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by showerst 4y ago
Art in the sense of gallery art is a social phenomenon. Nobody cares about the paint splashes with a meaningful interpretation on the placard from some high school student in Nebraska, but the same thing at a hip NYC gallery from the right
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by showerst 4y ago
If you’re interested in bill data, open states maintains a federal scraper that outputs into a common format with our scrapers for all 50 states as well. https://github.com/openstates/openstates-scrapers It uses the GP
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by showerst 4y ago
Until we hit a critical mass of states with this legislation.
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by showerst 4y ago
If you’re not familiar with this channel, you’re in for a treat! Turn on closed captions to get an explanation of what’s going on.
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by showerst 4y ago
Thanks, that’s pretty neat. I have neither the fun stuff budget nor the purpose to justify cluttering up space for a few years, but it’s cool to see satellites drawing closer to “serious but amateur” price levels.
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by showerst 4y ago
What’s the ballpark price these days for building and launching a basic cubesat?
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by showerst 4y ago
Whenever I hear someone say "(X) is common" in any country with more than about 20 million people, I just mentally append "in my area".
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by showerst 4y ago
I agree with the sentiment but pragmatically I think we have to time bans to when replacements are really equivalent or better-- electric mowers in particular are still 4x the cost and get mixed reviews, and I don't think chainsaw usag
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by showerst 4y ago
I live in DC, a few bits of info about why it makes sense here, and may not make sense in your home: 1. They didn't ban leaf blowers, the banned _gas_ leaf blowers. Electric ones are quieter, inexpensive, and work just as well nowadays
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by showerst 4y ago
I know it’s not an ideal source, but search Reddit’s legal advice subreddit sometime. There’s constant posts of people getting eviction notices because their conservative landlord saw them bring home a partner they didn’t approve of.
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by showerst 4y ago
Mcclellans Retreat in DC also does a cocktail with them. Cool to see that's a trend.
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by showerst 4y ago
These don't taste great on their own (kinda grassy) but they give a more intense pins & needles feeling. They're much stronger than any sane amount of Sichuan pepper -- but shorter lasting, and they change food's flavor i
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by showerst 4y ago
Nice! That's my exact plan if I ever get a real garage. I labelled mine on colored masking tape which is a nice way to quickly get to the right contents.
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by showerst 4y ago
If anyone is working in a tight space, I recently found that wall control makes pegboard that are only 8in wide. [1]. They're made to be horizontal so if you flip them some of the fancy accessories that rely on the horizontal slats won
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by showerst 4y ago
For through-hole and other misc small stuff, I bought some mini plastic baggies and store them in a binder filled with baseball-card storage pages. A little fiddly to assemble, but now it's really easy to jump to section and clearly se
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by showerst 4y ago
The harbor freight knockoffs of those stanley containers are serviceable too, at half the price. https://www.harborfreight.com/20-bin-medium-portable-parts-s...
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by showerst 4y ago
I’m on my phone right now so hard to check, but I don’t think DC actually is safer than most places. Crime here is comparatively high, and many people still drive.
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by showerst 4y ago
NYC is relatively safer than other large cities. particularly Manhattan. https://realestate.usnews.com/places/new-york/new-york-city/... Overall NYC is much safer than the national average, especially compare
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by showerst 4y ago
I'm a little surprised that nobody has pulled off the "VB6 of javascript". I don't mean one of the purely no-code products, but like a literal "create a new page, drag a button, then double click it to hop into the
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by showerst 4y ago
Good for them! Heardle is my favorite of the wordle clones, although some of the recent UK-focused one hit wonders have been brutal =P.
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by showerst 4y ago
I suspect youtube is helping to bring this back, I follow some living history channels (after finding Townsends) and a lot of maker channels, and there seems to be an explosion of interest in traditional making.
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by showerst 4y ago
There's a whole variety of carbide matrices/coatings used for insert-tooling for machining. They change the binder and coating to alter the properties a bit. TiC (titanium carbide), Ti(C)N (titanium carbide-nitride), TiAlN (titani
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by showerst 4y ago
27% of america agrees -- https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/05/06/americas-abo...
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by showerst 4y ago
"We have decided that rich people who can travel to a different state have different rights than poor people" is a very bad process. That's the difference between rights and privileges -- As of this week I can't vote awa
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by showerst 4y ago
There are already bills introduced in four state legislatures to do that, and more are surely on the way.
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by showerst 4y ago
The problem is that it just exacerbates an already major problem in America: access to healthcare is based on where you live and how wealthy your parents are. Wealthy republicans can just fly their teenage daughters to a blue state, while p
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by showerst 4y ago
Loving v. Virginia was decided in 1967.
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by showerst 4y ago
It effectively bans safe abortion for poor people in red states.
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We _might_ share a set of universal constants with any other intelligence that they also care about. PI, the speed of light, binary, etc. In a weird sense specific to decoding transmissions we might share more of interest with them than Min
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by showerst 4y ago
I really think Shahriar makes some of the best niche content out there. He has this wealth of incredibly specialized high end knowledge, but much of the equipment he tears down is just the absolute bleeding edge (or former bleeding edge) of

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