FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
All the time.
I’m there at least once a week and I usually chat with the librarians for recommendations and to catch up with a few staff I’ve gotten to know.
They also have around 30 different clubs going on weekly, one of which I occasionally lead (teaching people the basics of 3d printing and design,) and that’s not including the dozens of book clubs they got, or the movie clubs.
And then there’s the larger events like “art days” or visiting cultural groups. The drag story hour, the princess story hour; the story hour for adults.
The major alternatives to prom and homecoming dances.
The tabletop gaming sessions.
Bingo night. Gin, hearts, spades and bridge night.
Most libraries will have something for everyone, even the poorly funded Hicksville ones where the churches likes to sell itself as an alternative 3rd space.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
Church is not a great place for third places- unless you happen to be like all the others at that particular church.
No church will actually accept you unless you’re the same as them. The “sameness” doesn’t have to be about race or orientation or accepting that.
They might be totally willing to let you in the front door, but unless you conform, that won’t be for long.
- Comment on Why is it considered sexist to ask women to smile? 2 weeks ago:
apparently everything. Why do women need to “look better”?
- Comment on If it would solve world hunger, what would be the largest item you could fit in your ass? 2 weeks ago:
it’s reddit, so it could have been any of a hundred that are now banned, and dozens more that aren’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I dunno. This seems fairly accurate:
The only time I’ve ever been called “buddy” as an adult is when I’m trespassing drunks who’re indignant at being told not to piss on my tenant’s window. (Or that i wouldn’t shake their hand.)(every damn time. Eww)
- Comment on Happy Thanksgiving, Yanks. 1 month ago:
Wild turkeys are violent mofos.
The butterballs? Lol.
- Comment on Fashion is cyclical 1 month ago:
It’s well known that orcas pick up “games” that are basically fads. They find stuff to entertain themselves and keep at it until they grow bored of it.
Basically pre-internet humans.
- Comment on duhh 1 month ago:
The glass in fire extinguisher boxes, too.
Intrusion/entry seals. Shipping seals.
Those cheap chopsticks from Chineese take out.
Sprues for any kind of casting or plastic molding.
Crumple zones in cars.
Bottle caps (the old school kind.)
- Comment on Bat Drip 1 month ago:
Still sounds awful.
I’m so glad my doc insists on jabbing me with almost every single vaccine he can get his hands on.
- Comment on Bat Drip 1 month ago:
Wait? Somebody survived rabies after symptoms show up?!
- Comment on Bottom of the Ocean 2 months ago:
Would you wanna look out and see a wasteland of trash, dirt and stuff?
- Comment on True Love 2 months ago:
Also…. Boobies.
- Comment on Help Replicating a filter 2 months ago:
I might be tempted to try turning on ‘fuzzy skin’ printing above a layer height, for Prusaslicer, if you have a fairly large gap and wide skin thickness it can create an almost-open-weave to it. I used that for some grow baskets for aeroponic racks as well as a lamp shade. The trick there is to print in spiral mode as well.
but I think given the bottom profile, it would have to be done in separate parts- a cylinder for the actual filter, and a cap on either end. ( you can also turn on a skirt for adhesion, which is also useful as a flange for securing it into a cap. basically, there’s a recess that it fits in, then a threaded ring screws into that recess.)
- Comment on Anyone know why my extruder is vibrating 2 months ago:
Looks like a bad stepper motor.
I would suggest checking by removing the extruded motor and seeing if it still works. If the motor is the same as your x/y motors, you can also swap the e-motor input to one and ensure it’s not something upstream.
(It could also be motor voltage, but that’s far less likely unless you were tweaking things,)
- Comment on Glow In The Duck 2 months ago:
Going to a larger nozzle and kicking it up a bit on temp is going to solve a lot of the problems.
Slowing it down and reducing retraction will also provide some help but not as much.
Side note- use a hardened nozzle (micro Swiss is inexpensive for the occasional abrasive, but they’ll still wear, just slower. Diamond/ruby nozzles won’t wear nearly as much, or, at all but are expensive.) this won’t stop clogging, but it’ll wreck the normal brass nozzles and throw off your flow settings.
- Comment on Are the inside parts of toilets universal? 2 months ago:
I’m so glad I’m not the only one with an overly active imagination!
- Comment on Are the inside parts of toilets universal? 2 months ago:
Incinerator toilets?
- Comment on A guy just got arrested in Houston US for allegedly being an ISIS member. I grew up in Reagan and 911 era are these people just saying this or are they actively buying bombs? 2 months ago:
Everybody talks about Hitlers camps, nobody talks about America doing the EXACT SAME THING, ROUGHLY AT THE SAME TIME!!!
Not that the internment camps were or are defensible, but we weren’t gasing Japanese Americans or driving them out by the truck/trainload and shooting them in the woods.
Yes, some died in the camps- roughly 1,600, but none through and intentional and concerted effort to exterminate an entire race, with the number of Jews dying in nazis germany roughly 6,000,000.
You don’t need to be hyperbolic. The internment camps were bad enough on their own; but they were not the same as the holocaust.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 2 months ago:
If you can, ask someone already there. Depending on the exact type of work, they may have very specific recommendations, and they’ll have a better idea of what the climate is like than we will.
In general, you’ll want to be able to layer clothing. Start with the base layer, whose job is to be wicking away sweat.
Mid layers are for insulation, and it would be prudent to get one light sweater and one heavier sweater, maybe a third or whatever. The idea being you can increase your mid layers to stay warm but not too warm as necessary. Same for pants. Around here, I usually go for a tight base layer, a loser waffle-weave longjohns and shell blouses into boots.
Patagonia makes some good, hard wearing stuff as a general brand to check out, but there far from the only one.
Hats and gloves are important, too and for gloves I’d consider getting mittens at least as one option and maybe lighter fingerless gloves to wear inside. (Or lighter gloves. Especially if it’s possible you’ll need manual dexterity)
- Comment on To deter predators... 2 months ago:
And the peppers that troll the fuck out of your temperature receptors?
- Comment on pod racing 2 months ago:
Remind me again, which ones are the ones that do the exploding thing?
I’ll be betting on that one for the 100m dash.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 2 months ago:
I have to assume some of them are fiction.
mostly because it seems a little improbable. Like turning skin transparent? … why…?
- Comment on somebody has to do it! 2 months ago:
It should be noted that, aside from petty human concerns like flooded roads and properties, beavers are much better at controlling flooding and generally protecting ecologies than humans.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 2 months ago:
Go watch Fringe. It’s probably one of those.
- Comment on Come to the Deep Sea!! 2 months ago:
Somebody who actually knows what they’re talking about can correct me here, but I’m pretty sure those are the tentacles, with the grabby things on the end- and in the foreground… because it was annoyed at the sub/rov. (And may have punched it.)
(“grabby things” is a highly technical term.)
- Comment on Come to the Deep Sea!! 2 months ago:
It’s the Humbolts you gotta be worried about. These guys mostly just lurk and silently judge your music choices.
- Comment on Come to the Deep Sea!! 2 months ago:
Dennis is the cool neighbor that always shares his weed. And the squid is a master mixologist who’s just waiting to take your order.
The, glowy rope thing… kinky, but seriously not worth it.
- Comment on Lab Assistant Jobs 2 months ago:
If I were really satan, I’d reverse the shrink ray and make centipedes large enough to ride. I bet they’d add it to the geneva conventions as a war crime.
- Comment on Lab Assistant Jobs 2 months ago:
hmmm. I think I’d go with centipedes. For sheer creep-factor. (more than 8 legs is just excessive.)
- Comment on Calcrelatable 2 months ago:
They should have gone with Clear Line instead of Clear Entry, because CE could also be Clear Everything… which is wanna clear does.
