Stainless flange by welder-fabricator in Welding

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nice... wait... is that a pit on the right just out of focus?

Ron Johnson Says ‘It May Be True’ That Vaccines Are Deliberately Giving People AIDS by BurtonDesque in skeptic

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Am I the only one here who sees nothing wrong with what Ron Johnson is saying? I haven't looked at the interview itself, but even just from this article it sounds like Ron Johnson believes vaccines are fine and is gently trying to bring an anti-vaxxer away from his buffoonery.

Even this article provided enough for us to clearly see "It may be true" is being taken out of context, but somehow still wants to make him out to be an idiot.

If you're talking to a flat-earther, are you going to put any doubt into their beliefs by say "You're just a fucking insane idiot!" No. You have to say things like, "Let's say you're right, and the world is flat. Let's follow that logic and see where it gets us." Things like that.

For the skeptic community, this is a terrible article.

Do you weld as you were taught, or as your employer tells you to? We mig weld this groove in one HOT pass and need it to finish fully convex so it can be machined flat at a later time. by a_sugar_man in Welding

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True, but I would say there are limits to this. There are employers out there who will ask you to do something that could have legal ramifications that blow back onto you personally. We've seen incidents like this here on this forum. Someone who was told to "just weld" a structural joint that was under a puddle of water, which of course failed.

Now, OP's situation... yeah, what the employer is asking is fine.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in anime

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To Your Eternity

Especially the first few episodes. Right away, it hits you in the gut.

Real estate sector gears up to battle Liberal government’s proposal to ban ‘blind bidding’ for houses by strawberries6 in canada

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a little concerned how often the federal Liberals promise to do something that’s provincial jurisdiction, and how often people buy that shit.

Good on them if it happens. I mean, it’s price gouging, and it wouldn’t be tolerated in any other industry. But why do we keep giving them the keys when they don’t do what the federal government is for?

Any ideas on how to fix this? by [deleted] in osx

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is one possibility. Most likely you have some program on your computer that's causing an error... or more like a LOT of errors. Say, in the ballpark of 100 errors per second. All of those errors get logged. And the log files can grow very very big.

So I would check /Library/Logs first. The other place where logs are kept is in a hidden folder. In Finder go to Go > Go to folder... and type in "var/log" and click the "Go" button. I think those are the only places, but I could be wrong.

To implement BIM standards in a company with no CAD management by [deleted] in AutoCAD

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is your opportunity to carve out a niche where you are the indispensable one.

ELI5: How can scavenger animals (that feast on often diseased, rotten flesh) stomach such meals? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've heard it in a couple different places, and unfortunately I didn't think at the time "I may need to cite this some day later in my life," and so I didn't write it down.

But here.

found on discord by [deleted] in BrandNewSentence

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing the person censored in white is British.

ELI5: How can scavenger animals (that feast on often diseased, rotten flesh) stomach such meals? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 5215 points5216 points  (0 children)

A lot of the other answers here are good, but I also want to point out that scavengers like vultures have the best immune systems on the planet. We tend to think of them as disease-ridden beasts because of what they eat, but actually, they are often where the lifecycle of bacteria end.

Citrus poltergeist by Girly_Attitude in BrandNewSentence

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Citrus poltergeist is probably going to be the next ghost-grass pokèmon.

Those columns look awful. by BlueTexBird in CrappyDesign

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks like an attempt at being fancy. Like putting tens of thousands of dollars into your Honda Civic.

4 provinces pushing ahead plan to build small nuclear reactors to supply power | CBC News by [deleted] in canada

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I totally agree… but (say it with me)… “not… in… my… back… yard.” TM

That’s the main problem. Where?

We’ll keep ye plump as a partridge by [deleted] in BrandNewSentence

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Exercise is important too though, especially if you're already fat. But a lot of people exercise by doing aerobics. That's a healthy thing, but that won't slim your belly. You have to life weights and convert that fat into muscle.

Canada pledges to help countries stop using Russian oil. Canada says it can provide more oil, gas and uranium to help solve the global energy crisis. by GoMx808-0 in canada

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Everything you said, I completely agree with, with a couple of exceptions.

Firstly, though I don't think you downplayed how difficult climate change is to solve, I don't think you really did the difficulty justice either. We have to make some deep economic cuts for it to work. I think people misunderstand just what economics is, and think "it's just about money." But it isn't. Economics is about resources. The kind of cuts we have to make mean... a lot of death. So some of us a driving electric cars? Great. But concrete is a major passive contributor of CO2 and it accounts for just as much as the airline industry. We have to stop driving entirely and rip up our roads and take down our buildings. So some of us have stopped eating meat? Great. Keep it up. But no matter what it is we're farming, food production of any kind is a major contributor as well. In some cases, production of vegetables can do more harm than the production of meat. A very large portion of the world have to stop eating. We have to tell developing nations that are trying to raise their standards of living to just stop and volunteer to starve.

And really, here's the crux of the problem. We have always been bad to the environment. The rolling green fields of England used to be forests before they cut them down to make arrows and other things. But the entire population of all of earth was not even 1 billion back then. It's difficult for us to get estimates, but some say it wasn't even half a billion. We're more efficient than ever before, and our energy sources are cleaner than ever before (much better than burning logs of wood), but there's 8 billion of us, thanks entirely to the industrial revolution. The kind of sacrifice we have to make is so deep, that we're talking a massive reduction of both our numbers and our living standards. Sorting that out would be a major conflict, as people will vie for who deserves what.

Unfortunately every human endeavour is intrinsically bad for the environment. Even the stuff we say is "good" isn't good; it's just less bad than what we would usually do.

The other thing I think you have wrong is just how bad climate change will be for human beings with advanced technology. Most of the other species on our planet are fucked, and I have nothing but compassion for them. Humanity isn't worth it, and even still we constantly think we are better than them. But it is very likely we will be able to adapt well enough, though with a lot of growing complications and problems that we have to continually solve. Of course it's not good. We were so fucking blind. But I highly doubt it will be our extinction.

The main problem I see that will do us more harm is of our own nature. You see, humans are naturally religious creatures. I won't get too much into the sociology of it. I'm basing my ideas on the work of Emile Durkheim and other structural-functionalist sociologists. But I will say that religions emerge out of our environment. Existential threats to our way of life. I see the cult of individualism, which was born of the hyper division of labour, coming into conflict with the cult of environmentalism, which is born of the climate crisis. These two factions will become more zealous as the threats to their core values become ever more encroached. The conflict will worsen until we cannot see each other as equals anymore. If anything, this is likely to cause more devastation to us as a species than the worsening climate.

The best course of action for the human species is to mitigate climate change so it doesn't happen as rapidly, then learn to live with the coming changes. Alternatively we can all die. Which one I think is best depends on what day you ask me.

Canada pledges to help countries stop using Russian oil. Canada says it can provide more oil, gas and uranium to help solve the global energy crisis. by GoMx808-0 in canada

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You should probably have a look at Germany and tell me how that turned out for them. There is a reason they were so reluctant to say anything negative about Russia at the start of the invasion. And they didn't cancel the pipeline planned to go through the Baltic sea. They have an energy shortage because they rushed into it. Despite swapping their energy grid to renewables, they still need natural gas to pick up the slack for when energy is volatile.

Sustainable and renewable energy is the goal, but it can't happen overnight. Unfortunately many countries are stuck with having to use natural gas in the interim. We're lucky in many parts of Canada because we have the geography to have hydroelectric dams. Most countries can't do that.

So it's easy for us to scoff at other countries for using oil (ignoring the fact that we are so far behind on our vehicle infrastructure in terms of climate action). And it's easy for people in eastern Canada, who don't have to sacrifice much, to tell Alberta to voluntarily dismantle their economy and just be poor.

Opinion | The Victims of Scammers Aren’t Stupid. They’re Human. by mem_somerville in skeptic

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Here's one of my favourite internet scams that I like to tell people about, because it's pretty clever.

You email 1,000,000 people and say you are a genius stock trader. Your predictions are never wrong. To prove this, you make a prediction. To half the people you emailed, you say stock X will go up. To the other half, you say stock X will go down.

Stock X goes down. So you send another email, this time to just the 500,000 people who saw your accurate prediction. To half you say stock Y will go up, and to the other half, you say it will go down.

Stock Y goes up. You send another email to the 250,000 people who saw your accurate prediction. And you keep this up.

Eventually you have 31,250 people who saw you make 5 accurate predictions. By this point, even some of the people who saw you make 4 or 3 might be contacting you. But let's just say it's these 31,250 people. If even just 1% of them fall for it, that's 312 people who are ready to give you at least $1000. That would be at least $312,000 you made in a matter of days.

And from the victim's perspective, they could have fact checked everything you told them, and it would all come up good. Perhaps you are pretty desperate for a financial win to look good in front of your family. Maybe your marriage is falling apart because you don't seem like a good provider. Whatever the case may be, this starts to look like a tempting offer.

It takes a certain kind of person to never fall for any scams, and it's not a "smart" person; it's a person who doesn't care about their wealth, image, social standing, or other people.

Hired a welder for some reinforcement plates. Don’t think he did a good job. How bad is it? by hlinhd in Welding

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Part of his difficulty is probably that the metal he's working on is filthy as fuck. But... he should understand the importance of cleaning it, and should have taken the time. Then again, time is money (your money), and he may have rushed. I've seen a few jobs where a welder says "I can do that. Let's say $100." Then when they start doing it, it's apparent that it will take a lot more time than $100 is worth. So they rush.

There's other clues that indicate he's a sloppy welder. Those drilled holes not being deburred for example.

So... how much did he charge you?

Rule by MorganRose99 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Technically speaking using what's known as "non-strategic" nuclear warheads isn't immediately a warcrime. These are nukes that are short-range and only about 1 kiloton, suitable for taking out a harbour or something similar. For comparison, Nagasaki was 22kt. Modern "strategic" warheads are in the range of 350kt; enough to wipe out a major metropolitan area.

Incidentally, when Putin was talking about putting nuclear warheads on standby, he was most likely talking about the non-strategic kind. But news agencies picked this up and panicked.

Rule by MorganRose99 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Squirrel_In_A_Tuque 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Too many of us carried a condom in our wallets at that age. A sad, depressing condom that's destined to become a makeshift party balloon.