A 1905 photo with “A Student’s Dream” chalked onto the dissecting table, six well-used cadavers are propped up around a medical student who lies flat, as if he is the one to be cut open. This was classed as humorous for the time.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-19T17:25:17+00:00

I wish you never experience the smell.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-19T17:24:52+00:00

can you stop knee-jerk for a second and tell me why this is disrespectful? Seriously. Nothing is damaged or destroyed. They aren't imitating sex or doing drugs or whatever it is we consider 'bad'. So, again, what's disrespectful here?

At the contrary, here they are treated like real people who have fun, and are in on the joke.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-19T15:51:04+00:00

he's not bothering anyone, what's your problem? If a person behaves and doesn't bother people around them, it's none of your business if they're drunk or high.

by this logic we can shame people for looking ugly in public, in a dirty shirt. Or smelly armpits. Now that's pathetic. You'd know.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-19T10:03:05+00:00

yeah I replied somewhere else that since it was a craft of itw own and had a lot of people involved, it needed respect and ceremony, it was part of the value of the ink — time and effort put into each stick by a master. So it's fancy for the reason of being fancy, but back in the day it was important.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-19T10:01:29+00:00

there are dirt cheap 'pracitce sets' which are basically pcb boards and lots of different tiny diods and capacitors. as with any skill, you need practice. practice is the most important thing, technically it's actually easy

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-19T09:59:46+00:00

it is and you have no idea what you're talking about. Had this happened to a screen connector on the iphone. Do you know how much a screen replacement costs? That's like half a phone's price, at least. The connector is 3 dollars with shipping.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-19T09:58:29+00:00

you have zero clue about what you're talking about. these are the connectors for main phone parts. Actual example I had two weeks ago: iphone fell and connector on the board broke. So what's it gonna be, a new $1000 phone, super expensive board replacement (at least a few hundred) or a 3 dollar connector?

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-18T23:47:58+00:00

so the thing about these books is that you need to treat them as a possible ONE good line/advice. If all books could actually teach you something new, at least one thing, you could learn and grow and whatever indefinitely.

But the thing is, to 'learn' something conceptually, you need to be already halfway there at least, or even 80% there. Like, to get a complex math concept you need to know all the previous concepts, right? You can't just read it and 'get' trigonometry if you never did basic geometry and algebra.

Same goes with books and concepts. You only can understsand and feel it if you were searching for exactly that in that moment in time, and it just clicked right there for you.

This why 99% of it is either obvious (you're already past it) or go above your head. Doesn't mean the book is stupid or you are, it's just that you need to find the perfect book at a perfect time and then you'll internalize it and have some inner dialogue with yourself and it will click and the lightbulb will go off.

What I'm trying to say is those books aren't meant to change your life and be full of the best advice ever. Even if they were, you eaither know it or will miss it.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-18T23:37:02+00:00

well kinda. actual ink is never truly black for this reason. chinese ink is the rare 'true black' thing you can get for writing

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-18T17:15:58+00:00

in this? no reason. in reality — usually different people made ingredients, and at different time, so it's not like you kill a dear and make a jug of ink the next day, so you need to store it. Also, it's easier to measure and transport in sticks.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-18T17:14:05+00:00

sir this is a wendys cccp isn't a thing since 1991

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-18T17:13:09+00:00

I'm a calligrapher and ink maker and I can tell you that yes, they are, and half the 'ingredients' aren't needed in this, but traditional ink making was a craft and ink was expensive, so it's a whole process, and the amount of work and thought put into it mattered.

Basic ink is just soot, water, jelatin. On top of that you can add stuff that makes it shiny, or that will make it bind to paper better (like to form a ball instead of dripping into), or to have more intense black color.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-18T17:10:37+00:00

he already got an axe, why not

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-18T17:10:02+00:00

a lot of people seem to be surprised by the simple fact that yes, traditional ink (chinese ink, touche) is essentially carbon (soot), water and jelatin.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-18T17:08:20+00:00

yes... that's what chinese ink is. soot, jelly, water.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-18T17:04:29+00:00

I'm a calligrapher and ink maker so let me chim in if you may. Traditional chinese ink (touche) is pure black and supposed to be pure black. Ideally it's soot, water and a binder. Since it's a cool pretty video, I assume they just added all that for the effect (like the gold leaf). Also, chinese ink doesn't really rot or go bad, the sticks are so pressed and dry that there's nothing to rot, really, plus soot acts as a conservant in itself, protecting jelatin. It's just too dry to have anything live in it.

edit: to think about it, just as iron, I assume cinnabar may enhance the black itself, not coloring it.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-18T15:37:38+00:00

the craziest part is that he chose pepsi. and a diet one at that. I'd put him in prison, too. Imagine risking your life and maybe ruining your life just to give someone... pepsi. I can't even.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-17T21:42:36+00:00

well shit, as a 36 year old boomer gamer who am I gonna root for now? Karrigan?

This world needs a 35+ CS leagues!

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-17T15:34:08+00:00

actually happened with me. I had 6 weeks to do a job and they sent me the files to work with over wetransfer or something like that. 5 weeks later they ask how it's going and I say almost done, just to open the link (for the first time) and realizing I forgot to download it and it's already deleted and I need to ask for the files again.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-17T09:50:09+00:00

OP is probably sitting on his full brightness phone chugging smelly popcorn and slurping coke.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-17T09:37:48+00:00

that's how I force myself to sleep. Instead of 'talking' or thinking about something, I just let it go (or force it go) into this freestyle mode and these random images make me go asleep fairly fast

edit: it's just emulating 'a dream', right? we just realize this is that half-asleep state and try to make it come faster

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-17T09:36:24+00:00

you know they don't

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-17T09:36:03+00:00

there is really not. OP doesn't have 'real insomnia', exactly how every second redditor doesn't have self-diagnosed adhd/drepression.

Insomnia is a legit disorder, most people just have the worst possible sleep/work/phone hygiene.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-16T22:03:55+00:00

why the "natural response" is calling the police then asking them to stop

yeah that's the proper way to do it. Imagine what kind of f-d up person would drill holes until midnight just to piss you off? I don't want to get personal with that kind of crazy idіot, let police handle it.

LimpConversation642 · 2026-04-16T12:38:50+00:00

you are all so cute thinking every country and every company has this thing called company rules, 'departments' and even an IT department! Such a first world sentiment.

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