ExtremeDullard

Some advice for Valentine's day.

I just noticed that the two communities I moderate on SDF seem to have stopped being updated when I view them from lemmy.ml's page:

• amputee@lemmy.sdf.org stopped updating 2 months ago (view from the SDF server here for comparison)
• glasses@lemmy.sdf.org stopped updating last month (view from the SDF server here for comparison)

This doesn't seem to concern other SDF communities, e.g. funhole@lemmy.sdf.org.

Anybody knows what the problem might be?

Some woman I never met told me point blank at the gym that I should pray more. After staring at her in disbelief for ten solid seconds, she told me I had a disability because I had sinned. Obviously.

So I asked her why I should pray a God that disabled me: she told me God loved me and had a plan for me. Tough love I guess. But hey, if there's a plan...

Then I asked her if my limbs would grow back if I prayed enough: no she said, but it's not too late to let Jesus into my life.

Well that made total sense. I'm off to church then...

I've been printing quite a few registration plates to hold parts in place in production that need to sit as flat as possible on the production jigs.

I've noticed that taking the finished parts off the bed of the printer too soon causes them to warp: they come off the bed looking nicely set and straight, but as they finish cooling down unsupported, they slowly warp until they finally fully reach room temperature after 10 or 15 minutes.

So now I let them cool down slowly on the bed of the printer after the print is done. Ideally I let the bed cool down to room temperature: then the parts readily separate naturally as they shrink. If I'm in a hurry, I'll still wait until the parts release with very little force, around 35C - but no hotter than that, to avoid warping - as in this video.

I've been printing quite a few registration plates to hold parts in place in production that need to sit as flat as possible on the production jigs.

I've noticed that taking the finished parts off the bed of the printer too soon causes them to warp: they come off the bed looking nicely set and straight. But as they finish cooling down unsupported, they slowly warp until they finally fully reach room temperature after 10 or 15 minutes.

So now I let them cool down slowly on the bed of the printer after the print is done. Ideally I let the bed cool down to room temperature: then the parts readily separate naturally as they shrink. If I'm in a hurry, I'll still wait until the parts release with very little force, around 35C - but no hotter than that, to avoid warping - as in this video.

This is the map of the Gulf of Mexico as seen from outside the US on Google Maps.

Google said it would foist the Gulf of America idiocy only on its US users, but apparently the temptation to flatter His Orangeness was too much, so the rest of the world gets to enjoy it too.

I figured I'd rename it too. I mean why not after all: it seems any idiot can make up geography now.

Okay now that's just cute.

So it's finally happened.

I went to the sauna after my swim at the municipal swimming pool, and as always I was super careful because I don't have great balance and the floor is always slippery in there.

And... I slipped. I splattered myself all over the floor in front of 15 sweaty dudes in Adam's costume and hit my knee bad enough that I couldn't get up.

3 or 4 of them dudes got up to help and scraped me off the floor. No real harm done, but my ego is still bruised 6 hours later. I just wanted to vent a bit. Sorry...

I ran my old 2004 Samsung television into the ground: the EL backlight was so worn out that the picture had large dark holes in it, and the TV would take 20 minutes to warm up and display something.

And today it wouldn't start at all anymore. It's deader than a dead dodo. But hey, 20 years for a modern TV ain't bad. I'm pretty pleased with that.

So I went to the supermarket to find the cheapest set I could find. I asked the salesman if they had a cheap, but most importantly NON-SMART TV - thinking non-smart TVs are probably the cheapest of them all, if they still existed at all.

The man said "We have this dumb 43" TV here, but it's the last one, and then we won't get anymore dumb TVs for 3 months."

I looked at the price and it was - gasp - $20 MORE than the cheapest Android-encumbered smart TV of the same size.

I asked the man how come and he said "Well, dumb TVs are hard to get and they sell almost immediately. So they're worth more than the smart ones."

Wow. So people actually WANT dumb TVs and are willing to pay a premium for em. It means attitudes towards the value of privacy are changing and that's great!