I really want a space station in the barycenter of Pluto or something. It would be as close to true neutral of gravity instead of the gravity negated by acceleration of mass that may or may not screw up gravity experiments

Shadowrun for sega genesis

I think of the earth as a giant gob of clay on a pottery wheel. It spins, it bulges, but ultimately it looks mostly round from a distance. 2 km lower than sea level and/or atmospheric level but higher than the dead center of this gob of clay. Silly and fun.

I met two people who hate seatbelts to this day: a old coworker and a pregnant woman. Both were able to wear without complaint with a large binder clip releaving the tension (on the belt at the shoulder)

I bet he liked coming home to his neph-son.

mostly the first trip is where you get 100% of what you planned, and each additional trip is a trip of shame to admit that you were not perfect in planning. Each additional trip costs at least 30 minutes in time plus almost 20$ in replacement parts for what you broke on round 1. Therefore the despot is that each additional trip is probably filled with cussing and feeling that I am paying 1 hour of my time plus the cost of the parts for a job that was too expensive in the first place.

The condensate pump matters. Also the condensate line is normally flex tubing that can be prone to kinking. I suggest either being OCD about the flex tubing not kinking, or getting rigid PVC, or getting a “bigger” condensate pump. (I got a little orange box and it had no end of issues until i ripped off the drywall and found the kinks and said screw it, lets straighten this out and get a bigger pump and never have to worry about leaking condensate again!!!). Also having the condensate drain into your mechanical room is pretty awesome futureproofing.

I am going to go in depth on how i have researched out HVAC for my residential house:

there are like 5 systems that are often used in combination or on their own:

• fans (recirculate within a room or can be in the top of a house window to make negative pressure, so every open window has a breeze) (most houses have vent fans to make negative pressure in the microwave or the bathroom, but newer houses are not generally made to handle negative pressure well)
• swamp coolers (water + surface area and fans) (these are the cheapest way to cool a house, but you have to vent the humid air out, so it will only get “so cold”) (these can use the centralized air ducts or be a portable room unit) In my opinion, every dull man in this club needs to have a portable unit blowing on you in the summer while working in the garage because cool humid air flow feels like it makes me twice as productive to the alternative (sweating and trying to make decisions while heat exhausted)
• electric room heaters (these can be centralized via baseboard/wall heaters or as a portable room unit). I think every person in this dull men’s club should have one incase your primary heating system goes down or your damn bathroom doesn’t heat as fast as you like while you are showering in the winter. It is faster and cheaper to heat air with a portable room unit that to heat air with leaving the hot shower on for longer.
• heating oil and a boiler and pump system (you will see a lot of radiators in old houses that have this) There are some portable room units that use electricity for the heat.
• central air conditioning (heat pump and small pipes give cold to the central unit, and propane or electric give heat to the central unit) this is the most common in many places in the USA. It recirculates air, and any fumes (e.g. burned food or poo arisol or bleach fumes) have to be vented outside via a window or other (or in my house, breathed and filtered out using my own lungs). OP’s installation of a 96.5% efficient furnace probably has two plastic “burn” related pipes that both supply fresh air to burn and vents out the low temp but high humidity exhaust. Note that the exhaust MUST HAVE A SLOPE BACK TO THE FURNACE or the exhaust will condensate a blockage in a water belly in the exhaust pipe.
• a minisplit system (heatpump outside with two small pipes to a couple heads that are each controlled by that room’s remote) It can both heat and cool.
• heat/environment recovery vents (HRV or ERV) - these have 4 ducts: a external supply/intake, an external return/exhaust, an internal supply/intake, and an internal return/exhaust. They have a small radiator and fans inside to push the air through the radiator. It doesn’t take much electricity and can run all winter/summer without taxing your electricity much. If you add a heavy filter (e.g. HEPA filter) on the external supply/intake, then your allergies will go down and you will have pretty dang fresh air no matter what is going on.

I personally believe that the ideal house will have 3 HVAC systems built into it:

• minisplit (heads in each room and a unit outside).
• HRV or ERV depending on your region (makes the air fresh and eliminates the need to ever have the bathroom fan on or fuss with the microwave recirculating the air because of crappy installations, and any drying of clothes in a dryer will not have the dust in the house go up.) (this also will keep the air clean if you have a HEPA filter, so any nuclear fallout, wildfire smoke, or pollen wont bother you)
• a swamp cooler (largely unused unless the power went out in the summer and you are running on a generator) (if a karen buys your house from you later, you could easily replace the unit with a central air unit without having to tear out your walls and run new duct work. You could have them run a few copper lines with the “armor” insulation around them so that any future HVAC tech would be able to simply hook it up. Shrug. I am daydreaming about a house built from scratch with me micromanaging its creation.

from a dull men’s club perspective, my ideal house would have a ton of ducts, so i would suggest having “trusses with trunkline holes” designed into them before building any floors. I am currently retrofitting my attic to have a flat truss so the flex ducting can run under my catwalk and be fully insulated without any chance of pinching. Also, sidenote, there is such a thing as “vibration isolators” which are basically rubber or mount-spring-mount devices to put under the feet of a appliance that makes vibration. I strongly suggest spending the 12 bucks to put it under your washer, dryer, and outside AC pumps. You can cut a couple 2x4 scraps to make sure that the proper “spacing” for the washer and dryer are maintained while you tip and put the feet under.

im sleepy. thank you for coming to my ted talk

I memorized the following: “Port wine is red, and none is left in the morning”

Therefore Port - Left and Red and the other “Starboard” is Right and Green.

Number 1 stabilize sleep (go to bed at the same time every day and wake up without an alarm) you can use otc remedies like Tylenol pm and melatonin to help you start this habit.

Number 2 look at other things like nutrition, hydration, and exercise to get them to average

Number 3 happiness and meaningful Ness are not the same thing. Having kids makes you suffer more and become less happy, but you often feel your life is more meaningful. So ask yourself what cause is worth sacrificing happiness to? Then start doing it. Soon your happiness set point will adjust to include this meaningful Ness perspective and being unhappy won’t feel tiring

Well, something that the Mormons have is they tried out communism. They called it the law of consecration. They had some fun times with trying to handle being productive and redistribution and poligamous. They ultimately concluded that they weren’t ready for it yet so they went back to default capitalism with tithing and poor/fast offerings.

Tl;dr: Mormons believe in a kind of communism in heaven, and they go hungry for 2 meals (24 hrs) to remember to give generously to the poor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_consecration?wprov=sfla1

I have been thinking about further tips that have helped me. I have felt like my happiness set point has moved lower over time ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-being_contributing_factors ).

I have tried the following interventions stabilizing sleep, exercise (focus on cardio and stretching), cognitive behavioral therapy (which backfired spectacularly), religious texts, pgarmaceuticals, and platitude/mantra meditation.

Some insights that may help:

• daily short religious text study is helpful. It has diminishing returns, so set a timer if you spend longer than 15 mins.
• negative thoughts and experiences envelop like a blanket and affect every fiber of your personality. Attempting to do the opposite with platitudes is hard work (almost like flexing your abs before lifting something heavy), but doing so with thoughtful platitudes can make a positive self fulfilling prophesy.
• platitudes used in this manner are most effective if used with purpose: what do you want right now that is difficult? Now I believe these platitudes that strengthen me because I want x!

Good luck, I genuinely hope you feel better.

Hi internet stranger. I hope you feel better. A reverse psychology method that helps me is to watch https://youtu.be/LO1mTELoj6o

Holy clothing must not be damaged unless you plan to do the ritual of discarding (shred abd burn). As a windbreaker has at least 4 holes when worn correctly, it is indeed holy.

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That’s ice damming. Basically it can be prevented with proper ventilation of roof cladding/shingle nail board. Normally eaves, baffles, and turtle/ridge vents will be enough to prevent icicles more than. 6 in long.

I want a tale of deliverance from pharaoh across the red Sea that feels like playing skyrim (crazy magic going on! And civil war progression)

Ground up plastic FTW: miralax

Lead culinary water pipes (or lead soldier) is a problem, but lead shower pans (that affect the sewer water) are the preference in many USA cities.

Well, I didn’t post my sources and you didn’t post sources. I think I am right but I don’t want to spend the time looking it up when I am straight up told that I’m lying. I’ll address your four points off the top of my head though.

1. life expectancy has changed drastically for different populations and subcultures in the usa. Tweakers have a much lower life expectancy. White collar work has a much higher life expectancy. Blue collar… I bet you are right that it is about the same. I read that the current average is 74 (so 10 years longer than when retirement became codified into law) However shortly after the industrial revolution was the information revolution, so most of the gdp of the usa and other western countries is produced by these long lived white collar workers.
2. yup I agree. Blue collar life expectancy is about the same as when retirement was first codified into law
3. money turns to worthless over time unless it is invested and earning interest. A government is in the business of “Accountability to taxpayers on a election Cycle period”. Therefore, the government is highly incentivised to kill the golden goose and spend the money and claim that they invested it wisely into roads and stuff. If I recall correctly, that is exactly what happened to the social security program, and we are now paying out as fast as it comes in. Regarding “not tied to the Wallstreet casino” as what makes an investment more financially sound, I don’t follow the logic. There is some well established ways to make money on wall street:

buy and hold a low cost index of funds that diversified risk away from a single company. Have a mix of equity vs fixed income based on how soon you intend to start needing to rely on fixed income. Put your money in this exact index fund and don’t worry about market ups and downs.

If you follow that investing instruction, you beat the social security administration every time in the last 30 years if you paid in the whole time you worked for 45 years.

4. Taxing the wealthy is hard. There is a general rule of thumb in politics which is “those who have power don’t let it go easily”, and if those with power caused a politician to be favored, it is generally due to the bet that the politician will pay it back with a favor later. As far as I know, when you tax the wealthy, the wealthy are able to organize some governmental upsets/coops. The American revolution was headed by the “wealthy” of the American colonies. As far as I know, wealth also exits easily if a governmental administration is a hostile/unstable environment. All these things come together to make taxing wealthy people hard. In practice, the wealthy generally have a “high marginal tax rate” (tax rate on paper) but after all the loopholes from politician friends there is a “low effective tax rate” (tax rate actually paid).

Talking about raising the contribution limit is a moot point as government will be “accountable in this election cycle” by spending immediately based on my argument above.

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Did I say anything factually False? I hope to see any nuances that I missed.

I said it to mean agricultural work as in farm work.

-Agricultural revolution brown collar

-Industrial revolution blue collar

-Information revolution white collar