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- Comment on Help with removing broken faucet aerator 4 days ago:
Take the whole faucet off. If there’s any good way to grab it you’re probably gonna be able to get a better look at it with it sitting on a table or in a vise and have more room to get tools at it.
If, like most of the sinks in my house, those shitty plastic basin nuts holding your faucet to the sink are stubborn and almost impossible to get off and you don’t have any tools that will do the tick- those nuts are maybe a few bucks at any hardware store. I tend to just take a sharp chisel to them with a couple good taps from a hammer and cut them off.
Give it a good soak in a bucket of vinegar or CLR to clean as much of the lime and crud off as you can. Trying to get a baggie full of it attached to it in-situ like a lot of people recommend is usually a pain in the ass (I usually prefer to soak a paper towel in it to wrap around it to soak for a while, easier and it probably uses less vinegar/clr.)
Like others have said, you can try cutting a slot or something into it to get it out with a screwdriver. If it’s plastic or cheap metal you might be able to just break it up and take it out piece by piece.
And if all else fails, you have your faucet off and unless you’re really particular, faucets aren’t that expensive. Just replace the whole damn thing.
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 4 days ago:
I really only need 1 HDMI port on my TV- to connect my AV receiver to, everything else gets plugged into that receiver, it’s got about 8 HDMI ports.
Right now there’s 3 consoles, a pc, and a Chromecast hooked up to it, so I have ports to spare, and I haven’t had to use anything on my tv since I initially set it up and set the input to HDMI 1
It’s not necessarily feasible for everyone, it does take up a little more space in your entertainment center that not everyone has, but I also think it’s 100% worth it to at least have a decent set of speakers hooked up to your TV if you can find the space and budget to do so.
- Comment on If I decided to convert from [insert lack of religion] to Amish, would they allow me to bring my Casio graphing calculator to continue my math studies? 1 week ago:
Like others have said, the degree of technology permitted and a lot of other things vary a lot from one amish community to another.
But in general, most Amish aren’t going to school beyond about 8th grade. Some of them might be getting some sort of vocational training in addition to that but you’re probably going to have a hard time finding any kind of opportunities for Amish higher education.
In general, they tend to get more leeway for using technology as part of their business than for personal use, they might have a computer to help track business expenses, maybe even a business email or have a website for selling their goods online. It’s possible they might even be allowed to have a car or use a tractor for certain purposes.
But as far as just pursuing a math education, that’s probably gonna be a no-go. And if they somehow do permit it, you’re probably gonna need to get by with a pencil, paper, slide rules, etc.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if a Black Millionaire had their home broken into by a poor White person, how much danger is there of the Black Millionaire getting shot by cops "by mistake"? 1 week ago:
I work in 911 dispatch, and we have some really rich towns in the county I work for
And I have one story that makes me think it’s at least something that’s on their minds
I got a call from one of those neighborhoods for a breaking and entering. The caller had been out of the house and came home to find that someone had broken in while they were gone.
I’m gathering all of the information, and without me prompting he starts giving me his description - 6ft-whatever black man, wearing blah blah blah, and that he’ll be waiting by the front door etc.
And it just felt very clear to me that he knows unless he is very upfront about that, that when the cops get there, there’s a really damn good chance that they’re immediately going to assume he’s a suspect and not the homeowner.
Googled him later, former NBA player, I don’t follow sports but apparently he was kind of a big deal when he was playing. Not sure what his net worth is, but houses in that neighborhood tend to sell for several million.
Probably the nicest caller I’ve ever gotten from that neighborhood, and with the best reason to call. Another guy nearby once got into a fight with an Amazon driver because he had the audacity to pull into his driveway.
As an aside, that is how B&Es happen. Unless it’s your crazy ex or something looking to start shit with you, they’re not breaking into your home while you’re home, they want to take your shit and get the fuck out they don’t want a confrontation with you. I admittedly work in an overall pretty safe area, but we do have some pretty shitty towns as well as the mega rich, but after 7 years on the job I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a call for an in-progress B&E while someone was home where they didn’t know the person trying to break in (and usually there was a very specific, though usually not particularly good, reason they were trying to break in- they wanted to take back something they gave the person, were trying to retrieve their own belongings, they just wanted to fight or trash the place because they were mad at them, etc.)
And it’s almost always in the super rich neighborhoods where houses are spaced far apart, the residents can afford to take long vacations far from home, and there’s lots of valuable stuff to steal left unattended while they’re gone. To a lesser extent it happens in the really shitty neighborhoods. It’s almost unheard of in the rest of suburbia.
- Comment on When they play reruns of the News, it shouldn't be called News anymore, now it should be called Olds, or Old News for you purists out there.. 1 week ago:
My wife likes to listen to podcasts.
And often I find that the podcasts she listens to are about things that I’d followed closely in the news weeks, months, sometimes years before (we just have some different interests, she’s actually probably the bigger news junkie than I am)
But so I’ve taken to calling her podcasts “late news” because she’s getting that news later than I did.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Native English
A tiny bit of French. My public school French education was a bit of a mess, lots of long-term substitutes and then substitutes for those substitutes, so none of it really stuck. If someone talks slowly I can usually catch the gist of what they’re saying, but probably wouldn’t be able to string the words together to respond.
And I’ve gotten myself to be somewhat passable at Esperanto using Duolingo.
I may make another run at learning French at some point.
Wouldn’t mind learning Polish, Italian, Gaelic, and/or Albanian, since that’s where my ancestors came from. Never been particularly great at language-learning though so that’s a huge stretch.
Also always thought it would be cool to learn Unami (the language spoken by the Lenape people who originally lived in the area I do)
And I’ve spent enough time in tiki bars that I occasionally think about learning Hawaiian or some other Polynesian language
- Comment on 🍌 GET YER NFTS HERE 🍎 2 weeks ago:
Not affiliated with them, but if anyone has money to throw at interesting fruit, I got a box of assorted fruit from the Miami Fruit Company for Christmas and it was pretty cool to have weird fruits to munch on for a few days.
There may be other companies doing the same thing maybe with a better assortment or cheaper, but that’s the one I know off the top of my head.
- Comment on How many times a year do you wash your jeans? 2 weeks ago:
Given that I do laundry roughly once a week, often pushing it past that a bit to maybe a week and a half or so
And I don’t wear jeans much during the summer, and generally prefer other styles of pants
Probably around 30 times a year.
I normally only wear them once before washing. Sometimes twice if the weather’s cool and I haven’t done much to get sweaty/dirty or if they were only worn for part of the day. There’s some extenuating circumstances where I might push it beyond that, like if I’m camping it’s possible that I might wear the same jeans for a long weekend (but with fresh undies every day)
I don’t buy nice jeans, pretty much just whatever Walmart or target has in stock in my size. I get a few years out of a pair as day-to-day jeans, once they start showing too much wear they might get downgraded to work pants for when I’m doing yard work, painting, etc. at which point they get washed when that job at hand is done, usually one day but for a particularly big job I may wear them for a few days.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 3 weeks ago:
Feeling’s mutual.
If you need someone to teach you how to ride a bike, hit me up.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 3 weeks ago:
Alright. If that’s what you want to nitpick here
The average adult (in the US) can ride a bike, whether or not they ever actually do is a different matter, but the majority of us learned how to at some point, and there’s a reason “it’s like riding a bike” is a saying.
From being able to ride a bike to being able to ride it a reasonably long distance just takes time and work to build up to it, which is what he said.
Now a lot of people won’t put in that kind of work, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t.
I’m fat, I won’t sugar-coat that. In a couple weeks when it warms up a bit I’ll hop on my bike, and I’ll probably manage around 5 miles, and by the end of the summer I’ll probably work my way up to around 15 miles, and I’ll still be fat. I do this pretty much every year (and worth noting, I didn’t even learn to ride a bike until I was in my 30s)
There are parts of the world where damn-near everyone gets around on bikes, they don’t have some sort of unattainable genetic advantage because they grew up in Amsterdam or whatever that gives them some “dormant athleticism” that Americans don’t have, they just ride bikes.
The average adult can ride a bike. They just don’t or won’t.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 3 weeks ago:
He was replying to a comment about e bikes, and concluded his comment talking about them. The whole comment was building up to that fact. Just because every sentence didn’t explicitly mention e-bikes doesn’t mean that they weren’t the point of the entire comment.
He spent a couple paragraphs talking about his own struggles building up to riding a regular bike and then concluded by basically saying “or you can skip all of that hard work and get an e bike”
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 3 weeks ago:
And if you finish reading, he talks about ebikes and strikes helping to fill that gap
- Comment on If contemporary professional comedians were magically taken to the Paleolichic, they'd probably work much earlier in the day. Back then, there were no Late Night Shows or well-lit comedy clubs. 4 weeks ago:
I think they were bigger on spears though.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I feel like that kind of illustrates the point though
There’s a lot of precise grammar rules because the language is a little bit of a clusterfuck (I say that with love, I like the French language and speak a bit myself.) If you were to create a language from scratch, you’d probably choose to make one with much simpler grammar.
Like most languages, French evolved organically out of other languages. There wasn’t really a point in time where someone said “hey I made a new language, here are the rules, I call it ‘French.’” Instead, for centuries people just kind of picked and chose what parts of Latin, Gaulish, Frankish, etc. that they liked and didn’t like, mashed them together in whatever way felt “right” and eventually French happened.
Then when some eggheads decided to write down the rules, it was more of a “Ok, here’s all of the weird bullshit most of you are already doing, and there’s kind of a lot of it. It sounds very pretty, but let’s just all agree that thats enough and this is how our language works. Try not to add any more weirdness” (and they’ve been remarkably good at sticking to that, l’Académie Française doesn’t fuck around, which may or may not be a good thing depending on your views)
You got a lot of words with letters that don’t make sounds or make very different sounds that you might think if you weren’t already familiar with the language’s eccentricities, you got some very common verbs that conjugate in weird ways, you sometimes mash words together with an apostrophe basically because it sounds nice, the Académie Française, when confronted with a new thing, sometimes decides that the terms that most of the rest of the world have decided on for that thing just aren’t “French enough” and goes and makes up a new word for it, etc.
And again, I like French, I’m not shitting on it, English isn’t any better and the rules are certainly less formalized
- Comment on Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory? 4 weeks ago:
I think it might be worth re-reading this comment through the lens of the other comment where you dug up the details of the (alleged) actual story. Not too sure which came first due to the edit in the other comment.
The guy pulled his car over to grab her and lecture her after the incident happened. That’s not ok and shouldn’t be covered under good Samaritan laws. Really that could be grounds for something like assault charges in some jurisdiction. Potentially if she wasn’t a minor she could have even had a decent shot at a self-defense claim if she’d shot him when he grabbed her (this is 'murica after all) he continued to escalate a situation that was already resolved and introduced physical force into circumstances where it wasn’t warranted.
What you probably pictured (I know it’s what I had in mind) was probably more like someone grabbing a girl to keep her from walking into traffic. That would probably be covered under good Samaritan laws.
But holding onto her after that to yell at her probably wouldn’t/shouldn’t, that’s uncalled for, though there may be a little more leeway there since it would still sort of been in the heat of the moment. Odds are probably pretty good that she wouldn’t have even pressed the issue since he just potentially saved her life if that were the case.
As for it being considered a sex offense, I think that’s a case of the laws being poorly-crafted, the insane way we craft laws to “protect the children” (except when the rich and powerful are involved apparently) and the justice system being broken because that aspect of it is kind of bullshit and probably should have been thrown out on appeal. What he did was wrong and I think there should be consequences for that, but I don’t think there’s any reason to think it was wrong in a sexual way unless there are other details to the story that have been glossed over.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 4 weeks ago:
If I were the type of person who was willing to give AI the benefit of the doubt and not assume that it was just picking basically random numbers
There’s a lot of cases where it can be a shorter (by distance) walk than drive, where cars generally have to stick to streets while someone on foot may be able to take some footpaths and cut across lawns and such, or where the road may be one-way for vehicles, or where certain turns may not be allowed, etc.
I have a few intersections near my father in laws house in NJ in mind, where you can just cross the street on foot, but making the same trip in a car might mean driving half a mile down the road, turning around at a jug handle and driving back to where you started on the other side of the street.
And I wouldn’t be totally surprised if that’s the case for enough situations in the training data where someone debated walking or driving that the AI assumed that it’s a rule that it will always be further by car than on foot.
That’s still a dumbass assumption, but I’d at least get it.
And I’m pretty sure it’s much more likely that it’s just making up numbers out of nothing.
- Comment on YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows 4 weeks ago:
I’m still looking for what to do if I’m alone and something happens.
You can do abdominal thrusts on yourself, or you can use something like the back of a chair or a railing to rest your fists on and use your body weight to basically perform the same action
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 5 weeks ago:
In addition to my advice on your bloody Mary abomination chili
Around 10 or 15 years ago, I learned this chili recipe from this comic I probably found on Reddit. It has always served me well, and it is the basis for how I make chili today
To this recipe I also add some chili peppers, usually jalapenos (because otherwise it’s not chili)
A can of chipotles in adobo
I’ve tweaked the ratios spice blend a bit to my taste and added a bit of cocoa powder and cinnamon.
It should probably be noted that I tend to make bigger batch, often working with 2-5lbs of meat (and I prefer coarse ground or something even finely cubed meat as opposed to regular grocery store ground meat)
I usually have 2 or 3 different cans of beans in mine because I like beans
I’ll usually do 2 or 3 bell peppers, usually of different colors
Some bacon, some chorizo
Screw that “a shot of beer” it gets a whole can. Occasionally wine instead if that’s what I’m drinking while I’m cooking.
Often some coffee and/or various liquors (whiskey, rum, tequila, Brandy make their way into the mix at some point. Sometimes there’s beef stock involved.
I also pay really fast and loose about what canned tomato products go into my pot, whole, crushed, diced, sauce, doesn’t matter too much, it’s all gonna cook down into unrecognizable red-brown deliciousness by the time I’m done. Just try to get roughly that sort of ratio of tomato products to beef
For bonus points, get your cowboy on and do this in a pot hanging from a tripod over a campfire.
Normally I end up letting this simmer for up to around 6 hours. If it starts looking too thick/dry, add some liquid, usually beer in my case.
Credit for the original recipe: cookingcomically.com
- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s basically what I’m describing.
I think you just have more of a precise, technical way of describing it probably because you’ve actually professionally worked with color and received some formal training
Whereas I’m a guy with some self-taught Photoshop skills who paints minis, so my color theory is a little rough and ready.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 5 weeks ago:
If you absolutely must use bloody mary mix for some reason
Brown up your beef, saute up some diced onions and crushed garlic and the peppers
Add it all to a pot, add the bloody Mary mix
Season with some cumin, and (if needed, some bloody Mary mixes can be pretty heavily seasoned) salt, pepper, garlic & onion powder, chilli powder, maybe some herbs like cilantro, oregano, maybe basil
Maybe a bit of flour to help thicken it, otherwise you’re gonna need to be very judicious about how much mix you use or it’s gonna take forever and risk the flavor getting weird trying to reduce it down and concentrating the seasoning in the mix.
If it’s coming out a bit too tangy and acidic, a bit of sugar or maybe brown sugar can help cut that
If you can, consider using some fresh or canned tomatoes, or even plain tomato sauce, that’ll probably get you a better texture, but I suspect that if that were an option you could, should, and probably would skip the bloody Mary mix
I’d also maybe consider adding some bell peppers to the mix to make it a little chunkier. Maybe some corn.
Maybe some bacon, chorizo, some diced meat in addition to the ground, etc.
I like to add a beer, but starting with bloody Mary mix that’s probably gonna thin things out a bit too much. Wine and stock would be other options but with the same problem.
End of the day, chili is a stew, and the origin of stews is pretty much just throwing whatever you have in a pot and letting it simmer, there’s not too much to it.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 5 weeks ago:
Not a Cincinnati guy, but I have eaten chili there and made my own, and I’m gonna second that
But I do add some cocoa powder to my regular chili recipe, and people rave about it. Sounds a bit weird, but consider, for a momento the existence of Mexican Mole sauces that often contain chocolate. I’m not adding much, it doesn’t taste chocolatey, but it does add something nice to the whole flavor profile.
Adding it to Cincinnati style chili wouldn’t be traditional, but I could definitely see it working very well with the flavor profile if you didn’t care about making it authentic
- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 5 weeks ago:
You are right that paint is kind of its own thing and doesn’t really fit into the RGB or CMYK systems
But I would say it’s overall still subtractive. The paint and whatever you’re painting on isn’t giving off any light on its own, its just reflecting whatever ambient light there is (which is usually more or less white) and subtracting from that.
You could maybe argue that it’s more replacive (is that a word?) than additive or subtractive. It just kind of is what it is. It’s just replacing the substrate’s reflectivity with its own since it’s opaque like you said.
And when you mix paints it tends more towards that grey-brown because like you said it’s not layered, it’s more that each pigment is right there on the surface next to each other reflecting and absorbing their part of white light.
So if you mixed cyan and magenta paints together, instead of light passing through layers of cyan and magenta until all the red and green are filtered out so that only blue light reaches the white paper and is bounced back to your eye, you’d have cyan piments reflecting blue and green, mixed in right next to magenta pigments reflecting red and blue. So both are reflecting blue and the resulting color will probably look blue-ish, but the cyan is reflecting some green, and the magenta some red, so that pulls the color more towards grey (somewhere between white and black, it cant really get down to true black or true white because some light is always going to be absorbed and some reflected)
- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 5 weeks ago:
You are right, but I felt like that kind of gets a little too far out of an easy-to-explain model, and decided to kind of push that off into the stuff I said I was going to gloss over because colors are weird
I suppose it’s sort of more like the pigments are intentionally imperfect to compensate for the also imperfect way that our eyes pick up colors that aren’t exactly red/green/blue
- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 5 weeks ago:
Put another way, let’s say white is 100% of each red, blue and green light, and black is 0% of each. Every other color is made up of different percentages of those three.
Your monitor is counting up from zero, you just need to add the colors you want.
On a white canvas you need to subtract from 100.
Cyan is basically negative red, magenta is negative green, and yellow is negative blue.
- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 5 weeks ago:
Like others have said, it’s about additive vs subtractive color
And to start off with, probably everything you know about color is probably over simplified, or even outright wrong. Light and color and how your brain interprets that information is pretty complex stuff. Even this explanation is gonna be glossing over things.
Starting from the basics, white light contains all of the colors of the rainbow.
Your eyes, however, are mostly only sensitive to red, green, and blue light, most people only have receptors in their eyes (cones) for those 3 colors. They do pick up a little bit from the surrounding parts of the spectrum but not much, and your brain sort of fills in the gaps from there. If your red cones and green cones are both getting stimulated by light, your brain will interpret that as yellow or orange depending on just how much each is picking up.
So your monitor is starting with no light across all 3 colors (black)
And then adding light to get the desired colors.
But if you’re drawing or painting, ou’re starting with a white canvas, not a black monitor, so how do we go about getting the colors we want!
Well we’re going to put paint or ink on the canvas to absorb the colors we don’t want.
Back in elementary school art class you probably learned about complementary or opposite colors. Unfortunately the colors you learned were kind of wrong. Close enough for kids mixing finger paints, but not exactly.
The opposite of red isn’t green it’s cyan.
The opposite of green isn’t red, its magenta
But the opposite of blue is in fact yellow, so one out of three is something I guess.
What does that actually mean though? Well yellow ink absorbs basically all of the blue light while still reflecting red and green.
Cyan absorbs all the red light, while still reflecting blue and green
And magenta absorbs all the green light while still reflecting red and blue
So by mixing and matching those 3 colors, you can dial things down from 100% white light to a mix of red green and blue that your brain can interpret as other colors.
In theory mixing a bunch of those 3 colors together, you can eventually get down to black, in practice your pigments aren’t perfect, and even if they were it would get expensive to use that much of those 3 pigments which is why most color printers are CMYK, with “K” standing for black for reasons I’ve never bothered to look up and I’m not gonna start now.
So your monitoring is adding light from 0 up to make the color you need. It’s “additive.”
And paint is dialing things down from 100 to the desired color. It’s “subtractive.”
Hopefully that all makes sense, color is weird.
- Comment on Where did this mic come from and how to make it go away? [Android] 1 month ago:
Have you tried turning off and then on again?
Fixes way more things than it should.
- Comment on How does a person get on the No Gun List without commiting a crime? My brother was diagnosed with BIpolar and others he doesn't even want the option ten year down the road. 1 month ago:
The exact wording is if you are an
“unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance”.
So a legal prescription to opioids shouldn’t be a disqualifier, unless you become “addicted” which could maybe be up to some interpretation, but if you stick to what your prescribed it would be pretty hard for anyone to prove an addiction
Weed is in a weird place, and I’m not 100% up on the latest stuff with that and how rescheduling will change things, but since it’s still schedule I, as far as the feds are concerned there is basically no legal use for marijuana so pretty much any use is a disqualifier. I don’t know how rigorously they check that against people who have medical cards.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 1 month ago:
I just recently started it for the first time.
If you’re into this sort of game, it’s really good. I haven’t exactly played a ton of similar games to compare it to, but it’s pretty hard for me to imagine a game that would do what it does better. I think if it had launched in the state it’s currently in it would have absolutely blown peoples minds when it launched a decade ago.
Also since it is, at its core, a decade old game, it runs really well on my computer which is mostly made up of 10+ year old components (and on linux! I did have a little audio stuttering issue that was fixed by just adding a launch option in steam, pretty sure that was just a quirk of my particular hardware)
The story is a little weird, not bad, just maybe not what I would have chosen if I was the writer, and the story is secondary to the building and exploration in this kind of game anyway.
I could nitpick some things about the UI if I really wanted to, and the usual issues with procedurally generated content where you have a big universe to explore but it feels kind of empty (which is also kind of the point) and some of the planets start feeling kind of the same after a while.
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 1 month ago:
I mean they’re cool, but they’re not that cool.
They’re only rad-ish.
- Comment on YSK that a good way to clear pepper spray from your eyes is water with baby shampoo 1 month ago:
I don’t exactly go respirator-shopping super often, and I of course have no idea what stores around you stock, but dn my experience, yellow and black are pretty widely available, and I don’t think that I’ve ever personally seen white or green in the wild, but I’ve also never specifically gone shopping for them either, since my main use case is for things like spray paint so I’m mostly concerned with organic solvents fumes.
