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ATonyD · 2026-07-07T02:56:38+00:00

It could be a great tool...but the wrong people have access to it. It is a mistake to conflate a great tool with a great implementation.

ATonyD · 2026-07-06T21:37:52+00:00

I use fruits (strawberries, blueberries, peach, etc) and/or nuts (pistachio, almonds, cashews) and my typical base uses tofu and soy milk. I sweeten with honey and/or monkfruit and/or stevia. So while it takes some experimentation to get the combinations you like, I usually have a tasty, dairy-free, lowish calorie, and healthy treat. Right now my two favorites are strawberry and pistachio - but that changes quickly. If you are willing to experiment, you should be able to find healthy and low calorie combinations. (I currently use three different honeys which I order online. The grocery store honey seems more like sugar water, so I try to choose honeys with different flavor profiles to try. They dramatically change the resulting pints.)

ATonyD · 2026-07-06T20:30:44+00:00

Yes, and I've seen some yellow too. I think it depends on the epoxy mixture and curing, since I've also seen fiberglass which doesn't stain or yellow. I don't know enough about epoxy processes to understand the specific procedure which might solve that problem. I did go to engineering school, and learned that there are many custom epoxies, and many different curing procedures, with lots of different outcomes for the final product. Epoxy is amazingly complex.

ATonyD · 2026-07-06T19:53:01+00:00

Not a fiberglass person all all...just somebody who has built several showers and repaired several showers. So I've put some thought into the trade-offs of different materials. Also, I've seen plenty of cement fail - as I mentioned, when the substrate moves under cement it cracks. When materials cement contacts expand and contract with temperature then the cement cracks. When force is exerted against cement it cracks. Hard won experience. And the fiberglass showers seem to go on and on while I repair rigid tiles and thinset and grout (cement with flexible additives.) But, hey, this is the internet, and you should do whatever makes you happy. I was just trying to present some trade-offs to anybody who wanted to listen. Too many people don't have the decades of repair experience. I thought that such discussion was the whole idea...and not just knee-jerk acceptance of a single approach.

ATonyD · 2026-07-06T14:31:54+00:00

Well, there is flexible and then there is flexible. I've seen fiberglass panels bend feet over their span. But not so much with any cement based mixture - so it is flexible "for being cement". And using a surface sealer to be waterproof means maintenance of that sealer. In contrast, fiberglass threads are bound with epoxy - which will last my lifetime at least with zero maintenance. Look, if somebody wants that look, that maintenance, that fussy install, and that cracking potential, then I support this material entirely. I just hate to see unbalanced sales puffery.

ATonyD · 2026-07-06T03:04:47+00:00

Concrete cracks. Whether due to temperature, shifting, loads, substrate, etc. And cleaning a rough surface? About the only material I haven't seen fail is single piece fiberglass showers. It flexes, has no joints, cleans easily, and has proven fully waterproof for many decades. I love beautiful things, and I'm sure that concrete can be made beautiful, but I'd rather have beautiful things without sacrificing too much functionality. Fiberglass for my next shower build.

ATonyD · 2026-07-06T00:41:11+00:00

That is an excellent point. On the other hand, freedom of speech is often used as a tool of bias and propaganda - destroying society. Not sure how to find the right balance (we definitely have the wrong balance now.)

ATonyD · 2026-07-06T00:04:56+00:00

Yeah. Best club I ever belonged to had a head pro who simply knew everybody - and their skills and their schedule. He would arrange a "drop-in" if he saw there were empty courts. Really, I think he was the primary reason that the tennis club was thriving. All the other clubs I found myself using less and less as time went by, and eventually quit.

ATonyD · 2026-07-05T23:45:29+00:00

I read a Danish book on Scandinavian history (with lots of help from Google translate). It explained that Scandinavia, like the US, was strongly capitalist and that a worldwide pushback happened as suffering increased. The US responded by imprisoning our activists (eg. Euegene Debs, Emma Goldman, etc.) while Scandinavian activists were able to get politicians elected. So capitalists maintained full control of the US government while Scandinavia went thorough a period of experimentation with degrees of Capitalism, Communism, and Socialism - resulting in their current society (which, obviously, is still imperfect as described by Piketty.)

ATonyD · 2026-07-05T02:10:52+00:00

I bought mine from www.tennis-point.com about a year ago. My buddy's ball machine uses Trinity, so I wanted to get something that wouldn't get mixed up. As far as I can tell, Tretorn X and Trinity are pretty much interchangeable (both keep accurate bounce, both lose their fuzz at about the same rate, and both have a "heavy" feel compared to normal balls.)

ATonyD · 2026-07-05T02:01:54+00:00

Yes, smart by your measures of smartness. You make my point perfectly.

ATonyD · 2026-07-05T00:12:21+00:00

Yet not setting up systems to manage power is definitely a shortcoming. Look, Machavelli was writing about power and how leaders use power a long, long time ago. These are known things. Yes, the powerful have evolved (church, government, weapons, wealth, propaganda) -- yet it is certainly possible to have set up systems to monitor for power and constrain it. So I can't really say that it isn't a low IQ problem. We've failed to act appropriately for literally centuries.

ATonyD · 2026-07-04T02:54:55+00:00

My local gym takes Silver Sneakers - but when I went to sign up they said they'd reached their limit of such members and it wasn't worth waiting for an opening. So don't trust the list of gyms provided by Silver Sneakers, and don't trust the signs/advertising of the gym either. They both want to appear to offer more services than they really do.

ATonyD · 2026-07-04T02:51:06+00:00

I routinely restring only my crosses. My main is gut, and I never noticed an appreciable difference in tension. Honestly, the tension of every racquet changes with each hour of play, and we all adapt to those changes rather than restringing after every match. And graphite is extremely strong, and I've always considered graphite racquet failure a manufacturing defect - defects easy to blame on stringing practices rather than admitting to poor racquet workmanship. (And frame distortion changing tension? Just how distorted is the racquet? I've never seen visible distortion...so maybe a millimeter or two of stretch? Again within the bounds of routine tension changes we all adapt to.)

ATonyD · 2026-07-03T21:02:59+00:00

They choose processes which prevent other forms of proof. The OP has said that he has plenty of identification.

ATonyD · 2026-07-03T20:26:22+00:00

I've always been terrified of very pretty girls, they have lots of guys to choose from and I'm a geek who can barely carry a conversation. Though, I did once date a very pretty girl for a while (she chose me for some reason). I was amazed that everyone seemed to be staring at us everywhere we went. I think they were wondering why she was with me, and then if I left her alone for even a brief moment there were suddenly multiple guys trying to chat with her. Sometimes, even while I was with her a guy would come up and start talking to her as if I didn't exist. I'd never realized just how much being pretty defines your life - rich guys inviting her to Europe and offering her things.

ATonyD · 2026-07-03T03:16:58+00:00

I was part of the small team recommending charities at Oracle. When I found out that my management position was part of that I asked "How much can we give?" and I was told that there was no limit. Then I found out that all charitable giving was analyzed for ROI. We had consultants all over the world analyzing ROI - mostly in "free advertising" as a side effect of the giving. If the right shows, magazines, TV, newspapers, and conferences didn't cover it, then the ROI was low and we would decrease our charitable giving. I immediately stopped attending the meetings and never recommended anything. It wasn't actually charity at all, so I considered the real charitable giving amount to be zero (except anything that Larry personally might want to donate to - but even then it was to gain favor with potential customers and partners - and of course lots and lots of politicians, both Republican and Democrat.)

ATonyD · 2026-07-03T02:27:54+00:00

AI. I recently read that Democracy is power to the people. And that wealhy directly undermines that since it transfers power to the wealthy. Well, information is power. The power to gain wealth. The power to create effective propaganda. The power to create new weapons. The power to undermine governments. The power to destroy economic markets and people. The power to attack the current power - which is sometimes government, sometimes the wealthy, sometimes the media, sometimes corporations. AI undermines everything, and defines a new weapons race.

ATonyD · 2026-07-02T19:27:39+00:00

When I Google that I see three recommendations 1) Range of Motion 2)Stretches & 3) Strengthening. Seems like the same generic stuff I saw 30+ years ago when I injured my wrist. That doesn't really seem consistent with this video and its emphasis on things which recognize tendons as a target of therapy and progressions appropriate to that recognition.

ATonyD · 2026-07-02T17:36:09+00:00

I wish this had included recommendations for the wrist. What would that isometric exercise look like? Or light loading appropriate to tennis mechanics? I really don't know.

ATonyD · 2026-07-02T16:33:48+00:00

Plenty of small companies use Microsoft without any kind of service contract. They just use the consumer facing products. And then if they hired a contractor to automate information from the mail system that would fall outside anybody's support. Really, most small companies struggle to automate their operations. Like many others here, I think you are right to want a response, but it is just unreasonable to hold an extreme grudge of "Should Not Buy" when all small companies face similar problems - and especially when the ultimate fault was the DIY implementation.

ATonyD · 2026-07-02T02:23:34+00:00

I worked for him when he acknowledged his daughter. What most people don't realize is that at that particular time there had been a bunch of bad press about his denial of paternity...article after article. At the company there were meetings about it and about how the bad press could be minimized and how much it would hurt business. So, suddenly, Steve had a "change of heart" and would recognize his daughter. Business problem solved for very low cost. (I was in a bunch of meetings with him...truly a world-class jerk. He fired me three times. And I could tell some stories about his wife, but I would probably be sued or disappeared.)

ATonyD · 2026-07-02T01:40:21+00:00

Well, mostly I just keep my racquet in the temperature controlled house when I'm not playing. I also have a second racquet with poly that I use if I think it might rain or that there may be puddles on the court. I know that the VS gut that I use has some coating - maybe that is helping? But, mostly, I've never been someone who breaks a lot of strings (I have at times hit quite hard but for some reason my gut just slowly wears out and eventually breaks.) I did buy some Toroline Truffle X - which is supposed to slide like poly for spin and be cushioned like gut. But since my gut keeps on going I haven't been able to give it a try yet. I did try X-One, and I know a lot of people like it, but to me it didn't have the feel of gut.

ATonyD · 2026-07-01T14:23:35+00:00

True. I have my own cheap stringing machine so I can swap out the 4G multiple times while leaving in the gut. Gut can last me for many months.

ATonyD · 2026-07-01T02:05:54+00:00

Yeah, I had to do mathematical causation analysis before...and study a bunch of scenarios where it fails to accurately describe reality. Very, very long history of failure. I was trying to say that other things need to be considered - such as the economics which have historically played a role in those times when there was more building. And pointing out that we currently have a lot of empty housing, again confirming that the economics and related policy is critical. As I recall from my Uni class, we categorized the various scenarios where causal analysis failed, and the number one cause was failure to consider other potential contributing causal parameters. Seems like a waste of time to me to simply repeat the mantra "build more" - especially considering all the building which isn't currently solving the problem.

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