DrBob

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[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

Is this not correct?

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 207 points 1 week ago (25 children)

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.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Lol. Welcome to the underbelly of comparative anatomy.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

/cries in biomedicine

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Everett reads the paper and works in an office so we know he's literate.

There were special tellers cages for handling bank notes in old banks. They would lock the clerks in when the bank opened and let them out after the cash transactions were reconciled at the end of their shift. This seems to be a "modern" bank with counter service rather than a cage.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 93 points 1 week ago (14 children)

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

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember my sisters using baby oil in the 70s to get a deeper burn which meant a darker tan.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

All the way back in the early 2000s my bank offered a service where you could generate onetime card numbers with a specific dollar value tied to them. It disappeared around 2008. I wonder why?

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Sometimes he's just a dick.

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