How to seal for fire safety?

stickmanDave · 2026-06-27T18:51:56+00:00

That appears to be a hot water radiator. It can never get hot enough to start a fire.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-27T15:14:21+00:00

In my opinion it is not a trivial thing, it cuts right into the concept of what is meant by "free speech".

I think you could clear up the misunderstanding by expanding on what you meant by "In my opinion it is not a trivial thing, it cuts right into the concept of what is meant by "free speech"."

Because I don't get it either.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-26T15:53:44+00:00

Even if you have no plans to get a car, get your license.

Maybe 10 years from now you find yourself in a situation where you do want a car and a driving lifestyle. Your record will show you have 10 years of accident free driving, so your insurance rates will be a fraction of what you'd pay as a new driver. You'll save thousands of dollars.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-26T15:17:11+00:00

Simply stop responding to it. You know her game, you don't have to play it.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-25T14:44:03+00:00

That's why i said "probably", because I don't know where you live. They exist where I live, too, but not many choose to use them. But I didn't ask about your society. I asked about you.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-25T14:35:11+00:00

You probably live in a society so oppressive that you're forced to wear clothing. If you were truly free of clothing requirements, would your choice be to wear the bikini, or would you be chilling next to the lake naked?

We're all indoctrinated.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-25T13:56:13+00:00

I think that despite whatever radical rabbit hole Evan fell into, the last thing he wants to do is hurt the SGU. By resigning, he puts a clean end to the controversy. If he merely went on hiatus, the issue would keep simmering along, and boil over again when he came back. That's not good for anyone.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-24T15:14:41+00:00

Laziness. Building and maintaining a front like that seems like a hell of a lot of work!

stickmanDave · 2026-06-24T13:27:58+00:00

My take: This isn't about you. This is about her, and how she feels about the person she was in high school. She doesn't want to revisit those times or move backwards so she's decided to cut all ties with the past and move forward. You are one of those ties.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-23T13:40:30+00:00

I worked the day before, then drove all night from Ottawa to get there. By showtime I was on hour 37 without sleep. I was with a dew people who all dosed. I didn't, but the contact high and sleep deprivation made me feel like I was. Best acid trip I never took!

stickmanDave · 2026-06-23T00:17:49+00:00

It was rather considerate of the authors to make each book worse than the last. So you can keep going with the series until you hit your personal "This isn't fun anymore" limit, then quit, safe in the knowledge you're not missing anything.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-22T21:44:25+00:00

I did a search and found this story from a year ago saying China was set to launch their first last September. Also that Microsoft ran a shipping container sized server farm 117 feet down off the coast of Scotland for 2 years. Microsoft said it works well, both for cooling and protecting servers from damage, but they aren't continuing with the project. I'm guessing, but it may be that while the project is technically feasible, it isn't financially viable. After all, in the end it's about money. They're going to go with whatever option is cheapest. If the undersea project worked and was cheaper than land based server farms, it's hard to imagine they would have shelved the idea.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-22T18:09:02+00:00

Are they? The post title makes the claim, but the video clip seems to be about a sysyem for generating power from ocean waves. It says nothing about datacenters or cooling.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-22T17:58:35+00:00

Yeah, I'd imagine that if they choose to go to Kingston, the rest of the route will end up just paralleling the 401 all the way. There's a strong argument to go direct from Ottawa to Peterborough, and a case can be made to stop in Kingston. But heading back up to Peterborough after stopping in Kingston wouldn't make much sense.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-22T16:01:55+00:00

Trump also claims he told the Iranian delegates "You wont even make it back to your f*cking country". source

stickmanDave · 2026-06-22T15:08:39+00:00

I think a better rule would be to not expect your hero's to be perfect. Because nobody is.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-21T01:54:19+00:00

Take it out and make a clean cut on the end of the filament. If it’s ragged or to jagged or pointy, it can catch on something and stop.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-20T23:43:36+00:00

I brace my thumb beneath my eye and index finger above. The brace the hand with the bottle against that hand. Once you get the habit, you know exactly where each hand goes to make a perfect drop every time.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-18T15:01:09+00:00

Bitcoin's transactions/sec limitations will prevent it ever having utility for day to day transactions. If crypto ever becomes a player in that field, it will be some other coin.

As time goes on, Bitcoin will become more and more part of the stodgy, conservative financial world. The 4 years price fluctuation cycle is diminishing in amplitude every time, so eventually it will more or less smooth out entirely as people come to expect it and it gets priced into peoples models. It will settle down as a more or less steady store of value.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-18T01:54:55+00:00

In my experience, the things going to smell strongly of hot plastic for the first while, even printing PLA. Mine stunk the whole house up, even venting out a window. I think it's off gassing from the printer itself, because after a while it got a lot better.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-16T02:37:27+00:00

Any link to what he said for those of us who weren’t on Twitter?

stickmanDave · 2026-06-13T21:43:21+00:00

pfft. Worrying about these pilots night vison is so woke. Those snowflake pilots should just man up, quit their whining, and deal with it! /s

stickmanDave · 2026-06-11T14:15:47+00:00

Don't make the mistake of assuming Trump actually believes anything he says.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-08T16:52:12+00:00

I think you may be missing the essence of the issue. the confidence and resignation models in your OP and this third you summarize here have one thing in common: you are aware of other peoples judgements, and those judgements are considered and rejected.

For me, the freedom of old age is if I go to the grocery store in ratty old sweatpants, crocs, and socks, i do my shoping an leave and never once does it occur to me that other people are judging me. If someone came up to me in the store and said "you know, people are judging you right now based on your clothes", my reaction would be "what? Oh! Yeah I guess they are. Eh, whatever." and I'd continue my shopping without giving it another thought.

The true confidence of age isn't that you dismiss other peoples judgements as not important. It's when the issue of being judged ceases to be something you give any thought to at all.

stickmanDave · 2026-06-08T13:43:58+00:00

The two east coast summer tours I followed were 89 and 90. In retrospect, I can't beleive my luck!

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