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Striving to do your best is a good and proper thing, but allowing yourself to be taken advantage of is not a virtue in of itself.



Dang! As much as I enjoy sharing differing ideas in a never-ending quest for enlightenment, I think we're in total agreement here. A person should respect himself ...

I beg to differ. As a Bartender/Waiter it's all about maximizing your profit



Striving to do the best work possible will carry one further and higher in life. Working hard and doing a good job is ALWAYS superior to doing shoddy work. Intentionally doing shoddy work is anathema to success. I can ...

Truth be told, I'm more concerned about AI destroying innovation, inventors and designers. Yes, we, (Gail, Eric and I) are business people, but we are also creative, which is harder to find, learn and teach. in 20 years, AI will get the credit. Sal & Eric who?



Hasn't the line already been so ...

I probably felt an unwarranted amount of pride in the solution, but hey it's fun when something that you just do for fun turns out to be usefull in your day to day.



Some amount of pride is warranted. You solved the problem for the time being and the job was completed. All's well that ends ...

Here's a couple from this morning.

Well if you want to call out someone's flaws then do that, but don't insult someone's intelligence



Yes! I think you're on the right track. I was trying, perhaps awkwardly, to point out a failure to take advantage of educational opportunities, the laziness of sitting around complaining about ...

Just because someone is working a job in a service industry in which tips are expected does not make them uneducated or stupid.


Indeed. Sniveling about it online might make people think that one was indeed uneducated and stupid. Sniveling about it and calling your customers derogatory names ...

I've put this on my Cutlery Shoppe wishlist and signed up for notifications. I've also set my calendar to remind me 60, 30, and 5 minutes before the knife drops. I'm an hour west of MST.

My plan is to wake up when I wake up, do what I do in the mornings, and eventually sit down at my desk. If it's ...

Ankerson wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 29, 2025 5:55 pm

A lot of that BS about tips being some sort of reward was started by cheap jerkoffs

Maybe you should have paid better attention at school so you could get a job that didn't require you to depend upon the kindness of jerkoffs.

Mushroom wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 28, 2025 8:03 pm

That's a can opener.

You have something against canned food? The Spyderco can opener would go nicely with the Spyderco cork screw, toaster, and curling iron.

zhyla wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 28, 2025 6:37 pm

A very myopic view of macro economics

Dood! You're cracking me up tonight. Nobody comes to the Spyderco Forum seeking sound economic advice. Around here, the idea of a diversified portfolio means having knives from Golden, Seki City, and Taichung.

this is a knife forum, not a material scientist forum.



MAY be? I hope you didn't offend the good doctor with your careless omission.
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Perhaps the metallurgist wannabes can subscribe to his Patreon, and then they can ask him directly why he's withholding the secret formula for the Flexible ...

That's pretty cool.

The brother needs a sharp knife to open the fancy water he serves at his fancy bar. At $35 for a basic cocktail, he can't be serving Kirkland water.

several short passes that add up to equal one complete pass along the serrations, focusing on downward movement



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Focusing primarily on fore and aft movement can result in missing the bottom of each gullet. When you give the knife more up and down movement when sharpening, it's easier ...

Melting steel directly under sunlight, without using electricity, significantly reduces losses.



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I suspect that we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one.

You might convince me otherwise with a short video of you melting the blade of your Manbug into a little puddle ...

The French one looks like this. It would be a significant project. I don't think the current US government is into anything solar or wind.



Odeillo is interesting, especially for the time it was built. It uses 63 heliostats reflecting onto a giant parabolic mirror. It concentrates about 1 ...

Sunlight melts the steel for free when the sun is shining.



It sounds as if you put a lot of time and effort into your solar foundry project. How fortunate to be an expert in BOTH energy AND steel production!

As a mere dabbler, it would take me far too long to figure out the answers to some ...

Only the dinosaurs will see the humor in this:

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RugerNurse wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 24, 2025 5:20 am

My favorite is hearing the sound of the spent brass hit the ground after being fired from a revolver

Those are Taurus revolvers.
The sound is the sights and ejection rod flying off and hitting the ground.