j4k3

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[–] j4k3@piefed.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Growing up as a Jehovah's Witness, I was a volunteer on many "quick builds". Witnesses typically build a kingdom hall using volunteers. Of course they pay to have the concrete foundation poured or a more specialized regional volunteer crew does the on site work. The rest of the structure goes up in a 3 day weekend and is painted, carpeted, with all furniture and amenities by Sunday. I think they are a little slower now than they used to be, like a two weekend stretch due to inspections and code. There are witnesses that do all of the required licensed professions. Like my old man is a Wiremen, so I always got stuck in the attic and crawl spaces running wire.

I'm not in that world any more, but I would gladly spend a few weekends a year helping build someone a few houses in a similar style in exchange for building my own home when it is my turn. Like what if it was an open list where you could build some credible skills by showing up and trying to work in one trade, but have around 50:50 chance of getting that assignment. If you already have a licensed skill or trade, your volunteer time is worth more. Anyone is welcome to show up to builds in their region. Your volunteer time is how you move up the list. If you have property, supplies, and can afford the time, you could volunteer every weekend to expedite your own build on the regional list.
In my experience, the social connections from this kind of experience are so strong that many people will continue to volunteer and show up without any expectations whatsoever.

IMO, public forestry land and resources should fall into this kind of system. Even the majority of your supplies should be derived from the same system.

Anyways, that is just my take on what is possible.

 

Other than like O'Neill cylinders in cislunar space, or sod roofed community long houses.

Never mind that ending commodity housing destroys western civilization.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 4 points 1 day ago

Everyone has a right to all information sources, the right to skepticism, the right to error, and the right to dissent in all nonviolent forms aka the right to offend others. No one has a right to impinge the rights of another.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wouldn't a bubble be at least partially correlated with banking loan duration? I'm not sure what the nominal terms are, but figure they are all likely on the same schedule due to the initial influx of public interest. So if one company defaults, the rest are put under far greater scrutiny and results in collapse.

That is how I watched retail fail. Default on one distributor and the rest quickly find out. If the retailer does not have a good excuse in that moment, they all pull credit even if one is in good standing with all the rest. When it is the first time, if the issue happens in the off season or the business is in the process of expanding and opening a new store, no one cares in general and will often extend terms. If the local region is doing badly, it is another thing entirely. Everyone is on edge and conservative. I figure that dynamic is likely universal in business at all scales.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 2 points 1 day ago

Trauma is a hard thing to pin down. I think it depends on how traumatic the situation was and how the kid was treated after.

My broken neck and back thing is in a totally different traumatic scope, but the situation and magnitude is still something I struggle to process nearly twelve years later. I legitimately have an amnesia like gap in my consciousness for 3 hours due to the massive head injury. For the first 3-5 years, despite my limitations, I processed it like any of my other bike crashes and was confident I could push through, or that my limitations were psychological failures. I wanted to forget and move on without processing the things that happened. That reaction has reverberating psychological consequences to this day.

With a kid, their self awareness is limited in scope. So I imagine they may or may not block out the experience in a similar way. My point is that trauma is not logical or linear in how it affects the mind. Like the cause of most PTSD is an event that causes a loss of consciousness, that results in severe injury, and was unexpected or out of the person's control.

My earliest memory is around three years old. I was a halfwit that thought I could fly when wearing my superman onesie with cape, if only I was brave enough to leap from one stair higher up and believe strongly enough. So I think I would have the potential to remember. But knowing how severe trauma affected me, it is entirely plausible I could block out the experience completely.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

Reset the last one. It probably has a bad table configuration or has reverted to a default of some sort.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 3 points 2 days ago

I could come up with something contextual on the fly, but it is not a thing I think about. I do not feel a need to navigate or explore my sexual dogma, not that there is anything wrong with doing so. I guess I am lucky to have grown up with experiences that helped me learn what I do and do not find arousing. I think I am open to new experiences, but I generally follow my curiosity wherever it leads and do not care how anyone else feels about that. I'm fiercely loyal, so not in that way.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The stuff from before I was physically disabled by cars while commuting. Mostly my bicycle racing stuff. My skills matter to me a lot, so like when people appreciate or recall them and ask me stuff about them, even when I do not have the ability to do them any more, I get sentimental.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The easiest way is to always use a DNS whitelist firewall on a external device on your network. It is a pain in the ass to manage that list, but you'll log and block every unexpected connection.

Otherwise, you can do a basic grep for "http" in the source, or even by scanning a binary for strings. This vector is easily mitigated by an attacker using encryption or a simple cypher, but it will catch a lot of script kiddies.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The mating sounds.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 8 points 1 week ago

Maybe don't stop snap then.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your username is pUrE EviL. But giving away money is nice. What was it before, Allo IIRC?

Careful doing that with mystery money. If it was a banking error, you may end up on the hook for paying it back and they won't accept that you spent it. Just be aware this is a thing.

 

Question is directed towards the engineers and machinists here. I think this is primarily a system designed to keep the clamping faces parallel, and perhaps there is some kind of bushing or shoulder bolt.

more context
I know a typical screw and nut in a pair of scissors will not align the blades well enough. I want to understand what kinds of hand finishing processes might be used to remedy the alignment problem. Like is this pictured example using a wave or crush washer to compensate for the alignment variation induced by the thread helix and pitch clearance, or something else likely going on? Does this kind of fastener have a name? Is there a more general variant with wrench flats on both sides or does this design typically require a more involved tooling to create?

In other words I want to have an abstract understanding of the entry point, nuances of application, and investment required to incorporate the design into other DIY type projects. For (a rough) instance, I have run into similar issues with the alignment of optics such as with image sensors.

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