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Cake day: November 30th, 2023

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  • Man, this shit’s kinda wild to me. A hundred years ago, laundry was a whole day, heavy labor affair, at least once a week. Hauling water, mixing and soaking and scrubbing, and scrubbing, and scrubbing, and scrubbing, and scrubbing, and scrubbing, and scrubbing dumping water, hanging and wringing and drying

    Now we have machines ad utilities that do 98% of the job, and it still feels like all I fucking do









  • Buddy.

    JC Penny, some years ago, tried to change their pricing scheme, from the typical “$29.99 +tax” to flat “$30, tax included”

    Their sales dropped so hard they reverted in two months.

    Americans are born, bred, raised to be fucking stupid, and forcefully shoved into shitty educational systems that make them that stupid. The design of American cities is built for people to be stupid and isolated.

    There’s a reason other countries refer to the people that live in them as citizens, and we get branded as consumers.

    There’s a level of respect from the top down that is sorely lacking






  • Ah yes, the sun, heating up my car to millions of degrees with its nigh-infinite fuel source. As it does.

    Yeah, insulation matters, that’s half the point of the forge. The other half is the fuel you’re using. Regular wood fires cannot get hot enough to melt steel.

    Oxy/acetelene torches burn hot enough they need no insulation to nearly instantly liquefy steel. Propane cannot do that. Even with the oxy.

    Anyway, are you talking about the live footage I watched in school? Where they clearly collapsed from the bottom, like a controlled demolition? The day it happened?

    We had a half day





  • Different fuels absolutely burn at different temps.

    I’m a welder and a blacksmith.

    When you’re using coal, you use an easily ignitable fuel, like wood or naptha to get the coal to burn.

    The coal burns hotter and is harder i start than your starter fuel, and cannot be started with just a spark.

    The coal burns down into coke, a totally different substance, which burns hotter than the coal.

    Even still, on your third level of fuel, in order to actually get steel to a workable temp, you’ve got to add more oxygen, to make it burn even faster and hotter.

    This is all inside a forge, a device that’s well insulated and made to heat steel to a workable temp.

    There are other fuels that can be made to work, and they all also require blower fans, to add more oxygen.

    Or in the case of an oxy/acetelne cutting torch, a bottle of pure o2

    Charcoal, derived from wood in a similar fashion to coke from coal, can sort of be used, but does not and will not burn hot enough for anything much larger than a spoon, and aimply can’t get hot enough for forge welding.

    Now, essentially a giant housefire, getting hot enough to get those steel beams to fail? Sure!

    Why’d they collapse from the bottom, that wasn’t on fire?