My patience.
I'm too old for this shit, and that shit is getting old fast, so just bloody well hurry up while dishing it out. Good stuff, bad stuff, I just ain't got the time to wait around with my thumb up my ass all damn day.
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I mean, it's pretty damn big concept to try and squeeze into this kind of setting.
But to spitball it like an elevator pitch, call it socialized economy with baked in core rights around a representative democracy. Strong term limits, ranked choice voting, explicit forbiddence of the worst facets of fascism and bigotry and a clear line that all rights are to be held by all people within the country in question.
Exactly what rights get enumerated is up in the air, but I'd say that freedom of speech and press beyond the bare minimum restrictions against fascism and bigotry are a no brainer. Due process has to be in there. I favor jury trials heavily as well.
I tend to be against any limitations on arms that are only limited for the general populace, but I'm open to negotiations on exactly what that means as long as someone has a realistic plan on making those restrictions stick across the board. Wanna ban a class of weapons? Great, make a plan to destroy every single one and prevent them being made again. No exceptions for anyone, so make damn sure the military can make do with whatever gets allowed.
Under due process and equal protection, it has to be very clearly explained that there's no fuckery. IDGAF if in a hundred years some trick of mutation gives rise the the fucking X-Men only they all look like the toxic avenger, they have the same rights as everyone else.
This includes, but is not limited to what I consider the ultimate right that all others should protect: body autonomy. Wanna have your nose cut off and replaced with a dildo? That's on you. As absurd as that is as a possibility, that's what body autonomy means. Your right to own your own body is not negotiable. Now, you can't force anyone to do the work, but that's a separate issue entirely. There's a laundry list of shit that shouldn't even be a question.
That's the basics.
How immersed?
Tye sphincter can and will resist pressure, but only so much. You won't run into that kind of pressure freediving, or even anywhere you could use a wet suit afaik, but you get deep enough and it would become an issue.
Or, if you're immersed somewhere with water moving heavily, you could get breaches in your breeches I suppose.
I'm with bello. I'd kill a dino-brisket
The problem with the idea is that it only functions as a thought experiment. Not that that's a bad thing per se, it just makes it less useful. You can't really gain much from it because it breaks down in the real world completely since that perfect state doesn't and can't exist on a physical level. Bodies and brains have a built in drive that forces the choice, even in the absence of rational decision-making processes.
Even insects will go after the highest chance of continued survival, which is usually going to be water since its reserves are used up faster. In a circumstance where a creature is so perfectly balanced between death by starvation and death by dehydration, they'd be radically dehydrated and likely non functional to begin with.
So it only works as a way of understanding internal paradoxes of thought, not real world situations.
Not that that isn't obvious for the most part, but I think it kinda needs saying that it isn't a literal or realistic scenario, it's a tool of thought.
No, no, that's the right image for sure, and my penis says you are a bad person for thinking otherwise. Mind you, he's a real dickhead
Damn, I up voted the post because it's a damn good post.
But you can't be a jerk like that. Ffs man, nobody gives a damn how much money you make, and bragging is never a good look even if money as a metric for success was a talent healthy thing.
The fuck kinda trouble you want?
Im not finding how/where to schedule there.
Yeah, I'd be looking for someone else too. I don't believe in being a slave to a clock, but he's just not matching your needs and expectations even when he's there, so it just isn't a good pairing. A trainer and client have to be on the same page for them to be able to really guide you.
Sorry you're working so hard and not being supported right. There's plenty of room for a relaxed trainer, but that's not what you need to meet your goals. Sucky position to be in. If it wasn't prepaid, I'd say just walk entirely since it's a recurring issue.
Good thing is that trainers tend to have a fairly high turnover rate, so he may end up not being there long.
I'm always the coolest motherfucker in the room, even when I'm also the motherfucker in the comfy chair snoring like a sasquatch with adenoid issues because I am also the sleepiest motherfucker in the room
IDGAF about five minutes in most circumstances. There's just too much shit that matters way more.
If it was something that was a dealbreaker metrics because it fucked other things up for me, I'd want to know what the deal was, communicate that my needs weren't being met, and decide to stay a member/customer based on that, but it's not something that would bother me.
I refuse to be a fucking slave to the clock on my phone, and wouldn't insist anyone else be either. Back before network clocks, we all did fine without and nobody died.
I mean, no update?
Amen.
My wife loves the game, so I've heard a lot of the music, and it may be the best sounding game I've ever heard overall. Not just because individual tracks are good, but because they fit the feel of specific scenes and locations so well.
I could never play it, but it's one of those rare games where I can sit and read a book happily without the audio being totally annoying.
I may be crazy, but yeah. I think things will eventually swing back to people not being giant shit bags about things that aren't their business.
The problem is when, and how much struggle between. I don't think it'll be long on the scale of things because once awareness hits a given threshold where the abstract becomes personalized, humanized, it's a lot harder for hate to keep going.
I'm fairly confident that the us and most of Europe had hit that threshold. That should be enough to keep things from regressing totally, which means an eventual resurgence of acceptance and integration into societal mores.
Not that there is ever likely to be an absence of bigotry, and there won't ever be an absence of ignorance, much less outright "sociopathy" where people actively seek a target they can hate and abuse.
Social progress is rarely linear. There's fits and starts until things start chugging forward steadily. It was like that with pretty much every rights movement I know of, so I don't see why trans rights should be an exception.
Amen to that. Keeping a sense of open communication is vital while kids are going to be experimenting and exploring. Not just their bodies amd sexuality, but definitely for those.
Nah, that prompts community is pretty relaxed about that, and the story drop one is even more loose.
I totally get it. The problem is that there's multiple goals with knife maintenance amd preservation, so you end up with conflicting information that looks like it can work for every situation, but doesn't really.
Me, if I'm taking an old slipjoint like that from rusty but intact, I'll use whatever rag is handy. Old t-shirt material, flannel, denim, whatever. Shop towels work great too, those cheap and rough ones in particular.
Since the goal with your specific situation was to get rust gone, the solvent is what matters, not what you use to do the rubbing. If you're dealing with something that's got fragile handle materials, you want to watch what you use. And, you do want something that isn't linty because those little fibers can get into moving parts, but for just oiling and derusting, anything works since you'll follow up with a thorough oiling anyway.
See, there are knives where you essentially have nothing useful but blades, or where blades need replacing or reshaping, and that does change what you can do, and what you should do. Some knives have high monetary or historical value, so you have to approach them with that in mind. So you run into knife geeks that only approach a given knife through the most conservative lens possible, but also ones that are purely utilitarian because that's the kind of knives they deal with most.
My take is that even a crappy knife that you plan to use should be treated with minimum removal of material. The life span of a knife is in the steel. The more you sand or grind away, the less life is left, no matter what kind of preservation would be involved.
That can look different based on conditions and resources, but that way of thinking helps a lot. Now, you aren't going to fuck up a knife blade that's at least relatively intact by hitting it with metal polish and some shop towels. Or by light scrubbing with other abrasives that are fine grained, or otherwise can't dig into the steel itself.
It also helps to Indiana's understand that there's more than one kind of job possible. You can clean a knife, which is just getting rid of dirt, grime, and any surface discoloration; followed by oiling and sharpening.
You can repair a knife, which would be fixing broken parts, possibly regrinding things as needed, but generally taking a knife that isn't usable and making it usable. This isn't something you do with antiques or historical items, but a knife for use is no problem.
You've got restoration, which is not making it like new, that's refurbishing. Restoration is a form of preservation where you stabilize existing parts, and make sure they last while also hopefully making it usable if it wasn't. The goal though is mainly to make the knife suitable for display and collection, so you do the bare minimum intervention. This is what you do for collections and displays.
Refurbishing though, that's when you're taking a knife as close to new as possible without entirely replacing everything. You'd possibly sand or otherwise resurface the blade. You'd replace or repair parts as possible and needed. But you aren't trying to preserve anything other than usability, negate because once you're done, any monetary or historical value is gone, and all you have is a useful tool again.
Your knife, there's no historic value there, or monetary, because they're fairly common and easy to find still. So unless you're super into collecting for the far future, all you have to worry about is keeping it in working order. So you don't have to worry as much. It's a matter of just not making things worse as much as trying to make things better.
You run into old farts like me, we tend to do the bare minimum. Why spend a week futzing around with tasks that don't bring anything to the knife? Why grind when you can scrub? Why scrub when you can just soak and wipe down? The less you have to do, the less you change what doesn't need changing. You could spend hours carefully grinding and sanding to get flat sides and shiny steel, but for what? It's still an old knife that looks old, so why not let it look uniquely old? The more you change a given knife, the less of its history is there anyway, and you might as well just buy a new one.
Which is all long winded, I know, but it's important to understand the why more than techniques. There's dozens of ways to achieve a goal, but figuring out that goal in the first place takes a bit of theory instead of application.
Pollock hits harder in person tbh.
Prints and photos don't really work; it ends up looking flat and empty. But in person, there's more "depth" in both a literal and figurative sense. You can see more of the intent put into the methodology.
Mind you, I agree with the idea that he's over hyped. He wasn't exactly breaking new ground, and there's plenty of other artists that explored abstract painting with more satisfying and effective results.
But I don't think it's accurate to call it shit either. As much as people love to say it, no a kindergartener couldn't do it. Even high schoolers have trouble making something that looks similar enough to carry the same visual effect. Some art students at a collegiate level can't.
Turns out you do have to have some degree of development in your techniques at the very least to get the same results, no matter how much raw talent you have.
Now, don't ask me if I really like his stuff. I mean, I'm going to say it anyway, but still. My take on his body of work is that he fully explored the "drip" technique way before he quit doing it, and likely could have stopped after the first one because the only real differences between them amount to nothing more than the difference between most hotel and doctors' office wall hangings. You see one, you've seen them all.
Don't get me wrong, I don't doubt that he got something more than money out of the process. I make bland and basic art myself, and IDGAF about the results as much as the enjoyment of making. Every art student I've ever known gets super into the process of creating and that's a wonderful thing; dissecting what they're doing as they do it.
But that value isn't something that carries on beyond the process itself.