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There’s no value otherwise

Just use it for the porn. Occasionally will click on a trending tweet and immediately get bombarded with tons of Russian propaganda. “Ukraine are Nazis” “America first!” “Look at this poor starving (white) american child, Biden just approved 60 billion to Ukraine!”

All shit like that, it focuses very strongly on what Russia wants Americans to believe, in my experience.

Dont even have to come up with one. Have a friend named Eric Schin

I get asked this question a lot, because I love many traditional Japanese cultures, but not anime. First of all, I don’t hate it, I still respect it, but it’s simply not my cup of tea.

I often find it to be overstimulating and sexualized. someone said it’s like food with too much salt, that perfectly describes it for me. It’s just too over the top sometimes. The sexualization is also off putting. It’s a constant distraction from the plot and undermines the rest of the characters and story.

I also don’t like the voice acting style, where it is again overbearing, especially for women characters. That’s not what people sound like. It’s way too high pitched and trying way too hard to sound “cute”.

I’ve never heard it described better in my opinion. It’s perfectly fine for others, but for many it’s simply too overpowering.

This is what I always struggle with. Is this curry Indian spicy, or American spicy? There have been times where the “lesser spicy” food has brought me to my knees, and other times where the hottest item on the menu was a cakewalk.

Even if the best before dates are removed, you need to have A DATE to reference the age of the product. Maybe it wont spoil in one week, but if its been 2 or 3 I would really like to know.

Whenever I’m passing a grate or manhole, I always hold onto my phone and keys. Nothing’s ever happened, I’m just way too paranoid

God its so useless

I’m a repair tech and all you really can do is try to shake as much water out as possible and blow as much water out as possible. It’s not just water that’s a problem, it’s minerals are too. The largest priority after liquid damage is to remove as much of the liquid, and when possible, rinsing individual parts with distilled water thoroughly. You do not have that option with air pods so your only bet is to attempt to rid as much water as you can. Afterwards just run a fan next to it in a dry place.

Sometimes I’ve noticed Google’s AI overview is a nearly word for word copy of the highest reddit result, or any result.

Its against YouTube’s TOS to download content, and to block advertisements. Another lesser known, and less enforced part of the TOS also covers content instructing how to download content and block ads. I’m pretty sure that’s the reason YouTube took it down at least.

On another note, huge props to Linus for teaching how to block ads on channel and company, with a hundred mouths to feed, majorly funded by advertisments. I know he caught a lot of shit before with gamer nexus, but they deserve props for this.

Yeah, need to hop off windows myself. Just haven’t found the time

If you want to look farther into the strategic and geopolitical side of the conflict, William spaniel has many great videos on it. He is impartial and holds a PHD in political science. He also authored books going over the Russian invasion of Ukraine

From a strategic standpoint, they have no choice. What Hamas is doing is by the book insurgent strategy, that’s been observed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to lesser extents in WW2 and Vietnam.

Commit an atrocity akin to 9/11 to provoke an enemy attack and hide your forces amongst the population. The initial victim (usa, and in this case, israel) must retaliate against such an atrocity, but their only strategic targets are civilian in nature (as all militants are using them as a meat shield).

Once civilian targets are struck Hamas makes pleas to the international community, for aid, sanctions or isolation of Israel. They pander to civilians, as they’ll die whether or not they join the insurgency. This balloons their numbers and combat strength.

On top of that, all forces begin engaging in brutal urban warfare with costly casualties for the enemy.

Israel (to their voters and population) can’t just “let” Hamas get away for the October attacks so they press their advance, civilians be damned. I believe Hamas are as responsible as Israel for civilian casualties and deaths.

No sides are truly right here, it’s merely a brutal dilemma. Not a problem, those have answers, but a dilemma with no good solutions. Potentially be overthrown by an outraged population or slaughter a bunch of civs. You know what all regimes will do.

I watched a video on dying and one of the common symptoms is seeing family and friends who have already passed. For those who obviously survive a near death experience.

pff maybe. I know I already have ADHD

I didn’t mention that the entire meetup was to cook together, everyone got to choose what we cooked, and everything I cooked was for them. They were going to college and most mentioned needing to learn, so I thought I’d show them the basics.

I ended up cooking everything myself alone. It felt disrespectful because they agreed to help and they didn’t bother to include me in their conversation away in the living room.

Personally, used/old hardware is so dirt cheap I think I’ll only buy a gen behind or two. Not unless there’s some breakthrough akin to X3D cache by AMD.

My phone was like 1400$ 3 years ago and now I can buy it used, in good condition, tested, for like 300$

6-8k stones are the most common as they are the best value. You get a decent edge, and the stones are usually around 40$ for a decent one. Right now its unknown the highest grit possible, primarily because with higher and higher grit, manufacturing becomes exponentially more expensive.

Grit is sorted through filters, the finer the filters the faster they clog, and the finer the grit, the more likely they are to float away, or do not have the inertia required to pass it.

There are 2 ways a blade dulls.

Abrasion: abrasive particles in the material rounds the edge of the blade by scraping off microscopic bits of steel.

Microscopic chipping: In this case the steel fracture and pieces break off the edge, revealing a duller edge.

Scratches act as weak points for the latter. Scratches form a sawtooth like shape. People say these “micro-serations” aid in cutting and are even desirable, but I would disagree. The peaks of the teeth break off more easily and the deep grooves provide further weak points. They will dull rather quickly.

Very hard steels (also depends on the type, and the knife, and best treatment, and edge geometry ) will dull significantly from microchipping. If the edge is as robust as possible, it will remain much sharper. The finer the surface, the more robust the edge is.

It gets wayyy more complicated considering edge geometry (just a 1 degree difference can stabilize a chippy edge), natural stones and how they are completely different, glossy vs cloudy finishes (cloudy is better), slurry, omnidirectional scratches patterns, etc.