Why are so many Americans willing to pay for someone else to mow their lawn?
>>3007506>I was recently wondering why car washes are present like 10x more than when I was a kidit's "bad for the environment" to wash your own car at your house. you're supposed to get it washed at a car wash so all the harmful chemicals can drain to some magical place where they won't get into the water table.
I'm getting closeit's not the mowing it's the mowing plus edge trimming plus bush trimming plus weed wacking plus weed killer application and tree trimming and thicker branch cutting on the bushes and then repeat for the backyard and sprinkler maintenance and lawn aeration and lawn food though I just got a cordless brushless hedge trimmer finally so the bushes are easier now, it'll even do bigger branches so I don't have to bust out the hand saw nowI'm renting and there's a ridiculous variety of bushes at my house, way too tall too, I either struggle with a ladder or struggle with a pole trimmerI knocked down one bush a few feet to make it easier and the owners didn't seem to mind, maybe I'll do the other nowI've bought all the equipment now tho so I can't go back
>>3004022These days my street has a lot of Asians. Vietnamese cut their own grass because they are frugal people. Chinese pay someone to do it because they think its low status to cut your own grass.
>>3004022>not having to mow the lawn is worth more than they money they ask for
>>3004041I guarantee you no one is analyzing the situation that much.
So my neighbors sold their house, and an old lady with her probably 45 year old cave man looking neet son moved in next door.Today seems to be their first day to actually live in the house, and their dog is in the back yard just fucking blasting.I went to meet them and say hi and mentioned the dog in passing, and they just kind of said hehe yeah he likes to bark.I want to stop this shit right now, hopefully without getting the cops involved.My first idea is maybe a loud speaker pointing at their house connected to a raspberry pi with a microphone that blasts dog barks loud as fuck pointed at their House every time the rpi detects a dog bark.Kind of like a jeet shaker but more advanced.Btw I'm a cripple in a wheelchair, and not going to be able to do anything crazy, so I have to either do this passive aggressive as fuck or something...anyone have any ideas?
>>2996842I have more or less the same problem.In this case, it's my damn dog. I literally hear him barking all damn day.What about a simple system that when detects barks it start producing a sound like a dog whistle?
>>2996922He did talk to them, you illiterate faggot
>>3007778These DIY systems would need to produce a noise loud enough to disturb the dogs mental loop, and negatively reinforce the barking. It's going to have to be something like a gunshot loudness wise. And maybe you get one that just decides the noise pisses him off and will bark more.The only answer is to train your dogs. It's possible you can nigger rig something once you've trained your dog. If it's a high energy breed, it needs a job. (You don't leave a malinois in a small yard while you work all day).
>>3007778hire a fucking trainer to fix your dog's reactivity dumbassdon't get a fucking dog if you're not gonna train it you fucking third world asswipe
>>29968421/2 cup of antifreeze wait a week and problem solved.
>I run my own roofing business where I’m the only worker. I’ve worked 2 days this week. Yesterday, I woke up at 8am and got to where I’m working at 10:30am, felt tired at 3:30pm and went home. Today I woke up at 7am, fucked around at tool shops until 9am, got McDonalds, ate in my car, got to job, at like 10am. Finally Finished job for customer at like 3:40pm today. Made $2277 from like 10 hours of work.Is it really that easy? Is there something I'm missing?
>>3008786SHINGLES ARE NOT WATERPROOF>SHINGLES ARE NOT WATERPROOF
>>3008735It’s dependent on the area. Places like Colorado you see lots of clay and concrete tile because it hails like a motherfucker. Every once in a while we do a slate roof, but few and far between because they last forever and are ultra fucking expensive to replace not just because of the slate tiles, but because almost 100% of the time all the flashings and gutters are soldered copper and have to be replaced.
>>3008728Well, considering the shingles provides zero water proofing, you can have your roof open for months if you want. Just pick an underlayment rated for that level of UV exposure and high wind nail it so it doesn’t blow off. A big boy synthetic underlayment like Titanium UDL 30 or UDL 50 and decent ice and water shield can keep an unfinished roof dry for months as long as it’s dried in correctly.
>>3008663My highschool did that, great idea Anon
>>3006961So what do you actually do to make money?
fuck guidelinesPeople who actually lived through disasters, what are some things you had that you were most great full you had? What kind of disaster was it and how long did it last? (Tornado, economy collapse, earthquake, extended power outage, etc) What are some things you wish you had most?I heard headlamps are typically high demand.What are things you bought ahead of time thinking it'd be useful for prepping but turned out to be a waste when you depended on it?
Had a wind storm fuck the power up in my area, power was gone for about 4 days. Utility company kept edging us, power will be back this evening, overnight, in the morning, this afternoon, etc.By the end of the third day my chest freezer was just about ready to start thawing things out. Fortunately it is quite nice, packed full, and I had put a heavy blanket over it once the power died but even so it was getting dicey.With $500+ worth of meat inside I figured I could decide between letting it rot and then having to replace it plus finding a way to dispose of it all, or buying a generator.Now this was a pretty wide ranging disaster and it had been 3 days so the only generators available were from Facebook racketeers asking for $12,000 and my eldest daughter or a long drive to the nearest town that still had stock.Drove a few hours, got a little genny, drove a few hours back, fired it up and what do you know the lights came back 2 hours after. Now otherwise we had no power, no lights, still had water but honestly it was pretty chill because it was mild and early summer.Two years later an ice storm ripped through and violated us. 5 days with no power, roads fucked, trees and lines down everywhere. Difference was I saw how lucky we'd gotten the first time. It was down to 100 in our place by the end of it, but we had 3 heavy comforters on the bed, blankets over the windows in the bedroom, and the generator. Kept the fridge good, but also let me put the TV and router on and heated the bed with a heating pad. I now had LED lights, hella candles, whole place was comfy and lit the whole time. 50L of gas stored in advance, barely needed 10. Was cooking nice simple meals on my little Korean butane stove, went through 2 cylinders of the 16 I'd bought with it.Got so bored of mogging the storm I grabbed the chainsaw, also bought after the first storm, and started going around helping clear blocked roads. Went from oh god oh fuck to being a community asset, felt good.
I remember selling some quail cages to a pepper type guy in Alta Dena a few years before the fire. I don't think that was in his bingo card. We were worried about Covid lockdowns at the time.
>>3008698Your food gets that funny electrical taste though.
>>3003099Economic collapse 2008? I think buying and selling of used goods was one of the best assets I had General kikery When government was bailing out we went through a mass deflationary cycle and once again in Covid So goods even just general high grade hobby gear went up in value as supply constrained and/or buying new wasn’t on the radar for most and unemployment money was flowing and time availability becomes a thing due to not having a job anymore or bejng under employee in general This was a micro-sample of my lower middle class suburban experience though In general fiat currency down everything else from guitar amps to pc gaming parts up gold and collectibles etc fuck it even tools (good brand names) (no name and harbor freight stuff has always done poorly in resale)
>>3003099Not so much a disaster. But we had a city wide wind storm that was basically as strong as a weak hurricane in middle of the midwest. Pretty much entire city went without power for a week. Having even a shitty generator to run a hotplate so you can cook food makes a huge difference in how miserable you are.
Had to buy a hot air gun for a quick job. Now im stuck with it seeing where to stick it or what to do with it.
>>3001324Straightening or bending pieces of wood. Heat treating wood for harder and more compression resistant surfaces.You could also remove tool marks from any thermoplastic by just carefully melting the surface and letting the surface tension even out the layer, and for applying waterproofing wax mixtures on cotton fabrics.
>>3001324recurve wooden bow
>>3008492> bowRecurve your PVC bow.Nobody has wooden bows anymore.
Take up vacuum forming.
>>3001324You'll be using it 90% of the time on shrink tubing
I've got recalled polybutylene pipes in my 90s homeHow fucked am I
>>3008871> pushing crazy amounts of chlorine in the linesHmm… I wonder why?
>>3008890honestly it doesn't really matter why. everyone needs chlorine filtration on their homeyou absorb it through the skin, it eats gaskets in all plumbing fixtures, and it is gay
>>3008611Very. Just burn the house down and start from scratch on Monday.
>>3008853hdpe is the plastic where the majority of the worlds chemicals are stored in.nothing present in fresh water can attack this stuff
>>3008611Are they actually recalled or are they just on the banned construction list?I imagine if they're recalled, you should be compensated.
What's the proper way of cleaning this? I always end up making the hole bigger i.e. ruining the flame
>>3008748sonicator
>>3008748What are you currently using? They make tip cleaners for torches if they get small enough.
>>3008789this
>>3008748compressed air
I hate how everything is cheap shit these daysJust glulam and finger jointed scraps stuck togetherCheap plantation timberMicroplastics in everythingChinese made shit everywhereThe fucking generations had all the good stuff like old growth timber and quality species if timberAlso fuck radiata pine especially.
>>3006549As if coin clipping weren't bad enough, they're doing it to our fucking timber. Are there no bounds to their heinous greed?!
>>3000920what the fuck this was a joke when I was a kid, the literal punch line of some unbelievable horse shit practice...
>>3003033>if you don't force yourself to build with sticks and cardboard.wattle and daub?
>>3003011India's administration is a guess at best, their population is probably larger
>>3008204>producing shit on an industrial scaleIndustrialization and specialization turn men into automatons. Npc's if you prefer.The anon you replied to is right. People shouldn't have anything they are not willing to do themselves
Since we got a gardening thread now it seems only right to get ourselves a mushroom thread.https://blogs.cornell.edu/learning/how-to-grow-mushrooms-a-beginners-guide/https://www.almanac.com/plant/mushroomshttps://northspore.com/pages/mushroom-growing-guidesWhat are you growing?What are you trying to grow? How do you avoid contamination?
>>3006831rasteš kej kul? glih sm zaceu z golden teacher
>>3007196Pazi na vlagu, nemoj puno otvarat box i sve će bit u redu.
Small time first timer here. Is it fine to put my oyster bags in a kitchen cabinet? If I cut the bags open for fruiting, are the items in the cabinet safe? It's a condiment cabinet. I don't really have the space or time to build a growing rack right now. If I want to make a new cake, can I just get a small pinch from the old cake to new substrate and keep it going forever?
>>3008288You can use a large plastic tote, i suggest not putting in the cabinet cuz theyll drop a bunch of spores everywhere, especially so for golden/yellow oysters.Heres some vids to give you ideas on what you can do, im sure theres a bunch of other methods though. But the key things you wanna nail are fresh air exchange(FAE), high humidity and mitigate spores from making a mess.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxXTMlCjKRMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OPEqzJ7m5ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKE4rErN6ys
>>2995151Have your totem's fruited? Curious how long they took. I've got a bunch of shiitake logs fruiting, but nothing on totems so far.
I’m on the verge of losing my well paid white collar job- I’m on a pip and it’s not going well so I’m likely going to be funemployed soon. Im not sure I want to go back to that kind of work, it’s changing a lot with ai and probably won’t exist in a few years anyway. I make 200k in a hcol area, which means if I want a hustle to be equivalent it’s gonna need to make like $100hr. I think at that bill rate I can’t do anything commodity, it’d have to be custom/expensive, so I can’t run a print farm and sell flexidrsgons, but instead like life size T. rex skeleton sculpture cast in aluminum for a museum. Alternatively my buddy owns his own cncs and runs 3 big cncs for aviation parts, I could probably learn to run some cncs and buy some more and maybe hire technician to grow his business. Anyone done anything like this? At my salary level diy is hard to get to pencil out
Op here. I love this slow board bc my thread is still here! So, here’s an update:, I’ve failed the pip, got fired, pulled the kids from daycare and am taking care of them full time. I think all relevant parties like the change: I think It’s really fun. The kids like it a lot. My wife is enjoying being able to focus more on her work and having me being able to handle a lot more household stuff. As far as diy stuff, I have energy at the end of the day to actually learn and do things. In my evenings after the kids are asleep, I’ve done a few woodworking projects already, building up my confidence for harder future projects (I am considering building my own dining room table because my wife liked some mega expensive ones for like 5-10k, and it seems like I could buy some tools and crank one out for a lot less- it’d kinda be like having the first customer be my family). I think drones might be a big thing that get beaucoup bucks soon. The us gov is learning from the Ukraine war that drones are the future and it kind of feels like circa 1910 where airplanes were kind of curiosities but during the first world war they got really refined and started to have impacts on the battlefield (and most importantly laid the foundation for ww2 Air Force’s which really were crucial). Someone (probably many someone’s) are going to make tons of money figuring out how to invent/produce/optimize/scale drones. In 2026 it can still be a hobbyist that makes a contribution to the field, that gets bought out by a competitor ($$$) or wins a grant from the gov ($$$) etc. so I am thinking of not doing the woodworking or machining that I mentioned earlier but instead tinker with drones.
>>3006660I'm glad you're spending more time with your family anon but I cannot agree with your plan to work on drones.How many more families like yours will be destroyed thanks to your contributions, if you ever succeed in selling out to the military industrial complex ?
>>3006660There's a shitload of industry already in drones, though there might be plenty of small contracts to make parts of them. Personally though, I think the real money is gonna be in anti-drone stuff, especially once we start seeing AI bots on the ground too. If I had the money and skill level to do it I'd be going full bore on making a real 40k bolter-style weapon since it's what you'd really want against terminators if/when they become real.
>>2999617>aviation partsI smell a supplier for light little aircraft with no FAA approval, which is a bastard of a thing to maintain. See if anything he produces has a legitimate 8130-3 attached to it.
>>3006660Your wife will cheat on you with someone she meets from work (statistically) Tell me one thing about an FPV Drone…. Literally anything. What processor does a drone have? Neros archer already beat you to it. Nobody is going to buy drones from a professional dick sucker Anyways, you should suck dick at the local Buc-ee’s parking lot. $5 /per dick … only 20,000 dicks to get your old salary back dude
For me on the job site its total bramd tools, i chuckle every time i come actoss a makita cuck at work
>>3007940Theyre the only major power tool company that hasnt been bought out by globohomo, so some shills on here naturally hate them
>>3007679Makita just means they started the trades 2008-2012 -ish before dewalt and the Chinese holding company that does ryobi and Milwaukee did their marketing push
>>3007748Think it’s concrete, concrete grinding is a thing flooring guys do a lot For some reason they do it on a rolling stool rather than a purpose built concrete grinder
>>3007940People hate them because you can’t steal them and pawn them as easily as Milwaukee or dewalt So the drug addicts on site will try to bully you into either of the brands and steal your batteries (newer ones) for theirs (abused older ones) And / or steal your new tools to go get high for the weekend
>>3007679Here in the third world those tools will be stolen
Last Threads: https://warosu.org/diy/?task=search2&search_username=artbyrobotTo begin: the project goal: I am working to make a series of humanoid robots. I am using a Biblical theme of naming the first 3 robots I make Adam, Eve, and Abel. The goal is for these robots to have human body inspired musculoskeletal systems, advanced AI, and that they look human and pass for human to a casual observer at least at a distance. They must be able to walk, talk, run, dance, do sports, do chores, manufacture products, and make more robots just like themselves if not even better. My aim is to build a single robot arm and head and then add sufficiently advanced AI to that arm and head to enable it to build the rest of its own body for me. This way I am delegating the work of building the majority of my first humanoid robot to that robot rather than doing that work myself - and this is to save me time.In a like manner, my goal with the AI is to code just enough AI that the AI can begin coding itself and this way I don't have to code most of the AI myself because it will self create itself. I liken this to building a seed and that seed growing into a tree because for me to code that tree would take too long for me and just creating the seed would then save me time.
>>3008720you would face a lot less aggressivity if you actually listened to people I had to tell you 3 times about it and call you a nigger before you admitted it was actually interesting. Anyway you are welcome. >>3008719>Just copying is not enough. copying while also understanding the step and being then able to improvise or improve on the step ITSELF due to understanding the step in a deeper way is keyYou should really watch this video then :https://youtu.be/cqwKceUSZ5Q?si=h4C5GmmLrPQEK6VZWhat you are trying to accomplish is actually being done rn, it's actual research. I'm not saying it's perfect I'm saying it's getting better and better. VLA and world models are exactly trying to do what you describe, building a deep understanding of the world and its causal relationships to actually predict it and generalise using rules it already understands.
>>3008721nope i bet you can't. use my design and make a board lets see. bet you get undercutting and bad traces
>>3008723and the fact this new video isn't how they did it from the outset proves their AI is turd AI and they are finally trying to address that
>>3008733So um when are you gonna release your super cool AI(TM) that is totally going to beat 20 years of research founded by billions of dollars and finally prove to the world the heuristic based computing (you know the AI branch that died when neural networks got bigger) is actually the way to go ? I'm legit curious on how you'll react when you'll inevitably get nothing out of it, I legit hoape you don't harm yourself I don't think you are a bad person you just need some help
>>3005837Dude, don't you think if your idea could be done, the mega corporations would have already done it? How the fuck do you think your dumb ass can make a self-replicating arm when nobody else on the planet can do it? You have ZERO artistic ability, your circuit traces show that. You're sloppy. You're short-sighted. You're BULLSHITTING YOURSELF, of all people. Just admit defeat for once, stop wasting your life, and do something productive for yourself and your family. It's OKAY to fail at this. Failure builds strength. Making these threads just pisses people off, because they see how fucking retarded you are and nothing short of you getting a lobotomy will stop this god-forsaken nonsense. Just STOP. You're learning NOTHING. You are INCAPABLE of learning ANYTHING of value, and you're wasting precious time of everyone involved.At first I thought this was an elaborate trolling attempt. My mind wouldn't accept anything else for an answer. But after seeing your insanity over and over again, I understand that you are deeply mentally handicapped. For the love of GOD, just fucking stop, man. At least stay off the internet, you're only bringing negative value to everyone who sees this. Your posting and behavior makes normal people want to enact violence upon you.
Retileimg my bathroom, the contractor i work fo wanted the tiler to do it, but he is anoying and i dont want him in my apartment, so im doing it my self, never laide any tile before but ive worked asisting the tiler a bunch over the last few years so i have a basic understanding of what to do, still this is takeing for ever
>>3008367Im 60kg thebgravel is standard substrate in my country>>3008370It dose not matter any more the contractor said irs ugly and used the wrong tile have to pull it all up
>>3008385what country we are talking about? we put sidewalk tiles over substrate where i livetiling a bathroom over gravel is literally African cargo cult tier
>>3008745OP is an Israeli settler in ambiguously Israeli territory
>>3008745tiling over gravel will last just fine.. i assume there were no poured floors in the house?whatever, weird but whatever should probably put down some sorta mesh
>>3008754in the fourth world that's probably a standard, but i have news for you...
>Need to buy a drill>check prices on Homeless Depot>Tool plus battery: $148.00>Tool only: $98.00>Battery only: $129.00>Battery two-pack: $149.00make it make sense
>>3007083Rebuild the battery packs and sell them back to your boss at $1 less than retail value. Keep pressing him on what a value it is, especially in this economy. lmao
>>3007063what kind of drill? just bought a 12 v with battery for 55 dollars buy fromchina?
it's not hard to adapt batteries between brands if you already have them.
>>3007087Always a coinflip whether chinesium tools will last 2 minutes or 20 years before falling apart
>>3007063just buy the tool and then the knock off battery, ez
Last thread -> >>2974706 Patch edition - Got a hole? We'll help you!linktr(dot)ee/4chansewing <---- links and shitAlways remember, it doesn't have to be the theme, post your work, post what you want to talk about as long as it has something to do with sewing in general, or the craft in general. We welcome everyone and will try our best to help you out. Yes, sewing is an art, it's a practicing art, you will always suck at it, but remember that everyone starts somewhere, so Google everything! We also talk about cosplay creation, fursuits, and more. Everything sewing related is related, just don't be overly cringe. Or just show off your work.---------------------------------------------------------------Your question may be stupid, but ask it anyway.
>>3007690I just cut pieces of brown paper for patterns. You can just needle or staple them together to test how the product is supposed to look.You could start with a vest that you own and fits you as a starting point.I just use the paper directly on the fabric later when cutting pieces.
>>3005757yes, that's how most machines work since you're usually only backstitching for a few stitches at a time.
Is it too hard to do hand embroidery on a folded piece of webbing instead of canvas? It's not too thick but still folded in half and should look the same from both sides and I'm using 2 colors of waxed thread, wanna make something slavic looking and keep it as a good luck charm What else could I do apart from running stitches both ways in straight lines?
bro go up
>>2996152just finished this piece of shit. Id rather unclog a thousand shitters that have to sew this again althrough i have more confidence for the next verison
