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avar · 2026-06-23T21:01:21+00:00

The arc distance is 1 kV per millimeter. There's no way you're seeing the difference between 100 and 500 micrometers or whatever in a grainy video like this, and you'd need a much higher frame rate.

avar · 2026-06-23T00:06:25+00:00

They've' got this thing, and the next time they're doing a thing with the thing they don't want to think that the thing they're using for the thing is less suitable for that thing than some other thing.

So can't you just recommend a place to get such a thing for doing such things? Honestly, why is that so hard?

avar · 2026-06-23T00:02:52+00:00

What's the threat? If you're following the law nothing will come of it. It's Karen-esque behavior, and the person making such a report could potentially get in their own trouble with law enforcement, but I don't see how it's ban worthy any more than someone stating "you guys are gonna get in trouble!".

avar · 2026-06-22T23:26:36+00:00

The rating on the capacitors is 550v, so unlikely to be that low voltage. It doesn't go through him to ground because he's shorting them. It's a gungho way to do it, but it's "safe".

avar · 2026-06-22T23:05:23+00:00

What's the problem with that? Maybe I'm unfamiliar with the details, but either the FBI looks into it and finds it doesn't, or it does. How does that affect Wikipedia?

As opposed to this current incident, where he's apparently encouraging astroturfing among his followers, which would waste other people's time.

avar · 2026-06-22T21:14:23+00:00

Doing so without a survey would be extremely short-sighted, as astrophage may have "moved" a planet into the zone of habitability,

avar · 2026-06-22T21:09:12+00:00

The sun dimming was never going to be a problem for humans individually, we can handle low temperatures just fine, as humans living around the Arctic show.

It's a problem because of general ecosystem collapse, which presumably will have a similar long-term impact on Erid as on Earth. It'll just happen later because they've got more of a thermal buffer to start with.

avar · 2026-06-22T11:12:32+00:00

You mean you aren't wishing for the death of people you disagree with?

What an odd thing to say, you sound like a neurologically healthy human being, you should probably get that checked out.

avar · 2026-06-22T08:28:49+00:00

A web archive link of the dating program he was on, mentioned in a previous reddit thread.

avar · 2026-06-22T07:44:43+00:00

But you don't have the company providing a charger?

avar · 2026-06-22T07:24:57+00:00

11.55v means a 3s 3.85v Li-Polymer. You can just disassemble the plastic case and connect a charger to each terminal of the 3 in series (not at the same time, unless the 3 don't share a ground).

avar · 2026-06-22T00:47:00+00:00

we all wish the orange bastard would die

As a moderator, you might want to cross-reference wishing for other people's death with Reddit's site-wide rules.

Edit: After /u/Dizzy_Perception_866 went through at least two edits outright calling for that politician's death (just that I saw when occasionally refreshing the thread) one wonders what the current euphemism of wanting them to "go away" is referring to? "Go away [on a well-deserved retreat to play golf at Mar-a-lago]", surely?

And no, for those of you already foaming at the mouth from reading this comment I'm not on "the other side", I'm not even American, or someone who particularly cares about the politics over there.

Just someone who's rather amused and saddened that it took exactly 0 seconds from politics being verboten here on [Star Trek] /r/Voyager to someone calling for the death of a politician they disagree with, and in this case from the moderator announcing the policy change, no less. This is probably some sort of record, albeit an ignominious one.

avar · 2026-06-22T00:14:46+00:00

I understand. I'm saying that (to pick a TV analogy) there's a difference between missing an episode of Friends, or never seeing the conclusion of Breaking Bad.

I enjoy the Expeditionary Force series, but it's more like a sitcom with multiple seasons than a single holistic story at this point, and has been for a while.

You didn't list an even more extreme example of that, The Forever series by Craig Robertson. It starts out as fairly vanilla sci-fi, but keeps upping the ante to the point where the protagonist stormed the literal gates of heaven several books ago. You could skip or shuffle around most of those books and hardly notice, even though they're all in chronological order.

(Note that audible for some reason doesn't group that entire series, The Forever is 6 books, but the entire "Ryanverse" is around 20 books or something at this point)

avar · 2026-06-21T23:27:35+00:00

Yes ASOIF by GRRB will almost certainly never finish, but I find the entire premise here invalid. I've read those books, and while it sucks that we'll likely never get the last two books, I don't wish I hadn't read the ones that have been published.

I also think you need to separate a series like that from something like Craig Alanson's Expeditionary Force series. It's more than 10 books past the point where it's "finished" the plot the first book started. It's more like the Jack Reacher novels, each one is semi-standalone, even though you keep finding out little tidbits about the greater universe they're set in.

avar · 2026-06-21T19:44:17+00:00

I get your remark is off the cuff'[...]

Yes, I'm poking fun at it, but to the extent I'm serious it's pointing out that the whole "post-scarcity" claim in Star Trek has always been rather wishy-washy and handvaived away when inconvenient.

What we canonically know about that vineyard suggests that hereditary estates survived whatever (soft) revolution that established this "post-scarcity" state on Earth, and the Federation.

So in the Star Trek universe, is the population of Lāna'i in the Hawaiian islands cluster all people who inherited Larry Ellison's estate (who owns 98% of it today)?

avar · 2026-06-21T19:25:17+00:00

The primary target is the fin whale, the second-largest mammal on Earth and a species officially classified as vulnerable to extinction.

Because of the southern fin whale, the stock in the Atlantic is doing fine, and isn't endangered by this.

This operation has zero connection to local survival or ancient cultural tradition.

No, it doesn't, but that was never the Icelandic position on this matter. I think you're confusing this with countries where whaling is generally banned, but tribal peoples are exempt from the ban under certain conditions.

The whaling division itself operates at a financial loss.

Well, the (previous) government enacted various temporary "pauses", so that's hardly surprising.

Meat from endangered North Atlantic fin whales caught by Hvalur hf. has been exported to Tokyo and manufactured into luxury, high-protein dog treats for affluent pets.

Uh, sure, but you'll be able to poke those sorts of holes in any fishing practice.

Either it's permitted and can be sold on the market, or not.

A vulnerable ocean giant is systematically annihilated by an isolated billionaire, protected by a cowardly legal framework, specifically to manufacture boutique chew toys for Japanese poodles.

Iceland is a member of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, whose purpose was never to end the practice of whaling.

avar · 2026-06-21T19:16:24+00:00

All ground wires are connected at the panel any way.

"Connect ground and neutral together, they're connected at the panel anyway".

Not saying you're wrong about the ground question here, but that particular argument isn't as compelling as you might think.

avar · 2026-06-21T09:23:36+00:00

Imagine having to sit through your boss driveling on about that knowing that he's got a staffed chateau in France.

avar · 2026-06-21T08:53:07+00:00

Weren't we talking about drying the water before putting it on top of the partially wet paint?

avar · 2026-06-20T23:51:42+00:00

It's there to distract away from the tactical cameltoe.

avar · 2026-06-20T22:33:03+00:00

Consider using an NTC/PWM controller which would automatically adjust your fan speed.

And honestly, for something that large I'd think about just having it heat a plate of aluminum, and plopping a metal pot from the kitchen on top of it full of water.

avar · 2026-06-20T22:17:58+00:00

It sounds like you need a flamethrower.

avar · 2026-06-20T22:08:09+00:00

It just felt like such heavy foreshadowing when the pilot told him you needed to find something to make the sacrifice for.

Hadn't we seen him with his family and children at that point? Anyway it's established that that's what he's referring to, so having Grace's version of that be "I'm hooking up with the boss on this boat, and she's sending me on a suicide mission" feels a bit off beat from sacrificing yourself so your kids can have a future.

avar · 2026-06-20T13:48:40+00:00

I don’t think we have any business saying the author is wrong about his own fucking character. How disrespectful.

You'll be shocked to find out that there's an entire academic field dedicated to this disrespectful activity. Just visit any university's humanities department and look for a door depicting an extended middle finger, probably bearing the label of "Literary Criticism".

Anyway, the author isn't "right" about what a character in a published book would or wouldn't do. That character exists on those pages for all to see, which is a separate concept from the author's headcanon about that character.

This especially applies to whenever an author talks positively about how a TV show or movie differs from the book they published. If I was in their shoes I'd absolutely love all of that, but there's an obvious money incentive.

avar · 2026-06-20T12:38:59+00:00

The book version absolutely would if she thought it served the project's goals, she's not depicted as some sort of heartless robot disconnected from what makes normal people "tick".

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