Nah, we do way too much grinding for a battery to keep up. Shit, my air system can't even keep up if I use pneumatic grinders lol.

I work with composites like fiberglass, primarily boat building these days. I've got a workshop and can run cords easily enough. We have to grind between every single layup, just usually a quick scuff of the entire surface. But if you're doing repairs like I am, you also need to grind gelcoat off to expose raw glass. Or have to grind away excess if you didn't cut it before the glass hardened.

Just an ass load of grinding, really. I be out there GRINDIN.

I actually just replaced the motor to my compressor system with an old ass GE tri clad induction motor from decades ago. It's actually serviceable and still runs just fine.

That being said, some tools you might be surprised how much better the new ones are. The old heavy DeWalt grinder I mentioned was actually less powerful though maybe slightly more durable and about 15x heavier than the new DeWalt grinder I replaced it with. But the new one is hands down an upgrade in nearly every way. More torque, less bulk, etc. both of them are serviceable to a degree, the old one has brushes you can replace, I believe the new is some brushless system.

But the fact that a $100-150 tool could have those high tensile strength plastic gears is sad, to me. Technically they may be stronger than steel, but only if they remain in the proper temp range which isn't gonna happen with a professional tool. It's almost impressive, on one hand, how they are able to actually get these tools out there at such cheap price points. But on the other hand, you get what you pay for.

It's like the last time I was in the market for a new grinder. A good grinder is like the holy Grail in my line of work. I had to come back to town between home Depot, ace, harbor freight like 4x over before finally getting one that was around $225. But it was by so much better than even my old 15 pound DeWalt grinder, at a fraction the weight and with more power. I just had to get through a bunch of "pro-sumer" grade trash at around the $100 price point before realizing. There's a step between professional and single use nowadays lol and that's where I rate the "pro-sumer" tools.

And I don't mean the harbor freight "just one job" sorta tools, it's the fake nice looking ones with the crappy plastic gears you wanna stay away from. They can't handle much abuse at alllllllll.

Could you claim salvage rights in a situation like this?

One thing I've learned over the years is you can do everything right and still end up screwed over. It's still worth being safe.

Yesterday I had this guy swerving all over the road while texting and seemingly was messed up on something. Eventually with his erratic speeds and lane change to the left lane, I started to pass him. Cept he saw that and immediately stepped on the gas, right as the road began to curve to the left. The guy didn't make any attempt to follow the curve to the left, instead I just barely noticed over my left shoulder looking back that he was just about to crash into my driver side door, so I swerved off onto the shoulder and hit brakes to let him pass me. If I hadn't done that maneuver right then, there is zero chance he wouldn't have hit me at 55-60mph.

Infuriates me that we gotta share the roads with people like that. But if I hadn't had a suspicion this guy was driving erratically, there's a good chance I would've been in an accident yesterday.

Originally I learned how to work with composites through boat building, actually. And when I was working at the Blackhawk place I mentioned, to keep it vague, my dept head actually had also come from boat building.

When I was 17/18 just before and after graduating highschool, I was able to apprentice under a mentor while doing the custom fabrication related to boat building. But the part you're making doesn't really care what it's going into, so if you can make good parts, you can make good parts in any industry related to composites or working with fiberglass/carbon fiber.

I had essentially zero carbon fiber experience but still around 4ish years of experience working with fiberglass in boat building. Also had a portfolio of hundreds of photos of my work detailing the construction of moulds and parts as well as finished products like boats. From start to finish. Despite being a young guy, was around 22 or so at that point, I was able to sit down and show them I was very knowledgeable on fiberglass and a decent craftsman so far. A lot of guys can get stuck when doing the boat building thing doing basically only one part of the process, so being able to do everything needed to make a new part without a mould makes you stand very far apart. It took a fair bit of applying around at first though, just the nature of being younger and in that industry. But anyone I actually got time with I was able to show I was a viable candidate for a job. Aerospace pays a lot better.

The remote was still inside a plastic sleeve, too.

UTIs can cause incontinence. Especially in older individuals. Can lead to less control and some leaks. Also incomplete emptying of the bladder when using the bathroom. You'd still hope someone would clean up after themselves no doubt.

But I just hadn't even considered such a possibility. I was always trained be meticulous about the bathroom so other people don't have to clean up after you by the very same person lol.

Random question. Your grandfather didn't happen to be raised by depression-era parents, did he? My mom's parents were raised during the depression, and they basically instilled a bunch of almost hoarder like mentalities onto my mom. Growing up and until I left, it was a constant struggle of just shit constantly everywhere. New mysterious shelving appearing and all.

Any time I clear counter space to use the counter, someone comes along and fills it with shit. I feel your pain.

I'm sorry for your dad. My mom went down a similar path cept more on the everyone's gonna be rich, everything is gonna change sorta flavor.

At this point, I just have to accept she's gone. This crazy person took control and the woman who raised me doesn't exist anymore. There isn't a single angle or argument anyone could make or say that will change that. We've tried. It feels like I have a fake relationship with her because any time she brings up her crazy nonsense I shut it down almost acting like the very suggestion is insane and without acknowledging she's deep into it, talk about how those crazy fucks are causing immense damage with their bs.

I dunno how my dad copes. I regularly see him looking just absolutely flabbergasted to hear or bear witness to some of the insanity. He's conservative but there's a gigantic difference between the rational takes my dad has after a lifetime of living in many different countries, and my mom's weird QAnon shit. The two aren't even comparable. My dad could quite easily have an in depth conversation about politics with anyone without it ever turning hostile. My mom starts her conversations with baseless assertions that leave no room for any response other than essentially complete mockery.

I love watching the dirt daubers here. They're always so engrossed in their tasks and I agree pretty much. Never had an issue with them. They seem curious, too, sometimes.

Kinda cute in a way.

Looks incredibly similar to a species of parasitic wasp we have here where I'm at. But fair enough.

He can take their place in the spider sacrifice ritual either way. The ancient tomes make no distinction on the wasp species. For the ritual, anyway.

Polymers are so rad. I'm always amazed that we discovered such things in the first place and now chemically bond materials to each other. In my field, MEKP or some other catalyst initiates the cross-linking of chains of polymers, usually polyester or vinylester resin unless talking epoxies like with carbon fiber.

I work with composites and this is how fiberglass or carbon fiber parts bind to themselves between the layers. It's fascinating, the chemical reaction basically ties the two surfaces together at the chemical bond level.

If it makes you feel any better, one of the largest family of wasps is parasitoid. And what they do to their prey is like, 10x worse. They usually inject them with some sort of venom that either paralyzes or some even change the behaviors of the prey. Then they lead them to their nest, lay eggs inside them, and then seal them inside.

Bastard probably deserved to be wrapped up like that.

I thought for sure it was the men of the house leaving piss stains on the seat, and loudly gave them shit for it. Turned out actually my family member had a UTI and was the actual culprit. She was visiting and I thought the people in the house were just being slobs and didn't put 2 and 2 together on the new piss stain issue.

Rural populations seem to have higher rates of accidents in general, from what I've seen. My old home state of new York had about 20 million people, with about 6 deaths per 100k people driving. In NC, with HALF the population, we had 16 deaths per 100k people driving. With a similar mileage driven by NC residents despite the smaller population.

That was for 2019 but for every year I could find to compare between NC and NY, NC had nearly 3x more deadly accidents than NY.

In NC we have this accent called "high tider" that sounds like what happens if you mix a southerner with someone from 1600s England. They'll word phrases like "I'll not sleep this night." But sound like the most redneck southern you've ever heard on top of that.

High tider would roughly sound like "hoigh toider" with that accent. And they also had all sorts of unique vernacular haha. They called me not only Yankee, but dit dot, and a few others for having been born up in New York lol. Their accent is unique because they essentially lived in isolation on an island from the 1600s with very little outside interaction and were self-sufficient. Made their own nets, boats, etc. didn't have a bridge to the mainland until like, the 50s.

I had a cat stuck in a tree like twice that height up. But she was at the tree line around my house, could visibly see her from inside. I had a very kind neighbor who actually climbed up with his tree stand and rescued her. She was in the tree for many days before we finally rescued her.

cat tax 

Kids need to be able to screw up like that. Plus the world could always use more good dudes.

I remember once when I was a kid, I was at the marina. I was scooping shit up with a little net, and for some reason sorta walked off the dock and fell in. I was in the water for like, a minute, before this man silently reached over and lifted me out. Set me down on the dock, and still without saying anything, walked away lol.

As my mom used to say:

"Someone's in the dog house."

Also sounds like someone ELSE forgot a charger... Also, about the glasses case. They say hindsight is 20/20 but it's pretty clear that was the move of a guilty individual. It's all coming into focus now.

Of course, the answer is simple, and has been staring at us the whole time. Divorce. Or at least a loss of brownie points.

It doesn't really move much forward and back is all I was saying, man. It can't swing downward and forward like it looks, it's more locked to where it's at/going upwards from its current position.

Id be messing with that too. But I'm not only impressed with how they managed this fuck up but also I'm sure that tire grabbed and pulled on the pole helping it end up there like that.

The deck can usually lift up a bit with that foot pedal but not sure if that would give you clearance, especially if it had to be lifted in order to fit in the first place. That hinge part slides it upwards/downwards and slightly forward/back as it lifts up. But mainly intended for the up/down, might only be a few inches of the forward/backward direction.

You stop getting such a strong reaction or sorta get used it if you're getting it on you daily. You COULD wear a tyvek suit to go grind fiberglass in 95 degree heat at 90% humidity. If you were so inclined.

But I just end up getting a bunch of fans going to make a wind tunnel sorta effect and accept that some of it will end up on me lol. Showering every day and keeping work clothes separate also helps.

I think it's comical the way they describe Gen z listening to trusted sources as if that's any different from any previous generation before them. It's literally how humans have always operated, at least for hundreds of years.

Especially nowadays, there's so much information out there, so much of it also false or just iffy. Of course people are gonna turn to what they see as trusted sources or perhaps professionals in their fields. Otherwise it's mountains of information you have to sort through for any given topic. That's not to say nobody researches anything, but on some topics it's not as important and you don't really care to do the deep dive yourself.

Also my boomer mom went off the deep end into all sorts of wild conspiracies. Doesn't seem to me that "fact checking" or checking reliability of sources is this huge thing that can be said to have a generational gap.