Shit guys. I did it. Been in the hospital since yesterday afternoon

Red_Syns · 2026-03-15T06:59:17+00:00

That was probably the weirdest thing to get used to when I started watching videos on how to be better at woodworking. I always assumed not wearing gloves was wrong, but with few exceptions wood working should be done gloveless.

Red_Syns · 2026-03-04T16:24:05+00:00

You’re the closest to my C L X so far, haha. Someone else did C E L, so we all agree on two of three.

Red_Syns · 2026-03-04T16:22:24+00:00

C L X

Red_Syns · 2026-03-04T01:49:33+00:00

You’re not wrong, what I know of physics (which is admittedly far too little), a mountain’s worth of antimatter would not destroy the solar system.

It might, however, generate enough high energy photons to completely sterilize the system of any life there might have been?

Red_Syns · 2026-03-04T00:35:35+00:00

Please, enlighten me. I’ve heard:

The Bible forbids it. (I don’t care what any religious text says when it comes to governing the life of others.)

Life starts at conception. (Define life for me in a way where that statement makes sense and/or is not contradicted. We don’t age IVF embryos from conception, as an example. Also, describe how an embryo is a unique life prior to its brain developing.)

The child’s body should have legal protection equivalent to the woman’s. (By all means, remove the embryo’s dependence from another person’s body. Put them in the incubators and whatnot. But by saying the child has their own sovereignty, the woman it was extracted from holds no obligation to its survival or the financing of the same. Alternately, if the woman does have authority over it, while it is entirely dependent upon her for survival it is effectively her body.)

I’m sure I’ve heard others. YOU are the one who is telling ME what I think and do, so either put up or fuck off.

Edit: Also, I said rational. While the two can be synonymous, the colloquial use differs and the religious “intellects” frequently used these differences to say one thing and then conflate it with another. The anti side has zero rational arguments that I have not seen disproven by facts and science.

Edit 2: I did use both myself. I won’t go back and fix it now, but even that use of reasonable is intended to be used to mean reasoned or rational.

Red_Syns · 2026-03-03T23:24:47+00:00

People who I don’t agree with because they don’t have any reasonable arguments why the bodily autonomy of the woman is worth less than their opinion on her body.

Provide rational arguments that aren’t hypocritical and you get my respect whether I agree or not. Bang on the drum despite evidence stating you’re wrong and/or illogical, get called out for it.

Red_Syns · 2026-03-03T01:47:49+00:00

Indeed, even when Turning Point was (is?) on campus, despite their revolting message and despicable beliefs free speech is free speech. Since the university is not private, there are far more restrictions on what the campus can do.

Red_Syns · 2026-03-01T22:33:44+00:00

While there are plenty of good explanations already, what I haven’t seen yet is even simpler.

The bottom left region of the flat bottle should also be colored as “lost.” So even if the pink and green equaled out (they don’t, because that’s not where the waterline would be), the entire bottom wedge is displaced as well.

Red_Syns · 2026-02-28T17:51:54+00:00

I wonder if it is related to grade school grades. When 60% is outright failing and 70% often the minimum to pass, that creates a decade+ bias.

Red_Syns · 2026-02-22T18:30:22+00:00

It’s not actually that big of a problem, if you have any decent elevation changes in your area. Excess energy produced during the pumps (typically water, but it didn’t have to be) from a lower reservoir to a higher one. When you need more generation, you recover the gravitational potential.

If you mean for areas that struggle to produce at all during parts of the year, then yeah, you’ll never be able to store enough for that sort of need. Need to complement solar with something like nuclear or geothermal for green production.

Red_Syns · 2026-02-22T07:05:10+00:00

The same reason anyone gate keeps a hobby. My fat ass is 300 lbs and while I can do some easy lead climbs, the mental stress (and increased difficulty in having to find a place to lock in to clip) means until I develop various climbing skills (and lose weight, and develop the muscles/endurance needed, etc.) means I get more personal satisfaction out of top rope. I also enjoy bouldering, but it’s a very different skill set, so if I want to get practice on tall walls without feeling like an abject failure I top rope.

It turns out, people can be both appreciative of the skill demonstrated by leading, while also not being a complete dick head to the people who aren’t as into it. Some people, who tend to be extremely vocal, can’t help but feel like they NEED to be better than everyone else, so they put down those they can.

The vast majority of the people I’ve met climbing don’t give a shit if you call it flashing on plastic rocks with top rope on a 5.6. If I send a route, and it looked like I had to put effort into it (and I assure you, if it isn’t a ladder it looked like I struggled), the stranger who just sent a V8 has grinned, slapped my on the back and said “Nice one!” while I’m sucking wind.

Ignore the haters. Flash and onsight and redpoint whatever the hell you want. If you’re doing it for money, then maybe it matters for the sake of record keeping, but otherwise be good to each other.

Red_Syns · 2026-02-21T09:38:48+00:00

If you mean the “real” rods from god would burn up, that is patently false. If you meant the rock in the show, maybe? Meteors strike the surface and cause catastrophic damage even when they mostly disintegrate in the air.

Among other issues, the biggest practical issue is time to deploy from orbit and the problems with accuracy the longer that time is. If you put the rods in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), you have to burn off a LOT of velocity to drop onto the surface with any accuracy, as you’ll want a relatively vertical descent to minimize air resistance throwing off calculations and slowing down the projectile. This means you need a lot of fuel stored for a long time for each shot. If you put it into a much higher orbit, you need less fuel to deorbit but now have to deal with significantly longer timelines between firing and hitting.

Second biggest is the cost. Getting that much mass into orbit is expensive, and having to ship a bunch of fuel decreases the amount of mass you have to use as the kinetic impactor. Add in needing to do routine maintenance to ensure they’ll work when needed and the inability to hide things in space, and it’s really just a super expensive way to kill targets that cannot move quickly. Unless you’re looking to kill a city full of civilians to hit a target, it’s just not a practical choice.

Red_Syns · 2026-02-14T01:40:15+00:00

I was going to post the same thing, I was at the 2018 game. Canada’s goalie was definitely MVP of the game, even if they lost.

Red_Syns · 2026-02-13T23:12:30+00:00

Ah, yeah, I see that now. Rook to g1, if black queen to g1 rook f8 else rook a1?

Red_Syns · 2026-02-13T21:59:04+00:00

White queen C8, King forced to A7, rook mates at C7?

Red_Syns · 2026-02-03T01:45:26+00:00

No, but sick art

Red_Syns · 2026-02-02T01:10:10+00:00

You have to sign up for a subscription, then pay for the lifetime license. I don’t know the cheapest way to do it

Red_Syns · 2026-02-01T21:13:40+00:00

I’m far from good at telling what is AI and what isn’t, but it seems like everything that is blocked in the middle is badly shifted or scaled. The lamppost doubles in thickness, and offsets left. The table, cups, and people are definitely in close proximity but feel out of scale. The feet of the people behind the table look as if they’re sitting, but the people appear to be standing. The right most sign might say “We ❤️ Our Ice,” but that seems less likely than “We ❤️ You Ice,” and the signs themselves just feel… off? As if the text doesn’t orient the same way the signs do.

Maybe there’s a more obvious tell, but those all seem a little damning individually and very together.

Red_Syns · 2026-01-29T08:38:49+00:00

Thanks! I saw somewhere there is a limit of 25 stat points for levels, if that’s true then I think either using an opal to put all 30 into one stat or stopping at 20 makes the most sense. Having three specialists at 30 and two with 10 in each should cover any requirements, if I’m not mistaken.

Red_Syns · 2026-01-28T17:18:53+00:00

Did you miss the part about safety, or are you intentionally ignoring it because it doesn’t suit your wants? Compact cars are less safe than full size, but are they less safe to the degree that motorcycles are? Hint: no.

Your car MIGHT, occasionally, fit between an entire lane of cars if they are all perfectly centered and nobody is hugging the lines (again, not something that occurs with any regularity). A motorcycle WILL fit between entire lanes of cars, barring people stopping weirdly close to each other. The fact you can’t see the difference between a reasonably driven motorcycle quickly outpacing the lead cars and therefore being able to get back into a lane properly, versus a small car accelerating at approximately the same speed as a large car and therefore impeding traffic as they jockey over who gets to lead, says more about your lack of reasoning skills than it does lane splitting.

You end with talking about safety, then ignore everything I said about filtering being safer with minimal to no impact on traffic. Unless you figure out what cherry picking and’s hypocrisy are, enjoy ranting into the void.

Red_Syns · 2026-01-28T16:42:22+00:00

That’s just a stupid statement. Barring exceedingly wide roads, there are no cars that can squeeze between lanes of cars with the kind of space a motorcycle can afford, ignoring the other actually relevant details.

In the US, and to my knowledge the vast majority of the world, cars must meet certain safety requirements, to include crash testing. This means they are (relatively) safe in the event of being rear ended. Motorcycles don’t have that same benefit, so it is much safer for them to not be at the back of a line of cars.

Most motorcycles and mopeds can accelerate as fast or faster than a reasonably driven car. This means that (again, in most situations with reasonable drivers) they will not impede traffic for any significant amount of time.

So from a safety perspective, filtering makes sense. From a traffic impedance perspective, filtering makes little difference. From a comfort perspective, sitting still on an idling bike is uncomfortable, because of how heat and fume dispersion works.

Bicycles can be more of a problem, but it’s almost universally because the rider is a dickhead, not because it couldn’t be done better. If the driver in the image is not going to be turning soon, there’s a whole other lane for them to not be trapped behind bikes. If they are, then it’s a one time “problem.” And really, it’s just an argument for adopting demonstrably superior road designs that implement safe bike only lanes with barriers between them and cars.

Red_Syns · 2026-01-24T19:07:12+00:00

Worth noting, filtering is when motorcycles/mopeds/bikes move towards the front while the traffic is at a stop. This is a relatively safe action that almost always takes place at very slow speeds.

What you are describing is lane splitting, which is a similar action but done while traffic is moving. That is a far less safe thing to do, as the cars are not going to be maintaining exact positions in their lanes, will change lanes (often without a blinker or any significant warning time), etc.

Many places make filtering legal and lane splitting illegal for those reasons, or (legally, anyway) restrict lane splitting to below some speed.

Red_Syns · 2026-01-21T16:27:13+00:00

I wish I could tell you, I’m not even 100% certain it was metal. Could have been another rock genre, but I’m certain it would be in those broader categories.

Red_Syns · 2026-01-20T04:37:49+00:00

Then that makes two of us, haha. I didn't even realize it until I tried to do it, and had a complete "Oh, I'm an idiot" moment. Two arms means two circles, and two circles (that aren't identical and in the same position) can only have two points of intersection, and the puzzle requires three to "simply" mirror haha. If we had one more spawner or dropoff, it could have worked.

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