aubeynarf
@aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 7 hours ago:
Connect people back to value systems instead of aggressively debating specific issues.
For example, when we think about Jesus Christ’s teachings, why are we erasing the nation’s historical decision to help the poor, sick, and hungry - an action executed by the most greedy, vain, and boastful people on earth?
- Comment on Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k? 12 hours ago:
if you do that, the risk is that you miss out on buying at low share prices during the slump, which will be the lots that show the highest return when the market heads back toward normal.
The periods of fastest gains are usually immediately following a downturn, so selling your holdings when you hear bad news about the stock market going down, is exactly the wrong thing to do.
If you believe that The Trump administration policies represent a foundational destabilization of the American economy, which is a reasonable take, you might make the choice to diversify into more international funds.
- Comment on Is dns a good application for the blockchain? 4 days ago:
Can you briefly describe how you’d fit the two together?
- Comment on Why can’t HVAC be made smarter? 1 week ago:
I just set my ecobee to “auto”; the only possible inconvenience is the required gap between heating setpoint and cooling setpoint so it doesn’t constantly flap back and forth as a result over overshooting the setpoint. I have the gap set to 3 degrees and tend to shift it up and down seasonally (e.g. heating setpoint at 72 and cooling setpoint at 75 in the winter, heating 69 and cooling 72 in the summer)
Insolation and air infiltration based on wind conditions likely affect loss as much as outside temp, and the thermostat doesn’t know that (it could presumably learn to relate time of day, cloud cover, day of year (solar angle), wind conditions with that - but it would take 2 years to learn and its response would be opaque - most homeowners want bang-bang control since they understand it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What a loser.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
His interaction and writing style is easy to recognize, under a previous username he boasted about having dozens of accounts and using them to flood/control narratives, and he posts literally identical links seconds apart under different accounts - easy to recognize.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
OP is one of the most prolific posters here, operating several accounts and sometimes posting 50+ times a day.
His salient trait is that he wants to control the narrative but claim “it’s just an article”, and “I don’t want to be attacked”.
The reason he feels attacked is because he made an absolute ass of himself and his inauthentic behavior became very obvious.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
OK, how many do you post, across all your sock puppet accounts?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Even if they do, you’ll flood them out with your 20-30 garbage posts per day. Like its your job.
- Comment on Tried to order a part before the tariffs 3 weeks ago:
And most of the media went right along with wording such as “tariffs on China” rather than than “tariffs on US buyers”
- Comment on What's the Standard Operating Procedure for if someone steals your phone while you were using it and its unlocked? 4 weeks ago:
maybe get a lanyard to reduce the snatch risk
- Comment on Alarmists Bemoan Climate Research Funding Freeze 5 weeks ago:
It was 20 degrees above average here in Georgia last week, yesterday we had 6 inches of rain in a few hours. Human-caused climate change is real.
Did you know we’ve increased the CO2 concentration by nearly 50% since 1930?
CO2 was known as a heat-trapping gas over 110 years ago. Have you seen this 1912 newspaper excerpt?
- Comment on DOGE Discovers $1.9 Billion HUD Money ‘Misplaced’ By Biden Administration 5 weeks ago:
It’s 0.4% of of Musk’s gluttonous fortune, and 0.02% of the total federal budget.
With transparency measures being dismantled by the hour, and “mission aligned” talking-point-driven outlets repeating government statements without question, how will you know if this turns out to be an erroneous conclusion ?
- Comment on Why are there silly license requirements? 1 month ago:
There are 14 GMRS frequencies. How soon do you think they would become unusable if even 10,000 casual users in a metro area all went and bought 50W radios?
- Comment on Do you think progressives understand the difference between legal and illegal immigration? 1 month ago:
Hey cow boy. Progressives are generally more educated and aware, so yes. Meanwhile, most conservatives don’t understand the difference between, for example, asylum and undocumented border crossings; or that “encounters” doesn’t mean “entries”; or that coming on a vacation visa from South Africa or eastern Europe and starting a business or doing modeling work is illegal.
- Comment on 'These Are Some Of The Insane Priorities' USAID Has Funded: Karoline Leavitt 1 month ago:
Called building goodwill. Influence over power
- Comment on How can a US citizen invest outside the reach of the federal government? 1 month ago:
Well, they can seize a lot of things because of reciprocal anti-terrorism money laundering agreements with most of the countries you’d want to trust with your money.
resources aimed at wealthy people offshoring their assets might be useful to you
- Comment on How can a US citizen invest outside the reach of the federal government? 1 month ago:
well, first you would need to set up a brokerage account outside the US…
For now, though, you can invest in an Ex-US ETF, Vanguard has one that is essentially the total world stock index minus US companies.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 1 month ago:
Have you noticed they’re always paired with messages encouraging voter apathy and disparticipation ?
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 1 month ago:
You need to go vote too. Probably for Democrats, if you’re reading this here.
- Comment on Obama's Failure To Close Guantanamo Meant It Was Open for Trump To Use 1 month ago:
what is this, account number seven or eight?
Ridiculous to say that anything the Democrats did in the past is to blame for actions Trump takes now.
- Comment on Which side of this dipole is ground? 2 months ago:
in your antenna, the outside of the coax makes up a substantial part of the radiating structure. The orientation of the elements in relationship to that coax will definitely change the radiation pattern, maybe for the better maybe for the worse.
- Comment on Which side of this dipole is ground? 2 months ago:
A 1/4 wave monopole above 1/4 wave radials is also a balanced antenna. unless the coax is carrying common mode currents, the antenna is balanced.
- Comment on Which side of this dipole is ground? 2 months ago:
It does not matter. (It does not matter in a “ground plane” antenna either, the radials have nothing to do with the earth other than being easier to mount with the coax heading downward; in fact, radials should not be touching or buried in the earth as they are RF radiators and RF faces high losses in soil)
- Comment on Which side of this dipole is ground? 2 months ago:
Neither side is ground. Due to electromagnetic field behavior, coax carries equal and opposite AC currents on the inner conductor and the inside surface of the shield; those equal and opposite currents drive the two dipole elements.
RF doesn’t penetrate shielded boxes and coax shields - so the outer surface and inner surface of the coax shield are seen as two different conductors at RF. In the pictured dipole, RF can flow out of the coax and back down the outside (and around the outside of the shielded receiver it’s connected to) because the open end of the coax “connects” them. So the coax shield is very much energized with (and receiving) RF; generally a ferrite bead choke is used to mitigate the unwanted shield currents.
With RF, “ground” doesn’t mean very much. There always has to be a circuit for current to flow; tying some point of the circuit to the chassis or to the power supply negative does not “zero it out” at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Invalidation
- Comment on Stop the power abuse happening in the politics community. 3 months ago:
that means allowing any off-topic post?
- Comment on Stop the power abuse happening in the politics community. 3 months ago:
This makes you look like an entitled whiner.
- Comment on Did something about mass produced ice cream change like 10 years ago? 4 months ago:
guar gum, xantham gun, locust bean extract, etc - all emulsifers or texture additives used to mask lower product quality.
Even the expensive stuff, Ben & Jerrys (sold out to PE a while ago), boutique brands at Whole Foods, and even Kirkland premiun have the same list of bullshit.
The only brand I can reliably find without them is Haagen Dazs.
- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 4 months ago:
The kids on my street do come and knock, but they don’t know what to do then. The just stand there waiting - I’m like “what do you say???”, and they go “uhh, thank you???”
C’mon kids!
