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A psychiatrist explained to me, years ago, that women are much more likely to attempt suicide, but by using less-violent means, are much less-likely to succeed in terminating their lives.

Males are less likely to try it, but more likely to succeed.

Girls/women usually try pills, overdoses, guys usually try something violent.

See the "more suicides are tried by girls & women" part of the equation, not just the "more successful suicides are by males" part of the equation.

( I've faint marks from when I opened both wrists with a scalpel-blade, when I was about 10yo, and haven't had the guts to intentionally make-absolutely-certain of my termination .. perhaps-ever.

Both parts of the equation I'm identifying are offensive/wrong, and mis-representing of what's actually going on, as various "activist" factions do, is what I'm attacking. )

In hammers, hickory is the best.

A Vaughn ( spelling? ) California Framer, with hickory handle, is THE framing hammer, and I never want to hear about Estwing steel-shaft hammers again.

The shock-absorption in the hickory is wonderful.

( I've never worked as a framer, but I have worked a few years as the grunt-guy on construction sites, and have tried many different tools, trying to find the ones that work properly for years )

The only question is whether the springiness of hickory would make it prone to falling-off the file quicker than rock-maple would..

Mind you, humidity expansion/contraction would probably be a factor in that, so maybe sealing the stuff, soaking it in varnish or something?

Anyways, it's an experiment I'd do, and if the hickory doesn't work-out, then try rock maple, see?

Pinion seems to be the ones who are getting it right, to me:

I'd look only at bikes based on their geartrain.

( I'm sticking with derailleurs, simply because that's what I got, but .. yeah, I can really see switching & ditching the grease on the pants bullshit )

"Once the easy-to-extract oil is consumed, then only costly-to-extract oil exists to be consumed, and sooner or later the cost becomes too-much to justify."

"Once the easy-to-extract water is consumed, then only costly-to-extract water exists to be consumed, and sooner or later the cost becomes too-much to justify."

It's the same problem.

Oil isn't self-renewing, water used to be, but with ClimatePunctuation, that's changing.

Humankind may have to abandon the praries, later this century, exactly as most of California, most of Texas, most of the Middle East, & most of India are going to be unusable.

Too-many over-40C days per year & NO water for us, both prevent a region from being inhabitable.

The 600+ mass-shootings in the US in 2023 are nothing, compared with the rampaging pogromming that's going to be going-on in the coming years, as The Great Filter continues unfolding..

There's a law, possibly international/UN or something, against making laws that retroactively criminalize stuff, so you're right, on that point.

Pretending that such things won't ever become a crime, however, when the US is at the point of criminalizing

• miscarriage
• some brain-wirings/genders
• violating christofascist supremacism
• not being a Trump-cult member

as the next few years will demonstrate,

is naive/incompetent.

Yes, criminal-law is going to be used to enforce ideological-conforming, throughout much of the West, exactly as China, Israel, Russia, etc, now "use"/abuse law.

That tipping-point has already been crossed, on this world.

And .. what was the chemical-profile of this smell, that .. doesn't need to be tested, .. to know that it doesn't contain health-risks??

Neither ideology nor prejudice substitutes validly for scientific-method.

Don't accept bullshit/propaganda in science's place.

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Limiting dementia's harmful intentions is exhausting.

We NEED to get software, or robots, or something doing it for people.

If not, then we're essentially sentencing a growing percentage of our population to being the full-time-keepers of brainrotted people, doubly damaging our country's viability.

The mental-health costs put on the carers needs to be a concern.

Software+carer or robot+carer is less burden to the carer, you know?

Lighten the load.

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Radio-signal doesn't go through metal, so sticking such a thing inside a metal bell blocks the signal, except where no metal is.

ie, if the top half of the bell is metal, and the lower is plastic, the signal can only get out through the lower-half.

Test the product, to discover how it actually performs, please.

There are many bogus products in our world.

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ANY time you have the Authority & the Consequences/Responsibility divorced from each-other...

...you inevitably get greater dysfunction/corruption/wreckage.

Governments need to be orthogonal to each-other, departments of 'em, too.

Those roads are in Tarana, they need to be governed & managed within Tarana.

All this screaming about "rights" of parents to obliterate-the-validity of children, and obliterate children's-rights...

LET THE CHILDREN VOTE/DECIDE THE ISSUE, NOT US "GROWN-UPS".

It is THEIR prison/containment, that THEIR lives are stuck in:

THEY, ALONE, have moral-ground to be deciding their right to their gender-identity.

THEY are valid, therefore their self-determination must have rights.

Why can't any of the ideology-worshippers stomach this fact??

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I wonder does a solution of baking-soda-in-water work for removing that, from fabric?

It's beautiful work, btw, nice!

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Perhaps the complete-bankrupting of Canada would be preferred to switching-to-other-industries??

Incorporated narcissistic machiavellian psychopathy.