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Yemen’s integrated stance with Gaza increases in value and authenticity — with its impressive million-man march that neither tired nor gave up, and with its escalating operations that broke the equations & never retreated or backed down.
Thinking about the Israeli attack on Iran recently and I can't shake the fact that no one is talking about the US losing not just one, but two of its most advanced stealth fighter jets, the F35 lightning.
This jet cost trillions to develop, billions to maintain, and was largely sold as our only choice for air superiority fighter to counter china.
@crispy branzino ☭ (skin) Yes, and I think it's worth considering it's not just the airplanes and their capabilities, but also the pilots. Also Iran is not the basackwards country so many people envision.
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Lathes typically have a shitload of cast iron, not because they need to be that strong, but because they can't tolerate even a thousandth of an inch of flex. But concrete is very good at resisting flex and you can cast it in your garage.
A big challenge is the center line of the spindle needs to be aligned with the ways, very well. But I think it should be possible to lay them on epoxy and then align them before it hardens...
I'm starting to think concrete is a completely under-appreciated material.
I was thinking about building a vacuum/pressure chamber for drying and pressure-treating wood. I thought I'd need to get a large high strength steel tank, but in reality I could probably just pour it from concrete and only use metal hinges and gaskets at the door...
Hmm, I think that for vacuum operation, you need to make sure you vibrate out any possible air bubbles, very well, because bubbles might compromise the concrete when subjected to vacuum.
Also a long curing time is pretty much mandatory for something subjected to such harsh conditions.
Any off-gassing from the concrete shouldn't really matter because you're actively pumping air out of the container all of the time while the wood is boiling off moisture.
I think my main concern is porosity, and it might not be possible to do pressure and vacuum in the same chamber. Under vacuum, you can coat the outside with epoxy and it will suck in to the concrete and create a strong structure. Under pressure, you could try to do the same on the inside, but concrete tensile strength is not awesome, and any epoxy painted on the outside is going to want to delaminate if the concrete is porous and being pressurized from inside...
But more globally speaking, I think concrete should be regarded as a resin with especially good compressive strength.
Another option is to acquire a large propane canister and cut it open at the end. That will do both vacuum and pressure because steel is much more forgiving. Just need to weld a flange on it and put a bunch of bolts to lock it down.
Yeah, I'm thinking like concrete is chemistry, and chemistry has come SO FAR in the past 50 years. Stuff like carbon fiber is considered so cool, but humble concrete has certainly advanced just as much, and nobody's really giving it the attention it deserves...
@Java @EvolLove I've had this idea for working with 3D prints, but it could also work well with concrete in that you line the exterior with aluminum foil or the interior, and that is very gas impermeable.
You could also, by putting bars around the edge and then wrapping wire and tightening it, reinforce the structure and create a compression on the exterior structure for a pressure tank. Like a grain silo.
Think about one of these things making the rebar for small intricate concrete castings made in 3d printed molds...
There's no die, it's just CNC programming, and the cost for a company with one of those machines to make you a custom object out of wire is whatever it takes them to validate your CNC program and put it into their machine.
I'm thinking you form the wire and print a multi-part mold, then you assemble the mold with the wire in it (part of the mold needs to hold the wire, that part the wire will not be covered by concrete, you just plan for it).
Then you caulk the gaps in the mold sections and apply vacuum to the top of the mold and open the bottom of the mold to a vat of concrete to suck it in.
Release vacuum, collapsing any bubbles inside of the mold, then wait for it to cure, disassemble the mold, and saw off the parts where concrete flowed in at the bottom and out at the top...
That is so cool! My dad and older brother were concrete men back in those days. It took skill to get it right. As you mentioned, it is chemistry and metalworks. I never thought about it like that before. @EvolLove
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Every time I see people talk about 2hu gacha I remember I played LostWord and Spell Bubble at the same time and the circumstances of both games Yukari fights were a cute contrast.
Lost Word Yukari: "The other worlds are going to be more dangerous than this one was so I will put you through one last test."
Spell Bubble Reimu: [talking to the others about Yukari] "Oh, I recognize THAT tone of voice. Don't let her give you trouble. She is just sour that we solved the incident and she did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to help."
Extermination tactics are chillingly familiar – and aim to murder more than a million people Wanted Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has outlined his plan for the next escalation of Is…
The same play every fucking day. Americans gave the name of "aid distribution centers" while they built traps of death for the starving population of #Gaza.
"Al-Shifa Hospital reports 5 killed and several wounded after Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting for aid in the Al-Sudaniya area, northwest of Gaza City."
I would like to recommend this movie to you which on the surface is a fantasy horror movie but I like the hidden ethics where it's about the pharmaceutical industry and who has access to medicine: themoviedb.org/movie/1153714-d…
A father and daughter accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss seeks to exploit the creature’s miraculous curative properties.
If you show up in American towns dressed up as an enemy combatant, masked and armed, and try to occupy those towns by force, DO NOT BE SURPRISED when the citizens of those towns treat you as the enemy combatants you are.
Αν δεν υπήρχαν οι "σκουρόχρωμοι" - μέσα σ' αυτούς συμπεριλαμβάνονται κι οι έλληνες κι ας λένε ότι θέλουν τα καθάρματα της αστικής τάξης - δεν θα δούλευε τίποτα στην Ευρώπη εδώ και 30 χρόνια. Τώρα που η ευρώπη (η αστική της τάξη δηλαδή) θέλει να βγάζει λεφτά χωρίς κόπο (βλέπε χωρίς επενδύσεις σε νέες τεχνολογίες κλπ - γερμανικό μοντέλο) απλά προσπαθούν να πείσουν ότι τα "ξένα" χέρια δεν είναι αναγκαία. Η Διαμαντοπούλου και όλο το ελληναριό της αστικής τάξης δεν έχει ιδέα πως χτίστηκαν οι ισχυρές οικονομίες του βορρά. Όπως επίσης (λόγω διατήρησης των συμφερόντων της τάξης τους) δεν ξέρουν πως να αξιοποιήσουν την εργατική τάξη της χώρας ΚΑΙ τους μετανάστες μαζί. Έχουν στα χέρια τους χρυσό και παράγουν σκατά. (Θου κύριε να σκεφτόμαστε εμείς πως θα μας εκμεταλλεύονταν καλύτερα αυτά τα κυκλώματα των παιδοβιαστών. Όλο μια παράνοια.)
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Methinks that's the most hashtags you've ever used in a post. I'm here to add just one more: #TwigAndBerries And thanks to posts like yours, I'm 2 steps away from being bilingual (english/english)
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Engage a liberal on Marxism and witness pure ideological autocomplete when they start flawlessly regurgitating anti-communist talking points with zero cognitive friction. No material analysis, no historical engagement, just the frictionless recall of a language model trained on Cold War tropes.
We have a pair of bats that fly around our back garden every evening. They buzz the windows in the living room, probably after the spiders on our house. Not sure what type they are but they've been present for a good few years now.
How about - y'know - maybe - pretty, please - also think about the folks in the global south who have no money (thank you very much colonial past and continued looting under the guise of IMF/WB) to get air-conditioning? Or maybe... who knows... allow them to migrate to your "cool" countries?
btw i remember you telling me to pick up FF7. so i found rebirth, remake, and reunion. are these cheap knockoffs or is one legitimately the winner version?
There’s the original FF7 which is available on most of the console stores. Not rebirth, not reunion, not remake, none of that, just FF7 1990s. Should look blocky as hell that’s the right one
Remake and Rebirth are the first and second thirds of that original game remade in a very modern action RPG style. Completely different games mechanistically
Go original if you want the OG experience, remake or rebirth if you want modern action RPG
@verita84 anything in particular make the remakes worse? starting to sound like they aren't remakes at all but just using the name FF7 to sell more copies
Personally, I just can't abide the way everything looks. Back in the '90s you'd play these games and think "wow, just imagine if the devs could have fully realized what they envisaged..." and then it happened: FF13 looked basically like the prerendered cutscenes in the PSX era, and we saw how stupid their vision actually was.
The blocky lego-man graphics gave the writers license to do things that aren't acceptable anymore. It left more to your imagination, so that as you're drawn into the story the characters sound a certain way in your head and you imagine the abstract polygons being a certain way. You naturally interpret things in ways that make sense to you, even if it's diametrically opposed to what the devs intended.
Now it's all 2K graphics and voice-acted, so there's nowhere for the stupidity to hide.
I saw a boyfriend and girlfriend crossing the street together ahead of me. The boyfriend looked up, saw my very large dog Odin, and stopped dead of fright in the middle of the street. When the girlfriend realized what was happening, she grabbed his hand and started swinging her arm and skipping along, dragging him with her.
Young man, that there is a girl who understands you and likes you. Best wishes to you both.
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½ oz lime juice ¼ oz ginger syrup 1 oz watermelon juice 1 oz Aperol 1 oz Tequila blanco float 1-2 oz seltzer
Garnish: mint sprig Method: Combine all ingredients except seltzer into a shaker, add ice, and shake. Strain over a clear ice spear, add seltzer, and garnish.
Seen on IG anatomyofadrink channel. He took the Sandia recipe, created in 2016 by David Valdez at Simbal (Little Tokyo, Los Angeles; now closed), and turned it into a highball by adding soda water. I batched this up and served it at a garden party today — it was gone quickly!
I had an abscessed tooth last week, and I'm furious about the over-correction on pain meds for acute pain. That shit hurt like a mutha, and I couldn't get a pain pill! I can't tell you how many NSAIDs I took, lol. Poor liver. My doctor is scared to prescribe. Gov't is harsh on them. Not 1 doc or pharma criminal was arrested. Who suffers because of criminals? The people! You can't trust the street that it won't be cut w/fentanyl or some other crap, but people are. Teeth should be exempted.
@CarolEmmarie It's awful. My neighbor broke her arm and couldn't get a couple. People are not happy about it. Old people are buying it black market, lol. But I'm talking about for acute pain, like a tooth or broken bones. There are therapies that really work for people in chronic pain.
Garden update: a couple of the tomato plants look like they're about to start really growing, same with a couple of the zuccs - there are flower buds developing in a kind of cluster, and the beans are beaning. Never worry about beans, they're fine. Beans are champs, in my experience. Keep 'em happy and they grow happy. They're the clams of the vegetable world. Happy as a bean plant, baybee.
Keeping my fingers crossed for the corn: mmmmmaybe they'll start shooting up in the next week? I know they like to gather their energy before a spurt, but I'm so anxious at how late in the season it's getting and how short my 6 corn stalks still are.
Oh well, I'm on track to have beans and tomatoes and maybe zucchini. Not bad for something scrapped together in a weed-infested lot.
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I think about how 80% of people have just...erased the pandemic, and the obvious, proven consequences of catching COVID over and over again, from their minds - and it reminds me of how many have absorbed and discarded the facts of Israel's genocide and concentration camps in the same way.
The West has relied on a kind of psychic and ideological opium for so long to keep consuming and ravening the world that it can't cope with reality now that we can't bully or bribe our way out of this mess.
It seems wacky, tbh, that we're still trying to do that. I'm reminded of a friend who I managed to convince that COVID would fuck up him and his family if he didn't take steps, and he told me "listen, even if that's true, I want my kids to have a normal high school experience" and that was the end of it.
The aesthetic of "normal high school experience" was actually more compelling to him than the *fact* that multiple COVID infections would eventually sicken everyone he loves.
Folks will straight up just be like "self-defense", then you show them one-in-the-head, two-in-the-chest toddlers killed by IDF snipers, or 2,000 lb bombs dropped on full schools, or tens of thousands of babies starving to death, and they just say "self-defense" or "human shields".
Their minds replace everything with scenes from the Israeli Cinematic Universe in real time. The context they operate with is so aesthetic and illusory that they can justify literally any act simply by applying it.
Incredible. COVID aside, as a former high school student, I would rather be thrown off a building than have a "normal high school experience". People will really jump through hoops to protect a social reality that isn't very good to begin with.
@John People with three boosters or more have a greater risk of Covid and more severe outcomes than those not vaccinated at all. Stop trying to push poison.
Editors discuss new sanctions announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio on United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada's livestream on day 64
Traveling with President Trump to visit the families and those devastated by the recent floods in Texas, Melania Trump delivered a message to those in the region. WATCH: Full video of the roundtable discussion and remarks below.
Protip from a 32 yo woman who has a STEM degree and almost all male-coded hobbies: If a man starts testing* you about your interests, hobbies, or job, don’t engage him — just walk away. Those men are not worth a single ounce of effort and you aren’t required to justify yourself to anyone.
*Think the type of guy who hears you like Band and immediately goes, “Oh yeah? What were Band’s first three albums???” as some sort of gotcha
There are men who are threatened by women in their profession and hobbies, but they belong to a superset of men who are completely incredulous that a woman could possibly have the intellectual capacity to genuinely enjoy and partake in the same interests and jobs traditionally held by men. It’s all rooted in misogyny and tbh, even if you answer all his questions satisfactorily he will still think you’re a fraud, a pick-me, a diversity hire, or whatever other term is popular to invalidate women.
It’s not your job to prove anything to these men. Protect yourself and run.
(Because I’m sure some reply guy will show up to whine about how I’m saying he can’t ask women questions anymore — there’s a difference between “Oh cool! So what kind of projects have you worked on? 🙂” and “Oh really? Name 10 programming languages. 😏”)
You are just had some slice about men and world issues - and try to teach a follwer group of women about risks about the opposide gender.
You may have that impression but maybe you got just nudged by your phone or social media algorithm internet. Stay analog! With friends and collect connections to humans without computers in speach. Or books in your library. But i like present time and fedivers. Have a good time Ana.
yep. I don't have a STEM degree but I'm heavily involved in a hobby with mostly men (cave exploring). It's always been easy to pick out the men I don't want to associate with.
Primo Brands is the child of Nestle, Danone, and Suntory, a roll-up of water delivery companies and bottled water brands. I've rarely seen the internet hate a company more.
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