akunohana
@akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on What was a bad TV show season renewal you've seen? 3 days ago:
Game of Thrones
- Comment on Do pedophile/ephebophile s have a tendency to seek out friendships or romantic relationships with young adults as well as with minors? 6 days ago:
I think it is a double edged sword, because there are those who genuinely ask for help.
There are people who want to learn both cognitive and practical strategies on how to stop hurting children. For them, group therapy works really well, because admitting your sexual deviation - whether it’s pedophilia, voyeurism, violence whatever - is often the first step. The goal is for them to admit this to themselves, but often it’s easier to admit it to their “peers”, since “all” they have to do is say it out loud, which in turn is easier when there are people listening. But admitting to themselves is for reason much harder, as I have perceived.
But then there are those who feign repentance and it is a fact that they exchange methods, forums, venues - any and all means - on how to keep indulging once they are let free. We sometimes even confiscated tiny memory modules containing porn that some inmates were passing around, although our heads of security wouldn’t tell us what they contained exactly…
In any case, putting sex and DV offenders together with ordinary inmates is not an option, because they risk being killed.
- Comment on Do pedophile/ephebophile s have a tendency to seek out friendships or romantic relationships with young adults as well as with minors? 1 week ago:
Do i…? I’ve got heartfelt, violent, juicy, dystopian, utopian… Pick your poison! 😄
- Comment on Do pedophile/ephebophile s have a tendency to seek out friendships or romantic relationships with young adults as well as with minors? 1 week ago:
No, it was a prison dedicated to sex offenders and domestic violence. The last of it’s kind. It housed 220 inmates, 200 in the mid security section and 20 in the minimum security section. Last I heard it’s going through reconstruction to house 700+ inmates, this time dividing the sex offenders in a separate wing.
- Comment on Do pedophile/ephebophile s have a tendency to seek out friendships or romantic relationships with young adults as well as with minors? 1 week ago:
I worked as a correctional officer at a sexual offenders only prison for three years and during all my talks with the inmates - which is a lot, seven hours a week on average - I never got the impression that those that were sentenced for sexual offenses against minors had had platonic relations with their victims. It could just be the case that they didn’t tell me about it, so take this with a grain of salt.
- Comment on Which movie have you seen where an actor started as an extra prior to becoming famous? 2 weeks ago:
“freak #1”. That’s some chaos theory right there.
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
walk a circle on earths surface and measure your net height change… it’s always 0.
If you aren’t already, you should become a teacher 🤣🩷 Thanks!!!
May I just ask, what “virtual” means here? Non native speaker. 🙏
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
Cool and true! Didn’t think of that😝
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for your input! It’s all Benjamin Franklin’s fault.
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
The ground reference of the 12v system exists only within that system (and is provided by the transformer/power supply).
This was great! Thanks!
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
MAD respect for the shishi-odoshi reference! 🤣🩵
Also, once one has grasped the basics, I find it important to loosen up the water analogy, otherwise it will be harder - or at least it was for me - to understand that the effects of electricity that seem instantaneous (lightbulb on/off) are not the electrons moving at the speed of light, but the electric fields expanding and affecting the neighboring electrons. Right?
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks! I did have some rudimentary grasp of Ohm’s law, but your analogies are great! 😊
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
This makes me realize how mind blowing the technology is: if I assume correctly, we have electromagnets inside the speaker that can alternate between the two potentials at the same frequency/speed as is required for the tone in question? And that’s just only one tone. Holy shit… how many times per second do the electromagnets turn on and off in order to create sounds that we recognize as music?!
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the clarification! So, there is an overlap, then, when it comes to the term “ground”? Grounding - and its wiring - in the greater electric grid is actually there in case there is a ground fault, while ground wires in smaller DC circuits can refer to the “outgoing” lead/terminal/wire?
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
Yet another amazingly hands on example, easy to understand! Thanks!
Does this mean that at the resting position, there could be or could not*l be some current in the system, depending on its design, as long as there is enough wiggle room (here, 24 units in total, 12 “up”, 12 “down”, or whatever range the specific cone needs in order to shake/move) for the specific cone to operate?
I have replaced “volts” with “units” and “wiggle room” in order to make it easier for me to visualize.
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit that escalated fast! In a fascinating way, that is! Thanks! So, truly, there is a measurable, absolutistic - albeit fluctuating - voltage (measured in electron volts) in the ground, but for our everyday appliances we rather measure voltage in the difference between the immediate source’s terminals, such as the two terminals of a battery, for instance?
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
That’s awesome! Thanks for the explanation! So, with my (maximum) 12V computer chassi fans, what are we comparing to? What is “ground” here? I slapped the fans onto my server rack, bought a DC adapter with variable voltage and wired them up so that I can manually select the voltage and thus the speed of the fans. Is this also a situation in which the various voltages/speeds are 3V, 4.5V, 5V etc higher than something that the person who built the electric grid in my house decided to call “ground”?
Sorry for the blurry pic.
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
Which is to say you can’t connect a single electrode to an instrument and measure the voltage of that single electrode.
This really helped visualize it! Thanks! 😊
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
Sic. This explanation is clear as day. Thanks!!!
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
I will definitely keep in mind, that what we use are the differences in voltages (which even makes sense if one were to use the water pipes metaphor).
So, the only reason we have absolute values in our outlets is for compatibility (to make manufacturers lives easier?) and to have some “wiggle room”?
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 2 weeks ago:
That made perfect sense in the sense that I interpret it as yes, “negative voltage” - here - is a sort of figure of speech. We (or the article or the electrical engineering community or the universe) is not trying to say that there are negative voltages. The article is just illustrating the common voltage ranges for ICs.
Did I understand you right? 😅
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- Comment on Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How does death with a mechanical/artificial heart work? 2 weeks ago:
A cold, monotone voice can be heard: “this person has expired. Please contact the authorities.”
- Comment on Why do bumblebees die under the tilia? 2 weeks ago:
Are these the guys who make it occasionally feel like it’s raining under the Linden?! Gross and fascinating 😱
- Comment on Why do bumblebees die under the tilia? 2 weeks ago:
Well I’ll be damned
- Comment on About what people are talking to each other nowadays 2 weeks ago:
There is no evidence that I could put forth here to prove how the situation, the paralinguistic information therein and my experience with neurodiversity made it clear that I am not dealing with - and therefore unjustly judging - a person on the spectrum, so I’m withdrawing from this thread. 🙏🩷
- Comment on About what people are talking to each other nowadays 2 weeks ago:
There is no evidence that I could put forth here to prove how the situation, the paralinguistic information therein and my experience with neurodiversity made it clear that I am not dealing with - and therefore unjustly judging - a person on the spectrum, so I’m withdrawing from this thread. 🙏🩷
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- Comment on About what people are talking to each other nowadays 2 weeks ago:
They could’ve been, in which case it wouldn’t have had to do with faster access to info, and I would’ve been making quite an ableist assumption. But,
I’m not looking for a scientifically, empirically or factually correct answer
