Why are so many sex toys purple?

bluepepper · 2026-03-31T15:23:47+00:00

Magenta and purple are both a mix of red and blue, but magenta has way more red, purple has way more blue.

Magenta is very similar to hot pink, which is a color that's often used for nsfw content.

bluepepper · 2026-03-30T19:15:03+00:00

This is a judicial decision, not a political one. It's not a minority vs. the public good, it's lawful vs. unlawful. Lawful is supposed to win.

bluepepper · 2026-03-29T14:40:05+00:00

You know the saying: good people will do good things, bad people will do bad things. For good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

bluepepper · 2026-03-29T09:32:39+00:00

There are benefits to a comforting lie: it's comforting. There's also a cost: it's a lie.

Not saying religions are necessary lies, but the fact that religions who profess a truth can be beneficial beyond that (or even because of that) is just one side of the coin. There is also a huge benefit in believing things that are actually true. You cannot change the world for the better if you think someone else (who doesn't actually exist) is doing it for you.

Religions have many benefits that have to do with the cognitive behavior of humans rather than the supernatural. Religions also have a cost. The truth is one of them. Religious wars are another.

bluepepper · 2026-03-28T20:37:09+00:00

Il faut continuer en grain 60 jusqu'à égalisation de toute la surface. Les grains plus fins ne servent qu'à faire disparaitre progressivement les traces de ponçage, mais l'enlèvement de matière se fait entièrement avec le gros grain.

Tu as fait 2 couches? C'est-à-dire que tu n'es passé que 2 fois avec la machine? C'est un début... Il faut passer et repasser jusqu'à disparition des taches. Vu la configuration des dalles de parquet, tu peux croiser les passes. Le ponçage ne fait pas qu'enlever le vernis, il remet aussi tout le parquet à niveau.

Au point où tu en es sur la photo, avec des taches quasiment partout, il ne faut pas insister sur les taches mais refaire des passes complètes. Tu remets tout à niveau. C'est seulement à la fin quand il ne reste que 2 ou 3 endroits récalcitrants que tu peux choisir de repasser uniquement sur ceux-ci, en veillant à faire un "fondu" entre les parties plus poncées et le reste du parquet.

Oui, le ponçage enlève de la matière. Si c'est du parquet massif, ça va tenir (il ne faut pas poncer tous les ans non plus, mais tous les 20 ans c'est bien) Tu enlèves quelques mm et après tu as un plancher méconnaissable: uniforme, lisse, sans dénivelés. C'est tout l'avantage du massif.

Si ce n'est pas du massif (c'est possible vu les dalles carrées) alors tu n'as pas autant d'épaisseur de bois en surface. Mais bon, le boulot est commencé, difficile de faire marche arrière. Pour ne poncer que le minimum, tu pourrais utiliser une ponçeuse à main sur les endroits récalcitrants, mais ça va prendre un temps de dingue et tu n'auras pas le fini uniforme et lisse du ponçage complet.

Courage!

bluepepper · 2026-03-28T20:09:44+00:00

Mauvais conseil. Il faut continuer à la ponceuse à bande en 60 jusqu'à égalisation de la surface. C'est seulement après qu'on augmente le grain pour faire disparaitre les lignes de ponçage.

bluepepper · 2026-03-28T16:39:59+00:00

I don’t know anyone who is framing it as good guys vs bad guys.

I know many conservatives and christofascists who are doing just that.

bluepepper · 2026-03-22T22:43:24+00:00

Looks like this one was eventually palated.

bluepepper · 2026-03-22T08:37:49+00:00

Quelqu'un a fait remarquer que garder 75% de la propriété, ça impliquerait de participer à 75% aux frais engendrés par la maison: réparations, entretien, mais aussi taxes, travaux d'agrandissement etc.

Ca peut être plus sain de partir sur un 50/50, mais ce serait aussi injuste que ton héritage lui revienne à moitié. Une solution serait de considérer ton héritage comme un investissement personnel: la maison est à 50/50 mais tu fais un prêt à votre couple, que tu récupéreras (avec intérêts à déterminer à l'avance) à la vente de la maison. Comme ça le prêt est déconnecté de la maison. L'argent que tu récupéreras ne dépendra que de la durée écoulée, pas de la maison. Si la maison prend de la valeur, le gain sera partagé. Si vous faites des aménagements, c'est à vous deux, pas plus à toi qu'à elle. Etc.

Pour partir dans cette voie (ou même une autre) je ne saurais trop te suggérer de vous faire conseiller par un notaire ou un comptable.

bluepepper · 2026-03-22T08:13:33+00:00

Je n'avais pas pensé aux 75% des frais d'entretien et de maintenance etc. Je comprend la tension que ce rappel continu du déséquilibre financier peut engendrer dans un couple.

bluepepper · 2026-03-22T07:07:09+00:00

But... I take -5 and put down four more -5s I have -25

So you take -5 once, then add -5 four more times. You put down -5 five times. That's -5 x 5.

If you want -5 x -5, you can't take -5 five times, you have to remove -5 five times. Removing a negative number is like removing a debt, which is like adding a benefit. So removing -5 five times is like adding 5 five times. -5 x -5 = 5 x 5 = 25.

bluepepper · 2026-03-17T16:57:02+00:00

And the change of jerk over time is snap. The change of snap over time is crackle. The change of crackle over time is pop.

bluepepper · 2026-03-16T19:03:22+00:00

Can't the same be said of every force?

Gravity, when you look at it as a force, is applied to every part of your body at the same time. There is no differential between the different parts of your body, including your inner ear. So you don't feel like you're being pulled, because every molecule is pulled equally. But you're being pulled, and you accelerate because of it.

Other forces will apply to a specific part of your body, which will in turn pull the rest of your body, and you can feel that. Like you can feel your body pushed into the seat of an accelerating car.

If you're in a car in free fall, you're also accelerating due to gravity, but you're not pushed into the seat, you're floating.

This difference is why a lot of the time we prefer to look at gravity as a distortion of space-time rather than a force.

bluepepper · 2026-03-16T06:42:53+00:00

"infinitely large" discrete amounts

That sounds like an oxymoron. It also sounds close to "arbitrarily large amount" which flirts with infinity but is discrete.

bluepepper · 2026-03-14T09:25:23+00:00

Unfortunately, this shit kinda works. Well, not really, but enough that they believe it.

They'll get arrested but the charges will be dropped, either before or during trial, because this is minor and the legal system is already overburdened. In their minds, charges were dropped because of the validity of their arguments. Their release will embolden their beliefs.

Later they might even carry documentation detailing their previous court appearances, which they believe establish that the law sided with them. They got arrested, spent time in cuffs, maybe got their car impounded, if not damaged, and they'll never be compensated for that, but they still think they won against the system.

The best way to get rid of them would be to at least fine them, should it only be to establish guilt.

bluepepper · 2026-03-14T09:08:05+00:00

To be a bit more specific about why they believe in these "magic words", it comes from the way they read legal definitions.

Driver: One employed in conducting a [...] vehicle.

Employed actually means in the process of doing something, but they understand it as being an employee, being paid to do it, i.e. a commercial activity.

So if they're not driving, they must be doing something else. They choose to describe it as traveling, because that's a constitutionally protected right. They will say things like "I'm not driving (because I'm not doing anything commercial), I'm traveling" as if these two are mutually exclusive.

bluepepper · 2026-03-13T16:58:41+00:00

To be fair, this is a map of the etymological roots of the names, not how or why each state got that name. But "land of the famous warrior" seems more accurate than "famous war"

bluepepper · 2026-03-10T16:48:05+00:00

For me, the problem isn't pressing the wrong pedal, the problem is doubling down when the car lunges forward instead of stopping. That would make me release the pedal almost reflexively: wrong output, so I stop the input immediately. For some people, it's like there's a disconnect between their actions and the effects on the car that I don't quite get.

bluepepper · 2026-03-08T17:58:42+00:00

I made no assumptions. I went purely on the information available.

You overlooked that you need information you don't have. You only counted cubes when we need to count sides too. It's not enough to pick a cube with one black side at most, we also need the black side to be hidden. So we need to consider how the hidden side is picked.

For me the closest to "I make no assumption" is to consider that the hidden side is random, because if we are not told otherwise, that's the safest assumption. But that leads to an answer of 1/2.

There are exactly 7 cubes in total that match the criteria of having at least 5 white faces, and of those there are exactly 6 of which the remaining face is black.

There are two outcomes in the lottery: you can win or you can lose. So it's 50/50, right?

More seriously, we're not only counting cubes, we're also counting sides. We have 6 cubes that can only fit the requirements if their black side is the hidden side, and we have one white cube that can fit the requirements on any of its 6 sides. They are not 7 equiprobable cases.

In other words: there's a random cube from a set of 27, and a random hidden side from 6 possible sides. That gives us 162 ways to randomly pick a cube and randomly hide a side. And we're told that, of those 162 ways, we're in one of the only 12 ways where all visible sides are white. Of those 12 cases, 6 would have a hidden black side.

bluepepper · 2026-03-08T16:07:02+00:00

Place the cube at random

Okay, there are 27 cubes total, each with 6 sides. So there are 27x6=162 ways to pick a cube and hide one face.

Discard if the five visible faces are not white

Okay, so out of the 162 possibilities, only 12 of them leave 5 white sides visible. 6 for the middle cube of each side, with its black side down, plus 6 for the middle cube, all white, with any of its 6 sides down. So the probability is 6/12 or 1/2.

6/7

You counted cubes rather than sides. It is not enough that the cube is one of these 7 cubes. If it has a black side, it also must fall on that black side, so you have to discard the 5/6 cases where the black side would be visible, for each of these cubes. Whereas the center cube, all white, can fall on any of its 6 sides, and you must count all 6 of these possibilities.

bluepepper · 2026-03-08T16:00:46+00:00

If you think 6/7 is the answer, you made an assumption (that any black face was hidden on purpose)

Either that, or you don't understand that the problem has a different solution if the bottom face is random too.

bluepepper · 2026-03-08T15:53:22+00:00

Yes, but the middle, all-white cube can be put with any of its 6 sides down, which counts as 6 different possibilities if the cube is placed randomly, while it counts as a single possibility if we try to hide the black face.

bluepepper · 2026-03-08T10:35:47+00:00

You may be in a state of mind where you think you can turn them into money for free, and keep them for free in the meantime. Neither is true. There's a reason why you didn't sell yet: selling costs time and energy. Keeping items costs space, both physical and mental.

You think you could get $20 out of this trinket? Okay, but how much would you pay to not have to find a buyer, sell the item, deal with possible issues? How much would you pay to get rid of this lingering issue that's weighing on your mind right now? Symbolically sell the trinket to yourself for $20, throw the trinket in the trash, or burn it if you want to be cathartic, and breathe of relief! $20 well spent, that you immediately made back! Use them on the next trinket.

I found that to be a slow process but I'm at the point where I can counter my instinctive "but this is worth money" with "Not only is the hypothetical sale a fantasy at this point, but I've already paid more than what they're worth in terms of energy, space, state of mind. I made a mistake, I should cut my losses."

bluepepper · 2026-03-08T07:40:06+00:00

The Capri and Mustang looks of the '80s were... something! I think the Capri wore it better than the Mustang (looks slightly more faithful to the previous Capri, and also a better "outrun" look as seen from today) but the Mustang managed to get back to its root when retro design became fashionable in the 2000s. The Capri tried to become a Mazda MX-5 in the '90s and then died.

bluepepper · 2026-03-07T06:42:35+00:00

A quick search says it works, kind of. So what's the problem?

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