KidnappedByKitties

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KidnappedByKitties ,

Oh, look, the unhappiness could be solved by better pay and benefits

KidnappedByKitties ,

This also seems a convenient bit of propaganda, of course they would say that to scare the Russians.

If it's true, it's a really cool feat of engineering though! Can't wait for the fog of war to lift and see what cool civilian applications all this drone tech will have.

KidnappedByKitties ,

I have some better quality kitchen knives I like keeping sharp.

I use a two-sided whetstone 400/2000 grit for basic shaping (400 is akin to those rolling sharpeners, to be used only when you fucked up real bad), a leather strop with green sharpening paste (~6000-8000 grit) glued to a piece of wood, a plain leather strop, and a honing steel.

Green sharpening paste is most of what I ever use, a couple of strokes weekly (more realistically about 20 once a month), and maybe polish it up with the plain leather strop. Keeps the knives wicked sharp, and then I just hone them after each use.

Sometimes I do stupid things and get burrs in my edge (like cleaving frozen bone), that's where the 2000 grit saves me.

400 I guess is for when the apocalypse comes or your kids decided to practice chef's knife throwing into scrap metal. It's nice to know I can remake a whole edge, but rarely used.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Yeah, suck it mars, world record planet right here.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Go picket, with enough people showing that justice matters, they'll have to find a less corrupt judge.

KidnappedByKitties , (edited )

I also shave with a safety razor/shavette and spend about twice as long for a close shave as only the first pass. Also being the type worried for time, I've clocked myself and typically end up at just under 4 minutes including warm-up, post-shave creams, brushing, and oiling.

You go once with the grain, once across it (90 degrees) and then once against it but with a lower angle than the others (so you don't cut/irritate unnecessarily). Lather before each pass as per usual.
The time to get everything set up and work up the first lather is longer than going another two passes.

Edit to add:
I shave like this about every other day, but let it go over weekends, or other times I resent my worksona.
I have chosen shaving gear to make it fun though, with a nice brush & bowl, a nice smelling shaving soap, etc. My best trick was to find a better suited razor blade, Dorco Platinum, makes it easy, fun and lasts me two weeks before having to change. I'm sure other brands are great too, that's just the best one I have available.

I'm trying to grow out a beard, so I don't trim it down, but shape it once a week with some scissors and a comb.

Back when I couldn't be bothered, I mostly grew it wild, brushed and shaped it 1-2 times/week, and trimmed it down in length every few months.
Nowadays we have barbershops around and I can have a professional style it while I get a haircut.

KidnappedByKitties , (edited )

They're currently recruiting/pressganging as much, so they've clearly chosen war of attrition against Ukraine that just don't have the population to sustain it. I think the population ratio of Russia : Ukraine is about 4 : 1, and Russia keeps stealing people from allied countries as well.

Edit: corrected ratio to 2024 population

KidnappedByKitties ,

You're right, I'm mixing Russias population with the US.

Worldometer figures put it at 3,8 : 1 though

KidnappedByKitties ,

How is it messy for the employer to keep wages at market prices?

You don't have to match anything or contend with mass quitting if you just pay the going rate to start with.

KidnappedByKitties ,

We're learning in real time that the ICC and UN are great tools, until they disagree with you, at which point they can be ignored and even threatened.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Sounds like great news, no?

Just as we had a time before fungus digesting plant matter, we've now had a time before fungus digesting plastics.

"Soon" we'll get bacteria and insects doing the same, and all our plastic buildings will need to be protected just as the wood ones.

KidnappedByKitties ,

But, but... Dragging things out forever in court is his only move?

KidnappedByKitties ,

I agree, and that's why they're outlawed.

Unfortunately, Russia decided early on that international law and relations are an acceptable price for their war. That means some bad stuff will come their way as well, and very little sympathy will be heard from the rest of the world.

KidnappedByKitties ,

I stand corrected

KidnappedByKitties ,

Topic of this thread: 1000 formal complaints against Eileen Cannon, as part of a concerted effort.

News about the right:

Trump blasts his trial judges. Then his fans call for violence.

After Trump’s guilty verdict, threats and attempts to dox Trump jurors proliferate online

Death threats to judge and jury: Inside the Maga meltdown after Trump verdict

And in the other cases:

Georgia steps up investigation into threats against Trump grand jurors

Georgia investigates threats against Trump jury
(BBC)

E. Jean Carroll testifies she lives in fear of threats from Trump supporters

KidnappedByKitties ,

They say they're Christian, they do things in the name of their Christian belief, they act in accordance to a Christian agenda.

Seems like they're at least as Christian as the next one, if not more.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Nothing to show and a day closer do death, as the song goes.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Yes, as the blurb says in the second word or so.

KidnappedByKitties ,

My list is quite different than the ones currently in the thread.

The boring ones:

Creating a vaccine or other cloaking to make humans invisible to ticks & mosquitoes. A separate project would be to do the same for parasites.

Enacting strict pollution/carbon limits and mandatory circular economy everywhere in the world.

Researching, trialing and Enacting a sustainable post-capitalist system everywhere in the world.

Developing solar energy until covering global energy demands, including a power network that can transport energy from the sunny side and/or orbit everywhere.

The slightly more ambitious:

Establish self-sustainable colonies living on off-earth resources, most probably also situated off-earth.

Create a Dyson swarm with enough energy output for in-system exploration, mining, colonisation, and terraforming.

Perfect matter replicators.

I have some other ideas as well, but those would be a start.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Lol, indoctrinated much?

We will still expend energy, thus satisfying the gods of thermodynamics.

KidnappedByKitties ,

In my European country you'll order sushi as nigiri at any cornershop sushi place.

It's most often sold as a set, where there's typically 4 pieces of some roll with three ingredients and nori on the outside (but variations are not uncommon).

It's quite close to what I've had in Japan. Although fish quality is very different.

KidnappedByKitties ,

I've gotten sets with nigiri and maki in several cities around Japan. I guess my experience and yours differ.

KidnappedByKitties ,

But that wouldn't be conservatism, no?

KidnappedByKitties ,

As with all things Conservatism/Regressivism it's more about the comfort of doing things the same than it is about adaptation.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Mostly spam, porn, and recipes it seems from the traffic.

KidnappedByKitties ,

I trawled through your profile a bit, enough to see that you're reasonably well meaning, but both steeped in biased propaganda and having issues from the many broken systems in the US.

My question however is how you believe that Trump will make your life better?

From my perspective (from Europe), you're exactly the type of person Trump loves grifting off of. Last time he did a lot of killing off lower middle class jobs, plundering your workers rights, protections and wages, mismanaging or dismantling support systems like healthcare, infrastructure, disaster readiness, while also increasing taxes on you. Oh, and also bumbled through the pandemic and disaster responses causing more than a million unnecessary deaths.

He also openly broke the law, got very questionable payments coinciding with odd policy changes, and leaked/sold national secrets not only betraying the institutions, but the nation itself.

He's also a known adulterer, liar, slanderer, prideful cheat.

So that would seem to disqualify him as a good pick for either policy, statesmanship, patriotism, or moral reasons.

The only remaining reason then seems to be feelings, no?

Feel free to tell me what Trump does better than Biden, for your life and/or for the nation, or whatever other perspective is more important for you.

Russia begins tactical nuclear weapon drills near Ukraine border ( www.theguardian.com )

Russian forces have started military drills near Ukraine simulating the use of tactical nuclear weapons in response to what Moscow deems threats from western officials about increased involvement in the conflict. Vladimir Putin ordered the drills earlier this month in a move Russian officials said was a warning to the west not...

KidnappedByKitties ,

Would be ironic if an unexpected strike would set something off on their side.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Oh, so Trump is now running on the glory of the German republic? Seems like an odd shift in campaign strategy. /s

“Reich” doesn’t mean “Nazi”.

That might be true in german. But Trump's addressing the US, and particularly a demographic known to a) not speak german, b) associate "Reich"with the propaganda of the Aryan Third Reich of Nazi propaganda, which was the ideal to be ushered in by (and excuse) the Holocaust, Secret Police, Ghettos, systematic execution of homosexuals/disabled/colored, the subjugation of the lesser races, and other pastimes of the notoriously sympatico nazis.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Just be careful to have plans for before they restrict travel. It's very popular with Russian allies, and similarly with other autocrats

KidnappedByKitties ,

Covid had plenty of travel restrictions, took less than a week to set them up. There's already issue with people being falsely flagged as terrorist or other no-flight risk, and with some of the anti-leftist rhetoric it's not a big leap to make. Also it's entirely in line with Russia labelling LGBT as terrorists, which several GOP/MAGAts are breathing heavily over.

I hope you're right, I just don't see anything but decorum stopping them, and they've repeatedly thrown that out the window.

KidnappedByKitties ,

A stereotypical high drama continuation could be:

The cult know the law is on it's way, and must now accelerate their plans for the final ritual to summon the dark lord to protect them and show the world the Might That Will Usher In the New Era.

Fortunately, the hapless adventurers could be just the sacrifice needed to boost the final steps.

If you need to kill time, the ritual might be preceded by a set of cage fights to find the most worthy sacrifice. Or an elaborate set of trials. Or they're stripped of equipment and/or drained of magic before having to fight themselves out of the situation long enough for the cavalry to get there.

Bonus out is both the summoned Big Bad as a boss fight, or if they derail, they might find themselves fighting the High Priest and their most enthusiastic lieutenant/followers while they perform a ritual that adds puzzle like elements to the fight (the boss priest has a shield as long as the followers live, or elemental pillars that have to be destroyed before damaging the priest, etc).

Of course the cavalry arrives just in time, and the mob of townsfolk spread out to fight the cultists, so that only a few arrive to aid at the boss fight.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Or you could have a cool siege type episode.

The cult can't kill the adventurers yet, because they have to prepare the compound for the onslaught of the law and mob. They need to prepare arrows and reagents for the palisades/walls, prepare wards/rituals/cauldrons of hot water, organise the defensive teams, and the High priest needs their guards to protect the ritual of the demolition wave that will wipe out the assailants/everything outside the ritual circle for a mile wide radius after a long ritual that in it's haste is leaking dangerous magics making a fight in the ritual room that much more hazardous.

The captured adventurers of course escape their improvised cages/fetters in time to sabotage and/or infiltrate the defences and let the law and mob in. And fight their way to the inner chamber just as the ritual is nearing it's climax.

Bonus cinematic points if the ritual chamber is marked by a pillar of darkness, swirling clouds centered on it, or similar so that the outside sorcerer knows where to go.

KidnappedByKitties ,

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KidnappedByKitties ,

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KidnappedByKitties ,

Me calling you Shirley, no matter how much you insist you're Tom, doesn't make Shirley a slur, it just makes me a rude asshole.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Graphene, the superconductor hoax, the quantum electron model all would like to disagree.

Even though you might not need to calculate anything with it, it certainly applies in your daily life. (although the electron model maybe mostly for high school students)

KidnappedByKitties ,

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

KidnappedByKitties ,

A picture of emissions per capita

Notice how the US is among the largest polluters per capita by quite the margin.

KidnappedByKitties ,

I'm comfortable saying yes to that

KidnappedByKitties ,

Lol. Check your privilege.

A. Do a carbon footprint analysis of your life, if it's above 2,5 tons coe/year you're a net burden on the planet. My country is as well, although considerably lower than the US.

B. It is possible for you to be a paragon of environmentalism and still live in a country with inefficient systems for water, infrastructure, zoning, industry and food production. Not to mention live in a culture of unsustainable lifestyle. Many Chinese or Indian persons are simply too poor to have a major impact on the environment, but their national industrial practices drive up the average pollution to levels comparable to the US (although still lower). Most US people aren't as poor, and also have shitty industry standards, and also the means to change that without losing your standing internationally.

C. Multiple countries are shitty, in fact most of the non-developing world countries are a net burden.

D. As opposed to the other countries at the top, the US has had the economy, data, and access to resources to be able to something about it for generations, whereas most have had half the time and considerable need of modernising.

E. The US is much larger than the other countries, and could with quite simple measures make great impact and help pressure other great polluters.

KidnappedByKitties ,

IIRC, a tree absorbs up to 3 tons/year, and takes a bunch of years to get to that stage.

The trees also don't sequester underground, and will need surface area staying as forest for the rest of time.

As many have echoed: an ounce of prevention saves a pound of cure. Most bang for our buck would be to change our lifestyle and regulations. But as that's not feasible we're at the geo engineering and artificial sequestration stage.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Wow, this is a useless editorial.

No link to the report, unclear if the report takes into account years since migration (it takes time to learn language, develop networks, and climb ladders), some indication that the trouble is that migrants end up in low paying jobs (which of course would decrease GDP), and no comment on the fairly obvious question on what the integration policy says about time frames.

Also, it puts all of the post-Brexit decline at the door of the immigrants, which seems ridiculous.

This reads like a hit piece from conservatives in preparation for election season.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Thanks for linking!

But lol, that is such an obviously biased report with vague eyebrow waving suggestions that immigrants are to blame for everything.

None of the charts or trends they present are consistent in their effect, haven't controlled for anything (the major point is lowered GDP per capita while immigration spiked five years ago, but the Brexit drop started well before then, and the exodus of specialist EU-migrants isn't even mentioned), and don't actually say anything except look at this red line next to a thing getting worse.

CPS is why you should view every "Think tank" as a lobbyist organisation, and their materials as sales flyers...

Can someone help me understand how the laplacian of a function at a point relates to the average of the values of the points that surround it?

I was watching this video, which was describing the intution behind the second derivative. I understand how the 1-dimmensional result was found, but I am quite at a loss for how to arrive at the n-dimmensional result, where the second derivative is the laplacian (the video provides the 3-dimmensional result, i.e. $f(x,y,z)$, at...

KidnappedByKitties , (edited )

I'm not a fan of their approach to explaining it, but if you look at 08:50, you'll see that the Laplacian² is just the sum of second derivatives in each of your dimensions: f''(x) + f''(y) + f''(z).

I couldn't stomach watching the whole video, so I don't know how they define <f>, and the parametrisation of x_0 representing a sphere on curve seems to become needlessly abstract for the topic of the video.

KidnappedByKitties ,

What specifically are you referring to? Also, out of curiosity, why don't you like their explanation?

The parametrisation of x_0 representing a sphere on the curve seems needlessly abstract for the topic of the video. Even though it looks analogous to the one dimensional basis, it's confusing you.

Also the simile to curvature seems limiting (as evidenced by the confusion at the abstraction to higher dimension), but maybe that's just me struggling to visualise n-dimensional shapes.

The operator that is written as a nabla with the superscript of 2 is, in its entirety, referred to as the laplacian.

You are correct.

They don't (for n-dimensions). That was, essentially, the main issue that I was having.

I'm not aware of any widely used average of n-dimensional parametrisation (other than the Laplacian and perhaps the normal), so the relation seems ill defined. You'll have to check supplementary materials or alternate explanations.

The summary formulation is practically useful for applications.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Would you be aware of any rationale for why that might be? I was under the assumption that averages are defined regardless of the number of dimensions.

I would rather invert the question, why would there be a broadly used definition unless it's useful?

Averages can also be defined in different ways, with medians, logarithmic means, squared means, Root Mean Square , and most of statistics, beyond the simple arithmetic one.

From an intuitive standpoint, how would you even go about to describe an n-dimensional curve as something useful in one dimension (scalar).

What meaningful, direction independent, quantity would you describe to differentiate between a cylinder and a sphere, or other shapes?

And I mean these questions not to be disparaging but as a guide, find a useful quantity and a meaningful formulation and you have created a mathematical tool. Get it to do cool and/or useful things, and people will start using it. As enough people adopt it, it becomes the widely used definition that we can point to the next time someone asks this question.

A simple way is to solve a practical problem with it, a more mathematical way is to express a neat relation, simplify a clumsy proof and/or solve one of the unsolved problems.

Normals are useful as they give the orientation of out (and are also useful in creating subspaces), so when working on finding the outside of surfaces, which we've spent many decades on, it came out as a commonly used tool. They're now also used in Machine learning theory to describe Solution Spaces to Parameter spaces, although I don't know enough to know if it's actually useful or just trendy.

Which formulation are you referring to?

The summary formulation: ∇² = f''(x) + f''(y) + f''(z).

Is a sound level of 105 decibels for a few seconds enough to rupture a person's eardrum?

In 2022, a Texas family filed a lawsuit against Apple for damaging their son's hearing after an Amber Alert went off while he was wearing Airpods. According to Google, the maximum volume of phone headphones is around 105 decibels. The family are claiming that the son now requires hearing aids after his eardrum ruptured....

KidnappedByKitties ,

Well said!

KidnappedByKitties ,

Thank you for taking the time to explain, we do indeed seem to be closer to each other's understanding.

So the frequency of a repeated waveform and the shape of the waveform are not interchangeable.
Hence my conclusion is that despite... theoretically the amount of energy may be the same, there is a difference in how the energy is transferred.

This is contrary to what I remember having been taught about biomechanics and hearing, but as memory and understanding is unreliable, I'll cede that I'd need to look up a reference for better precision.

The crux of my argument hinges on there not being a difference. And my understanding of the physiology is that the hairs will primarily bend with pressure, and exhaust with flexion (repeated bending cycles leads to breaking), within the limits of survivable amplitudes.

If there isn't a difference, my argument continues in that it's physically very difficult to create a pulse with a ramp up faster than the 20 kHz the ear is evolved to take, that's 0,05 ms, not many physical processes go that fast to create a pressure wave and those that do typically get dispersed very quickly, unless as part of a harmonic excitation.

But of course all that is irrelevant if that's not how the ear reacts.

headphones. Those limits are with respects of quality of sound reproduction.

You may be right, the details of what the measure represents haven't been presented.

From context where it's being argued as a legal argument, I have assumed it to be part of the safety design, and not of sound reproduction.

Ear phones/plugs have no business reproducing good quality sound at >100 dBA, and would be sued into oblivion as the hearing damage and tinnitus reports rolled in. Which to be fair, is what the OP is about.

Having a physical limit at 105 dB would then be congruent with the same unused overhead you refer to, as it corresponds to a doubling of potential sound pressure, and is about typical as overcapacity for high fidelity engineering applications.

faulty earbuds that emitted bursts of painful high frequency noise despite playback being of moderate volume.

105 dB would probably be painful, and as a surprise would be jarring, which contributes to the perceived risk of injury. It should also not be loud enough to cause lasting physical injury, and you'd typically have full functionality within two weeks.

An earbud/head phone can be designed failsafe, so that casing, driver, or most commonly membranes will break at too high amplitudes. If nothing else, it will be limited by the amount of energy available, which for wireless or portable headphones is typically very low. I can't vouch for the specific gear in the OP, but given the rarity of recalled gear due to injury, I'd guess it would be widespread industry practice to design it fail safe.

What I'm saying is that it can still be hardware/physically limited at 105 dB, even though it gave a painful squelch before breaking.

I apologize for my frustration. I've been experiencing lately that I try to communicate one thing and the recepient keep projecting it into their own frame of reference and insist I'm talking of something that I'm not. I'm a bit touchy and I'm sorry about that.

I totally get it, it's a built in flaw of the Lemmy/social media format. Too little supportive language cues, and too little time and/or investment to actually listen.

I appreciate you having the patience to talk this through with me.

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