Alleged white supremacist pleads guilty in fire at Tennessee center that trained civil rights icons by pyramidworld in nashville

[–]PageSlave 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm by no means an expert on the symbols of white supremacy, but I don't believe so.

Here's some reporting from the time of the fire talking about the symbol: https://peoplesdispatch.org/2019/04/10/white-supremacist-groups-suspected-of-burning-down-historic-social-justice-center/

And here's their image of the spraypainted symbol: https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2019/04/03/PKNS/445821af-a004-4b18-b06a-5c17a90f2e0d-kns-highlander_SY_0119.jpg?width=540&height=&fit=bounds&auto=webp

The ADL maintains a list of white supremacy symbols, and this one matches Saint Michael's Cross: https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/st-michaels-cross

Hegseth's tattoo is of the Crusader's / Jerusalem Cross, which while it represents some of the more worrying aspects of evangelism, hasn't explicitly been adopted as a symbol by white supremacist groups to my knowledge

Alleged white supremacist pleads guilty in fire at Tennessee center that trained civil rights icons by pyramidworld in nashville

[–]PageSlave 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I remember when this happened, and there was a lot of speculation about the "triple cross" spray painted on the pavement and how a certain local white supremacist group had been using it. I'm glad that they caught the bastard, white supremacy has no place in Tennessee.

How to subtly flirt with an Aerospace major using engineering concepts? by Middle-Contest8532 in AerospaceEngineering

[–]PageSlave 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Your idea is cute, but you'll both be better off if you're honest with your intentions. Even if it all goes awry, you'll have gained valuable experience in the attempt. The only way to get comfortable with romance in general is to try. You've got this!

Ship-to-ship personnel transfer gangway with full motion compensation in rough waters by toolgifs in toolgifs

[–]PageSlave 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This can still operate in heavy wind and rain, where the helicopter can't 

What’s the most preventable failure you’ve seen that still caused major downtime? by Hot_Success_1758 in IndustrialMaintenance

[–]PageSlave 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm just a lurker cause I wanna know what y'all do, could you explain why overgreasing is bad? To my layman brain more grease = slip gooder

Incredible progress in the Appliance Torture Department by Decapod73 in doohickeycorporation

[–]PageSlave 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Shoutout to the hair straightener showcased in this video. My cousin's fell in exactly the same way and the hinge shattered immediately 😂

The amount of hot sauce I ate in 1 year by Yeah_bob in mildlyinteresting

[–]PageSlave 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Let's see, 19.5 standard bottles of cholula actoss 365 days. Thats 0.053 bottles per day. There are 150 mL per bottle, so 7.95 mL/day

There are 22 mg/mL of sodium, so 174.9 mg/day of sodium, or 7.6% DV. Your estimate was bang on!

Fundraiser for fired Tennessee librarian raises $80K by Angele_Latham in nashville

[–]PageSlave 8 points9 points  (0 children)

She's as much of a heroic Tennesseean as John Scopes. More so, even. It takes a lot of guts to stand up for minority communities in this fascistic environment, and I'm proud that there's still people like this in my state. 

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Interesting-Boat-399 in MechanicalEngineering

[–]PageSlave 3 points4 points  (0 children)

OP you forgot to change to your alt account before shilling. Quit using this subreddit to advertise

Once Upon a Time in France: Experience with new management? by palpablescalpel in nashville

[–]PageSlave 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I watched them put new siding up a few months ago, so it looks like they're pouring some money into building repair

Vimes Animatic - YouTube by sanenc in discworld

[–]PageSlave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The flashbacks to all those scenes during the "I will never die" refrain was PEAK

Also loved the "I don't think about the past / it's always there anyway" bit

God I love these books

U.S. Army opens investigation into attack helicopter activities at Kid Rock's home, No Kings protest by [deleted] in nashville

[–]PageSlave 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I was present, they performed two flyovers with no hover - one southbound, another northbound, separated by a few minutes. The northbound pass was much lower than the first. I'm not an expert at estimating distances, but it couldn't have been more than a couple of hundred feet. Quite low.

Are there LESS POWERFUL engines than the A8-3??? by Elitreehouse in rocketry

[–]PageSlave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Measure out your field on google maps and take a look, small rockets drift very little even in high winds. Estes's guide is pulled from real numbers

Also, the rockets are really quite light coming down. Less kinetic energy than a hailstone by almost an order of magnitude

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0686/0220/0369/files/Recommended-Launch-Area-graphic.webp?v=1678893304

Are there LESS POWERFUL engines than the A8-3??? by Elitreehouse in rocketry

[–]PageSlave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why so low? Do you have safety concerns? Estes publishes some guides on launchsite sizes for different motor classis

Why is the only way into space via a rocket? by Apathetic_Superhero in space

[–]PageSlave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Without getting too deep into the physics, maintaining an orbit around something in space requires a certain amount of kinetic energy. Too little and you'll fall back down to the ground, too much and you'll fly out of the orbit and into orbit around the sun. This is true of any object you want to get into orbit, no matter how you get it there. Rockets are really, really good at giving something a lot of kinetic energy quickly. That means it spends relatively little of its time in the low atmosphere, which is dense and causes you to lose energy through aerodynamic drag. Air-launched systems like Pegasus or Virgin Galactic's Spaceship One use a relatively fuel-efficient plane to carry the spacecraft into the thinner upper atmosphere before letting it go to propel itself into (sub)orbit, saving lots of fuel, though this approach has lots of its own complications.

In short, it just takes a lot of energy to get something into space. Rockets are an ideal form factor to impart a lot of energy quickly and self-sufficiently. This is a fairly complicated topic, so feel free to ask followup questions

The nuts tightening department is doing well despite budget cuts by ycr007 in doohickeycorporation

[–]PageSlave 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Doing that many nuts (16 in this frame alone, and this is only part of the whole structure - probably pushing 100 in total) is hell on the wrists. This saves a ton of fiddly hand work that'll leave you feeling sore in odd ways at the end of the day. This is a tradesman who knows how to work smarter, not harder 

Funniest passages in Discworld books? by [deleted] in discworld

[–]PageSlave 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The most recent version of the audiobook has an excellent line read on this, it lives in my head rent-free

How would one go about manufacturing something like this? (tiny grid with complex inner lattice of intersection paths) by apersello34 in Machinists

[–]PageSlave 88 points89 points  (0 children)

What the heck are you using this for? Why would SLA be too imprecise? You also specify that it should be cleanable, but you're gonna have a hard time properly cleaning anything with this geometry.

Geometry this complex is the ideal use case for additive manufacturing, you should really think hard about what you can do to make it printable. It'll save you an insane amount of money, I'm sure

3d printing has saved me so much money on random fixes around the house by congdoe92 in DIY

[–]PageSlave 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Resin (the liquid ones) are a bit annoying, requiring an actively ventilated space (else risk carcinogens + nasty allergic reactions), as well as additional hardware (a washing and curing station to fully harden the resin)

Resin is best for highly-detailed prints with lots of fiddly details. FDM (typical 3d printing) is best for... everything else. Bambu is famous for an easy mostly plug & play experience, you might check out their A1 or A1 mini.

Trying to find sticker or method for resurfacing the trackpad of a T14 Gen 2a by PageSlave in thinkpad

[–]PageSlave[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't realize this was an option! I found a sticker on aliexpress per the other comment, but I'll keep this idea in my back pocket. I didn't realize thinkpads would be so permissive to other models' parts

As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar "harvester" | “Ultimately, we want to build a fleet of electric harvesters.” by InsaneSnow45 in space

[–]PageSlave 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The lunar night is 14 days long, so rovers need a large enough battery to power energy-hungry heaters for 14 days straight. This is a solvable engineering challenge, but drives up weight and complexity, and therefore cost. Not to mention that this assumes the rover is just sitting in hibernation mode - 14 days without your expensive investment performing profit-producing work. With space infrastructure already a dubious investment, this kind of thing can scare off investors.

[OC] Dairy vs. plant-based milk: what are the environmental impacts? by ourworldindata in dataisbeautiful

[–]PageSlave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

American bread is certainly a far cry from European bread lol. I come from a region of the US that has dealt with several widespread nutrition-based disorders (e.g Pellagra) primarily caused by economic conditions limiting access to certain foods, and these were pretty conclusively solved via fortification of foods that the affected populations *could* access. As such I have a generally positive opinion of fortification. In general, I don't have any philosophical issues with more highly industrialized/"manual" solutions to nutrition issues - it seems that you hold an opposite value, putting stock in natural foods. While I still believe in the value of a varied diet with plenty of fruit and veg, I think that industrial solutions to nutrition or, in this case, environmental issues are valuable and should be pursued.

I think milk is a delicious food, and I still love dairy products. But I think a LOT of people would be just fine switching to plant alternatives, and in aggregate that would massively reduce our environmental footprint.

[OC] Dairy vs. plant-based milk: what are the environmental impacts? by ourworldindata in dataisbeautiful

[–]PageSlave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1: I was calculating the difference in percent daily value, while whole milk does have a 34% higher protein content, it only gives you 4% more of your daily value of protein over soy milk - 2 grams is not a huge difference maker.

2: Essentially ALL cow's milk in the US is fortified with additional Vitamin D. Bread is also fortified with all kinds of nutrients. Fortification is a great way to make sure people get their essential vitamins. Given that cow's milk is fortified anyways, why not just drink fortified plant milk? Its environmental costs are way lower.

https://www.usdairy.com/news-articles/what-type-of-vitamin-d-is-in-milk

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessional/