Excellent.

Honestly “differently-abled” seems more like a media term than anything linked to either handicapped communities or scientific research. Imho it’s kinda stupid.

And people speaking on behalf of marginalized communities is a real issue that does a lot of harm. e.g. Autism Speaks

An expression I encountered helping my roommate work on their education master was “handicapping situations”. It’s a bit unwieldy but I like that it conveys that someone is handicapped by a combination of an ailment, an activity, and a lack of accessibility.

In other words, someone who’s paraplegic isn’t in a “handicapping situation” when gaming in a chair.

Or someone who’s dysorthographic isn’t handicapped as long as their not trying to write anything.

I use handicapped as a shorthand for myself but it’s still a neat concept imho.

I might be mistranslating some stuff since said roommate is French.

PS: about the dance, blame it on people insisting on using our disabilities as insults.

PS2: You’re always gonna hurt someone at one point or another. But it’s not hard to try not to and apologize when it happens imho.

Yup but imho it doesn’t stop there.

Once the word stops being used as a medical diagnosis it will slowly stop being associated with learning / mental disabilities.

Nowadays not a lot of people associate saying someone is an idiot with any social minority so it kinda is just a disparaging qualifier.

Retard just happens to currently be in that sour spot.

idk for idiot or imbecile.

Moron is a slur imho.

But these are only my opinions and English isn’t even my first language so I might miss some things ^^`

I don’t think so since stupidity is a trait not a slur afaik.

Could you please not lump folks with learning and or intellectual disabilities with a bunch of spineless fascist traitors?

Or people could just stop using slurs?

It’s not like there’s a short list of things to dislike about fascists without punching down on social minorities…

He is a dumb fuck who’s dense enough to have an event horizon. Add the narcissism, possible dementia, and a general lack of anything remotely human.

Neither am I.

I don’t mind insects most of the time. I do beekeeping and love spiders.

But there are two bugs that scare me: roaches and centipedes (millipedes are cute though).

We had roaches a few times when I was a kid and it just scared me for life. They’re fucking everywhere, they’re noisy, and you can always see one in the corner of your eyes. fuck roaches.

Size 13?

Do your shoes work as a tent for smaller folks?

iirc we are empathetic but we have a hard time figuring out what we’re feeling.

So credit goes to Ryan North then.

Thanks for the info, I might even get the book \o

No way in hell.

Good content deserves credit.

This is awesome, thanks for putting in the effort!

Quick edit: do I credit you as /u/klear or do you prefer another handle?

Copper is very ductile and has a low melting point. Making a crude wire isn’t that hard. Oiled fabric is good enough to insulate it.

Finding a permanent magnet would be hard but you don’t need one. A simple salt/acid battery is enough to make a temporary one and use it as your generator’s rotor.

Depending on what metals you have at hand, a lead/acid battery is quite easy to make. It would require some light chemistry skills to make an acid that’s strong enough though. My best bet would be concentrating ethanoic acid.

Your battery only needs to act as an exciter. Once the generator is running you can use some of the current it produces to keep the rotor excited.

Once you got your generator assembled you can just hook it up on a water mill which the greeks knew about. You could maybe even fiddle around using late ancient Greek knowledge about steam engines (see aeolipile) and make yourself a very simple steam turbine.

With a bit of metallurgy know how you can make a DC generator like the ones used in the late 19th and early 20th century. All the materials you would need have been available since antiquity.

An AC generator would be a tad harder to make but not by a huge margin.

It wouldn’t be efficient at all but imho it would be a good PoC and you could then pool up some knowledge and brain power from people around you.

The hardest part might be convincing folks around you that it’s actually more than a party trick.

I currently have three practical ideas that are quite easy to set up:

• lighting with a simple air filled carbon filament light bulb.
• metallurgy with an induction heater.
• fumeless heating with a crude convection heater although this one might be more of a stretch.

edit: I wrote this without consulting any external ressources as it would be cheating.

So if lower frequencies are dominant through bone they should make your voice sound deeper to you, not higher pitched.

Yeah, voting 5’ from now has its risks :p

Did you mean to say higher frequencies?

Which is why being Trump’s foe ain’t a bad thing.

Exactly.