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- Comment on Give them space!! 2 weeks ago:
As a simple cartesian mind, I am both turned on and deeply intimidated by space
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Is it okay to take drugs to make yourself a better person? Does it make a difference if "better" is mental or if it's physical? 2 weeks ago:
The only normal people are people you have not taken the time to get to know yet.
- Comment on Is it okay to take drugs to make yourself a better person? Does it make a difference if "better" is mental or if it's physical? 2 weeks ago:
I’m a better person with Adderall. I feel more like myself, like I escape a frustrating fog. I’ve been on it for ~14 years. It doesn’t seem to have the same effects on everyone.
Everything in life is ultimately brain chemistry and addictions. Most of the drugs in our chemistry soup are the substances the human body synthesises on its own. Biology is a funny thing. It can handle immense complexity, but can struggle with precision.
If you have the self awareness to seek out and optimise your brain or body chemistry where it might be lacking, I’d argue that you are the better person than someone that suffers through the deficiencies of their natural biology.
However, humans have a very difficult time assessing their own brain chemistry objectively without biases. It is both harmful and unsafe to self diagnose or self medicate without the assistance of someone that is trained to objectively asses your situation and needs.
- Comment on Westloki – 3D printed bicycle belt drive conversion (solid continuous loop belt on an unbroken bike frame) 2 weeks ago:
These are basically timing belts for cars. Inside the belt are usually metal or aramid fibers that prevent any elongation of the tooth pitch. A lot of the automotive aftermarket principals of a timing chain versus a timing belt drive apply exactly the same here. The belt lasts longer and operates dry with more accuracy over time.
- Comment on Westloki – 3D printed bicycle belt drive conversion (solid continuous loop belt on an unbroken bike frame) 2 weeks ago:
The positives of a belt drive are maintenance, and that it stays clean so they are most popular with commuters that do not want a dirty pants leg or newbie chain tat. They are only common on heavier bikes like short haul commuters in general and require a “broken frame” that is designed for them in the first place. The lack of transmission gearing means you need to either know exactly what gear ratio you need and deal with only having one speed or you need an internally geared hub. All internally geared hubs have monstrous weight to add. So in practice, you do not find many of these on the market. Even with an e-bike, you still need a geared transmission unless you have throttle control without pedaling.
On the other hand, for a hipster roadie, a fixie with a belt drive is some serious cred. Especially if they can dish it at the local group ride against people on flagship bikes.
- Westloki – 3D printed bicycle belt drive conversion (solid continuous loop belt on an unbroken bike frame)i.ytimg.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on What's your favorite conservative podcast? 2 weeks ago:
The “Join social networks for psy ops nonsense” podcast. Welcome to Lemmy less than 24 hour old account. I’m conservatively community-ist and anti exploitation.
- Comment on Learning Botany 2 weeks ago:
That is a spell from Harry Potter and you cannot convince me otherwise
- Comment on Why is removing stuck rings with dental floss painless for some people? 2 weeks ago:
::: spoiler A lot of it is from use too. My left and right hands have different sensitivities from playing guitar all my life. Auto body work also forces a person to dial in touch at a very atypical level, especially for a painter like myself. I’ve trained a few apprentices and even those with an initially poor sense of touch eventually dial in the skill. There is a level of imperfections in the final finishing steps where it is impossible to see the issue in oblique view due to the matte finish of primer/sealers. This is well after blocking and guide coats are no longer helpful. At this stage, there are still many imperfections that will create obvious errors after clear coat because the distorted reflections that may be present in the final gloss. These errors can be very color dependant. They can manifest in the way metallics settle within the color coat making the issue visible here as well. The worst color for reflective errors is black. With some whites a painter can get away with nearly any minor error at this stage without consequences as long as there is enough orange peel present in the factory finish.
Anyway, there are two tricks to finding late stage errors in the primer. The easy way is to use a wax and grease remover solvent wiped liberally across the panel. This will temporarily create a clear coat like gloss that will show exactly what the final reflective properties will be like after clear is applied. This is always the final test before you shoot anything. However, doing this a whole bunch of times just because you can’t feel the issues is very amateur noob territory. Any skilled painter learns how to touch a panel in a sweeping feel using the center pad of each finger tip and sliding a hand along the surface in a way that one can feel even the most subtle of errors. I can feel the reflection–no joke.
A painter spends a ton of time wet sanding by hand too. This leads to sanding off most of the outer skin on your hands. In fact, when I was really busy and working 12-14 hour days, I had to quit when my fingers started to bleed. They actually bleed the pattern of your fingerprints when you sand through them with a fine grit over time. The thin skin and heat sensitivity it creates helps to dial in the skill.
That is my long bla bla bla about why, in my experience, anyone can dial in their sensitivity and awareness as a skill. When I worked on heavy equipment or in the machine shop, I had tough callused hands; with auto body thin soft and sensitive, and after all my crashes and battles with cars on a bicycle, like a seriously scared up brawler.
- Comment on Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says. 2 weeks ago:
Trump is such an incompetent clown that he has a comedian thrash on US citizens in a US territory as a bigoted racist warm up act for his rallies. What do you think.
- Comment on Is lemmy really any different from reddit? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t find myself making spontaneous buying decisions for frivolous nonsense in my life in general when I stick around here. All of my purchases are due to my needs and research only.
Physical disability with social isolation gives one a potential ability to more deterministically decipher where and how interactions influence them. I have less inputs and influences and tend to remember what was suggested or peripheral to my intentions. I got into a lot of stuff over the last 10 years that, when I look back, I really don’t know why I did them. I know my surface reasoning, but like, why was I following those people and spaces in the first place–that kind of meta logic perplexed me. When I quit YouTube and switched to newpipe/reddit, those random tangents were drastically reduced. When I quit reddit they went away entirely. It is entirely speculation, and probably borderline paranoia, but I probably only bought stuff on AliEx because it seemed like everyone on YT was buying from there. I can’t say it was all bad or unwanted or anything like that. I can say I got stuff I didn’t need or use.
I still explore new interests and projects I feel like trying when I see them here, but I have yet to feel influenced in a way that hints at manipulative intentions.
I’ve seen people try with disingenuous arguments that have 5-10 upvotes instantaneously. I’ve seen posts that have supporting corpo replies seconds after posting or where a typical type of comment for Lemmy gets a large scale negative response quickly that is obviously not genuine or typical behavior. Unlike reddit, these seem so blatantly obvious here that I block the posters and commenter immediately. Blocking here is rather effective and blocking a lot of users makes for a pretty pleasant experience unlike anything I ever had on reddit. This is my only outlets to contact other humans and I feel rather balanced with it and self care. That is more than I can say about reddit.
- Comment on Pineapple pickle 2 weeks ago:
Just pineapple in a ~3% salt brine that came out tasting like a pickle.
I did pineapple once before but it was a tiny amount inna little jar and it came out fantastic. I was curious how a bunch of whole trimmings might turn out with this one. I’d say it was not great. However, it was a little old and had some very small moldy spots on the outside that I discarded, washed the rest, and went with. The one I prepared today is much more fresh and no spots of mold so hopefully that comes out better.
I probably should have stopped the last one a little sooner too. It was slowing down and the CO^2^ bubble size was getting larger with each burp. I think it might be better when it still fizzes like champagne. At the peak, it fizzed to a head that filled nearly half of a 1L jar of head room. So far, pineapple is the only ferment I have tried that is this active, like it could probably blow a jar within 24 hours if left sealed without a check valve or burping.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on The universe is bottle-necked at processor speed 2 weeks ago:
There is a disparity between the Earth’s, Life’s, and the Universe’s clock speeds.
Light speed is an irrelevant convention to the speed of causality.
We are like electrons that exist in a time delay circuit for an irrelevant blip, while the hardware chugs along, and we imagine ourselves the PC Master Race.
- Comment on Google is now watermarking its AI-generated text. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but not the bad actors this is primarily targeting and will create further issues. There are likely 3 keyword tokens used in a pattern. The most adept of humans should learn these and be damn sure to never use that pattern in any natural way.
- Comment on Google is now watermarking its AI-generated text. 3 weeks ago:
Hold up, let me ban a couple hundred tokens in the reply. Pattern fixed. Watermarking only works for the most ignorant surface level users.
- Comment on Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen’s Suicide 3 weeks ago:
What kind of monster family had a kid with mental health issues, in therapy, and has an accessible gun around unsupervised?
- Comment on For states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream? 3 weeks ago:
Land acquisition cost and not in my backyard’ers. At least here in Southern California. There is no chance that a loosely regulated and toxic high salinity waste water plant would get past public and environmental scrutiny. The only really viable areas are the last local refuges for many.
Like from Mexico to Santa Barbara, the camp Pendleton Marine Corps base is one of the only viable spots. The decommissioned nuclear power plant would be one of the mostly likely spots to build such a facility, but that is surrounded by a state park and some of the most prised undeveloped local surf real estate. Many municipal and commercial projects have vied for that land, but there is fierce local opposition from a wealthy and very politically well connected public.
There has been occasional talk about opening up the Pacific side of the 5 freeway to public development as this is some of the federal government’s most valuable real estate. Even if this happened, that would become one of the most elite places to live in the country.
Few people know this, but the Southern California coast around Orange County and North of San Diego is a spot of rare deep ocean upwelling. There is a micro climate here within a couple miles of the coast that is regulated by the ocean upwelling maintaining temperatures. It is always cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter here and almost always between 50°F and 80°F even when a few miles away it can be 40°F-100°F. This is one of the main reasons why real estate in these areas is so high.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Pineapple trimmings in 1 liter burp or boom tube 3 weeks ago:
Probably would work but I like to keep a little extra CO^2^ in solution when it settles and want to make sure there is no oxygen as I do not do extreme cleaning steps like I probably should.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 3 weeks ago:
Things have changed a lot since I painted. All of the paint systems I used have been phased out in favor of water based alternatives. Those changes largely stopped the way I did my work as water based colors require a very consistent and controlled environment like an advanced downdraft spray booth. I could control many behaviors with the evaporative speed of solvents and reducers in ways that are not possible any more. Now those behaviors (I assume) are handled with temperature, humidity, and a much larger feathering area for masking changes with less accurate paint. The funny part is that clear coat catalyst and solvents are the largest pollution and health hazard by far. The switch to water based color coats massively increases the overhead of a body shop, creates the need to have whole room IR heaters or integrate them into the booth, and then adds an extra panel to prep and feather the repair on every side. It amounts to a massive increase in the cost of auto body work that includes far more pollution and energy use just to say the most insignificant aspect, the color coat is water based. That is a big reason I stopped painting and why my experience is not exactly relevant to the present.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 3 weeks ago:
I agree to an extent, but light is invisible. Colors are a frequency phenomenon and the same property in both instances.
Part of the art of mixing and matching paints for cars is abstracting the various spaces and focusing on each. I need to see the flat tone, opacity, coarseness and composition (metallics/pearls), layering (pearls), flop (how the color changes depending on facet angles and tint the tone of this independent of the perpendicular tone).
I’m unusual in this space as well. I specialized in very small repairs where I am mixing paints in much smaller batches than the minimum recipe supplied by the paint vendor for the original color code of the vehicle. I knew paints on a much deeper level where I mixed mostly by eye and intuition. I had many techniques, but overall, I had to know the tinting properties of around a hundred different colors and how each one would behave in combination with the rest. My skills were very much a matter of flattening my perspective and observing three dimensional colors as if they were a two dimensional abstraction with several little 2d bubble universe facets to play with.
It is a learned skill. I hired several employees over the years. It quickly becomes evident how a person thinks and their ability to see color on a level that most humans never encounter. Even now, I still know that white and black do not exist and are simply byproducts of other colors and properties. True black would be impossible to see, and white would be a blinding light source specifically tailored to the individual’s vision spectrum and neural processing. I see colors and complex properties in everything.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 3 weeks ago:
Oh but there are. I have painted cars and done automotive class airbrush graphics for many years. There is a ton to know and learn about when it comes to colors, matching, and expression.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 3 weeks ago:
…but then you have to know the properties of color in your media too if you want to really match colors to a reference
- Comment on Is my reaction weird? 3 weeks ago:
Boners are largely age dependent. I remember in high school I got random boners all the time and anything could trigger them. Now, at 40, I have way more control plus novelty matures and wears off IMO.
You should have said hello or tried – YOLO. Those opportunities dwindle with age for the most part.
Try to step out of your own perspective in a mental abstracted exercise and ask yourself, ‘If that was me is there any chance I would be touching someone like this and not notice?’ Then, ‘What is the least amount of meaning I would attribute to such a gesture? – (now conservatively divide that by /10).’ Finally, ‘If I were in this person’s state of mind, how would I perceive a stranger talking to me?’ IMO, when with a friend, the person is going to be on the high ground and feeling secure and safe from embarrassment. If you directly address the touching, you’re going to be at a disadvantage and get shut down. However, if you can find a way into making conversation, the touching was like an invitation to do so. By not addressing it directly you are using it as a step up into exploring more. The hard part is just the small talk. Many people are just more tactile, but in our present world, touching strangers (at least in the USA) is very rare.
- Comment on Pineapple trimmings in 1 liter burp or boom tube 3 weeks ago:
Wild fermentation is just a 3% salt brine and a sealed container that you burp every few hours to let pressure out. It can explode if too much pressure builds.
- Comment on Pineapple trimmings in 1 liter burp or boom tube 3 weeks ago:
Pineapple, mined salt, water. It gets a sealed lid and then burped a few times a day. Nothing special, nothing bought, nothing fancy. It is just the oldest form of wild fermentation like it was done in prehistory.
- Comment on Pineapple trimmings in 1 liter burp or boom tube 4 weeks ago:
It makes a killer brew. Something about it is different and super dense in microbe growth. It is one of the only things I’ve tried that can go off for ages, keep going, and still tastes sweet and like a liquor. It is the best for complex sauces. Once you taste it, you’ll recognise the flavor as familiar to candies and things you’ve never quite known what was creating the flavor. Fermentation changes everything but this one stays closer to the original than most others. I bottled it like 4-5 hours ago, just went to bed, and it is already showing a small bubble stream like a glass of champagne even after a 3% salt brine. The salt didn’t even phase what was already there.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz | 13 comments
