cool - all the more reason to deface our traitor in chief.

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YES. My suggestion was to mark Trump as the Nazi he is - currency with Nazi iconography on it is not fit to be reissued. It’s a petty protest, but the point is to make the proposed new bills inconvenient and convey a clear message until they’re inevitably pulled.

Except by the wording of the specific law in question. o_O

I’m not seeing the disconnect here. Nor the need for the disconnect in the first place: the first post I made here was to encourage people to deface prints of Trump. If you disagree that there’s a legal barrier to doing so, then cool - all the more reason to deface our traitor in chief.

Why are you wrapping random words with quotation marks? It reads like it’s being spoken aloud by Dr. Evil. Anyway, gonna go with the wording of the law itself over a wiki article about it:

18 U.S. Code § 331 - Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins

This one’s specific to coins. Anecdotally I was always told they were legal because pennies are explicitly an exception to that law. So, it’s either that or it’s in j-walking territory where it may be illegal, but no one gives a shit enough to enforce it.

…also coins aren’t really relevant here anyway - the conversation is about defacing paper bills if they decide to soil them with Trump’s traitorous image.

Then do the thing? Is super duper illegal different from regular illegal? Why are we bashing heads over the use of ‘super duper’ in NotTheOnion in the first place?

18 U.S. Code § 333 - Mutilation of national bank obligations

I guess there’s some wiggle room with regards to intent and whether it could be argued that adding Nazi iconography (moreso than trump’s face as-is) to bills renders them unfit to be kept in circulation.

If my personal freedom was on the line here, I’m sticking with “idk it was like that when I got it - can I get a new one please?” vs “ooh come on, it’s fiiine, you can still spend this!” but interpreting the law isn’t my specialty, so grain of salt.

Here’s the specific stuff I’m familiar with:

https://www.zimmerbiomet.com/en/products-and-solutions/specialties/cement/biomet-bone-cement-r.html

99% of the cases that use bone cement I’ve been in, in all of the hospitals I’ve worked at, have used that specific product. With the exception of a shoulder surgeon I worked with who liked this goopy blue shit that got everywhere.

In any case, that stuff is, uh… pungent. Like even when I’m not in the ortho room, if I want to check on how far along their case is, I don’t even need to actually look in the OR - getting near the room is enough to tell me whether or not the implants are in, indicated by the presence or absence of that smell within about 15-feet of each entrance to that OR.

Pregnant or not, I can’t imagine breathing that shit every day is doing us any favors. >_>

…and that’s ignoring electrocautery smoke, radiation, and all the biohazardous shit we’re exposed to in there. I swear in 10 years we’re going to be featured in cautionary training videos about what happens when you don’t use whatever latest-and-greatest technique is being pitched to keep that shit out of our lungs.

Just so everyone’s aware, it’s super duper illegal to deface currency.

So like, it would be against the law to use a sharpie to add a Hitler mustache to Trump’s face on said dollar bill; or add an arm extended in a Nazi salute; or add swastikas over ‘god’ where it says “In god we trust”; to then bring it to a bank and report that you received defaced currency and would like to exchange it for new bills, only to do it all again.

So… y’know, probably don’t do those things.

Yea at this point, they’ve owned it and put in the effort to correct it that I wouldn’t be opposed to buying another one of their games… just… after it’s been released for a month or two :P

surgical glues, which I would imagine would be safe® on your skin

Not necessarily. Some of the stuff we use in surgery is toxic as fuck. Like, in cases that use bone cement, any staff in the room who happen to be pregnant are required to leave the room once we get to that part of the case because just breathing in the fumes from that shit can fuck up the baby.

That said, it’s all about weighing risks against desired outcome: generally that super toxic shit is fine for the patient because they’re only exposed to it once and then sent on their way.

The closest thing we use to superglue is products like Dermabond (which is thicker, but otherwise I think it’s basically just superglue) to reinforce the sutures when closing a surgical incision. But same spiel - we put it on in the OR and send them on their way. It isn’t reapplied for any length of time, if there are any long term effects of Dermabond, we probably don’t even know about them because we never put on more than one application. …but even that will cause chemical burns to the epidermis; they’re just mild enough that they’re deemed worth it to keep the wound closed.

‘Well, on Reddit…’

I find myself doing that for Lemmy, but depending on who I’m talking to, I’ll either name “Lemmy” in a mild effort to recruit them if that person isn’t a piece of shit; or, even though I haven’t touched Reddit since it backstabbed its 3rd party app devs, I’ll reference posts and memes etc I find here on Lemmy as something like “bruh look at this shit on Reddit…” if the person I’m talking to is like a neonazi coworker who I’m being strategically friendly toward for the sole sake of workplace politics, but don’t want that miserable piece of shit to drag their hateful bigotry anywhere near Lemmy.

So… Reddit still holds some value as a dumpster to direct certain people toward.

I pre-ordered No Man’s Sky -_-

Now, they’ve done WAY more than any of us thought to make things right; but at the time of release, NMS was probably the single most egregious example of false advertising to hit the gaming industry, ever. Or at least within a comparable scope of visibility to the gaming community.

It wasn’t just not living up to the hype; it was purchasing a brand new Lamborghini, and receiving 2003 Honda Civic.

And no they didn’t just bite off more than they could chew - they knew what they had created; and proceeded to show demos and make promises that amounted to a completely different product. We were scammed.

…and then I guess their conscious got the better of them, cuz rather than disbanding their studio and laughing all the way to the bank like we all expected them to, they spent years at least trying to make look like the product they promised. So, credit where it’s due. But still lesson learned: never preorder a game, no matter how good the demos looks, no matter how charming their spokespeople are, no matter how closely the product they’re pitching aligns with your specific niche interests: assume it’s all complete bullshit until you’ve seen some gameplay posted by real people.

Got me curious, so I did some digging: from a dermatological perspective, I’d give a strong vote ‘no’.

This is a wordy article, and not from the kinds of medical resources I usually consider credible, but it passes the smell test and the question is ultimately about glue, so a website specializing in it makes sense - I’d recommend giving it a read:

https://gluesavior.com/why-do-super-glue-bond-to-skin/

Ctrl+F “Dangers of Super Glue on Skin” if you want to skip to the juicy bits.

Basically you’re looking at chemical burns and skin breakdown as a short-term consequence; and neurological damage long term. You 100% do NOT want neurological damage in your fingers if playing a guitar (or… doing anything that uses your fingers) is important to you.

I’d guess there are products made specifically for this that won’t kill your fingers - you could probably find some recommendations at a more specific community here - quick search reveals a good handful of options specific to guitar… no idea if any of them are active, but that’d be a good start.

Good luck, and don’t kill your fingers!

Trump wants peace now

What in Trump’s miserable life gave you the indication that he gives a sliver of fuck about peace?

Quick! Someone crosspost this to [email protected]

Ooh, that would for sure handle viscosity better than IV tubing. Good call!

Some toilets have a perfectly round bowl so they don’t stick out as far and take up less bathroom floor space - and they work fine, but only in bathrooms that anticipate the vast majority of its occupants to be equipped with a vagina. For those of us rocking a penis, those fucking toilets are horrible - sitting on that damn thing requires you to contort your junk around like some sausage-Houdini as you’re sitting, so that you can guide it through the remaining 2 square inches of open space not occupied by your legs or ass. Then when you’re actually seated, you still have to sit there and awkwardly hold the thing so it stays pointed straight down.

Fuck up any part of that, and the tip of your dick hits the seat or the inside of the bowl.

…and they must be like $3 cheaper than an oval toilet or something, cuz 99% of US apartments seem to be equipped with the round, vagina-only toilets.

Oval bowls are the way. No matter what’s in your pants, it gets the job done without the significantly increased biohazard risk.

I guess in fairness, the problem isn’t with their design, it’s with the people who purchase the toilets treating them as sex-neutral when no the fuck they aren’t!

I’m incredibly confused about how you’re supposedly to measure liquid laundry detergent with the cap.

You just gave me a stupid idea. First measure out the exact volume of detergent you need for one load - eyeballing it I’d guess 20mL (I’m notoriously terrible at eyeballing volume, so, grain of salt) - then get a 20mL syringe and some IV tubing (it’s got one-way valves, so when you connect a syringe to it and draw up, it pulls from on side of the line; then when you depress the syringe back down, it goes out the other side). Tie something heavy to the intake side of the line and throw it in the bucket of detergent. Run the other side of the line to just above the detergent receptacle if your machine has one; or near the door for you to just aim it.

Load clothes; pull syringe, push syringe, close the door, run the machine. No detergent dripping all over the place!

…detergent is probably too viscous as-is to go through IV tubing at an acceptable rate, so you’d probably have to dilute it with water first to thin it out, then adjust the amount you pull accordingly.

Water has both adhesive and cohesive properties, and this bullshit is one of the results. I hate it so much. Basically the bit of wwater in contact with the surface of the spout likes to stick to that spot; and the above that likes to stick to the water stuck to the surface and so on, making it kinda roll along angled surfaces even when it seems like gravity should be yanking it right off.

And they absolutely could shape the spout in a way that stops this - they just choose not to.

Never heard of the oil coating trick @DontRedditMyLemmy mentioned, but it makes sense - oil is hydrophobic, so that could eliminate the adhesion part of the equation; and without that moving the stream initially, its cohesion won’t be an issue either.