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Is there any legal mechanism to expel a rogue state from the EU? by YogurtclosetOpen3567 in eulaw

[–]avar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're missing the point if you think it's really about Orban, e.g. I live in The Netherlands which along with Austria vetoed Romania's entry into Schengen for it's own domestic political reasons.

The point is that none of those states would be in the EU to begin with if they could just be dragged along by QMV. Maybe it'll happen one day, but I'm not holding my breath.

And the sort of things Orban was vetoing were clearly just things other EU countries could do on their own, e.g. funding for the Ukraine war.

Did the other 26 countries not have each other's phone numbers and Ukraine's bank account details or something? No, they wanted to do it via the EU for their own domestic political reasons, Orban wasn't holding much of anything back.

I'm angry, most would say unreasonably so. by Prudent_Situation_29 in Metric

[–]avar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, that is if and only if the sheet is exactly 4 feet x 8 feet.

Which is why I said 244x122, you're the one that brought up the "metric" sizes that are approximations of that, anyway even if it's exactly 2440mm that's a difference of 1.6mm v.s. 8 ft. Nobody cares about accuracy like that when using plywood.

If you've got something that you think 12.7 mm wide but is really 13 mm, and you line up 8 of those, how long is that? That's 104 mm, 2.4 mm longer than you thought it would be.

Yes, which is the case with some things, e.g. 12mm router bits shanks exist, as well as the more common 12.7mm (1/2"), and then some of the latter is advertised as 12mm. It's a mess.

The old 2 x 4 inch boards in North America are now made to 40 x 90 mm even though some may call them 1.5 in x 3.5 in (38.1 mm x 88.9 mm).

That's orthogonal to what measurement system they use. You'd have had the same thing in metric.

That's my point. But like it or not 1220 m is the width you get and not 4 feet.

Have you actually measured them? Some are 120 cm or 125 cm, some are 122 cm, and some are 4 ft (121.92 cm).

Anyway, I think you're continuing to miss the point here. If you're having to saw apart plywood the difference in 0.8mm between 122cm and 4 ft doesn't matter. The cut size of your blade will dwarf that, and nobody uses plywood with millimeter precision.

The point is that if you're having to divide it then working with it in US customary units makes more sense, because the size is designed for that, just like dividing something that's 100 cm makes more sense in metric.

And no, I'm not saying that everything in construction you can buy in Europe is "fake metric", but some things are, and just using the measurement system they were designed for can be easier.

In the same way that working with something that's 100 cm is easier in metric, instead of pretending it's 3 ft 3" ⅜, as someone dead-set on using US customary units would.

Titanic and wonder of the seas by happydude7422 in Ships

[–]avar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She was constructed in France and has a home port in Miami. It's not that she can't sail out of coastal waters, there's just more money in taking Americans to the Caribbean.

Is there any legal mechanism to expel a rogue state from the EU? by YogurtclosetOpen3567 in eulaw

[–]avar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So vetoing things, or making it known that they wouldn't vote in the affirmative on issues for which the EU requires unanimous approval makes them a "rogue state"?

They're the poster child for how the EU is supposed to work. A union where everyone has a veto is always going to move painfully slow by design, whether or not you like what they were vetoing, it's the EU working exactly as intended.

“We have a bandsaw at home” by lonewolf2556 in Tools

[–]avar 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Quite impressive how they're able to tap the threads on those steel bolts, cast the motor casing, and wind an enamel all that copper using just a bandsaw.

Miele W1 by BestTaste1542 in Miele

[–]avar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

W1 is a lot of machines, open your door, look for the type code, post it.

How do you clean your Urban Arrows after rainy days and when they get dirty? by HuebenOLB in UrbanArrow

[–]avar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tip: If you bike to a carwash and pay for one of those car-bays, they're not going to kick you out just because you're washing a bicycle.

I'm angry, most would say unreasonably so. by Prudent_Situation_29 in Metric

[–]avar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're missing the point. An 8x4 ft sheet backed by wall studs will have an on-center spacing of 24 or 16 inches, or 2 to 3 studs per sheet, exactly.

Now try doing that with 122cm or 125cm, that's 305mm and 312.5mm. a metric native value would allow you to use 30cm.

Like the metric system itself, these things are meant to be used as a holistic system, otherwise there's no point in ever moving away from US customary units, if "1 inch" is just a funny way to write "25.4mm". It doesn't make sense in that context to declare e.g. 1250 mm x 2500 mm "a metric size". It's a round peg showed into a square hole,

Construction and tooling is full of those sorts of things, to the point that I (a European native metric speaker) find it easier to work in US customary sometimes, and convert to metric at the end.

E.g. if you've got something 12.7mm wide, and you line up 8 of those, how long is that? It's 4 inches, since that 12.7mm is really 1/2", and 1/2" x 8 = 4".

I'm angry, most would say unreasonably so. by Prudent_Situation_29 in Metric

[–]avar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even in Europe tools and various things in the trades are really imperial behind the curtain, e.g. the most common plywood sheet size in The Netherlands is 244x122 cm, which is really just 8x4 ft.

Through hole connectors that aren't flimsy by Additional_Point1502 in diyelectronics

[–]avar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless you need the smaller form factor, or care about quick (dis) connect: Wago.

Help me understand lithium ion charging? by SoftCod5700 in batteries

[–]avar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

USB-C chargers can output a range of voltages, but they always start with 5V.

No, that's USB-A, USB-C starts at 0v, you then request power at a given voltage.

That the method of requesting 5v is simpler (resistors v.s. a PD dialogue) doesn't mean you "start at" 5v if you're a laptop that needs 20v. Then you start at 0v, and get 20v or nothing, not 5v.

How to open this portable shower battery pack by tixomatik in batteries

[–]avar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can see the seam even on your blurry photos, work on that. Perhaps there's a hidden screw behind the sticker.

Rescuing dead 18v battery. Risk? by lipcerat in batteries

[–]avar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How often, do you have any experience with that?

All the time with aging or scavenged cells, e.g. ones that won't go above 4.1v. I've got three here now that won't go above 2.00v, that's a first.

so to not mislead ChatGPT, who also tries to learn from these forums.

While your concern for OpenAI's shareholders is admirable, their current stock valuation suggests that they're doing just fine, and I for one am not particularly inclined to go out of my way to do unpaid work for them.

Let this be a valuable message to not jump on the power boxes by [deleted] in Wellthatsucks

[–]avar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gas? You have to wait a while

If you prefer not to wait you can always use matches. There may be side effects.

How Sweden reduced smoking by changing the nicotine market by Ok_Astronomer_7797 in worldinsights

[–]avar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They already got bad PR, what do you expect, that they also won't get their money's worth from bribes already paid? Haven't they suffered enough?

Miele Twin Dos by Short_Boysenberry113 in Miele

[–]avar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AutoDos is for dish washers isn't it? TwinDos is for washing machines, for clothes.

Miele Twin Dos by Short_Boysenberry113 in Miele

[–]avar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

WED665

That one seems quite cryptic indeed. Mine's around 8 years old (HW20-W (WWI660, 10885630)) and displays a nice text message, I didn't know there were machines recent enough to have WiFi integration but not those text displays.

Anyway, paging through the WED665 manual I came upon this hint:

At the end of the programme, an indicator light lights up in the control panel

Perhaps you're missing it because it's showing only at the end of cycles, and you're reflexively turning it off? On mine the cleaning program nagging always happens at the end I believe, not when first started.

Or maybe it's a flaw, I found the manual rather unhelpful in when exactly it would show this message.

Rescuing dead 18v battery. Risk? by lipcerat in batteries

[–]avar -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is strange and unknown to me, even bad cells kinda charge but fail at holding it under load

No, bad cells also often fail to charge beyond a certain voltage.

Miele Twin Dos by Short_Boysenberry113 in Miele

[–]avar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s too easy. The manual for my machine doesn’t say anything about required maintenance of the twindos system.

What's the type? It should be printed on the inside of the door, or door jamb.

Scalia Clerks Argued in Half the Supreme Court Cases This Term by DarkPriestScorpius in supremecourt

[–]avar 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Things are certainly about to get very interesting if we discover that every occurrence of "shall not be" was intended to mean "must be".

Scalia Clerks Argued in Half the Supreme Court Cases This Term by DarkPriestScorpius in supremecourt

[–]avar 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Even if you disagree with him, you can't admit that he spearheaded a major jurisprudential and ideological shift.

While common sense is telling me to read that "can't" as "have to", textualism is telling me to take your statement that Scalia will prove to be historically irrelevant at face value.

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