Postmortal_Pop
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- Comment on What is Kratom? A friend of the family just died today. And that was the last thing he was using. Is it like K2? What type of high is it? 4 days ago:
Kratom is a tropical evergreen native to Southeast Asia. It’s an agonist for a few opioid receptors and has been used for centuries to treat opium withdraw. K2 on the other hand is synthetic pot.
My understanding is that Kratom high isn’t really a big thing. Like trying to get high on ibuprofen or CBD. It has some promise for pain management and anxiety but it’s hardly something you’d party on and if you’re worried said friend OD’ed I can tell you it wasn’t on Kratom.
- Comment on To those who think the economy will never get good enough to afford basic necessities (and you're probably right), what will you do to not only survive, but enjoy life with the only life you have? 5 days ago:
And you can look up how to apply for a permit, and how to meet code, and the exact point you can get to before a tradesman is uncomfortable signing off on it for $50 and a plate of brownies.
Yeah, a house from scratch on your own is a stupid task. Even before all this nonsense that was a community project so taking that from my argument is like assuming I told you to make your own economy to escape this one.
On the other hand, doing a good job to restore a shitty building on the creep isn’t that big an ask. This year I get to use salvaged wood, stolen gravel, and Walmart brand power tools to lift and level the floor in my house because the previous owner wanted it off the ground and didn’t take the time to put enough support under it. Few days in a crawlspace and the cost of pizza and beer to save $20k plus materials and I get to make sure the job is overdone instead of underdone.
If you ever find yourself in a similar situation, or you need to know how to do taxes, or restore/construct furniture, or need something very niche constructed out if salvaged parts, hit me up and I’ll help for pizza and the support of the community. If all of us know some things and help each other, we can all make it out together.
- Comment on To those who think the economy will never get good enough to afford basic necessities (and you're probably right), what will you do to not only survive, but enjoy life with the only life you have? 5 days ago:
Fuck, ask me! If I can do it I will teach!
- Comment on Is the 3DS worth purchasing despite it being "obsolete" today? 6 days ago:
The hacking scene for the 3ds is fucking amazing. I’m literally on here while I wate for mine to convert the Pokemon Emerald file to native game file. I can literally access TOR on this thing, it’s frankly unbelievable what you can do with homebrew.
- Comment on To those who think the economy will never get good enough to afford basic necessities (and you're probably right), what will you do to not only survive, but enjoy life with the only life you have? 6 days ago:
Get good at things.
The vast majority of our economy is an economy of convenience, taking money in exchange for doing the little things we don’t want to. The thing is, most of us have never stopped to check if we actually don’t want to do those things. Meanwhile, all the benefits of doing those things are being reaped for profits by assholes.
Get out there and get good at something, then find other people that are good at things, and help each other out.
- Comment on How do "pirates" go about getting their username uploaded with a torrent? Like Fitgirl or NoSteam or something? How do they become big and famous? Can the average joe do this? 1 week ago:
Consistency and quality. That’s where fitgirl and yiffy get it. If you show up and repave a road every time someone mentions a pothole, eventually you’ll get a reputation for it.
- Comment on Where can someone in the US Midwest get a Clove tree? 1 week ago:
I think you missed the part where I was planning on keeping it as a bonsai, it’d be insane to try to grow that for crop here.
Unfortunately, neither of those locations carry clove and I’m hesitant to do the Etsy route because of the high chance of scams.
- Comment on Does the net positive of Eugenics out weigh the negative? How so? 1 week ago:
That’s the thing about sci-fi, it’s a warning about potential horrors but that doesn’t mean horrifying things can’t have a positive.
I wholly understand that the point of gataca is oppression that comes from giving humans another metric to oppress. It’s spelt out plainly. Unfortunately, like the main character, I’m also the product of people who didn’t think about what they’d be passing on. Now in my thirties, I’m in the early stages of arthritis, my eyes are failing, and if family tradition holds I’ll have less than a decade before a sudden and undetectable heart condition kills me. If that doesn’t get me I have early dementia waiting in line.
I’m three quarters through the life I was given and I knew the name of my killer before I was ten. To me, Gataca is a world where some forethought on my parents would mean never having to do weekly injections so that my flesh does not consume itself. A long and ordinary life without pills every morning or regulating my diet for inflammation.
SciFi isn’t about the dangers of science, it’s about the dangers of science misused. The moral of gataca is that people are more then the sum of their parts and to value them on such is cruel and unjust. It’s that parents have a responsibility to their children, regardless of their own feelings on it. But it’s moral isn’t that correcting bad genetics is wrong. No one deserves to be born broken.
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- Comment on Day 810 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I’m planning on 3d printing and then probably using automotive vinyl to as a nice aesthetic. I’ve been big on auto vinyl lately lol
- Comment on What can I put on a street lamp to stop the light in one direction? 2 weeks ago:
Get scissor cut black plastic sheet, something that’s ridgid, and silicone fishtank adhesive.
Cut the plastic to match the shape of the glass sections that face your window. Clean the glass with alcohol, then apply a thin layer of silicone to the plastic piece and press it to the glass. Use a finger to wipe any excess and ooze into a tight seam.
So long as it doesn’t hit sweltering hot, freezing cold, or rainy for the next 24hrs it takes to cure, that plastic isn’t comming off without a putty knife and effort (it will come off fine without harming it, but not on its own)
If you want to increase the chance that no one will do anything about it, do the same to every lamp on your block. Nothing hides vandalism like uniformity.
- Comment on Day 810 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Ah man, I really wish there was an easy way to modify them with capacitive touch. Those dual layers were a pain back in the day and a bigger one now.
Having never had a ds before I got it to hack, I’m not a fan of the way the hinges woble so I’m designing my own shell and mechanics to adapt it.
- Comment on Day 810 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Oh my dude, if you have access to a ds, you gotta hack that bad boy ASAP! Gba ROMs can be reliably forwarded as native games and pksm is like a combination save editor and pokebank right on the device! The hardest part is just finding a working ds these days.
- Comment on Hand em over (plz) 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Former NFL coach Mike Tomlin is sharing a massive Minecraft city he spent twelve years building 2 weeks ago:
I really want to like VS but the progression is painfully slow. I love the story, I’ve put literal hours into chisel art to the point that I got to mod just to make my own doors, and I love the concept of the progression, I just desperately need 4-6 other people so none of us have to do all of the damn work. I quit playing a while back when I’d spent 3 days logging on with the goal of exploring and ended up wasting all my game time doing chores before I could get out and about.
- Comment on Day 810 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Hey, I just finished a full run on the GBA port of Crystal! I was using a hacked N2dsxl and honestly it was an all around blast.
I get what you mean about gen2. I was the target demographic for gen1 when it came out, but I wouldn’t find my favorite Pokemon until I went back as an adult. Ghost type all the way.
- Comment on Are airsoft H&K SL8 replicas still a dream? 2 weeks ago:
Honestly yeah, it’s my go to for a lot of different projects. That said, I find you can get a near factory finish with abs, including textures you can’t print, without any changes in weight or sanding work using slurry and nonbinding materials to transfer the texture.
- Comment on Are airsoft H&K SL8 replicas still a dream? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I think if I were really planning on a factory perfect look I’d go with extra walls and ABS. That way you could slurry dip all the pieces to remove lines and chemical bond them together for stability. It’s actually a lot easier than sanding or bondo, but the tradeoff is fumes and acitone so it’s not a perfect option.
- Comment on Are airsoft H&K SL8 replicas still a dream? 3 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t be too hard to 3d print parts and kitbash an existing gun into it. Given what I remember of airsoft, the 3d printer would be cheaper than the gun and you’d end up with a piece worth bragging about.
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- Comment on My trench knife, Artyom's from the game Metro 2033 3 weeks ago:
That’s some damn fine work. Someday I’d like to do the same to make my perfect kitchen knife.
- Comment on Build my PC into my Desk? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve done the measures on mine and I’m confident that I have the space needed.
For the vents I’ve actually switched to 45° baffet vents instead of holes, they’ll be more on theme for the build and allow a lot more air with less cutting.
Vibration is a great point that I didn’t consider, I have some cork sheets that I can cut to match the fan frame and that should do wonders. I may even add some acoustic foam to the other side just to quite down the metals.
- Comment on Build my PC into my Desk? 4 weeks ago:
How large of a diameter are we taking? I have two 4in fans I was planing on making part of the desk and then the two 3in that are part of the tower that I plan to connect to the drawer.
I do have everything set up to properly insulate the components and someone else pointed out that mounting the PSU directly to the drawer will also ground it. So I got that going for me.
- Comment on Build my PC into my Desk? 4 weeks ago:
Will do!
- Comment on Build my PC into my Desk? 4 weeks ago:
I actually considered doing exactly that prior to finding my perfect desk! I opted against it because I want to hang my laser etcher on the wall in a magnet backed box so I can magnet the things im working on into place. The drawer in question literally just has junk in it, like rocks and stuff, so I’m not losing anything by putting a computer in it.
- Comment on Build my PC into my Desk? 4 weeks ago:
Another guy suggested putting the power and reset on the external dock I’m going to put on the desk, that shouldnt be difficult at all as I’m currently already using a custom one and extending the cables will be a breeze.
I actually use strictly hardline on this machine, I have a long history of shitty internet and houses that muck with wifi so I’m never going to bother putting a wifi card in this guy.
I’ve had some experience there, and you’re right. Over the course of this post I’ve settled on doing vents like this instead of holes. I did sheet metal fab at one point and got pretty good at straightening these angled slats out so it should be quick work to cut bend and rotate them. These were common on economy value fixtures during the era plus it will flow seamlessly into the body and that’s gonna look very professional.
- Comment on Build my PC into my Desk? 4 weeks ago:
Shit, that would be really cool. I’ll have to somewhat I need to do a Watercooling setup.
I used to build industrial scale agricultural sprayers for a living and we had this setup for hot swapping sprayer assemblies, it’d be so cool to build that into the drawer so that pulling the drawer out disconnects the water circulation for easy cleaning.
- Comment on Build my PC into my Desk? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not all that tall, so there’s plenty of space for me.
Spouse is disabled we don’t fit under each other’s comfortably but that’s a different matter entirely.
- Comment on Build my PC into my Desk? 4 weeks ago:
I figure my rig will have plenty of overhead in just the single drawer and with the extender cables and built in wiring I should be able to just pull the whole drawer out if I need to do any serious hardware work. I do like the idea of premade vents, that would probably be easier to make than drilling the holes myself by hand.
Looks like the cooling setup isn’t far off from my plan at all though, so that’s giving me hope.
- Comment on Build my PC into my Desk? 4 weeks ago:
Gods no, this is literally my deal desk and my grand kids will be inheriting it!
I’m hoping to make tasteful passthroughs that will both blend seamlessly into the construction and the style of the era without damaging the overall quality and aesthetic.
I’m even painting mine in a period accurate burn orange and repolisjing the formica. The beige is classic, but it needs some rust work and if I’m doing that I may as well get it perfect.
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