FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"? 2 days ago:
It might be on the subreddit mods.
You can set up the auto mod to automatically nuke and hide posts with certain phrases or links; and most will use Reddit’s spam list just because it’s easy.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 2 days ago:
Not really, no.
Water stones are designed to braid off. Their reason they were the gold standard is that the slurry it formed from that abrasion is what removed material (and it did so quickly.). But it abraded only where you used it so it would eventually need to be lapped back into flat.
Diamond stones are diamonds that are sintered or otherwise imbedded into steel plate. Once they’re worn in (basically weakly bound diamonds rubbing off,) they’re generally going to last.
Sometimes there’s issues with them, and the thin ones (like what I linked,) sometimes get bent or whatever (which is why it’s common for woodworkers to glue them to a board,) but with a modicum of care, they’ll last a long time.
(keep some water on the stone, wash it off and dry it, don’t store it someplace it’ll get rusty,)
For the record, diamond stones are now the lapping plate for most people who still fork over for the water stones. Another option that was good enough was to go outside and find some concrete that looked flat.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 3 days ago:
So, I would recommend starting with Basic knife skills.
I have a few guesses here, the first being is that you’re moving the knife weirdly. Maybe it’s a Dull knife and the extra force required is making things go whonky.
Maybe you just have a small cutting board. And would benefit from a large one that just lives on the counter. (Small boards are for presentation, imo.)
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 3 days ago:
So I got myself a mandolin, and the hippie who sold it to me asked if I wanted to join his band. Now I play the mandolin (very badly,) for a hippie band. The music sucks but the weed is great.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 3 days ago:
The sharp knife is for later. To deal with the giant brick that’ll come. Eventually.
- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 4 days ago:
They always have.
In the past it was just by increasing the prices of things to cover it.
Now they’re talking about why they’re doing it in the hopes we won’t be pissed at them and pissed at the credit card people.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 1 week ago:
Or less. All it has to do is cover your mouth and nose.
- Comment on Why does google decide to log people out of all their google accounts all at once with no warning? 1 week ago:
Google hates you.
They hate most people, really.
- Comment on What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit? 1 week ago:
besides besides just drinking more water than you piss?
bad kidneys,
- Comment on What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit? 1 week ago:
1 and 2 are very easily ruled out simply by increasing the length of observation. eventually, they’re gonna have to, uhm. piss or shit. for 3, well. uhm. yeah.
though I did have an exasperated conversation with a friend of mine who insisted his insulin resistance kept him from not losing weight once he reached 270. he was confiding that his doctors didn’t understand and refused to check it (again.)(yes, that’s doctors plural. he bounced through three or four because they kept trying to explain that insulin resistance didn’t do that.)
It finally got to the point where I was like “Then you should call some physicists because as we understand the laws of the universe, that’s a literal impossibility.”
he… did not like that.
- Comment on Why is Minecraft able to be forced to put restrictions on online servers, but web browsers aren't held accountable for providing access to the web? 2 weeks ago:
what restrictions are you talking about?
chances are, those are restrictions Microsoft is demanding. (for example, child safety. or “child safety”, considering gates is a pedo.) It uses game files that are controled and licensed by Microsoft.
The browser on the other hand is an application that uses a standard, open, protocol to take information and turn it into a readable page with all the content you like to see.
It’s not the browser’s fault that pornhub uses the same protocol as, I dunno… whatever biblestory website evangelicals think is “safe”. (do Song of Solomon next!)
Regardless, Microshit owns Minecraft, and they get to decide what restrictions it has on it.
- Comment on How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ? 2 weeks ago:
originally, it could have been not consensual, in point of fact.
Frequently, piercings were ways of marking people as being property or similar. Frequently, also, it was a way of marking tribal affiliations.
- Comment on How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ? 2 weeks ago:
Otzi had ear piercings- ~3300 b.c.e.
so yeah. that checks out.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 2 weeks ago:
These things usually are stored rolled up, and they curl when new because of that.
Usually they’ll lay flat in their own inside of a week. I have seen people hasten that with a heatgun or small portable room heater- just enough to warm it a bit.
I’ve also seen people melt them trying that.
- Comment on I'll do it 3 weeks ago:
Somebody get that bird a baggie!
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 3 weeks ago:
I dunno. I think it’s really too bad they melted down the demon core. I’d probably trust him to run a supercriticality experiment all on his own.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 3 weeks ago:
Most of us aren’t.
The ones that are, are already so far down the rabbit hole they wouldn’t recognize reality anyway.
- Comment on My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer. 3 weeks ago:
So, I’m going to preface this with a quick reminder that once deployed, a folding knife is going to cause the same kind of wounds as a fixed bladed of similar size and shape. and example for this is the Benchmade Adamas family. They have a folding knife, an auto-opening folding knife and a paracord wrapped skeleton-grip (with paracord,) fixed bladed knife.
Once deployed, the knives are all going to do about the same in a fight. And the two folding knives- the auto, and the manual knife- are going to function basically identically. In Minnesota, the only one of these that’s illegal to carry is the auto. The only reason that’s illegal to carry is because of perception. (the same perception as switchblades.) There’s no practical reason that auto-opening knives are any more likely to be used in some kind of crime than manual-opening folders.
Back in the early fifties, switchblades were frequently used by youth gangs (west side story, for example,) or rough-and-tumble types (especially in cowboy or war movies,) as a sort of visual code to indicate they were of rather dubious character. eventually that became associated with black guys being villains, because hollywood never met a trope it didn’t like. even when the villain was white, or whatever, that was broadly overlooked by popular culture.
It was outlawed in '58 largely because people perceived it at the weapon of choice by black men. it had nothing to do at all with knives themselves being particularly dangerous. or even all that common, really.
the same is true of asian martial arts movies and balisongs. (which is ridiculous. the only thing a bali should be used for is as a slightly more exciting fidgit spinner. Sorry.)
Or brass knuckles (relating to the italian mafia and irish mob. hollywood gave those to the enforcers.)
This isn’t to say that maybe knives and brass knuckles and things shouldn’t be regulated. But outside of “Knives larger than x length”, and the occasional feature like double edges or spear points (Which are bad for general use, and usually purely for a weapon, not a tool); there’s always some other reason for it being outlawed… and generally that reason is that “the wrong people” are using them.
- Comment on My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer. 3 weeks ago:
and many jurisdictions have laws written by people who don’t have a frooking clue and are simply reacting to a knife being associated with whatever out-group happens to exist at the time.
- Comment on My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer. 3 weeks ago:
maybe instead go to the wikipedia page for ‘Gravity Knife’
or just read my comment more fully. Gravity knives don’t have switches. or buttons. If you’re considering the hinge mechanism that allows a gravity knife to operate, then practically any folder is a “switch blade” and that’s just not true.
from the wiki I linked:
A gravity knife is a knife with a blade contained in its handle, which opens its blade through the force of gravity. This mechanism of opening is fundamentally different from the switchblade…
Even in gravity knives that appear to be opened by a switch or buttons… all that button is doing is unlocking the blade to allow it to be deployed or retracted. If simply having a button or switch or something is all it takes to be a switchblade, then this classic gem would also be a switchblade.
- Comment on My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer. 3 weeks ago:
Just to be pedantic, gravity knives aren’t switchblades.
They have a blade that slides freely (and under the force of gravity.) the grip is basically a hinged nutcracker that, when closed, traps the sliding blade either deployed or retracted.
In any case, they’re no more dangerous than your standard folding knives of the same general proportions.
The illegality of certain knives (switch blades, gravity knives, balisongs, etc) are largely not based on the danger or actual use of those knives as weapons.
In the US it’s usually reactionary and racism.
- Comment on Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road? 3 weeks ago:
Cyclists being stupid is why i want them segregated from me. And pedestrians, too.
Like. No. If we never cross paths, they can’t be idiots and bolt out of a blind corner and get turned into a red smear, and send me to jail.
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- Comment on What's the cure to doomerism? 3 weeks ago:
I feel like doomerism is what happens when people don’t have the power to change the systemic problems they see.
Like 18+thousand people were marching yesterday. Peaceful protest. It was lovely.
Today, BPC/ICE just killed another person in minneapolis for the sole reason that that person stepped up to keep them from brutalizing a woman whose sole offense was being in the area.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 4 weeks ago:
Its speculated that Trump is obsessed with greenland because he thinks its huge due to map distortion on mercator map projections. A way to show how dumb this is indirectly would be to give out free globes.
Tech bros pulling Stephen Miller’s puppet strings want greenland’s minerals.
Also just a side note, Greenland is roughly 3 times the size of texas. It’s not exactly “small”, even if mercator maps do make it look significantly larger than it is. (comparably to africa, lol.)
- Comment on How did Zohran Mamdani win conservative voters over without using the terms "socialism", "communism" or "capitalism"? 4 weeks ago:
Basically, he focused on needs for NYers.
-childcare, busing for kids, rent controls.
Also watch anything with him out and about. Like. He’s very genuine where most politicians have that “photo op smile.”
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 4 weeks ago:
I’d be curious about your recipe.
I already have a few go-tos though. (Have you ever tried using sourdough discard in waffles? I got the idea from KAF, And they’re amazing
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 4 weeks ago:
Brioche is definitely for toast/french toast/samdwhiches.
I’ve only seen big loves like that for restaurants though.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Man, I hope he failed.
