What’s your DIY cardinal sin mine is that I never countersink screws
Until this past weekend when my dad gave me his spare power drill, I have owned no power tools for the nearly 3 years of living in my house so when I need to screw something into a wall I just brute force it into the dry wall and if it won’t go in with the screwdriver/strength combo, then that screw becomes a nail real quick (ie. I just get out a hammer and hammer it in).
This is a safe space but what the fuck
I needed to build a desk but I didn’t have a saw, so I whittled the planks to length with my knife.
sometimes I don’t want to make noise while building, so I just slowly push the nails through the wood instead of hammering them.
one time I was assembling a loft bed, and it had a factory defect where there was a bolt hole that was missing; so I heated the steel with a butane soldering iron, drilled a hole with a gimlet and a hammer, and tapped it by driving in a spare bolt.
one time I had a 2 x ¼ inch steel bar I wanted to cut in half but I didn’t have any power tools, so I spent an hour or two grinding through it with a round file.
Once, when I was a teenager, I tried to hang a picture frame in front of a breaker box to hide it, and I put a screw straight through the power main.
I think I started a dialogue I wasn’t prepared for with this post
“The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I’m not a trannie or a fag so I don’t care, just give ‘em the medicine they need.”
“This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility.”
One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.
I think this is something young people in particular are confused about. My dad has always had a slightly off color sense of humor, he always feels the need to privately ask me “boy turned girl or girl turned boy?” if I mention a friend and stress said friend’s pronouns, and yet when we had repair work done in the house and the worker was listening to a podcast discussing the evils of transgender people and how to cleanse society, he went out of his way to contact the owner of the business to discuss his disappointment with that worker’s conduct and stress the negative effect that could have had if there had been trans kids in our home.
Our allies will never be perfect. They will never use the perfect language or have the perfect politics. But we have to appreciate those allies and meet them where they are, especially if they are willing to learn.
My dad was raised buddhist and when I watched bill and Ted with him he was like “these guys are unironically the most enlightened people on the planet. They are leaving Samsara for sure” and that man has never been more right about anything ever
The number one funniest example of people inventing bullshit reasons ships they don’t like are “problematic” that I’ve ever seen was people calling Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister “like siblings”.
Fam.
Have you forgotten the number one most notable trait about Jaime Lannister.
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Never seen/read GOT, be right back, gotta look something up.
when internet people are like “i love gothic literature but i hate anything that discusses incest, sexual violence, oppression, misogyny, abuse, torture, gore, murder, or death”
