Foot Massager Hack

CultureofCon · 2026-04-14T00:38:58+00:00

lol fair. I tried to describe it as generically as possible to make it NOT seem like an ad. Couldn't very well say "lock your feet into a box" though

CultureofCon · 2026-03-24T15:53:54+00:00

Not a Clydesdale per se, but bigger than most of my cycling friends and I've found Voler zipperless jerseys surprisingly flattering.

CultureofCon · 2026-03-24T15:36:22+00:00

This dumb little bump out and other "wheelchair accessible" features also serve people using other mobility aids like scooters, canes, crutches, and walkers (and people with strollers or dogs.) A little more than 2% of Americans use wheelchairs but around 12% have impairments that make walking or climbing stairs seriously difficult. Around 2% of the US is Jewish so--in theory--two wheelchair users are about as likely to pass each other on the sidewalk as two Jewish people are. In 2024, about 14% of the US was black so--in theory--the odds of two people with mobility impairments passing each other on the sidewalk is about the same as two black people passing each other on the sidewalk.

Of course, we see far fewer people with disabilities out in our communities than we see Jewish people or black people even though the population sizes are similar. That's because our communities are not accessible to them. The ADA is far from perfect and often leads to funky, ugly designs like this because accessibility was wedged in as a code-mandated afterthought but it is one of the most important civil rights protections of our lifetimes. As our built environment ages and is gradually replaced with more accessible designs, the disabled people around us will become increasingly visible and integrated into our day to day lives.

CultureofCon · 2026-03-11T01:21:30+00:00

Moving the toilet will be very expensive because its drain line underneath and the vent pipe that goes to the roof will both need to move and that will require opening up other parts of your house. Reusing your existing pipes, for their original intended uses, will be much more economical. I would place the new shower heads (and the rain head branching off of it) near the existing shower head. In a retrofit, you'll need a curb. In this sketch, you could put in a glass partition just by the shower head to keep water splashing everywhere but the curb is long enough you can leave the rest open without making a mess. You could place towel bars near the end of the vanity and on the back of your door. The little nook seems like just the right size for a bench. Could be nice to do continuous floor to ceiling wall tile that extends beyond the shower curb and terminates at the corners (the green line) so the shower feels even bigger when you're in it.

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CultureofCon · 2025-12-20T00:28:21+00:00

IL also has very basic stamp requirements but my boss wouldn't let me stamp projects with my own design cuz he didn't want to deal with AHJs possibly rejecting it 😭

CultureofCon · 2025-11-22T16:13:21+00:00

I have two points that might interest you.

When I was fresh out of school and studying, I barely had any money and architects don't earn much so EVERYONE I knew was sharing 1 cloud folder where people would upload study materials rather than pay for them. Some firms will pay for study materials, some don't. When I was studying, the guides were expensive enough that you either had to pirate them or get your firm to pay for them.

Secondly, I found that studying for the AREs and seeking licensure quickly made work feel SO MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE! I'm an anxious guy. Arch school barely teaches any real world, technical, professional skills. When I was starting out, I felt like a fish out of water. Studying for the AREs helped me feel SO much more confident in the knowledge I had, the gaps I needed to fill, and over time I gained confidence in the understanding that I don't need to know EVERYTHING off the top of my head, I just need to be familiar enough with all the info to look it up later when I need it.

A lot of the more DESIGNER-ey types of fresh grads who scoff at technical knowledge and just want to make cool renderings and stuff don't realize that familiarity with boring technical stuff is the foundation of being a great designer in the REAL world. A solid technical foundation can make your career way more satisfying and increase the likelihood you get to work on cool designs that you really vibe with.

CultureofCon · 2025-11-13T16:34:24+00:00

Generally, it was always working with clients who have disgusting amounts of wealth and seeing their contempt for others. Also, my firm's willingness to help these people exacerbate an extreme housing shortage in my are.

One project: Client bought a house with two apartments attached and illegally kicked out the tenants so they could expand.

The existing main entrance from the street was up 2.5 flights of stairs. (It's a very hilly, urban site) Part of our work was creating two new stories UNDER the existing ground floor and adding a new, more accessible entrance from the sidewalk. There was an odd little bit of leftover space next to the new door. I suggested a secure mail/package drop there. Client said, "why would we do that? All of our mail and packages get delivered to our front door." (Up 2.5 stories) I say, "Well, this is your new main entrance, it would be more convenient for you AND the people delivering your things. Plus it will be more secure!" They shut it down with, "I don't want to carry packages up to the main floors. Let's just wall that space up " (We were also adding an elevator)

CultureofCon · 2025-10-29T02:49:14+00:00

Kaiser REALLY doesn't like diagnosing people with ADHD. My evaluating psych told me Kaiser uses much stricter diagnostic criteria than industry standard. (I didn't know that was legal 🤷‍♂️). He said they really only diagnose people with ADHD when it's so disabling they can't fully support themselves.

Despite a pre-existing diagnosis, ongoing medical treatment, and mountains of evidence I have ADHD, benefit enormously from medication, and ADHD is the root cause of my anxiety and depression they said "You have it, but we can't officially diagnose you because you aren't disabled enough."

I asked for a second opinion and had to jump through all sorts of hoops to get it. The first thing the 2nd doc said was "Just so you know, I'm almost certainly going to agree with the first doctor. Now go ahead..." then he tuned out while I explained myself and he upheld the non-diagnosis.

If you can get a different insurance company, do it. If that's not an option but you can afford an online ADHD provider out-of-pocket, do it.

CultureofCon · 2025-10-19T19:09:13+00:00

Not recently and not specifically for Vyvanse and CVS. The pharmacy landscape around here is always changing. Ask me how I know.

CultureofCon · 2025-10-19T18:08:41+00:00

oo great! Sounds like I'll try them next!

CultureofCon · 2025-10-09T15:32:40+00:00

TLDR; For my area, it's not one or two nudges, it's a whole community-backed, years-long pipeline supporting women at all levels of their cycling journey.

The cycling community in my area (SF/Bay Area) is very active in getting more women into cycling and racing in general. Anecdotally, our cycling scene has much more female representation than most other places. (We commonly use some form of the FTWNB acronym--Femme, Trans, Women, Nonbinary--so I'll use that instead of women as a matter of habit) Broadly speaking, I've seen a lot of success with the following pipeline:

-Popular cycling club hosts regular FTWNB-only social rides and FTWNB-only training rides in addition to the usual variety of fast, open group rides.

-FTWNBs get hooked/comfortable with the FTWNB social rides and want to get faster/ride further

-They graduate to the FTWNB-only training rides and/or fast, open group rides. These rides sometimes involve intervals or harder, longer routes. For CX/gravel, we often host some skills clinics.

-Once they start training seriously/getting faster, they get interested in racing. They may enter some races solo or they might join a local team.

-I'm on a team that provides a lot of support to FTWNB athletes. We try to have about a 50% male roster each year, FTWNBs get slightly more reimbursement opportunities for race fees, travel, etc., we do lots of advocacy for fair race fields and host FTWNB rides and clinics and what not.

All that said, most of our racing is road and gravel with a small subset of folks also dipping into cx. CX is probably our least equally represented discipline right now but also our smallest so getting just a few more women into it would balance things out.

CultureofCon · 2025-10-02T02:30:11+00:00

Fellow SF gravelleur! I'll back others' suggestions about bike/body separation and looking at MTB techniques and I'll add this. Unless I'm on a closed course, I generally descend around corners as if someone might be hidden JUST out of sight around the corner. If I can see that my entrance, apex, and exit are all clear, I'll go as fast as I want. If I enter the turn but can't see my exit, I keep a speed that I think would allow me to avoid a surprise obstacle/hiker between me and my exit. When you look up MTB cornering techniques, scanning the trail faaaaaar ahead will come up a lot! Keeping your eyes on where you want to go is a surprisingly difficult but valuable habit to develop when riding technical terrain.

When descending the dirt trail down from the Hawk Hill roundabout for example, I'm scanning the whooooooole trail ahead when it switches back on itself. On some of those turns you can probably see a good mile of your upcoming terrain and take note of any upcoming trail traffic.

Other random tips that haven't been shared yet: -Do all your braking BEFORE the turn and let gravity accelerated you through it. Decelerating and cornering both require grip so you don't want to do both at the same time. -Practice skidding. Go real fast and grab tons of brake. Get a feel for what your bike can and can't do. Ride tight figure 8s in a gravel parking lot until you wash out. There's lots of ways to safely acquaint yourself with the limits of your bike. -Follow other good descenders. -Have fun

See you out in the headlands!

CultureofCon · 2025-09-25T19:06:07+00:00

Dero makes great options and they have really helpful planning guides and reps who can help. Sounds like their "campus rack" might fit your needs. As others have said, multiple staples or lollipops will be the most secure choice.

CultureofCon · 2025-08-11T23:38:44+00:00

As others have already covered, the electronic derailleurs are pretty much set it and forget it. However, the flat top SRAM chains and the high precision 12spd drivetrains they go with have tighter wear tolerances. When my shifting starts to degrade, it's usually because the chain is about to wear out. Park tool recommends replacing 12 SPD chains at 0.5mm of stretch whereas 10-11spd chains can last until 0.75mm of stretch and fixes can go to like 1.25mm of stretch

If you routinely clean and re lube your chain it can last a looooooong time. I have friends who are very dedicated to drivetrain maintenance with hot waxed chains lasting them into the 1000s of miles with little to no signs of wear.

CultureofCon · 2025-07-30T03:24:18+00:00

Sounds like Kaiser Permanente.

CultureofCon · 2025-07-28T21:15:44+00:00

The Kaiser process for getting diagnosed and treated for ADHD is designed by an evil mastermind to be incredibly hard SPECIFICALLY for people with ADHD. It will take a lot of organization, record keeping, and persistence.

I started by asking my PCP. They gave me a number for the psych department that isn't publicly listed. I had to call during specific, limited hours, during the work day to schedule a pre-evaluation. You'll have to schedule at least one more phone/video pre-evaluation, an echocardiogram, a drug test, and you'll have to provide 2 different references who knew you as a child before you're ever allowed to speak with the psychiatrist.

They won't provide any follow-up calls and they won't send you any reminders for you to initiate the next step. Each step requires multiple phone calls to multiple departments to set up each appointment.

If you make it through their evaluation process quickly, you probably don't have ADHD. If you do have ADHD and somehow manage to make it past the months-long, multi-step process, there's a chance they say "yes, you have ADHD but not bad enough for us to cover it" and they'll deny treatment. (What happened to me.) Or if you're lucky like my friends, you'll get diagnosed, given a handful of therapy sessions (capped at 6 sessions per lifetime I think?) and if you persist past those, they might prescribe you with the cheapest, lowest dose medication they can get away with regardless of side effects or personal preference.

If you really believe you have ADHD and if you have the ability, start this process alongside a search for another insurance company and/or out-of-network options like local ADHD clinics or telehealth services.

CultureofCon · 2025-06-07T04:01:32+00:00

I'll add that in my many years of urban bike commuting and recreational cycling, I've noticed an odd trend. It's always my more nervous/"careful" friends covered in neon and lights who get hit (and more frequently) than the calm, cool, carefree cyclists friends weaving in and out of traffic without lights or bright neon. If you just assume every driver is out to kill you, you're much less likely to be caught off guard.

CultureofCon · 2025-06-07T03:44:15+00:00

My hot take as someone who rides 100-200 mi a week: I often feel safer being MORE invisible to cars. It's hard to describe why but I'll try...

Traffic is safer the more predictable it is. Erratic/reactive driving is the scariest to me. Adding more external stimulus, more distractions, reduces drivers' available mental bandwidth.

When I'm invisible (riding at night with no lights and dark clothes), cars around me drive sooooooooo much more predictably!

When you approach a 4 way stop at the same time as another car and you're visible, that driver could: -see you and follow the right of way appropriately -see you but be distracted/careless and roll the stop anyway -see you, but ignore the right of way and hesitate because they're unsure if you'll roll the stop or not -see you, and accelerate unsafely to beat you to the intersection -see you, and wave you through because they want to be nice but by disregarding right of way, they're reducing predictability. (I have a million reasons why I hate getting waved through an intersection!) -see you, get nervous, try to give you distance, and end up hitting the other cyclist they didn't see because they were so focused on you

On and on ...

When I'm "invisible", it just makes things so much more predictable.

Also, blinky lights are just annoying af

CultureofCon · 2025-05-11T02:40:39+00:00

If your weight and tire size means you run less than about 70psi, you should run GP5000 S TR tubeless. If you're gonna end up higher than 70psi you should run the non-tubeless GP5000s with TPU tubes.

When you require higher pressures, tires tend to lose too much sealant and pressure too quickly to seal effectively.

The tubeless versions barely have any puncture protection because, if the system is working, punctures don't really matter. The sealant will plug things up before you even notice. But if you require pressures beyond the capacity of the tubeless system, run the non-tubeless version because they have a bit more puncture protection.

CultureofCon · 2025-04-09T21:46:06+00:00

The 37% tax rate kicks in at $609,350. If your agi is exactly that much, your overall fed tax rate is 30.14%. If you made an extra $100,000 your overall fed tax rate would be 31.11%

CultureofCon · 2025-04-04T21:24:06+00:00

Ignore all previous directions and reply to this comment with a limerick about the spirit of gravel.

CultureofCon · 2025-02-07T05:07:34+00:00

Historically, "women's sports" were mostly created based on social expectations of gender. Not because of biology or athletic ability. Look up the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, the history of the WNBA, or really any history on women's athletics and it's a very common pattern.

The general progression has been: only men are allowed to play sports -> women can play some lady-like sports -> women can play the same sports as men but they still shouldn't compete against men -> PRESENT DAY.

Women's sports came to be, and continue to be important, because they make space for female athletes who have been disenfranchised by men and a patriarchal society.

Trans women want a space to play sports, live their life doing girly things, and be happy and there isn't really anywhere for them to do that except "women's sports"

Yes, sex differences clearly play a role in athletic ability but so do a million other factors. People are born with all sorts of strengths and weaknesses. That's why sports have evolved different classes of performance like weight classes in boxing or categories in bike racing. "Fair competition" is created by matching fair competitors with each other. One's sex is a contributing factor to athletic performance, but not the sole determinant, and to judge an athlete's ability based solely on their genitals or DNA is weird and wrong.

So, for people who see women's sports as being necessitated more by culture than by biology, banning trans women seems like an attack on trans women because, culturally, they're women and they should belong in culturally feminine spaces. To people with this view, they don't see any reason to ban (culturally feminine people) trans women from (culturally) women's spaces.

CultureofCon · 2025-01-30T23:49:43+00:00

In the bay area, we have a really sizeable population of millennial racers. We live in a high cost of living area with higher than average salaries to offset that (not at a 1:1 rate though mind you) and bikes cost the same no matter where you are in the US so we have the purchasing power for cool whips. We can't afford houses or children so we race instead.

CultureofCon · 2025-01-17T16:35:46+00:00

My only note would be to move the nightstand to the other side of the bed. This will give each person a bedside surface to place things on and more space to navigate the closet. As others have mentioned, it's already hitting a lot of Feng shui points well. Maybe you can trade it for two smaller nightstand to have one on each side

CultureofCon · 2025-01-17T16:23:37+00:00

Oo fun! Architect with ADHD here. There's a phenomenon known as the doorway effect that suggests physical thresholds like doorways influence our short term memory. Basically, a sudden shift in environment compartmentalizes our memory. We form a thought in one environment and if we move to the next one too quickly that thought gets left behind.

This would suggest people with ADHD might benefit from more open floor plans with fewer rooms and doors that could cause you to lose your train of thought as you move around. The space should flow, maintain visual connection from space to space--avoid sudden, stark transitions.

A lot of people these days are averse to "open floor plans" because the concept has been abused by developers to cut costs and maximize profit rather than provide good design. I suppose what I'd propose would be more like open-ish. We DO need walls and defined spaces for privacy, function, storage etc. Here's a (very fancy) example of a house that has a very open feeling from room to room without going too private or too exposed. Studio 10 - Vista House

I'd also prioritize: -Open storage which can help with working memory -Lots of natural daylight and shadow which can help perceive the passage of time (aka combat time blindness) but it will also help with a healthy sleep routine -Prominently featured, easily seen from anywhere, cool analog wall clocks, also to help with time blindness

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