I have some better quality kitchen knives I like keeping sharp.

I use a two-sided whetstone 400/2000 grit for basic shaping (400 is akin to those rolling sharpeners, to be used only when you fucked up real bad), a leather strop with green sharpening paste (~6000-8000 grit) glued to a piece of wood, a plain leather strop, and a honing steel.

Green sharpening paste is most of what I ever use, a couple of strokes weekly (more realistically about 20 once a month), and maybe polish it up with the plain leather strop. Keeps the knives wicked sharp, and then I just hone them after each use.

Sometimes I do stupid things and get burrs in my edge (like cleaving frozen bone), that’s where the 2000 grit saves me.

400 I guess is for when the apocalypse comes or your kids decided to practice chef’s knife throwing into scrap metal. It’s nice to know I can remake a whole edge, but rarely used.

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Go picket, with enough people showing that justice matters, they’ll have to find a less corrupt judge.

Tl;dr:

Bathtubs started small due to size constraints of rooms, but got smaller because it’s cheaper to manufacture and handle smaller tubs.

#savedyouaclick

How is it messy for the employer to keep wages at market prices?

You don’t have to match anything or contend with mass quitting if you just pay the going rate to start with.

We’re learning in real time that the ICC and UN are great tools, until they disagree with you, at which point they can be ignored and even threatened.

Sounds like great news, no?

Just as we had a time before fungus digesting plant matter, we’ve now had a time before fungus digesting plastics.

“Soon” we’ll get bacteria and insects doing the same, and all our plastic buildings will need to be protected just as the wood ones.

Grow the fuck up, most of us realise at about 3 years of age to share our toys and world with others, why haven’t you?

Topic of this thread: 1000 formal complaints against Eileen Cannon, as part of a concerted effort.

News about the right:

Trump blasts his trial judges. Then his fans call for violence.

After Trump’s guilty verdict, threats and attempts to dox Trump jurors proliferate online

Death threats to judge and jury: Inside the Maga meltdown after Trump verdict

And in the other cases:

Georgia steps up investigation into threats against Trump grand jurors

Georgia investigates threats against Trump jury (BBC)

E. Jean Carroll testifies she lives in fear of threats from Trump supporters

They say they’re Christian, they do things in the name of their Christian belief, they act in accordance to a Christian agenda.

Seems like they’re at least as Christian as the next one, if not more.

Could be what you describe. But all those things are also hallmarks of a superstitious mind, especially if under duress or long indoctrination.

Not being allowed to question or reconcile things causes internal stress, not being allowed to express certain emotions and thoughts also adds to it. It doesn’t help that many of them are radicalised into driving an agenda.

I’m not expecting to live long enough for that kind of drama, so I simply blocked them. If they’re abusive, please report them before blocking, they might be dragging all of Lemmy down and not just this thread.

I agree, but a lot of parties try to co-opt the word to mean other things, which I find less useful.

A quick look at their posting history shows that they’re indistinguishably close to a troll. Their response as well.

And how do you know that? Through magic?

If you have issue with me using only 12 - 18 centuries old definitions, I welcome you to have this talk in pre-christian times, although I might be busy then.

I do agree. I was trying to match the poetic language of OP and convey that we have no proof of supernatural or imagined claims, and thus the narrow sliver of naturalistic reality is where we must investigate phenomena. But you know, in a way a symbolic minded troll would understand.

Because magic has in common verbiage typically been used to describe phenomena we don’t know the mechanism behind.

And all those other things we do understand the mechanism behind. Along the way to understand how we figured out standards that elevate physical phenomena from imagined ones, and slowly we found that there’s very little room left for the unknowable to affect our reality.

So if the word magic is to have any distinct meaning, there’s only left “that which isn’t real enough to affect us”.

But you’re of course free to redefine words as feels useful to you. I find flying, quantum teleportation, and cognition magical, but that more describes the wonder and awe of the inner workings of my world, rather than if it’s real or not.

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Maybe, it also has symbolic value, and might demoralise the civilian populace, whose support is crucial to the continued state support.

It still seems a weak move as infrastructure should be a more effective target, but who knows how many layers of distractions and attacks of opportunity really happen in the field?

Nothing to show and a day closer do death, as the song goes.

What I dealt, you must also have smelt