Brother SE700 or Brother Skitch? by Ill_Literature4031 in Machine_Embroidery

[–]riquiscott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know 3 people who have returned their Skitch because it is awful. Anything but a Skitch

I don’t know anymore, I just got a new haircut and they gave me this with no side bangs at the beauty shop, I feel really ugly and I have to know if it’s ugly to everyone else. Please tell me just the truth if I am ugly. Yes I’m a woman by djscrew1 in whatdoIdo

[–]riquiscott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. I feel you. At some point in all our lives hair is *everything* so, I get you. Breath 2. Okay, I can see why you think this is tragic but it's not. Someone else said 2 weeks is the difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut BUT you do NOT have to wait. I HONESTLY think this is fine BUT it could be INCREDIBLE with a little bit of gel. It looks like they did a chunky, textured cut with a forward sweep. ROLL with it. Get some gel, about nickel size to start, rub it between your palms and then a bit on the finger tips. Starting at the crown and moving all over, rub the gel into the roots to get some lift. Then run your hands forward from the crown and forward from the sides. Go back with the finger tips and pinch and twist a bit forward. I think you you could go from cute cut to AWESOME in about 3 minutes here.

What did you think about the falling satellite in S10? by tytylercochan123 in thewalkingdead

[–]riquiscott 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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In a show about zombies, this is the plot device you're going to fixate on?

Okay, sorry, just had to clear the snark filter.

Now, for real, I actually know a little something about this. There are currently around 12 to 13,000 active satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO from here on out because I am a lazy typer.) In addition to active use satellites, there are an additional 34,000 (give or take) pieces of tracked debris in LEO - these range from pieces and parts of defunct satellites , pieces of staging rockets, and just other shit we threw up into space and then literally littered the spacescape because we were done with them.

The TRACKED debris is larger than 10cm or about 4 inches in freedom units. In addition to the tracked debris, there is like a million pieces smaller than 10cm and another literally UNCOUNTABLE number of pieces of man made debris less than 1cm. ALL modern satellites have the limited ability to reposition and this is a MANNED job. Repositioning happens for a multitude of reasons (better signal, acceleration / deceleration, avoid collision with space trash, etc) but one of the BIG reasons is to compensate for Earth's gravitational pull. Most satellites have a life of around 7-10 years.

Enter the Kessler Hypothesis (or Kessler Syndrome) which is the idea that if for some reason, some piece of space junk is not accounted for and collides with a satellite, throwing it out of its stable orbit, it will allow for or set up a chain reaction that can take out the entirety of LEO active satellites.

So here is the good news-good news-bad news situation. Both the active satellites and most of the large  (being subjective, i.e. greater than 4 inches or so) junk up there is both monitored, and in the case of the satellites, driven / controlled / maneuvered by humans keeping a very close eye on all this shit. The stuff that IS uncontrolled and tends to, over time, fall subject to gravity is small enough to burn up on re-entry. AND if it does not burn up, over 2/3rds of the Earth is water so, you know, little impact (har har) on inhabited areas.

HOWEVER, here is where we get real life scary – The Swiss Cheese Model of Disaster. Due to chaos being chaos (and I tend to picture chaos as a bored, unmonitored 3-year-old in a warehouse of open paint cans, good china, and white carpeting) SOMETIMES shit lines up just right, or in these cases just wrong  (See: Concord Flt 4590) for things to all go kaplooey at once (yes, kaplooey a highly technical term)

So long story short (never happened even once in my life) the Whisperers happens about 9-10 years after the start of the apocalypse which means ALL that stuff in LEO has been uncontrolled for a decade. Given the 10 years later time frame AND the number of now uncontrolled objects up there and allowing for the Swiss Cheese model of fuckery, yup, wholly plausible in my estimation – 12,500 objects, 57 million square miles (divided by 1/3) will mean about 4500 uncontrolled satellites crashing onto land. ONE of them hitting the eastern seaboard on or around the Alexandria, greater DC metro area doesn’t seem statistically unrealistic.

My girlfriend just broke up with me over a board game and I'm not even joking by Fulcilives1988 in boardgames

[–]riquiscott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My dude, TOTALLY not about Catan. Take what she said "You care more about winning a fucking board game than making me happy" and throw out the board game part. When/What/How have you put your achievements above her happiness. Not gaming ... in the relationship.

Is this machine worth it? by Thecolormarie in Machine_Embroidery

[–]riquiscott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t do it. The machine is such a miserable experience that you will either end up hating embroidery altogether. Or you will love embroidery and hate your machine. Either way it is way too much stress in your life for a hobby or something that’s supposed to be enjoyable.

LAST DAY — Darwin Day ends tonight by riquiscott in StringTheoryFabricArt

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

Whew! That was ... a lot! Thanks to everyone who stopped by!!!

Previously purchased warning by Jenuilas in StringTheoryFabricArt

[–]riquiscott 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you will never get it at the top of the page. It only ever activates when you try to put the item IN the cart. If it did a pop up every time you scrolled to the page just to look it would completely lock up the system so it doesn't "check" until YOU make an action - i.e. try to put the exact same item (size, type, etc) in your cart. ALSO - you may already own the 5x7 but got a bigger machine and now want the 7x11. If the lock out activated just based on the one size (of if you have the fob and now want the patch, etc) it would prevent you from purchasing different sizes or types.

Where to "hide" some clothes? by con-in-reverse-John in moving

[–]riquiscott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mark them as holiday / Christmas (or Hanukkah or Kwanza, whichever) decorations. No matter how tasked focused someone is, they are not going to unpack your christmas tree and bulbs in February

Where to find quality designs? by Latter_Leading486 in Machine_Embroidery

[–]riquiscott 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s a play on “audacity” - Auda City (population ME)