cleansingfire

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Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Yup. Try to treat the source of the pain. Of course. But dont act morally superior because you don't need acetaminophen.
Comment · 11 months ago
Except that ADHD is older than screens, and exists without drugs or addiction.
Comment · 11 months ago
The medieval period was called the dark ages largely because of our ignorance of it. The Medieval spans about 1,000 years. There were plagues which made labor immensely more valuable, & wars that lasted generations. Any blanket statement about it is bound to be somewhere between false and meaningless. Including this one.
Comment · 1 year ago
Day Traders only exist because of this. Bull markets allow them to exist.
Comment · 1 year ago
When you twiddle your thumbs, your thumbnails always point the same direction relative to each other. So the bolts relative rotation will maintain that. Imagine a stripe on the face towards us of the bolts, and twiddling action will not rotate the stripe in an absolute or relative sense.

For the two bolts, this is equivalent to rotating both bolts so the stripe stays in the same relative position, as if one were rotated around the other or they were twisted in the same absolute direction. If you are concerned about symmetry violation because of the direction of the threads, you can reverse the threads on both bolts, with the same result. You can try this with a couple of bolts and a couple of rubber bands to keep them in the same relative position. The illustration is a hint that the motion is equivalent to rotating both in the same absolute direction (near side moving up.) Then view that system from the head and note the direction each would be moving, away or towards you.

If you have to undo a bolt or nut from behind, the bolt head moves in a reverse direction from your viewpoint, just as if you were to view a glass clock from behind.

Comment · 2 years ago
I'm concerned about the same mechanism that causes permanent loss of taste with zinc lozenges, and if it applies here. I don't want to poison the nerves in my genitals. It isn't a common or widespread effect, but it is severe.
Comment · 2 years ago
Also demonstrated by the picture in the op of the brick wall. Note that it wasn't smashed or knocked down, but looks as if it was cut.
Comment · 2 years ago
He claimed alcohol was a mystic sacrament, in an interview I read long ago. That's an awfully destructive spirituality, but it was very much his choice, whether rationalized addiction or not. Personally, I've seen that destruction too closely to find it anything but tragic, but I'm grateful for his poetry.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Only affects Apple silicon chips (intel unaffected) with ProMotion display. Just a quick Exit clause for people with older machines.
Comment · 3 years ago
If they understood significant figures, it would be less suspicious. Besides, when a vendor uses their own special metric, instead of a well known standard, I lose respect for them.
Comment · 3 years ago

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