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what are you going to be planting in your garden this year anon?
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Plant zone 7 or 7a or whatever. What are some fun fruits and veggies to plant that will attract hummingbirds when they flower? Also, is it easy to grow currants/gooseberries? I heard those were a good one but being in the US they're foreign to me.
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>>2800575
not fruit or veg, but pic related pulls in lots of humming birds and pollinators for me in 7b. Piss easy too, just spead the seeds over dirt and water them in. You can get a carpet of flowers in about 2 months. If you pull the hummingbirds in with that, then they might go for any other flowers available as well from your fruits and veg. Also hummingbird feeders with sugar water work very well too
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>>2799852
>>>/out/hgm/
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Any good books or resources to learn gardening?
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>>2801138
Check out a local thrift store and flip through the random gardening books there. Often they'll be decent - especially if they look well-worn. Baby boomers that kept a garden that kept going back to the book.

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I am moving up north soon where everything is 3x as expensive. My new house has a large garage though, and I'd like to have a workshop. I just don't know what I should buy before I go to save money.
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>>2800560
>>2800565
appreciate the criticism, the spaces bothered me on the oak one but are less noticible on the walnut/cherry one. I've made another and went way more crazy with the glue. i'm hoping it turns out better.
>>2800706
yeah the oak one was my first time doing this with uneven hard wood. id definitely needed more glue and maybe an additional clamp.
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>>2799614
What's the name of the software to make those plans?
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>>2800968
Fusion360
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So, I finally caved and bought the Bosch router table. For $250 it's actually a very decent kit. It's aluminum, not that vinyl MDF shit. The whole top is aluminum, not just the plate. I was pleasantly surprised by the heft of it. Sure, I could've continued using the makeshift one I made for the rails of my table saw, but it's very convenient having a dedicated unit.

Bosch RA1181
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>>2782716
I live in Tennessee and want to start selling my labor. My understanding is that I need a home improvement license, but I have no idea what the requirements are. I'm wondering if /wwg/ can give me some pointers on either doing that or monetizing my labor some other way.
I'm a teacher in need of summer cash flow and this is the only other mildly valuable skill I have.

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>getting a beverage at circle k after crooozing for a few hours tonight
>some spic is in there ahead of me
>literally has to be like 5' or less
These are the people taking over our country?
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>>2801078
by numbers, not quality
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>>2801078
>These are the people taking over our country?
what has height got to do with it? they mow lawns, clean toilets, paint houses, frame houses, hang drywall, etc. AND THEY DON'T PAY TAXES OR INSURANCE OR WORKER'S COMP AND THEY WORK 80 HRS A WEEK AND DRIVE TO THE JOB SITE THE OTHER 80 HRS OF THE WEEK AND THEY LIVE IN HOVELS 10 TO THE ROOM

and yet npr says they are only doing work that americans refuse to do.
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>>2801113
NPR doesn’t consider you human unless you work an upper middle class office job.

So think of a job a white liberal woman doesn’t want to do, plumbing, gun smithing etc

Those are jobs “Americans” don’t want to do

Send emails back and forth to other upper middle class peopl in offices and play office politics? Job is safe from South Americans migrating through mexico
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>>2798154
spics are so vile.
I'm eager for the Great Mexican War of 2025.

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So this flowerbed is fucked. Not only is a ton of grass growing in it moss is as well. I understand everything must go my question is what tools should I use to clear/clean it out as efficiently as possible?
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>>2797234
Be careful where you get soil from, that it does not have any Grazon contamination.
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>>2799590
>A reddit board is missing it's redditor.

Well you better get back there faggot!
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>>2799789
Astounding creativity!

Best you can come up with 'I have no ammo left. So I'm going to imitate you.'

How flattering.

How to tell us how retarded you are, without saying it directly.
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>>2799207
You do know they spray down wheat, corn, oats, and onions with roundup before harvest?
You ate a fuckton of it already and you ate from fields that were sprayed for years.
It dries up the plants fast, decreasing the time between ripe and ready to harvest.
I'm an organicfag, but I can see the appeal. For example last year I lost half my sunflower yield to some burrowing asshole bugs, but I couldn't do shit but watch them because it has to be dry first.
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>>2800826
Honestly your post was such a low quality, unoriginal, bait post anyways... Like its never been done before. Such originality!

Let me guess, you are the originator/inventor of all such posts pertaining to someone being from, or needing to go back to redit right?

Furthermore, your dumb post didnt make a god-damn bit of sense anyways. I bet 99% of the faggots on redit would see or hear the word roundup and immediately think, " OMG le heckin cancerino!" just as your limp-wristed self did. Anyone who has ever actually been around the stuff wishes it was as dangerous as all you retards think, so it would maybe work better at burning down weeds and keeping them dead.

Go inject some roundup into your shriveled up estrogen filled testicles so you can finish "transitioning" and join the other 46%.

I'm moving and there's a shitty shed pad at the place I'm looking at buying. I want to put a shed on it. How do I repair it to make it usable and safe? I want the shed to be secure and not blow away during a storm
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>>2798183
i had this thought as well. Idk what OPs talking about
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>>2798720
as long at it not on side of hill it will be fine,worst thing that can happen is in a massive flood the foundation floats, but again it's a fucking small as shed not a house.
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>>2796551
if you're not parking anything heavy on it , it should be fine.
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>>2798386
Deep South.
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>>2796551
This is a garbage bin slab, that’s why it is so close to the house.

I just bought a FUBAR Lexus RX350 and I don't have the slightest idea how to fix this. Just use some duct tape and leave it mostly as is? Am I in for a lot of pain and suffering?
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>>2800786
So you got BTFO on /o/ for spending more on that 200k mile accident car than you could get a decent condition one and came here for validation?
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>>2800790
>the classic general
It's a containment thread for forum larpers. I also recommend OP go bother them until they have aneurisms.
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Suction cup you can get at an auto store for ten bucks will make significant progress on that. Toilet plunger if poor. The metal has memory, you can spring it back. Lots of soapy water help plubger stick.

After that get hair dryer and compressed air i think it is thats basically dry ice in a can. Heat it up hot, flip the can upside down and blast it so it forms ice. The rapid cooldown will cause the metal to contract, pulling on the dents straightening them out. Its real cool.

But just dgaf or get a new door too

Also, heat gun/hair drywr
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Also take the door interior off from the inside, get a flat piece of 2x4 so you arent directly hitting the metal, and sneak it thru the x frame on the door, put on ear protection and TAP away at things. Better to do too little than too much with each hit.
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>>2800786
I had an old Nissan 200sx with similar damage in high school, but and hang a new door like other anons said

There is a crash bar inside the door that is impossible to get straight again,

I managed to get the door skin straightened out but that crash bar was a bitch and interfered with window glass

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>I like to add a little resin to my coffee, and Siraya Tenacious is particularly nice.

Last Thread: >>2793796

>Your print failed? Go to:
https://www.simplify3d.com/support/print-quality-troubleshooting/

>Calibrate your printer.
https://teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration.html

If that doesn't help you solve your problems, post:
>A picture of the failed part
>Printer make & model
>Filament type/brand
>Slicer & slicer settings

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>>2801084
Someone tried to fix the bowden tube with hot glue
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>>2801062
Its an aquarium blower being used as a partfan.
At the time it was commonly called a byrd, or maybe bird partfan iirc, this was a few years ago.
It's not a bad way to do a partfan, but your flex pipe needs to be a fairly specific type; flexible enopugh, wide enough, but not stiff or heavy, and the outlet was typically a ~6mm copper tube, stuffed into the flex pipe, then the other end was bent into a circle with little holes all pointing inward and down... which surrounded the nozzle. Which of course (unfortunately) heated the copper, so the air blown wasnt cold.... plus bending it isnt easy to do, neither is drilling the holes just right. So most people just print a shroud of some kind and plug the flex tube into that.
If you decide to try it make sure you buy the biggest model possible of the type you see there; otherwise they are too weak for anything but very precise blowing.
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>>2801093
my bad, its 'berd' thats the right keyword
https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=berd&page=1
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>>2801046
For the rails I just hope the carriages won't be bad quality, there was an option for HIWIN rails but I ended up not getting those. Also yes z belt will be nice because when I installed oldham couplings some time ago I noticed one of the lead screws is bent as fuck.
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>>2800687
Ender 3 whatever is a piece of trash. Get a k1 and up or else you're getting toys. I still got to throw my ender 3 to the trash.

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rate my handrail
what color should i paint it
white aluminum exterior
i was going to go with dark green because of the yard/hrass but maybe a rust red because the brick walkway or something absolutely garish like safety orange or amethyst so it stands out
yes i know my deck is dilapidated
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>>2799892
Looks good anon.
I vote dark green to blend it in. It looks nice but shouldnt be the focal piece when looking at the front door of the house. White to match is safe too, that would be my second pick, but may look shabby as it gets dirty, the dirt splashing up around the bottom from raindrops will stain.
PT pine doesn't take stain well but matching the old deck is a third option.
Whatever you pick I'm sure it'll be fine. Hope you set those 4x4s properly so she doesn't wobble in a year.
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>>2799892
>>2799987
4/10. It works, but aesthetically it's kind of awful. It would probably look fine as part of a deck with matching railings around it, but on that porch with no railings it doesn't fit in at all just sitting there by itself. FYI residential building code doesn't even require a handrail there since there's only 2 risers.
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I'd hitch my horse to it.
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>>2799987
It's nice anon, I'd touch it for sure.
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Does it have a graspable surface 32 to 34 inches off the ground 1 1/4 to 2" in diameter?

Cuz thats code for what a handrail is sposed to be. So just dont rent it.

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Do they literally just blow warm air over the food?
some of them cost over £500. I already have metal boxes and hot wind isn't exactly hard to attain.
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>>2799324
No, I meant the carafe.
>from Germany
Lmao. I already checked and it's only close. Original Octimes carafes have some value to people here, so I was a bit surprised seeing one on 4chan out of all places.
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>>2799334
Sorry, meant yes. It's late here.
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>>2799334
its a Pasabahce. a high quality brand. made in turkey, so that explains why my dad bought it in germany
https://www.pasabahce.com/en/about-us
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Made another batch of lamb jerky. it's done after 18 hours, to reiterate; i just have 3 x 25W light bulbs and 1 x 15W light bulb, with a fan blowing air over one of the light bulbs.
after 20 hours it was good and after 25 hours it was a bit TOO dry! but it's still good and my intention is to preserve it for long camping trips, so this will do the job just fine.
Best thing I've made in ages.

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I'm not talking about used cars. I mean for metal, machinery, etc.

I see so many Euro videos where they're like:
>Just head down to the scrap yard to find one

Nigga, I don't have that. None of the metal recycling places will sell me material. I just want to get some cheap metal parts and old machinery, but they won't sell it to me.
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>>2800104
>Sue-happy culture and insurance ruin everything once again.

It's easy to blame plaintiffs and lawyers (insurance companies suck though) but this is really actually backwards. People often have no choice but to sue.

The problem is our whole notion of "liability" and the way we've set our culture up where, everything is always *someone's* fault, *someone* has to pay, etc.

If someone gets injured, it can be a major problem for them. They have at minimum medical bills, their life might be significantly changed for the worse depending on what it is – they might not be able to work for a long time, they might have permanent impairments they have to pay for equipment or help to compensate for. Instead of just setting up our society where people know their needs are going to get taken care of even if something goes wrong, having an actual social safety net, we decided that nah, we're not going to look out for each other, you need food, shelter, medicine, someone to wash your ass because your spine doesn't work anymore? You've got to go and take it from someone "fair and square."

So everyone is necessarily positioned as adversaries, that's how the so-called justice system is explicitly conceived, at each other's throats. Someone gets hurt? You need to cover your ass or you've lost your whole business and life's work and now you can't feed *your* kids. Nevermind if it means fucking over someone who got hurt and can't work and needs money to feed *their* kids.

It's a mess, there's no way out of it that doesn't mean either going back to the days of "you just die," or abandoning the kind of alienated, adversarial individualism we've been sold as a "free" society.

For the record, never been a plaintiff or a defendant in a lawsuit, I just see what's up and how this traps people into making choices that are worse for everyone involved than if we could just be chill and look out for each other.
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>>2793035
>Why are there no scrap yards in the US?
We have scrap yards in Arizona that are bigger than europoor countries, what nonsense are you on about?
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>>2793035
>Why can we have nice things
We keep inviting 3rd worlders from all over the planet and the first thing they do is go through our garbage then move on to our scrap yards
After a generation or so, the scrap yards no longer exist.
You can go to >>>/o/ and ask why we don't have an abundance of classic cars and you'll find the 3rd worlders bought took those as well.

>Inb4 cash for clunkers
Before that, lad.
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>>2799869
How the fuck am I supposed to know who has bars of metal laying around?
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>>2793993
>>2796172
>you indian gay
>use whole man

WHat musical instruments can I build especially on the cheap?
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>>2800354
Someone was making the point that the body of an electrical guitar, unlike an acoustic guitar, doesn't matter as long as it can support the components. He wasn't giving detailed instructions on how to build a guitar.

In other words, there's a dumbfuck in this thread, for damn sure, but it's not that guy. Guess who it is.
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>>2800366
>making the point that the body of an electrical guitar, unlike an acoustic guitar, doesn't matter as long as it can support the components.

That "point" was not made at all, no mention whatsoever of acoustic vs electric guitars or support of components, you just pulled all of that out of your ass.
And again, no mention of the one component mounted to a guitar body where that "support" is critical to the whole thing working.

>In other words, there's a dumbfuck in this thread, for damn sure, but it's not that guy. Guess who it is.

You, for being the seething retard defending a moronic post that saw fit to mention needing a "plug" but never mentioned THE single most important and complicated part of building a functional guitar, whether it's electric or acoustic.

You still don't even know what part I'm talking about, do you? LMAO
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>>2800368
nta
Everyone knows you're talking about the frets.
I agree with everything you've said but you're still an insatiable fucking faggot.
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>>2800428
Well to be precise I guess you're hinting at the neck as a whole; frets and truss rod and all.
Faggot.
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>>2795732
Okinawan banjo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kankara_sanshin

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- you can collect your own water
- you can grow your own food
- you can produce your own energy

So why are internet contracts necessary? You can tune into radio for free so how come there's no antenna device that pulls free internet from the air in a similar manner?
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>>2800263
>google it
>dont necro old threads
>use the search
Then wonder why forums die into dead sites.
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>>2790879
>>2790890
just get some repeaters with solar panels and attach them all around your place; you'll have access to all the networks pingable by that net. Latency will be bad obviously, but it'll be free.
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>>2790879
Find nearest café or other business offering free wifi
Buy a wifi router, a couple of extreme long-range wifi access points, and a hi-vis vest. Put on hi-vis, set up router and one wifi antenna on roof of business offering free wifi, claim to be from government agency just setting up something to measure air pollution if anybody asks. Make router connect to wifi using its own antenna, connect with wire to long-range AP, go home and set up other long-range AP, you now have contract-free internet.
Depending on how off-grid you are, you might need a few more relays inbetween. I think Linus Tech Tips showed off 10km wifi like 5 years ago.
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>>2800263
>>2800302
Cope harder.
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>>2790890
your best bet is to get something like this and just steal free wifi from someone
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005993407926.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.pcDetailBottomMoreOtherSeller.207.1762BX0mBX0mBg&gps-id=pcDetailBottomMoreOtherSeller&scm=1007.40000.326746.0&scm_id=1007.40000.326746.0&scm-url=1007.40000.326746.0&pvid=e0c39b58-9adc-4f1b-a134-62b25a69e380&_t=gps-id:pcDetailBottomMoreOtherSeller,scm-url:1007.40000.326746.0,pvid:e0c39b58-9adc-4f1b-a134-62b25a69e380,tpp_buckets:668%232846%238107%2362&pdp_npi=4%40dis!AUD!58.42!7.17!!!271.34!33.31!%402103205117120329824794324e4d4b!12000035216064834!rec!AU!!AB&utparam-url=scene%3ApcDetailBottomMoreOtherSeller%7Cquery_from%3A

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i own 40 acre property on a main road, i recently lost my job and am doing random things for income, does anyone have any reccomendation for making money off farm land with road acess. for insance i am considering putting corded wood for sale by the bundle, i have also been in contact with birders because migration zone
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>>2800525
e-girls are not heterosexual, faggot,
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drugs
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>>2799042
You can run grazing animals, but do it with paddocks and move them everyday. Moving is easy when they know there's fresh stuff in the next paddock over. Issue is cost of fencing, I would think.

There's tons more info online. That carboncowboys youtube channel is covering it pretty well.

Moving them daily eliminates so many issues. Worming. Vet bills. Health etc.
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>>2800905
yes i do want to do this in the future
but i am currently building infrastrucutre
and this is hard work
it took 5 months to build my cabin and patio
i have fencing
but to fence a ton is a huge undertaking
so i need some time to do that
my main thing
is immediate small cash
that i can use to live one

i only need a few hundred a month
and need be somthing that is very small
i have started sellling furniture

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does anyone know
how do you find people to graze on your land
i have maybe 8 acres of land that is near my road and is completely virgin

getting people to use it is fine as long i dont have to care for the animals

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Thoughts on building an airboat? Are they as fun IRL as in Half Life?
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Cruising like a fan boat on the glade
He'll tweak ass your ass across the cross fade
So watch your back when he takes the stage
Or he'll send you off on a naked rampage
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>>2800691
sorry, what he's trying to say is it could probably rush 69 Muslims at 80 km/h to run a train on your daughter.
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>>2800479
it doesn't matter, you won't do it.
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>>2800479
>post 1904
>not building a hovercraft
ISHYGDDT
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>>2800691
952 kg and 223 kW

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does this really work in america? i need to resupply my workshop, what are the best cities to do it?
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>>2800908
They do, but store clerks are ever slightly more intimidated by the a hoodlum black over a scrawny white methhead.
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>>2800908
>Do you think that white meth heads don't steal stuff?
they don't get a free "get out of jail" card
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eBay is full of stolen tools.
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>>2800914
So there are a higher percentage of blacks in jail, but that's because they all have a "get out of jail" card? What are you trying to say?
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I don't understand why you have to pay for things. Why can't you just walk in a big shop and walk out with power tools for free? The big companies make billions


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