MollieTheMare
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MollieTheMare
1d ago
Wow, they don't even have temporary service to your site? Maybe it's a NJ thing they can't drop a temp pole. No wonder the contractor is behind schedule, he's working in the dark!
MollieTheMare
1d ago
... this municipality explicitly prescribes a maximum grass height of eight inches, and the vegetation on my lot unambiguously exceeds that value.
Are you sure the problem is not that you are letting your grass grow too long, rather than battery-powered lawnmowers are too weak? The normal advice is not to cut more than ⅓ of the grass height per mow, and most mowers only go up to 4" (10 cm).
Anecdotally, I've been using a Makita LXT 18V X2 (36V) battery-system-based mower for some years now without problem. If I let things overgrow, I can do just under 0.2 acres (8 quetta-barns for our metric absolutist friends) on the pair of 4.0 Ah (144 Wh total) batteries it came with. If I'm just doing a maintenance mow, maybe 30–40% more. I eventually built a pair of packs totaling just over 300 Wh; with those, the mower can go longer than I can. Now that you have electric service, could you not just get a second set of batteries for a battery-powered mower and have one set charging while using the other mowing? For a ⅙-acre (7 Qb) lot, a battery-powered mower ought to be more than enough. You don't have to mess with extension cords. Way more quiet than gas. Plus, a modest set of battery-powered tools and extra batteries are generally usefully for a homeowner. Your small leaf blower, string trimmer, drill/driver, reciprocating saw, personal fan, type things.
MollieTheMare
2d ago
Yeah, the context of "a box" made it reasonably clear. Probably did raise a few eyebrows though. Like if an Anglo were to read an American account of keeping their CCW in their fanny pack.
MollieTheMare
2d ago
I would say the cultural equivalent is probably snapper. But I’m no angler, and I suspect there is considerable regional variation across the different waters of the Americas.
For reasons that are not at all clear to me, Chilean sea bass somehow occupies a premium segment if you mean American in the Pan-American sense.
MollieTheMare
3d ago
Usual disclaimers, etc., etc.
U.S. Treasuries
If, for some reason, you do want to hold individual Treasuries, and you are US based, you can do it through TreasuryDirect. Slightly clunky interface, but less annoying than other forms of individual bond holdings. You can also convert old paper issues there so you can ACH transfer and get a 1099 electronically. TIPS were mentioned, but individual investors also have access to a small amount of I Bonds.
If you ever do get into weird individual bond trading, be careful of bearer bonds, which can be a real PITA to deal with.
MollieTheMare
8d ago
There is to my knowledge no blackpowder firearm ever manufactured that would fire such a tiny ball.
Maybe a blunderbuss? Not a single ball, but maybe an 8-10 ball #00 buck load-out. Being fired from a blunderbuss would also explain the low velocities. Not all of us have stairs to mount a cannon loaded with grapeshot, so the blunderbuss is the next best fallback.
Tally ho lads.
MollieTheMare
18d ago
MollieTheMare
19d ago
Opinel
I assume you mean a No.07 or No.08, which are the most popular EDC sizes. The former of which is right around the 3 inch limit for locking folding knives in more restrictive US states.
But, I like to imagine you are referring the No.12 which has a 5 inch blade and 11 inch reach. Might count as a dirk in some states. I'm sure it would still be horrible to deploy, since it has the same mechanism as the smaller ones. I suppose with something that large you could use it as a club if you don't have a free hand to work the mechanism.
MollieTheMare
19d ago
You have the purpose of allowing old people complexes reversed. The reason to allow them is to concentrate Boomers who are interested in HOA busybody lifestyles away from the rest of us. I don't want to live in a place where the old lady next door is going to call the police because there are kids playing in the street. By allowing old people complexes, it gives them the opportunity to live out their dream of being in everyone else's business without directly being in my business.
MollieTheMare
29d ago
Speaking of nuclear apocalypse, though.
Plan B is the real one here. Implementation probably involves going to war with a near-peer, nuclear-armed superpower so sophisticated they are on the edge of ASI.
You probably do need a credible path for how a full-scale conventional conflict avoids escalating to nuclear exchange and then avoids escalating to nuclear apocalypse, if that's an at-all viable Plan B.
It would be quite ironic if the way AI managed to kill all of us is that we were so afraid it might go to a fast takeoff that we decided a nuclear apocalypse would be better than risking it.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
This opinion also covers Little v. Hecox which was a case on the same question out of Idaho.
Mostly accurate. The majority found that it was essentially same question, but the specific facts were less favorable to the three dissenters. In the dissent they argue that Little v. Hecox was moot, and focus on entirely on West Virginia v. B. P. J..
Gorsuch has a concurrence in B. P. J.
My general impression is that this is both to to square with Bostock v. Clayton County, and to set the ground for potential future cases where the question of: Does Title IX require schools to exclude transgender girls from girls’ teams. My speculative read, is that, the funding clause argument Gorsuch makes suggests that since it's not explicitly notified to the funding recipients that Title IX forbids the use of biological sex for grouping, using biological sex is allowed. This might also suggest that since it's not explicitly notified to the funding recipients that Title IX forbids the use of some other definition of sex, using some other definition is allowed.
MollieTheMare
3mo ago
only around 7% of those died of exposure or starvation
I be fair to the evo-hypotheticals. You don't have to literately die for there to be evolutionary pressure on selecting for adequate fat stores. Starvation suppresses fertility.
I'm also not sure that @orthoxerox is right that "polygyny means women should be subject to less sexual selection, not more." If you assume some limited capacity to feed children and support pregnant women per group, maybe the ones with big honkers were more likely to be selected from within a cule.
MollieTheMare
3mo ago
If you went over the side yes. But it was not unheard of for ships to get blown onto a lee shore in the age of sail. Provided there were not crazy breakers on the shore, knowing how to swim might have made the difference in survivability in that case.
MollieTheMare
3mo ago
The sodium thing has come up before.
Science says that diets high in sodium are bad for you
It's slightly more precise to say that Science™ says that diets high in sodium are correlated with higher blood pressure, and chronic hypertension is bad for you. There are some sodium low or non-responders and some sodium super responders with respect to blood pressure. it's not fully conclusive that sodium independent of high blood pressure is bad for you.
There's also a difference in what is bad for you in the sports performance and bad for you in the longevity sense.
The transient effect of higher sodium intake is higher volumes of plasma. This is beneficial for endurance, power production, and heat adaptation. In fact, increased plasma volumes are the main immediate adaptation from endurance or heat adaptation training. Arguably cardio training is not "bad for you" but the first order transient effect is the same as increased sodium intake.
In the steady state, provided you are drinking enough water your body (partially) compensates for increased sodium consumption by increasing sodium excretion. There is still a chronic elevation of blood pressure with higher sodium intakes, but it's much smaller than the transient effects reported in most of the literature. Worth noting is a bit of a methodological puzzle. Food logs are notoriously inaccurate for tracing micronutrients like sodium. Excluding the Mars500 study, you mostly can't lock people up in a room and give them calibrated meals for long enough to see the steady state effect on blood pressure. Because of this most long term sodium studies are looking at urinary sodium, assuming higher urinary sodium corresponds to higher intake. This is probably true, but the real question is: if the human body has the ability to compensate for increased sodium consumption with higher excretion, what is the mechanism by which it increases blood pressure in homeostasis? Like, why doesn't your serum sodium just return to normal levels once your body starts excreting more?
Anyway, if you feel flat all the time and it's affecting your sports performance, consider you might be a salty sweater, and either measure or try modest intakes of electrolytes (don't forget about calcium, magnesium, and potassium as well just loading up on sodium will throw your electrolytes out of whack). If you have chronic hypertension, maybe talk to your physician about blood pressure medication. Modern generation medications are very effective and in practice far easier to control than ultra-low sodium diets, especially if you are eating prepared foods like rotisserie chicken.
The Science™ is probably correct that if it's driving up your blood pressure high sodium is bad for you. But medication and body-weight/metabolic disease management are probably significantly larger factors in the steady state.
MollieTheMare
4mo ago
I just YOLO what sounds good, or use normal ice cream recipes if I want something rich.
Claire Saffitz has several regular ice cream recipes that are crème anglaise base on her YouTube and books. If you want to go to the trouble of a proper custard base. I've never gone wrong making one of her desserts, but they are absolutely not macro friendly.
My go to, but not as rich is very regularly having, chocolate fairlife (with yes it's worth the hassle of mixing in for the texture) the smallest amount of xanthan gum I can scoop with a spoon. One cup would be 140/13g/13g/4.5g kcal/p/c/f. But in practice I split one 52oz jug across four Creami containers, then split that with the wife, so the real macros are on average like 81% of that. Take out of freezer to soften the perimeter 10 minutes before shaving (I know the manual says not to do it, but it reduces the ice left on the edge). Light ice cream setting. Scrape sides. Light ice cream again for soft serve, or if powdery and wanting a firmer texture a splash of anything (reserve fairlife if the macros matter) and re-spin.
It's only 1.5 ingredients, so it's not really a proper recipe, but super super easy.
My "personal" recipe is Halo-halo inspired.
- Base is 8-10oz of steamed peeled ube. No need for added gums with ube.
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Sweetener of choice. I use a squirt of monk-fruit and stevia, but yes sugar or evaporated milk would have a better texture and flavor.
- Pinch of salt
- Fill to pint line with coconut milk. (like the unsweetened silk brand that's 45 kcal/cup)
Hand blend everything before freezing. I did calculate the macros at one point, but at this point only remember, not a protein source, but not crazy on the calories for "ice cream." Obviously much more delicious but more on the calorie front if using evaporated milk and coconut cream rather than non-nutritive sweetener and "coconut milk."
MollieTheMare
4mo ago
The secretary problem
Did you ever figure out what the secret the actuaries know, beyond the secretary problem, to scoring candidates? I seem to recall they were notable outliers in terms of making things last. Do you have an actual spreadsheet? I wonder if any actuaries can do some freelance analysis on it to double check the calculations.
Or you know, if the vibes are good, congrats.
MollieTheMare
6mo ago
The 24-hour diner wasn't charming. Cheap, certainly. Always looked at least slightly grungy.
Yeah, I have the mental defect of thinking things that are slightly grungy are charming. The fact that purpose-built as nostalgia versions are not grungy is partially why I don't like them. In addition to not cheap.
MollieTheMare
6mo ago
Re:
diners in movies
Maybe @BahRam You can chime in with what he meant more specifically.
As some general US-based commentary, it is true that the charming, cheap, accessible, "everyone knows your name" movie diner is virtually gone now.
That's not to say there is no residual of the 24-hour diner left. Notably, Waffle House continued this tradition well into the 90s and is still extremely common in the American South.
In that era it did serve as a third place sociologically. Describing the eponymous song:
... it's about coming together with the people you love and making your dreams come true.
Dreams don't come true anymore.
Through a combination of prices rising, penny-pinching degraded service, and more widespread public drug use, it has now developed a reputation as a place for vagrants, not a place to hang out.
... promising cheap affordable food at all hours of the day. [B]ecause of this it attracts homeless people, drug users, drug dealers, gangsters, and generally drunk people
Being open 24 hours a day is part of the draw. They are often on the side of the expressway. And if you need a cheap(ish), filling place for food, you can be assured they will be open. Even after a hurricane.
Waffle House manages to survive because of highly highly optimized supply chains, and dirt-cheap wages. An independent diner with highly competent, friendly staff would have much higher overhead. Particularly a problem is that classic American diner staples have seen a dramatic increase in input costs. Eggs, chicken fried steak, coffee, etc. have all seen price increases that vastly outpace broader inflation. You still find some small diners limping along, but it's often more of a boutique, higher-priced thing.
MollieTheMare
6mo ago
For incline it should be easy to set up where the safeties don't get in the way. For flat bench you should also be able to set up with a modest arch and find a decent spot to put the safeties, if you have Westside hole spacing. If you don't have tight hole spacing or dislike hard stops, I like safety straps or soft safeties. They feel better if you make a soft accidental touch while moving.
It's also easy to customize a DIY solution if you are too cheap or they do not sell safeties for your rack. Make sure to set them where you will never get a finger or hand caught. I misracked 405# once. Those $20 Harbor Freight recovery straps saved my life, or at least prevented getting seriously maimed.
MollieTheMare
6mo ago
The short version it's not something I would mess around with. You are probably just screwed. But that's easy to say for someone that doesn't have this problem.
A few thoughts:
- I think there are buffer tubes with fixed or integral stocks. I have no idea if this qualifies
- Have you considered a M1A, I mean if you can't get a good deal on a Mini-14, why not go for it's full grown brother. Longer effective range than an AR-15. Closely related to the "Greatest Battle Implement Ever Devised." I assume that means it doesn't suck
- For your use case maybe a pistol caliber carbine. There must be a qualified model somewhere. Cheaper to shoot and less ammo to stock if you go for 9mm
MollieTheMare
6mo ago
It is quite obnoxious to be using a different unit than the locals. A better test might be how long it takes the average person to develop an intuition for the alternative unit. Such that they no longer have to explicitly or mentally calculate.
MollieTheMare
6mo ago
It's quite interesting to see the metric absolutists come out defending using ½ as a base unit of increment. Maybe powers of two fractional inches aren't so bad after all.
MollieTheMare
6mo ago
Everyone here talking about the bridge. The bridge only cost $35 million (nominal 1933 dollars), the real thing to 'mire is the $400MM net, an unparalleled tribute to cost disease.
MollieTheMare
6mo ago
I am not a gun expert
And it does show.
we don't have firepower right now ... It's all pistols
This is always going to be a problem when you bring only your sidearm to a gunfight. Even if your opponent only has handguns (which have the problem of being easier to conceal), you'd still be better off grabbing your long gun from the trunk. Or, more likely, for modern departments running Ford Explorers from a center console mount.
See rule 6 of gun fighting:
If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a long gun and a friend with a long gun.
Yes, any rifle cartridge fired from a rifle-length barrel will have more kinetic energy than a pistol caliber fired from a pistol-length barrel. No, this is not unique to guns that look particularly scary. No, there is nothing magical about 5.56; FMJ, varmint rounds, soft points, steel cores, etc., exist for all sorts of rifle rounds. The various American .30s used ubiquitously for game like deer in North America are all capable of being more powerful than the 5.56. The main advantage of the 5.56 is a flatter trajectory at intermediate distance, which doesn't matter indoors.
For home defense, there are different philosophies. The advantage of the 5.56 is the velocity gives you the ability to use frangible ammunition, which reduces the risk of overpenetration. There is also no need for portability or concealment for home defense, which favors the more effective long gun. See rule 6.
The cops do have other slight advantages in an indoor environment. Mainly, they can use carbine-length barrels, which are more wieldy for clearing work. The rest of us would have to fill out an eon's worth of paperwork to get permission from the ATF to make an SBR.
The AR platform is far from cutting-edge at this point, being designed in 1956 (70 years ago). They have, in fact, made a difference even if a government has armor, see, for example, the Troubles.
Man, we are going to be accused of becoming the Makita shill forum. But yeah, you are getting almost exactly the same efficiency as me. Assuming you mean two 18V 5Ah batteries in series, which IMO is 36V 5Ah. I have the smaller, less fancy Makita mower.
The only problem with the Makita LXT 18V X2 (36V) system is that the specification for the pack sizes in the X2 configuration technically prevents them from going up from 5S2P 18650 cells. Do at your own risk, but if anyone is wondering, those very slightly over-max-dimension aftermarket 5S2P 21700 housings do fit (at least the mowers). I think the 5S3P packs might fit, but seems like overkill and crazy weight. Plus, you probably need to spot-weld copper for that kind of amperage. If you go for custom battery pack, be sure get one with a high-quality BMS. You can now get 5 Ah 21700 cells for 10 Ah per 18 V pack. Which is more capacity than I have in mine. And will last way, way longer than I can mow for in one go.
P.S. Those modified PowerWheels are sick. I need to have a kid, just to justify buying one.
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