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[⋅] Sewing #art #equipment

Start off small, try sewing scrap cloth A to scrap cloth B. If you don’t hate it and your neck or fingers don’t hurt too much after, it might be the hobby critical post-apocalypse life skill you needed. Next thing you know you’ll have upgraded to leather and sewing fake cat ears onto all your hats or using wire to add strips of stainless steel to leather gloves to give them that sweet medieval guantlet look. Even if you don’t descend that far into the sewing void, knowing how to quickly stitch up the crotch of pants that rip open unepectedly is one of those things you will always appreciate.

I vote in every election I can. I have never had my vote for president actually matter or count.

My state has a site where I can look up my name and see which elections I’ve voted in.

• My first election was Gore Bush with the hanging chads, my vote had gotten thrown out.

• I was unable to vote in the next 2 elections because I was in jail both times. Not for anything that would remove my voting rights, just illegal botany.

• The second time Obama ran I couldn’t vote because the voting location had been moved the day before and I didn’t get to the new location in time.

• At this point I had become quite jaded with the election system. So for the dumpster fire of 2016 I did a write in and wrote “any bum off the street”.

• Realizing my vote may have helped bring about the worst, for the next election I took great care to ensure I voted correctly. The state voter lookup does not show that I voted that election. I did. It is very infuriating.

• Voted for Harris and liked her before she was cool. The reason? She helped a pedophile get out of jail. Confusing, I know. You see, a man had been sentenced and was serving time then the laws changed, with the new laws setting maximum term limits for certain offenses. The person had already served multiple years more than the maximum sentence allowed but still was on the old laws and had several years left. Harris secured his release. That is why I liked her as a candidate, she was willing to defend a pedophile to ensure justice was served as the law was written. That requires an amount of integrity and courage that few have in my opinion. Then a pedophile got elected instead.

As for other parties, the PSL has been very active around my city lately. I’ve gone to a few of their meetings and protests but am not a member, I just want to protest. Next election I don’t think will matter. Everything will be rigged or the results will be ignored. I’m preparing for that. I’m training in first aid, marksmenship, gardening and I’ve built a secluded underground shelter. The shelter is laughable and will not save anyone but it did build my upper body strength up.

I would sooner vote with a brick than vote for anything even slightly resembling the current CiC.

This is a well thought out comment and I agree with most of what you have to say.

The part about data center and water use needs a caveat though. Some of them (but not all!) use a massive amount of water (a google dat a center in oregon was found to have used 25% of the local water supply) and wastewater that comes from the plant could potentially just be getting dumped into the water supply. Companies that are lax in what they do with waste water are what concerns a lot of people. It’s a lot like how mining companies would leave behind tailings ponds, pits full of water filled with large amounts of toxic materials like lead and arsenic. Some companies are only using wast ewater to cool their systems though. Others use a closed-loop system which reuse the same water continuously and use much less water.

This article breaks it all down better than I could: https://www.fwpcoa.org/content.aspx?page_id=5&club_id=859275&item_id=130961

To add to the pizza reheat:

if pizza stale, wet (clean) hand a little bit, wipe it on the bottom of the slice(s) then microwave for 45 seconds (30 seconds if room temperature) add 10 seconds for each slice past the first.

Alternate: microwave any non-hot-and-fresh pizza for half the above designated time, then put in toaster oven on the ‘light toast’ setting.

RE soup:

identify meat in soup. Add ramen packet of same animal flavor. If no animal in soup, add any flavor or add tiny amount of soy sauce

Ramen alternate: Add eggroll that best matches ramen flavor. If frozen eggroll, microwave 30 seconds.

RE ice:

most liquids can be put in ice cube trays. not milk (it curdles/separates). no alcohol (wont freeze most likely). Try soda, pomegranite juice, peppermint oil (dilute 1:10 to 1:20 or to taste), fruit juices, soup broth, applesauce, coffee, etc

Alternate for milk (freeze these and add to milk): nutella, chocolate syrup (might not freeze), simple syrup (if it doesn’t freeze, dilute with water)

It is only theft when taken from someone who needs it more

Sticky note on the monitor. Not like I’ll forget “Password12345!”

I can’t offer any good advice, just take consolation in the fact that I have done some of the same, but likely worse. I try to switch to a new email, don’t fully migrate or close the old one, end up with a convoluted mess, end up just checking emails individually. I have protonmail, 4 gmails and a yahoo account. Yes yahoo. Part of that is sentimental, I signed up for it in 1998 and it’s hard to let go. I have a folder of email bookmarks and just right click ‘open all in new tabs’ to check them. As for passwords, well, I wont talk about that. It’s not good but still not worst practices at least.

I have a wild theory that humans needs the full spectrum of natural sunlight nearly every day for at least an hour or so. It’s known already that is creates vitamin D. I think other unknown effects happen and that the screens people stare at are not providing the same spectrum, resulting in a lack of wavelengths that we need to stay healthy.

Newton and Tesla both have anecdotal stories about staring at the sun (or it’s reflection) and being inspired by it as well. There are others as well.

It’s a crazy idea, I know, but what if, under certain rare circumstances, viewing the sun unlocks certain mental capabilities and enhances the mind or body of the person who experiences it in unexpected ways?

I’m not saying anyone should stare at the sun obviously, I simply think there’s so much more to light than we understand and that limiting wavelengths, in my opinion, will only prevent such an occurance, if it were something that actually existed.

The electromagnetic field being generated by your phone pinging the nearest cell tower 30 times a second.

I remapped the capslock key to be third level shift ³ or fourth level ¼ if used with normal shift and in the unlikely scenario where I need capslock, I hit both shifts at the same time to toggle it.

Now I can do all sorts of neat symbols! ∞÷⍉±0≠¡⍶⍹⍷§⌾M€⍥

I went to my local neighborhood association because I wanted to improve where I live. I was elected president of the association a couple months later, mostly because no one else wanted to do it. It’s a fairly poor part of a medium sized city in the U.S.

I’ve been using AI (running locally on a computer I built that isn’t connected to the internet, to reduce harm to the environment) to apply for grants, plan events and help me run the meetings.

It is actually perfect for the job. Saying that as someone who thinks AI is mostly hype and useless for the majority of its current common uses these days. I feed it the text from city grant applications or ask it to make a poster to increase attendance and it’s saved me a lot of time. Without it, being someone diagnosed ADHD, I would not have been able to do most of the stuff I have accomplished so far.

On the part about “get out”, I saw he could have been dreaming or sleeptalking and I wanted to say that too. I’m told I talk in my sleep. Talk is an understatement. I’m told I say extremely hurtful, offensive, vicious things in my sleep, often directed towards people who I have no ill feelings against. I’m talking about cussing, insulting their personality traits, going down deeply psychological analysis of them, using words an phrases that aren’t common (as in rarely used, often intellectual words) screaming, punching and kicking in the air as if I were fighting them, all sorts of stuff very out of character of me.

I try to warn people about it if I’m planning on sleeping around them but even with a heads up, people usually aren’t prepared for the things I’m told I say. I didn’t even know I did it for a very long time, then after one friend had a serious talk with me about it and I shared the conversation with family members did I learn that it is a very common thing for me to do and I’ve been doing ever since I could first speak.

Maybe it’s some sort of mental illness or repression or something but for the most part, the people I’m told I scream at when I’m asleep are people I deeply care about and never does my conscious mind ever have these thoughts or an urge to scream at anyone.

So it could be a red flag that the guy said “get out” but it still could be a sleep talking thing that he doesn’t even know he does. I would bring it up with him directly in a non-confrontational but still serious manner. Ask him if he remembers doing it and what it meant. How he responds should help you decide if he is worth pursuing.

As for the ghosting, I’ve always used a ‘three strikes and your out’ rule. Things come up, I get it. If they come up a lot, they’re out of my life.

Others mentioned that it sounds hardware related. That reminded me that you should visually inspect all ports, especially unused ones. I had a system locking up constantly once and it turned out to be from debris in a usb port on one of the monitors was causing a short. It’s something that wont necessarily cause logged errors and can cause seemingly random behaviour that will have one chasing problems that don’t exist. USB ports and DVI plugs especially can be hard to notice with how they are constructed. Audio jack holes too. Make sure there’s no breaks in any cords. It seems too simple to be true and then it happens and you feel foolish for not having thought of it.

Hmm, for some reason I read ‘paper holder’ and my brain turned it into ‘bookend’, I thought it was for a bookshelf and mentally pictured a vertical contraption, I see now that isn’t what you were going for.

The pricing situation seems similar to used furniture on craigslist. Some sellers seem to think furniture can only go up in value from the sticker price, regardless of the number of dogs owned. It’s not like they are made out of marble…

You might be better off using steel ball bearings if they aren’t going to be visible. From a casual search it looks like steel is cheaper than glass as far as balls are concerned.

I made a brush that writes my first name, in my own handwriting, in cursive. https://i.imgur.com/gGDbSJt.gif

There are not many opportunities where I can share this and people will understand what I’m talking about. I just felt like bragging. Carry on.

Learn how to ride a bike with no hands. Obviously, only do this is you have access to a relatively flat and safe path to practice.

Practice until you can go a mile or kilometer or whatever is your standard unit of measure for a decently long distance.

Your trauma’s listed all appear to be focused on others (except the narcisissm one but I’m assuming that’s about other people with it) and disappointment in them, or a lack of connection with them, or they are difficult or weary-ing. It is disconnecting you from yourself.

This might help you release your thoughts of the outside world, of analytical thinking, of everything. It requires focus on the physical body and absence of all other thought. Regain lost balance.

I am not a doctor or professional anything. Also I broke my elbow doing this. I don’t regret it. Your milage (or kilometerage?) may vary.

Fetch me my brown pants.

Same. As for distro, for me personally, it should be designed to be usable with one hand, because I crashed and broke my elbow.

For bike users in general though, it should be something …bespoke.

For non-ebike cyclists I think an analog computer would be appropriate. Wait, do those have an OS? I guess it would be a manual system but I gotta check the manual manual to be sure.