I’m not a marksman by any means, but shouldn’t the buttstock be in the pocket of his shoulder? It looks like the recoil from the next shot will send that thing flying backwards

Dude. Seriously?

Are they any better off with it? I don’t the current rates but it used to be around a few pounds of rice. It’s desperation rates for desperate people.

I don’t disagree with what you’re saying. But learning to tune a plane takes skill and time. People get into woodworking because they want to build things out of wood. The love of adjusting tools comes later.

It must have some decent machine heads to hold tune. Did you buy it used?

It’s really common advice to not start with the cheapest gear. Yes a lot of us learned to play on dime store guitars but would have suffered less with a quality instrument. The same is true for just about everything.

Lol. Welcome to the underbelly of comparative anatomy.

/cries in biomedicine

Most places to do it with insects. Sometimes they just leave them out but any organization with volume will use beetles.

I used to teach anatomy 20+ years ago. Sadly many of the skulls are sourced from the poorest people in impoverished countries. Companies pay a death benefit to the families or to the individual and then “harvest” the skull after death. They used to be priced based on the number of teeth and the presence of mandibular/maxillary degeneration. The highest priced skulls would come from donors and would have all their teeth.

Here’s a link to the UCLA scandal if you want to get a feeling for how scummy the entire industry is

My post-doc paid $35k and lasted 5 years. You’d switch fields too.

I’ve done the Burgess Shale hike. I was surprised to hear how few anomolacaris specimens there are. Lots of pieces, but very few segments are attached to each other. The species is now being found in China and I understand that some of those specimens are more complete.

She is a civilian member. As you were.

I’d just ignore it and play by pulse. You learn to ignore that stuff - out of time clapping, background noises etc.

I went with Ryobi under the rubric of “if you use it enough to break it then buy a good one”. I have a wall of green tools because most of them are used only occasionally. My hammer drill is the one that is gonna go. And yeah. I will buy something f’in awesome. Because using an underpowered hammer drill sucked.

Be prepared for endless mockery no matter which direction you go. Best of luck sir.

How can this list even exist without They Live (1988)

Lol.

This drives me nuts too, but most of them fall into one of two categories. They are either B2B so don’t care about individual consumers, or they are “lifestyle” businesses with basically one employee who doesn’t or can’t work excessive hours.