I am restoring an old chest and while removing a cover under the lid I found this label. As you can see, it’s completely undecipherable except for “***halle & co.” However there’s another label underneath it. I wonder if I can separate them by putting it in water (like stamps off an envelope), but I’m afraid of...
Yeah I noticed that. What else is available that works well? I think that Imgur is horrible on mobile. Also I don’t want to sign up for shit just to post a picture.
No, not on the wood anywhere. There are several layers of paint and I was quite surprised to find the label under cardboard cover.
Wait… I have the handles which I cleaned for paint using terpentine. Not sure if they’re original, but the side handles have markings on the inside that says “2 Turner H.038 Australia”.
Guess it’s from Australia. Or at least the hardware.
Could very well be spot on. I’m in Denmark and bought this off DBA anyway. Thanks .While the chest is probably not of any historical value, I’m comforted by the fact that I’m not destroying anything by restoring it within my abilities. I’ll sand it, paint and maybe add some bracing. The purpose is to make use of it, like everyone who owned this before.
I think so. I’m in Hobro, so it makes sense that it’d end up here.
Anyway, I’ve gained some knowledge about it and appreciate it. I still intend to restore and use it, instead of tossing it.
The Suurballe family seems to be very influential even today. The “manufacturer” part of their company name indicates that their products where made by hand instead of machines, but still on a industrial scale. Many things from this period are worth restoring in comparison to contemporary pricing. I wouldn’t be able to buy a functional chest from anywhere without spending more than it’ll take to restore this.
I am restoring an old chest and found an undecipherable label under the cover of the lid. Are there any communities for identifying old stuff like this?...
Would you trust the entirety of human existence to be decided by 34 people? In my experience from watching reality TV, the last one always screws the rest over for their own benefit.
Imagine being the last one. You could singlehandedly wipe out half the global population. This would normally be a bad thing, and it is, but it would also make every surviver twice as rich, solve food scarcity and halve the pollution, perhaps even saving humanity from itself.
If that’s not enough, think about everyone now having double the amount of kittens and half the traffic on the roads.
America’s wealthiest people are also some of the world’s biggest polluters – not only because of their massive homes and private jets, but because of the fossil fuels generated by the companies they invest their money in.
One point of view could be that since these billionaires are the ones financially benefitting from the companies, that they should also be the ones paying the true cost of the production.
It’s true that the consumers are consuming, but why are the companies making products without cleaning up after their production? Why are billionaires allowed to extract money out of this and leave the environment in an irreparable state.
Consumers would probably prefer that their money went to the product including all the associated costs of producing it, but consumers don’t get that choice, because the company owners extract the money for themselves.
Is it a crime story or a story about the dress? I can’t really tell. Like I think it’s about domestic violence, but then I read another paragraph and then all I can see is about the dress, and then it changes back again.
Yeah yeah yeah, standard response. It won’t work. People won’t come forward and nothing can/will be done if anyone does come forward. It’ll just be awkward for them for a while. Maybe someone will get blamed, fired or resigning … and then… it’ll happen again.
The damage is already done. There’s no way to undo it.
They can’t handle this by just asking people to snitch. Allowing or encouraging individuals to snitch on other individuals is not the way to stop this.
The proper way for a company to handle harassment cases is to prevent them from happening in the first place.
The proper damage control is to admit that they didn’t do enough to prevent it from happening and then tell everyone about how they’re going to follow proper OSHA guidance from here on. Let’s hear about how they let their employees elect a representative and how they plan to implement preventive actions, and what the procedure is to handle any potential situations before they escalate into a shit show like this.
I guess their union representative could have told them this a long time ago, but hey, they don’t have one, because they also thought they could handle everything without any. Look at where that got them.
Yes HR is necessary, but they also need representatives for the employees, who can speak to HR and management freely on behalf of employees, so that any individual doesn’t have to address these kinds of problems personally.
The easiest solution for management is always to fire the one reporting problems, because then the problem goes away. That situation has to be dismantled before they can have an honest discussion of these sort of things. That can only be done by an employee representative.
Yes it could be, but not necessarily. Depends on the country and what their laws are. Many countries have regulations of hazardous working environments (including psychological environment) which mandates companies having more than a few employees to facilitate employee representation, even if the company does not have a collective agreement. It’s a legal obligation rather than a voluntary union.
Other countries aren’t that progressive and only address physical working environments in the law, leaving anything else to the unions.
There’s usually some crossover between what the union and safety representatives do.
It would be nice if stuff like this was taught in schools, because there are a lot of misconceptions about it.
Or at least less so than Reddit. It’s good, but, I can’t put my finger on it. Even when the content is good, the servers are up, and I’m getting notifications responding to comments, it’s never come to me doomscrolling for hours....
Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?
I like not having to scroll through the same standard comments on every post. There might be fewer comments here, but they’re higher quality. I mostly used reddit for news which Lemmy covers just as well. Regardless of the API changes and enshitification Reddit simply got too big. Between the marketing and other sorts of vote manipulation, reddit basically stopped providing a useful overview of even news. The hivemind pushed the same dead horse to the front every day.
At the time, open office space was supposed to create a better environment for collaboration and as alternative to the dreaded cubicles.
This was also in time where people would send physical paperwork to each other through an internal mail system from one cubicle to another. Like there’d be an assistant to carry paper around.
It also made the office sizes more flexible.
It might work for people who desperately need to bounce their creative ideas off each other, but for anyone else it just plain sucks.
The Wikipedia on bra history is quite the rabbit hole.
In short: The bra was invented by a woman in 1913 and there’s no conspiracy amongst men to control breasts. The evolution of underwear has mostly been shaped by advancements in comfort or scarcity of materials.
I’m not sure the explanation is true. It basically says that “lots of people” invested in Ponzi schemes. That’s usually not the case. Stock returns or dividends are based on the operating profits, not the balance from new investors. It would require that companies deliberately fake their financial statements, and while that probably happens, it’s definitely not the explanation for why “everything” went to shit overall.
It’s true that the low interest has caused people who have money to place them in investments and that this may have overinflated the value of some companies, or that the money is placed in more risky companies.
The second part is also true. Central banks are increasing the interest rates in an attempt to bring inflation down.
Overall, the idea is right that inflation, interest and investments are tied together, but it doesn’t really explain why everything is going to shit.
“I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures all over the internet of people who have had these shots and now they’re magnetized,” Tenpenny said to the panel of lawmakers....
The inclusion is a EU project. It’s very unlikely that he can legally segregate schools.
I’m not particularly happy about the inclusion project myself, because it has currently only lead to mindless cost cutting and worse teacher to pupil ratio, but I’m hopeful that it’ll have positive impact once the implementation is properly finished. All EU countries are struggling to figure it out and they will eventually.
It’s still delusional that this guy thinks he will have the power to change it. Don’t vote for idiots like that. Anyone can make empty promises.
The disapproval of Elon Musk is the top reason Tesla Model 3 owners are selling their electric vehicles and going for another brand, according to a new survey of 5,000 Model 3 owners.
Lebanon, once thought of as among the most liberal parts of the Middle East, is poised to ban global hit movie “Barbie.” More conservative Kuwait said Wednesday that it had gone ahead with a ban due to its promotion of homosexuality.
Will it be dubbed for other languages eventually? Cinemas only show the English version and my youngest who still play with Barbies doesn’t understand English well enough.
Let’s play with the idea. It’s legal to burn photographs.
Now imagine if your child died in a horrible way. Someone then comes up to you and burns a photograph of your child in front of you. It’s perfectly legal, but you’d probably be less cool about it. But hey, perhaps this isn’t a country for you? No, it’s obviously a shitty thing to do because it’s a deliberate action to trigger to you. (Shit like that has actually happened.)
The book burning idiots could go buy as many Korans as they like and have a mighty bonfire in their backyard and no one would bat an eye, but that’s not what they do. They go in front of the embassies of the countries that they want to provoke, call the press for coverage and post it everywhere so people can see how brave and free they are, hiding in the safety of free speech.
If they actually have anything to say to the religious leaders, they should go fucking say it to them. They don’t. Because they know there’d be very real consequences if they did it in Iran. They aren’t brave enough to do that.
I don’t give a shit about the importance of religion or bonfires, but I am pissed that these idiots are abusing the freedom of speech to spread hatred. They don’t want to burn books because they like fire. They do these “protests” because they’re racist assholes who want Muslims to feel unwelcome.
With freedom comes a responsibility. They aren’t being responsible with it.
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Hey c/dogs, meet Bo (left, mine) and Marlo (right, his visiting cousin). They are hanging out by the poo, like they do.
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Parents used to warn their kids that literature would rot their brains. Then it was the radio, TV, and video games. Now it's TikTok.
Socrates bemoaned those young’ns who had the audacity to read their Homer, instead of memorizing it....
Old chest (solved) (imgbox.com)
I am restoring an old chest and while removing a cover under the lid I found this label. As you can see, it’s completely undecipherable except for “***halle & co.” However there’s another label underneath it. I wonder if I can separate them by putting it in water (like stamps off an envelope), but I’m afraid of...
are there any communities for identifying old stuff?
I am restoring an old chest and found an undecipherable label under the cover of the lid. Are there any communities for identifying old stuff like this?...
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America's richest 10% are responsible for 40% of its planet-heating pollution, new report finds (www.cnn.com)
America’s wealthiest people are also some of the world’s biggest polluters – not only because of their massive homes and private jets, but because of the fossil fuels generated by the companies they invest their money in.
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Anyone else feel that Lemmy just *isn't* addictive?
Or at least less so than Reddit. It’s good, but, I can’t put my finger on it. Even when the content is good, the servers are up, and I’m getting notifications responding to comments, it’s never come to me doomscrolling for hours....
how is Lemmy going for you?
Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?
Most bosses regret how they mandated workers return to the office. They blamed it on not having enough data (fortune.com)
Mountains are collapsing: A Swiss mountain peak fell apart, sending 3.5 million cubic feet of rock into the valley below. (www.businessinsider.com)
Mt. Fluchthorn’s tallest peak, on the Swiss-Austrian border, collapsed in June....
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why are companies trying so hard to have employees back in the office?
I have posted this on Reddit (askeconomics) a while back but got no good replies. Copying it here because I don’t want to send traffic to Reddit....
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Why is it so common for people here to not have a profile pic?
I mean, it seems pretty easy to do. That way we could diffrenciate between users much easier and help it feel more like a community.
Why *is* everything going to shit?
Was just trying to explain to someone why everything is going to shit, specifically companies, and realized, I don’t fully get it either....
Italian government stands ready to host as Musk talks up Zuckerberg rumble (www.reuters.com)
This doctor said vaccines magnetize people. Ohio suspended her medical license. (www.cleveland.com)
“I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures all over the internet of people who have had these shots and now they’re magnetized,” Tenpenny said to the panel of lawmakers....
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German far right’s Höcke wants to kick disabled kids out of regular schools (www.politico.eu)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1293903...
Disapproval of Elon Musk is top reason Tesla owners are selling, survey says (electrek.co)
The disapproval of Elon Musk is the top reason Tesla Model 3 owners are selling their electric vehicles and going for another brand, according to a new survey of 5,000 Model 3 owners.
Lebanon, Kuwait Poised to Ban ‘Barbie’ for Promoting Homosexuality (variety.com)
Lebanon, once thought of as among the most liberal parts of the Middle East, is poised to ban global hit movie “Barbie.” More conservative Kuwait said Wednesday that it had gone ahead with a ban due to its promotion of homosexuality.
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Sweden struggles to handle the fallout from repeated Quran-burning protests (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1213100...