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I just fixed my headphones with a needle and thread and I feel like the loving god of smithing it's amazing.
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I've never met a participation-trophy-whinger who knows that Olympic athletes get participation medals and have done since 1896. Fridgechat: Do those ones with the transparent plastic strips help conserve energy? They're easier for people than heavy fridge doors, and if they can be removed then they won't be in the way for restocking, but I don't know how well they actually keep the cool in.
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May 28, 2021 22:32
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Lady Demelza posted:
They do. Anything that reduces convection and keeps the cold air in saves energy. An imperfect seal is still better than no seal whatsoever.
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May 28, 2021 22:34
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The fridge flaps are standard for every industrial fridge unit I've seen (and on some warehouse doors) so yeah I would imagine they help pretty well, main issue is you can't see through them well enough to read price tickets usually.
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May 28, 2021 22:34
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Bloodly posted:I don't know about 'created'. More a 'race to the bottom'. Remaking ourselves to be as cheap and nasty and easily breaking down as possible. Someone's probably making a lot of God/AlienMoney off us. I'm atheist but i found 'created' suited the sentence best, we were buggered from the very start. 
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May 28, 2021 22:39
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OwlFancier posted:The fridge flaps are standard for every industrial fridge unit I've seen (and on some warehouse doors) so yeah I would imagine they help pretty well, main issue is you can't see through them well enough to read price tickets usually. They're pretty common in bodegas in New York and they work fine
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May 28, 2021 22:44
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Guavanaut posted:Relevant to recent chat If only that MI6 bloke had seen this.
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Failed Imagineer posted:They're pretty common in bodegas in New York and they work fine Do they have a better version for shoppable fridges? I've only ever seen the big heavy things that end up all scratched to hell and semitransparent.
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May 28, 2021 22:52
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OwlFancier posted:Do they have a better version for shoppable fridges? I've only ever seen the big heavy things that end up all scratched to hell and semitransparent. Nah they're just as cruddy but I've only ever been in there drunk or with the aim of getting drunk so it worked out ok
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May 28, 2021 22:54
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Soylent Yellow posted:They do. Anything that reduces convection and keeps the cold air in saves energy. An imperfect seal is still better than no seal whatsoever. The open-front fridges are supposed to have an air curtain which does actually work surprisingly well to keep the cold air in and warm air out. However they're *never* maintained properly - you're supposed to take an hour a week or so to clean out the vents properly, so half the time the air curtain just doesn't work and it's just building an ever-larger block of ice at the bottom of the unit without ever really cooling the stuff inside, or it's blasting ice-cold air out into the shop itself. The fundamental problem with all of them is that even if a really inefficient cooler is costing the shop an extra fiver a day a) more-efficient ones - or even retrofitting better fronts onto existing ones - costs thousands so doesn't really have an ROI and b) shopkeeper brain disease makes them think "In the time it takes them to open a door they're going to change their mind and that'll cost me more in lost sales".
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May 28, 2021 22:59
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They aren't even necessarily wrong about the last bit. Or at least a large amount of retail design is to 1. keep you in the shop looking at things as much as possible and 2. get you to buy things as easily as possible. The extra time it takes you to get something out of the fridge is time you might use to reconsider if you need it. There is also the other version of shop brain where if something gets stolen you should just make it as hard as possible to buy it and then nobody will steal it.
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May 28, 2021 23:06
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Trickjaw posted:The eyeball out of Monsters Inc.? That's Mike Wachowski, Mike Wozniak is one of the guys that founded apple.
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May 28, 2021 23:09
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Mr Phillby posted:That's Mike Wachowski, Mike Wozniak is one of the guys that founded apple. Isn't it Steve Wozniak who was in on the foundation of Apple?
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May 28, 2021 23:24
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Isn't it Steve Wozniak who was in on the foundation of Apple? Steve jobs, innit?
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May 28, 2021 23:27
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Trickjaw posted:Steve jobs, innit? My google's been getting a work out tonight! quote:Stephen Gary Wozniak (/ˈwɒzniæk/; born August 11, 1950),[1](p18)[5][6][7](p27) also known by his nickname "Woz", is an American electronics engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, and technology entrepreneur. In 1976, he co-founded Apple Inc. with business partner Steve Jobs, which later became the world's largest information technology company by revenue and the largest company in the world by market capitalization. Through their work at Apple in the 1970s and 1980s, he and Jobs are widely recognized as two prominent pioneers of the personal computer revolution. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
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May 28, 2021 23:31
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:My google's been getting a work out tonight! Its my age. Names are a mystery to me.
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May 28, 2021 23:42
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What a shitfuck this country is now. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/eu-settled-status-home-office-b1854470.html quote:A 10-year-old girl has been refused EU settled status despite the fact that all of her immediate family members have been granted it. because every 10 year old should have a bank card FFS. No wonder the wretched creature in No. 10 is meeting Orban, getting pointers on how to be even more fascist. (and I couldn't find any evidence that the BoD are writing mass-signature letters protesting the visit either.) Bah. Just bah. 
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May 28, 2021 23:43
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OwlFancier posted:I just fixed my headphones with a needle and thread and I feel like the loving god of smithing it's amazing. I mended a zip on a rucksack the other day and felt like a master engineer
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May 29, 2021 00:09
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sebzilla posted:I mended a zip on a rucksack the other day and felt like a master engineer It's a good feeling, gently caress you capitalism I'm not buying your lovely replacement cups. I am owning the means of production.
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May 29, 2021 00:21
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OwlFancier posted:It's a good feeling, gently caress you capitalism I'm not buying your lovely replacement cups. I am owning the means of production. I fixed a zip on my jeans last week and I felt like Stella McCartney. (I'm the world's worst handywoman).
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May 29, 2021 00:42
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I've designed from scratch and 3D printed (among other things) replacement hinges and a latch for my shed, 2 custom vent hose adaptors for my air conditioner, several custom mobile phone stands and three different camera mounts for my crash helmet. I'm basically Isambard Kingdom Da Vinci.
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May 29, 2021 00:51
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I've designed from scratch and 3D printed (among other things) replacement hinges and a latch for my shed, 2 custom vent hose adaptors for my air conditioner, several custom mobile phone stands and three different camera mounts for my crash helmet. I'm basically Isambard Kingdom Da Vinci. You are Tom Hanks and I claim my £5.
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May 29, 2021 00:53
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I am going to have to try and get a set of chisels at some point and see if I can do woodwork. I had quite a bit of fun making the walking stick last year and it would have been a lot easier if I had more than one chisel someone had seemingly used on bricks and a mallet. A spoke shave would have been nice for one thing.
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May 29, 2021 00:54
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I made a strap for my golf umbrella to carry on my back hands-free and felt like a genius. Apparently such things already existed, but exclusively in a weeb format that included an umbrella designed to look like a katana and left the holder on your back, while mine was just a simple strap with a key ring and carabiner clip, held on by tension.
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*tiptoes around mile deep weeb trap about how it would be entirely improper to wear a true katana across the back, and so it must have in fact been designed to look like a nin... *falls in**
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May 29, 2021 01:34
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It's a bit weird to wear any sword on your back unless you have five foot long arms.
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May 29, 2021 01:38
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You just don't know the secret of true apocryphal ninja power. Which appears to be the 1960s version of Assassin's Creed.
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I think I literally have one of those lmao. It has a 2edgy5me fake red snakeskin scabbard and a hamon someone put on with a brillo pad, it's glorious.
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We’ll make Seth Rogan a comrade if it’s the last thing we do: https://twitter.com/sethrogen/status/1398426964856250370
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The Question IRL posted:With kids, you do give them agency. But I part it has to be earned. Not out of some desire to control their lives. Came up in the boomer thread that a shitload of parents of especially boomer age just don't teach their kids things, and don't seem to believe in teaching. They just go straight from 'You're too young, you'll just mess it up' to 'You're old enough to know how to do this yourself' smoothly, if not outright refusing to teach anything (besides political indoctrination) and calling it off at the slightest excuse. The 'innocent child' is just giving your kid a full-time job cosplaying a Hummel figurine.
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XMNN posted:the replies are insane, but I especially like this one Ah. the good people of Batley & Spen, absolute experts on the situation in Israel, and not a bunch of random loving arseholes throwing their AS oars in on this.
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Beeb article: 31 mini-paragraphs about a rise in anti-semitic attacks in the US, out of which 4 make any mention of left/right-wing as a sourcequote:He adds that the conflict is sometimes used by US activists from across the political spectrum to "manufacture social division", from corners as diverse as far right ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon and by antifa, the loosely knit group of far-left activists. quote:"For four years it seemed to be stimulated from the political right, with devastating consequences," the ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt told the New York Times. 
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Articles like that should be reported, I believe you can do that.
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OwlFancier posted:There is also the other version of shop brain where if something gets stolen you should just make it as hard as possible to buy it and then nobody will steal it. I used to work in a hardware shop. Head office would occasionally spend fortunes on anti-theft tags that could be strapped or pinned to high value items. Rather predictably, high value thefts wouldn't decrease, while thefts of the metal snips sold right next to them would soar (joke was on the thieves, as our security sensors hadn't worked for years, and head office was too cheap to replace them). If anything, putting a tag on something just hung a massive "steal me, I'm valuable" sign on it.
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Apraxin posted:Beeb article: 31 mini-paragraphs about a rise in anti-semitic attacks in the US, out of which 4 make any mention of left/right-wing as a source if you listen to the Radio War Nerd podcast the most recent episode has an absolutely astonishing story about the ADL running a secret spying ring with links to the US security services and torture/ war crimes in south america
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Didn't this guy do a anti-racism war vs Corbyn/Labour?  He apparently forgot you're not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.
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