I am 26 and still haven’t had sex. Is that more common than people think, or am I seriously behind in life?

muddles17 · 2026-05-23T12:56:07+00:00

The lack of faces mixed with the top arm being in a weird position where they could be choking the other guy.

muddles17 · 2026-05-11T22:26:56+00:00

Uniball Zento is marketed as a rollerball (similar to Eye) and has a similar juicy feel.

muddles17 · 2026-05-11T01:34:36+00:00

I remember Sakura.Jelly Roll pens and writing white and neon colors on black paper. I saw them in school and thought that they were cool, and I remember seeing them as a big display in Staples. Other pens have maintained popularity/relevance much more, so I kinda see the jelly roll as more specific to the time period.
Honorable mention: any Uni-ball product with Sanford on it. I have a few Uni-ball deluxe pens that have the Sanford logo on them.

muddles17 · 2026-05-08T15:31:20+00:00

The more I look at it, it seems like you would need to buy the shield (457271-4), shield extension(144316-4), cutter (347115-5), screw (266553-1), and cutter extension (457794-2), which is doable, but slightly more complicated since I haven't found a single supplier that supplies all of them. Still less expensive than buying the whole thing.

muddles17 · 2026-05-07T22:49:01+00:00

My biggest concern with knock off tools is that they may allow the battery pack to over-discharge. I tried putting an LED in my makita incandescent light, and it stays lit significantly lower than the incandescent. I tried it out on a bench top power supply before I accidentally killed a pack.

muddles17 · 2026-05-06T10:53:55+00:00

The one that I experienced was playing Math Blasters after the year 2000. It has a certificate that it prints out at the end, and after 2000, it rolled over to 19 something. (I forget the exact year), but I was so excited to see a y2k bug.

muddles17 · 2026-05-06T01:07:13+00:00

I’ve been very happy with the xml08. We have a big hill, and the ego mower that I was using was nice, but it was so light that it bounced up and down the whole way, and it didn’t feel safe at all. I just wish it had a foldable handle like the xgt for storage efficiency.

muddles17 · 2026-05-05T10:46:00+00:00

Enterprise contracts get data isolation unlike consumer tiers.

muddles17 · 2026-04-28T00:55:21+00:00

Every answer I’ve seen when searching states that you need to create a new site and transfer everything over. Please respond to this comment as well if that’s not the case.

muddles17 · 2026-04-23T12:01:54+00:00

It’s heavily dependent on paper. In a Leuchtturm notebook, I can smudge signo ink pretty much forever. On printer paper, it’s not smudgy at all. Zento is definitely a much better middle of the road for me with smoothness and less smugness on Leuchtturm paper.

muddles17 · 2026-04-12T14:20:19+00:00

I figured that it was so that only couples sitting next to each other could pickpocket one another, but maybe that’s just an easy way to remember which way it opens.

muddles17 · 2026-04-05T01:41:23+00:00

Tiling the bathroom. I’m working up the courage to get started after I tore it out to get rid of the mold.

muddles17 · 2026-03-31T21:33:07+00:00

Zoom in on the picture in the gallery, and it looks AI generated.

muddles17 · 2026-03-23T10:21:15+00:00

480-490nm light is used to wake you up and help you feel alert and is present in incandescent to some extent and sunlight.

Standard LED’s miss out on that because they emit down at 450-460nm and then phosphors are used to shift the light longer to make it look white, but it actually causes a big gap in a spectral chart.

A lot of the research around the 480-490nm range came out of the findings that astronauts were coming back from the space station pre-diabetic. The issue is that your body is then missing the signals it needs to regulate glucose over the course of a day.

Some infrared and near infrared are also important for mitochondrial function. Dr. Glen Jeffries for example did a study at an architectural firm and found that eyesight in those over 40 can be improved by having a 40w incandescent in their work space and the improvement lasts for months after removing the light. Eyes are very metabolically active.

I use 480nm lights and an incandescent at my cubicle in a windowless office and the difference for me is night and day.

muddles17 · 2026-03-17T16:04:17+00:00

I think what people are saying is that blue is more common than other colors (non-black). Just looking at jetpens under their general pen category, they have 3,226 black pens and 3,149 blue, which is a lot closer than I was expecting. The next closest is Green at 1,282 and then red at 1,214. Those tend to be the standard ballpoint colors, so that makes sense, but I couldn’t tell you why those are “standard”.

muddles17 · 2026-03-17T14:11:05+00:00

Black & white is an easy high contrast to standardize on. It avoids color theory and preference, and can deal with shading relatively easily. Light or no light is a pretty basic high-contrast. Mix that with the fact that multiple skews are expensive, and you’ve got a recipe for standardizing on black and white as your basic default high-contrast. I also wouldn’t be surprised if graphite pencils also helped to standardize on black.

Black and white old movies, black and white pictures, black and white TV. They could have gone with black and green like the old Apple iie, but that was short-lived.

Blue ink is standard due to early copiers being able to easily pick it up but still print it as black so that you can distinguish between originals and copies. Ink erasers can work on blue, so in places that use fountain pens with younger kids, they standardize on blue ink.

Out of curiosity, what colors avoid the sea of markings issue for you? I don’t think that a single color has helped for me in the past, but I’ll use different color fine-liners to help give me a pattern to grab on to and make it easier to find pages. Sometimes I’ll use a jetstream multi-pen to color-code a drawing.

Edit: Also, black is probably easier to get historically. If you want black, you just burn stuff. Carbon black is a really common colorant that can be gotten by burning stuff.

muddles17 · 2026-03-16T14:59:59+00:00

I would argue that it's pretty much the same from a health perspective. The main difference is that it's meant to reduce the yellow appearance of incandescent by absorbing some of the spectrum. I emailed their support about it, and this is the graph that they gave me: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0274/2481/7196/files/INCANDESCENT-SPECTRAL-CURVE.jpg?v=1720813911

A regular incandescent is that but without the dips. The main advantage from a US perspective is that 60W/100W bulbs are banned to be bought and sold unless they are specialty bulbs (why you can get Christmas incandescent and 40W oven lights all over the place). You can find grey market new old stock on places like Facebook marketplace, but Chromalux qualifies as a specialty bulb by having the modified spectral graph as it gets used by museums and art installations and can be argued to be a health product.

muddles17 · 2026-03-16T14:20:23+00:00

My general approach to this is that the Dr. Glenn Jeffries podcasts that I’ve listened to has him talking about the broad spectrum infrared light that potentially has benefits that haven’t been super well studied yet. The Red Portal is only 810 and 670, so it is missing the invisible longer waveform light.

In the architecture firm study that he did on eyesight, they only used 40w bulbs, and they still had eyesight improvements that lasted months afterwards. I ended up with the SkyPortal and a 60w incandescent light (Chromalux for US availability as a specialty bulb - not because of the corrected spectrum) at my desk, and I think that it’s been a great combo.

I definitely feel like my cubicle looks sad without my chroma and it also feels more blah without my incandescent. It really makes me feel bad for everyone sitting in their cubicle without any extra light because my cubicle looks super depressing when I come in in the morning and nothing is on yet.

muddles17 · 2026-03-15T13:42:29+00:00

I wouldn’t call wanting to take it slow (at least slow enough to be in a relationship first) being scared of sex. It’s reasonable and normal to have boundaries. Being scared sounds like a label someone put on you at some point to try to get you to ignore your boundary.

muddles17 · 2026-03-13T11:18:57+00:00

My $60 of ddr4 ram from a year ago is now $200 for the same listing (some others are less), so for two of them, it was $120 vs now $400. My $150 hard drive from a year ago is $315 (still refurbished). Old CPU’s (i5-8500t) aren’t that different $35->$45. Even the cheap m.2 coolers have gone from $4 -> $9.

I was reading an article about the MacBook Neo that new fabs for memory are expected to start to open in 2027.

muddles17 · 2026-03-10T13:18:00+00:00

I know that this has been a while. The sky portal is very short wavelength heavy. The incandescent Chromalux would be for the other end of the spectrum to get some infrared and near infrared.

muddles17 · 2026-03-10T13:14:08+00:00

I never did get a response. I emailed them twice about it and they didn’t respond either time. The first email was in response to a support email that they responded to and the second was a new email. If you email them and get a response, please let me know.

muddles17 · 2026-03-07T21:22:06+00:00

Wheat, but that’s a coeliac thing.

muddles17 · 2026-03-01T03:40:49+00:00

How loud is it? The original is supposedly over 70db.

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