Excrubulent @ Excrubulent @slrpnk.net

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Oh okay, you wanna trademark the single most efficient leg-based locomotion system in the animal kingdom? What's next, wheels? You want the rights to all wheels, as well? What else? Sure, you invented water, that's fine.

Fair enough, I'm talking about big H5 construction screws and impact drivers, so a different use case maybe. Also it turns out when ARRMA uses too much threadlock on their axle set screws you can strip them really easily, and I needed more expensive special hex drivers with tight tolerances to work with them.

I prefer to only use them when I can't get alignment. They're far more likely to round out the head in my experience, but they have their uses.

This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine - it's designed purely for automation. That's why it's tapered, to allow power tools to slip out before they break. That's good for automation in the *1930s (EDIT: I've realised that in a few years it will be the 30s again and maybe I shouldn't leave this so ambiguous in light of that), not so good for hand tools or any modern tool with a torque limiter.

You're much better off with hex or torx, or even the square driver, which is much more tolerant of imperfect handheld tool usage.

The only reason phillips is still used is because it's ubiquitous, it's very much a historical oddity. It's okay for many tasks but unfortunately the slipping out behaviour can destroy the screws very quickly.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/9903/bit-history-the-phillips

I mean it's conceivable they'd come up with something similar, and it would be weird to expect a props department to find different screw heads just to be lore accurate.

Edit: Plus it's common today, which means from a prop design standpoint it communicates the idea that it's hand-built, because just about everyone has a phillips head screwdriver, so seeing it tells you it's something you can work on. I think that's the main reason it would be there. Jedi are supposed to make their own lightsabers.

What's the story with Real Debrid?

Many such cases.

I honestly didn't know that about them, but also I prefer solarpunk. I figured if I didn't like it I could always hop instances but it's been pretty chill so far ¯(ツ)_/¯

I didn't really consider dbzer0. Sorry you're going to have to clarify why you're asking that.

"Autistic children will be discluded from the study for skewing results"

"Autism involves a significant deviation from expected behaviour"

They have played us for absolute fools.

(I know autism describes a real cluster of traits, but it is only socially constructed norms that define those traits as aberrant, I am not saying it isn't real)

Just look around the instances with closed sign up and find one where you think you would be a good fit. The process isn't so difficult, you just request an account and explain why, just something that says why you like the instance.

This is part of building networks based on trust rather than impersonal machine-mediated networks.

Do you know the admins personally? Do you know who they are or where their funding is from? Do you know where they draw their pool of moderators from?

If you don't have those answers, well, I don't either, but those are possible avenues. We know influence campaigns from all sectors target social media, why would this place be any different?

Gaza is happening because of US imperialism. Biden said that's what Israel does in the region very clearly.

Joe Biden's long history of pro-Israel statements

Anyone seriously considering prepping should listen to Robert Evans' - of Behind the Bastards fame - podcast episodes on Worst Year Ever:

How to Save Your Community When the Government Fails

The Reasonable Person's Guide to Prepping

TL;DL: it's far more about food & water and building strong community ties with mutual aid than having a pile of guns and ammo

BOOOOOOOO! DOUBLE-DOWN! DOUBLE-DOWN! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

"This is serious mum"? I mean it kind of fits.

Eh, that only matters if they can prove it was a lie. "I don't recall" is something everyone can get away with.

The technical term is "autocannibalism".

Not to be confused with "autocannonballism", which is a method of automatically loading old-timey cannon with a da Vincian mechanism of ropes & pulleys.

Yup, I'd say these instances are cover for neoliberal and/or reactionary sentiments. Honestly with the attention federation has recieved I think we'd be foolish not to consider that the biggest open sign-up instances have an agenda or at least are being influenced in some way, with or without their knowledge or permission.

If you think that's going too far, I'd say the purpose of a system is what it does, and these large instances are systems unto themselves, and they serve this purpose whether intentionally or not.

At what point is supporting the prosecution of this assassin advocating for violence? The social murder done by the CEO is so many orders of magnitude greater, and the state will do violence to the killer to defend the industry's right to do social violence.

Nobody was having this conversation when people rightly cheered the deposing of Assad. Guess what? That involved violence, a lot of it. That was state-backed violence too though, so I guess we're all just fine with it.

The state calls its own violence "law" and that of the people "crime".

I guess lemmy.world is happy to just go along with whatever the state wants. It's just insulting that you pretend it's about "violence" and you expect people to believe you.

People downvoted me to hell when I tried advising a newcomer to look for an instance that wasn't lemmy.world because the open sign-up makes them a haven for reactionaries.

Are people listening now?