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Thank you! I'll be sure to let my old classmates know I settled an argument that they've probably long-since forgotten about if I ever run into them again.
Totally unrelated, but is "Spaniard" actually a common/accepted term for Spanish people?
It's not a term I encounter often in everyday life, though to be fair I don't exactly have a lot of people visiting my neck of the woods from Spain either.
Something about the term feels kind of derogatory to me, or at least old-fashioned, but that might be because the only time I tend to hear it is when I'm watching something like a pirate movie and they're talking about looting a Spanish ship or something along those lines.
Or maybe because some other more common English words that end in -ard are insults (like drunkard, bastard, and retard,) so my brain kind of lumps it in with them.
I remember having this conversation back when I was in high school while we had some Spanish exchange students, but never bothered to look into it further (and never had the opportunity to ask one of the Spanish kids since I took French) so I guess I'm just looking to settle a debate I had with some kids 20 years ago.
My wife watches some cooking YouTube channel where they have some normal people competing with or against some professional chefs
The normals have picked up the habit of chopping up a "thinking onion" while they're trying to figure out what to do for a challenge, because almost every meal can use an onion somewhere, and it gives them something productive to do instead of standing there freaking out
It really depends a bit on where you are
I live in a suburban area with a ton of deer. Around here they're pretty damn used to people, cars, etc. not that they won't get spooked if you start walking towards them, but if you're being chill they'll hang around pretty damn close to you.
One time I was hunting, walking around through the woods near me with my bow, turned a corner around some tall brush and there were 3 does standing maybe about 15ft from me. I didn't have a doe tag so I just stood there and watched. They saw me, sized me up for a minute, then went back to doing deer stuff right in front of me. It was getting late and I was about ready to pack it in so I even talked to them a little, joking that they should go get their boyfriends for me, they didn't give a fuck.
I work nights, damn near every night on my lunch break, there's a handful of deer hanging around outside our lunch room, I eat outside when it's nice, the deer don't mind me being out there, chatting with my coworkers. Few weeks back I was out there while there were some fireworks going off nearby, the deer didn't mind that one bit either (though the dogs in the nearby neighborhood were not a fan, the deer were more concerned, though still not too bothered, about the barking than the explosions going off overhead)
My commute is along some fairly major roads. There's almost no traffic when I'm commuting, but there's always going to be at least a car or two driving by every few minutes. Those roads are practically lined with deer.
If I don't see at least a dozen deer on any given day while just going about my business it's kind of weird.
But when I go camping and hiking in more rural/wooded areas, the deer are a lot more skittish, and I rarely see them even though I know the woods have to be teeming with them, there's no shortage of droppings, rubs, shed antlers, etc. but the deer aren't hanging around if they catch a whiff of you.
Sip of beer, mostly foam, almost certainly a yuengling or Budweiser.
Also would occasionally have a small glass of wine or champagne for holiday dinners and such.
Liquor was a shot of some kind of fruity vodka, chased with some Gatorade. I was about 18 or 19, didn't really drink but my girlfriend did, and she wanted to have a drink with me so I obliged. Only time I drank with her.
Couple years later I was still living at home, I was about 19 or 20, parents were out of town and I was looking to make dinner. Found a recipe that sounded good that called for some beer, texted my parents I was gonna use a beer for cooking and got the ok. Used about half the beer, drank the other half. I believe it was a yuengling Oktoberfest.
First proper time drinking was about 2 weeks before I turned 21. I stayed on with my old scout troop as a leader, and we were going to be away on a week long canoe trip over my birthday. I was at a friend's shore house hanging out for a few days, and since a couple of us were 21, we grabbed a case of beer, I believe corona and a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black. We didn't go hard, we sat on the deck, smoked some cigars, had some scotch and a couple beers, but mostly we just hung out, went to the beach, and played D&D.
After I got back from my trip, for my first legal drink I went out with some coworkers after work. Had a few Yuenglings and a shot of Jack. Had a nice buzz going so I walked home. Had the hiccups most of the way.
Not that I really support cops confiscating orbeez guns as a general rule
But I work in 911 dispatch in a different area where orbeez guns aren't illegal, and they've been kind of a problem this year.
I think some of our local delinquents have taken to freezing the balls or modifying their guns to shoot faster or something, because we have had a few injuries and broken windows and such linked to orbeez guns this year.
Even without that, they're a pretty significant nuisance that have started a lot of fights because no one likes being pelted with orbeez.
And of course there's the problem that exists with all toy guns where if you paint them black or are running around with them in the dark it can be hard to tell them apart from a real gun which is asking for trouble.
And the countless calls I've gotten from neighborhood karens who "don't think it's safe" or "that they shouldn't be doing that here" is getting kind of old.
And not for nothing, orbeez can be really slow to break down in the environment and I wouldn't be surprised if they're contributing to our microplastics problem.
If there is a way to twist the interpretation of a law to say that orbeez guns are illegal, I'm not at all surprised to hear about cops doing just that. Not that I generally support that, but if you caught me on a bad day after I took a bunch of calls about kids with them, I might be tempted to sign a petition to get them banned.
As someone who has regularly carried a variety of knives and multi tools almost every day of my life, I also can't say I'm a fan of their knife laws.
That said, as-written, I don't find them to be quite as bad as a lot of people make them out to be (how the police choose to interpret and enforce those laws is sort of a different matter)
It's not the sort of knife I normally choose to carry, but all of the reasons I normally carry and use a knife for can be done perfectly safely and effectively with something like a regular Swiss army knife with a 2.5inch non-locking blade which should generally be ok to carry for no particular reason.
It should be noted that I do not carry a knife for any self-defense purposes. I feel very little need to defend myself, and even if I did a knife would be just about my last choice after pretty much any other object in arm's reach. Even though where I am, I could pretty much walk around town carrying a halberd for self defense if I really wanted to and it would be legal, I actually do tend to choose my EDC knives to be pretty inoffensive-looking free of any unnecessary point/stabby bits and if possible.
And cases that really require more knife than that aren't exactly part of my usual everyday carry scenario, and the appropriate knives for those occasions should be covered under the lawful justification and reasonable use exemptions (again, how the police actually apply those laws can leave something to be desired, but that's often a problem here too)
Again, not a fan of their knife laws, but in the grand scheme, I'm not nearly as outraged by them as a lot of people are.
You are correct, should have double-checked that the two PVAs referred to the same thing.
I think the rest of my comment still pretty much stands though, PVA glue isn't quite water soluble but the cleanup for it isn't much more involved and doesn't involve any exotic solvents or anything
It's around $40 for a spool, I'm not sure what that works out to per square meter of printed board, and I'm far too lazy to work that out.
It also seems to me like it could be a more efficient use of board space since it could be printed closer to the shape of the traces than you'd probably want to trim a board to by hand so you can save on material a bit that way. A bunch of cut corners and notches cut out of a few boards could add up over a few prints.
I'm just spitballing some thoughts, I don't do nearly enough circuit designing to have a horse in this race, nor the desire to really work out the economics of it but especially for someone who already owns a 3d printer and maybe is already using PVA filament this seems like something that could fit well into their existing workflows.
It could just be the parts of the internet I inhabit, but I don't think it's really a recent thing, I think it's just hitting a point where the masses are really starting to take notice of it.
I'm pretty sure I remember seeing memes about CCTV cameras and such in the UK about 20 years ago now, and I don't think it's an accident that things like 1984 and V for Vendetta were written by British authors and set there.
As an outsider, it's certainly looked to me like the UK has been kind of a nanny state for a long time, and it's not a long walk from there to the kind of bullshit we're seeing more of now.
It's arguably easier, but I think it depends on your use case.
Etching usually requires a couple chemicals that not everyone has the space to store properly, like if they live in a small apartment and have kids, and even if you go with safer alternatives like vinegar over ferric chloride, after use the etching solution should still be considered poisonous and needs to be handled and disposed of with some care.
Also worth considering is that this method is solder-free, so in addition to not needing to solder anything, it's easier to recover components, no desoldering needed, just warm it up a bit and pull out the components for reuse.
Just thinking back to different points in my life, I used to live in a small apartment with my wife and a roommate. I wouldn't have wanted to keep acetone around there, anytime I used it it would have stunk up the whole place. And I didn't really want to do any soldering there, our ventilation wasn't great and our smoke detectors were on a hair trigger, and I lived in fear of losing my security deposit from dropping a stray blob of solder burning a hole in the carpet or something. PVA printing is pretty innocuous as far as fumes go, and I wouldn't have needed much equipment beyond an electric kettle (other than a printer) to play around with this there.
Really though, I see this being most useful for a situation where you want to prototype a few iterations that you'll want to field test. I wouldn't want to etch a dozen prototype boards that can't really be reused and have to desolder to recover all the components, but I could see printing out a dozen prototypes this way and refusing the liquid metal and such.
I'd probably still want my final board to be etched, but this gives you a good way to workshop a bunch of revisions without throwing out a bunch of etched boards.
Also I don't know how the cost of PVA filament stacks up against copper clad boards, but just kind of guestimating from my limited knowledge of 3d printing, it seems like the cost of boards vs filament is probably about the same or maybe even better. Sure, there's the startup costs of getting the metal and a printer, but I feel like a lot of the people who would want to do this probably already have a printer or were looking for an excuse to get one anyway, and the metal is reusable.
I skimmed through the paper, and I agree that it looks pretty damn digestible for the average tinkerer to understand and implement themselves if they so choose
But just kind of a quick summary for people who still won't read the article
You basically 3d print a circuit board out of PVA (which is
basically the same material as regular white elmers school glue, soEDIT: that's not quite right, see below non toxic and water soluble) with hollow channels instead of circuit traces.Then you fill those hollow tubes with the gallium/indium mix, which has a very low melting point, like "glass of warm water" low.
Insert any components you need and secure them into place with a drop of glue, and BOOM you've got a circuit board.
And when you're done, just dump it in a glass of water. The PVA dissolves and you can fish out the metal to reuse in a different project.
Like you said, the only "specialized" equipment you need is a 3d printer that can handle PVA filament.
Not necessarily something that's going to be useful for any industrial production applications, but this could be huge for hobbyists and even prototyping for businesses. Most traditional methods for making a PCB call for some kind of nasty chemicals and they're not really reusable, especially not for the home-gamer, this could make for a nice step-up for the people who don't want to deal with this and want something a little more polished than a breadboard or a mess of soldered wires
Same as it's been since I got my first smartphone circa 2010
Ringtone is the Trololo song, and my text sound is a murloc from WoW
I haven't played WoW in about that long, but I think it makes for a damn good notification sound, always gets my attention when I have my ringer on (which isn't super often, but I often don't feel my phone vibrating so it's on at least occasionally)
They also make for a good chuckle from nerds in my age bracket when they hear it.
A little thought on drawing district borders that I've had kicking around for a while.
Putting aside all thoughts of gerymandering, let's start with: What is the point of dividing a state up into congressional districts?
And the answer, of course, is supposed to be to make sure that there is someone in Congress who is looking out for the interests of people in your community.
But what is your "community?"
Sure, it's the town, or the part of town you live in. But giving each individual town or neighborhood a representative isn't remotely feasible,
And odds are you probably don't spend all of your time within that tight little bubble around your home. You probably work, go shopping, and/or spend at least some of your leisure time in places outside of that bubble.
I know in addition to the town I live in, I work in another town about 10 miles away, I shop at stores in about 3 other towns at least once a week, I regularly visit my parents and sister who live in a town about 20 miles away, I go hiking, biking, and kayaking in a few different parks around the area, I have a membership to an independent movie theater in another town I regularly go to, I go to bars and restaurants in a few different towns, and to get to all these places, there's probably a half dozen or so towns I drive through but rarely have any reason to stop in.
All-told, it's maybe about 20 towns where I spend probably 90+ percent of my time, those are the areas that are important to me, and ideally if the world revolved around me, that would be one congressional district to make sure that my interests were being represented.
In my case, that's a pretty neat, compact little district, it more-or-less encompasses the towns along 3 major roads that run roughly parallel to each other, and it also happens to be roughly ⅓ of the county I live in.
And for a lot of people who live here, their home range is probably pretty similar. Like I said, it's along some major roads, and basically everything you could need or want can be found within those 20 or so towns.
That's not really enough people to make a congressional district out of (since the number of seats is capped at 435 currently, although when the nation was founded each district only represented about 30,000 people, and if we'd stuck with that ratio it would probably be enough to make about 3 or 4 districts)
I don't hate how my current district. It probably makes a lot of sense on paper, it's basically my county with about a third of a neighboring county tacked on.
That other county is somewhat rural and divided up into thirds. One third is with our county, one third is with another neighboring county, and those are probably the most urban/suburban parts of that county, and it kind of makes sense that they'd be lumped in with our largely suburban counties, the last third is the most rural, and it's lumped in with a few other very rural counties, so that makes sense.
However, I rarely go to that county, if the maps were being drawn specifically for me, it would probably include parts of 2 or 3 other counties before that one. I'd probably even be willing to cede parts of my county to another district in exchange for those parts.
And I think a lot of people here would agree with that. Those other areas I'd include are along major roads and easily reachable from our area, so a lot of people probably shop, work, etc. along those major arteries.
So my ideal district would kind of end up looking like a weird blob with some squiggly branches and nodes along major roads.
And I suspect it would be similar for a lot of people around the country.
So I kind of feel like the ideal way to draw these maps is to just ask people what they feel like their district should be.
Maybe present them with a map of their general area on a computer screen, and have them select towns they visit and drive through regularly until they've selected a big enough population to be a district
Then take all of those maps and sort of average them together and see what most people consider to be their community
Do it maybe every 5 or 10 years when people go to vote.
Anecdotally, the highest altitude I've ever been at hiking was around 11,000ft, and the group I was hiking with started feeling it a little bit around 9000-10,000 ft.
It wasn't dramatic, where we really noticed it was after we'd made camp, we had a little downtime and there was a bit of an open area, so we started throwing around a Frisbee, and running around chasing the Frisbee we could feel we were getting winded a bit quicker than we usually would.
Age, fitness, genetics, etc. will of course factor into that, but I suspect that most reasonably healthy people sitting in an airplane probably wouldn't feel much at 7000ft. Maybe they would if they were jogging up and down the aisle of the plane, but even then it probably wouldn't be anything too obvious, and if they didn't know anything about altitude sickness they'd probably chalk it up to being tired from the mental stress of air travel- getting to the airport, making the connection, security, lost baggage, etc.
Yes, but they wouldn't have access to it in the first place if humans hadn't existed, since corn is a new world plant, and the aurochs that domestic cattle descended from were from Eurasia.
And corn as we know it today is very much the product of thousands of years of agriculture. The wild teosinte plants that corn descends from didn't have the big ears of sweet starchy kernels we know as corn today, it looked a lot more like grass that hasn't been mowed in a long time that's starting to go to seed, except scaled up a bit. If you look up pictures of "Zea diploperennis" or "Zea perennis that's more like what natural corn looked like before humans started fucking with it.
And even if wild cows had access to wild corn, which they didn't, they probably would have been chowing down on the whole plant, so mostly fiber with a bit of starch and sugar from comparatively few and small seeds, instead of just all corn kernels.
Naturally, cows wouldn't have access to a limitless supply of corn that has been selectively cultivated over the years to have higher sugar and starch content. They don't tend to have this issue when they're eating primarily grass and can easily release it on their own by burping.
There would surely be some odd cases here and there of cows getting bloated on a less grain-heavy diet, but not nearly as common
Yeah, but if, like OP, the intent of donating your body is to ensure that one exploitative industry (the funeral industry) doesn't profit from your death, you probably also want to make sure that other industries (like the military industrial complex) that you also don't like aren't going to be able to benefit either.