… Wow.

So many problems with that design, but it does work.

Amazing, thank you for that link.

Less useful things have been designed:

lol

I mean… yes, lol.

It wouldn’t be the entire engine, just the starter.

But even that would probably not be a good idea.

I just figure someone must have made some kind of custom build that outwardly resembles a pull start, just as a novelty thing, but in actuality just… sends the power on signal to … whatever that particular pin board on the mobo is called.

Utter tangent:

Has anyone ever made a PC that … has to be pull started like an older ICE lawn mower?

EDIT: I’ve jerry rigged together spare PC parts into a make shift media center pc… that used the box my roomate’s Xbox 360 came in as a ‘case’… you had to actually jump the right two pins on the mobo to start it, rofl.

…we used a paper clip that had a bit of colored rubber or epoxy coating of some kind, wire stripper stripped that off of the last inch or so.

But a lawnmower start pc … that would be even funnier.

Well, on one hand, I am Autistic, I default to literal concrete meanings without fairly explicitly clear context indicating otherwise.

On the other hand… seems to me that just sort of broadly, generally, everyone is kind of… a combination of losing their minds and becoming hyperbolic as a default (due to massive stress of hypercapitalism collapsing living standards)…

…while also there is a massive trend that… basically the post-irony language/humor style of Zoomers has imploded, and nobody can really tell who is or is not joking any more, everything is a Schrödinger’s shitpost whose ‘true’ meaning is nebulous until it is observed and commented on.

I used to be able to tell what were jokes, irony, satire… took me a long time to learn all the nuances.

And then basically that all just collapsed in the last couple of years.

I mean… I have had a cat, and played with it in the manner I described till he got too old for that sort of thing.

It did not to me seem at all that I was putting in 900x the effort, either in physical energy terms, or mental effort / discipline and dedication terms, or both those combined.

Maybe… a roughly equivalent amount of combined mental and physical energy?

…

And yes, my cat would also wait hidden for periods of time… its part of their hunting strategy. Just pretend you aren’t there, and then when a sense of safety has come about… strike swiftly with the element of surprise.

Cats… are generally solo, stealthy predators, after all. A … stealth, glass cannon, low durability berserker build, to try to mangle it into video game terms. Capable of intense bursts of extreme athleticism, but also requiring significant down time to recharge.

Sort of the opposite of the human hunting strategy of using pure raw stamina to chase down prey over long periods of time, in group coordination with other humans, and then basically just finish off an animal as it is basically having a heart attack from redlining itself for too long.

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To me, I made it into a game: learn my kitty’s strategy, bait it and goad it accordingly… leaving some grace for him to enjoy actually catching and monching on it, but also challenging him with new patterns and movements, introduced gradually.

If kitty is either utterly uninterested… or just waiting for you to rope-a-dope yourself into exhaustion, and then he grabs it when you are tired… congratulations, you have been tactically outsmarted by a cat lol.

The cat has managed its stamina levels and recharge rates better than you have managed your own.

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I just set aside a few 30 minute blocks each day, or at least most days, to just set up some music, and do nothing other than play with kitty.

Like how a dog owner might set up an hour or so every couple of days to take a dog on a walk.

Also, vibes based math aside…

I don’t get how this … makes sense, from an energy expenditure level.

You have a 3 feet long stick, with a 4 foot long string, with a fuzzy mouse on the end.

You… flick your wrist, in various motions, such that the toy seems to be … hiding… then evading! then running, then hiding, then somewhere hard to reach… scittering slightly like it thinks its safe, sniffing for food -ah back to evading!

Sure, your arm is moving too, maybe you are also turning somewhat, or even walking a bit to certain areas of your place with more cat obstscles… but you literally have leverage, working for you.

… The cat is literally bouncing off the walls, running at 15 mph, climbing up the cat tower, shimmying under the couch or a table, suddenly executing snap turns, sometimes literally in midair…

… How on earth does that work out to you expeding more caloric energy than the cat?

It is even less work on your end if you use a laser pointer, though personally I would not recommend this due to the chance of accidentally injuring your cats eyes.

Wha… do you get some kind of reddit currency if you make a post that breaks 1000 upvotes, with a multiplier based on your log in streak length?

Jesus Christ, these fucking dark pattern, microtransaction shit just needs to be universally banned.

Thats uh… thats a gigantic crime rofl, fucking wow.

Not quite sure exactly what that slots into, tampering with evidence, obstruction of justice, not complying with the discovery process… but uh yeah wow dang, that’s the kinda thing that can actually lead to charges against the actual people that do this, if not at least the people that order other to.

Great job, morons!

… fucking megacorp version of ‘the discord channel got leaked, nuke everything!’, especially if these directives were newly enacted after any of the anti trust suits began.

It is an American thing that arose from, and persists because of how Americans ‘do’ Christianity.

As I said in another post, start with Max Weber, and then explore more of the history of how Christianity and Christian Denominations, cults, sects, revival movements, etc, have shaped the country as a whole, in ways that are distinct from how other kinds of Christianity have shaped other countries in the last 300 or so years.

Like… the whole reason we have the First Amendment, the freedom of religion part… was mainly to make it so that none of the varying Christian Denominations would be able to use the government to censor or outright oppress or murder each other.

Read the journals of the founding fathers, federalist papers, etc, if you doubt that. See how most of them were Deists, who… just believed in a big creator God, but basically no theology of any particular Christian branch… the neutral middle ground.

America was largely initially founded by populations of varying kinds of extreme Christian Sects fleeing persecution in Europe… and a lot of our early history is… those sects persecuting and mistreating, or at best, barely tolerating and competetively trying to proselytize, other sects that just over here now, on a different continent… as well as all the indigenous populations… and the imported slaves.

Glad you left your reddit trauma at the door to lemmy and certainly aren’t making any personal judgements based entirely on vibes rofl.

I will never stop speaking out that this whole thing is a bullshit non issue.

Not obsessive in any way at all, nope, that’s me apparently.

Hahahahaha

Discussing it isn’t an obsession, an obsession would be making your whole personality about it, or basically having that be a primary hobby or something.

You are doing a less extreme version of the thing that politcal news pundits do against protests:

Protesting as a concept is fine, but it turns out any protest with views I disagree with? Well they’re protesting wrong.

If you are reading this as an obsession, I dunno what to tell you, check my comment history and you’ll see this is the first thread I’ve ever mentioned it in, and my older, nearly year old account? Don’t think I ever mentioned it.

Finally: Yes, female genital mutilation is very often much, much worse, in that it usually entails total removal of the clitoris, which is… basically fundamental to the ability of a woman to experience pleasure and orgasm.

But that doesn’t mean male genital mutilation is not also bad. The male hood also generally has a much higher concentration of nerve endings than… basically everywhere other than the head.

And both of these practices fundamentally remove bodily autonomy from a baby/child, and are culturally/religiously done for reasons that ultimately or directly arise from a very paternalistic and authoritarian approach to children as property of parents, and intending to diminish and control their sexual characteristics without consent.

… But if you don’t wanna have this discussion, feel free to block me, or just… not discuss… this…?

… It is an unchallenged remnant of many things, a large chunk of those things having puritanical religious origins.

And almost all those religions happen to be Jesus-centric.

Kellogg was just a more recent large scale eh… reinforcment of the norm. He was inspired by his particular Christian views… 7th Day Adventist.

Like, yes, its not as direct as many modern preachers constantly doing sermons about the virtuosity of circumcision… but even still, I can easily say that the reason the practice is unchallenged is that American Protestant Christians of many, many different Denominations… well they strongly promote traditionalism for the sake of tradition, not questioning authority figures, actively rejecting modern science and medicine.

Like uh… Max Weber’s christian protestant work ethic explanation of the peculiarities of American culture in regards to attitudes toward work and politics and many other cultural features… isn’t 100% perfect… but it is a very good starting point to understand why American Protestantism is sociologically distinct to other societies.

… are you saying you don’t want pics… =[

/s /s /s lol

I edited in a bit more info… yet another wonderful amazing lie I had to figure out entirely on my own that my fundie parents told me with utter confidence.

… Unless you’re in Protestant dominated USAmerica, where male genital mutilation remains a widespread, common practice.

Roughly 80% of American boys/men are circumcized, almost all at birth.

I can provide either statistics or pics as proof, your choice.

EDIT: There’s also a whole history of basically junk/fraudulent science in the US being used as a validation of this practice, much of which basically claims that having your whole hood intact makes you more vulnerable to skin infections and STDs.

This is false, but Americans are quite good at doing motivated reasoning and convincing themselves it is objective critical analysis.

Ok.

You’re right that this could actually be an accurate characterization of the rule, teachers and schools do often implement ridiculous or poorly thought out, inefficient, easily gamed or difficult to enforce rules.

Back when I was in school, as cell phones were just becoming a widely available thing…

You set your phone on vibrate, and if it keeps going off, over and over, presumably this means someone or multiple people are urgently trying to contact you for some very important reason.

At that point you excuse yourself from the class, and look at your call log or texts or your voicemails.

If it actually is serious, tell your teacher what is going on, and they’ll send you to the office to either wait for someone to arrive or get you to the school therapist or whatever is appropriate.

Pretty much anything other than that is disruptive behavior.

Use something like a 3 strike rule before you confiscate a phone on the 3rd strike, and you get your phone back at the end of the school day.

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Ok, so I went diving into the actual reddit thread, and as best I can tell, this is the actual full source document of questions and answers.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rTAVSRU60ScQnQADF2WRAPKQFWRfYxM1B-mZCC1B_SA/mobilebasic

Going off of many other questions and answers, it appears the policy does confiscate a phone at the moment it is being used outside of permitted times and settings, and is then returned to the student at the end of the day for infraction 1, and all subsequent infractions require the parent to pick up the phone after confiscation.

A 2 strike rule set, I guess.

… However:

Anytime an official response is ‘Technically, yes’… yeah, they fucked up in the construction of their rule set.

… It would seem to me that a straightforward resolution to this problem would be that… in the event that infraction 2 occurs at the end of the day, just… confiscate the phone, and require a parent to pick it up, either at the end of that same school day, or after a 24 hour period if they really want to have a mandatory confiscation time as part of the punishment.

Part of the point of requiring a parent to pick up the phone is to basically mandate actual parental awareness of the issue, and they are already doing that…

So, infraction 2 escalates by now requiring the parent to pick up the phone, wheras infraction 1 does not.

I would think the escalation to getting a parent to pick it up would be a sufficient punishment, and the idea of some kind of… mandated minimum confiscation time scheme for the phone seems stupid, so long as the parent can pick up the phone after school has ended for the day.

But at the same time, there does appear to be some kind of admin acknowledged idea that… a phone would have to be essentially volunteered to be reconfiscated when a student returns on a subsequent day… which seems to me to be nonsensical and unenforceable without a mandated search of the kid… they could always just not bring the phone (or any phone) on day 2, and then you’d have to verify they are not lying… which is ass backwards presumption of guilt untill proved innocent that results in an unwarranted violation of their rights, even though they are complying with the general intent, the spirit of the rules.

I cannot reverse engineer the actual precise ruleset from this alone lol.

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Finally, as an aside … much of the reddit thread this is from make the arguement that cell phones shouldn’t be banned because what if school shooting.

So… 1, … all public schools… have… landline phones. They can dial out.

Ah, but what if the lines are all cut, or people can’t reach them?

2, … then just mandate that phones are not 100% literally physically banned… you just keep them off, or on silent, or on vibrate, and don’t use them during class.

… i am going to stick fork 1 in our friendship status, cuz its done.

It’ll ruin the finish, but you could just use some sand paper… maybe 80 or 100 grit?

… thork?

Damn, that is the most perfect fork I’ve seen, wow.

Yeah I was gonna say 2’s prong/head with 5’s handle would probably be the best out of what’s available in the OP image, but yours is… sublime, hah.