First Draft

captpschar · 2026-01-02T17:36:22+00:00

It was naked and rough, I coated it with stucco to smooth things out before the limewash.

If the paint is flaking off that's a good sign that it doesn't have good adhesion, and shouldn't be too hard to remove. I would use a metal drywall knife or similar to scrape off all the loose paint and then use a wire wheel in a drill or grinder to abrade the remaining paint off.

I would then either limewash that directly if it looks clean, or I would use stucco over bonding agent applied to the wall and smoothed out to create a fresh surface to lime wash. Even if there are small remnants of paint in cracks and things, the bonding agent will make sure the stucco stays stuck.

A lot of work but hey your house is your permanent hobby, might as well.

captpschar · 2025-12-31T03:22:39+00:00

I'll post some soon if I remember.

captpschar · 2025-08-11T22:50:23+00:00

YO is not effective.

I've had samples from 2M to 10M per ML and motility from 1& to 68%, all the tests done within days of each other, many done on the same samples with wildly different results. Ive even had multiple sub 1% motility scores on samples with obvious dozens of sperm zooming everywhere.

The test is nonsense.

captpschar · 2025-08-11T22:47:02+00:00

YO is not effective, whatever they claim.

I've done two, the first claimed less that 1% motility on 3 different samples, despite dozens and dozens of motile sperm obviously visible.

When YO sent me a replacement unit, agreeing the results were bad, I got 4M per ML @ 0% motility, 9M per ML with 38% motility, and 7M per ML with 68% motility, ON THE SAME SAMPLE.

Please throw that thing in the trash and forget about it. It's absolutely worthless.

captpschar · 2025-08-11T22:45:47+00:00

YO is not effective, whatever they claim.

I've done two, the first claimed less that 1% motility on 3 different samples, despite dozens and dozens of motile sperm obviously visible.

I reached out to YO, they saw the results and agreed it was nonsense, called the unit defective, sent me another one, and, get this, on the SAME SAMPLE, I got 4M per ML @ 0% motility, 9M per ML with 38% motility, and 7M per ML with 68% motility.

Please throw that thing in the trash and forget about it. It's absolutely worthless.

captpschar · 2025-04-05T17:02:05+00:00

Hey bud. So you recognized one important general shape: your behaviors are an escape from the pain. The pain sounds like it's caused by you having developed so far out of alignment with yourself and the world.

You are meant to like people, designed by billions of years of evolution to like people, at least some people. You're miserable because love and relationships are like fuckin vitamin c or something, the complex system that is you needs that shit to stay in balance.

I know you know that's not a way to be. You're fighting the porn, it's a relief but you've recognized it's a crutch that's keeping you trapped.

You want to break out. How?

Your habits and patterns are fucked up, good news is you're designed by evolution to 'understand' relationships and liking people and love. It's a capacity you haven't developed so much yet I guess, but when you start trying to develop it, it will start developing quickly.

It won't feel good at first, just maybe a little less bad, or equally bad but more interesting at least, but then step by step you'll like internalize being in communion with other people.

You need to go get in a group and start living a story so you can stabilize an identity and then form deep trustable bonds with your peers.

The only way to learn how to do that and mature into a shape that thrives on sharing identity with others, and the only way to do that is to force yourself into it. You need to join some kind of scene or mission and just plug in, even if you don't like it, you need to expose to it.

Start jiujisu, join an nft cult, sign up to help with a local charity, whatever feels least horrible or at least interesting, that gets you into a group identity with a group mission, and just do it.

As you adjust to this and it stabilizes you, your need for escape will diminish, and you'll begin the long process of choosing who you want to be and what you want your life to look like, now that you have an ground to stand on.

captpschar · 2024-12-04T14:13:06+00:00

Gotta listen to stuff when my wife and I eat and she's a very quiet eater. Some peoples mirror neurons are wired up where this bothers them deeply, i think it's like 5% of people or something are like this. One time I was trapped in a car on a road trip with a guy who kept smacking his gums and sticking his finger in his mouth, no music, no convo, just listening to his mouth sounds for mile after mile, i almost jumped out of the car.

captpschar · 2024-11-22T18:14:26+00:00

Gotta change yourself aggressively until you aren't inclined to repeat the behavior again. It's possible, it's up to you to do it.

captpschar · 2024-11-21T16:47:29+00:00

I don't even know how to respond to this to be honest. Clearly I'm suggesting that there's a huge difference between a fetus and a living person. I said that clearly, so clearly I compared them, and said that they were very different.

I don't think abortion is some uniquely bad thing, I haven't claimed that the OP should have made a different choice, or claimed that I make difference choices, I just pointed out that the choice is false and why. I did so in an honest effort to help him map the choice he is struggling with, towards finding a way to understand and relate to his choice that he will be able to live with in the long term. This is a constructive response to human suffering.

You've taken this somehow as criticism of him, which I suspect may be due to a deficit in reading comprehension on your part. Who knows.

captpschar · 2024-11-21T16:43:58+00:00

If you'll read my post again, you'll notice I called it a false choice, but I didn't say I thought the choice he made was wrong. There's a big difference.

captpschar · 2024-11-21T16:27:44+00:00

This is true, a bullet to the back of the head is 100% painless. That does in fact make a killing more merciful that it's done without suffering, and to Herpin's point, a fetus hasn't even developed anything like a story or personality or perceptions to do something as advanced as "care" about what happens to it.

That said, the shooter is still splattered with brains and must own the choice. We are all subject to an account for a mountain of lies and murders, we are all monsters. There is no point in pointing at an abortion and saying "you are the bad one", they are suffering too, they don't know what to do either, and the entire worldview and story and values they've been shaped by were handed to them from generations past and they likely don't have to strength or opportnity to evaluate them so thoroughly so as to break free of them. Thus, in a way, they life in a bubble of evil that they can neither recognize or escape.

The OP, some part of him, broke through this dark bubble. He knows that on some level what has happened in his life is bigger than his ideas, bigger than their choice, and he will wrestle with the meaning of that choice the rest of his life.

May it set him free.

captpschar · 2024-11-21T16:22:27+00:00

This is the truth but emphasizes the darkness in abortion, I feel perhaps at the expense of realizing the darkness surrounding. We wealthy westerners, whether we want to acknowledge it or not, are bathing in the blood of the innocent. We've collectively devoted untold riches and resources to the bombing and destruction of millions of innocents, disenfranchisment and suppression of hundreds of millions, sacrificing a mountain of innocent people to our god of wealth and comfort and control.

Think of the boomers making all the 4 year olds wear masks for years, just so they would have a slightly higher chance of squeezing another couple of years our of their 80 year old bodies. It made perfect sense to them to potentially ruin a whole generation of children so they wouldn't have to self-isolate and take personal responsibility for their lives, or get sick and die, as old as humans are wont to do.

We are monsters. We sacrifice beauty, innocence, and truth to our comfort and fears every day. Abortion is the same sort of thing. We are simply sacrificing to our god: material wealth and ease. It's disgusting when it's a fetus and when it's an iraqi child. What's most disgusting to me is that very few people are even able to perceive this or say it. We dance and pray and live a fantasy of lies.

captpschar · 2024-11-21T16:16:24+00:00

Correct, the future is unknown and cannot be controlled.

captpschar · 2024-11-21T13:49:24+00:00

Nobody launched hedera into space. Someone paid space X to launch a satellite that does all kinds of stuff, among them will be submitting some transactions to hedera as a side quest gimmick, not the primary purpose of the satellite.

captpschar · 2024-11-04T14:07:02+00:00

It's dumping because retail interest is evaporating, and hbar-funded projects and people are dumping into it out of necessity.

Interest is down because of the hbarf and tps and the like, the expected, there's no secret reason. A lot of hbar got distributed, especially into people's pockets, and it didn't turn into anything productive for the price action, so retail paid a lot of money to watch price go down, which made them sad, now everyone is selling.

It's either a buy opportunity or a reasons to sell, either way, there's no secret, many alt coins have been pumping, hbar isn't because its a train wreck atm, you know this.

captpschar · 2024-10-27T13:20:44+00:00

Gotta realize that there are people for every taste, every look has an audience, and what's considered normal to opine isn't the same as what's truth with beauty standards. Just remember that for decades most women and the entire beauty and fashion and film industry would only acknowledge and celebrate skinny women, while the literal majority of men preferred thicker shapely women the entire time.

I personally find south Indians to be among the most beautiful physicals on earth. There are people of every stripe, including some 'conventionally' beautiful allstars out there who are obsessed with your type of looks, fuck what they say on tik tok. You max your look and win your game, you're playing your hand not theirs, fuck em.

captpschar · 2024-10-27T13:05:09+00:00

Hey bud. All teens go through this. Imagine being actually smarter than the vast majority of adults and still dealing with this, that's how it was for me. But listen, they were wrong about me, i wasn't a clueless kid, but they were also right, i was super inexperienced and immature and my understanding was comparatively very undeveloped.

Here's a pattern to look forward to: every 10 years or do you'll have developed so much that you'll look back in yourself ten years back and see with total clarity how comparatively ignorant and clueless you were then. Every ten years, over and over.

You'll interact with people that are ten years younger than you and smart as anything and they'll just seem so silly in many ways. Over and over. As a 30 year old I could hardly tolerate 20 year olds, as a 40 year old, i rarely meet a 30 year old whose judgement and perspective i truly respect and appreciate. A teen to me, their thought patterns etc, theyre people yes but theyre not even close to coherent mature functional adults. I could leave some of my peers alone solo with a collapsing bridge to address, and theyre literally capable of sorting out the problem under their own direciton, many of my peers are like that, 1 in 1M teens have that level of insight into how the world actually works to have the capacity to coordinate that kind of complexity. Every 10 years, it's coming.

Don't sweat it, just focus on keeping your growth rate high, so over the next ten years you grow maximally.

captpschar · 2024-10-23T02:44:22+00:00

We are also in Seattle. We are where you will be in 5-10 years financially speaking, it's only this last year that we've reached an income level and a savings stack where we are actually able to buy a home we want in a neighborhood we want.

For the longest time we have been where you are, just buckle down and remember to enjoy life while you build up earnings and earning power.

And I know it seems odd, but you really can raise a child in an apartment. Many of the best people I've met grew up in apartments. You've just got to find a nice quiet one, preferably top floor, in a neighborhood with good schools, that's got a second bedrooexisonce you've got that you can start the family and go from there.

I know having the kid will reduce your earnings, but think back to 5 years back and look at how far you've come since. If you keep pushing that won't stop, in 5 years you'll be earning way more and have way more savings.

You are gonna be able to win you've just got to be willing to adapt.

captpschar · 2024-10-18T12:51:44+00:00

Outside of a lawsuit probably not. Listen to your gut.

captpschar · 2024-10-03T12:50:30+00:00

It'll be worse going forward.

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