Go back and re-read please.

I was talking about making recommendations being a bad idea for a noob.

You made a mistake.

You engaged with someone that wasn’t asking in good faith. The idea itself is so stupid that snagging engaging with it isn’t worth the time and effort.

The only useful response to that question is “are you really that stupid, or do you think I am?”

Anyone that enjoys the Cthulhu mythos, and isn’t at least neutral regarding tentacle references is just silly

Hey, you’re new to lemmy.

Some advice.

It’s one thing to point out bad acts, it’s another to make recommendations. You’re here saying to use .ml, and if that’s your opinion, that’s fine. But you’ve missed a lot if you’re making that recommendation based on mods/admins stances on trans issues and rights.

You simply haven’t had this account long enough to be making recommendations at all tbh, but you really gotta do your research before doing so. Lemmy.ml, for all the good it has, is also run by some people that have a track record om trans rights that’s dubious to some degree or another. Even if the fediverse C/ is moderated by someone that isn’t dubious, it’s still a strange recommendation to be making here.

You do you, but you’re likely to end up mixed in drama if you keep diving in head first without due diligence.

Nah, fuck that shit.

Unless the dude is pounding them, it’s no better or worse than caffeinated drinks.

I mean, it’s greentext, so you know the two rules.

That being said, mine and my sister were pretty horrible to each other as kids. Not in the same ways, but that’s beside the point.

It wasn’t until we were both not only older, but had lived apart for a long while that we could be friends rather than just doing the bare minimum you do for family.

Sometimes, it’s about growing enough to let go of the bullshit, and that takes time

Well, the problem is that the kind of brace you’d want has to be shaped by hand right now.

3d printing will likely get there eventually, but turning out a chest/back brace that’s not only effective but wearable is as much an art as anything else.

I’m not sure where someone without training would get started. Orthotists and prosthetists are specialists; orthotics is a master’s program, and that’s the kind of endeavor your desired brace is.

It’s doable for sure; though whether it’s practical to recreate the decades of research and experimentation that led to where orthotics is today is a different issue.

Iirc, you’d start with thermoplastics, I can’t recall the ones that are used. But they’re shaped by mold, taken from the patient directly, then adjusted during fittings so that there’s no/less issues with long term use. And you can’t just skip the kind of shaping needed. Afaik, nobody is printing orthotics yet. Casts, yes, though that’s fairly new; but those are short term use, so don’t require the same kind of fitting.

I’ve seen, and been present during fittings for, braces for scoliosis, which is going to be similar to the kind of orthotic you’d need.

If you decide to go the home brew route, you’d want to start with a plaster cast of your torso. Best way to go, so you can have a solid form to shape whatever material you go with.

TPU was a common material back when I was still a caregiver, though that has been over a decade ago now, so it may have been supplanted by other thermoplastics.

Carbon fiber was starting to be used back then, but it tends to be too rigid for applications like a torso piece. Maybe with enough foam in between you and the rigid parts, but at that point, why not just go with something less expensive, and more flexible? Iirc, CF was being used for things like leg and ankle orthotics where they’d be bearing weight and need the extra rigidity.

I know that there was CAD based modelling and fast prototyping being done for orthotics, but it was mainly useful in prosthetics, where they could make reproducible units that would then be customized.

Tbh, I would try finding an orthotist irl to meet with and brainstorm. Even if they can’t/won’t help you make your own gear, they’ll likely still warn you off of really bad ideas.

That’s at least in part because you say you have little interest in medical or anatomical study, and that’s what you need if you want your end device to do the job you want. You just can’t fine tune a torso brace without understanding the musculoskeletal system in that area, and what you’ll need to avoid doing.

Like, the curvature of the spine. It may seem like you could just mold your body and make the brace conform to that. But, if the goal is to give support to part of your body, the brace has to apply pressure to your body applying it at the wrong place, or in the wrong way could make things worse. So if you don’t have the time/interest/willingness to gain the level of understanding of anatomy to achieve that, you’ll be better off consulting with someone that already has that knowledge. It’s kinda like self surgery, there’s only so much you can do blind without causing problems worse than what you’re trying to fix.

The first one or the new one?

Haven’t seen the new one.

The first one though? Fucking awesome.

The important thing to me is that, even if someone has no idea about the Joker as a character could watch the movie and see an incredibly well made movie. It’s a great story, the acting is world class, the way it was shot brings depth and emotion to every scene, and the details of the writing are unusually good.

As an example of the last, the background characters, and people with only one line, they have similar ways of speaking, a distinct almost accent in the way the lines are arranged. It ends up feeling like everyone in the movie is from the same place. You know how you go to a city, and there’s turns of phrase, word choices that show up, even when different parts of the city have their own accent? That’s what I’m talking about. Even De Niro’s distinct way of speaking shifts to feeling like his character is from the same city as the clowns.

But, as a joker movie, it’s just as successful. It tells his origin story from a fresh perspective. It does so in a way that even as someone that’s complained about comic based movies doing origin stories instead of just telling a good story with the character/s, I was riveted. I am absolutely fine with the movie being another origin story because it’s just that damn good.

If that’s the one you’re asking about, watch it. Even if you end up not enjoying it as much as I did, you’ll at least have seen a movie that’s crafted the way a movie should be.

Well, I had been taught about Munich and Ribbentrop in public school, both during standard history classes (though they were only mentioned in passing during US history, as part of the background of what happened before the U.S. joined in)

The famine, I didn’t hear about until maybe fifteen to twenty years ago. Can’t pin it down exactly because of shit that was going on in my life at the time, but it was something I read about in one of the books on ww2 that covered events outside of Europe and the Pacific theater.

And I’ve seen many a debate about the degree to which Great Britain was responsible for it.

But, I’d have to say that none of them are exactly high on the list of what the average person remembers about the era. Most people I’ve even mentioned Molotov-Ribbentrop to had no idea what it is. They maybe remember hearing the words in school, but didn’t pay enough attention to link them to anything. The Munich agreement is pretty much unfamiliar to anyone that didn’t have an interest in ww2 beyond high school history. And the famine is outside of what most people that do have an interest care about. The only books I have on the subject of ww2 don’t mention the famine at all.

Ww2 is far enough in the past now that most of us no longer know anyone that fought in the war. It’s passed into the kind of history that’s “dead”. Even though we all, everywhere still live with the ripples in world events that started then, it might as well be aztec history as far as the typical person here in the US is concerned. Even my generation, that had grandparents that were alive during the war, or fought in the war, the interest is largely no greater than surface level.

And I’m not sure that the details like the two pacts really do matter now. They’re not anything that affects us still, unlike a lot of of events of the war. IMO, the famine is more important since it was a much broader event. Depending on how you look at it, the famine shaped a lot of events for India as a whole in ways that neither agreement did for Europe.

Tbh, if they don’t have a damn cell device calling home, I’d jump on board myself

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More power to them!

Pirate it.

The only important concern about consuming the work of a douchebag is them gaining from it.

Now, you may or may not be able to ignore the person having done shitty things, it might break your enjoyment of it. That tends to be more of a problem with actors and comedians because you see them, rather than their work.

Seriously, the idea that a given body of work is somehow bad because the person or persons that made it are bad is bullshit.

Cosby is a harder because a lot of his comedy, and the show, were based on him, portraying himself as this decent, fatherly, nice person. Him being a douche the entire time, knowing what we know now, it can be dissonant to see him being a dad, or joking about his wife. Someone like Louis CK, he was never portrayed as some kind of paragon, so it’s easy to just enjoy his work as it is since there’s no “wait a minute” inherent to his performance. You might still have trouble not picturing him being a creep with his dick in his hand, but the jokes aren’t him pretending to be some upright, moral human.

Art and artist are always separate when piracy is an option.

I have a big cock.

He runs around the back yard crowing all damn day

Every little boy wants to play with a big dick

I can answer for my wife! She said three folded, when it’s our normal tp, Charmin. Two extra for other brands.

That’s all it takes with her configuration to be dry. I’ll vote on the comments, but since she gave more than a number, and it was variable, figured that might help too.

Fwiw, I make sure to give things an extra squeeze with a few pieces myself. Not a fan of late drips in my drawers. Pee, shake, paper & gentle squeeze. Then wash hands.

I mean, any time you aren’t in a lead lined casket buried at least 15 feet deep, there is a duck watching you.

Even then, a duck could be, but they dig slowly

System on chip.

It’s basically all of the stuff needed to make a device function on a single board. Radios, processors, memory, etc.

Brobdingnagian.

It’s a very big word that means very big.

It comes from Gulliver’s travels. The Brobdingnagians are giants, 12 times the height of humans. The word isn’t limited to that scale, but it’s definitely for things that are unusually large compared to us.

It’s the literal opposite of Lilliputian, which is from the better known race from “Travels” that are 1/12 our size.

It’s my absolute favorite word. Not just because it’s a literary reference but it’s fun to say. Brob ding nag ian. It just burbles off the tongue like a drunken stream stumbling among the rocks of its bed. And, it’s a big word that means big, which is just fun wordplay. Like the phobia of big words, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, which was inevitable as soon as the idea of a phobia of big words was conceived.

Wil has always been pretty chill.

Hell, on reddit, he was outright great to talk to.

Wesley being badly written was not his fault.