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This is unbelievably detailed.

I’ve totally had that happen to me before :(

That said, I love my honeywell(?) half-face respirator otherwise. It beats a standard face mask in comfort by a mile. I even got some paper N99 filter sheets + reusable holders for them, which works great and makes it so I don’t blow through plastic cartridges.

Oxidation (and other processes) do affect coffee flavor, and grinding it up increases surface area / exposure to oxygen, speeding that up. Putting it in the fridge seems to also worsen flavor, but the freezer seems to be pretty reliable. Here’s a nice video discussing this by a weird coffee person (James Hoffmann): [www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uT5_IWWb00](Should you freeze coffee beans?)

Also, KGLW, nice!

Should you freeze coffee beans?

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Yeah, and the the EV9 (3-row) is $60k (not remotely cheap, but the cheapest I’m aware of). It’s obviously worth checking the 5-year cost proposition (given fuel vs. electricity pricing), but if the math doesn’t work out for your driving needs, then you’re pretty well out of options for now.
Yeah, I think if you’re going to do a lot of thin strips, a jig is worthwhile (and that seems like a nice method). I liked just using the featherboard because it worked (surprisingly) well, felt safe, took a matter of seconds to set up, and doesn’t require me storing a jig (I’m tight on garage space).

Tip: a Reversed Featherboard Makes a Good Thin Ripping Jig

https://lemmy.world/post/11656474

Tip: a Reversed Featherboard Makes a Good Thin Ripping Jig - Lemmy.World

I found that simply reversing my featherboard makes it function very well as a thin ripping jig to make repeated (thin) cuts on the non-fence side of the blade. The featherboard’s hard side is simply set at the appropriate distance from the blade on the side opposite the fence. Then the fence is moved to support the larger “offcut” side as with a typical thin ripping jig, and you can make the cuts with push sticks as usual.

Schindler’s List - incredible movie, beautiful case, no way I want to rewatch it any time soon.
I loved the fountain, too. It is so incredibly beautiful, and I’m glad to own it for the same reasons. I also can’t imagine when I’ll want to watch it again…

I found more up-to-date numbers that suggest it’s more like 23x the aid (Ukraine:Israel):

How Much Aid Has the U.S. Sent Ukraine? Here Are Six Charts.

In any event, the US appears to have sent substantial aid to Ukraine, and it’s in jeopardy only (to my knowledge) if congress can’t get more through in early 2024. My understanding is that the war-specific funding (so far) requested by the Biden administration for Israel has been more to the tune of $14B requested for 2023 (e.g. this article), concurrent with a roughly-quadruple $60B+ request for Ukraine (this article).

It seems to me that the Biden administration is strongly in support for Ukraine, and is making (and, historically, getting through) requests for continued aid far in excess of those to Israel (which receives multi-billion-dollar aid from the U.S. every year and under every administration). Biden’s only non-standard “funding” here is authorizing sale of arms to Israel, which is in place of any congressional funding due to the unpopularity of the Israel war in the USA (which is unpopular for a variety of, in my opinion, very good reasons).

To be clear: I’m not suggesting that the U.S.A. should blindly fund genocide. I’m simply arguing that continued (substantial) funding for Ukraine hasn’t been in jeopardy until recently, and that it is still not a guarantee that extraordinary measures (beyond what Biden has already done with the lend-lease-style “loaning” of US Arms to Ukraine, etc.) will be necessary or helpful, given the broad support in the US Congress (to date) for the war in Ukraine. My expectation is that the Democrats in congress will make some concessions to the Republicans in congress, and a Ukraine funding package will pass early in the new year.

TL;DR: equating the funding of Ukraine to the funding of the war in Israel and using it to suggest the Biden administration hasn’t adequately attempted to fund Ukraine doesn’t make a ton of sense to me.

How Much Aid Has the U.S. Sent Ukraine? Here Are Six Charts.

Six charts illustrate the extraordinary level of support the United States has provided Ukraine in its war against Russian invaders.

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Israel received $3.18B in FY 2022 compared to $118.B for Ukraine.