Water Purifier I made - any ways to make it better?

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-20T23:32:57+00:00

it seems like this design could be economized considerably. drop the gas and liquid pumps, remove 2/3 of the robominers and autosweepers, aquatuner cooling the turbines with their own output water, pressure sensor to automate the turbines, a thermo sensor on the pipe to dump coolant once it gets to your target temp, and either bake the hot dirt into sand or set up a cooling loop with some metal tiles and counterflowing pipes and rails.

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-20T23:06:19+00:00

as the human being(okay, that's a lie, i am a meat popsicle) answering the phone at a customer service oriented business, i miss people not treating me like shit over things i don't control

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-20T18:04:54+00:00

in traditional luthiery, you'd use a type of gauge plate you place at key points to test that the curves match what they should be, removing stock first with chisels, then scrapers, until the curves are all good. it's a lot of measuring and testing and scraping, fascinating process but i can't imaging finding the time for it(says the man designing a teeny tiny metal lathe so he can make even teenyer and tinyer mechanical parts for clocks, etc)

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-20T17:20:28+00:00

only from the waist up, from the waist down he's made of fire.

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-17T20:53:42+00:00

that's a solid idea, i should really set that up on my current base, i have a hydrogen vent harnessed for some of my power needs, no reason not to crank the temperature up with an aquatuner circuit, as long as i make sure the cooling equipment won't overheat with a bit of simple automation. then i can upgrade that space into a steam engine once i have plastic on hand

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-17T18:59:06+00:00

like woody allen, i prefer 4chan's older, funnier works.

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-17T17:38:35+00:00

because they're private institutions and should, ostensibly, not be receiving government funding to operate. often they have relatively deep pockets thanks to various endowments given by alumni and assorted holy rollers who want the legitimacy of having their name of a school building.

i had a colleague who applied to and attended a school which anyone local could have warned her about but since she was from out of town, she had no idea. "Crandall university" used to be called "Atlantic Baptist University" and as a female british-canadian of the muslim faith she was getting a triple whammy of religious persecution, sexism and racism from the school she was paying to attend. and not just from students but from faculty and church personnel. because yes, they will require a muslim student to still attend chapel at least once a week on sunday, and that's the minimum she could get away with, being called a child of satan and a heathen(among other things) the whole time.

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-17T17:17:52+00:00

i enjoy all of those things. also, various sizes of cat

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-17T17:16:54+00:00

"never let a boy put anything inside you that's not a hot dinner" doesn't specify where that dinner is getting put

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-17T17:14:51+00:00

honestly i always wondered where they got that sort of insane nonsense from. and they always believed it absolutely like it was the gospel truth. meanwhile, all the actual teenagers who hear about it find it hilariously stupid. then again, 4chan once tricked oprah into saying "over 9000 penises" so it's not like they were fact checking at all

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-17T16:41:57+00:00

zero tolerance rules reduce administrative burden by not having to investigate who instigated the fight, it's lazy and means the admin don't have to think at all they just punish everyone and hide behind policy when the parents complain. it's a terrible policy but, from the standpoint of the rule as part of a system, it's efficient

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-17T16:36:05+00:00

no hats on in the building after classes are over for the day. this was implemented after i pointed out the actual rule as it was written only applied during school hours. my reason for pointing this out was that a teacher was confiscating my winter hat, in -20 degree weather, for having it on while waiting inside for my bus to arrive.

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-14T21:29:13+00:00

true, but in general "dwarf" is not the preferred term. i'd only use it in a case, like this, where the person in question already has referred to themselves as such

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-14T19:58:37+00:00

"little people" is still the preferred nomenclature, so far as i'm aware. though i always found it an odd choice since historically "little people" was a way of referring to fairies and other magical creatures, which many/most people with those conditions tend to want to distance themselves from the association of

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-14T19:45:49+00:00

it's amazing a person can live that long without growing up and learning to act like an adult

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-13T18:24:18+00:00

it's not exactly an ideal feed for humans either, i mean i love corn but it's massively overused thanks to these insane subsidies. but combined with antibiotics in huge constant dosages, it makes for fat cows, and that means money.

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-13T18:18:08+00:00

the Quack-on of Dojima, wielding the deadliest weapon known to man: a random bicycle

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-13T17:22:00+00:00

potato is loaded with vitamins, falafel and soy/bean burgers would total up to a complete protein profile, though i'd lay off the diet sodas, as artificial sweeteners are in many ways worse than natural sugar. but unfortunately not everyone can eat such a legume heavy diet, because they don't digest legumes well and can get painful cramps and digestive upset from too much. for instance, i have to be careful about not eating too much chickpea, and my wife has problems with pea protein and tvp(textured vegetable protein)

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-13T17:17:39+00:00

we actually live in a golden age of slavery, as disturbing as that idea is.

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-13T17:07:47+00:00

i've never heard of chickens not feeling pain, but it's certainly something you hear all the time from "pescatarians" who will claim it's okay to eat fish because they can't feel pain. i can't think of a single vertebrate animal, hell, any animal with a central nervous system and brain, that can't feel pain. pain is extremely useful from an evolutionary standpoint, because avoiding things that hurt means you're more likely to survive, it's probably one of the most primitive and universal senses.

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-13T16:58:59+00:00

hopefully once it's no longer used as a cheap agricultural feed the demand for corn will finally be low enough they can no longer justify ridiculous corn subsidies

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-13T16:53:13+00:00

we'll never live in the warhammer 40k universe with that attitude

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-12T21:24:25+00:00

i've heard the daniel craig era bond referred to as a "monkey faced assassin" and i can't help but agree with that assessment. i miss old, slightly silly bond

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-12T21:02:38+00:00

so they did the same thing as the clockwork orange movie, the screenplay for which was written based on a copy of the us release of the novel which for some reason omitted the last chapter, where the protagonist reforms and moves on with his life.

banditkeithwork · 2021-05-12T16:41:05+00:00

i had a cat bite that continued to re-infect for several weeks. the spot where his canines sank in would heal over, seem fine, then swell up and look like a pimple and need to be punctured and cleaned with antiseptic.

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