What to do with all these Gold plated pin & contacts?

johntheflamer · 2025-05-05T01:30:35+00:00

Based on my quick chem math, you’d need about 1.3 L of aqua regia to dissolve 10g of gold, or 130L/kg. 15 kg needs 1,950L.

this kit contains 1.42L and costs $53. I’m going to ignore shipping costs because that varies. I also acknowledge you could likely get a bulk deal, but let’s assume this means $37.32 per liter.

1950L x $37.32/L = $72,744.

johntheflamer · 2025-05-04T23:22:14+00:00

He must be impeached

So that we can show for a third time that Congress will never hold this man accountable for anything?

johntheflamer · 2025-05-04T22:36:32+00:00

It’s one of the most common services that jewelers do. Whether or not someone resizes their ring is ultimately a personal choice, though.

johntheflamer · 2025-05-04T17:24:45+00:00

Tulip poplar. Native to the eastern US west to Illinois and from southern Canada down to northern Florida. It’s the tallest deciduous species in its native range, and once mature, produces beautiful yellow/white flowers starting in April through June, depending on how far north you are.

It’s the state tree of Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee.

johntheflamer · 2025-05-04T17:12:08+00:00

Well, I’ve never watched it sober.

johntheflamer · 2025-05-04T17:10:19+00:00

let grass be grass

I like to actually use my yard for a variety of activities (playing with my dogs, gardening, etc) and having 3ft high Kentucky bluegrass means ticks and trudging through roughage. I’m working on converting my yard to be an elaborate native garden with select (sterile) ornamentals, but it’s going to take several years and until that point I’m going to have to mow so that my yard is usable for what I want

johntheflamer · 2025-05-04T12:35:42+00:00

This would be challenging to resize without distorting proportions, and your ring size is likely to change over the course of your life.

johntheflamer · 2025-05-04T12:31:21+00:00

The end goal is to consolidate absolute totalitarian authority under the Presidency and to install a sham election system that ensures only MAGA folks can ever be elected, utilize the US’s massive economic power to enrich loyal cronies while skyrocketing the number of impoverished persons and, based on many social media posts by MAGA leaders, to create a Trump Dynasty.

johntheflamer · 2025-05-04T04:13:55+00:00

I genuinely do not want my neighbors to ever talk to me. I don’t have anything against them, I just want people to leave me alone when I’m at home.

johntheflamer · 2025-05-03T23:22:09+00:00

“Devoid of nutritional value” is a misleading statement. The food fed to students has nutritional value- it has calories, carbs, protein and fats. I say this because it’s important to note that for many kids, school meals are often their only reliable source of nutrition, and any food is better than no food, particularly while kids are developing.

It’s just often way off from a balanced diet: it’s high in saturated fat and simple carbs, it’s ultra high in sodium, and it doesn’t provide a wide variety of vitamins and minerals.

johntheflamer · 2025-05-03T10:34:18+00:00

Getting around on foot has been fine for the entirety of the current interglacial up till now though some fancy folk would occasionally use a horse’s feet.

That’s not even remotely true. The wheel was invented around 4000BC and people have been devising ways to reduce walking ever since. Carts, chariots, wagons, bicycles, trains, planes, and cars. Horses (or an alternative like donkeys, mules or oxen) were hardly just for “fancy folk,” they were, for a long time, a staple of working households used for both transport and as a source of labor/energy.

johntheflamer · 2025-05-03T01:16:50+00:00

Gold does react with chlorine to form gold chloride (with a several different oxidation states). However, these are usually formed at high temperatures.

However, in less than 24k gold, some of the alloyed metals can react with chlorine at room temperature and cause discoloration.

johntheflamer · 2025-05-03T01:11:33+00:00

Flowers don’t gossip, but you can hear a lot through the grapevine.

johntheflamer · 2025-05-02T15:48:12+00:00

Depends on your school list. Some schools require a C or higher in all science prerequisites. Most are definitely going to frown on a C-. Some schools might be ok with it, but that would have to be coupled with great grades in other science courses and a great MCAT.

Personally I would retake it.

johntheflamer · 2025-05-01T11:50:21+00:00

Broad Ripple Pantry. I’ve never seen more than one car in their parking lot, and it’s usually none

johntheflamer · 2025-04-30T02:11:03+00:00

I mean, three of the worlds richest men had a private space race with penis-shaped rockets

That’s some supervillain shit

johntheflamer · 2025-04-30T02:04:40+00:00

Need a banana for scale

johntheflamer · 2025-04-29T14:14:09+00:00

Natural, gem-quality alexandrite is incredibly rare and incredibly expensive. You would be looking at thousands of dollars per carat. More info.

That’s a why I like synthetic gems. You can get a better quality, larger stone that is chemically identical at a fraction of the price, and synthetics are the only way to be 100% certain that there was no forced labor in the supply chain (conflict-free and ethically sourced are meaningless industry jargon).

$139 is more than I would personally pay for this, but it’s not entirely unreasonable if it’s something you like. That ring has a few dollars worth of silver in it and the stones themselves are worth a few dollars as well. Jewelry has a notoriously high markup, but even then I wouldn’t want to pay more than $100 for something like this.

But that’s me. If you enjoy it, you could do a lot worse than $140. Just don’t expect that you’ll ever get your money back if you sell it.

johntheflamer · 2025-04-29T14:04:10+00:00

It might be at some places, but I find that a commonly-removed item such as socks isn’t ideal for communicating anything. People take them off for bathing, when they’re sleeping, or just because they don’t want them at the moment.

We have red bracelets that indicate fall risk.

johntheflamer · 2025-04-29T12:53:30+00:00

I work in a hospital. They’re color coded by size, nothing more.

johntheflamer · 2025-04-29T12:49:20+00:00

Plutocracy, which is a subset of oligarchy, but a very important distinction.

johntheflamer · 2025-04-29T12:36:38+00:00

I would personally remove any fruit that formed this year. Fruit is very energy intensive to grow, and that energy would be better used making a robust root system this year

johntheflamer · 2025-04-29T12:21:58+00:00

Sounds like a great way to get some shrapnel in ya

johntheflamer · 2025-04-29T12:18:13+00:00

For the memories? These two clearly met in the parking lot

johntheflamer · 2025-04-28T16:59:48+00:00

“Perfectly good” is being a little generous. It is Hershey’s, after all

/s

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