See I think that’s where you’re getting lost. Most gun owners are not defined by their guns. They just own them and mind their own business. You’re seeing all gun owners as those military cosplaying scared little boys that put bullets all over their trucks with gun maker stickers to let the world know they really like guns. The vast majority of gun owners are not tools owning tools.

You’ve never shot one and you’re trying to rationalize it,eh? They’re simply a lot of fun to understand mechanically and to use. I have mine for home defense and fun, nothing more. No fetish, no mental problems, I hardly even think about them. They’re simply an impractical tool.

Older speakers like that use always on transformers, constantly wasting energy to keep the core energized. You’re correct those cannot be made any more, they must use efficient switch mode supplies.

Damn you people are fast. Winner.

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Not directly answering your question, but I’m an avid Gardner with 15 years of hobby experience and I stopped growing spinach because it attracted so many pests and I don’t spray. I found varieties of kale with delicate leaves better because they grow faster, were much more bug tolerant and tasted as good or better.

If you have some outdoor space and interest, growing some greens for yourself is very easy if you get the right varsities.

But this is proven in animals, specifically mice. It’s not a leap to assume it also happens in humans.

Topanga?

Mid to late 90s, Boy meets girl, step by step, family matters, etc. Would just hang there most of the night while both my parents ran the restaurant and if I got too tired I’d pass out in a booth and my parents would wake me when it was time to go home.

Greek, Italian and American fare. How’d you guess?

My parents owned and operated a restaurant for 35 years so I grew up hanging at the bar and huffing second hand smoke while watching TGIF. For me, smelling smoke and stale beer is super comforting. Even typing that I realize is incredibly fucked up but it is what it is. I learned a ton of social skills and relating to all ages and walks of life and it has served me well but its a pretty messed up childhood.

I’m almost 40 and now just realizing my insistence on how to structure all my folders and notes is actually an ISO standard. Way to go me.

I filed it and completely forgot. 3-4 months later I got an email letting me know I was removed.

Shell companies for a Russian front.

College professor here: we’ve all seen a major decline in social skills over the last 4+ years, rather sudden and precipitous, so clearly not just the “normal” changes we’d been seeing over the previous two decades. Loss of basic functionality is the most glaring, like students who simply cannot bring themselves to talk to a professor face-to-face, or speak in class, or make a phone call, or make a decision about their own education, etc. etc.

The most glaring last fall was an entire class of mine that would arrive early and sit in the dark…despite my explaining how to turn on the lights (i.e. the wall switch by the door). When pressed they collectively said they were “afraid they’d get in trouble” for turning on the lights (despite my telling them to do so) and were afraid to “do anything that would draw attention to them” like being the one person to turned on the lights. So next month with my next group of freshmen we’re going to have a talk about basic life skills on day one, starting with turning on the classroom lights when they arrive.

I know way too much about the propagation of plasma in fluorescent lighting. When you first hit a fluorescent tube with high voltage you need some cosmic radiation to rip off the first barium ion off the cathode which causes a tiny little lightning strike of plasma that skitters across the inner surface of the tube. Once it makes its way across the length of the tube to the anode you now have a conductive path. This path then grows tremendously until it envelopes the whole cross section starting from the anode and works it’s way back to the cathode until the whole tube is filled with wonderful plasma that makes light when it excites the phosphor coating.

I read that entire article, thank you. Explains a bit why the company I work for seems really hesitant to hire more software engineers.

I recently moved and plan to buy a bunch of cheap apple plants from a big store and get them rooted this year. Then next spring take all the choice varieties from my father/childhood and graft them into the plants for my kids :)

My father enjoys grafting plants, he has an apple tree with 15 types of apples on it. Come to find out he’s been snipping tiny branches off apple trees at Home Depot…

My mother in law tells me how worried she is for my daughter and how unfair it is trans kids will compete with her in sports and use her bathrooms. Thanks for the heads up, keep hiding in your house in the woods and leave the parenting to me, this doesn’t affect you now shut up.