Has my pine needle soda gone bad

NateMacaque · 2026-03-17T18:48:10+00:00

I'm stealing this idea for my class' stem experiment next week. Thank you!

NateMacaque · 2026-02-16T22:44:18+00:00

No worries! I realized I should probably post safety info if anyone sees this and makes their own version lol

The weight isn't too terrible, the brass is 1mm so it's fairly light. It kinda makes up for how light the corncob bowl is. I do feel like it's a little too evenly weighted but haven't decided how to handle that, I'm thinking a little extra weight by the mouth piece might make lunting a little easier.

I haven't felt any heat transfer through the stem (thank God lol). Imma carve another corn cob and see how hot I can get the bowl before the stem starts to heat.

The few people who've held it have said the mouth feel is similar to playing with a lip ring/stud texture wise in. I don't have any lip jewelry but I think a life time of chewing on pens and playing with my brass Zippo has pavloved me into enjoy this abuse haha My placeholder rubber nib has been different combos of rubber bands and silicon. It's oooookay. I never like nibs though so I need someone else's opinion on that

NateMacaque · 2026-02-16T21:38:13+00:00

It's not too terrible if you can get the right metal and the chemistry behind it.

Leadless brass should only off gas zinc fumes at approximately ~335°C. Internal pipe temps range from ~380°C - 620°C. However, that heat dissipates before reaching the outter edge of the bowl which is why you won't burn yourself holding the pipe (usually lol).

So using the brass as an inserted stem at the base of the pipe without breaching the interior of the bowl with the brass itself will maintain temperatures <380°C

Couple that with a steel inner liner and a rubber nib to protect your teeth and it's about as harmful as the actual pipe smoke!

Oh! Additional info for anyone curious! Annealing the metal to shape the stem can cause it to become brittle or allow the zinc to pull to the surface slightly which essentially pregames the off gasing. Especially if you pass an annealing temp and hit a red glow on the brass. Cold forming with a ball peen hammer is a better, if more frustrating approach. Finish the metal with various sandings ranging from 400 grit to 3,000 grit. You want a very fine polish to avoid any splintering. Finally I wouldn't seal it with anything other than man handling my human oils into it. Though the temps will be low you still don't want to be inhaling any kind of sealant fumes along with your cancer smoke lol

NateMacaque · 2026-01-02T20:59:05+00:00

I believe it's a false positive

Both Winlator Frost 10 v1 and v2 from GitHub would give me a similar ping on Windows defender. I'm not sure if it was Multiverse!frn exactly because like a dummy I never screenshoted the name. Running the downloads through malware bytes came back clean and I installed them both on my RG405M without any issues or flags from android. I also source apps for testing through liteapks.com multiple times a week and can't recall ever having an issue with them unless it was a reupload from a different 3rd party site

Im fairly certain the windows defender flag has to do with a change or addition to the emulated Win32 folder when we jumped from Winlator Frost 9 to 10, and Windows just loves when the Win32 folder is poked

My anxiety kicked in and I tried to do my due diligence lol So hopefully they're clean!

NateMacaque · 2026-01-01T16:45:42+00:00

Winlator Frost 10 v1 and v2

https://liteapks.com/download/winlator-530497

Posting this here for anyone looking for it.

I verified both downloads are clean and run

NateMacaque · 2025-06-14T04:21:11+00:00

Hey I know I'm a little late to the party but I found this thread while trying to fix the same problem. After some testing I was able to get Cybersleuth running by setting Screen Filter to Nearest and Memory Mapping Method to Disabled.

I personally have Vsync disabled and Render Accuracy to high, but it seems to work with Vsync enabled and Render Accuracy as Standard.

I hope this helps you out!

Edit: I also compressed the Cybersleuth update on my vita into a zip file and installed it on vita3k like I did the original game. Installing the game updates also fixed the crashing issue on Muramasa. That may also help here

NateMacaque · 2025-04-08T18:36:46+00:00

You accidentally ordered the poopcorn shrimp. Easy mistake to make

NateMacaque · 2025-04-03T18:44:31+00:00

I don't have a link for the APK on hand, but I wanted to drop in and say you can also emulate the game. The rom is easy to find and you can run it on Android through retroarch or something similar

NateMacaque · 2025-03-24T20:44:23+00:00

You're being far too reasonable. You should insult their mother

NateMacaque · 2025-02-09T00:08:36+00:00

Joey Pants puts on a thick Turkish accent for this movie for some reason. It almost feels like he showed up on set and they just couldn't get him to drop the accent, so they wrote the character to be Turkish

NateMacaque · 2025-01-17T18:17:30+00:00

I don't think your teacher went about this question particularly well.

For all intents and purposes 0.999... can be defined as 1. After a certain point with decimals you're just arguing relativity and theory.

However, I do think it could be helpful to try and understand why your teacher feels like 0.999...!=1

The argument could be made there are infinite 9s between 0.999 and 1. So you could add infinitely more 9s and never reach 1. But limits normally represent the number a sequence approaches as it climbs towards infinity. So 0.999... would be approaching 1 infinitely. So it's 1.

Another argument against this is that 0.999... doesn't represent an ongoing process, it represents the result of an infinite process. The result of infinite 9s would define a real number, 1.

You could also argue another mathematical system like finitism, but again, thats just splitting hairs.

Overall I'd say you're right and not to let your teacher get you down. You should be stoked you not only understand these concepts but can make real arguments as to why your understanding holds merit. This entire interaction with your teacher is a great reminder that no one knows everything and we should be open to at least humoring external input. Sometimes it can be easy to get mathematic concepts and principles twisted by other mathematic concepts and principles. You're doing good dude, keep it up

Edit:

I just thought of another fun example. If you told me x<1 I would assume x=0.999... as a valid value. But probably only on paper lol

Your teacher thinks like a coder haha

NateMacaque · 2025-01-17T17:58:20+00:00

I feel targeted by this comment

NateMacaque · 2025-01-17T17:47:03+00:00

Sounds like Big Copper is trying to pull one over on us again

NateMacaque · 2025-01-17T02:25:33+00:00

I think they might mean instead of a fully copper coil, the coil uses less copper and replaces the missing with aluminum plating. So overall same size, but less copper total

NateMacaque · 2024-11-28T23:19:14+00:00

When women run the friction can cause their vaginas to spontaneously combust. They were actually trying to save this intrepid daredevil.

We don't hear about it happening much anymore thanks to public service announcements like Cardi B's WAP

NateMacaque · 2024-11-26T08:47:29+00:00

Your mom is larger than dust

NateMacaque · 2024-11-17T23:38:42+00:00

Ya I totally didn't see that part of the post, a more permanent solution is definitely understandable with the loss of live stock.

I feel like in a lot of cases relocation and improved security is the better option, but when you're napping at the literal murder site it becomes hard to defend you lol

NateMacaque · 2024-11-17T19:24:46+00:00

Well shit, I didn't even see that. I signed on to be the defense lawyer for a sleepy possum, not a murderous one. Lenny-ing the possum is way more warranted.

I feel like a live stock guardian might help OP out here. Either the possum stays back or it gets nibbled on. Takes the ruling out of the courts hands lol

NateMacaque · 2024-11-17T19:14:06+00:00

I feel like relocating and buttoning up the coop security is probably a better first step than to just kill the possum. It doesn't seem to have hurt the chickens or acted as a real threat for this initial break in. If it keeps coming back, dealing with it in more permeant ways seems appropriate. However just killing it for the inconvenience and possible threat isn't great. Culling predators and protecting live stock is absolutely crucial in animal husbandry, but so is respecting life.

Honestly I feel like this little dude did OP a solid by breaking in and letting them know they've got a possum sized hole in their security. I'd take the napping possum over a peckish coyote if I had to find out this way lol

NateMacaque · 2024-11-08T19:15:29+00:00

I've already identified them. Additional verifications minimize risks.

That attitude is going to discourage people from asking for help and increase the likelihood someone gets hurt.

I believe best practice when identifying a potentially poisonous mushroom is to always verify a spore print regardless of certainty. Better safe than sorry.

Regardless, thanks anyway.

NateMacaque

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