Ah, the loudness war. I would argue that carrying music around with us is a primary cause. Can’t have quiet bits and loud bits in a recording if a lot of your audience will listen to it wearing headphones in a noisy area. They won’t be able to hear the quiet bits unless unless they blow their ears out with the loud bits.

So even though digital has truly epic dynamic range compared to vinyl, it doesn’t surprise me that more of that dynamic range would be preserved in a vynal mix. You can practically guarantee it’s being listened too indoors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hill%2C_Anglesey

I was not expecting the age. OG construction in the 1700s and abandoned since WWII.

In 1939 at the outbreak of World War II, the mansion was requisitioned by the government and used as a temporary housing for Polish soldiers. The Polish soldiers found the home too cold and decided to start a fire within the mansion so they would be moved to new housing accommodations. The fire destroyed a large part of the interior and the soldiers were removed from the house but only to tents on the Baron Hill Estate grounds. The mansion was abandoned afterwards and is still abandoned and derelict to this day

Pumped storage hydroelectric plants are totally a thing for the uninitiated. This approach seems less reliant on geography.

This photo is from 2017. The dome got a cleaning in 2021. I wonder what that does to the surface of the marbel over time.

The US isn’t #1, but our placement on this list still sad

There shouldn’t be much to service, no?

Bill is currently 72. Independence day came out 30 years ago, so he was 42 in the fim. I would be all for someone that age being president, but man…

Roosevelt was 42 when he became president, but he wasn’t elected when he became president. He’s the youngest person to be president so far.

Kennedy was 43 when he was elected.

Clinton and Ulysses S. Grant were both 46.

Obama and Grover Cleveland were both 47.

Franklin Price was 48.

James Garfield and James Polk were both 49.

Everyone else was 50+. Obama, Clinton, and Kennedy were the only people under 50 who were elected president in the last 100 years.

Tech genius is only the most recent wave in this fad. We love our hero worship, which results in cycles of this type of thing.

The most recent example is probably the Robber Baron era of the guided age. Some notables of the time include Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Leland Stanford, etc. Edison and Bell didn’t reach that level of wealth, but they probably would have if they were alive today.

Don’t worry, a lot of that money is still around wrapped up in family trusts. Sure, they’ve given a decent chunk away to white wash their names but these weren’t good people.

You’re not wrong, I just wonder what the net impact would be. Working for $2.13/hour was… very dumb.

I have very mixed feelings about it TBH.

It was a bigger place that would staff for surges in customers. “Better” WWs would get better sections and shifts, so you would stay busier longer despite dips in overall volume. Not to mention more consistent tips.

This all created an incentive to be decent at your job, which involved a mix of knowing the menu, how to interact with customers, and multitasking/path optimization to turn your tables. I routinely did 20,000 to 30,000 steps a shift. Not everyone figured it out or wanted to do that amount of work, so the low end of the staff had a decent amount of turnover.

On the higher end of the scale you could clear $200-$300/shift working in casual dining, depending on the day of the week, without any education barriers. That’s $20-30/hour or $42-$60k/year. You weren’t getting rich, but that’s enough to put you around median income levels. There were lifers who had been doing it for decades.

I don’t see a shift to hourly pay making up the difference for the higher earners.

I waited tables for 5 years quite some time ago. I never had someone skip out on the total bill, but I did get a few of these as a “tip”. Since I’m in the US, I actually lost money on those tables since we had to pay a flat percentage of our “sales” into a pool that was split between other front of house staff.

0 is really cold, 100 is really hot. How hard could it be 🤷

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All units are made up to some extent. Things like oz vs cups vs pints vs quarts vs gallons absolutely drives me up the wall. Let’s not even talk about things like using cups as a unit of measurement for flour…

Late to the party, but to add on:

• the glamor shots of finished prints that you’ll see in photos and videos are super misleading. Shine a harsh light at most prints at a steep angle and you’ll see a fairly rough exterior finish in the z-axis
• Ellis’s tuning guide is a good thing to run through. It’s pretty straightforward and will give you a feel for what to tweak and when to tweak it
• I’ve been printing for something like 8-10 years and have never bothered with a filament dryer. I tend to buy 3 kg spools and some of them sit open for quite some time as I work through them. They live in my basement, which does have a dehumidifier in it but is usually around 55% humidity
• keep in mind that FDM printers are basically a CNC hot glue gun and keep your expectations in line
• 45° print orientation can be a cheat code if you have crazy overhangs
• watch the first layer. If you get a good first layer odds are your print will be fine
• different filaments have different physical properties and will print differently. This is true across polymers (ie PLA, PETG, ASA, ABS, TPU, etc), but can also be true across brands, colors, and blends (PLA vs PLA+, etc)
• don’t get hung up on things like acceleration or velocity. Speed is all about flow and the best way to bump that up is bigger nozzles, thicker layers, and wider extrusions

For real advice: get a pair of calipers and print some radius gauges. Then jump into CAD, even if it means learning it. The real magic of 3D printing is in making custom designs. I’m personally a huge fan of functional prints. Once you start seeing opportunities to print replacement parts, make jigs and fixtures, and make your own designs for things you’ll find tons of opportunities.

You’re right that’s exactly what it means. However, there’s a ton of spin going on with BS like the lost cause that try to spin the founding of the Confederacy as something morally just and even heroic. They focus on things like states rights, chivalry, rebellion (the rebel flag), etc. Of course those obviously come at the expense of truly local rights and the rights of women. If you read any of the speeches of the time or the actual articles of succession it will become very obvious that it was about slavery.

It doesn’t help that pop culture leaned into presenting Confederate symbolism as “they’re trying to morally rebel against the corrupt government” for a bit. That’s a big reason why the Dukes of Hazard car, the General Lee, had a Confederate flag on the roof.

You could totally wire two sets of speakers in parallel. Your receiver is rated for it and the speakers won’t care. The load might be a bit more reactive than ideal, but it won’t be the end of the world. The only downside is that both sets will always be active.

In my experience, sage will flower year 2+ if it survives that long.

Sage in the ground is a perennial around us, but it only lives 3 or so years. It usually flowers in year two. If I had to guess why it’s not more common as an ornamental plant it’s because of its lifespan and no flowers the first year. People gravitate toward annuals and perennials, not biannuals.

I’m also in the Great lakes region and have never seen a spider like that before. Any tips for searching?

The level of precision that goes into every day items is truly amazing.

I’m sorry to hear that friend! I’m happy that you’re still finding outlets to engage with.

Macro photography might be worth a quick glance at depending how mobile you are. Life in miniature can look otherworldly.