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- Comment on The plastic cylinder in my soap dispenser is loose and the soap no longer pumps. What's the best way to fix this? Super glue didn't hold. 14 hours ago:
Epoxy or silicone, I favor epoxy. You will need to make sure everything is absolutely clean and you will probably want to take some sandpaper to them to provide a better mechanical grip.
- Comment on How would you decorate this room? 1 day ago:
This isn’t that type of situation. This room is not meant to be right. It is where only wrong exists. There is a litany of people who allowed this room to exist and they all knew what should have been, but they all allowed this space to come to pass.
This room is meant to not be, but has allowed to be because it is forsaken by the collective creation of humanity.
- Comment on How would you decorate this room? 1 day ago:
No, bare socket and bulb hanging from the wire that flickers.
This is the room you keep someone in or cry in, this is not space for a modicum of faux solar joy.
- Comment on I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about? 2 days ago:
Not of every time they start up you start talking about fossil species.
“You see what they are up to now?”
“That’s a good question. Personally I am a fan of Cambrian, but who can deny how good the Permian was. Sure, the Jurassic had all the dinosaurs, but stuff Radiodonts and Hallucigenia are just so cool.”
- Comment on I’d like to build a ducting system to actively push air from one room to another. Is that a thing? 6 days ago:
When you say flexible ducting, are you talking aluminized plastic or the corrugated aluminum? That would be a fair amount of weight for flexi in either case, you would want to have access along the route to secure it, especially if it is insulated. The aluminized plastic would need more support than aluminum.
Without site inspection, I couldn’t say how necessary insulating the duct would be. Using insulated duct would be a good “better safe than sorry” move but will make installation without full access a bit of a bother.
- Comment on I’d like to build a ducting system to actively push air from one room to another. Is that a thing? 1 week ago:
If the masonry is gone and there is just a framed out hole then galvanized would totally work with fairly easy install with the help of a second person or some clever use of support. You wouldn’t want to just blow air through the cavity without ducting as it would be horribly inefficient and tank the air velocity across that much distance.
Adding an in-line towards the middle does mean having controls up in the attic more involved and you do want the Mrs to have control over the fan there instead of her having to go downstairs.
If you wanted to circulate the air instead of forcing air with a passive return, then you get into a more complex situation with two ducts and fairly informed placement of intake and return.
Pulling into the attic will help to lower temps and will be the simplest/cheapest option so long as there isn’t a wall you can put a window heat pump unit in.
- Comment on I’d like to build a ducting system to actively push air from one room to another. Is that a thing? 1 week ago:
In your case there are a lot of complexities that may make such a simple solution less viable than OPs.
The total volume of the two spaces, the floor and wall construction, if the basement is finished, and the layout of the basement and main floor all come into play.
Adding ducting to the walls may be a major hassle and expense.
If it were my house, I would probably push air up from two spots into the main floor via registers I added or add more returns to the basement and hope the HVAC circulation helps with the top floor without having to add dampers to the main and top floors in both cases.
- Comment on I’d like to build a ducting system to actively push air from one room to another. Is that a thing? 1 week ago:
Depending on the size of the flue, it would be entirely possible to put a 4"-6" stainless corrugated liner in there with a “T-Body” and “snout” going through the side of the chimney in the attic and close off the damper with an opening for airflow. Then you would have in-line duct fans with a rheostat control at both ends pushing air one way or the other. The duct fans that are the same diameter as the duct don’t have much pressure, so you would probably want a centrifugal fan to spend once and get desired results. You can buy the fan with the speed controller or they do have ones you plug into. The fans are loud, so the Mrs would appreciate it if it were inside of a baffle box to keep the noise down while she works. How low speed the fans can go is limited, so don’t expect to have infinitely varial speeds without spending a lot more.
There also are temperature controllers so you can have the fans cycle to regulate temperature without manual control. You would probably want to put that on only the attic fan if you went that route.
You could use galvanized duct, but it will rot out over time in the flue and it is harder to install vs a stainless corrugated liner.
The fans are $200-400 depending on how much chooch you want. The liner runs $12-16 per foot. The T-Body and snout are about $150-200.
There are bi-directional varial speed duct fans but they carry a premium, typically require custom duct manifold/plenum fabrication, and are two fans put together to achieve the pressure required. Going with one fan at each end is easier, cheaper, and easier to repair should one fan fail.
If it were my project, I would try just having the fan in the attic pulling and control it with a speed control plus temperature controller. If that wasn’t enough is when I would add the fan in the basement and do manual control with variable speed and have both fans push. I don’t really see why you would want to pull air from the attic, but you seem to feel you would need to.
It can be tricky to get the snout on the T-Body, you will want some 1/4" extensions and impact, as well as someone who can help you.
- Comment on Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says 1 week ago:
As a robot tiger, your ability to maul rednecks and hillbillies with narcissism that try to contain you would be considerably greater than your current form.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 week ago:
With the Amazon Alexa equipped with the GM-AL Vision System, we can time the ads between vision lapses and achieve nearly 95% ad prevalence in 91% of Prime subs.
With the Extended View VR headset equipped with new eye-opening visuals we are seeing 98% percent ad observation with only a 23% hospitalization rate for blindness and numbness of the zygomatic nerve.
Both the Amazon Alexa with GM-AL and Extended View headset will be available for $99.99 and $249.99, or $49.99 and $149.99 with a prime subscription, this next fiscal quarter.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 week ago:
Simp subs for twitch thots.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 1 week ago:
If you keep one eye closed and expose the other to sunlight, you can see the difference. The lenses tint a dark shade of purple. I have dark brown eyes, so you can’t really notice the difference easily. There is a purple ring that is most noticeable outside of the limbal ring. They don’t turn your eyes black like you had the tint of sunglasses or transitions glasses, which would be cool.
I would imagine someone with lighter color eyes, like really light blue, would have a very noticeable difference.
Something I did notice as the wearer is when the lenses are tinted there is like a contrast filter on your vision so colors look better.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 1 week ago:
They kind of released under the radar because a comedy skit about them came out and gaslighted people into believing they were not a real thing.
I only found them because I went to order contacts and saw the product category.
They aren’t as good as sunglasses(but are really awesome) and they don’t work much in the car so you will still want sunglasses.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 1 week ago:
I love transitions lenses. I have transitions contacts and they are fantastic.
- Comment on Counterattack 2 weeks ago:
Be better than your enemies. Annoy them and don’t cause an accident in following Hammurabi.
- Comment on Counterattack 2 weeks ago:
Your rearview mirror can do that. Yes. A larger concave mirror can direct more light back, but then you have to have a 3 foot wide mirror taking up space in the cabin or exposed to the weather outside the car, it would be prone to failure.
So just aim your rearview at them.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 2 weeks ago:
The startup cost on their charger stations is pretty high and they typically have a deal with land owners to have them installed, so I doubt they hit break even for years on one bank.
They were aggressive in putting up charging areas to ease the hurdle of charging for potential customers when they were the only viable BEV and sales have slumped pretty badly now, so spending more on chargers at this point is financially unwise. With charger competition ramping up they are not in a great place for the financial aggression needed to have the chargers pay off in any timespan with limited income from car sales.
If they had been of the mindset to corner the charging market, instead of driving sales of their vehicles, they would have had an entirely different strategy and could have had a great steady income off chargers.
- Comment on Just used spray foam for the first time... 2 weeks ago:
Petroleum-based lubes are not wise compared to water-based for internal use and say you aren’t a fan of classic American literature without saying you aren’t a fan of classic American literature.
- Comment on Just used spray foam for the first time... 2 weeks ago:
Nitrile goes on the moment anything sticky comes out. Spending the next hours or days picking bits of bullshit off your dick ticklers isn’t great.
I honestly wear gloves when working all the time, work gloves or nitrile, because I don’t want rough hands with tiny cuts you only find when you use sanitizer.
I understood why he wore a glove with Vaseline in them, you wife probably does too.
- Comment on histories mysteries 2 weeks ago:
By the looks of it, the Romans were size queens and kings. The frescos and mosaics of Pompeii support that theory.
- Comment on What's this thing called? 2 weeks ago:
It is a 4 pin(or 1x4) JST(?)wire connector. You need the measurements in millimeters of the connector and the distance between pin centers to know exactly what standard that is unless you have examples to guess and check.
The pins that make the connection do sort of need a special tool to crimp, but you can manage with standard wire crimpers and some doing.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 2 weeks ago:
Google, it makes them money. Marketing departments, because they need to justify their existence.
- Comment on Fact check: Biden repeats his claim that he ‘got arrested’ defending civil rights. There’s still no evidence for it | CNN Politics 3 weeks ago:
You can be a racist and still be arrested at a civil rights protest, you don’t have to be there to support a protest. From there political spin can make a rainy day seem like a day in the sun.
Also a man will find himself doing things he never would have done because a girl is involved. Liberal cuties have beguiled many a conservative man, for some strange reason liberal women are often drawn to conservative men.
- Comment on Fact check: Biden repeats his claim that he ‘got arrested’ defending civil rights. There’s still no evidence for it | CNN Politics 3 weeks ago:
He says he did, evidence says he didn’t.
Option A: He didn’t and is telling a lie or he has a false memory.
Option B: He did and his arrest didn’t result in a charge or conviction, or it was swept under the rug thanks to his father’s money, power, and influence.
Knowing how rich families operate and knowing Biden was planning on a political career early on in his life, Option B seems the most likely to me.
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 3 weeks ago:
You sign up for the card because you already shop there enough for you to justify having the card. You wouldn’t sign up for the card of a store you never go to unless there is some financial incentive, like sale price for members.
They want your data for marketing a resale.
- Comment on It would be terrifying if it were to actually start raining men. 3 weeks ago:
Nightmares won’t kill them, but the mesothelioma has. Over 400 first responders were affected by illnesses due to 9/11, over 340 have died as a result. Politicians have been trying to fuck over the survivors and they can’t wait for the last one to die so they won’t have to deal with John Stewart raining hate on their miserable lives.
There are stories from survivors that mentions how they heard the bodies hit the ground without knowing what the noise was from. They looked around for the source and found out how grim a reality they were in.
- Comment on It would be terrifying if it were to actually start raining men. 3 weeks ago:
I couldn’t imagine what it was like standing around the north tower on 9-11, around 200 people rained down that morning.
- Comment on Refrigerator leaking black liquid? 3 weeks ago:
How does that make you feel?
- Comment on Refrigerator leaking black liquid? 3 weeks ago:
The oil used in refrigeration systems is like mineral oil, so it isn’t thick or stain like most engine oil.
- Comment on Refrigerator leaking black liquid? 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately it is probably a bad seal in the refrigeration loop if it is oily. I would recommend keeping windows open and animals in a separate room just in case the refrigerant leaks. You can risk running it until repair is possible, but there is a small chance of fire if the compressor overheats and you may make the repair more expensive.
It will be a pain but you can throw ice in it to help keep the food good while you wait for repair.