• 3 Posts
  • 108 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: March 24th, 2022

help-circle


  • The reason I liked Andor was that it portrays the revolutionaries (Luthen, his assistant, and later Andor himself) as understanding that they need to do the “bad stuff” to achieve results. They are not burdened by idealistic notions of a utopian and pure fight of good vs evil. There’s a scene where Luthen monologues that he sacrificed his soul to the cause. That he is trying to bring about a sunrise he will never be able to enjoy.

    Liberal media usually use the arc of the gruff vengeful revolutionary softening towards the end, as they are faced with fateful choices, and not having the courage to go through with it. Andor reverses this arc and I think it’s better for it.




  • I’ve done this before. I took advantage of a work laser printer to print a bunch of books for free.

    To save on paper (and get a manageable hand-held size), print 4 pages per A4 paper. Leave about 2 cm margin per page for binding. Then use an office paper cutter to cut the pages carefully.

    Buy some wood glue or fish glue and some good string.

    Use the glue to stick the pages together, using about 1 cm from the margins. Add a couple blank pages at the top and bottom. Place under something heavy and leave overnight.

    Drill 4 holes per page. You can use a low-power electric drill for fast results.

    Cover with some good quality hard paper or mixed plastic-paper. Glue the cover to the spine and on the outer blank pages. You can use a larger cover and fold its edges inwards, attaching them to the inner blank pages, to make it more resistant to wear and tear. Make holes on the cover to align with the previous holes.

    Pass the string through the holes and lace the whole thing together to strengthen the spine.

    Voila, you’ve got a book that will survive for years to come.

    Edit: ideal size for this method is volumes of around 200-300 pages.







  • Yeah combining blades into one.

    I have done something similar but not for living conditions. Rather for a room containing fermenters. I don’t have pictures to share though, since I no longer work at that place.

    If you don’t have the knowledge to put together a make-shift fan, then I’d suggest to go out and buy something like the one that another commenter suggested. I only suggested something like that because it would cut down your costs significantly. If you have no experience in doing something like that though, it’d be a lot safer to buy something ready.


  • CO2 is heavier than O2 and naturally sinks to the bottom. So you’d need to install ventilation pipes around the room, connecting between cellar floor level and the ground level above. A computer fan is not big enough to cut it, and you are thinking about it the wrong way as well. You need to move large volumes of air, so the smaller the fan diameter, the more RPMs you need to achieve desirable movement of sufficient air volume, which means more sound produced by the movement of the fan.

    What you could do is take a couple old stand or wall fans and weld them together to create a 6-blade double-sided fan. Then dig an S-tunnel for ventilation, and line it with aluminum or PVC to create a sterile surface. Install the fan somewhere in the middle, and connect it to a fan motor modified to work at slower RPMs for silent running, but running constantly.

    You can camouflage the ventilation tunnel’s exit by building a small structure around it that makes it look like a brick grill maybe. Whatever ventilation system you use, you’ll need it to be covered to protect the fan’s electrical system and the cellar itself from rain. You’ll also need to install grills/filters to prevent critters from moving through, especially stuff like mice, snakes, or venomous insects/arachnoids.

    As for mould, you need to make sure the place is not susceptible to humidity, so a simple dehumidifier should suffice.

    Aside from a CO2 sensor, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to also have a humidity sensor and maybe a carbon monoxide sensor as well. You don’t need much else.



  • I use Jerboa. I think there’s some confusion here, unless I’m mistaken. You can see the upvotes/downvotes on comments and posts next to the arrows. But if all the votes are positive, the arrows don’t show any numbers, and instead you just see the overall vote count on the top right.

    Basically, the numbers only show if there’s downvotes.

    I’ll downvote my comment to exhibit this.





  • He has a big cult following, especially online, and the people who have no real opinion of him default to the cult opinion.

    In my country, a guy who worships him and got famous by camping out for weeks outside Tesla offices just to talk with him, just got elected to the EU parliament, partly because of his Elon Musk worship.