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dual_sport_dork , 1 day ago

For anyone wondering, belay carbiners typically lock in some manner but those used on quickdraws for anchors and removable protection (nuts, cams, etc.) typically don't.

A carbiner is strongest when its gate is closed, which is why load rated ones will have not only a gate closed rating (the highest, usually 20-22 kN or even more for steelies), a gate open, and also a lateral load rating. Your belay carbiner, that is the one clipped to your harness and is keeping you affixed to the rope so you don't hit the deck, is typically not redundant. It absolutely, positively, cannot fail. This is typically the biggest, meanest, strongest 'biner you own and will also be a locking one. You do not want brushing up against things, knocking against it, etc. to cause it to come open. You don't want it to be open if it suddenly experiences a shock load, i.e. you fall off the wall, or conversely on your belayer's end if it needs to bear the load of you falling off the wall. And you don't want it coming unclipped and lost when you're halfway up, because that's how you die.

Meanwhile, the 'biners on your anchors and protection theoretically have some redundancy, i.e. you should be clipped to more than one point along your route with more than one anchor and carbiner. But you need to be able to clip and unclip these readily, because you may well be doing so with one hand while you're dangling from your fingernails with the other. Thus they do not lock, and you can clip them to something by just slapping the gate against it.

Your keychain says "not for climbing use" on it. My keychain says Desert Eagle .50 Petzl Angie S, 20 kN gate closed, 9 kN gate open, and 7 kN laterally.

dual_sport_dork , 3 days ago

...While masturbating furiously to incest porn on the internet.

dual_sport_dork , 3 days ago

This is why the Republicans were so against the goverment-payer option for Obamacare. Not "because socialism," but because about 30 percent of the cost of healthcare in the US is actually the result of the middlemen, i.e. the private insurance companies in control of the entire system and their bureaucratic clusterfucks specifically designed to extract as much money as possible from both the patient and provider. A single payer or government option would reduce or eliminate that.

30 percent.

The entire private insurance industry at this point is just a make-work operation to increase the cost and complexity of health care for the sole purpose of benefiting... the private insurance industry.

dual_sport_dork , 3 days ago

And it's an equally amusing parallel that there are, depending on how you count, 17 or 18 commandments in the bible but everyone goes around acting like there are only 10. And then, there are 27 constitutional amendments but people go around acting like there are only 10...

dual_sport_dork , 3 days ago

Me, I'm all about the 3rd.

I better not catch the king trying to quarter troops in my house. Whoop his ass, is what I'll do...

dual_sport_dork , 8 days ago

Fuck it, we're going to six skins.

dual_sport_dork , 8 days ago

Released October 23, 1988... In Japan.

Us gaijin did not get it until 1990.

dual_sport_dork , 8 days ago

I generally do them by locating the center point, constraining the radius, and then the angle. The angle tool is a little janky specifically on arcs, but it does work. Or if the ends of the arc are fixed to something also immovable, you can just do the radius and angle and use the coincident constraint to stick its endpoints to the ends of other lines and leave the center point alone.

Yours was an interesting approach. I probably would have used a bezier for the pointy end of the heart.

dual_sport_dork , 8 days ago

When I print ABS/ASA, I print it on a kapton sheet with hairspray as an adhesion aid. My printer (X-Max 3) does have an enclosed and heated chamber as well. I have not had an issue with getting parts off after the build plate has cooled. However, the addition of the kapton sheet means that the nuclear option is always available: Peel the sheet off along with the part, and put down a new one.

They cost like 50 cents each in bulk. The skinflint in me prickles at this, but that's a lot cheaper than having to replace a borked build plate. I have not had to do this with my current printer, but I did with my old one once.

dual_sport_dork , 8 days ago

I put the build plate in place as normal, but with a layer of kapton tape applied to it. (My printer won't work without the steel build plate installed; my Z home sensor is magnetic.) In my case, I have a smooth backed one that doesn't have the texture on it. You can apply it over the textured side of your build plate, too, but it gives you a resulting bottom surface that's kind of weird and lumpy.

Kapton tape will work in a pinch, but covering your entire build plate with it is a pain in the ass with all the seams between each strip. I get big sheets of the stuff like these ones, and do it all in one shot. You can pretty easily trim them to fit whatever size your printer's built plate is.

Remember to readjust your Z offset after you apply the tape because you'll have to account for its thickness.

dual_sport_dork , 8 days ago

If you have that much warp you either have a temperature gradient problem, i.e. your enclosure is not enclosed, not retaining heat, or is too cold, or in extreme cases you have a part that's just not going to work with FDM printing in ABS or ASA (or probably nylon or polycarb either, at that rate). I think you were on the right track with your initial assessment.

Do you have a build chamber heater? My Qidi has one, and I feel like it's basically cheating. Especially compared to my last printer. It allows me to Just Print with ABS without any of the prior nail-biting or headaches. It feels kind of weird.

dual_sport_dork , 8 days ago

I think the chamber heater will go as high as 90, although for ABS the slicer warns me not to go higher than 60. It is PID controlled so you can set a specific temperature setpoint. And if my thermal camera is to believed it's pretty consistent. The good news is also that it can heat the chamber to 55 or 60 in just about ten minutes.

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

Presumably the manufacturers of these things would have to set up a dealer network in the US of some sort in order to be competitive at all. Otherwise, these will be completely dead in the water with US buyers. Plastic crap from Temu and AliExpress is one thing, but I can tell you nobody will buy something as expensive as a car knowing it's completely unsupported.

Historically, importing Chinese vehicles has been a totally buyer-beware operation. You might get a short replacement parts only warranty from whoever the importer is if you're very lucky. Otherwise, you're on your own. Both finding the parts and doing the labor. I say this as an owner of three (3) Chinese motorcycles which have been fine enough machines for what they are, but never mind a warranty -- no mechanic's shop will touch them even if you're willing to pay. So I do my own work on them.

But cheap motorcycles are way less complex than a full sized electric car.

dual_sport_dork , 9 days ago

Parts, sure. So, after a 3 month shipping wait from China you get a replacement battery or drive unit dropped at the end of your driveway on a pallet. Now what?

I don't think any buyers other than maybe the guy who runs the Aging Wheels channel are going to be willing to take apart their own Chinese EV and do major repairs to it. If no one works on it, or if they open a perfunctory couple of service centers that are all conveniently thousands of miles away from where you live, that's not going to do you much good.

dual_sport_dork , 8 days ago

glue to the base

Por que no just fuse them together in your slicer and print as a monolithic part? You could probably even skip the base and just arrange the four bins together.

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

The same government can't even be trusted to reliably fix a pothole.

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

Wasn't there a Lifetime original movie about that?

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

Sorry, best we can do is pearl-clutching ourselves into banning everything.

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

Yeah, that seems like the obvious response to me. Want to pretend like we're armed? Okay, now we're armed.

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

Correct, and Squatter's Rights are meant to apply to properties abandoned by their owners, i.e. they're meant to prevent absentee landowners from just hoarding buildings wherever and never visiting or maintaining them. Or traditionally, if a property owner has died with no next of kin, or someone believed they inherited a property from a dead relative and this was not contested. Somebody simply hiding in a thoroughly used and very much frequented and maintained building in such a way that they've managed to escape notice for some amount of time doesn't allow them to magically put the deed in their name.

To make a successful claim this woman would have had to occupy the premises for 15 years, or do so for 10 years while also paying the property taxes on it. Further, their occupation has to be "open and notorious," i.e. it cannot be in secret (she failed that requirement right off the bat) and occupation must be exclusive, i.e. others don't have access to the property. That requirement was obviously failed as well.

Relevant statute:

https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=MCL-600-5801

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

The threshold in Michigan is 15 years of conspicuous, uncontested, and exclusive occupancy. So, no.

dual_sport_dork , 8 days ago

"Common law" has no relevance to state law matters in the US (nor Federal, for that matter). Here is the relevant statute in this case:

https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=MCL-750-552

The bar for trespass is met only if the perpetrator has been "forbidden" from accessing the property by the owner. This does not have to be in person, or verbal. A "keep out" or "no trespassing" sign would suffice, and this is why such things exist. In this case I would be immensely surprised if there weren't some kind of employees only, authorized personnel only, or keep out sign posted on whatever method of ingress was used to reach the inside of the sign.

The intent of this is clear, it's so nobody can get done for merely setting foot on a property in some situation where they didn't realize they'd left public right of way or a property where they had authorization to be. You have to tell the person to GTFO (either preemptively or upon discovery) and if they don't, then they can be arrested.

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

I have to wonder just how many people are left who are willing to deliberately sign up to work for Tesla at this point anyway. I certainly wouldn't.

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

I can believe it. I still have multiple libraries of physical media, and I pretty much never buy anything new that I can't likewise physically own. I might rip and make MP3's or transcode or emulate, or whatever, for convenience, but sometimes it's just nice to be able to stick the disk or cartridge in the machine and have it just work without any of the associated modern ancillary bullshit.

Everything wants to be a service now. I just find that so irritating.

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

Wow, they specifically call out Sealioning. Rad.

dual_sport_dork , 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

The aversion to AR-15 owners was stronger than the aversion to owners of other types of firearms (pistols). When given a choice, the probability that a respondent would prefer to live near someone who owned an AR-15 plummeted by over 20 percentage points, indicating a strong societal preference against this type of gun ownership.

Which, as usual, goes a long way towards illustrating how effective propaganda and manipulation of people's opinions can be. Not just on this specific topic either, but in this case I guess that's what we're talking about. Despite its scientific dressings, what this study is exploring isn't actually any mechanical factor, it is measuring people's perceptions which are not guaranteed to be reflected by reality. (And again, this is true of many other topics as well...)

The AR-15 platform does the same damn thing and shoots the same damn bullet in the same damn way as numerous other firearms, and yet just the name itself has a bad rap from being incessantly repeated in the news and social media.

Here's this old chestnut. It's still true.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4eb30272-50f2-466e-b6e6-a00d74be8372.jpeg

Why's the one on top "scarier?"

Tl;dr: Own, store, and handle your gun responsibly. Don't be a paranoid loon. Don't believe in whatever boogeyman Fox News is pushing this week. Don't hyperventilate about fictional distinctions.

dual_sport_dork , 11 days ago

Okay, so? Does that make it less bullshit somehow?

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

I can't answer for "people," only for me. But I'm pretty sure you can't just slap an upper receiver for a different caliber on a Mini 14. The AR platform is inherently customizable and modular.

That doesn't make it shoot bullets any harder versus another gun in the same chambering, though. (Edited).

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

How, exactly, is one deadlier than the other?

It's not. You're never going to get a non-disingenuous question to this answer. You can easily get a 30 round magazine for the Mini 14, too, so the notion that the Armalite platform is somehow inherently has more "rapid fire capacity" is nonsense, too.

FWIW you can get aftermarket stocks to go on an Armalite buffer tube with adjustable combs. I've seen them. Like, in catalogs. I've never actually seen anyone install one in real life, but at least they exist. You can even get a lower for a monte carlo style "sporting" stock for an Armalite upper receiver, if you really want to.

You're ultimately correct in that it's just cosmetics.

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

Or run a slickside upper.

I suppose this illustrates another point, though, in that the Armalite platform is so popular because it's so easily customizable. And it's easily customizable because there are a ton of parts available because it's popular, so it's popular because there are a ton of parts available, and there are a ton of parts available because... etc.

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

active gunfight

I've always wondered this. What's the fixation with adding "active" all the time? Is a "passive" gunfight an overweight Floridian on an oxygen tank, draped across a mobility scooter waiting for the targets to come to him?

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

Changing calibers absolutely does make a difference. If it didn't, we wouldn't have so many. My comment about not shooting bullets harder has the implicit clarification that this is if it's chambered in the same caliber as another gun.

In their default factory configurations, the vast majority of AR-15's as well as the Mini 14 (the other gun pictured there) fire the same cartridge in the same caliber with approximately the same amount of energy, to no appreciable difference whatsoever from the point of view of whatever was shot with them. That is .223 Remington.

If you convert your gun to a different caliber, obviously the comparison no longer applies unless you compare it to other guns of the same caliber. But the Armalite platform is very modular, so making that conversion is super easy. This allows you to, just as an example, buy a bog standard model chambered in .223 and leave it that way for self defense or whatever, but then get an inexpensive .22LR upper to fire cheap .22LR ammo for target practice or plinking without having to spend the entire GDP of a third world country on ammunition, and/or keep a larger caliber receiver on hand in .300 Blackout or .450 Bushmaster or similar for hunting.

This saves you from having to buy and secure three separate guns for three separate tasks, especially considering you're unlikely to be needing all three at the same time. (I don't know about you, but I only have two hands.)

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

There's nothing physically preventing anyone from putting a readily available 30+ round magazine into a Mini 14.

It even says "same capacity" right there in the picture. Although to be fair, the Mini 14 in that picture either has a flush fit low capacity magazine installed in it or is unloaded.

dual_sport_dork , 10 days ago

Sign me up! Can I get one that's sized to work on starlings? Or maybe a little tiny one that'll do mosquitos...

dual_sport_dork , 9 days ago

I see you've never met the Ruger 10/22 grandpas. You want to talk about a bunch of guys who spend thousands of dollars buying, building, and ricing out rifles for "competition" or "varmint control" and inevitably have one or more builds they've never even fired nor do they ever intend to.

But it's got a rainbow-stained burl walnut thumbhole stock, magazine release lever conversion, 2" thick carbon fiber bull barrel, all stainless hardware, a $900 trigger group, 50 round aftermarket banana mag, a bipod, and a 10-32x240mm illuminated reticle night vision scope! You don't understand, I had to spend $8000 on building it because .22 ammo is just so cheap!

Some weirdos are just like that.

dual_sport_dork , 9 days ago

[Whistling "farmer in the dell."]

dual_sport_dork , 11 days ago

Sure, if we were still in 1862.

But then, the current GOP really wishes it were still 1862, don't they?

dual_sport_dork , 11 days ago

The flame retardant thing is baffling me, anyway. Flame retardant fabrics/plastics in a vehicle either toting around 10-20 gallons of monumentally flammable gasoline, or hundreds of kWh of lithium batteries. Sure, chief, the fabrics will keep it from catching on fire...

dual_sport_dork , 11 days ago

Like cotton/linen fabrics? Cotton is pretty naturally flame resistant. Probably can't help you on all the plastics in a modern car interior, though.

dual_sport_dork , 12 days ago

Crap like this is why I ride a motorcycle.

Only one of my bikes even manages to have enough electronics in it to have a clock.

dual_sport_dork , 11 days ago

Playing MP3's off of a USB stick is literally all I do with my car's stereo, and in fact all I want it to do.

dual_sport_dork , 12 days ago

Even at the time I found the contortions they put themselves into to avoid your protagonist from either speaking or having a name to be equal parts sad and hilarious.

dual_sport_dork , 12 days ago

I have never in my life heard anyone actually call weed "dope."

"Dope" is heroin, and its derivatives and relations.

dual_sport_dork , 13 days ago

Penguin difficulty? Just git gud, scrub.

dual_sport_dork , 15 days ago

Notwithstanding the instant privacy nightmare this would create, essentially abolishing online anonymity overnight, this is kinda-sorta what MAC addresses are already. As to why MAC addresses can be spoofed so easily without any real impact on anything, refer to my first statement.

dual_sport_dork , 15 days ago

Well, metallic sodium liberates hydrogen real fast on contact with water, which I guess is tantamount to the same thing.

Yes. But not to the same level as just dropping a brick of pure sodium in a bathtub. In a battery like this there is not pure lithium/sodium/whatever just sloshing around inside. The sodium is tied up being chemically bonded with whatever the anode and cathode materials are. Only a minority of the available sodium is actually free in the form of ions carrying the charge from cathode to anode.

Just as with lithium-ion chemistry batteries, it is vital that the cells remain sealed from the outside because the materials inside will indeed react with air, water, and the water in the air. Exposing the innards will cause a rapid exothermic reaction, i.e. it will get very hot and optionally go off bang.

dual_sport_dork , 15 days ago

Post vid, please.

dual_sport_dork , 14 days ago

I'm sure they'll want to, but that'll be a little better than need to, i.e. relying on them for the raw materials as well.