TriplePlaid
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- Comment on Free Talk Friday - January 9th, 2026 6 days ago:
I feel your pain with the winter driving, we have had a lot of rough days where I live. Do you have snow tires? I have found that they make an enormous difference (but sometimes it is sketchy driving no matter what).
Good luck with the new workplace! Sounds stressful, but maybe it could be very rewarding?
- Comment on Friday SOTD Thread, January 9th, 2026 (#941) 6 days ago:
Nice video! I was hoping you could provide some more context as to the bevel angle and what advantages/drawbacks there are with having such a large angle.
I know very little about straight razor shaving but I am getting interested and may have to try some day… Still need to finish learning the DE razor first I think.
- Comment on Free Talk Friday - January 9th, 2026 6 days ago:
The first time I tried to make a lather with a boar brush… Was an epic fail!!! I think I must have soaked it for too long or not gotten enough soap. It was also my first time trying the “scoop” method instead of loading directly from the puck - I think that is what really did me in. I tried a practice lather today loading from the puck and it turned out great.
Not sure about what went wrong with the scoop method, maybe I am vastly underestimating how much soap I pick up when I load from the puck, or maybe boar brushes are just like that on the first use?
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- Comment on Splitting Hairs, Splitting Atoms 5 weeks ago:
It would not make a chain reaction because the nuclei of typical atoms are unlikely to split when irradiated (that is to say, hit by the pieces of the original atom that split) and will more likely ionize (have an electron knocked off) or transmute (turn into a different element by changing the number of protons).
In nuclear weapons or reactors the uranium must be “enriched” because regular uranium atoms are too stable to sustain a fission reaction. We must have a high amount of rare uranium-235 (the easily splittable isotope) compared to U-238 (the more common stabler isotope) which is why uranium needs to be enriched. Most of the atoms in your salad are stable isotopes, so there will likely not be any cascading fission reactions even if your teeth were somehow able to trigger one (or even 1000) every single time you took a bite.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 month ago:
Here is a review paper listing many peer reviewed sources relating to the circadian rhythm:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8800593/
The circadian rhythm in mammals has a large body of scientific evidence.
- Comment on No excuses 3 months ago:
I think there is a big difference between “tough love” and unkindness. I don’t think being unkind is ever the best way to encourage someone to improve. Instead be “blunt” in communication/upfront with constructive criticism - which I see as a kindness.
- Comment on Been there 3 months ago:
It was not a relief, however, to learn that the sun will expand to be so large as to fully encompass the earth’s orbit long before it does eventually explode… In only 5 billion years… Which apparently was a few billion less than 6 year old me planned on living for!
