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After the phone call, I logged back into DayZ and continued gaming in my underwear while enjoying my 7th coffee.

Edit: How come post about a partition I did in 3 days outperforms a post about bathroom remodel I worked at for 2 months, lol.

I just bought a new 60 cm bubble level from a relatively reputable brand - Empire - and I had to go through six of them in the store before I found one that was accurate. I own three longer ones, two of which have been miscalibrated since the day I got them. The third one would have been as well, but luckily I checked it before buying.

It would be so easy to just add a small adjustment screw for calibration. I don’t understand why they don’t do that. Even the more expensive ones I’ve seen don’t have one. I’ve developed serious trust issues because of this.

Also, in case you didn’t know, you can check the accuracy by rotating the level 180 degrees and seeing whether the bubble stays in the same place.

Something, that if you found out the actual truth about, you'd feel like you knew all along but didn't just want to accept it?

No politics please.

In the summer time I try and get more creative and when ever possible I'll climb onto a roof or go by the water for example.

Except when I'm working for this one particular elderly couple. I don't even pack my lunch because they always cook for me.

Edit: Done

I'm a self-employed contractor and this was the biggest job I've done so far. I guess this still counts as DIY since I did it all by myself? (except for the electric)

Tried to

I'm a self-employed contractor - been at it for almost 2 years now. Yesterday, a customer told me today was a national holiday, so I said, guess I'm taking the day off then.

Now I'm at home under a heated blanket, sipping coffee and watching YouTube videos. I still get this nagging feeling like I should call someone to say I'm not coming to work or something. It hasn't quite sunk in that I'm my own boss.

It just feels like I got laid off 2 years ago and never went back to work. Sure, I've been working the whole time, but it doesn't feel like it.

I even painted the cut ends as I happened to have a can of matching color.

It was just a cheap single-use brush I was gonna toss anyway, but I remembered seeing a YouTube video from seejanedrill about using oil-based soap to clean brushes, so I figured I'd give it a shot.

I let it soak overnight in a plastic bag with undiluted pine soap, then cleaned it this morning with a stiff brush. Yesterday it was rock solid - now it's perfectly soft, like new.

Words cannot describe how good it feels to wrap yourself into one of these when you're cold.

I heat my house with just a heatpump but it can't quite keep up when it gets well below 10 degrees celcius and I'm too cheap to turn on electric radiators. I bought an electric blanket for 22 euros and I just heat that instead. Even just sitting on it makes a huge difference.

In my personal opinion, this site is completely unusable without heavy content filtering. Just being picky about which communities to follow and users to block isn't enough.

That said, I realize I might be in the minority on this, so I'm curious what others are doing to preserve their sanity.

Elisa's data cable between Helsinki and Tallinn was damaged on Wednesday, according to the Finnish telecom firm.

According to a police statement, the Border Guard located a vessel suspected of causing the damage. Finnish authorities took control of the ship as part of a joint operation.

The suspected vessel was intercepted by the Border Guard patrol ship Turva and a helicopter in Finland's exclusive economic zone, while the cable damage reported by Elisa is located in Estonia's economic zone.

The police have consulted the National Prosecutor's Office, which has issued a prosecution order.

Police are investigating the incident as aggravated criminal damage, attempted aggravated criminal damage and aggravated interference with telecommunications.

Last Christmas, an oil tanker called Eagle S dragged its anchor along the seabed, damaging several undersea cables between Finland and Estonia. The captain of the vessel claimed the incident was accidental.

Following a trial this past autumn, Helsinki District Court said it lacked jurisdiction in the case.

At 1:00pm on Wednesday, Finnish President Alexander Stubb said in a post on social site X that the country "is prepared for security challenges of various kinds, and we respond to them as necessary.

..and why?

Excluding the obvious such as clothes and utensils.

"It's not a principle if it doesn't cost you anything"

Also just curious about your deeply held principles in general.

No political grandstanding please.

They held meetings twice a year, and members were informed well in advance so they had time to stuff themselves, as public weigh-ins were a big part of these.

"We're fat and we're making the most of it" was their mantra.

"I've got to be good-natured; I can't fight and I can't run" was their motto.

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Broadly speaking, you probably agree with the large majority of the views commonly attributed to whichever group you identify with - what are the exceptions? Something that if you mention without a caveat immediately makes people jump to conclusions or even attack you?