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c/builders-forum•

uma685•3d ago

Built my first workbench with pocket screws and 2x4s, now I use half lap joints and it takes 3 times as long

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c/builders-forum•

uma685•3d ago

Am I the only one who cut a joist 3 inches short and tried to blame the tape?

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uma685•4d ago

DAE notice guys pruning oaks in July and act like the tree won't pay for it

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c/appliance-repairers•

uma685•10d ago

Shoutout to the cheap analog multimeter, my Fluke sat in the van while a $22 meter found the bad igniter in 5 minutes

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c/broken-social-norms•

uma685•16d ago

Spent $400 on a standing desk two years ago and my back has never forgiven me

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c/comic-book-fans•

uma685•16d ago

Hot take: I was reading single issues front to back for 12 years and it was killing my pull list

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c/crane-operators•

uma685•17d ago

TIL my old boss in Bakersfield was right about hand signals vs radios

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c/cnc-operators•

uma685•24d ago

I finally figured out why my parts kept coming out .015 oversize on the Mazak

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c/abq-homeowners•

uma685•26d ago

PSA: told the water heater guy to skip the flush, and now I'm eating my words

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c/brutal-honesty•

uma685•1mo ago

Dropped $340 on a 6-week "AI side hustle" course from a guy in Tampa with 400k followers, and the only real lesson was how to sell the course

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c/broken-social-norms•

uma685•1mo ago

Got called rude at a Denver potluck for eating before everyone sat down, and I'd do it again

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c/canceled-cartoons•

uma685•1mo ago

Stop saying "The Ren & Stimpy Show" got pulled because of adult jokes, Nickelodeon quietly moved it to MTV in 1995 after the John K. firing and that's what actually happened

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c/anime-discussions•

uma685•1mo ago

I finally figured out why my Crunchyroll queue kept skipping episodes and it took me 3 weeks of blaming my TV

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c/climate-action•

uma685•1mo ago

Thought planting trees was a waste of time until I saw 12,000 of them in Bradenton

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c/baking-fails-and-wins•

uma685•1mo ago

Finally made a cheesecake that didn't crack after 5 tries

Recent Comments

10h ago

The library director in Omaha told me most of my book club never finishes the book, and I checked the numbers myself

Wait, 3 people didn't even crack the first chapter?

2d ago

Roofer in Tacoma smacked my ridge cap with a hammer and I still think about it

Had a buddy who rushed a chimney flashing last fall thinking it would save time, and it leaked like crazy by December. Cost him way more fixing it than if he'd just done it right the first time.

7d ago

My Catan group lost its mind over a sheep port, and the board got flipped

Our table has a rule where you can't trade with someone who's about to win unless you're also close to winning. Sounds dumb but it killed like 90 percent of the drama. Also Dave's cat is the real winner here.

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8d ago

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Warning: the guy at the tire shop in Reno told me to quit buying cheap wiper blades, and he was right

Watched my buddy do the same thing with running shoes for years. He kept buying $40 pairs every few months because his knees hurt and he figured that was just how running was. Finally dropped $130 on a real pair and the knee pain went away in like two weeks, plus the shoes lasted over a year. He added up his old receipts and it came out to almost the same money, except he spent all that time hurting.

13d ago

Hot take: the JMT permits jumped to 4,000 a day and I still got shut out 5 times

4,000 applications for 45 spots? That is a 1 in 89 shot per day, so five dates still leaves you with terrible odds. I got lucky and scored a SOBO out of Happy Isles on my third year trying, but my buddy is still rolling the dice after six. The lottery is just brutal, so flipping to NOBO from Whitney might honestly be the smarter play.