Spent $300 on an AI writing tool and it almost cost me a client

I bought a yearly subscription to Jarvis AI last spring for content work. Everyone was raving about it, but the output was so generic my main client in Chicago flagged it. I had to rewrite everything from scratch to keep their business. Has anyone else found that these tools create more work than they save?

A friend pointed out my sauerkraut was too salty, and they were right

I was giving a jar of my homemade sauerkraut to a buddy, and he tried it the next day. He said, 'This is good, but it's a bit sharp, like licking a salt block.' I had been using 2 tablespoons of salt per head of cabbage for years, thinking that was just the rule. After he said that, I tried a batch with only 1.5 tablespoons, and the ferment was slower but the flavor was way better, more tangy than salty. Anyone else tweak their salt ratio and get a totally different result?

Finally got the call to work on a 1920s Otis in a downtown Chicago hotel. Took three days, but the old girl runs smooth now.

Our old core shooter jammed up bad on a big gearbox job yesterday.

The sand feed auger just locked solid halfway through a run, and we had to pull the whole hopper to clear a chunk of hardened binder. We got it going with a torch and a pry bar, but it set us back almost four hours. What's the fastest way you guys clear a bad jam without wrecking the machine?

Heard a photographer argue that editing deep space shots is basically cheating

One side says it's just data processing to show what's there, the other says it creates a false image. I saw a raw Andromeda file that looked like a gray smudge before editing. Where do you draw the line between enhancing and inventing?

Warning: My old boss said to never use pocket screws on face frames

He told me that about five years ago when I was still an apprentice, saying they always work loose and look bad. I ignored him and used them on a kitchen job last month because it was faster. Sure enough, two of the upper cabinet frames have visible gaps now after the humidity change. What's your go-to method for joining face frames that actually holds up?