KillingTimeItself

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TIL sailing ships commonly moved around without wind by warping ( en.m.wikipedia.org )

Warping is throwing an anchor either manually for a small ship or by rowing the anchor out and dropping it farther away for a larger ship. Then the ship would reel it to change position. Good for maneuvering in harbor. Etymologically related to "throwing" and essentially threading a needle across the sea....

KillingTimeItself ,

simply put it into a canon.

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i would presume that would be what one is to do. It seems the logical solution here.

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  1. Though im sure that one has ads. Probably depends on what you grab from the internet, as usual.

Mobile games suck.

KillingTimeItself ,

markdown formatting is weird bruh, sometimes it adds spaces, sometimes it removes them sometimes it just fucking yeets newlines, sometimes it adds them, what a weird "standard"

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how do you even know the kids are allowed to be nude there?

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see thats weird, i read that comment, not one mention of "naked kids" being there, just "kids" being there...

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clothing optional*

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idk i've never been to one but it's clothing optional, so it's up to the kids and the parents ig.

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hmm yes, looks like a cat to me, this is a certified boi!

KillingTimeItself ,

i was gonna say, this is ADHD math? I just thought this was mental math in short lmao.

KillingTimeItself ,

they would have a livable wage if they weren't so fucking bad at business.

They literally outsource the one part of the music industry that makes money publishing

The ONLY source of revenue they have is from subscriptions, and literally all it does is pay the publishers that use spotifys platform. And also VC but that doesn't count since it's VC.

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damn thats crazy, i'm out here with my 300GB collection of music that i own and control and i can just, add lyrics to shit if i want to.

I don't because i'm not deaf and i don't really care for lyrics all that much, but it's also just, automated.

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but why does a disability entitle you to a service that’s paid?

why would you limit the ability to use lyrics though? It's the same shit that every big article tabloid is doing "pay us five dollar a month and we will show you our articles, that we think are good" after showing you like three, in four months for free.

Either give people access to the service, or don't, don't play the bullshit of "well actually, here's a free sample"

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i could... Or i could not.

Hmmm, a question of the ages for sure.

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i take it you tried the archive? There's usually a rouge upload on there somewhere, if not, some torrenting or filesharing service WILL have it, though it's less accessible to the average person.

KillingTimeItself ,

archive.org the only one that we all know about.

KillingTimeItself ,

an rpi is definitely more than enough, though you might want something more than an SD card, just use a VPN and or do it anonymously and be safe out there my friend. The usual rules apply, although most of the internet is better now.

Also my instance dbzer0 has a piracy sub with a rather good resource for getting into it if you aren't immediately familiar with it. Good stuff on there for the average "just interested in how it works" individual, not looking to commit any crimes, because we are good and law abiding people, who respect the law and IP rights.

KillingTimeItself ,

yeah you'll be fine then. You might want to look into i2p on the side, it's rather interesting over there.

KillingTimeItself ,

it's even funnier when you might have any given variety of mental disorders.

Could be ADHD, could be autism, hell might be both or neither! Could be SzPD, could be a variant of that, could be any other generic personality disorder. Hell maybe i'm just shitposting and i'm perfectly normal!

So now that balloons to the period of about 5 years, 20 tests, and many thousands of dollars, both spent and lost.

OH and how could i forget. It does precisely, almost nothing. Because disability is super fucked. And any other services that do exist are probably also a nightmare, so what's even the fucking point of having them!

KillingTimeItself ,

rolling through DSMV and calling it a day is wild, from my experience, at least with more off the cuff mental disorders a survey containing about a thousand or so questions is the bare minimum. Plus a few more rounds of that as you try to narrow down any other potential disorders it could be, because it turns out this is a really hard field to deal with.

There is definitely utility in getting a diagnosis like this, but i'd imagine most wouldn't for most things other than basic stuff like ADHD, depression, anxiety etc... There is a considerable risk of just being wrong about something, even if you roll through something like ICD10 which is markedly better than the DSMV. If you're lucky there are a few good localized options like the akhtar profiles for SzPD which can summarize the general disorder into a handful of specifics actions more so than a broad behavioral checklist.

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i feel like it's situational. I've talked to a lot of people that do have ADHD, and are quite fond of their medication as it makes them extremely functional, but part of me is irked by the fact that it might be a secondary effect due to association. (i suspect they want to be a part of society, and as a result the medication making them capable of doing it quickly becomes a part of themselves) If this is the case, there is an argument to be made for the fact that our society simply isn't built to deal with the people it contains.

Part of me wonders whether ADHD was an evolutionary adaptation due to the presumed utility of it in ancient society.

I may have ADHD, and if so, i find it to be an extreme hindrance to doing normal people things, like at all. However, outside of that im perfectly fine and i would argue probably benefited by it, because it often keeps my brain busy thinking about things and doing stuff, which is good for your mental health (physically) there's a reason a lot of my time in my life has been spent covering various different interests and hobbies, and i think this, whatever it is, is part of it. Doing one thing is just really boring, and i can't be bothered. And if proper treatment (medication in this case) removes that, i would rather not be medicated to be honest.

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one of the most obvious ways is to simply not bypass them, and then do it from within the application itself. That way you can essentially man in the middle the rest of it, though this would require a rather specific set of events and a particularly nested design of an app.

KillingTimeItself ,

since people are yelling about it.

It's probably not blatantly bypassing security and privacy features, what it is PROBABLY doing is using the user to bypass them by simply manipulating them to do it.

Social engineering is way easier than whatever bullshit you would need to do to bypass sandboxing and dynamically recompile, or whatever people are claiming, and my guess would be that this is what they're doing.

If the suit is claiming they are doing what i said, that's probably legal, and not going anywhere, unless tiktok ban bill 2.0. If the suit is claiming what others are claiming, it's still probably wrong and probably going to be tiktok ban bill 2.0.

Unfortunately these things aren't all that exciting at the end of the day.

KillingTimeItself ,

it can be cheaper that way for a lot of reasons, you might not be in network, your insurance might not want to cover it, there might be a million other factors, often times it's just easier, and cheaper to go somewhere else, do that shit, pay out of pocket, go home, feel better, and then start working again.

Generally people aren't too keen on working when trying to figure out if they have cancer or something, for example.

KillingTimeItself ,

yeah, i'm not big into hunting frankly, if i did own one it would be for either sport, or personal protection since middle of fucking nowhere.

Likely not a huge issue, but it's definitely something to consider being in america already i suppose.

KillingTimeItself ,

i don't think you understand insurance.

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this is rather ominous

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uh oh. I think i might need some health insurance before that event.

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especially when lifted, if you're driving a corolla or some shit and get hit with a tonka truck you're getting mostly lower suspension, luckily it's still an engine block in front of you, but it's still fucking horrifying.

I've also heard that these things almost never get insured because they're a fucking mess.

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people keep saying that they have uses as work trucks and i'm not sure i believe them because they made smaller trucks in the 90s and 80s and those trucks were still for work?

I mean i've seen one of these things towing 5 fucking cars. I can't think of the last time i had to load up 5 cars on a shipping trailer and then ship them on my fucking daily driver. Honestly i didn't even think that was possible, but apparently it is, and i have no idea why people own these things as daily drivers now.

to be clear, my issue here is that saying they have uses is underselling the problem. You can hire a semi with a flatbed to ship a bag of sand. But that's fucking stupid.

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Anyways, you know what I learned? These fucking things suck at off-roading.

no shit, they're running live axle suspension, no amount of lift kit is going to get your diff case unstuck from the mud LMAO.

Doesn't help that these idiots also put small tires on big rims to get that bafflingly stupid look on them, which lowers the ride quality, and lowers the axle even more.

I'm convinced you have to be brain damaged to own a bro dozer, let alone think an f150 with live axles can get around in mud. Bro almost nothing can, a humvee might do it, but it's also literally built to do it. It's got full independent suspension, nice large tires with high sidewalls, portal axles for increased clearance. It's got a low cab, set next to the engine and transmission (that's why they're so wide) They're short, so they can get around trees and shit and likewise have a low CG.

And f150 looks like it was built to be a parody of a hummer, and it's no surprise that they drive and handle like shit as a result.

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For all the actual off road work I’ve done, the best vehicle has always been those little utility off-road vehicles (we call them mules or gators but I’m sure they have a real name) or just a regular-sized pickup truck with 4 wheel drive and low gears.

UTVs, side by sides, i've seen stuff like that used to refer to them in a more generic manner, shockingly those are so good primarily because they weigh nothing and have comparatively huge tires with way more surface area, while also having equivalent power if not more, just due to the size.

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“It helped when I had to haul shit to the dump” or “I bring wood back to build my shed”.

the marks of a man scared to learn how to tow a trailer because "i don't know how to do it"

Just use a trailer, it's not that bad.

KillingTimeItself ,

dude minivans are crazy, you can fit a full 4x8 sheet of plywood in that bitch EZPZ

KillingTimeItself ,

better yet, mandatory lifelike dummy crash experience. Send em into a ballistics gel dummy loaded with blood and organs, see how they feel about it.

KillingTimeItself ,

mogs are cool, i don't know much about them because they seem to be primarily european, but i will probably own one someday out of curiosity, i only hear good things about them.

Personally i'm a fan of industry trucks though, tatra, oshkosh, unimog, the usual suspects. Ford can eat shit.

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Australia is not just the US with death spiders.

Aussie land is factorio. America is like a civ game or a city builder.

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the reason why mass matters is because if you have more mass, let's say twice the mass of a sedan for example, you transfer significantly more energy into the smaller vehicle, and the smaller vehicle transfers significantly less energy into the large vehicle.

go find a video of a freight training crashing into a car or something at a crossing. There's a reason freight trains don't have crumple zones.

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nah here in the US we subscribe to the notion that freighters have bells on them.

Anything else is a crime against trains.

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a lot of other countries around the world do have bells on some of their freight lines, but it seems to be primarily US import freighters, though there are domestic manufacturers outside of the US that do use bells. I hear they're relatively common in canada as well? Makes sense frankly.

specifically, this one

KillingTimeItself ,

yeah pretty much. And much like jeans, they just suck.

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the lead poisoning would only really apply to people 50 and older, i would think, based on my assumed timespans of leaded fuel and continual exposure to it.

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Some of it has to do with CAFE standards using vehicle footprint to determine the target MPG.

gotta love when the funny regulations do the opposite of what you expect them to do.

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yeah that sounds about right, it's basically the extent of most of these things.

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i think the confederate flag, or a very similar flag often confused for the confederate flag is often related to UK history? Still doesn't explain why it's in germany, but it makes more sense, at least.

KillingTimeItself ,

so I guess you can also make a argument for lowered SUVs and trucks to be just as bad as lifted trucks and suvs

smells to me like any non standardization in the auto industry greatly increases the danger of being in a car. Surely this won't cause any problems.

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if you actually look into what the insurance industries do for crash safety testing it's actually kind of fucked up.

Because they basically started with full frontal impacts at n speed, that was met, so a decade later they were like "half frontal impacts are a thing now" and turns out most cars performed pretty bad on that, so they fixed that, and like a decade later again, they were fine, and then they were like "oh no, now quarter impact frontal is bad now" and then that's what they've recently fixed.

So most of car safety seems to be for pretty specific, though i suppose "more likely" impacts.

Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled ( lemmy.world )

Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.

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i've got no problems with torx (it's one of the best driver designs) and nothing wrong with left hand thread, as you said, it's needed for bicycles, but using proprietary "security" bits is just, less than acceptable in the modern day and age.

Though i am inclined to agree with you on the design theory, it's more than likely they have billions of those little proprietary things kicking around in a warehouse, and there's just no reason for them to get rid of them.

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