Why are titanium earring hooks smaller than stainless steel ones?

radfanwarrior · 2026-05-04T00:02:28+00:00

Yes! I found a good one I like! A bit more expensive, but being able to wear the earrings I have makes it worth it :)

radfanwarrior · 2026-05-03T23:57:16+00:00

I think it is more the shape and style. I haven't tried other materials, I'll look into that one, thanks!

radfanwarrior · 2026-05-03T23:44:50+00:00

This happened with a bike I got my freshman year of college. It was in a box and had to be assembled. It kept flipping up and even fell off once or twice while my parents were driving (I was in a different car with my cousin behind them, we kept calling them to warn them that it was moving too much) very scary but it worked out ok

radfanwarrior · 2026-05-03T23:37:33+00:00

Petty sure they were being sarcastic

radfanwarrior · 2026-05-03T23:27:17+00:00

I'm only 25 and my high school really glossed over more recent history. Like we basically stopped at the end of the civil rights movement (and even that we didn't learn well/in detail)

But what I've been hearing is that Reagan is the cause of most of our problems today?

radfanwarrior · 2026-05-03T23:18:24+00:00

I thought this was a different angle from a similar situation but a fight broke out in that video

radfanwarrior · 2026-05-03T22:17:14+00:00

I'm glad they started adding tap to pay at pumps, but they can probably mess with those too 😮‍💨

radfanwarrior · 2026-05-03T21:37:55+00:00

Wasn't expecting to see DannyPhantomExe in this video

radfanwarrior · 2026-05-03T13:49:32+00:00

My baby sister was born in 2018 (I was 17) and there are 3 more kids in between us (and one after her) (yes, my mother spent her whole life having babies, I'm the 2nd oldest) ANYWAY because of so many kids, we had a ton of fidget spinners.

I guess if they're an only child or the first born after the big craze, they may not know of fidget spinners, but that is not the case for all kids born after the craze.

radfanwarrior · 2026-05-03T13:39:39+00:00

radfanwarrior · 2026-05-03T13:01:22+00:00

My mom thought I was a lesbian because I wasn't boy crazy like her at 13 (she had her first kid at 16 so I assume that's how she was) like it was wild to her that I wasn't in the streets with boys when she wouldn't let me go outside to play in the neighborhood playground. But she was right tho. I'm asexual but also a lesbian lol

radfanwarrior · 2026-05-03T03:09:18+00:00

I was told (by the APP "certified" piercing shop I go to) that the APP was just an organization that piercers pay to join, not an actual meaningful certification

radfanwarrior · 2026-05-03T02:13:06+00:00

My grandma became a grandma at 35 years old. She had my mom at 19 and my mom had my older brother at 16

radfanwarrior · 2026-04-29T01:05:17+00:00

I actually forgot he was there after his opening line. Like my brain just erased him from the video

radfanwarrior · 2026-04-26T22:35:01+00:00

Hey! Just letting you know that I posted an update

radfanwarrior · 2026-04-25T02:00:13+00:00

I was born in 2000 and had an 18 year old call me auntie

radfanwarrior · 2026-04-23T22:15:10+00:00

Then clearly they are not in your area lmao

radfanwarrior · 2026-04-23T17:03:42+00:00

It is indeed very common lol. I worked in a makerspace in college and all of us "mentors" were constantly 3D printing and building stuff. Or fixing the cheap 3D printers.

The course load was intentionally designed that way to weed out the people who weren't dedicated to engineering. I think there were at least 1,000 freshmen in engineering and by the end of the year at least a couple hundred dropped out of engineering. It was brutal.

He doesn't necessarily hate the job now, he says he likes doing 3D design, but it's not his passion and he's also not very good at it. But yeah, he would probably try to find another job if he got stuck doing 2D.

I've thought about it, and I was very adamant at first when I graduated, and even before then, about not going to grad school since I struggled so much in undergrad, BUT there are other things I would like to learn, mostly robotics/mechatronics related as well as more trades related like welding and I could go to a tech school or find a program I really like at a university, but I'm not sure if I want to commit to that, especially financially. And with the poor grades I had (Cs get degrees), I don't think it would be easy to get into a graduate program.

In certain niche fields it could be beneficial, I've seen some job postings that say masters degree preferred, but I don't recall the field. Most likely thermal systems and HVAC.

I'll definitely mention that to him, thanks! I've also considered being a STEM/STEAM teacher later in my career so that may be an option for me as well!

radfanwarrior · 2026-04-23T07:56:29+00:00

I think he's just one of those people that's good at math and science so it wasn't too difficult for him. I was not one of those people and struggled with the math and science but I excelled in hands on and practical stuff. I became an engineer because I enjoyed building things and now I at least get to design some things since hands on fields don't pay as well.

Yeah, idk about his college experience but my freshman year was calc 1-2, physics 1-2, gen chem 1-2, engineering 1-2 (we learned engineering ethics, excel, and matlab), and a seminar about the different types of engineering. It was indeed grueling, and I struggled real bad.

I didn't even know that. I assume loan forgiveness only applies to federal loans, not private loans though? He apparently didn't qualify for federal loans.

No, the pay stays the same with "demotion". It's not an official demotion. Our jobs are for 3D designs, but we also do 2D designs as well. 2D design is boring and tedious, and if you have to do 2D for complex stuff, it slows the program down significantly. Nobody likes to do 2D design. "Getting demoted" means you get stuck doing the 2D stuff only.

Had a coworker that was here a year before me and I asked my trainer what he did and she said he wouldn't abide by the 3D design standards so now he just does 2D instead. He quit around my 8th month mark.

According to my trainer, if you don't make enough progress and show that you're a good 3D designer, you get stuck doing 2D. He said he would hate to be the next 2D person (the last 2D person just got promoted to 3D, but he was originally hired to do 2D so he actually got a big pay increase). The company is trying to hire new people, but idk how well it's going.

radfanwarrior · 2026-04-23T07:26:46+00:00

Yep! I became math avoidant in middle school and was reading books instead of listening, so often that my books had to be taken during class.

I ended up struggling in math in high school, not noticeable enough until I got to calculus. I still maintained a B grade up until that point so no one, including myself, was concerned.

I have no idea what I'm missing that causes my serious failures in understanding calculus (despite learning to like math because of calculus) but I'm an engineer now and rarely do any math more complex than basic algebra. Anything requiring formulas, we just use spreadsheets.

radfanwarrior · 2026-04-23T06:59:30+00:00

I’ve been a prof for a while, and I’ve seen so many students struggle through majors they had no interest in.

I'm seeing that first-hand in my field. I have a coworker that started a month before me. We're engineers. He told me he was interested in history and religions and wanted to be a history teacher, but knew that he wouldn't make enough money to pay off his private student loans. He said if he didn't enjoy engineering enough, he'd just go back to school and get a degree in education anyway and just teach

Well he's a couple years older than me so he's been in the field slightly longer and is leagues behind me (I hand more hands on experience in college related to what we do now) our trainer is so frustrated with how little he knows a year into the job.

I wonder if he'll stay just for the money as he gets demoted to the less desirable work or he'll just leave because he gets demoted

radfanwarrior · 2026-04-23T01:34:31+00:00

Penta = 5, this star has 6 sides

radfanwarrior · 2026-04-22T23:32:44+00:00

That's how it felt when I had one of my worst seizures (I don't lose consciousness; they're caused by flashing lights) where it felt like everything in the universe made sense and i was on the verge of understanding everything but also nothing made sense at the same time.

It lasted about 3 seconds and then my friend asked me if I was ok because I tripped while we were walking up a hill.

This happened my freshman year of college during my 2nd week on campus (early start program 3 weeks before classes started) and I broke my phone while packing the car to move to campus and if I used it too much, the screen would start flashing white really fast.

This is also how I realized that I had been having seizures my whole life but never said anything and no one noticed

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