing the Europeans to clarify towards themselves and others their basic negotiation points on the conflict with Russia

My experience is on a few short term search and rescue operations, in the mountains the geography and foliage is just not gonna let you use fiber optic, and in flooded out valleys… same issue but with less margin for error.

For non- combat or law enforcement, am I missing something?

I don’t have extensive experience with this, but my intuition is that most places where you’d find drones really useful in public safety in the US would also be places where “fiber optic wire” would be a massive pain in the ass.

This is so far out of my area of “expertise” and very firmly in my “knee jerk anecdotal opinion” but it seems valid enough.

I’ve used drones for search and rescue in the mountains, and I have also gone fishing and gotten my line stuck in trees several dozen times.

These two experiences together make me skeptical of fiber optic drones for public safety in the US.

I think the balance for Vance is shaping the environment as Trump declines, it’s all about maximizing his opportunity at the moment of collapse.

He’s depending on a lot of path dependent *institutions* to fall in line behind him since he doesn’t have the popular support.

Yeah, and given how he’s being pushed aside by other viziers he’s pretty motivated to do so.

He’s gotta know that while he’s “next in line” officially, all that makes him is a target. He doesn’t command any loyalty himself as far as I can tell.

This is Vance’s best shot at consolidating power if he is ever given the opportunity, I think.

Yeah, the whole deal with a personalist regime is that personalist retains the capacity* to mediate disputes between the factions. That’s slipping.

*defined politically, physically, mentally, etc.

The regime has been characterized by generalized paralysis punctuated by acts of performative cruelty since March, and increasingly so.

What mechanisms exist to arrest that process, let alone ones they’d use?

With any luck, he found a free table saw on Craigslist and went with that.

Without it, I assume several insurance claims.

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Relatedly, because I’ve been struggling with and watching others do the same, I’ve been listening to Calvin’s Institutes on Audible. It’s 60+ hours and only one credit!

Get back to me on if this will help underlying matters. It probably won’t.

Without claiming Hillsdale meant this, I have a right as an American to claim all Americans as my ancestors, because I am a rightful inheritor of them as an American whatever the specifics of my direct ancestry.

Hell yeah, man. (Somewhat melancholic)

Just because you’re scared of something doesn’t make it not a lame duck, I guess is my point to the republicans making such comments.

This is probably correct, and in the same way I’m also stealing from my trauma surgeon friends.

Isn’t this very literally lame duck behavior?

A fracturing coalition kept in line through threats of violence that cows internal opposition, rather than encourages their support?

MTG resigned rather than stepping back in line.

They’re a great tool, and I’ve only ever been able to play with one at a buddy’s shop, but it would make a lot of the smaller projects I work on way easier.

I really don’t *need* one but it would make a lot of small and medium sized projects I do a lot easier if I *did*.

And when I saw it was free!?

I just can’t pass it up.

Watching morning news shows in the UK, France and Germany it is remarkable how in ignoring the issue they seem oblivious to how screw ups around potential imminent US strikes on Venezuela have risks for the global order as bad as those from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

This one’s even got the aftermarket plywood workspace. Totally up to spec.

I emailed the seller.

10 in.Radial Arm Saw. - free stuff - craigslist Free Radial Arm Saw working condition.

I don’t need a radial arm saw but this one is free.

Who cares if these things are functionally “upper limb or appendage removal / arterial bleed” machines, they’re great for dados on small and medium sized pieces.

And I keep tourniquets in my garage, and I know the local trauma surgeons.

The only beneficiary of the many Witkoff-Dimitriev pacts to bring peace to Ukraine has been Substack

Also nearly infinite case studies in “how do you destroy the morale of the state security services”.

The amount of BS you have to go through to get qualified for tac teams, and everything you went through to get into the FBI and you’re traveling away from family for… ?