Someology

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[–] Someology 4 points 1 year ago

I finally suffered through the first 4 seasons of Babylon 5 this year. While there are good moments, the production values, writing, and acting are just not on a level with DS9. It felt like watching a big 3 network soap opera in space a lot of the time, with that same type of acting style. A couple of characters were great, but that's it. DS9 was just a better made show all around. Babylon 5 proves that you can have great ideas, but if the entire production situation doesn't come together in an equally high quality way, you aren't going to get an equally good result that will hold up over time the same way.

[–] Someology 1 points 1 year ago

I just know that stoneware dishes that I have hand made and fired ( wedging the air out of the clay extremely well) do not ever have this problem, but the light weight, aerated slip cast stuff from mass market stores often does. It cuts across all colors and types of glazes. It really very much seems to be the density of the clay the vessel is made from, which is just another way to say, how aerated it is. The same thing is also observable when it is a dish I have hand made and fired from porcelain, which is why I've assumed it is technique/physical construction and not the actual clay or glaze type. Perhaps instead it is the amount of total vitrification of the clay, which would also affect the density of the finished vessel as well.

[–] Someology 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Depending what you want, you can do this very simply:. Create an SMB network share on the PC. It can be password protected or not. Doesn't matter what OS, really (Windows, OSX, Linux). Then, on your Android phone, use an app like Solid Explorer or any other network capable file manager app that you like. Add the share to your file explorer app. After that, you can copy files just like the network share is a USB flash drive or SD card, or any other drive. It is taking advantage of stuff already built into your PC OS.

[–] Someology 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There is nothing in that page you linked about lead causing plates to get hot. Also, you know nothing about the plate age or composition. Lead glaze is irrelevant to plates heating, and not all existing dishes have lead in them.

[–] Someology 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Someology 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the many tiny air bubbles trapped in low quality ceramics that vibrate and heat it up.

[–] Someology 4 points 1 year ago

No, porcelain is usually glazed, just often with clear glaze, since it is already white to begin with. If the porcelain is shiny, then it is glazed.

[–] Someology 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you have a poor quality, low density (often mass produced), ceramic plate, there are tiny air bubbles inside it. These vibrate when the microwave runs, heating the plate faster/more than the food. This is the same reason why some mug handles get hot enough for 2nd or 3rd degree burns in the microwave while others never get the "microwave handle of death". Better made ceramics will have far fewer (or none) of these bubbles. This is why usually hand made pottery will not heat up like this, while factory stuff that was quickly poured into molds often will.

[–] Someology 4 points 1 year ago

People are paying good money for sea salt all the time in grocery stores.

[–] Someology 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Recall that YouTube is Google. Since they are scraping massive amounts of data about users from browser and phone apps, I feel like they should be paying me, really. Google profits off of the content we create for them, and then profits off of tracking us both online and offline, and then they have the gall to charge us money for it and show us ever more obnoxious advertisements. They've trained their AI products off of every gmail ever written and every Google Voice call every made, every YouTube video ever uploaded, and I absolutely refuse to feel any sympathy for them trying to bleed more money from the public.

[–] Someology 4 points 1 year ago

Time to make a second Google account just to use for YouTube viewing.

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