So, I figured y’all would be the best people to ask. I make fairly traditional row-staggered hand-wires, but I like them to be stabilizer-free, due to my home tooling limitations and a realization that they work fine. They also avoid one of the biggest pet peeves across the various niches of keyboard people. What is the...
The ad itself depicted a mechanical crusher destroying artifacts of human creativity. A trumpet, guitar, sculpture, piano, drawing board, paints, a metronome, several analog cameras, a turntable, and hi-fi equipment were among the much-loved items yielding to the machine’s unstoppable force.
I just watched it for the first time and… I thought that while the handwringing is excessive, the subtext that all these other emblems of human creativity have to be destroyed to become part of the iPad is unsettling, moreso because the visuals are so decadent in their detail. It makes it feel much more like replacing than supplementing. It’s probably worse that I think it was also unintentional. Big miss for me.
Excellent, reader cases always seem to cost way more than they should, espeically with how fragile they are.
Although, you should know you’re supposed to move over to another room to pretend your workspace is cleaner than workspaces ever are, LOL. Then, what are we rocking for the keyboard?
We only know about when humans mastered fire or started using metal. But we know the exact date when the first powered flight took place. What are some really early “first ____” we know the date of for sure?
There is no definite date, but I do love the circa 1750 BCE “oldest customer complaint,” so please forgive me.
Now, when you had come, you spoke saying thus: ‘I will give good ingots to Gimil-Sin’; this you said to me when you had come, but you have not done it. You have offered bad ingots to my messenger, saying ‘If you will take it, take it; if you will not take it, go away.’ Who am I that you are treating me in this manner – treating me with such contempt? and that between gentlemen such as we are.
I have written to you to receive my money, but you have neglected [to return] it. Repeatedly you have made them [messengers] return to me empty-handed through foreign country. Who is there amongst the Dilmun traders who has acted against me in this way? You have treated my messenger with contempt.
And further with regard to the silver that you have taken with you from my house you make this discussion. And on your behalf I gave 18 talents of copper to the palace, and Sumi-abum also gave 18 talents of copper, apart from the fact that we issued the sealed document to the temple of Samas. With regard to that copper, as you have treated me, you have held back my money in a foreign territory, although you are obligated to hand it over to me intact.
You will learn that here in Ur I will not accept from you copper that is not good. In my house, I will choose and take the ingots one by one. Because you have treated me with contempt, I shall exercise against you my right of selecting the copper.
I mean, dial it back a few notches, and I feel this way unironically. Good show, if not great, definitely within the spirit of the comic, clapping back at certain “fans” was fine by me, and the Madisynn and Wong interactions were fun.
“While initially gleeful at the imminent damage to his competitor’s brand, Kool-Aid Man would soon be confronted with the irony inherent in his own vast advantage in consumer mind-share.”
In June 2019, Siemens reached out to an unusual figure, asking him to take over the criminal investigation. Wright was a police officer in Hill Country Village, another incorporated enclave surrounded by San Antonio, from 1995 to 2000. Wright joined the Castle Hills Police Department as an unpaid reserve officer in 2004.
Wright is also an attorney who practices under his middle name, Wyatt. Anyone in Central or South Texas who’s been near a television in recent years has probably seen an advertisement for his father, Wayne Wright, also an attorney. Alexander Wyatt Wright works at his dad’s firm. Like any good litigator, he has a way with words.
There’s always a try-hard lawyer who gets in as a “reserve officer” with little towns because they can. It’s usually because they’re cop bootlickers, gun-nuts, and/or want a badge to further abuse their already ample privilege as attorneys.
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it comes...
Partly because the AR-15 is lighter than the Mini 14, is easier to reload, and is generally designed to meet the modern needs of armies killin’ humans better. Then there’s the incessant marketing, the huge number of manufacturers at multiple price points (the Mini 14 being a Ruger exclusive), the aftermarket of optics and tacticool accessories, and the general cultural impact. How many Mini 14s have actually been involved in mass shootings and gun-nerd intimidation exercises? It’s almost like the least stable assholes are interested in a “badass” gun.
But okay, fine. There’s a not-insignificant amount of truth to the graphic. By all means, the gun nerds should put it everywhere and inform the previously ignorant public. I don’t think the result will be to convince people the AR-15 is actually useful, just that the Mini-14 is equally unnecessary as a civilian tool or hunting rifle, and they shouldn’t assume a wooden-stock rifle is inherently less dangerous than a plastic one.
And, for the record, I am tediously, annoyingly aware of current second-amendment jurisprudence and the lack of sufficient political will to change the constitution, and while I don’t think the former is well considered, the situation is what it is. It just sucks. It leaves America unique among stable democracies in having gun violence anywhere near the top of the list of causes of death.
Yeah, the level of gatekeeping is extraordinary. “Not only must you respect my political position, but your lack of nuanced technical information means you have literally no room to be part of the conversation!” I see similar attitudes about military matters, where not having served is viewed as a reason to completely dismiss concerns, rather than a valuable outside perspective to be considered.
I grew up in the gun culture, and we actually have a few guns locked up in a safe in my father-in law’s garage, but I haven’t been motivated at all to go get them in the last 5+ years, because WTF do I really need them for? I might grab the single-shot 12-gauge someday because casual skeet shooting is legitimately fun, but while I still have a sort of lingering “suburban white guy” interest, I just fell out of love with actually having guns over the years, and my fellow gun owners were a not insignificant part of that.
“Assault Rifle” is a bit of a boogeyman term, true, but part of the reason gun folks hate it so much is that while they don’t personally intend to use their own toys that way (anytime soon), their favorite guns absolutely DO amount to semi-automatic versions of common military weapons. You know, the rifles one might need when assaulting an enemy position:
lightweight
compact compared to earlier weapons serving a similar use case
accurate
high rate of fire. One little factoid the gun folks don’t like to have mentioned is that even the most common military rifles stopped being fully automatic years ago because it’s wasteful, and most are semi-automatic and three-round burst (correction: The US Army retrofit its burst to have fully auto again, though the USMC did not). “They’re not machine guns” is another way to weaponize pedantry. Semi-auto sends plenty of lead downrange.
arbitrary magazine size limited only by material science and added weight
quick and easy reloading of the rifle with pre-loaded magazines.
easily adapted with aftermarket parts that enhance only anti-personnel activities (lasers, flashlights, bump stocks, bayonets, etc.).
chambered in a mid-size round: high-velocity, small bullet. Designed specifically to do well taking down animals human sized and smaller, but lightweight enough to carry a shitload of them without being over-encumbered.
It’s not hard at all to come up with an objective technical definition that has nothing to do with “scary looking or not”. Find some numbers for the various criteria and make bright lines, such that weapons that are still legal will be more poorly suited to mass murder than the current crop of black rifles. There will absolutely be people pushing at the margins, but you can’t let perfect be the enemy of good. But no… people like the feeling of power they get by having weapons that are virtually identical to the stuff that “warriors” have, so they’re going to cling to them like their lives depend on it, even though statistically they very much do not.
It’s a distinction without much of a difference, though. Apart from auto and burst fire, a modern AR-15 does everything an M4A1 does. The Marines’ M4 and M16A4 models don’t even go past burst.
If semi-auto rifles are going to be legal at all, they should have a small integral magazine that’s non-trivial to modify. The sheer efficiency of these rifles makes them really good for assaulting humans, because that’s what they were designed for.
It took me way longer than I care to admit to find “Polish” in the thumbnail, though in this case it’s not the nationality or the language, but the other one. 🤣
We like to say he looks like an oil painting brought to life.
He’s also gone straight from the foster where he was born (his mother is only 10-12 months older than him and had a much tougher road) to be the doted-upon baby goofball. Even our other dog, a slightly aloof and very wary former stray, looks out for him and even washes his feet when he senses his 90-pound (40kg) “puppy” forgot to handle it.
I used to have the drink plan thing, because a year of it came as a perk/promo on a credit card we have. I called it “artisanal red bull” and I had to be careful with how fast I drank it. I’ve only got the uncontrollable jitters twice. Once when I didn’t realize that a coffee shop doing big-assed iced coffees was just sugaring their coffee and adding a couple ounces of cream, not adding any particularly large amount of milk.
Then with the charged lemonade. I knew it had caffeine, a lot even, but I didn’t do the math and assumed it was like a little more than mountain dew or something.
I was mistaken. I saw my ancestors in the vibrations of the universe strings.
Also, what wood is that? Something local to Australia? And is that top really solid 8/4??!?!?!?!? If so, I mourn your lower-back’s sacrifice in the service of well-done furniture refinishing.
Australian lumber is a whole different world. Maybe some sort of blackwood or a eucalyptus? That figuring doesn’t look like any pines or cypresses I know of.
Regardless, it looks like whoever made that was not fucking around. That thing looks to be built like a brick shithouse. They even alternated the growth rings on the top, though I understand that only helps a little and can result in “rippling” when a consistent cup might have been controlled equally well; still, it’s a classic technique. You may want to wax those slides if the drawers bind at all, and if the pulls don’t look original, I might find something else, but that’s just an opinion.
Meanwhile, I’m over here trying to decide how much desk I can build with a single sheet of plywood and a 2x8, and whether it would look any better than my 15 year old Ikea trestle table that was cheap when I bought it.
My thought was a full sheet. This math would drop a little due to actual dimensions and kerf, but I’m roughly thinking 30"x60" for the desktop. Then you’ve got an 18"x60" piece to make a modesty panel/back. That leaves 3’x4’ from which I could cut two open boxes, roughly 12"x12"x18" that could be joined to the modesty panel to make open cabinets.
That leaves the 2x8 to cut glorified edge-banding and a couple of leg assemblies that only need to be 15"18" tall. There should be enough offcuts left to make some crude cable management and additional reinforcement.
Yeah, the idea would be something like THIS, with similar widths for the leg assemblies, though they’d be taller and I’d lift the front-to-back stretchers to give me four feet with a similar look, versus trying to get it perfectly flat. I think by giving the legs a bit of “chonk,” they can be mounted securely enough to prevent racking, and there’d always be the possibility of a stretcher to connect the two assemblies, though I’d feel like I lost the game of BoM management if I had to buy a second board!
The other idea I liked would be something more like THIS, where the legs’ assemblies are so thoroughly mated to the carcase that they really can’t rack.
For joinery, probably something simple, some shallow rabbets for alignment, followed by a “glue and screw and through” method I’ve used before, where after the glue dries, you (one at a time) back out the screws and drill them out for glued 3/8" through-dowels. Not a subtle look, but intentional and nicer than the screws.
When I was kid in Florida there was enough overlap between Boy Scouts camping and Battle of Olustee reenactment camping that I’d hear stories about the folks involved in the latter. Don’t remember much, just that they could never, ever find enough Yankees, and they always made sure they had their battle flags.
Heart Shaped Container FreeCAD Tutorial (pawb.social)
credit to @colourlesspony...
Cost-effective convex keycaps? 1.75u and under
So, I figured y’all would be the best people to ask. I make fairly traditional row-staggered hand-wires, but I like them to be stabilizer-free, due to my home tooling limitations and a realization that they work fine. They also avoid one of the biggest pet peeves across the various niches of keyboard people. What is the...
Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad (www.theregister.com)
The ad itself depicted a mechanical crusher destroying artifacts of human creativity. A trumpet, guitar, sculpture, piano, drawing board, paints, a metronome, several analog cameras, a turntable, and hi-fi equipment were among the much-loved items yielding to the machine’s unstoppable force.
I designed a 3D Printable e-reader case for Kobo's newest E-Readers (lemmy.world)
You can download the files on:...
What are some of the earliest "firsts" that we have a definite date for?
We only know about when humans mastered fire or started using metal. But we know the exact date when the first powered flight took place. What are some really early “first ____” we know the date of for sure?
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Marjorie Taylor Greene fails to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson (www.bbc.com)
The House killed the far-right Republican's motion to remove Mike Johnson over support for Ukraine aid.
Too soon? (lemmy.world)
Small-Town Politics, National Consequences: The Supreme Court takes up a Texas power struggle involving allegedly retaliatory arrests of two councilwomen. (www.texasobserver.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/small-town-politics-national-co…
Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles (www.psypost.org)
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it comes...
Official Blog: Ondsel ES 2024.2 released: more assembly tools and UX/UI polish | Ondsel (ondsel.com)
CHEESE? (lemmy.world)
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Panera says it's phasing out its controversial Charged Lemonade nationwide (www.nbcnews.com)
Lawsuits have blamed the highly caffeinated drink for at least two deaths....
Someone painted this poor desk brown and gave it to an op shop. I bought it for $60 and restored it (lemmy.world)
Here is what it looked like when I got it home:...
U.S. Civil War Reenactors (Rockville, Indiana) (lemmy.world)
Never saw such a thing before. It was very loud and a bit silly, but fun.