Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
3d ago
What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all?
Wanna have some fun times - think about whether it is different in medical and engineering schools nowadays.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
That is stupid test, made by people who think they are smarter than they are.
Ways to improve it - first instead of baby in the basket are drugs. A policy of - we save the baby and if the cost is letting a drug dealer go - well they are too stupid to take the warning and we will catch them anyway.
Second - the officer could just play some loud screeching noise and try to wake up the baby. Hear the baby cry and we are golden. Or he could kick the basket. Or he could just walk next to the person in the basket for as long as needed.
Third - the basket is the murder weapon. If the serial killer was called lumberjack harry killing his victims in central park - because he killed people with felling axe while wearing of those signature shirts, no court would say that patting down every recreational deforester in the area is infringing on their rights.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
The woke problem with Kanye is that he doesn't want to kill jews right now. Sincerely. He wants to troll the woke.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
Men are only faster sprinters because of their skeleton and muscles anyway.
We do have aerodynamic advantages. A friend of mine was training swimming at a high level in the 90s. So we talked about why the swimming career - so many women drop around age of 16 - his answer they get boobs.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
Universal as you can find it anywhere. There are few corners of the world that haven't had or have any antisemitism.
Neither the Western Allies nor the USSR had racism as a major part of their doctrine
And the water is not major part of the fishes' doctrine. Nazis had to invent white hierarchy because almost all non white people were already ruled by other whites. And you had segregation in USA. Also the (former) USSR has always been and always will be refreshingly racist place. Which is one of the best things about Eastern Europe as a whole. And the USSR also discriminated against jews. Up to the point that I think they had separate math exams for universities.
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
hugo boss really gave his best.
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
The youngest people to claim they have experienced anything from WWII are 91-2 . Doesn't help that the biggest victims are universally hated. Also doesn't help that nazism struggle was intrawhite thing, and white people are at record low share of global population.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
Can't you just use them as flash drive? At least you could just upload trough USB until 2018-sh
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
Their classic recipes are quite good. I think it is more than 2/3rds of all of them. And sous vide is a game changer for select proteins.
Lizzardspawn
13d ago
For me it is always display second is support of sideload of books. That are the only really important features. Even for books i own, usually I read pirated versions anyway.
Lizzardspawn
15d ago
Playstation 2 emulators have become brutal. I have been playing the 2005 God Of War - the game is even better. Played on massive resolution, with quick save and load. Splendid.
Lizzardspawn
16d ago
I think that we are in the phase of chatgpt in which calligraphs and stenographs don't see the point of typewriters. I would definitely say that chatgpt has saved me a lot of time and made me more productive.
Lizzardspawn
16d ago
The problem with Venus is the initial cooling of it. Any kind of shade generating device will be blown away from the solar wind.
Lizzardspawn
16d ago
put solar on top of everything outside, bolted, dig big climate controlled caverns inside, massive production facilities to launch what is needed to other planets from the moon instead of the earth.
Lizzardspawn
16d ago
We don't need magnetospheres. Living under the surface is totally fine. The idea is to have massive energy producing and material harvesting operations ready on the surface and underneath it, so we can synthesize the organics humans need. We will never have green Mars - too little sunlight there. So no need bothering.
Lizzardspawn
17d ago
Everyone thinks about Mars wrong. I can be done in record time and on a shoestring budget if we think about terraforming and then move the meatware there. Same with the moon. We are almost at the technological level in which we can build almost self replicating something if we put our minds to it.
Lizzardspawn
18d ago
If I hold out my open palm in front of you, can you make my fingers close and form a fist?
Yes I can. When I taser you there is good chance you will clench your fists.
Lizzardspawn
19d ago
I bet on incompetence.
Assume that the Congress decides to impose universal age of consent in all states. And pull from their ass the authority to do it. What do you think the current culture war coalitions and factions will push for and will it create intracoallition splits.
Hardline Religious conservatives hard - 21 with exception for marriage
Moderate Religous conservatives - 18
Centrists/liberals - they will look at Europe and see that the world didn't ended and probably say that it is 16 with romeo and juliet clause
Feminists - probably a split here - some will push for maximum, other for 16
Andrew tate fans - hard 14
Anime fans - soft 14
LGBTQ+ - a spectrum based on the how activist they are ranging from 16 to 12.
No idea about how will it go based on race and income
Lizzardspawn
21d ago
You can get good results for stropping with news paper. Or just leather on wood. Or even an old belt. There are a lot of good videos in the net. Compounds are nice to have but not mandatory.
Lizzardspawn
21d ago
I use a leather stop loaded with 0.5 micron chinesium diamond. Works ok. Couple of years ago I used leather with green compound worked ok. I have also tried the newspaper/a4 paper stropping people do seem to get amazing results also.
But I am not yet skilled enough to determine the difference between different methods.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WFsNGNomP78 here is a video that shows both the paper and other insane deburring technique.
Lizzardspawn
21d ago
The sharpening sections on the big internet knife forums are usually a good resource about different stones. And it is a rabbit hole.
I personally would stay away from combination stones. One grit per stone only. I would also stay away from mystery stones and no name brands.
The conventional wisdom is that a basic kit consists of rough (120-600) medium (800-2000) and fine stone (3000-8000), and a strop. With the fine stone being optional. Personal observation - grit jumps lower than 2 and higher than 4 are a waste of time in a progression. The good thing of having 3 stones is that you can use them to flatten each other - the theory is quite interesting there. A small 2$ diamond plate to raise slurry is also helpful.
Go on the kitchen or general knife forums - they usually have questionnaires about your exact needs and budgets to fit recommendations.
And to make matters worse - almost any stone line i can think of have at least some shitty performers inside. So just doing a brand recommendation is hard.
I have found that I personally like stones on the hard side that are not muddy, but make creamy slurry.
I am not that good at sharpening to educate others. My edges are - you don't feel resistance when cutting a tomato, being able to cut tomato sideways, doing S trough A4 printer paper and kinda cutting kitchen towel. But here are some tips I have learned in the last few years. After the first tip the order is not mandatory. Also keep in mind that when doing youtube stunts - technique makes as much difference as the edge - which I realized a week ago when I gave a girlfriend of mine to test a knife I sharpened - I was doing an S trough the paper and she was making the knife and paper create sounds like nails on a chalkboard. I also mostly sharpen kitchen knives, for EDC and survival - have no experience.
- Buying sharpening gear and using it are two different hobbies. Unless your gear is total crap you probably don't need, but only want that new 8000 stone.
- Good rough stones are harder to find than good high grit ones.
- When sharpening on wetstones - your back musles should be under tension and push and pull with them - the hands are for stabilization. Something close to doing pushups. I have noticed that separating holding the knife stable and generating pressure and movement to different muscle groups helps doing both better and more consistent.
- Having your setup being comfortable is important.
- Stropping is more important than you think. From what I see in the last few years more and more the communities are paying attention to burr removal and final strop. Thanks to science of sharp. So up your stropping game.
- Cheap 3$ diamond plates with grit 200 from temu make a decent wetstone cleaner and slurry raiser.
- Cheap 2$ diamond paste makes a good stropping compound
- Make sure that what you are sharpening could actually take an edge. Mystery and cheap stainless with poor or totally without heat treatment - it is better to just give the guy a set of kiwi brand knifes.
- You could unknowingly be using the wrong angle. Buy a cheapo angle meter from amazon, temu and just check on every knife you sharpen at what height of the spine relative to board is the desired angle. I was unknowingly sharpening cheap stainless at around 18 inclusive (9 per side) - which is just too low for that specific steel and I was wondering why the edges collapsed, rolled or didn't form at all. Moved to 30 inclusive - yeah bably - different beast. Error could come from the other direction too - to sharpen at 30 per side and wonder why this axe style edge doesn't perform.
- You could unknowingly be using the wrong pressure. Either too little or too much - two days ago I was a bit angry and started just pushing harder on the 1000 - suddenly my bevels were thinner, more consistent in width and with better finish. Also sharper. And I was using way too much on 12000 and probably rounding the edge.
- Thinness after the edge matters a lot - almost any mass produced knife could use a good thinning there.
- Always have vegetables on hands - no matter how much you cut and season paper - it won't taste good. So it is more important a knife to be joyous to use on the cutting board than to do stunts. And you will eat tad healthier.
- No you won't be able to cut prosciutto or mortadella or sashimi or make katsuramuki like the pros. Deal with it.
- Nothing written by a guy on the Internet is beyond scrutiny - do your own experiments to confirm or deny what is being told. Too much is subjective to be taken as granted.
- Cheap Chinese microscopes are a godsend if you are having troubles.
- Practice. Also nothing wrong in buying cheap practicing knives. There are finds in the 10-20-30 dollar range. Getting a Mora, thin it sharpen it - it will be awesome experience. Both their stainless and especially carbon are amazing. Also there are finds in the local Chinese market, and some of the western cheap brands are also good. But this requires a lot of reading.
- Every stone has it's own character. It may not fit yours - if you have the budget gift/trade it to someone else.
- Some stones are just crap. End of story.
- Classical knife shapes have a good reason to be classical.
- Science of sharp, knifegrinders are good resources about the theory of sharpening.
- Never sharpen someone else's knife that has sentimental value.
Lizzardspawn
22d ago
So cheap fun - what you do that is budget friendly? One of mine is to take some cheap knife in the 10-20 euro range that is having at least some heat treatment, thin it, sharpen it to the point where you could make a couple of S in a printer paper and and then gift it to somebody. Usually they are pleased. As a bonus there is usually a stream of knives sent your way for sharpening.
That they are foreigners.
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