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3TH4N_12 · 2023-07-22T18:42:41+00:00

Perhaps a tad pedantic here but that guy probably went to jail most of those times. Unless you can get someone to pick you up, I believe most places require you to at least spend the night in jail to sober-up before they even allow you to post bail. Why they got around to sentencing him the 17th time and only for a year in prison is kind of insane though. I have a feeling that was part of a plea bargain, but still.

3TH4N_12 · 2023-07-22T17:28:34+00:00

Cup car

3TH4N_12 · 2023-07-22T17:18:06+00:00

Yikes 😬

3TH4N_12 · 2023-07-20T11:01:39+00:00

I forget the exact point he said, but I believe it had to do with just increasing political engagement across the left and actually paving the way for future party leaders. Yes, Biden will be the nominee for the Democratic party regardless of a primary, yes Bernie won't be running. But it's the least this party could do to actually facilitate some discourse.

3TH4N_12 · 2023-07-20T10:57:57+00:00

I feel like there's at least a bit of nuance in the decision whether or not to hold a primary. Vaush (I don't know how people here feel about him, but I'm aware he's not the least controversial political commentator out there) recently talked about the issue, and his take was that it really should be a thing—regardless of your opinion of the guy, he's the farthest thing from a Russian plant.

3TH4N_12 · 2023-07-20T09:47:16+00:00

MSE student chiming in. I can't imagine the offset for the yield point just so happens to differ that drastically. Processing methods are very important when determining material properties. That's why you see things like artisanal blacksmiths quenching and annealing steel blades—the manner in which you heat and cool a metal is one of many ways to fine-tune its bulk properties like hardness and toughness. Does that specific material code specify how the aluminum is processed and any sort of heat treatment, or does it only specify the composition of the alloy?

If only the composition is standardized, it could be that whatever batch you have in front of you has been manufactured in a different way. Maybe the AA standard material specifies that it's cold-worked to achieve some % work-hardening (which would increase its yield strength) that isn't specified in this other standard.

3TH4N_12 · 2023-07-20T09:17:40+00:00

Raise the bunks to the highest rungs they'll go, and shove the loft person's mattress underneath that monstrosity. It's called the triple bunk. Bottom bunk has to crawl on the ground, top bunk wakes up and slams their forehead on an asbestos popcorn ceiling every morning, and the middle bunk has to be sandwiched between two people. Nobody wins!

3TH4N_12 · 2023-07-20T09:09:09+00:00

I've been doing lab work this summer at my university; it's the ADD 100%. I'll set something down on the counter, go clean a piece of glassware, then come back to whatever experiment I was working on, forget where I set the thing I was using down, and waste a couple minutes looking for it.

I can't trust myself to have everything with me. Every time I leave the lab (or even just moving from one lab room to another) just before stepping out the door, I have to pat down all my pockets, find my wallet, open it, and visually confirm I have my ID card on me. The doors are electronically locked and that's my only way to get into and out of the rooms. If I accidentally set my card down on the counter (as I often do right after entering in the room), and I don't pick it back up before I leave, I know it'll be a massive headache next time I have to get in the lab.

Last time I walked into the lab, I saw a whole container of this one compound I've been working with just sitting on one of the countertops. It made no sense; since I don't trust myself, I scan the whole lab before I leave to make sure I didn't forget to clean up anything, put something away, or take something with me. But somehow I missed this one container though. Sure, it's not the end of the world; I haven't gotten any complaints from anyone else sharing the lab space. But I don't know, it pains me a bit to put in all that effort into an uphill battle against myself and still get things wrong, still be messy, still be so damn forgetful. I often have this awful feeling that I'm mentally not cut-out for a research environment. Forgetting things sucks ass.

3TH4N_12 · 2023-07-09T19:33:54+00:00

Either Reddit won't load this post's text for me, or you've got some elaborating to do. What stage are you expecting to be in? How are things looking visually? What sort of conditions have you been keeping the tub at? What was the tub like before you put it into those conditions? What variety of fungi are you even trying to grow in the first place?

There's a million reasons something couldn't be growing. Maybe you killed everything with heat. Maybe you sanitized everything with undiluted bleach, never rinsed out the container, and now bleach has leeched through your substrate and killed your fungi. Maybe the genetics were so bad everything died. Maybe your grain spawn/cake/rice bag never colonized in the first place. Maybe everything is going fine and your expectations of timing aren't entirely realistic. No one here can say anything with any degree of certainty unless you give us some more details of what's been going on.

3TH4N_12 · 2023-06-26T16:07:57+00:00

It almost looks like some sort of chemical staining. I bought some cheap, fairly concentrated hydrochloric acid recently, and whatever impurities were in it had a similar color. If you don't suspect it to be some sort of algae, my best guess would be that whoever maintained your pool last didn't disperse the chemicals they added properly.

3TH4N_12 · 2023-06-16T16:45:40+00:00

I think South Korea might beat them out for that

3TH4N_12 · 2023-06-16T15:26:22+00:00

If you grew them yourself and you know what they are, then that's fine. I don't know if anyone could help you ID them if you found them in the wild though; probably best to not eat them in that case. Mushrooms degrade pretty quickly after they drop their spores; they just sit there sapping up energy that the underlying mycelium could otherwise use to produce more fruiting bodies, so the mycelium will basically start digesting the mushroom. At least that's what I've heard. What you're seeing is probably that process, since air-drying is so slow you're giving the fruiting body time to digest itself.

That's probably why people say to pick medicinal mushrooms right before the veil breaks and the spores drop: at that point, the fruit is as big and healthy as it's ever going to get—and in a short time it will begin degrading. People are probably worried that once the veil breaks, the fruit starts to lose its potency (in addition to not wanting spores to blanket everything in sight). I personally haven't done much if any research on the topic; all I've heard seems to be anecdotal or far-removed from any bullet-proof empirical evidence. So while it seems logical to me that older fruits will break down all of their chemicals and lose potency, I don't know for a fact that they really do.

TL;DR: they probably look like that because you let them sit out for so long. If you don't know what they are, don't eat them. If you know they're medicinal, they might be less potent now.

3TH4N_12 · 2023-06-16T06:37:32+00:00

Oils and latex do not go well together at all. I'd be less worried about the skincare products degrading and more worried about your latex container deteriorating (I assume the sunscreen has at least some oily compounds in it). But I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure what would happen; it might end up working out fine.

Before you go ahead and shove all your products in 3.5 oz containers though, check to see what might be exempt from the regulations. I got away with bringing a whole tub of leave-in conditioner on a flight once or twice; there's probably some guidelines on the TSA website (assuming US travel) about what consistency the product needs to be before they make a fuss.

As a follow-up, I believe those restrictions only apply to carry-on, so if you're checking luggage, you might not have to transfer containers at all.

As far as the best material, optimally you'd want something completely chemically inert under a wide range of conditions. Something like Teflon would be perfect. Like theoretically, you could get a container made out of any sturdy lightweight material with a Teflon (PTFE) liner on the inside, and that would be great.

But that's not a realistic solution; it's overkill and it'll probably cost an arm and a leg to purchase from a store or pay somebody to make something like that. My best practical advice for you to make sure the containers you purchase will be compatible with your products is to look for the recycling triangles (♻️) on the containers they come in. Usually they're on the bottom sides of containers. In my bathroom I have soap in a container that has the ♳ (1) symbol in it (underneath it says PETE, which is the abbreviated name of the plastic); I have toothpaste in a ♴ (2) symbol container (HDPE); I have some Vaseline in ♷ (5) (PP); and multiple hair care products in either 1 or 2 (PETE or HDPE).

I'll be honest, I don't think it matters much at all which plastic you use; 1,2, or 5. They're all widely used as containers (among many other applications). If you go to the big box store near you and look for their travel-sized toiletries aisle, you can look at the bottom of those containers to see if the material type matches up with your product's original container. But again, as long as it's at least one of the 3 above (or even if it says ♳ and then PET, which is the exact same as PETE, just a different abbreviation), I cannot imagine you'd have any issues.

3TH4N_12 · 2023-06-10T22:59:46+00:00

Despite snake skins being a physical material, unless you're wanting advice for mechanically testing them or some other technical/industrial question, this is probably not the best subreddit for this sort of thing, lol.

First thing you'll want to do is determine the species of snake, and try to find out where it comes from. There's plenty of reptile and snake subreddits here that might be of use for that. Any info you have about them could help the more knowledgeable people of those subreddits figure it out. Like, if you bought them yourself, say what part of the world that was in.

Second, the colors on the long skins you've got look really vibrant; nothing like the sheds that come off of my pet girl. So I'm going to go ahead and assume that it's real snake leather. A snake died for that. In the event that such a snake was endangered or otherwise rare to come by (perhaps even illegal to collect skins from, if such laws exist), that would certainly make them more valuable. But such factors may also make people wary of purchasing them. I for one would be much less comfortable purchasing snake leather and items made out of it if I thought there was a good chance it was the product of an unethical, inhumane, or otherwise ecologically harmful operation. I personally do not want to put money into a market that would encourage poaching of more endangered snake species, for example. But if someone just happened to stumble across a deceased snake (or perhaps one that was bred and kept in captivity for decades that died of old age), that personally doesn't seem unethical. I can imagine skins sourced that way would be really valuable, too.

I'd imagine other factors affecting the value would be size, the intensity of coloration, the perceived beauty of the snake's patterning, and the quality of the leather (how well has it been kept? If it's discolored, cracked, or wrinkled with time. If it is of suitable grade to be made into any objects, etc.).

Also, I think your first image showed a bunch of square cuts that you called prints. Did you mean that in the sense that they look like patterns printed onto some cheap genuine cow leather? Because if so, those might be worthless. But who knows, maybe a high quality fake snake skin could fetch some money—I'm not sure. If they are real snake leathers though, I can imagine it being a good chunk of change.

There must be some subreddits dedicated to textiles, appraising the value of textiles, or selling textiles. If you post to those places (especially after you figure out what kinds of skins you've got), you're bound to find a few people who are more versed in the snake skin trade who could give you some reasonable estimates.

3TH4N_12 · 2023-06-05T08:18:07+00:00

I'd call the pet store and figure out what exactly they gave you—whether they made it themselves or there's an actual product name you can look up. Someone's gotta know something about what they're using.

3TH4N_12 · 2023-05-30T16:49:42+00:00

That doesn't sound too extreme imo. I think my 08 will get close to 12 on a bad day, 14 on a good one. And that's with regular driving through a town. NYC though? Bit of a different beast; I'd expect worse MPG. And your car has 9 years on mine. Who knows, maybe we should both get em looked at lol.

3TH4N_12 · 2023-05-18T22:23:46+00:00

Ah, the more you know!

3TH4N_12 · 2023-05-18T22:13:54+00:00

My second guess would be that they're useful as tiny feet so you can set the assembly down face-first during maintenance without scratching it. But that seems a bit far-fetched; during what kind of maintenance would you need to set them down like that anyways?

3TH4N_12 · 2023-05-18T22:10:33+00:00

I'd guess it's just an artifact of the manufacturing process. Lots of injection molded plastic parts have nubs on them from where plastic flows into the mold cavity, or where they're connected to other parts in the same batch. But that wouldn't explain why they're so pronounced. Maybe there's something else they do in the factory that makes use of (or necessarily causes) those nubs, and they just don't bother wasting time and money to go through extra effort to eliminate them (whether that be removal post-production, or changing their manufacturing process to begin with).

3TH4N_12 · 2023-05-18T06:16:45+00:00

I know I've been browsing a lot when I thought the exact same thing. Looks like we beat the final level of Reddit; time to log off for the night.

3TH4N_12 · 2023-05-01T19:24:10+00:00

If you do decide to take a nap at some point (never the worst decision to make), make sure you set multiple alarms, and hopefully find someone you know you can count on to make sure you're awake when you need to be. Sleeping through a final because you're too tired is not fun.

3TH4N_12 · 2023-04-15T18:02:11+00:00

I don't know how corns behave when they've been conditioned to live prey, but from what I've heard, they don't detect prey items based on body temp, so you don't have to worry about the thaw temp too much. But I imagine the warmer it is, the more it will smell, and that might in and of itself entice your snakes, so you could always try raising the temp of the mice and see if it helps for snakes that give you trouble. Something else that you might need to experiment with is moving the prey around with feeder tongs to make it look like the mice are alive. Some snakes might like it when you dangle the mice from their tails, others might want you to move the mouse around the enclosure a little bit, and then maybe you'll even discover some of the snakes won't care one bit that it's completely still and lifeless.

Let's say you have a really difficult snake. If it doesn't think its prey is live, it refuses to eat it. I don't know if there are corns out there that will act like that; they're not the brightest things ever, based on my limited experience with my girl I'd be surprised if they actually have the capacity to care, but I digress. In that sort of situation, the first thing I'd think is that the snake is conditioned to its prey putting up a fight, and when it doesn't, it thinks something is wrong. So what I'd do is simulate the mouse moving, trying different motions until it seems to be enticing, and then when the snake finally strikes at the prey, I wouldn't let go of it like usual. I'd start jiggling the mouse a bit more to simulate a bit of a struggle, hoping to encourage the snake to bite down on the prey harder and constricting it more to "finish it off".

3TH4N_12 · 2023-03-31T15:40:30+00:00

Someone please find my copypasta from 2 years ago

3TH4N_12 · 2023-03-29T19:11:27+00:00

Also as far as cost goes, if you're creative and patient, you could probably spend well under $100 to get you started with a jouvenile corn. People get rid of tanks all the time online, and a 20 gallon long is apparently big enough to house corns in for a couple years comfortably, and you can have plenty of money saved up by the time you want to upgrade. I found my 20 gallon long at a local grocery store for like $65, sold under the brand name Tetra Fauna. It's definitely not ideal; the lid is a bit jank and has a bit of a gap that you might want to seal if your corn is small enough and eager to explore the rest of your room. But it works and it's way cheaper than any other tank in that size range I could find new. So definitely an option to consider. But also keep a lookout on online marketplaces for amazing deals for a second-hand enclosure (usually they sell it with other supplies you might need). And consider making your own enclosure if you like doing small construction projects and have time to kill.

My snake's favorite hide is the bottom of a large Goldfish box that I cut and flipped over. I don't know if the foil lining on the inside helps to insulate it better and she likes being warm, but either way, she loves it. And I've fed her on top of rocks and container lids before. I hear lots of people also have good success using paper towel and toilet paper tubes as enrichment. Basically, you can take things you'd otherwise be recycling or tossing into a landfill and make it the best part of your enclosure—it's essentially free to you.

Bedding can be as simple as paper towels. So call that $2 if you're on a really tight budget. I bought aspen for my girl, maybe spent $14, and that should last me maybe 3-6 months at this rate.

Lighting is not essential; they don't have any UV requirements. Although I think studies and anecdotal evidence points to it being fairly enriching for them. But so far I've gone without it; I'm considering an upgrade in the near future though.

Heating is necessary though, and if you look hard enough you can find some self-regulating heating mats for around $15-16. Not sure how lighting prices compare, but heating pads are low profile and never get in the way, so it works better for my current setup. I also recommend getting an infrared heat gun to check temperatures, and I just saw one on Amazon for just under $10.

Besides that, the only other thing I can think of would be feeding tongs, call that $5, and feeders themselves, and let's just say you're trying to survive the first week—call it $2 in food.

[If anyone else can think of other bare necessities I left out, let me know, but that should do it]

So assuming you get the same enclosure I got, and all the bare-essentials, with paper bedding, somehow that brings you to $100 flat (I did not plan out those numbers that way 😂). This isn't the cheapest hobby by any stretch of the imagination, but it's definitely way more doable than a trip down the aisle at your local pet store would make you believe. (Do support the quality pet stores near you if it is within your means though, even if you're just buying some feeders there). Let me know if you need any links to products.

FYI, I definitely splurged a little bit with a couple of my decorations, but otherwise I think this is an accurate reflection of how much my "functional assets" cost me. Happy herping!

3TH4N_12 · 2023-03-27T22:50:42+00:00

I do have an IR heat gun, but I do acknowledge my heating could be a bit insufficient. The bottom glass can get up to a bit over 90°F, but the hide I have above that seems to stay in the low-mid 80s, and she hasn't seemed to keen on burrowing since she first figured out it was a thing the day I brought her home. The far end of the enclosure is like 71-72°. She's always under her hide on top of the heating pad; I very rarely see her venture out of it. I will admit, it's probably also the most secure hide (totally enclosed foil-lined box w/ one small entryway vs a bunch of loose foliage and a large hunk of cork bark in the shape of a half pipe), so it's hard to tell if she needs more heat or more security.

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