Well since he keeps saying he’ll end it, this seems reasonable to worry about. Hopefully they have family abroad, becasue nobody is going to do shit to actually prevent this.

One second googling chatgpt disproves this, what the fuck is wrong with you, why are you making up such easily disproved BS?

The lack of consumer software is the real big issue yet to be solved. We’re getting gaming sorted, finally, but that’s required the biggest game distributor in the world (valve) to basically take the project over completely to get there. We just haven’t gotten to the point that enterprise environments will start switching desktops over to linux, because the network management and production tools just aren’t there yet. Hopefully we will be there soon, the pace of adoption is really picking up especially with win10 EOL, but until then there’s some real hard work to be done before the “linux best” memes stop being wishful thinking.

That single (or doubled) convex blade profile is the big defining difference between shears and scissors. There’s some other things like grip sizes and thickness of the blades relative to each other that separate things like tailoring shears and dressmaking shears, but those aren’t nearly as codified. And that’s ignoring all the complexities you get with beauty shears, or the absolute hell that is trying to sharpen pinking or thinning shears, especially if the inner blade has a nick in it that requires reprofiling. Its fascinating how complex such simple tools have become as we’ve adapted them for ever more specialized tasks!

I think it’s down to most people not having used modern high end shears, which usually have convex bevels (and some pain in the ass exotic steels). If you can sharpen that without destroying the tension/edge finish using a hardware store stone (like someone in this thread was claiming), I’ll be properly impressed.

I’m not sure if it counts as good faith, but it’s sincere - you’re putting way too much energy into a debate about which failing state is failing with more grace. Yeah, Australia is doing better than the US, we’re speedrunning the fall of rome over here, but it’s important not to be so blinded by the spectacle of the US imploding that you lose sight of your own country being eroded out from under you.

Bud this is sad, come on.

Man, that must have been one wild study…
You’re not wrong (well except about most of the actual things you asserted) but while retreating to some zany upside-down nationalism to defend your precariously teetering democracy might preserve your sense of superiority over the US, it’s pretty clearly blinding you to the realities of the situation you’re living in.

… Are you really, though? Meaningfully? It’s looking pretty damn bad for ya’ll, and you seem to have even less political will to fix it than we do. Not saying we’re not worse, but you guys are catching up fast.

Hush, you’re embarrassing yourself.

… ew.

While pedantically you’re correct, subjectively it’s needlessly misleading to imply that a substance that’s been reduced to the point that it’s nearly a pure element is somehow kind to the original substance.

You’re highly wrong, then. Go get a straight razor and drag it through some paper, then see how nice it is to shave with. Fabric shears have surfaces honed to the same degree.

Any disruption of the interference fit between the contact or cutting faces can ruin scissors - it’s a lot like grinding a straight razor, but where you have incredibly strict angle requirements across a compound surface. You’re absolutely right though that the #1 mistake people make is to mess up the hollows by flat sharpening them like knives.

Consumer grade whetstones are completely unsuitable for maintaining fabric shears. Maintaining a consistent bevel on stones that coarse is damn near impossible, and you’re most likely going to ruin the mate between the cutting faces beyond repair.

(“well I sharpened mine with an unoiled chunk of arkansas asphalt and they cut even better now”: no you didnt, you’re cutting with the burr, it won’t last, I hate you.)

What a needless nitpick. Grammatically, the OP phrasing is fine.

Only if it comes from the regarded region of France, otherwise its just sparkling autism…

Fuck, I’d sure like to be living in the fantasy world where America is that generous. You might get that much with a severe disability in a super high COL area, but it’d be hard fought and the invasion of your privacy is going to be absurd to make sure you’re not ‘abusing’ it.

Man, I sure have had that one wrong my whole life. Damn.

They’re not iron, they’re magnesium. Hence “Maglite”.