I’d consider Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson to be a solar punk themed book. It starts off dark because it takes place in the near future, but ultimately it’s about humanity changing and making positive progress.

His book Recursion is also an amazing ride.

Yeah, I had an Etsy store just to make money to fund my own woodworking. Making the same thing over and over took the fun out of woodworking and with the costs of materials, packaging and shipping, I wasn’t getting much of a return from it. After a few orders one of the things I sent broke because I wasn’t good at packaging so I had to refund it which blew away all the profit from the other orders. I decided it wasn’t worth it after that.

I’m not a season ticket holder, but I went to a couple games last year and I thought it was a really fun experience. I can understand it being depressing for a lifelong, dedicated fan to see the rapids go from a championship level team to what they are now, but as an outsider, the games are fun to watch. The stadium is fairly small so most seats have a great view of the field and the single game tickets aren’t expensive.

Makes sense. Thanks!

Are you able to get as much of a stretch at the bottom using this? Just looking at the picture, I feel like the pad would limit your depth?

Singers? You mean like the sewing machines? I’m just trying to understand here.

If you want shirts with different styles you should check out Dan Flashes. They’re expensive, but worth it because the patterns are so complicated.

Thank you!

Jupiter and Venus

I read Dark Matter a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Apparently there’s going to be a TV adaptation on Apple TV+ sometime in the future.

I also really liked his book Recursion (possibly more than Dark Matter) and I’m waiting for his new book Upgrade to be available at my library. Can’t wait to read that one.

social.coop is an instance run as an official cooperative with a voting system and transparent financials. Seems to be lots of different interests on there and everyone seems left-wing. They’ve been starting some cool stuff with trying to meet with other cooperative or democratically run instances and even help others start cooperative instances.

They have a wiki page here for more info: https://wiki.social.coop/home.html

Edit: wanted to point out that I haven’t seen any kind of talk on there that you mentioned you saw in other servers. I have also heard good things about hachyderm.io which seems to be left, but is much more focused on tech/hacker culture.

Any better tires for RR2 that you’d recommend?

Figured that would be too good to be true lol thanks

Do you mean the Lamars on McCaslin or are you saying there’s a Lamars in that 711?

The New Scientist Essential Guide for climate change is really good: https://shop.newscientist.com/collections/the-essential-guide/products/the-essential-guide-8-climate-chanege?variant=39484342141025

New Scientist is a science magazine that I really like, but they also put out standalone “essential guide” books for various topics and I think their climate change one is really good. It does touch on politics and society a bit, but it’s mostly about the science.

Edit: just realized you specified “read or listen to while running”, so this might not be what you’re looking for. It’s still really good though lol

I have this table saw which has worked well for me. It’s on the cheaper/small side and ideally I’d like to get a larger one eventually, but this was my first table saw and it’s been working great for the past three years. It’s also compatible with dado blades which I read the dewalt table saw that’s comparable to this one is not for some reason. Steve Ramsey actually has plans for a table saw cart which I built to put the saw on so I don’t use the folding stand that it came with. https://www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-15-Amp-10-in-Portable-Jobsite-Table-Saw-with-Folding-Stand-R4518/309413142

By the way, the first three projects for his weekend woodworker course (the basic mobile workbench, side patio table, and garden bench) don’t use a table saw. You just need a miter saw, sander, drill/impact driver, jigsaw, and circular saw.

The tools needed for the course are a miter saw, table saw, random orbit sander, drill/impact driver, jigsaw, and circular saw. One of the things I really like about Steve Ramsey is he sticks with essential tools for his projects and didn’t start using specialized or expensive products as he got more popular.

Wanted to add another comment recommending his paid courses: the weekend woodworker, powered up, and the weekend workshop. Usually I’m disappointed when I pay for some kind of online type course, but he did such a great job with them and I felt like I got more than what I paid for.

A friend recommended that book to me and I stopped part-way through for similar reasons. The book “Get a Financial Life” by Beth Kobliner is one that helped me with financial literacy (it is aimed at people in their twenties and thirties)

They seem to vary a bit in size. I think most would about fit on a dime, maybe slightly bigger

Ok thank you. I really appreciate the info