Limonene

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[–] Limonene 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Any regular hex nut works just fine as a jam nut. Basically, a jam nut is when you jam two nuts together. (It is gay, because the nuts do touch.)

And note that those nylon inserts kinda only work once. The bolt carves a thread into the insert when you insert it, so it will be weaker the second time you insert it.

Honorable mention: cage nuts. A square nut, permanently attached to a fastener that can snap into a special square hole in a 19 inch server rack. When you tighten the bolt against the nut, it tightens against the fastener, so that the nut, bolt, and fastener are secure against the square hole.

[–] Limonene 108 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Well, it's no longer an illegal lottery. So that's good.

It's just a rigged lottery. Slightly different thing. Also illegal, but for slightly different reasons. More unethical and fraudulent than before.

So it makes things better, and then makes things way worse.

[–] Limonene 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Plays the Menards "Save Big Money" Jingle

I'll just go get my flamethrower.

[–] Limonene 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The latter is a slur, and arguably is currently the most vulgar word in the English language.

The former is considered archaic (at worst) in English, but completely ordinary in Spanish.

[–] Limonene 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It looks like he's pointing and causing the beard to grow instantaneously. If anyone had that ability, it would be Riker.

[–] Limonene 0 points 3 months ago

Hahahahaha

Somehow I doubt that North Korea has disability support. They can't even feed their people.

Though this is obvious propaganda, there would be no way to verify it anyway, because North Korea cuts itself off from the world, in both travel and communication. They have no freedom of speech or press within the country, either.

[–] Limonene 12 points 4 months ago

English has its flaws, but I don't agree that that is one of them.

[–] Limonene 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

If anyone was hoping for women priests, give up on that. The Roman Catholic church would first have to retract both papal infallibility and ecumenical infallibility.

They have made too many definitive statements that women can't be priests, and they have made definitive statements that their definitive statements are infallible, and must be agreed to by anyone who calls themself Catholic. It's not even up for debate (unless all of the infallibility stuff is also up for debate).

For example:

I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful.

https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1994/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19940522_ordinatio-sacerdotalis.html

They really painted themselves into a corner. While the rest of society moves forward with equal rights for historically marginalized groups, the Catholic church will be stuck with the effects of their early bad decisions (and some recent bad decisions) because they banned themselves from admitting when they are wrong.

[–] Limonene 51 points 4 months ago

For anyone who honestly believes in third party stuff: try supporting ranked voting at the local and state level. Once we have more ranked voting at local and state levels, it will be easier to push that at the federal level, which is the best way to solve strategic voting problems in presidential elections.

Nobody would support ranked voting for presidential elections if that's the first time they hear about it. But if people use it already in local elections, and see that it works better, then extending it to presidential elections is a logic choice.

[–] Limonene 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is there a real citation for this? Something that's not on Twitter? "The Daily Edge" doesn't even have a website of their own.

I'm going to assume these daily conversations are still unproven, unless someone shows me a better citation.

[–] Limonene 9 points 4 months ago

Have you imported the tails-signing.key yet? Usually you can double-click on that to import it using whatever graphical gpg frontend is set up on your system. It may ask you how well you trust the owner of the key. You can answer that question however you want without affecting this verification process.

Next, it looks like you run the instructions from this page: https://tails.net/install/expert/index.en.html#verify

Some of those command line parameters look a little paranoid. The basic command you want to run is: gpg --verify somefile.sig somefile.img

[–] Limonene 1 points 4 months ago

Some yes, some no. I've had a lot of short relationships, and only one long one.

If you're in a relationship with an abusive person, a person who is barely interested in you, or a person who always takes and rarely gives, then you have to break up. Unfortunately, many people will go through such relationships in their life.

Don't throw away your own life to find love. If you are playing the game while desperate, you may get taken advantage of. It may be better not to play. It's ok to be single.

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