isolatedscotch
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- Comment on FCC commissioner writes op-ed titled, “It’s time for Trump to DOGE the FCC“ 1 day ago:
get a lawyer and see if you can exit the hoa agreement because of some caveats
- Comment on It do be like that sometimes 1 day ago:
you forgot the most important one
person you were talking to talks shit about you behind your back
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 1 week ago:
tomorrow is monday again, folks
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 2 weeks ago:
crush up some graphite really finely in a mortar (from a good source, like the carbon rods in some batteries or soft pencil leads, as the hard ones contain clay), mix with glue, play with ratios (the more graphite the better, but it might start cracking with too much graphite) and type of glue (elmers, superglue, epoxy, etc)
but i’ll warn you that it’s gonna work kinda bad compared to finding where the carbon trace originates and soldering a wire there (there’s gotta be metal somewhere)
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 2 weeks ago:
wha wha what
no, it’s an organic solvent like ethylene carbonate/propylene carbonate + some other stuff, which have a boiling point of 230+°C ( 446°F)
heating up batteries is (mostly) fine (under controlled scenarios with known good batteries, spicy pillows can always happen with bad batches) as long as the plastic holding them together doesn’t melt
you physically CANNOT make a lithium ion battery with water because lithium reacts with water
from the wikipedia page
Lithium reacts vigorously with water to form lithium hydroxide (LiOH) and hydrogen gas. Thus, a non-aqueous electrolyte is typically used, and a sealed container rigidly excludes moisture from the battery pack. The non-aqueous electrolyte is typically a mixture of organic carbonates such as ethylene carbonate and propylene carbonate containing complexes of lithium ions.[45] Ethylene carbonate is essential for making solid electrolyte interphase on the carbon anode,[46] but since it is solid at room temperature, a liquid solvent (such as propylene carbonate or diethyl carbonate) is added.
- Comment on Hopefully, Future School Kids Will Have to Write Essays About This 2 months ago:
ok so
I just watched that and
why 2 pairs of knees?
am I missing the joke?
- Comment on Hopefully, Future School Kids Will Have to Write Essays About This 2 months ago:
give me my 30 minutes back
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
no, it’s definitely a Florence flask, trust trust
- Comment on Do tell!!! 2 months ago:
red wine glasses also usually have a flatter bottom so that you can heat it up if needed by holding it on your palm with the stem going under
- Comment on Is cops being evil/lazy/incompetent a USA specific thing, or is it the same everywhere in the world? 2 months ago:
TIL
- Comment on Is cops being evil/lazy/incompetent a USA specific thing, or is it the same everywhere in the world? 2 months ago:
it’s everywhere, but in the usa it’s exacerbated by the fact that most people have guns
while watching bodycam footage I often find myself thinking “just open the car door and cuff him, why hesitate and risk starting a car chase”
followed by the realization “oh, he has a gun”
obligatory Don’t talk to the police
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 2 months ago:
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 2 months ago:
dude I would pay gold for that
- Comment on This Cybertruck shaped man is destroying our government 2 months ago:
sorry, I see you’ve made a typo there. The president is the man in black in the front of the photo, the one behind him is just a dog
- Comment on MaoMao no that's Okarun Ball 2 months ago:
- Comment on Henry Symeonis 2 months ago:
now put the stepladder inside a room with a door, make the chimps beat up anyone who opens the door, and you’ll have a next gen security system
- Comment on It hurt by just seeing 2 months ago:
no homo-hameha
- Comment on Nope 2 months ago:
I don’t get it
- Comment on He's so negative. He's so weird. 2 months ago:
someone has done a Mustard binge watch
- Comment on The extremely rich would rather not have another Einstein unless they knew they could control them and it wouldn't hurt the bottom line. 2 months ago:
to be fair the phrase applies to both
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 2 months ago:
“The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down”
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 2 months ago:
it is, but the graph is referring to pure caffeine, which (unless you crush up pills and do lines of it) is in minimal amounts in coffee
- Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today... 3 months ago:
First of all, sorry for the harsh response, I was in a hurry and I probably passed off as a dickhead
secondly tho, from the video you sent yourself at 9:43 “Nitromethane, all by itself, is a high explosive, but it is so inert, it’s almost impossible to set it off”
And that’s what I (probably in a bad way) implied in my first message, nitromethane either requires to be sensitized with something like ammonium nitrate (to make ANNM) or with ethylene diammine (to make PLX) (or really with any basic substance, even sodium hydroxide you get as a drain cleaner can work, but it gets too sensible and can detonate on its own while you work on it)
Here’s another video that shows nitromethane just plainly burning
- Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today... 3 months ago:
Nitromethane doesn’t explode on it’s own under normal conditions
- Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today... 3 months ago:
It’s not like they can rely of self sufficient solar panels, they just lobbied them out of existance with climate change denial
- Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today... 3 months ago:
That’s not balanced though
4 CH~3~NO~2~ + O~2~ → 4 CO + 6 H~2~O + 2 N~2~
also, why are we burning nitromethane?
- Comment on Soldering/De-soldering USB flash-drive Plugs 3 months ago:
That’s why I keep my backups on the sd card in my Raspberry pi
- Comment on What are your Homelab goals for 2025? 4 months ago:
docker-ify everything, my nginx, nextcloud, pihole, jellyfin, and basically everything else is a nightmare and I can’t even begin to understand how to modify the shit that
2023 me did2023 chatgpt spat out, so having everything in some neat docker composes is gonna help immenslyalso making the Pi that everything’s hosted on boot of an SSD instead of a cheap chinese SD card, but that requires money and I’m all out
- Comment on Do you want me to heat that up in the "Michael Wave"? 4 months ago:
free microwave oven transformer? yes please
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 4 months ago:
blue, so I would finally have a friend
