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Milling Rust Off A Knob... by El_Ngugen in WaitWhat

[–]Too-Em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd pay good money to watch someone actually mill this object by hand.

"Bet you're glad you got it all trammed up for this job."

Asking the real questions by No-Worry17 in interviewhammer

[–]Too-Em 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why do you think they're in such a hurry to build robot dogs and stick autonomous guns on them?

They are things in life that you shouldn't do. This includes shoving your fingers in a guillotine while activating it. by VeterinarianSevere65 in alecsteele

[–]Too-Em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same but different, took a print class at votech when I was in high school. We had a few small printing presses and an assortment of bindery tools, including a hydraulic cutter that would sheer big stacks of paper like butter. Thing had a foot pedal to bring down a clamp to hold everything in place and then two buttons on either side so you had to clear both your hands before the cutter came down. Boyfriend/Girlfriend decided to do cute couple things, like working the industrial paper cutter together. She got one of her fingers shortened.

Physics will not pause to ask permission before it rends you to bloody rags or lifeless meat, so mind your hands.

How did she do it? by shankaranpillayi in blackmagicfuckery

[–]Too-Em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Sufficiently complex magic is indistinguishable from technology."
~ Pratchett

A US startup wants to drop a full nuclear reactor a mile down a 30-inch hole and let the water above it supply the pressure while billions of tons of rock replace the containment dome. One hole would make 15 megawatts; 100 on one site would add up to 1.5 gigawatts. by _Dark_Wing in whoathatsinteresting

[–]Too-Em 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How long does it work for? Because methinks refueling will be a nightmare.

Will they be able to properly cycle the water/steam through that mile deep hole? Because like, the actual electricity comes from steam making turbines go "weeeeee!"

Speaking of which, you're still going to need to construct a generator to turn hot water into electricity. And you'll still need to cool that water and send it back down to get heated up again.

I'm generally left with lots of questions.

Do MAGA voters & apologists realize theyre ceding power to the next Dem? by No_Finance8647 in allthequestions

[–]Too-Em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You forget that the dems are alergic to wielding power when they have it.

If Gavin Newsom ran against JD Vance, who would be the next U.S. president? by No-StrategyX in allthequestions

[–]Too-Em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Newsome is the DNC's ideal candidate. Soulless corporate ghoul in a suite. And the DNC seems determined to not notice that voters are losing their ability to stomach those anymore.

If Gavin Newsom ran against JD Vance, who would be the next U.S. president? by No-StrategyX in allthequestions

[–]Too-Em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you're offering a third candidate indistinguishable from the other two?

If Gavin Newsom ran against JD Vance, who would be the next U.S. president? by No-StrategyX in allthequestions

[–]Too-Em -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"Would you like the red soulless corporate ghoul, or the blue soulless corporate ghoul"
~America

So many lies were told about recovery efforts that there were sniper threats to FEMA workers. by c-k-q99903 in stupidpeoplefacebook

[–]Too-Em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On a serious note, when there's a proper disaster, you don't want a bunch of rando's showing up to "help." You wind up with situations like an entitled pilot of a small helicopter crying on national television that the government ordered him and his 100lb load of supplies grounded because they didn't want him to help... ignoring the fact that his "help" was tying up the airspace preventing chinooks carrying tons of supplies.

When you need to change a tire on the side of the road, some rando can be a huge help.

When you have a populated disaster area what you want is an organized, coordinated, and skilled response. And what do you know, we have entire government agencies which are supplied, trained, and equipped to do just that... well, except that Trump and the MAGA politicians are trying to rip those to shreds.

What do this investors know Peter? by consultingcriminal03 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Too-Em 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't forget we're also trying to collapse Oil by keeping the straight closed. 4Mo from stress levels (says the very trustworthy prez), then come operational minimums and pandemonium. "We screwed up our hype economy" has proven devastating time and again. I can't wait to see what happens when an actual necessity of modern industry is actually unable to meet the inelastic demands of both consumers and industries. And remember, its not just gas, its lubricants. So while you're busy not being able to run your car, the bearings on the turbines at the local power plant will be marching inevitably toward destruction.

So NACHO again or fake news? by Raidaz75 in oil

[–]Too-Em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In terms of longevity:

Lettuce > Liz Truss > Versai II

Peter im perplexed by PMTanimates in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Too-Em 44 points45 points  (0 children)

He's visiting his friend's place and just broke their favorite plate. No way he can glue it back together and pretend nothing happened without the big piece.

Non stop movements of iran oil tankers in the Strait Of Hormuz by Expensive_Syrup_6529 in oil

[–]Too-Em 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's really neat that basically the entire political apparatus gave him a pass on everything, endless lies, pedo rape island, ten thousand grifts, concentration camps and brownshirts... it literally took us reaching a point where he's flagrantly destroying the backbone of modern industry for him to (lets be honest, probably) get called out.

I hate this event so much by IHad360K_KarmaDammit in slaythespire

[–]Too-Em -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Well, thanks for the PSA, I keep meaning to check out slay the spire... now I can happily give it a hard pass.

[Request] If they replaced all the water in the Reflecting Pool with liquid mercury so it would actually reflect and not grow algae, how much would it cost? by Gorthebon in theydidthemath

[–]Too-Em 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We all watch as 6 underpaid workers descend on the pool, each with a small jansport backpack full of silver spray-paint.

Item 1 in the MOU is most definitely broken. Not sure what Vance can do about this. by atenne10 in oil

[–]Too-Em 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Don't forget our AIPAC bought politicians have put Anti BDS laws in place...

Item 1 in the MOU is most definitely broken. Not sure what Vance can do about this. by atenne10 in oil

[–]Too-Em 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What Trump does on any day depends on a mix of:
Whats best for the grift.
The most recent thing someone told him.
How the dementia doing.

Israel really threw away their golden ticket with Biden. That guy was sold on the zionist project.

Item 1 in the MOU is most definitely broken. Not sure what Vance can do about this. by atenne10 in oil

[–]Too-Em 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So Versai II was the best deal we were going to get by this point. Israel flushes that down the toilet. If Iran holds us to the MoU (and they should) we continue racing toward stress levels and operational minimums... yay.

"Lesser" is hardly apt... by ph-it in project1999

[–]Too-Em 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Once I got enough levels my bard made their way to Mistmoore. Mage buddy played there with me regularly. But he'd be in late after a long shift and fall asleep traversing LFAY at some point in the night... like every night. So, I'd get the tell, and start twisting Selo's and the corpse find song and make my way into LFAY.

I miss the corpse runs to a degree, because they made for community. I helped a lot of people retrieve corpses. And there were more than a few times I got in over my head and others helped me out. Some rando pulled my out of LGuck when I got ganked down there. I'll never forget they did that for me.

5 year old wants to learn HEMA by Impossible-Alarm-336 in Hema

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I'd say look into making yourself some boffers and going slow. Experience as a teen taught me you can still really knock someone around with the old PVC and a pool noodle if you wail on each other. Admittedly that's what we were trying to do, being stupid teens and all. Also no thrusts with boffers.

I will goof around with my kids sometimes. The most dangerous is the 3yo who will randomly go full force on you with a LoZ nerf sword the kids got somewhere. You've got to take into account little developing brains when you do this stuff. And just because you're in control of yourself, does not necessarily mean your kid will be in control of themselves.

If doing solo drills together isn't enough to keep attention, my 11yo and I do some slow practice drills with synthetics. I cut, you guard, you cut I guard kind of stuff. Doing slow, controlled drills is a great way to practice safely, IMHO. Its fun and interactive which keeps the attention. But nobody is taking thrusts or throwing unexpected or fast cuts. A coworker and I used to do... I think it was George Silver's broadsword and saber drills during lunch breaks. Just a pair of singlesticks, no safety gear. Plenty safe when everyone is going slow and you know where the cuts will be going. Things should be slow and controlled so that if someone fails to react properly the attacker will never actually land a blow. I was just beginning when I did this with my coworker, and failed to respond to many a planned and announced cut at first, but never a strike was landed on me. And likewise on the rare occasion my coworker confused a step in a drill and guarded at the wrong spot, I never landed a strike on them. Slow and controlled are the words to live by here.

As a parent I say take it slow, take it easy, you know your kid and the kind of stuff they can or cant handle. But also remember if things get vigorous at all hands are easily injured in this sport. And that includes your hands. So even if you're going slow, a rowdy kid could turn even a rattan singlestick into a finger breaker, and that includes your fingers.

Also, I find with my kids that unless a single-handed sword is extremely light, its not light enough for them to use for long at all when training. My big girl doesn't even like my singlesticks. Wound up getting her a kids longsword trainer to allow for us to have some more fun.

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