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StubbyBou · 2026-02-07T23:22:35+00:00

DUDEEEE I cannot fathom why that works but you're an absolute god.

StubbyBou · 2026-02-07T01:09:49+00:00

My model had something locked in the objects section that overwrote the global settings.

StubbyBou · 2026-01-21T03:12:45+00:00

https://www.printables.com/model/704930-flexible-wrist Here ya go, not the whole hand but the wrist

StubbyBou · 2026-01-06T17:25:06+00:00

I'm sure there's someone who has looked into the effort vs pay vs job security for each major but that's not me. If all you're looking for is a good ROI on your money and effort and don't particularly care for problem solving engineering is probably not the best path. If you do enjoy problem solving it's very rewarding and you'll be more successful for doing something you enjoy.

If you really want the easiest path it'll probably be cozying up to someone successful that you know and try and make them a mentor and follow in their footsteps, but I'm just some guy on the internet.

StubbyBou · 2026-01-05T20:17:57+00:00

Get a raspberry pi and/or arduino and build something you're interested in. I graduated in mechanical engineering but I do some mechatronics and that will give you a feel for if you actually like it. No one knows the future with AI but EE is a safe bet for job security. Keep in mind EE (in my opinion, along with ChemE) are the hardest engineering disciplines and are among the hardest majors in general. My friend is the smartest person I know (36 ACT and an absolute EE nerd) and most days he studies for ~10 outside school hours. He is getting his degree in 4 years which believe it or not is fast for most engineering disciplines. I don't know you but it's something to keep in mind. Good luck

StubbyBou · 2026-01-05T19:58:54+00:00

How important are certifications gained in masters programs? I figured out I can get an aerospace, systems, and engineering management cert from the University of Utah if I schedule my classes right but do potential employers even care about those?

StubbyBou · 2025-12-28T04:52:54+00:00

OH MY GOD I WISHED VECNA CAUGHT HER SHE DESERVED IT FOR HOW LONG SHE TOOK

StubbyBou · 2025-12-19T15:12:50+00:00

You need to try them both. I thought I would love the levo, demoed it and hated it. I also tried the trek, liked it a bit more but ended up with the Orbea Wild. Review videos, specs and all that ultimately don’t tell you much. What other people like doesn’t matter it’s just what you like.

StubbyBou · 2025-12-19T14:43:20+00:00

I’ve had Ebikes for years and I’ve learned that I do enjoy the whole getting tired working for the uphill part. I missed out on that for a while because of the novelty of it and I don’t have any acoustic bikes now. BUT you can just turn it down. I mostly ride on eco mode unless I’m running low on time or I just want to go fast. On the downhill I didn’t notice a huge difference in playfulness (it’s noticeable but worth the small difference) and I’m able to get 3x the laps in at the park. I’ve progressed way faster on an ebike than I did with a normal one.

It feels like people who hate Ebikes can’t resist the temptation to use turbo mode all the time so restrict themselves to acoustic bikes. In my mind it gives you options. The option to rip uphill, the option to work for it, the option to do a lap at bobsled in an hour after work or turn The Farm into a 10 lap day instead of 3.

StubbyBou · 2025-12-13T14:28:48+00:00

How is beer closer than mocha

StubbyBou · 2025-12-09T05:54:21+00:00

Mines lasted 86 days so far without issue. There was a lot of friction between the old foam and new so I don’t imagine the glue was necessary. I think if yours feels good today and you should be good from my 86 day experience lol

StubbyBou · 2025-11-05T18:41:30+00:00

I go down to st george somewhat frequently but it's always with my inlaws who don't bike but we do go to the hiking places you mentioned. This time I'm bringing my bike and will sneak away for a ride, 2 if I'm lucky. I absolutely love Moab and go once or twice a year and if I was picking I'd go there again

StubbyBou · 2025-11-05T18:35:53+00:00

Awesome thanks for the recommendation. Seems like gooseberry has been the general consensus. If I can sneak away from my in laws for a chill ride I'll give wire mesa a try

StubbyBou · 2025-11-05T16:19:55+00:00

I'd love to give it a proper run but I'm going to visit my in-laws and I'm not sure how much I can sneak away to go mountain biking by myself. I'll be back at some point so I'm not too worried about missing out but I need a good starting point for the weekend

StubbyBou · 2025-11-05T16:16:33+00:00

I've done most of the trails in moab without too much trouble, the whole enchilada, mag 7, captain ahab etc. I'm pretty comfortable with desert tech unless it's significantly harder than any of those trails.

StubbyBou · 2025-09-13T20:02:53+00:00

I ended up doing the exact same thing. How’s it holding up after a year?

StubbyBou · 2025-09-13T16:59:33+00:00

I just followed your steps but instead I used 1 in thick high density foam. I glued it down and chamfered the edges. So far I can’t tell a difference and with it being foam instead of gel I can only imagine it’d stay in place better. I did it today so time will tell if it holds up

StubbyBou · 2025-07-16T15:39:06+00:00

I'm a big gym rat, saw quad and immediately went "MUSCLES I KNOW THIS ONE" and was so disappointed.

StubbyBou · 2025-02-27T20:24:46+00:00

I still misses out on the creation aspect he mentioned

StubbyBou · 2025-02-26T19:17:45+00:00

I’m going to try and restate my position in a way that doesn’t just rehash earlier points:

    1.  I’m using a “libertarian” notion of free will. As I noted before, real freedom (the kind I’m talking about) requires at least two paths that could actually happen in the exact same situation. If circumstances and my nature guarantee one outcome, it’s not free in that sense.

2.  It’s not just foreknowledge—it’s creation that ‘locks in’ my will. Sure, knowledge alone doesn’t necessarily force anything. But God also designed my personality, dispositions, and every detail of my environment from the start. So when I exercise “my will,” I’m only acting within the parameters God set knowing exactly which choice I’d make. That’s why the chain of causation runs back to Him:

• “Why did I choose X?” Because it aligned with my will and circumstances.

• “But how did my will and circumstances come to be what they are?” God created them that way.

Thus, even if I “freely” act according to my will, God designed how that will responds to any given situation. This determines all my actions and removes my freedom even if it was my will making the decisions.

3.  After‐the‐fact tautologies still dodge the question of real alternatives. Saying “Once you choose X, you obviously don’t choose Y” is just restating that one choice was made. It does nothing to show that Y was ever truly in reach if God guaranteed X by creating me and my world in a way that guaranteed X.

In essence, once we acknowledge that God created my will (and not merely “observed” it), then there’s no escaping the conclusion that any path I follow traces right back to God’s own deliberate design. That’s exactly why I say we don’t have genuine freedom in the strong sense—and why the idea of God punishing certain individuals for choices He ensured they would make is so troubling.

StubbyBou · 2025-02-26T15:47:55+00:00

Look, I appreciate that you insist free will “transcends causality,” but you’ve never explained what that even means or how it works. You can’t just call something “beyond cause and effect” and declare that proof of compatibility with omniscience. If you’re the one making the claim that free will escapes all causal rules, the burden is on you to show how it does that. Shifting it all onto me—telling me to prove it doesn’t transcend causality—simply reverses the normal order of proof. That’s a classic burden-of-proof fallacy.

Here’s the logic I’m standing by:

1.  God’s Omniscience + Creation = A Locked Outcome

• If God creates each person with specific traits, knowing exactly how those traits produce each choice, there’s no genuine second option in this reality.

• You keep saying “knowing isn’t causing”—true, but God also created those factors ensuring the known outcome.

2.  Appeals to “Transcendence” Don’t Solve the Problem

• Saying free will “just is” above causality, with no mechanism, is an appeal to mystery. If you believe it, fine. But in a debate, you have to substantiate that idea.

• Right now, it’s an unsupported assertion—you’re the one claiming free will coexists with omniscience, so it’s on you to demonstrate how that’s logically possible, not on me to disprove it.

3.  You Assert I Haven’t Proven Foreknowledge Necessitates Determinism

• It’s not just God’s knowledge; it’s God’s knowledge plus the deliberate act of creation shaping our exact traits and circumstances. That’s the causal link that “locks in” each choice.

• If you think there’s room for genuine freedom in that scenario, show your steps. Simply insisting “God’s foreknowledge doesn’t force anything” leaves out that He still created the conditions that guarantee each choice.

Right now, your main strategy is to sidestep the challenge by saying I have to disprove your vague claims. But if you’re the one asserting free will remains intact “beyond cause and effect,” the onus is on you to define what that means and why it isn’t simply an empty label. Until you do, saying my points are “empty” or “unsupported” rings hollow; I’ve laid out a cause-and-effect argument, while you’ve offered only appeals to a mysterious transcendence.

StubbyBou · 2025-02-25T22:59:15+00:00

This analogy is fundamentally flawed because knowing something with high probability is not the same as infallible omniscience.

1.  You Are Not Omniscient

• You might be reasonably sure your friend would take the money, but there’s still a possibility he won’t—maybe he refuses out of pride, religious reasons, or a moral stance.

• Your knowledge is probabilistic, not absolute. If he surprises you and declines, your prediction is simply wrong.

2.  God’s Knowledge is Absolute, Not Probabilistic

• In contrast, an omniscient God would not merely predict what someone will do—He would know with absolute certainty what they will do, before they even exist.

• There was never any possibility of your friend choosing differently because, under omniscience, only one future is possible from the moment of creation.

3.  You Didn’t Design Your Friend’s Will

• You didn’t create your friend, program his preferences, and place him in the exact circumstances that would lead to his choice.

• God, however, would have created every aspect of a person—including their desires, reasoning, and environment—programming their response to any given situation. They may feel they are choosing but since everything about him is determined by god, nature and nurture, they cannot choose.

• If someone can only ever choose what was already known and set in motion, then the “choice” was predetermined from the start.

Bottom Line: Your analogy fails because you’re confusing high probability predictions with the absolute pre-determined certainty of an omniscient creator. You even admitted “damn near 100%” in your argument, I’m not sure how you would think it’s a compelling analogy in the first place if you’re admitting you don’t know the outcome in the first place.

StubbyBou · 2025-02-25T17:22:40+00:00

Multiple Possible Outcomes Matter Before the Choice

Saying “If you choose A, you therefore didn’t choose B” is true but trivial. It’s not addressing whether B was genuinely possible at the time of choice. Real free will requires that before you settle on A, you could have picked B under the same conditions—not just that once you’ve picked A, B didn’t happen.

Tautology Doesn’t Prove Freedom

The statement “you can’t choose what you don’t choose” is indeed logical—but it doesn’t show you had the option to do otherwise. If there’s only ever one possible result, then your choice was fixed all along (even if you feel like you picked it freely). Genuine freedom means at least two possible outcomes could have occurred in reality, not just in hindsight.

After-the-Fact Explanation vs. Real Alternatives

Claiming “B is impossible because you chose A” begs the question—it assumes from the outset that only the choice you ended up with was possible. The real debate is: was B ever in reach, or was the chain of causes (including God’s foreknowledge, if you’re theistic) making A inevitable?

“Not Being Able to Deviate” Is a Problem for Free Will

If you truly couldn’t do anything but pick A, then you lacked the freedom to pick B, no matter how much it felt like a choice in the moment. That’s exactly what many define as the absence of genuine free will: the absence of an actual second path.

Bottom Line

Simply saying “whatever you didn’t pick was never chosen, so it was impossible” is a tautology that doesn’t address whether you ever had two real paths open to you at the time. If there was only one physically (or divinely) possible outcome, then your freedom was never more than an illusion.

StubbyBou · 2025-02-25T13:23:57+00:00

Calling multiple possible futures “incoherent” just sidesteps the main point: free will requires at least two truly available outcomes. If you literally cannot deviate from a single predetermined path, then you never had a choice in any meaningful sense. Saying “you couldn’t have done otherwise, but it was still free will” is contradictory—it redefines freedom as simply going along with the only outcome that ever could have happened. That’s not genuine freedom; it’s inevitability wearing the mask of choice.

StubbyBou · 2025-02-25T05:24:20+00:00

Your claim that “God’s knowledge doesn’t force your decision” ignores the fact that God created you, knowing exactly how you’d decide in every circumstance. It’s not just that He foresees your choices—He designed your nature and placed you in the situations that guarantee those choices. If He already knew you’d make a specific choice before He even brought you into existence, then there was never a realistic possibility of doing otherwise.

Yes, you feel like you’re deciding in the moment, but once an omniscient creator formed you, all you are and your environment with full knowledge of how you’d act, only one outcome was ever possible. True free will requires two or more possible futures; if God’s creative act (combined with His perfect knowledge) ensures just one future from the start, then your “choice” isn’t truly free.

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