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In the Lord of the Rings fandom there's a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin's Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

in VX circles there's been a debate for at least 20 years whether it's better to use copper or aluminium foil to isolate duractance attenuators. obviously aluminium is more of a nuisance because you have to add ridges to the foil, but it's a lot cheaper. where it gets annoying is when the copper purists start talking about "ripple current" and "second laplacian instabilities" and "metallic saponification". like bitch, you are not running anywhere close to that kind of linearity on your shitty little taped-together Gravitias-5. or 4.9, i guess. pfft. just get a hobby knife and crease that aluminium.

anyway i recently started a VX community at !deltahunters@feddit.nu, swing by.

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