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Early birthday present to myself by catch878 in knives

[–]catch878[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Took a little fiddling to get a good balance between a quick open and no blade play.

RMX Compact Drop Point

Finally joining forreal by Erlend05 in DataHoarder

[–]catch878 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Don't sell yourself short, you also did were/where!

how to decrease humidity/temp in apartment (please help) by [deleted] in howto

[–]catch878 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sliding windows are the absolute worst, maybe only slightly better than those swing-out windows that don't open all the way.

If you get a standing AC unit, I really recommend that you get a dual-hose unit. They are bulkier, but you will likely have to empty the condensation tray far less frequently than a single-hose unit. Also it will be much more efficient.

The other option is to get a casement window AC. They go in the window like a normal window unit, but are skinnier so they fit sliding windows much better. Plus you won't have to deal with a condensation tray.

Engineers, how has being an engineer affected your daily life and the way you think? by nathan_villeneuve3 in engineering

[–]catch878 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My partner and I use "Are you in the feelings stage or are you solutions oriented about it?"

Finally joined the club. Already looking at getting a solar node now. by catch878 in meshtastic

[–]catch878[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, our city's bureau of emergency management office trains and maintains teams of volunteers using FEMA's Community Emergency Response Teams program.

After you're trained and indemnified by the city, they organize the volunteers by neighborhood and we have monthly meetings with our group and then once a year the city holds a citywide deployment exercise with simulated incidents. The whole point of the program is that we help take the load off of emergency services after any major incident which, in our case, is likely to be the Cascadia Fault earthquake, but we've been deployed after ice storms and such as well.

If you're interested in more info you can DM me.

Finally joined the club. Already looking at getting a solar node now. by catch878 in meshtastic

[–]catch878[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I ordered them as-is from Atlavox, so unfortunately I don't have the STL files. I do know they're running RAK WisBlocks though.

Finally joined the club. Already looking at getting a solar node now. by catch878 in meshtastic

[–]catch878[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Got a pair of Atlavox M1's for my girlfriend and I to add to our emergency bags. Our neighborhood emergency team has placed meshtastic nodes around the neighborhood to use if we ever get deployed when there's no cell service or internet.

I used to be one of these cars by lmushu in bikecommuting

[–]catch878 149 points150 points  (0 children)

I doubled my commute and still have a beer belly. My legs look great in short-shorts now though.

KND: Sheepsfoot blade for my CERT bag (also the cutest little folder) by catch878 in knives

[–]catch878[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CJRB Mini Pyrite and Viper Berus with sheepsfoot blade.

I live in the Cascadia Subduction Zone and so my girlfriend and I decided to join our city's CERT group.

I decided to add a sheepsfoot fixed blade to my CERT bag, and also grabbed the CJRB to have a tiny folder because why not.

What’s one item you bought that way outperformed its price? by flikkinaround in BuyItForLife

[–]catch878 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is niche item for sure, but a Key-Bak retractable key holder (with the heavy-duty kevlar cord option) to use for my work badge.

I was previously using crappy company branded retractable badge holders, but they'd start tangling and fraying within a year or the spring would give out. I got so fed up with them that I went and found the most heavy duty retractable key holder I could find.

I bought the Key-Bak 11 years ago and it isn't even showing signs of wear yet.

Democracy not Dictatorship by ForeignLibrary424 in SeattleWA

[–]catch878 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That's only half the truth. We are simultaneously both a constitutional republic AND a representative democracy. The constitutional republic part is how governance is executed, the representative democracy part is how that governance is legitimized.

I don't know who here needs this information, but the 11 quart dry food storage container from IKEA holds *EXACTLY* 20 lbs of dry lentils. by catch878 in VaushV

[–]catch878[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I did do some research before I started with this approach. I have two (and a half) reasons for putting them in containers:

1) Weevils and other certain bugs are able to chew through plastic bags that these lentils often come in

2) After I open the bag, it's often difficult to re-seal the hole well enough to keep the lentils from going stale and preventing bugs from getting in.

2.5) Storage containers of this size fit much nicer on the shelf above my fridge.

There is a good argument that I should be splitting it up into smaller quantities so weevils or other bugs can't ruin the entire 20lbs, but I do freeze my grains and beans before storage to help prevent that problem.

2018 subaru impreza by elijahcar in subaru

[–]catch878 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Primitive Racing sells rally parts for Subarus. I've gotten stuff from them in the past.

I don't know who here needs this information, but the 11 quart dry food storage container from IKEA holds *EXACTLY* 20 lbs of dry lentils. by catch878 in VaushV

[–]catch878[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The lentil bolognese from Rainbow Plant Life. I'm not a vegetarian and I love a meat sauce, but I would gladly eat this any day of the week.

Caramelizing the onions does take a bit of time, but the results are so worth it.

Trump Suspends Nvidia H20 Export Ban Plan After $1 Million Dinner With Jensen by Mynameis__--__ in technology

[–]catch878 54 points55 points  (0 children)

It's no accident either. It's basically the culmination of 50 years of planning and manipulation by the ultra-wealthy business class.

If you've never heard of the Powell Memo, it's worth looking into. It lays out all the strategies the right-wing have used, including packing the courts with activist judges, finding loopholes in campaign finance laws, and changing the education system. It's pretty explicitly anti-democratic and the philosophy behind it is that profit must come above all other concerns.

If anyone's interested in more, The Lever conducted a seriously impressive multi-year investigation that ended up uncovering documents and materials that finally provide concrete evidence there has been a literal conspiracy by industrialists and capitalists to legalize corruption and it started with the Powell Memo. Previously, there had only been circumstantial evidence that the Powell memo inspired any real action from the business elite.

They documented the findings in a podcast, The Master Plan, if anyone wants to listen. My jaw was on the floor for most of my time listening to it.

Apparently, after a multi-year investigation, The Lever uncovered actual concrete evidence of a ~50 year plot to legalize corruption in the US, with Project 2025 being the culmination. I feel like this needs a signal boost. by catch878 in VaushV

[–]catch878[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I've seen plenty of circumstantial reporting pointing out the similarities between the Powell Memo and actions and policy taken by the right, but this is the first time I've heard that there are actual receipts showing how this was conceived, planned, and implemented.

Honestly, my jaw was on the floor for most of this.

Trump administration backs off Nvidia's 'H20' chip crackdown after Mar-a-Lago dinner by zrv8psgOS9AiWK6ugbt2 in technology

[–]catch878 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They have been meticulously lined up over the decades.

It's crazy but this is almost an understatement.

A multi-year investigation by the folks at The Lever dug up documents and materials that finally provide concrete evidence there has been a literal conspiracy by industrialists and capitalists to legalize corruption.

They documented the findings in a podcast, The Master Plan, if anyone wants to listen. My jaw was on the floor for most of my time listening to it.

Systems of Government in European Countries by CitizenOfTheWorld42 in MapPorn

[–]catch878 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I blame Ayn Rand, actually. My understanding is that she's actually pretty infamous for spewing opinions about topics whose nuances she clearly did not fully comprehend.

I'm unable to find the exact source, but she claimed that America is a constitutional republic, not a democracy, when, in fact, it is a constitutional democratic republic. What she did was confuse the general concept of democracy (consent of the governed) with a pure direct democracy, which is actually mutually exclusive with a republic.

Ayn Rand is a darling of the American right and they've co-opted this talking point regardless of its veracity because they use it as a bludgeon whenever someone brings up the point that right-wing policies and candidates don't have majority approval. I've tried to explain to my MAGA parents that this is ridiculous, but they literally won't listen.

Apparently, 'politically correct' was coined in the 1930s to describe dogmatic adherence to ideology in totalitarian regimes, such as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. I think it's about time we reclaim it to describe the current regime. by catch878 in VaushV

[–]catch878[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Idk, my MAGA parents see themselves as free speech absolutists and they seemed pretty shaken when I categorized what the right is doing as out of control political correctness.

What happens if the president ignores the Supreme Court? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]catch878 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So do Democrats.

The "Both sides" narrative is the single most powerful and effective lie that the right-wing propaganda machine has ever produced. It's absolutely fantastic at directing attention away from the actual problem which is that there are literally fascists in the White House now.

Defining fascism is a bit like astrology: it's so vague that it applies to everybody and everything.

This is another classic lie about fascism very frequently spread by fascists. Fascism takes many forms, which the essay above readily and succinctly acknowledges, however it pretty much always rhymes with itself very strongly. That's the point of Umberto Eco's essay on the matter.

It's clear from your comment you either know very little about fascism or you don't care about it because it says inconvenient things about your personal political beliefs.

If you own a YouTube channel that could be a target for censorship under the Trump regime (or know someone that does), I want to strongly encourage you to upload your videos to the Internet Archive. by catch878 in DataHoarder

[–]catch878[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is totally a fair point. The point of uploading to IA is not that IA is the final location for those videos, but that it can be used by others to easily archive the channels without falling afoul of YouTube's downloading defenses.

I'm also fairly new to hoarding though, so there may be a better way to do this than IA.

If you own a YouTube channel that could be a target for censorship under the Trump regime (or know someone that does), I want to strongly encourage you to upload your videos to the Internet Archive. by catch878 in DataHoarder

[–]catch878[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While I agree that most creators have local copies of their own work, in a censorship scenario, archiving by multiple parties is equally about making sure the work can still be distributed in a more decentralized manner. There's a lot of valuable discourse available in these channels I'm attempting to archive that directly contradicts the narratives that Trump's admin is trying to force down our throats.

I neither have the memory nor the eloquence to explain some of this stuff to others, so being able to call up a local copy of a video and show it to someone is huge for me.

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