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They're our structural engineer now, Dave.

Lights too bright?

The extension of their arguments is firstly that women who wish to avoid the risk of being charged with manslaughter or murder in the wake of a miscarriage must abide by behavioural guidelines which are contrary to science. i.e., to rest indoors anytime she may be pregnant.

The intended effect being to remove women of childbearing age from the workplace & from public life.

Secondly: to severely undermine reproductive healthcare, such that clinics shut, specialists flee, research is stopped & general knowledge regarding reproductive health & access to care plummets.

The overarching ideology being the production of new labourers & to increase desperation, so that Capitalists can avail of ever-cheaper labour in order to lure factories to set up in the US. This is the endgame of "bringing back our jobs" + anti-abortion rhetoric.

Try an image search for "beam connectors" and you should get an idea of the types of things that are available, but a trip to your local builders' merchant & a chat with the people there may be more fruitful.

To attach wood to an I-beam, you could drill holes in the flanges of the beam, then use bolts. There are also fittings that you can slide posts & beams into, with various ways of securing them to the material they hold. If you're not using T-shaped fittings, you could bolt fittings together.

Likely going to have to be forced on the industry, by some mix of piracy, legislation, reality & artists' choices.

Meantime, convenience has considerable sway. For the generations for whom music was expensive & awkward to acquire (& who have the most disposable income now to spend on music as well as the most faith in companies), this still seems easier than pushing back.

Just sometimes get twingey about upvoting the comments without replying.

Countryside thing was some bus-related confusion (only partly my fault), supposedly on a trip to a suburb, but which saw me on the side of a very dangerous rural road in the mountains in terrible visibility. Determined to hike out over what turned out to be remarkably perilous footing, so had to rethink that and return to where I'd begun.

Eventually got verrry lucky with an option out, but once back on flat terrain indoors, discovered my balance was especially screwed.

Am fairly experienced with wilderness survival without tools or supplies & in very adverse weather, but this basic situation, close to a city & in temperate zone early spring, had me somewhat alarmed.

Think this artist may have had things in common with Joos van Craesbeek, going by this painting & the self-portrait posted here last week.

EDIT: seems they knew each other well, that that self-portrait was previously attributed to Brouwer, that van Craesbeeck may have been Brouwer's pupil, and that they feature in each other's paintings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaen_Brouwer

Depends whether or not they hide some code to give them the option to remote disable your files after you've downloaded them, and if they to restrict your ability to create backup copies & play your files on devices you own.

There's no reason why they couldn't make stuff available in ways which buyers could feel confident in.

Squee. This is one amazing turnaround!

Ahhh, the self-doubt that drives people who excel in their areas to continually strive to improve even more... I don't mean to be dismissive, but I think this is a feature of your passion & determination, and these things carry people far further than raw aptitude alone.

Had typed out a longer reply but Memmy ate it. Apologies if both appear at your end.

Let us know how it goes.

Love the tiny details, like the match with the failed head in the jar & another on the shelf by the used match, the not-fully-burnt crumbs of tobacco in the bowl of the pipe, and evidence of wear from teeth on the mouthpiece of the stem.