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Appereance is subjective but strenght is not. OSB is significantly weaker than regular plywood. Personally I consider it a construction material meant for walls, roofs and floors but I'd never use it for furniture making.

Anxiety / stress. Usually it relates to finances either directly or indirectly. I have enough savings to survive few years with zero income but having recently transitioned from employee to being self-employed, there's quite a bit uncertainty about future. I'm not losing any significant amounts of money currently but I'm barely able to save anything either which makes me quite uncomfortable as someone who for the past 10 years has lived well below their means.

It’s around 20 years old, if not older. What’s interesting to me is that when I bought it, I hadn’t done any research - I just walked up to the Leatherman display at the store, fiddled with all of them, and the Wave was the one I liked best. Only 15 years later did I find out it’s one of their best selling models.

The only feature from the newer models I wish it had is one handed operation for the pliers where you can just flick it open like a pocket knife.

Yeah, I agree with all of this. What I’m pushing back against is the absolute, dismissive tone some people take whenever the potential dangers of AGI are brought up. Once someone is at least willing to accept the likely reality that we’ll have AGI at some point, then we can move on to debating the timescale.

If an asteroid impact were predicted 100 years from now, at what point should we start taking steps to prevent it? Framing it this way makes it feel more urgent - at least to me.

  • Kitchen knives. No reason to replace them with others that would do the exact same thing.
  • Cast iron skillets. Indestructable, will easily outlive me.
  • Shemagh scarf. Oldest piece of clothing I have. I've had it for almost 20 years.
  • Bushcraft knife. Indestructable, does everything it needs to and nothing else. No need to upgrade.
  • Leatherman Wave. There are newer and better ones out there but it has sentimental value to me and 99% of the time when I need a multitool it's either the pliers or screwdriver that I'm after.
  • Yeti thermos mug. Can't possibly imagine what new feature a mug could have that would make me want to upgrade.