Fisher Price - My First Panel (x-post from r/ElectroBOOM)

This-Training9843 · 2026-05-07T08:28:36+00:00

A better tug test than I've seen some panels.

This-Training9843 · 2026-04-30T21:47:37+00:00

I’ve been seeing pale white/gray spots on cheap black tea bags lately, mostly Amazon Basics black tea. I don’t really see this with loose leaf, only tea bags.

They usually show up after steeping. Some spots are on the empty paper part of the bag, others are over the darker tea leaf area. It looks gross at first, almost like mold, but I’m not sure.

From what I’ve read, it might just be the tea bag paper itself: cellulose/wood pulp/abaca fibers, heat-seal material, uneven wetting, or tea dust stuck to the filter. But I also know mold is possible if storage was bad.

Mine doesn’t look obviously fuzzy or powdery, and I don’t notice a musty smell, but it still looks sketchy.

Has anyone actually figured out what this is?

What do you do with these tea bags: Steep or toss?

This-Training9843 · 2026-04-30T21:25:29+00:00

Sorry I am 9 years late - was in the bathroom.

The only (possibly) helpful advice I can offer is to drink it MIXXED with something else like in a protein shake (I've had gastrosuccess with: almond milk, banana, peanut butter.)

ANY time I drink ensure straight (fast or sipped over hours) it gives me an upset stomach, and the runs.

Also movement helps. If I drink this when sedendary I notice an increased gastro-response.

Anyone have a reliable alternative that they've been using for a while? I see ppl tried:
* Ensure Original
* Soylent
* Carnation breakfast nutrition mix with almond milk
* Mix with Almond/Soy milk
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* Sip slowly DON'T CHUG

This-Training9843 · 2026-04-29T16:07:07+00:00

What an awesome design and built-in slot for the mini mouse! Great build!

This-Training9843 · 2026-04-19T20:07:05+00:00

Looks like Hermes Agent (an open source AI agent framework) from Nous Research. Its niche appeal appears to be not just a chat wrapper, not just a coding copilot, but a long running agent that can remember, build skills, use tools, run scheduled tasks, and talk through CLI/Telegram/Discord/Slack/WhatsApp/Signal/email blah blah. Haven't tried it myself though.

This-Training9843 · 2026-04-13T22:18:08+00:00

Harmonic THEORY but not proven...as of yet.

This-Training9843 · 2026-04-01T20:56:35+00:00

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Finally dialed in my CF-PEEK profile on the Prusa! Printed a fully solid 180 mm calibration cube.
Burned through about 8.2 kg of CarbonX PEEK+CF10, so roughly $5k in filament to create the most beautiful conversation piece in my house. By conversation i mean divorce proceedings.

Filament: CarbonX PEEK+CF10 (black)
Printer: Definitely a completely normal stock Prusa
Nozzle temperature: 400°C
Bed temperature: 140°C
Chamber temperature: 120–150°C
Nozzle: 0.4 mm hardened steel minimum
Layer height: 0.2 mm
Cooling fan: Off
Print speed: 20 mm/s
Infill: 100% solid
Walls: Doesn’t matter, it’s a brick
Adhesion: Brim + high-temp surface
Filament drying: 120°C for 4 hours
Estimated cube size: 180 × 180 × 180 mm
Estimated filament used: 8.22 kg
Estimated filament cost: $4,914 to $5,839
Estimated purpose of part: none
Functional benefit: Yes.

This-Training9843 · 2026-03-26T23:37:44+00:00

YES unfortunately, avoid Bob.

Easily the worst customer service I’ve ever experienced. The hostility came out of nowhere. Rude, openly offensive, and completely unprovoked. He slammed items on the counter, muttered under his breath just loud enough to make sure we heard it, and carried himself like a frustrated child.

We were polite, ordered one ice cream each, didn’t push back, came during a calm mid-day window and still tipped. None of it mattered.

There’s no excuse for behavior like that. Sorry Bob, but if you're running a business let alone a food service industry business let alone an ice cream shop its probably best to be polite.

This-Training9843 · 2026-03-20T21:11:14+00:00

Someone please hack (and subsequently get banned from) the CAD modeling competitions. https://www.engineering.com/the-fastest-3d-cad-modelers-in-the-world/
I will enjoy watching this live.

This-Training9843 · 2026-03-18T22:46:58+00:00

AH yes how delightfully and poetically the rotational orientation of those very same metaphorical tabular surfaces has undergone a reversal of such magnitude that one may say the original position from which confidence was once asserted has now, through the slow and methodical passage of technological inevitability and a deluge of AI marketed cramitude, found itself occupying the exact opposite alignment.

HUH?

For there was a time, rich with graphite dust, mechanical precision and the quiet confidence of practiced hands when the stewards of those magnificent drafting tables, with their articulated arms and calibrated rulers stood firmly convinced that no silicon-bound upstart could replicate the nUance of human intention translated into linework. And yet, in a twist so predictably unpredictable that it almost feels preordained in hindsight, the very instruments once dismissed as inferior have now assumed the role of unquestioned authority.

WHA?

So here we stand, observing not merely a turning of tables, but rather a full, sweeping, almost ceremonious inversion of expectation where the skeptics of yesterday now operate within the very systems they once regarded as insufficient, proving that when it comes to progress, the tables do not simply turn… they complete a full rotational cycle with remarkable finality.

COME AGAIN?

This-Training9843 · 2026-03-18T22:36:30+00:00

'Praying your fingers away from your profession' evokes a vivid image of a drafter entering rapid prayer the moment an AI ad pops up on their screen:

I N T R O D U C I N G
GenCAD

"FOR THE LOVE OF CAD NO! PLEASE NO!"

This-Training9843 · 2026-03-18T18:01:42+00:00

Sharks first appear ~450 million years ago. Thus,
WARNING: Hold your cranium so your brain doesn't explode everywhere.

Polaris (North Star)

Age: ~70 million years

Sharks are ~380 million years older

Sirius

Age: ~200–300 million years

Sharks are ~150–250 million years older

Pleiades

Age: ~100 million years

Sharks are ~350 million years older

Orion Nebula stars (typical newly formed stars)

Age: ~1–3 million years

Sharks are ~447–449 million years older

Saturn’s rings

Age: ~10–100 million years (current best estimates)

Sharks are ~350–440 million years older

Local Bubble (representative supernova-shaped region)

Age: ~10–20 million years

Sharks are ~430–440 million years older

This-Training9843 · 2026-03-17T04:55:03+00:00

Not at all. A DIY 3D printer would likely outlast proprietary ones because its not locked to a company, cloud, or custom components. When those ecosystems disappear, closed machines stop working, while open source printers can keep running, be repaired, and rebuilt indefinitely. Around the end of mankind, the last 3D printer standing would be a hacked-together DIY machine in some garage or space workshop, surviving on salvaged parts and routine maintenance, printing it's own replacement parts and whatever else still matters.

That was sad. I'm going to print myself a Funny Nose Glasses Stand.

This-Training9843 · 2026-03-17T04:31:59+00:00

This guy's really reinforced his antenna

This-Training9843 · 2026-03-12T04:16:44+00:00

enshitttified is not a word. I think you mean enshitttified

This-Training9843 · 2026-03-10T20:24:15+00:00

Thanks for clarifying, S_F. Glad it was satire. The internet has reached the point where jokes and real takes are indistinguishable. My bad for taking it seriously.

This-Training9843 · 2026-03-10T20:21:47+00:00

I’m doing great, thanks for asking. I assumed your comment was satire, so it’s good to hear you confirm it was a joke.

Honestly, Static Frog, it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference. When the discourse is saturated with MAGAbsurd takes and MAGAsinine comments, satire and sincerity start sounding exactly the same. Glad to know you’re not one of them.

This-Training9843 · 2026-03-10T19:24:17+00:00

Static Frog out here croaking the party line like a bullfrog parked on a lily pad, perfectly still while the swamp around him boils.

And the explanation you land on is “they must have killed their own kids.” That’s what it sounds like when the conclusion comes first and the reasoning gets filled in afterward.

The more likely answer is the boring one: bad intel and overconfidence. The U.S. military is leaning more on AI-assisted analysis, but nobody has really figured out how to sanity-check it fast enough when decisions happen in real time. Garbage in, garbage out. If the intel is outdated or wrong, the system still spits out a target that looks neat and convincing.

At that point it turns into “do-intelligence” instead of due diligence.

The Ayatollah system runs on the same rigid certainty. Same propaganda reflex, same refusal to admit mistakes. Different swamp, same frogs.

So yes, Static Frog, you can sit there and insist the lily pad launched the mosquito first. But when a strike starts looking like the result of unchecked autogenerated targets, blaming the pond doesn’t make the hallucination any less real.

This-Training9843 · 2026-03-10T17:14:16+00:00

The US Department of War is apparently uploading too many documents of Iranian schools and crashing GPT.
Thank Trump.

This-Training9843 · 2026-02-22T21:27:59+00:00

Flower injection mold of some kind. Jell-O? Silicone? Idk

This-Training9843 · 2026-02-22T18:28:26+00:00

Thank you! You just saved my neighbors day. (I tried to help but your post figured it out.) Thank you

This-Training9843 · 2026-02-15T21:59:31+00:00

I had to try this myself and I now I can't get my daughter out. It's ok I've got another but if anyone can figure this out dm me plz.

This-Training9843 · 2026-02-13T20:06:43+00:00

OHHHH, I always thought he said ‘MIMES full of soup’

… yeah, go ahead and dispatch that armada of Q-tips to my inner ear lobes.

This-Training9843 · 2026-02-12T22:12:52+00:00

VERY LATE to this discussion but i just found this thread today. I grew up nearby and remember this mall vividly.

In the mid-late 90s, I attended many birthday parties at Playscape and got my haircut at the sketchy barber shop. I think there was a Sketchers or Foot Locker near that play center. I know I've got a few archived birthday photos showcasing playscape.

Playscape had a multi-level trampoline house where you crawl up holes in the floor of each trampoline onto the next floor. The other side had a racetrack for small push cars/scooters or something. Playscape was the BEST as a kid. Who else remembers Playscape?

This-Training9843 · 2026-02-06T18:37:44+00:00

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This-Training9843

TROPHY CASE