MechanicalJester @ MechanicalJester @lemm.ee

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Most aren't studded and they do make a difference... But that was rink ice under snow.

Even the tractor got pushed around.

"The official said crew on the dhow, which did not have a country flag, were planning to transfer the missile parts, including warheads and engines, to another boat off the coast of Somalia."

Looks like "Finding Out" to me.

The gallows humor is real. Coping mechanisms for traumatic jobs is real. Ever hear civilian firefighters joke around? Same. Military firefighters and combat medics probably have the darkest humor. We've all collectively decided we want people to be really good at killing people and blowing shit up so other people don't kill out people and blow our shit up.

Mocking SpecOps who are KIA is something generally off limits for me. I handed over a hundred of our flags to surviving family so I'm humor dysfunctional in that area. However... jokes? Okay that's kinda funny. Best if served from combat vets I think. I regret making a fuss. Dysfunctional.

Only the insecure fear admitting mistakes.

I hope you're respected in similar fashion some day and it hurts.

I replaced the small wood stove with a king sized stove. If you can spare the space a bigger wood box is fantastic. If you live with mixed, rarely artic, then I recommend the Blaze King. The catalytic burn and the thermostat are great.
If you deal with artic weather then I think Quadrafire might be the way to go. The fire has stayed smouldering for days. Very little smoke, mostly steam seen when the catalytic burner is going.

One negative comment on the Blaze King is that if you have the thermostat on max high, and get a roaring fire going before you turn the thermostat down, the draw can force the intake to stay open. I would add a butterfly valve to the intake or a damper on the exhaust if I did it again. When I need to redo the chimney next I will do both, with maybe a remote little helper fan to assist with getting the fire started.

I did that once and just chucked a pot of water into the firebox to cool it down. I had so much fuel in there letting it cook off would have been ridiculous but probably not dangerous. Probably.

If it's more just for emergencies and power outages then I would say a little battery Bank and a pellet stove would be the way to go

The urban residents don't have any electric backup. The wealthy do, but if you live in the Portland Metro area, don't have natural gas heat, and the power goes out? Fairly fucked.

I live rurally and we got super super lucky to not lose power, but we were going to be fine if we did.

This is the coldest it's been here ina long long time. Other parts of the country would mock the severity, but this kind of weather is rare here.

Portland Gas Electric raised residential rates 17% for 2024. Thankfully all that extra revenue is going towards making the grid far more reliable /S

First thought: clear epoxy it all

Yeah yeah and we'll get them to pay for it!

Just answer our increasingly difficult questions.

Trolley problem: One track is one person, the other is 10

Next level

Okay well now the one person is your mom, and the 10 are 1 year olds you don't know

Next level

Okay the one person is your best friends mom and the 10 are young kids from your immediate or extended family

Next level

Okay the one person would cure cancer tomorrow, and the 10 are friends or family

...

But of a slippery slope. What else do we need to encode?

A barcode doesn't have enough bits to be unique and also contain useful information. It's just a unique identifier that can be used to look up a wide variety of information.

For bolts, it could be metal grade, thread pitch, load ratings, manufacturer info etc

Yep. It's a big navy.

Of which? Last I looked at Wiki the US has 11 aircraft carriers in service.

China with two ramped smaller ones. Apparently one was formerly a casino and the other is a clone.

Tonnage is another decent metric. US has 4.6 million tons to Chinas 2.

The capability of the tonnage is a whole other twist. Force multipliers like mid air refueling, AWACs, stealth etc

I mean...the US Navy is roughly 40 times more capable than the Chinese navy just looking at aircraft carriers compared, nevermind the carrier group components or the planes. A US super carrier is so much more capable than the 2 Chinese carriers combined.

Refuse to do se their preferred name for starters.

It's likey Thomas. Include their middle name too so they know.

Same for Rafael Edward Cruz.

Since no one mentioned it: VCR tape eraser.

Basically just an electromagnet that oscillates because it's running directly from AC current.

With an extension cord you could erase all the hard drives in a computer lab just waving the eraser vaguely where the drives are.

Physical destruction is better though.

No, I wanted to point out vaguely herbal remedies masquerading as homeopathic.

If some things labeled as homeopathic actually aren't as in they actually contain ingredients that have actual impacts it could give false credit to the whole genre, right?

Memory of water bullshit - no argument there from me. Some chemicals can be very dilute, but still present, and can still aid or harm. Fentanyl is a great current example, or the crazy tiny amount of peanut it takes to hurt someone highly allergic etc.

Those? They can say homeopathic on the label but if they contain enough of anything to work or harm medicinally then they are lying.

So you have products labeled as homeopathic that might work or hurt people, and then placebo stuff.

If I take 1 grain of fentanyl powder, and sell it diluted in an entire liter of water, it might sound like homeopathy, I might label it as such, but it isn't because there's enough powerful chemical present to have consequences if consumed.

We're you able to find reference to the composition change 20ish years back?