I have some better quality kitchen knives I like keeping sharp.

I use a two-sided whetstone 400/2000 grit for basic shaping (400 is akin to those rolling sharpeners, to be used only when you fucked up real bad), a leather strop with green sharpening paste (~6000-8000 grit) glued to a piece of wood, a plain leather strop, and a honing steel.

Green sharpening paste is most of what I ever use, a couple of strokes weekly (more realistically about 20 once a month), and maybe polish it up with the plain leather strop. Keeps the knives wicked sharp, and then I just hone them after each use.

Sometimes I do stupid things and get burrs in my edge (like cleaving frozen bone), that’s where the 2000 grit saves me.

400 I guess is for when the apocalypse comes or your kids decided to practice chef’s knife throwing into scrap metal. It’s nice to know I can remake a whole edge, but rarely used.

UwUpeans, so great, and so horrid at the same time.

You sir/madam/gentlebeing, are a most delightfully twisted individual.

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Tl;dr:

Bathtubs started small due to size constraints of rooms, but got smaller because it’s cheaper to manufacture and handle smaller tubs.

#savedyouaclick

Sounds like great news, no?

Just as we had a time before fungus digesting plant matter, we’ve now had a time before fungus digesting plastics.

“Soon” we’ll get bacteria and insects doing the same, and all our plastic buildings will need to be protected just as the wood ones.

No payment for sub-1000 streams/year

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

Lol. Check your privilege.

A. Do a carbon footprint analysis of your life, if it’s above 2,5 tons coe/year you’re a net burden on the planet. My country is as well, although considerably lower than the US.

B. It is possible for you to be a paragon of environmentalism and still live in a country with inefficient systems for water, infrastructure, zoning, industry and food production. Not to mention live in a culture of unsustainable lifestyle. Many Chinese or Indian persons are simply too poor to have a major impact on the environment, but their national industrial practices drive up the average pollution to levels comparable to the US (although still lower). Most US people aren’t as poor, and also have shitty industry standards, and also the means to change that without losing your standing internationally.

C. Multiple countries are shitty, in fact most of the non-developing world countries are a net burden.

D. As opposed to the other countries at the top, the US has had the economy, data, and access to resources to be able to something about it for generations, whereas most have had half the time and considerable need of modernising.

E. The US is much larger than the other countries, and could with quite simple measures make great impact and help pressure other great polluters.

Graphene, the superconductor hoax, the quantum electron model all would like to disagree.

Even though you might not need to calculate anything with it, it certainly applies in your daily life. (although the electron model maybe mostly for high school students)

I’m comfortable saying yes to that

Notice how the US is among the largest polluters per capita by quite the margin.

I was assuming the help of a speech/ghost writer, as he did in his presidential days

Only if he manages to write a manifesto, I’m not sure Trump can write anything coherent longer than 140 characters.

Transvestitism is a name for cross dressing, it is unclear how much of that is related to gender identity, and how much is sexuality, as well as how big the overlap is when you weren’t allowed to be transsexual.

What we’re talking about here is transsexuality, which roughly means not being of the gender you were assigned at birth. The name came before we had a widespread discourse that sex and gender are fundamentally different things.

Sexuality develops at around the age of 6-8, body and self identity starts a couple years before then.

I’m not a child psychologist, but I’d make a guess that trans realisation in children are rare before the age of 3, but after that are mostly a question of maturity, support of environment, and how harsh social norms are.

Also, aren’t you still legally a child up to the age of 18? I’m pretty sure I’ve heard that sexuality and identity develop before then.

Oh, and in case you missed that part, trans isn’t about sexuality, it’s about identity; fitting in your own body, in your presentation of yourself, in how you are treated by others. Sexuality is it’s own separate beast, especially with all the stigma about it.

You buy local to keep the money local.

That local business pays taxes in your county, their salaries go to rent, groceries, daycare, healthcare and other stuff that keeps your local community thriving. Their taxes also go to roads, clean water, education, and other stuff you kind of want your neighbours to have access to.

Buying it on Amazon sends you our money out of state/country so that some poor piss break deducted warehouse worker without options lose another $30/day to be able to work at a company that keeps exploiting the community and interfere in the local politics, without paying taxes for it.

Basically, you end up paying for it in one way or the other. Your local book shop owner is never gonna hoard enough money to ride a penis into space for bragging rights, but they might help keep the local grocer in business and your roads paved.

Is it? That bit seems the least outlandish, I’d guess that happens regularly to people in power and/or with a litigious streak.

But the issue is not with the AI tool, it’s with the human wielding it for their own purposes which we find questionable.

Consent.

You might be fine with having erotic materials made of your likeness, and maybe even of your partners, parents, and children. But shouldn’t they have right not to be objectified as wank material?

I partly agree with you though, it’s interesting that making an image is so much more troubling than having a fantasy of them. My thinking is that it is external, real, and thus more permanent even if it wouldn’t be saved, lost, hacked, sold, used for defamation and/or just shared.

To the Mun!