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  1. Comment on Honk your horn in ~health.mental

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    ...any walk-in cooler made since - well, decades at least, don't know the exact date - will have an emergency release to open the door from inside, although sometimes it's not obvious: look for a...

    ...any walk-in cooler made since - well, decades at least, don't know the exact date - will have an emergency release to open the door from inside, although sometimes it's not obvious: look for a large palm-sized knob near the latch (sometimes they even glow in the dark) which you can unscrew to release the entire latch mechanism, although mind that it's intended only for emergency use and not designed for easy reassembly afterward...

    (it literally unbolts the latch assembly from the exterior wall, so you can push the still-latched door open from inside the cooler, but it's a twist-knob not designed for operation by disabled occupants nor for quick-release in the event of an emergency)

    2 votes
  2. Comment on Looking for low-cost ways to replace industrially processed foods in ~food

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    ...when i enjoy a surfeit of discretionary time, space, and money, i love sctach-making pasta sauce from fresh tomatoes, but to anyone who's never done so before: it takes a lot of tomatoes, more...

    ...when i enjoy a surfeit of discretionary time, space, and money, i love sctach-making pasta sauce from fresh tomatoes, but to anyone who's never done so before: it takes a lot of tomatoes, more than you think; okay, take that ridiculously-exaggerated quantity you've added to your bag now and double it...don't forget, that also means you need to start from a ridiculously-oversized pot before you stew them down...

    ...as an alternative to a proper sauce, though, just course-chopped fresh tomatoes, vegetables, and herbs sautéed in a drizzle of oil + seasonings are fantastic with whole-grain pasta...

    4 votes
  3. Comment on The goon squad. Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation. in ~life

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    ...for a very long while, belief in a better world, either to be found or to be made, was the only thing which sustained me through very dark times and places...somewhere along the way, that...

    ...for a very long while, belief in a better world, either to be found or to be made, was the only thing which sustained me through very dark times and places...somewhere along the way, that horizon of the unknown preceded into here and now and that belief dissolved into nihilism...

    9 votes
  4. Comment on Honk your horn in ~health.mental

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    ...i decided to unload a rage-punch into a solid-core door yesterday, since i figured it was stough-enough not to sustain any damage; turns out i was right!.. (broke my hand, though, so now i'm...

    ...i decided to unload a rage-punch into a solid-core door yesterday, since i figured it was stough-enough not to sustain any damage; turns out i was right!..

    (broke my hand, though, so now i'm living left-handed for the next six weeks until it heals enough to remove the splint)

    3 votes
  5. Comment on Amazon Web Services crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright in ~tech

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    ...mechanically-locked escalators can be safe, but you don't want to be on one when it fails: things can get gruesome fast...

    ...mechanically-locked escalators can be safe, but you don't want to be on one when it fails: things can get gruesome fast...

    1 vote
  6. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    ...wait, so you're taking an extant album and adapting it to the cassette medium?..like producing what the label would have issued if they still released cassettes?.. ...after ninety-minute...

    ...wait, so you're taking an extant album and adapting it to the cassette medium?..like producing what the label would have issued if they still released cassettes?..

    ...after ninety-minute cassettes hit the market, we used to record one album per side (back when most albums were about fourty-five minutes due to vinyl production limitations) and i have many fond memories of hours and hours with those homebrew "double albums" which i still associate as pairs...in fact, record labels eventually got in on the same action, double-packaging two back-catalog albums or EPs together on a single cassette for retail...

    ...i have a few rare CDs i was unable to find with their original booklets/liner art, which i instead carefully reconstructed in photoshop, printed, + assembled into a jewel case, with conjectural interiors and graphical layout elements based upon other releases by the same artist and contemporaneous trade dress of the same label...i guess that's similar to what you're doing, plus identifying where to split sides of the original album program?..

    (i think sides have become a lost compositional element in album production; i often separate my digital library sides - and bonus tracks! - to reproduce the intended listening experience of albums which were clearly structured accordingly)

    Hard to get some detail in printing at 144dpi.

    ...if you have vintage cassettes you'll note that the original offset printing often used pretty muddied art anyway, typically adapted from vinyl sleeves, a couple of generations downstream from the camera-ready source...

  7. Comment on The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet - ARD Documentary in ~music

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    ...given its subject matter, that was a surprisingly well-produced film... ...i originally expected the film to be about ulterior motives but it turns that there's a substantial corpus of lost...

    ...given its subject matter, that was a surprisingly well-produced film...

    ...i originally expected the film to be about ulterior motives but it turns that there's a substantial corpus of lost works feeding the internet-sleuthing community...

    3 votes
  8. Comment on Why cassette tapes are coming back in ~music

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    ...while they're not high-speed reel-to-reel, ceramic cassettes with type IV metal tape and dolby S noise reduction managed reasonably high fidelity and saturated soooo gracefully...

    ...while they're not high-speed reel-to-reel, ceramic cassettes with type IV metal tape and dolby S noise reduction managed reasonably high fidelity and saturated soooo gracefully...

  9. Comment on What's a product or service that you use but don't want to pay for and why? in ~life

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    ...try watching it without a subscription, adblocker, nor VPN for a week: it got so bad that i quit following youtube links entirely, and my wife (who has a subscription and watches it regularly)...

    ...try watching it without a subscription, adblocker, nor VPN for a week: it got so bad that i quit following youtube links entirely, and my wife (who has a subscription and watches it regularly) was aghast when she saw what i sat through...

    ...i don't have a problem with tastefully advertising-supported services, but what youtube has become is honestly a pox on humanity...

    ...i think pornhub are leaving money on the table by not launching a competing all-ages video platform...

    5 votes
  10. Comment on I am angry at Google and wanted to share (rant) in ~tech

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    ...yeah, i went down the whole self-hosting path last decade and it's really not worth the hassle anymore due to the ongoing effort of working around automated whitelists + blacklists while...

    ...yeah, i went down the whole self-hosting path last decade and it's really not worth the hassle anymore due to the ongoing effort of working around automated whitelists + blacklists while staying vigilant against server penetrations...

    10 votes
  11. Comment on I am angry at Google and wanted to share (rant) in ~tech

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    ...i dealt with a similar issue yesterday in outlook: i'd received two malicious emails overnight sent as calendar invitations for a 7.30 AM meeting, which outlook automatically added to its...

    ...i dealt with a similar issue yesterday in outlook: i'd received two malicious emails overnight sent as calendar invitations for a 7.30 AM meeting, which outlook automatically added to its calendar and proceeded to popcorn me with notifications through both outlook + teams on every device before i'd even opened anything at work...

    ...i don't have the option to change platforms at work, but despite my continued efforts to disable + dis-integrate, it's becoming impossible to keep AI agents from scanning and intercepting what should be dead-simple separate applications which do exactly what i tell them, no more...

    ...this has grown pervasive across the industry, not just gmail + outlook, and in my struggle to stay the tide (disabled that auto-calendar feature, but it'll be something new next week) i feel like we've crossed some threshold where we're now serving the machines rather than the inverse...

    18 votes
  12. Comment on High pollen count: The last straw effect on suicide risk in ~health.mental

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    ...sleep deprivation may be a contributing comorbidity, too: i know i'm a heck of a lot more foul-tempered and self-destructive when i'm chronically sleep-deprived, and allergies can profoundly...

    ...sleep deprivation may be a contributing comorbidity, too: i know i'm a heck of a lot more foul-tempered and self-destructive when i'm chronically sleep-deprived, and allergies can profoundly affect my ability to get meaningful rest...

    4 votes
  13. Comment on ‘Heat 2’ is on: Michael Mann crime drama moves from Warner Bros. to United Artists; Jerry Bruckheimer, Scott Stuber producing in ~movies

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    ...period films are especially difficult to pull off if they sit side-by-side with a contemporaneous original...

    ...period films are especially difficult to pull off if they sit side-by-side with a contemporaneous original...

    1 vote
  14. Comment on Ask not why would you work in biology, but rather: why wouldn't you? in ~science

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    ...i don't see a strong argument here: you can rage against the night all you want, but entropy's still coming for each of us at the end of all things...why not focus one's energy on palliative...

    ...i don't see a strong argument here: you can rage against the night all you want, but entropy's still coming for each of us at the end of all things...why not focus one's energy on palliative care and dying gracefully instead, which is much more of a sociological than a technological issue?..

    5 votes
  15. Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk

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    ...we frequently used to play the original avalon-hill civilisation board game, which includes a 'speech' phase in each turn: we house-ruled that all speeches must conclude 'and carthage must be...

    ...we frequently used to play the original avalon-hill civilisation board game, which includes a 'speech' phase in each turn: we house-ruled that all speeches must conclude 'and carthage must be destroyed'...

    2 votes
  16. Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk

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    ...yes, i'd always understood the byzantine empire to be a direct continuation of the eastern roman empire and not a successor state; the grandparent statement kind of threw me for a loop because...

    ...yes, i'd always understood the byzantine empire to be a direct continuation of the eastern roman empire and not a successor state; the grandparent statement kind of threw me for a loop because it seemed to be simultaneously denying and validating my understanding...

  17. Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk

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    ...help me reconcile 'isn't the continuation of the roman empire' with 'was the roman empire'; i can't quite parse what you're saying...

    ...help me reconcile 'isn't the continuation of the roman empire' with 'was the roman empire'; i can't quite parse what you're saying...

    6 votes
  18. Comment on imgur.com geoblocks the UK in ~tech

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    ...typing from a cartoonishly-red state, i celebrate every time i see our regressive laws countered with overt geoblocking: the effects of legislative overreach must be brazenly transparent in...

    ...typing from a cartoonishly-red state, i celebrate every time i see our regressive laws countered with overt geoblocking: the effects of legislative overreach must be brazenly transparent in order to foster civil policy...

    6 votes
  19. Comment on McDonald’s redraws battle lines on subminimum wage in ~food

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    ...mcdonald's doesn't offer table service, so none of its employees qualify for subminimum wage; chili's servers are paid subminimum wage and tipped accordingly, but their back-of-house...

    ...mcdonald's doesn't offer table service, so none of its employees qualify for subminimum wage; chili's servers are paid subminimum wage and tipped accordingly, but their back-of-house operations, which perform the same duties as mcdonald's employees, start from the same minimum wage...

    ...i don't tip for takeout nor pay extra gratuity anywhere i don't take advantage of table service; i think the disparity here is mcdonald's grossly-inflated pricing...

    4 votes
  20. Comment on Brannon Braga calls for longer Star Trek seasons in ~tv

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    ...the next generation used physical models, too...

    ...the next generation used physical models, too...