Krudler @ Krudler @lemmy.world

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It's a very interesting question, and I can't speak to the science but I can speak to my personal experience.

Going back to childhood I always remember the adults insistence that I decide which is my handedness yet knowing intuitively that I could favor either side, and they each had an advantage.

I played left wing in hockey, only because there was never enough left-handed players, so I just pretended I was left-handed.

When I would play little league baseball, coaches would shout at me saying hey, don't you bat the other way?! To me I just naturally, almost randomly picked a side according to how I felt about the pitcher.

When I played snooker semi-professionally, I shot right handed, but not because my right arm had more finesse, but because my left arm was better at providing rock solid stability with fine control, and because my right eye is slightly stronger. In my life, I played perhaps 50 games of billiards left-handed, out of perhaps 20,000 games total. And I can pick up and play left-handed with ease... You would think I'd been shooting that way my whole life.

I use my right hand to write, but when I skateboard, I skate "goofy foot". When I destroyed my shoulder and it was a piece of meat hanging off my body for 6 months, I picked up a pen in my left hand and within 3 days I was writing at the same grace I could in grade 6! Within a month I was actually writing better than right-handed. It was still chicken scratch so I'm not sure what that's worth lol

I know that I am right-handed by choice because there's a difference in the knuckle/tendon of my left thumb. It makes it impossible to move from certain positions on the "circle" to others without first moving to a transitional spot. And I have more dexterity with my right for that reason alone.

I always wanted to play on P2 of the Street Fighter II cabinet.

What did Suzuki do?

The voting system only serves to push people's biases to the top. 98% of the top-rated comments on Reddit are worse than trash because they misinform, or are a regurgitation of a commonly-accepted half-truth.

Just hot air.

I've been making my own tortillas for a decade and I can tell you there's nothing newly wrong with the corn flour. It's the same it's always been.

Yeah it's always best to have heirloom with minimal processing, but I'd rather have 100 homemade tortillas with basic nixtamalized corn flour for $3 not $30

This article is a bunch of wind.

This is insane and awesome!

Totally random... but I just found a CRT Trinitron with original rabbit ears and I shit you not, the original Trinitron sticker on the front of the glass :o

Former porkchop here as well. It's all behavioral.

Yes there are external factors that can influence behavior, but at the end of the day it can't be reduced further than that.

I am exhausted by the collective delusion and endless disavowing of any form of personal responsibility for one's own dietary intake. Focus on the external factors, always, never look at choices because then it becomes a "they" problem not a "me" problem.

I am ridiculously organized and clean. I do that 5 minutes of swift pickup/wipe a few times each day.

That said, still have this drawer. There is always a collection of items that don't seem to go "together" but they're always used. That's what this drawer is for.

I don't get the stock picture though. It's an obvious arrangement of tools that haven't even been used.

I was there when "The Web" became available to the drooling masses. Nothing brought me more work in digital media than "easy tools" that blow up if one screw isn't turned just right.

I seriously think No.

This is a mixed-material piece that looks good but is going to be destroyed regardless. Modgepodge, lacquer, shellac, varnish, clearcoat... they're all going to wreck it. There are too many "metal coatings", films, paints and so forth on this. Just use it and throw it away, looks like it's cheap Chinesium

It's in my original comment. Try reading instead of outbursting.

okay

Well get a grip on your emotions.

Thanks man! Pics are up and I'm game to share and compare! I love learning what other peeople do

I can only show you the two I have left, because I give them away constantly. That's part of the whole "must be recycled" thing... after this comment I'll come back with some pictures just give me a moment...

In 20+ years of stoner engineering, I feel the most important thing is to keep the cloud chamber much, much, much, much smaller than you'd think.

We often see these huge "frat boy bongs" as I call them with huge bases and like 40cm tall throats. That's an absolutely insane amount of wind to have to suck before you can even get the hit. Our lung capacity is limited, even moreso when we abuse them regularly with smoking. A hit from a bong is totally "broken" if the user has to stop, exhale to open lung space and keep going. That's a fail.

The more time smoke has to sit around in or pass-through parts of a vessel that are colder than the smoke itself, you're going to get a shitload of condensation. All that resin you see caked allll over your bong is evidence of excess condensation and reveals product being wasted. And that makes the hit wayyyy harsher too.

So the number one thing which runs counter to what people expect, is that "bong power" comes from keeping the vessel small, limiting the filtration, and ensuring the path from the smoke chamber to your lungs is a short as possible. When I say limit the filtration, passing the smoke bubbles through a few inches of water is sufficient, more than that just robs the smoke of its THC and defeats the point.

My homemade ones hit so hard people are blown away. It's kinda crazy when you learn how to make them hit harder... the best one I ever made was made in a 250ml mason jar - it was tiny but hit like a TANK. Plus once you master the art, you discover you now need half the weed... not because it becomes "stronger" but now you find you're smoking it at double the efficiency.

The other thing is NOT to select a vessel that is narrow on the bottom and widens as it gets to the top. There are some "fancy" bottles like from Crown Royal and such that just don't work properly. There is something about fluid dynamics and how turbulence flows at boundaries... I don't fully understand the hows/whys but I know the vessel needs to taper smaller. (The part with the water needs to be the big part of the vessel)

edit: Here are pics of the 2 I've still got. The one in the Crown Royal bottle is neat and it delivers good hits but my neighbor fucked up the bowl (and my cutting bit!) when I was teaching him how to cut glass. Also I'm going to throw this one away (keep the components just chuck the bottle) as it's incorrect shape. I just wanted to play on this one because I found some discarded paint markers. The skull jar was given to me by the same alcoholic neighbor that wrecked the bowl and my cutting bit, and I'm just carving a nice custom tiny glass bowl for it now. The pieces on it were actually repurposed from the Mason Jar one I mentioned earlier.

Pics all out of order because I'm feeling lazy RN

https://postimg.cc/gallery/mHqq4GV

I like making homemade bongs and water pipes specifically from reclaimed materials. I'm not strident about things, but it's fair to say in a general sense that I need them to have $0.00 of material costs. I make "the best" in terms of performance, and people freak out when they use or see them. They are always a huge conversation piece, always creative, and I just give them away. People ask me all the time to make custom ones but I won't. It's free or nuthin'

I know people that still use water pipes I made for them 15 years ago! Sometimes they look a bit "trashy" but they're crafted! And that's the way I like em!

Remember when Homer Simpson made that misbegotten lump of shit called VunderBaat or something? I feel him man

A piece of dried dog shit makes a quick pipe just poke a couple holes with a stick (thumbs up emoji)

Sort by fabric weight and "toughness" not the other ideas.

You want jeans with towels and rags and socks and goonch together. Thinner shirts and blouses with thinner slacks together. Heavy jumpers and aprons and work pantaloons. Always cold water, lay flat dry unless you find that too annoying and time consuming (I personally prefer air dry but it's probably me being a bit fussy and too frugal buy hey free winter home humidity too)

edit: Oh and you must inside-out the good items. So the nice exterior doesn't get beaten to rat-shit and all pilled up. Let that rubbing-rubbing-rubbing damage to the fibers happen on the interior of the garment which nobody sees

The message is Neil's daddy obviously didn't love him

People really could benefit from an occasional reminder that the need for critical thinking in life doesn't take a vacation. Believing things will "work out" just because one hopes it will is a dangerous game, especially when those people promote the risk-taking to others. Stay sane and dis-invest emotionally from things in which one has literally zero control of the outcome.