If I have to break out anything more than a plate/bowl and utensils then it’s cooking.

As long as they’re not hot enough to have an open flame or produce sparks.

If he had the right plumbing then a zip tie would have also worked.

It seems like the Onions new job is just to make us feel a bit better by saying “at least that didn’t happen.”

Yes but if you reply to a clone bot, it’s not like the clone bot is going to reply to you back. The fact that replies are cloned doesn’t change the fact that noone is actually there and you’re just talking to a wall. I use social media to interact with people. If I wanted to see redit posts and not interact with people then I would just browse reddit without an account.

It has been done several times and the concensus has always been that people hate it. Check out lemmit. They do exactly that and because of it most instances have defederated from them.

Lemmy doesn’t have the userbase of reddit. If you start just cloning posts from reddit then pretty soon everyones all feed only consists of dead bot made posts. Cloning shit from reddit just turns lemmy into a ghost town.

We always used them for target practice. They need to be punctured for disposal anyways, you know when you hit one, and They’re about the right size for sighting in on a 100yd range.

It sounds like the dude just has a CBT fetish and doesn’t want to admit it.

Nah, they don’t stop the errections. They just stop you from comming. You can still be horny as hell, there’s just no release.

I’ve run 4 swlf clean cycles some with bleach, some with vinegar, and some with the professional washer cleaning stuff. It’s still full of gunk. I’m pretty sure I’m just going to have to pull the drum and hand scrub at this point.

Any amount is too much.

Vinegar can be used as a fabric softner but you need to add it durring the rinse cycle. So you can’t just throw it in at the start.

That just seems painful. Also not sure the handle on those is wide enough to be considered a flaired base.

I once quit one of my antidepressants (venlafaxine) cold turkey and got to feel my brain throb nonstop for a month straight.

Yeah, it has potential but it’s still just do buggy.

It really depends on the furnace and what exactly is breaking. For example, it isn’t unusual to have to clean or replace a flame sensor every once in a while. Fan motors, sensors, and valves of all sorts will die ocasionally. If it’s a really old one with a pilot light then that can also be a frequent but usually easy to fix issue.

I work in HVAC and I’ve still had mine quit for a bit just about every other year. I’ve had to replace a flame sensor a couple times, a gas valve, a sensor for the exhaust blower, and a fan motor. But my furnace is from the early 90s and was not a high end model even then. Old equipment eventually just starts breaking all over the place but if you have the skills then it can still make sense to just keep limping it along for as long as you can.

I’ve worked very closely with engineers and I’m engineering adjacent myself. Most of the highly technical types I know in every field (myself included) struggle to talk to people about their job because they no longer know what normal people do or don’t know and they don’t want to come across as condecendong. Like for me the basic refrigeration cycle feels like something everyone should know but I logically know that actually isn’t the case and at the same time I don’t know where the laymans actual knowledge on the topic begins. Like do I need to start with explaining that boiling liquids remove heat? Do I need to start with what boiling even is? Do normal people even know that things boil at different temps at different pressures? If I start explaining any of this are they jist going to look at me like I’m an ass and say “Of course I know how thermodynamics works”? Eventually I just decide it’s better to not to talk to them.

At the same time though, if you do manage to break the ice with them then you are more likely to sucessfully get a passionate stream of consiousness rant from them because they’re passionate and now they know that you can be trusted not to see them as being condescending when they overexplain. Honestly the best way I’ve found to break the ice with technical types is to get them to start complaining about some part of their job. That also sounds like exactly what you’re looking for if you’re trying to make their jobs easier. But if they start seeing you as someone who it is safe to complain to then they will start seeing ypu as someone it is safe to talk to about other things.

Also as always there is a relevant XKCD.

https://xkcd.com/2501/

Ah, going with the quantum bogo sort then.

You say that, but I have had a pet snake since I was a child and because I was a boy child I assumed they were male. But once I got older it occured to me that I have no idea if they’re actually male or female (because sexing a snake isn’t as easy as with mammals) and it seems more likely that they’re actually female. But I’m not certain either way and I genuinely don’t care. So I’ve since started refering to them as they/them. My dad still points it out every time I do it. “Oh, you have multiple snakes?” It’s kinda weird considering he’s so progressive in every other way.