Fuck us so fucking hard. How does my state consistently continue to lower the bar?

Oopsie poopsie

I wasn’t sure if this was going to be a radio interference post, or John Carpenter

The dance mainly features hand and head movements. Obviously, this is evidence of an ancient Kinect.

It was purchased way before Stop Killing Games began

I only have limited advice, but maybe a few helpful tips.

Background: do lots of soldering, had a left radial nerve injury that left my arm frequently unusable for a couple of years.

• Get a soldering iron with some sort of base that allows you to properly insert your iron. You don’t want one that you set the iron down on a stand. If you’re anything like me, you’ll one day have your attention yanked away from whatever you’re inspecting because you smell your skin burning.
• Static-free silicone mats are your friend. They’ll provide the friction for you to tilt and then grab pesky boards and shit.
• Get a very stable but easy to manipulate magnifying lamp with a large window. Numerous studies have seen almost unbelievable fine motor improvement when using a magnifying glass.
• Get various comfy tweezers/grippers. If they’re comfy, you’re less likely to slip. Different materials to interact with different things, so you don’t accidentally scrape off contacts and shit.
• Storage and organization will be your salvation. Something that you can easily get components out from using the tweezers, and onto a silicone mat.
• I’m probably going to get some pushback on this, but get a magnetizer/demagnetizer. Magnetize all of your screwdrivers and shit by default. You can always demagnetize things later, but it’s better than fighting one-handed with screws and such.
• Get a set of helping hands, but not the ones with a small area and small arms. Something like this where the arms are super-flexible but didn’t require loosening and tightening, they have comically long reach, and they attach magnetically to a plate so that you can:

1. Take the arm off the plate
2. Use the clip to grab your part
3. Put the arm back on the plate
4. Position the arm
5. Clip the part with at least one more arm to secure it
6. Position your incoming component, maybe even secure it with another arm
7. Use one more arm to hold your solder

• It’s not the best technique, but you gotta work with what you got: learn to solder to your iron to your part. (Rather than only heating the part and component and then applying solder) Your results won’t be as pretty, but they’ll be functional.
• Desoldering is going to be a pain. When I had my rough days, I’d hold a wick with another clip, get it to absorb the solder, and then VERY quickly LIFT it with either the soldering iron, or usually my pinky. They also have electric solder suckers, but I’ve never tried one.
• Finally, get a comfy chair that lets you move and lean without falling over.

Hopefully some of these tips are helpful! It’s been about 20 years since I’ve had to solder one-handed. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

I remember my classmate telling me that they did the same to her in Louisiana public elementary school in the late '90s. The teacher even told her that it was because she was using “the devil’s hand.”

And you in yours. If I heard that you were going to a party that I got roped into, I’d actually be excited to show up.

It’s an alliance dedicated to leveraging existing coax cable runs as alternatives to Ethernet.

Aw, shit.

I was super confused at first because I’m used to MoCA standing for “Multimedia over Coax Alliance.”

Fuck.

Meep

I bet I could get beat by it in a fight

I remember my cousin telling me that Obama was the most violent president ever. I asked what that meant and he said that Obama was promoting violence and trying to start a civil war. I asked how Obama was doing such a bad job of promoting violence since violent crimes were going down.

He told me that Obama was trying to start a civil war by riling up “the blacks.” I asked what Obama was saying to rile up “the blacks.” He told me that Obama was a racist, so I asked what were some of the racist things that Obama said. He told me that Obama was blaming white people for everything. Finally, I realized that I was following this man, 20 years my elder, on a wild goose chase that was supposed to end with me agreeing that Obama was bad.

Instead, I said, “you started this conversation by saying that Obama is promoting violence, but it sounds like you’re trying to say that Obama blames white people for everything. I’ve never heard him say that, so can you tell me one thing he’s said that blames white people for everything?” My totally-not-racist cousin (I knew he wasn’t a racist, because he started his next argument by telling me that he’s not racist) told me that Obama publicly says messages for only the black communities, and he’s always talking about arrest rates being higher for blacks, and keeps bringing up slavery and Jim Crowe and lynching. My cousin explained that these are messages about violence.

So I asked my cousin, “it sounds like you don’t like that Obama is addressing disproportionate violence against black communities, or being reminded about slavery or race-based laws. Are you saying that this makes YOU want to be violent, and that’s Obama’s fault?”

My cousin told me that I needed to stop making everything about race and that I was starting to sound like Obama. So, I cleared my lunch, and told my cousin that I don’t feel comfortable hanging out with racists. Good times…

That was a great read, thanks for sharing!

I like to poop on the rooks so that they look like bishops. Victory again! Coo

I’m pretty sure you’re being sarcastic, but I’d passionately back this stance. Emulsions are a goddamn art, and need to be respected for their insane range and joy.

It is absolutely an aioli. You just have to de-emulsify it, separate out the egg, and then emulsify the non-mayonnaise ingredients. It’s not like it’s chemistry or entropy or whatever.