TheRealKuni

Oh 100%. I love Nebula. I’m considering doing the $300 lifetime subscription.

Internet Historian is also, unfortunately, a Nazi. Or at the very least alt-right and full of dog whistles.

It’s a shame, because his content—even the stuff he outright stole—was funny. But the evidence is staggering if you look for it.

Edit: Here’s a good summary from the old site.

creators who bake in their sponsorships are USUALLY paid upfront for the space.

Sure, although if they have a promo code they’re usually getting a percentage kickback from that as well. That’s what the whole Honey scandal was about, PayPal injecting affiliate links and stealing commission from the very people they had paid to advertise their service (and also everyone else).

Nebula is awesome. But if you’re going to pay for a video service, you could also pay for YouTube Premium and not get ads regardless of your ad blocking setup, AND support the people whose videos you watch (at least a little, certainly more than ad-supported viewers).

(Nebula is better than YouTube for specific genres, but YouTube is of course more broad and contains most of what Nebula has.)

I can’t fall asleep to silence. I have to have something playing to keep me from being alone with my thoughts, or I will literally never sleep.

I have experienced this. Something that helped me is “cognitive shuffling.” Essentially forcing your thoughts to drift.

The technique I learned was this:

Pick a word, preferably one with lots of different letters.

Start with the first letter. Think of as many objects starting with that letter as you can, and picture them. You don’t need to be rigid about this, and don’t waste time trying to come up with objects if you’re stuck, just move onto the next letter. If you finish the word, pick a new one. But I don’t know that I’ve ever finished a word before falling asleep.

The idea is this sort of directed but disconnected thinking helps put your mind into the sort of state that lets sleep come. And when I’m diligent about it, it works like a charm. It’s like a way to actively fall asleep.

Unfortunately because it requires some effort I often don’t do it. But I do recommend it!

I often end up being a rubber duck.

I still haven’t seen the series-ending movie because I was so underwhelmed by the final season.

Seriously? brb, off to Costco.

We use plenty of biodegradable plastics. They’re not always the correct solution. You wouldn’t want an airplane biodegrading, for example.

It’s doesn’t matter, since the absence or presence of light would still be perceived by colour blind people. It doesn’t change how they would drive, as they are already driving with the knowledge of colour blindness in mind when looking at tail lights.

Tail lights being red is fine if you live with the most common forms of colorblindness which fall into what we call “red-green colorblind.” It is still a different color than headlights.

Now put those same red-green lights on the front, and we have a problem.

I didn’t think you meant to, and I wasn’t trying to be accusatory. It’s a pretty fair assumption to think he messed himself up, judging by his…colorful habits.

Half as Interesting did one almost a year ago.

you are the first person that I’ve seen to finally mention his voice. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with his entire vocal box??

I think most people don’t talk about it because there are plenty of things to complain about with RFK Jr, we don’t have to resort to ableism.

He has a condition called spasmodic dysphonia. Legendary NPR interviewer Diane Rehm also suffered from this condition, which eventually ended her radio career.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think it’s because of his terrible health decisions. It happens to some people.

I did the perpendicular thing for a while, but two of the magnets I use with the phone (one a charger, one just a mount) are strong enough that removing the phone perpendicularly is difficult.

If I ever decide I don’t want my printed case, I’ll try the loctite solution! Thanks!

I 3D printed my phone case. I had considered going without a case, but the Snap 4 Luxe, which I absolutely love, adheres better to cases than the bare phone. That could be my fault, maybe I didn’t clean the phone or adhesive properly, but if I have the phone on a magnet sometimes the Snap stays behind.

So I found a case design someone else made, brought it into Blender (because I don’t know CAD), thickened the back to the same distance as the Snap, then made a hole for the Snap and made sure to include a lip to cover over its curved bezel. I printed the first few layers in a tough 68D TPU, then switched to a 95A TPU for the rest. The tough layers and the lip keep the Snap held to the phone even when the adhesive fails, and the softer TPU makes the case easy to put on and remove.

(This is like, my seventh iteration of this case, and it sure seems flawless for the past few weeks.)

This lets me use the Snap with as little wireless charging distance as possible. I found that some cases added to the inherent 2.5mm of the Snap are just too much distance to reliably charge using weaker qi chargers. With this setup I can wirelessly charge much more reliably! And since I thickened the back of the case, the magnets on the Snap now sit flush with the rest of the back, making qi2-based external batteries more manageable.

“A certain percentage of rhombuses have four equal sides.”

“I think that percentage is 100.”

“I would say the same about rectangles, but you get banned if you say rectangles. So rhombuses it is.”

Not all rectangles are rhombuses. And not all rhombuses are rectangles. Don’t be racist and you won’t get banned.

Seems like they are only installing the heat under the roadway, so walkable may not be the best word unless we expect pedestrains to share a lane with cars in the winter.

There aren’t many cars that use this street. Traffic historically is: people going into the less-utilized side of the parking garage under the performance hall/convention center, valet parking for the hotel, and loading/unloading of shows at the performance hall or ballroom. It’s a small street with a turnaround at the end, and then the Grand River. And a walking bridge across said river to the Gerald R Ford Presidential Library and Museum.

Even though it sure seems like the construction is completed, that parking garage entrance/exit still has not reopened. I’m not sure it will (which is very mildly frustrating for me, I perform at that hall a few times a year and prefer that access point because most people use the other).

They’ve added new pedestrian-focused stuff closer to the river, like a nice seating area and a better flow to the walking bridge. I wouldn’t be shocked if they already heated these sidewalks. This also improves access to the area behind the performance hall and convention center, which has some nice tables and seating and a good view of the river.

This all complements the ongoing “Restore the Rapids” project, which is aiming to make the river more pleasing to look at (it’s already beautiful, it’s just rather tame nowadays after various efforts over the last 175 years or so to harness it).

Anyway, my point is that street already served more pedestrians than cars before this redesign effort, and I suspect it will be even more pedestrian-focused now.

Ah, right. Obviously. Because the same amount of water needs to change phase.

Still, in that time this road will be walkable, while others may not. And you still avoid the piles of snow and salt runoff that come with a non-heated surface.

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It takes much less energy to prevent the accumulation in the first place. Which is the goal with this sort of setup.