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Cake day: February 7th, 2025

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  • Burning still has too much of a negative connotation.

    They’ll pressure to expand more on banning books in schools, public libraries, pull public funding and restrict government aid payouts for universities unless they follow suit. They’ll let states decide that they can ban books for sale online unless the site forces an age check. They’ll give responsibility for the age check system to a corporation that is expected to do a lackluster job and wash their hands of it when there are complaints. Maybe some day they’ll step in to ‘fix’ it resulting in taking it down for maintenance and restructuring and then they just… never bring it back up. They’ll have a system for brick & mortar stores too, but it will be so excessive that few will bother.



  • I’ve done similar in my den and can see a lot of decisions that I made similarly to yours that I regret now about 5 or so years later. What I most worry about in your specific drawing here is potential sag on the shelves above the TV. The problem you may have eventually is that there’s a lot of options to support the shelf from the wall side, but how do you support it from the front in a way that isn’t ugly? Without that, you may have odd sagging. I have that problem now with a slightly shorter span and I see it every day and I hate it.

    There’s more mistakes I made with my project that you might face, but addressing everything would drastically change your vision. If (or when) I was doing it again and wanted to solve all my problems, I’d just base my plans on what this old house says to do. ( https://www.thisoldhouse.com/house-one/21244627/build-custom-built-in-shelving-unit )




  • It won’t stay perfect, those will expand and contract at different rates, but if you want a cheap and quick fix, just get some caulk in roughly the same color. You could use joint compound as the other poster suggests, but caulk has some give, it’s likely to still separate again at some point, but you’ll have longer. The permanent solutions all kind of suck and/or are expensive, if you decide to try to reposition it and the issue recurs, I wouldn’t do it more than once.