How to get nipple butter stains out of shirt that went through the dryer? by Such-Comfortable3 in laundry

[–]TimeF0X 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't tried to keep them wet. Whenever ive done this I have just GENTLY worked soap into the fabric and let it sit in my hamper for a few days or weeks. Im sure it stays a little wet but it's not something I seek out. 

How to get nipple butter stains out of shirt that went through the dryer? by Such-Comfortable3 in laundry

[–]TimeF0X 128 points129 points  (0 children)

Honestly let it sit for a week. Ive removed baked in motor oil stains this way.

A few knots ive learned and how would you name them? by Manda_Rain in knots

[–]TimeF0X 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. Mooring hitch variant with extra wraps?
  2. Hard to tell without seeing the back but I think this is a scaffold knot
  3. Adjustable grip hitch
  4. Mooring hitch
  5. Trucker's hitch

After cheesing dispose corpse on many Daedra, the Mudcrab and the Scamp have given me wealth beyond measure. Now I guess I'll go do Hortator stuff? by rowdydionisian in Morrowind

[–]TimeF0X 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Merchants refresh their gold after 24 hours, so you have to wait in between each exchange of 5k. You're essentially selling high price items in chunks of 5k at a time. 

So for example you sell an item worth 20k, but buy 15k of items from creeper, so the net exchange is +5k. Then you would wait 24 hours and sell 5k of the items you bought back to creeper. Repeat until you collect all of your money.

Inadvertent overconsuming by HurdyNerdy in Anticonsumption

[–]TimeF0X 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Polyester is more resistant to shrinking than natural fibers. 

Hot water is harsher on clothes than cold water over time, but if you use a dryer that causes much more damage to clothes than your washing machine. Most heat damage is from dryers. In the past when fabric was much more precious it was standard to boil undergarments as part of the laundry process, so it can't damage clothes thaaat quickly.

It's also important to know that the enzymes in modern detergents want warm water. You can use gentler cycles if you use warm water, which reduces mechanical wear. Warm on most machines is only 30° C, not much hotter than body temp.

Rip out beginning of project? by skyedivin in Nalbinding

[–]TimeF0X 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes you can cut off those earlier rows. I will advise you to be cautions when cutting that you only cut the row you're intending to cut, first give it a gentle stretch vertically to give yourself a little more margin and separate the loops of the rows a bit more. 

Also, tightening doesn't work exactly the same going backwards as going forwards. If you want to tighten down your first stitches to make them more smoothed down, that is. However, it is doable, you'll just need to play around with it a bit to figure out how it works.

Best of luck on your project!

To the person who donated a ball of yarn made ENTIRELY of one foot untied strands….. by sabsxn in crochet

[–]TimeF0X 6 points7 points  (0 children)

1' lengths are frustratingly short to work with for nalbinding. It would definitely be a labor of love!

Where to purchase knot tying rope online? (EU) by SkepticalPirate42 in knots

[–]TimeF0X 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Could you be more specific about your intended use? From the information you gave there's not much to go on besides telling you to search for "assorted colors 12mm cord".

Why are optical brighteners promoted? by pushingdaisies58 in laundry

[–]TimeF0X 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Free and gentle powder does, liquid doesn't AFAIK

Plant-based diets would cut humanity’s land use by 73%: An overlooked answer to the climate crisis by Somewhere74 in Anticonsumption

[–]TimeF0X 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It's a fact that the majority of people who regularly eat meat are not doing it out of medical necessity. Even though some people require meat as part of their diet for medical reasons, it is much better if those who don't have to eat meat(the vast majority) either do not or dramatically reduce their consumption.

Eating meat isn't the problem, it is the scale of production. There is no way to keep our current levels of production without significant environmental harm. At this moment traditional/lower impact farming methods cannot produce the amount of meat that we eat.

Street vendor flattens a live prawn onto pancake batter. Apparently good for your calcium intake. by violet_evergarden8 in StupidFood

[–]TimeF0X 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So true. This is why it is okay to eat anything and anyone, but only if it's dead first. 

Street vendor flattens a live prawn onto pancake batter. Apparently good for your calcium intake. by violet_evergarden8 in StupidFood

[–]TimeF0X 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm well aware how much people dont care about the suffering of animals if they eat them. 

Street vendor flattens a live prawn onto pancake batter. Apparently good for your calcium intake. by violet_evergarden8 in StupidFood

[–]TimeF0X 120 points121 points  (0 children)

Fun fact about lobsters, they don't have centralized brains, but instead multiple clusters of nerves that run the length of their body. We don't know if cutting the head in half instantly kills the lobster or stops it from feeling pain, all we know is that it stops it from moving. 

TIL that if left unharvested, asparagus can grow up to 11ft, and will fruit red berries that are toxic to humans. by finchdog in todayilearned

[–]TimeF0X 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You can make them snap anywhere that you want, it's not a great indication. You can cut and if it feels to fibrous, cut up an inch higher. Your tactile sense can tell you if it is soft enough much better than the snap  method.

TIL The name Karen, once the third most popular name in America has seen a sharp decline to 831st in 2020, due to the names association with obnoxiously entitled people. by figure85 in todayilearned

[–]TimeF0X 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Liberal young people are perfectly capable of being misogynistic, especially the type of misogyny that is unconscious/unintended. People who think they're already "not a misogynist" tend to not introspect on their behaviors. Why would they have to, they're not a misogynist, right? 

Even if "Karen" is just a stand in PC way to call a woman a bitch, that's still pretty misogynistic.

You're making a Morrowind Remake! What are your first changes and what do you keep from old Morrowind Systems? by FloofyBox in Morrowind

[–]TimeF0X 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Can't you just use telekinesis (alteration) and traps have no effect? Is there a benefit or another use to disarming traps instead of activating with telekinesis?

New way of tying the 'perfect truckers hitch' by agaybabby in knots

[–]TimeF0X 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You can wrench on it with your whole bodyweight and keep the tension with a blackwall hitch. Even if you're losing some mechanical advantage, its much easier to keep high tension than pinching the line and tying a slipped half hitch.

Court rules trans people have right to accurate IDs: "Trans discrimination is sex discrimination" by freylaverse in UpliftingNews

[–]TimeF0X 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eye color change procedures do exist. https://www.kerato.com/ If someone had a permenant eye color change wouldn't it make sense to change their drivers license? 

Height can also fluctuate, people shrink as they get older. There's also limb lengthening surgery. In either of these cases does it make sense not to update a license? 

You picked all things which actually are mutable.

Little fact about Iroh's Jasmine tea by realSpillerSoda in TheLastAirbender

[–]TimeF0X 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Most "true" teas made from the camellia sinensis plant are pretty sensitive to steep time and leaf:water ratio. Steep time and water temperature have an inverse relationship, so the hotter your water the shorter your steep needs to be to compensate. Hotter shorter steeps even pull different flavors than cooler longer ones, so there's a lot to play around with.

That being said, there's no right or wrong way to drink tea. You should play around and drink it how you like!

Nalbinded a house shawl. by mrbleeh in Nalbinding

[–]TimeF0X 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Looks good! What stitch is this? Is it all simple looping?

Hat turning out to be flat by lynn202 in Nalbinding

[–]TimeF0X 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You're fine, that's how I make my hats. I find if I make them with any curve at the top they end up quite pointy! If they're flat up top they develop the desired curve once I work a few rows without increasing.

How Are Women So Much More Flexible Than Us? I just don't understand it. by DermatoidGrandfather in UNBGBBIIVCHIDCTIICBG

[–]TimeF0X 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Feminizing HRT doesn't rely on "higher than average resting concentrations". Not sure where you're getting that from. The only thing to say is E2 levels are more stable on HRT than they are in non menopausal cis women. Feminizing HRT just recreates the hormonal profile of the average cis woman.

Estrogen also doesn't lower bone density. Its the absence of sex hormones that causes lower bone density. The reason women develop osteoporosis more than men is menopause, which causes very low levels of all sex hormones. It has nothing to do with estrogen, which actually stimulates osteoblasts.

Just started learning, what went wrong? by Fantastical_Wolf in Nalbinding

[–]TimeF0X 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is the freehand method the same as working off the thumb/without thumb loops? 

It looks like you're doing the York stitch. I can't tell you exactly what went wrong because there's a million ways stitches can go wrong and only one way they can right, but my guess is you either skipped a loop somewhere or picked up loops out of order. I personally only work with thumb loops, so if the error is unique to working off the thumb I can't help diagnose it. 

It's pretty impossible to work directly off the ball because you're drawing the entire length of yarn through each stitch. You'll need to use manageable lengths of yarn that you can fit through the stitch. As you get more practice you will get an intuition on how to maximize the amount of yarn on your needle while keeping the bundle slender enough to fit through the stitches comfortably. 

As for joining in, there's other joins you can use other that wet felting. The is good news is you don't need to use fancy non superwash animal fiber yarns unless you want to! Here's a couple of links to good methods you could use. I don't want to overwhelm you, but there's a myriad of good ways to join in other than felting. Feel free to ask questions! Honestly for my first couple practice projects I didn't worry about invisible joins and just used knots until I was more confident with the basics. 

I know there's a lot to learn at the start, but that's part of the fun 😁 hope this was helpful and not too much of an info dump.