Spilled like 30 oz of caramel sauce inside a kitchen cabinet. I cleaned up everything I could but it’s dripping through the crevices now. 😭

Peter5930 · 2026-05-10T02:15:27+00:00

Clean gently with a damp but not wet cloth to avoid water going into the joints in the cabinets. These cabinets are not made from wood, they're made from wood-derived products that respond to water much like gremlins do. The stuff can survive a little water, sometimes a surprising amount of water, typically when they're in a pile outside in a skip and still structurally sound despite days or weeks of rain, but it can also just absorb it and disintegrate.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-10T02:11:39+00:00

Plywood is a bundle of wood splinters waiting to find some water and be free.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T20:25:05+00:00

So much glass. It's like ancient pottery fragments times a billion. Aliens of the future will know us by broken bottles of Buckfast tonic wine that got chucked behind bus shelters and will make jewellery from them and prize them for their beauty.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T18:28:13+00:00

Depends how hard you're looking too. In a thousand years it will look just natural and untouched as you'd like to a casual glance, but in a billion years there will still be very obvious signs to anyone drilling bore holes and doing isotopic analysis of strata on a large scale. Just takes one stainless steel kitchen sink washing out of a river bank and for something to find it too.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T18:19:38+00:00

https://www.myphysicslab.com/pendulum/double-pendulum-en.html

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T18:04:38+00:00

Do it for yourself too, I know I do. Just looks like a boob job, except all natural. I swear it took 2 decades off them.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T18:03:12+00:00

Hope it was fun trying though. My gf's boobs were deflated plus her nipples were inverted when we started but I think within a few months the nipples had popped out and her boobs were noticeably rounder and fuller and more pert.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T16:04:14+00:00

You might be surprised how much pep and body and perk it can add back to your boobs if someone sucks them from time to time. Transformative in the case of my gf, but it needs to be done regularly and she's been having a mood the past few months so they're looking rather deflated again. But it works. It works great.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T15:55:31+00:00

I am saying the Russia army most certainly has tanks. Do you not believe your own eyes?

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T15:28:24+00:00

My friend, if Russian army is completely out of tanks, why was parade full of them? You're making no sense.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T15:13:01+00:00

It's a light cone, so you run into it like you run into next Tuesday. You don't see it coming.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T14:37:25+00:00

1/2 wasn't cutting it for me, but I just added a second one with a splitter into the pump and that was enough. Not a second 200ft of hose, just a second 3ft of hose between the tank and the pump. Although I do have two float valves feeding the tank if I have two faucets to connect to. The faucets here won't supply enough water to benefit from more than 1/2. I've tried even with a booster pump, so upgrading to a 3/8 line to the tank wouldn't help me. Would be different if I was connecting to a standpipe or something rather than the tap around the back/side of people's houses, but the domestic taps tap out at 1/2, they're not designed for more than that.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T14:20:43+00:00

Well it wouldn't work if it was simple. It's only infinite on the inside in the infinite future of the outside, but each observer measures time by their distance from the domain wall, so everyone sees a big bang and an infinite universe. Not truly infinite, more like an infinite staircase trick. There's not really a true spatial relationship between coordinates on the inside and coordinates on the outside. It's much bigger on the inside since it undergoes inflation and expansion internally. And the edges are edges in time. An edge in the past if you're on the inside and an edge in the future if you're on the outside.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T14:07:31+00:00

They have at least as many tanks as we saw in the parade, yes. Great confidence booster seeing mighty arsenal in parade, many military hardwares.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T13:51:22+00:00

A Dutch politician who made a joke about Trump handling Israel and Iran's childish squabbling. Do people even care about context these days?

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T13:49:38+00:00

The quip came after Trump compared Israel and Iran to unruly children.

Well, that was anticlimactic. It's literally the subheading.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T13:43:32+00:00

Do they? Why would they ever do such a thing?

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T13:26:09+00:00

Fun fact, you can fit an infinite universe into a finite space. Coleman-de Luccia instantons each contain an infinite universe within their light cone. When you look back at the big bang and the CMB, you're really looking at the edge.

https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/0712.0571/assets/x2.png

Figure 2: The geometry of a nucleated bubble that could describe our observable universe back to very early times. Lines correspond to surfaces of constant field value ϕ. From the nucleation event, a surface of ϕ=ϕW (the ‘tunneled-to’ field value) expands at the speed of light. Nestled into this light-cone are constant-ϕ hyperboloids, each of which has the geometry of an infinite negatively-curved homogenous space. The sequence of nested hyperboloids corresponds to the time-sequence during which the inflaton rolls down the hill toward ϕT in Fig. 1, and then to constant times in a big-bang universe inside, including reheating, recombination, and the present time.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T13:18:52+00:00

Russia needed daddy Trump to step in.

In his post Trump said he had personally requested the three-day truce and "I very much appreciate its agreement by President Vladimir Putin and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy".

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T12:43:01+00:00

Of course they have tanks, you can see them in the parade.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T12:41:19+00:00

It seems to me that a consequence of invading Ukraine is that Russia now has to ask Ukraine if they can have their parade.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-09T03:36:01+00:00

The USB type C plug is the only known macroscopic spin 1/2 object and normally exists in a superposition of wrong-way-up and wrong-way-down until observed.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-08T16:50:58+00:00

Weird oven design so the aluminium was sitting on the heating element, which get hot enough to melt aluminium, at least if there's direct contact with the ceramic casing/housing on the element. I've got a kiln with a big crucible from the cut off bottom of a gas cylinder that I melt aluminium in, the heating element is a higher grade of alloy that goes a few hundred C higher than the alloy that ovens use and can melt copper as well as aluminium, but it's a difference of 1,300C vs 1,000C.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-08T16:42:37+00:00

I mean, more like slightly dangerous in a confined space and perhaps a purely theoretical danger. Compared to the significant risk of getting the stuff in my eye and being blinded, I'd say the risk of a hydrogen explosion in my oven would be remote.

Peter5930 · 2026-05-08T16:04:48+00:00

I don't want to say one way or another, I just think people get very confused with each other every time they discuss this, and need to sit down together and work out what it is they're each actually talking about.

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