I have in fact lived through a few near-castration experiences with the crank of my bench vice.

I tend to fall asleep out of nowhere. Sometimes it looks like I got shot. Sometimes my legs are crossed or my hands are folded behind my head. Sometimes I fall asleep on the floor while playing with the cat.

Always sleeping with one brown eye open

“Hey Neville, here’s your Remembrall back.”
“You were always nice to me, Potter. Don’t come to potions class tomorrow.”

First of all it’s your hobby and you can do whatever you want forever. That being said if you want to improve your skills you won’t get there by relying on shortcuts. Drawing is 10% talent and 90% practice as are many creative skills. There are great tutorials out there to teach you about proportions, perspective, lighting and so on. And the most important thing is persistence. Draw everything you want to and try not to care too much about the outcome. If you stay at it then sooner or later you will be able to draw all sorts of things just like you imagined them without even thinking about it.

Is “mechatronic” a job description in English? I’m not sure what the accurate translation would be otherwise but it’s a mix of metalworking, electrical engineering and programming. We mostly repair industrial electric motors and big ass generators used in hydroelectric power plants.

Precision vernier caliper

I’m just done with a three month manual metalworking course as part of my electrical engineering apprenticeship. I’ve done a fair bit of woodworking in the past so it was interesting to see how those two compare. I’m personally not a huge fan of 3D printing so it’s nice that I can make a whole bunch of stuff like housings or replacement parts from metal now.

Bomb squad

Thanks for asking, I do not.

In 3 days:

My neigbors are doing this weird fetish thing where one openly shits on the ground and the other one watches from the safety of his shrubbery. What do I do??

I wholeheartedly don’t care about any of that. I just go with the flow and give the present moment my full attention.

i don’t really participate in social media or any of that.

That’s probably the main difference. I spend like 20 minutes a day on lemmy and that’s it. I used to be very active on TikTok and Reddit. Went from a depressed and anxious mess to having a job and being happy and outgoing basically by focusing on what’s in front of me rather than what’s on my screen. Many people stay in their defeatist echo chambers and that’s the only reality they engage with. There are plenty of reasons to be worried but the thing is there always are. Life, society, family and so on have always been fragile. All you can do is enjoy what you have in this very moment.

t’s better than looking pathetic holding on to what little hair I have just to have it longer lol

100% agree with this part

When you can’t have it anymore you kinda miss it.

Personally I wouldn’t go back to longer hair even if I had the option. It’s just too practical. And the more of them fall out the easier the rest becomes to trim.

1 - 3 mm. As you said it’s perfect. I’m 29 and don’t really care about the standing out part anymore but I still remember that when I first tried it at 17 I did get a lot of nice comments. Exclusively by guys but still.

They have living descendants (no longer degenerate or even slightly visually reminiscent of the well known ones) so theoretically you could just ask.

With goo

If someone is about to get in your path just look at where you’re trying to walk instead of looking at them. They’ll move instinctively.

Every time I tried I ended up with a buzzcut. Now I just give myself buzzcuts from the get-go.

Laugh my ass off and ask for a copy most likely