In the toilet.

I always thought it meant ‘use the one that’s open’

Paint the town brown 🤘

It’s a beaut!

You suffer from false nostalgia. The old machine is a beast, yes, but it has a swing shuttle. It holds very little thread, is hard to wind and load, gets tangled and makes a really crappy lockstitch. Has no reverse, piss poor stitch length adjustment and not enough balls to handle any layers without the belt slipping.

The new one is a piece of crap in comparison of build quality, but in terms of function and utility it blows the old one out of the water. And price.

I have an old one and have used it lots. It’s fun to use, but far from efficient. I’ll keep it around for the apocalypse but I’ll use a modern one from at least the 70’s (the nineteen seventies).

10 packs of underwear for $8.99.

Only one of these things draws media attention

Whats that? Trans people?

You should read Flatland it’s an awesome book and blew my mind as a young textile geek.

They used to crop dust DDT for fuck sakes.

Dude, politics is a system that society has created to prevent change. When you get that, the western system of governance makes more sense.

You’re looking at it from the wrong side. Imagine a politician saying, “we’re starting a new tax, 20% of your income”. You ask why, what’s it for and he says “everything!” how keen are you for that?

All taxes were created one at a time and sold to people individually. Politicians said “we need money for x, we need to tax y to pay for it”. Run for office on a platform of eliminating all taxes with your omnibus tax reforms and we’ll see how it goes.

I think because when a tax is getting implemented the people want to know exactly why they pay it and what it’s for.

Here we have school boards that manage a very large area of many schools. The taxes of many municipalities pool to fund many schools. These tax systems are old and probably very hard to change. I’m sure there are better ways to do things but the political might to change the system isn’t there.

I’m all for tax reform, but people need to understand what taxes pay for what stuff. I’m sure municipalities would like a different way to generate revenue than property taxes as well.

In Canada we like “sin” taxes on bad for you things. The lottery funds schools, liquor taxes fund health care for example.

I want to pay and gladly will for community enrichment,

Most people say this and I agree. And then the comment under you is complaining about paying property taxes which directly pay for these things you’d like to see funded.

Here’s my sign.

The part about wrapping around the treads between the button and shirt is to give space for the button hole side and to protect the threads from wearing against the button hole and provide longevity to the repair.

I can’t tell if it’s an Americanized version of lighter or litre.

The worst part is, after you block all the foreign language communities, all the Linux, all the loli anime, there’s very little left.

There hasn’t been a post in /sailing in 2 years. Depends what you’re looking for I guess.

I feel the same same way about Linux posts and pervy anime. Blocking communities is how lemmy dispenses dopamine.