SARGE

I've gone a step up, and am inhaling chunks of metal.

(I operate a saw cutting aluminum and have decided to wear a face mask but should probably wear a respirator instead)

You know those metal benches with metal arches for "arm rests" a lot of cities installed about a decade ago?

A lot of them use standard size bolts and Allen keys. No security, or maybe torx if anything.

Also an adjustable crescent wrench and multi-size Allen wrench tool fit nicely inside a pocket.

A cordless impact driver and associated bits fit in a small backpack as well.

What do those tidbits of info have in common?

Well that's up to the reader.

TO BE CLEAR, in case anyone doesn't understand, I am advocating for people to go out and disassemble anti-homeless architecture as a fuck you to the people who put it there. Being homeless is never a choice (not counting extreme outliers). Life is already shitting on them, denying them even a bench to sleep on for the night is just evil.

You can be crummy Alpha Quadrant

We'll be Quadrant 1.

You can never get a word in edgewise when he's around.

without the issue of spine cracking that glued, perfect-bound books are prone to

My first edition copy of The Crystal Shard by RA Salvatore cracked a few years ago and in the last move I lost a page somehow.

Stitched is 100% better AND allows me to easily re-cover an old book.

He was a union man.

The things I inherited from my grandpa are valuable.

0 chance I'd even consider selling them. I will be giving them away or willing them to people when I die/get older though.

I'd say I don't believe it, but I've seen someone beat dark souls with a guitar, so who am I to question the lengths people will go through to be able to say "git gud"

"he who saves his country commits no crime"

Having worked in quite a few fields in the last 15 years or so, it's the same active shooter training they give everyone. Even in stores that sell guns.

I'll let the reader decide how fucked up it is that there's basically a countrywide accepted "standard response"

O7

I know what I'm watching tonight...

So they’ll have to give her a job again. But then she won’t be homeless anymore.

I can confirm, having a job (or 3) does not provide a home.