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Cake day: December 19th, 2024

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  • This is absolutely a major contributing factor, but there’s more to it than this. Everybody is lonely, pretty much regardless of gender. This issue hurts everyone.

    And it is also caused in part because of how fucked up we’ve designed our society. It’s nearly impossible to make friends as an adult because

    • we’re all working too much to have the free time for it
    • there are (effectively) no third places where you can hang out with the expectation to meet people without the expectation of spending money
    • to get anywhere you generally need a car, highways and roads divide and spread everything which makes walking or biking difficult
    • social media is run for profit, not for the sake of actually connecting people
    • these above issues feed into the issue OP is pointing out. If you are lonely and your life isn’t going too well, then you’re gonna seek answers for this complicated issue. And fascists are all too willing to take advantage and provide simple answers. It then turns into a self feeding cycle.

    I’m sure there’s a bunch of other reasons too, but those are the ones of the top of my sleep deprived head. Even if all the above awful values men have disappeared, the above problems would still need to be fixed.




  • 30s, still have one

    It’s a little yellow bear. And it’s age is definitely showing. The stuffing has been replaced, the fur has has to be re-fluffed, some holed patched, and now there are more holes that need patched.

    Part of keeping it is utility, it’s a nice pillow to keep my arm in the right position. Part of it I’d sentimental.

    My fiancé got a weighted dragon plush, it’s long, like a 1/3rd sized body pillow. And I’m kinds jealous of her having it. So when I retire my yellow bear I might switch to that.







  • you need a highly accurate model of what broke. Do you just take a bunch of measurements, then do your best to guess and check? Is there a process to this, or what does this look like?

    There’s a couple different strategies. Taking measurements is often the most straightforward. And it’s generally not too bad because often times the thing you measure will be in round units, so you can confidently guess the true measurement intended.

    For example, if I measure the diameter of a shaft that broke off, and it’s 10.1mm, then I can pretty confidently say I should make the CAD model 10mm.

    An alternative method is to take a picture of the object from multiple directions, zoomed in and far away to make the view as orthographic as possible. Include a known distance like a ruler, and then you can past the image in the background of your CAD software and model off of that. Generally I find this more helpful for organic shapes that wouldn’t make much sense to measure.





  • I tend to aim for 50% of the day doing actual shit, as long as I have some good progress to show for the day. The rest of it is resting and keeping up with house chores.

    In person was such a shit show. I was only working for 50% anyways, and also had chores once I got home. So it was a lose lose situation for both me and my employer.

    Not looking forward to the RTO they’re inevitably going to do.