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Bless your heart. Go play quietly in your room, the adults are talking.
Have to get some shit done. I'll read through later and respond.
You're so close. So close. Brain in a box...
I'm not convinced you're not doing some sort of elaborate troll as you prove my point so well.
If it is a troll, you're a fucking master of your craft. You work so well against the things you claim to believe.
Now, that's a different angle on viewing these things. Or at least I've never heard it phrased that way. Interesting. Thanks for the insight!
Even for a 12ga pump? Most people don't need a handgun. Scattergun will do most everything you need, from putting food on the table to handling two or four legged varmints.
Clearly this is a couple of straight guys, probably in the military, that are locked into a game of gay chicken.
Tightly, firmly, locked.
Nuke a godless communist gay baby seal for Christ!
I miss that T-shirt, I think my mother and ex-wife conspired and burned it.
You can get concentrated permetherin, mix with water and apply with spray bottle to cotton clothes/socks. It bonds to the fiber and keeps the ticks off. Lasts several washes, longer if you don't dry clothes with heat.
Much cheaper to buy the concentrate instead of the premix.
Spray outside, allow clothes to dry outside. Stuff is pretty much harmless to humans. When still wet or in concentrate, it is absolutely deadly to cats. After it has bonded to your clothes, it won't hurt the cats. Doesn't work if you apply it to your skin, the skin oils or something deactivate it.
Haven't had a tick in years since I started using it.
I appreciate the in-depth response. I was really just having some fun trolling engineers. You've been around the block so you understand the arrogance inherent in pretty much anything technical. It's totally immature but it also makes me grin.
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Grounding an Ethernet surge protector.
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I have added a wifi repeater to the outside of my home so that my wife can watch her critter cams. It is a POE device that runs all the way back to my router.
Would like to install this surge protector but I'm getting conflicting information on grounding it. My installation is to the side of my house, not a metal pole.
Lowest effort options first, I can:
A. Place the protector inside near where the CAT5 enters the basement. Ground to a junction box that I installed that is grounded to the house panel and rod.
B. Ground internally to a water pipe or externally to the outdoor spigot.
C. Drive a ground rod where the cable exits the house and ground to it.
D. Repeat C and also bond to to the pre-existing home ground rod. (Least preferable option, rods would be on opposite corners of house.)
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Cyberule Dystopia
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Just looking up some DIY medical procedures and then the unwanted AI goes off the rails.
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Large ceramic or stoneware piece.
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Found this broken piece in the creek bank. Southwest Pennsylvania. Farmhouse was built in 1922. Coalmining country.
Would have been about 18" in diameter. There is a rough coating in the glaze on the inside and outside of the bowl section. Abrasive enough that I figure it served a mechanical purpose. There are three grooves on the rim that aren't symmetrical to each other.
There might be a makers mark in the center of the glaze inside but I can't make it out. There is also a light blue/green stain on the bottom that might be a mark.
Any ideas?
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Rewinding an electromagnetic clutch.
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The electric PTO clutch on my 1969 mini tractor is dead and discontinued.
Original winding is aluminum 18 gauge. Manufacturer specs were 2.88ohms, 237 turns. The manufacturer specs didn't quite physically match what I found when I took apart the old clutch. If I understand this correctly, the 2.88ohms is the most important part and will pull 4.17 amps.
I just attempted a coil with 18 gauge copper magnet wire. I made it to the max dimensions I can get in the housing with a scramble wind. I'm getting 1.2 ohms, which would pull 10 amps or so. Not good.
Was able to get 187 feet given the resistance.
If I go with 20 gauge copper, assuming I can get 235 feet (1.26 * 187) and I should get 2.319 ohms. Probably get a little more than 235 feet and get the resistance up a little more.
What does this do to the strength of the magnetic field?
Would I be better off putting a power resistor in series with my 18 gauge coil?
Any advice greatly appreciated!
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Another before:
It's green Vermont slate, figured out that it was originally painted black and marbled. Victorian thing, faux marble mantels. Fireplace is also Victorian faux, red brick, would have had logs and a red light. I'll be putting in a gas insert at some point.
Started at 220grit, and worked up to 1000. Finished with a 50/50 mix of boiled linseed oil and mineral spirits:
Didn't realize slate could be this pretty and figured:
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Late response, busy few days.
It's still not loading for me. Getting a white screen with a stuck load bar. Haven't tried it on a computer, just android. Maybe just post it here?
I agree that most people think they're working off reality. I generally think I'm working off reality, but then if you think about how little we actually percieve, we have a very dim view of reality. Extend this to the universe and beyond, and all our knowledge is a tiny rounding error that vanishes into zero.
All that being said, this isn't really anything you can live by. At least I can't. Most metaphysics are so much shit on a prick and untestable. My favorite is the simulation hypothesis, and one day we'll all live happily ever after in the computer. Not that it any way applies to my daily life.
Gravity still works, the sun will rise tomorrow, and vaccines generally reduce your risk of catching diseaes. So, I proceed with my best understanding of reality as I experience it. I try to force myself to face facts and change my mind given evidence.
So, back to the original topic. Here's a theroy: holding power and wealth in modern society may not be strongly correlated with an accurate view of objective reality but is strongly correlated in strongly believing you have an accurate view of objective reality. It also helps if you're a motherfucker that's willing to grind the bones of babies under your boots to get what you want.
As far as human society goes and the mutability of things like gender, money; mostly social constructs related to culture that has just grown by chance.
I do think we can point to some things that are pretty foundational to human culture, might even be impossible to remove: We're omnivorous primates that evolved into small family/tribal groups of 50-100 individuals. We sexually reproduce through pairing by individuals that usually have a heterosexual preference. Those offspring benefit from at least the semi-monogamy of their parents. They benefit from their family/tribe which includes individuals that don't conform to the most common gender/sexual habits.
That being said, we don't have to conform to that. Society can be whatever we make it, maybe. Maybe not, I don't have a crystal ball, there may be limitations on how you can style society barring genetic modification or brain surgery or something.