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c/camping-gear-reviews•

charles_young92•12h ago

Swore by a heavy 3 burner stove for car camping until it dumped rain on me at Lake George

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c/buy-it-for-life-gear•

charles_young92•4d ago

I beat my kitchen faucet drip with a $3 cartridge instead of a $280 new fixture

20

c/cnc-operators•

charles_young92•4d ago

Was sure those cheap insert holders from the flea market in Dayton were junk, ran one for 6 hours on steel

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c/cashless-society-debate•

charles_young92•7d ago

PSA: my bank app showed me last month that I'd been letting auto-pay skim $23 a month for stuff I canceled in 2024

21

c/conspiracy-debates•

charles_young92•11d ago

My brother-in-law swore the moon landing was faked until I showed him one thing online

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c/algorithmic-fairness-debate•

charles_young92•13d ago

My stats professor in 2019 said humans would always catch the bias, and that claim has aged terribly

6

c/backyard-builds•

charles_young92•13d ago

Finally got my raised beds level using a trick from a guy at the lumber yard

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c/computer-technicians•

charles_young92•16d ago

Question about hitting 600 tickets last quarter and feeling like I cheated

9

c/bookbinders•

charles_young92•20d ago

Tried PVA on a family Bible at my shop in Dayton and it went bad, sticking with wheat paste

7

c/backyard-builds•

charles_young92•27d ago

Poured a concrete pad for my shed last month, and doing it in two small batches was way easier than one big pour

7

c/avionics-technicians•

charles_young92•29d ago

Bought a $220 'calibrated' pitot static test box off a guy in Wichita, and it cost me way more than that

11

c/camera-repairers•

charles_young92•29d ago

Rant: I bought a $40 'professional' lens cleaning kit and it made my sensor worse

26

c/camera-repairers•

charles_young92•1mo ago

Cheap screwdriver set almost cost me a customer's Leica, switching to JIS bits saved the day

10

c/cnc-operators•

charles_young92•1mo ago

Just realized the air blast trick on deep pocket aluminum actually works

6

c/cable-company-horror-stories•

charles_young92•1mo ago

Vent: paid $95 to a 'cancel my cable for me' service and they did nothing

Recent Comments

4d ago

Tried the one line a day thing for January, ended up with 31 pages of grocery lists

Mine turned into a weather log (turns out "cold again" covers a lot of ground). The one line thing works fine, it just grabs whatever's on top of your brain, and for a lot of us that's milk and errands. Your month sounds pretty normal to me.

5d ago

The beans and rice math from my coworker in Des Moines blew my mind

Guess I'd get so bored of beans by day ten that I'd pay $9 just for a sandwich.

6d ago

Vent: I tried flushing my own brake fluid with a $12 hand pump and got a soft pedal for my trouble

Watched a guy do his with a turkey baster once, pedal felt great somehow.

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7d ago

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The $15,000 mistake I watched a coworker make at our company retreat in Austin

Who thought that was a good idea? Telling 30 people your salary at a work retreat is just handing them ammo. Dave basically wrote his own rejection letter.

12d ago

My cousin who does VFX for a living watched the 9 minute "UFO over Phoenix" clip with me and pointed out the exact frame where the motion blur loops

Wow, and once you spot that loop your brain just locks onto it forever.