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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know the knife laws in Italy, especially not for the specific part of Italy this occurred in

  But often laws about switchblades and such have to do with carrying them, or occasionally selling them, but often just owning a switchblade and keeping it at home isn’t really an issue

  As far as manufacturing, I again don’t know about the specific regulations, if there’s maybe any kind of licensing or something needed, but I know for a fact that it is either not totally illegal to manufacture a switchblade in Italy, or they are *very * selectively enforcing those laws because there are some very well-known manufacturers of them based there (if I had more disposable income I’ve had my eye on a Frank Beltrame stiletto for a while)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure it’s more complex than I’m making it out to be, but each gas in the air has its own freezing/melting boiling/condensation/sublimation points, so I’d imagine you could just kind of take advantage of that

  Basically just cool it down to x temperature at y pressure, and all of the carbon dioxide should be solid, the oxygen a liquid and the nitrogen still a gas, and they’ve all sort of separated themselves out. Fish out the dry ice, siphon off the oxygen, and you’re left with nitrogen.

  Might need to do a couple more rounds of that on each of those to account for other gases in the mix depending on how pure you need it to be, but in theory I imagine it could be that simple (again in practice I’m sure there’s probably a lot of details I’m missing)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Tips for a Winter Storm⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife and I keep our heat pretty low, usually 60°F, which is usually pretty damn chilly for indoors

  But when you step in from single digits outside, 60° feels downright toasty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Tips for a Winter Storm⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We have a heated mattress pad, keeps all of the heat inside the blankets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK the four rules of firearm safety⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t even need to be single shot

  I’m sure that theoretically you could be so surprised by the recoil that you’d somehow cycle the bolt and pull the trigger to fire a second shot, but trying to imagine how that could actually happen only conjures up some pretty wild Rube Goldberg scenarios for me.

  So I guess if it’s your first time shooting, don’t do it with any kind of repeating firearm in a room full of mouse traps, ball bearings, umbrellas, boxing gloves, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK the four rules of firearm safety⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a specific video recommendation handy, but I’m sure if you punch “how to safely clear a [pistol/revolver/rifle/shotgun]” into YouTube you’ll get 10,000 good results.

  As a general overview though (and bear in mind that there’s countless models of firearms out there, so there’s bound to be some outliers that don’t quite fit into this.)

  Step 0. Make sure you are keeping the muzzle pointed in a safe direction and your finger off the trigger at all times.

  Step 1. If there’s a removable magazine, remove it.

  Step 2. Pull back the slide/cocking handle/bolt/pump/lever, if there’s a round in the chamber, this should eject it. There’s an important reason to do this after removing the magazine, because releasing that mechanism will load the next round from the magazine there is one in there.

  Step 3. Repeat that at least 1 more time to make extra sure that another round didn’t get loaded. Keep going until no round ejects. For some guns where the magazine isn’t removable, like some pump action shotguns, it can sometimes be quicker or more convenient to do that repeatedly than to remove the rounds manually.

  Step 4. Lock open the action of the firearm and visually confirm that there is no round in the chamber and nothing in the magazine well.

  Step 1R. (if you are clearing a Revolver.) Release the cylinder

  Step 2R. Press the ejector rod to eject the rounds.

  Step 3R. Visually confirm that all of the rounds have ejected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When I first heard of the term "nuclear family", I thought it was referring to the fact that 20 century families had to deal with the constant fear of losing their family to a nuclear bomb.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna start referring to my extended family as being “negatively charged” then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Anyone Printing ICE Whistles?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, we live in a time when 3d printed guns exist, I’m pretty sure having a 3d printer and ordering filament is probably about as likely to get you on a list as ordering some whistles

  But whistles are readily available and cheap, without looking too hard I can get a dozen from them at target for less than $5 with lanyards. Leave your phone at home, pay cash, take a bus or park in the next shopping center over or wear a mask like you’re getting over a cold and a baseball cap and you’re about as anonymous as you can get.

  Can probably get them even cheaper if you shop around a bit, if you have a party store around you I’ll bet you can get a bunch there for cheap as party favors for a children’s birthday party goody bag or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you record yourself talking to someone and then watch the video... it feels very weird... like a bizzare out-of-body experience...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in 911 dispatch, so I frequently have to go back and relisten to calls I’ve taken to see if I heard something correctly

  It was very weird at first hearing my own voice played back at me so much, but it’s something you get used to after a while

  But even after 7 years on the job, if I think about it my voice on the recording never sounds quite right to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re thinking too small: water cool your apartment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resin printing in the cold⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that seems to be the key here, I’m doing a 60 second burn-in time for the bottom layers now, and lowered the lift speed and things are coming out a lot better

  I’m still having adhesion issues on about half the plate, but I’m pretty sure I’m just going to need to re-level again to fix that

  May still look into a heating solution but as long as they stick to the plate, everything seems to be coming out fine otherwise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this like a sex thing for you? Do you get off from being a contrary jackass?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In some small number of cases you may die in a house fire, and I’ll bet you have smoke detectors and fire extinguishers around just in case

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If your grandmom cheated on your grandad, your aunts and uncles may not be his kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s absolutely an edge case, but there are still a lot of wonky family situations out there, people who are estranged from their family for any number of reasons, adoption, people raised by their grandparents under the impression that they were their parents to hide the fact that their sister is really their mom and they were hiding a teen pregnancy, your mom cheated and your dad isn’t actually your father, etc.

  And sometimes that all stays under wraps until someone in the family takes a DNA test.

  I have a friend with a big family who just recently discovered that most of her aunts and uncles are actually her grandfather’s biological children. She and her siblings haven’t done a test themselves and her father’s dead so the jury is still out on whether she’s blood related to him or not.

  But if she’s not, and she finds out who her actual biological grandfather is, it’s not impossible that that may open up a new pathway to citizenship through him.

  And laws change, as a hypothetical, let’s say Poland starts getting antsy (well, antsyer) about Russia doing Russia stuff and really wants more people to feed the war machine in case of WWII breaking out, they already have a citizenship by descent option but the proper documentation to qualify can be tricky, but if they decide they really want to increase immigration I don’t think it would be out of the question for them to open up a pathway for someone who can show a DNA test with X% polish ancestry. In that hypothetical it might be kind of an out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire situation, but maybe it would still be preferable to the situation in someone’s home country.

  It’s just one more tool in the box that can open up new avenues for people to explore. It may not pan out for everyone or even most people who look into it, but in some small handful of cases it may save their lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of funny you specifically call out Irish-Americans, because Ireland does actually have some options for citizenship-by-descent. It’s not quite as simple as anyone with Irish ancestry can become a citizen, but it is a thing.

  If you have a grandparent who was born in Ireland you’re eligible

  Or if your parent was an Irish citizen at the time of your birth

  So hypothetically if you have a great grandparent born in Ireland, your parent could apply for Irish citizenship, even though their parents (your grandparents) weren’t citizens and had never set foot in Ireland

  And if they did that before you were born you would also be eligible

  And so on down the line to your children, and their children, etc. if everyone keeps on top of it.

  There’s actually a decent handful of countries with some sort of citizenship-by-descent, not a majority by a longshot, and of course every country that does offer it has different requirements and restrictions, but for some people it can potentially be a viable pathway to another citizenship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resin printing in the cold⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m worried about your ventilation and PPE situation.

  It’s vented outside through flexible ducting with an inline fan, I have VOC monitors around my basement, and I wear a p100 organic vapor and acid rated respirator, disposable nitrile gloves, goggles, and a rubber apron

  But do go on being a judgemental prick for no reason. I’m not skimping on safety, but if I can save myself a few bucks not buying a boring piece of hardware I don’t really need, I’d prefer to do that.

  That’s money that could buy me more resin, paints, disposable gloves, beer, coffee, ice cream, books, movie tickets, or countless other things that I’d rather be spending my money on.

• Resin printing in the cold
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we truely prisoners of our upbringing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think growth is a determining factor for imprisonment. If someone is sent to actual prison and is successfully reformed and rehabilitated and able turn their life around, does that mean they were any less a prisoner than someone who didn’t learn and grow from the experience?

  I don’t think so, though you may certainly feel differently. I think the defining characteristic is the lack of agency. You are the product of countless choices that you had no say in during your childhood, you are a prisoner to those choices, nothing you can ever do will undo those choices, you can work around them, overcome them, and make the most of them, but ultimately you are who you are because of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we truely prisoners of our upbringing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How much of that is still a reaction to their upbringing though?

  Say someone is raised in an abusive situation, and because of that they decide to be nothing like their parents when they grow up and become the epitome of a loving, nurturing parent, or maybe decide to not have kids at all to make sure they break the cycle.

  Would that same person make those same choices if they were raised in a more “normal” household?

  We can’t really know for sure, but I suspect in a lot of cases the answer would be no.

  And of course there’s all kinds of little butterfly effects.

  For example, I’ve known one of my best friends since preschool. We attended the same public school from kindergarten through graduation, but after pre school I never had a class with him again until 10th grade. If my parents had decided to send me to a different preschool, it’s very likely I’d have a different best friend, and who knows how that might have affected my life?

  Or later in life, when my grandfather was no longer able to drive, my parents ended up with his truck, they could have sold it but instead they held onto it and when I started driving it sort of unofficially became “my” car that I used to commute to community college. If they hadn’t kept that truck, or just didn’t let me use it, I probably would have had to take the bus and would have had to arrange my class schedule differently and never sat next to a guy in a history class who would eventually introduce me to the woman who is now my wife.

  So those two little decisions made in my upbringing had big effects on the trajectory of my life. I’m quite happy with where I’ve ended up, but I had no say in either case, so I think you could definitely argue that I’m a “prisoner” to those decisions they made. I’ll never know what twists and turns my life might have taken if they’d chosen differently. Maybe there’s an alternate timeline where my best friend from a different preschool convinced me to buy a bunch of Bitcoin in 2009 and I could be a retired multimillionaire right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New York has one of, if not the largest steam systems like that. A pretty significant chunk of Manhattan is hooked up to it.

  Although it should be pointed out that those systems aren’t without their own risks, there have been a handful of pretty bad explosions and such caused by that steam system. Not saying to knock it, any system where you’re trying to distribute a large amount of energy has the potential for some catastrophic accidents to happen, it’s all about weighing the relative pros and cons.

  They’re also pretty common on a smaller scale for college campuses, industrial complexes, etc. places with a lot of different outbuildings and such, it can be easier/cheaper/more efficient to have one central boiler room/house and pipe steam around than it is to have heaters in ever building.

  Also, bit of a tangent, but many moons ago my dad was a pipefitter/steamfitter, and worked with a lot of steam systems, and from what he’s told me about those days it sounded like absolute hell having to go into cramped service tunnels around searing hot steam pipes, all kinds of dust and asbestos everywhere, rats, high humidity, etc. that was probably almost 50 years ago, but I suspect things probably haven’t improved all that much since then, so kudos to the people who are willing to put up with all of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people with High functioning autism allowed to become police officers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is probably going to vary a lot depending on where you’re applying, every state has their own regulations and every department their own standards, so there’s probably not going to be a one-size-fits-all answer for you.

  At the very least, if it comes up, it’s probably not going to be seen as a mark in your favor. If, hypothetically, the hiring choice came down to you, or an otherwise identical candidate who isn’t autistic, 9/10 times they’re probably going to go with the other guy.

  If at all possible, don’t bring it up. If it comes up on a form or something, don’t lie, if you get caught in a lie that’s probably gonna be an automatic disqualification, but if they don’t ask, don’t tell them. Don’t volunteer the information that you’re autistic unless it’s specifically asked for. If there’s a question anywhere along the lines of “do you have any conditions that will prevent you from carrying out your duties as a police officer?” The answer is “no” unless you do believe that your autism will be an impediment, in which case, don’t be a cop.

  Also, between stuff like this and the potential of RFK wanting to send people to work farms, I think it’s very important for people to ask themselves before pursuing a diagnosis for autism (and other conditions) “how do I stand to benefit from a diagnosis, and how will it potentially hurt me?”

  If you’re at the high-functioning/low-support-needs/however-you-want-to-phrase-it end of the spectrum, what kind of additional resources and support will a diagnosis actually unlock for you and do you really need them? Or will it just come back to bite you in situations like this? Unfortunately people really do need to be weighing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you haven’t noticed there’s a lot of people out there are incredibly dumb, and don’t understand basic math, let alone how a company like EA works.

  I can guarantee you that there are more dipshits out there than you’d think who would look at that number and say “well it’s less than 100 percent, so they don’t have total control, so what’s the big deal?”

  Now as for whether any amount of clarification is enough to convince those idiots that that’s not how things work, that’s a fair question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually not terribly uncommon for people to take roadkill if it’s fresh and in decent shape.

  In my state (PA) you’re supposed to report it to the game commission within 24 hours, and you’re supposed to surrender the hide and antlers to them unless you pay for a separate permit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same boat, my computer is basically the computer my wife built probably about 12 years ago before we got together, it was pretty beefy for its time. I basically stuck her old components in a new box (and also stuck a newer graphics card in it because I got a really good deal on a used 2060)

  Still manages to run most games out there on acceptable (to me) settings.

  Made the switch to Linux about a week ago, no major issues, some things are arguably running better now. It’s not without its hiccups but so far things have gone pretty smoothly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is radical acceptance not being a spineless conformist?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is the right take. At the end of the day you just can’t change some people’s minds.

  Arguably, you can’t change anyone’s minds, they have to change them themselves. You can try to lay the groundwork for them to make that change, but we all know what they say about leading a horse to water.

  Like OP’s example of the uncle with lung cancer. The dude already has lung cancer, and is continuing to smoke, what more could you really say or do to convince him to stop? They’re already facing probably one of the biggest possible consequences of their actions and they’re still not stopping.

  Sure, you could focus all of your energy into trying to browbeat them into stopping, but do you really think that’s going to get anywhere? Your time and energy are probably better spent convincing someone else to quit or not to start instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How did the Michelin stars become so sought after by top restaurants and chefs?

  It’s advertising. If you make it into the guide, more people are going to hear about and want to come to your restaurant. And since the guide has such a good reputation, it’s seen as a badge of honor that this restaurant/chef is good enough to be recognized with a star.

  Was the head of the Michelin tyre company also a renowned food connoisseur or something?

  No, they were renowned tire manufacturers. But they were French and that probably didn’t hurt the branding since French food has such a good reputation. I’m sure subconsciously on some level a lot of people are going to give a bit more weight to a French company rating restaurants than, for example, an American one.

  What about other tyre companiee, why didn’t they do something similar?

  Why bother when Michelin was already doing it? You don’t need to buy Michelin tires to eat at a Michelin-Stared restaurant. Regardless of where the guide came from it got people driving around more and needing new tires.

  There’s other travel guides out there, some focus more on other things besides restaurants, some focus on areas not covered by Michelin, some overlap or compete with Michelin or position themselves as sort of an anti-Michelin because they disagree with the criteria Michelin rates restaurants on.

  And I’m sure some of them are or have been in the past published or sponsored by tire companies. But Michelin managed to get into the game early enough and did it well enough that they just became sort of the restaurant guide.

  And other tire companies have taken other advertising routes that are maybe a little less obvious. Let’s consider the Goodyear blimp flying over sporting events. I’m sure there’s a small element of “you should drive to sporting events to see our blimp ~and also wear down your tires a bit in the process~” at play there.

  Are Michelin Stars still given by the tyre company, or has it been spun off into its own thing?

  Yes it’s still the Michelin tire company. I don’t have any real insight into their corporate affairs, so I don’t know how much crosstalk there is between the tire-manufacturing and the guide-writing parts of their business these days, but it is still the same company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. A “truckers” (CB) radio is exactly what I was suggesting FRS radios as an alternative to.

  2. I suggested them because they are much simpler to use. With a mobile base station you need to figure out where to mount it in your car, where to mount an antenna, tune that antenna, how to hard-wire it into your car’s power (or splice an adapter onto it to power it from the cigarette lighter), whereas with a walkie talkie you just need to turn it on, put it on the right channel and push a button.

  (Handheld CBs do exist. I’ve very rarely seen them for sale in a brick and mortar store)

  3. It’s probably gonna depend on where in the country you are, but CB radio equipment is in fact not commonly available at gas stations and truck stops around me. It’s something I actually actively look for and take notice of because I’m a bit of a radio geek. In fact, if I needed to tell someone where to get a CB locally, their best bet for that would probably also be the-store-whose-name-you-seem-too-think-that-no-one-should-say-like-its-fucking-voldemort-or-something, and even that would be hit or miss, some TSWNYSTTTNOSSLIFVOSes don’t actually seem to carry them, but every TSWNYSTTTNOSSLIFVOS I’ve ever been in absolutely has at least one set of FRS radios for sale.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they’re fucking everywhere, something like 90% of the US population lives within 10 miles of one.

  It’s basically shorthand for “this is a common and readily available thing that you can acquire anywhere in the country for cheap even if megacorps have driven all of the local specialty retailers out of business in your areas”

  As opposed to something like a HF ham radio which is a specialty item that no big retailers like walmart, to the best of my knowledge, carry, and so you’re probably not going to be able to find it locally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep a CB radio in my car, and have a few friends with them

  It is actually really handy when you’re road tripping together in different cars to be able to just grab the mic and say something to the other vehicle when you need to stop for a bathroom break or you’re having an issue with your car or want to give them a heads-up about whatever.

  If you’re fairly close together a set of cheap FRS walkie-talkies from Walmart does the job just as well. Probably worth stepping up to CB if you expect to lose sight of the other vehicle though, range is usually a bit better.

  It’s especially handy if, like me, you go camping and such in rural areas with unreliable cell coverage.

  You do occasionally also get helpful heads-ups from truckers if you’re listening to channel 19 about road conditions, police activity, traffic, etc. but mostly it’s just idiots babbling about conspiracy theories and immature bullshit.