naevaTheRat

naevaTheRat, 10 months ago

Do you think that the pro meddling in the middle east voters in the world trade centre that day deserved to die like that?

Genuinely, I don’t. I don’t think average citizens, even really fucking shitty and ignorant ones, deserve capital punishment for the crimes of those that claim dominion over them.

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

Not exactly the same but my grandmother had a stroke that left her unable to care for herself although mostly mentally intact. She was miserable and never adjusted. It was hell, and everyone was relieved when she died. I know that sounds horrible but there was nothing we could do to ease her suffering.

All I can really say is that brain injuries are awful, even if things turn out as well as they can the road there is going to be hell. Remember to take care of yourself, you’ll have days of grief and anger when you think thoughts you’re not proud of. Do not judge yourself too harshly, or your family.

You will need time and space to grieve and it’s going to be very hard to get that at the moment. Try to make space when you can, and understand that everyone else needs that too. You will need support, your friends and extended family might avoid bring your mum up believing that it spares you suffering to avoid thinking about the situation. You might need to be quite explicit with your needs around emotional support, conversations, venting, and advice.

I am sorry, my heart goes out to you. Generally the prognosis for brain injuries isn’t good, and it’s probably best to set expectations around that to avoid self blame and another round of grief if things don’t improve. That said stimulation is important for brain healing, particularly early on. Try to chatter, ask questions etc even though you might not get a response. Play music she likes, try to do things around her/in view. Try physical therapy stuff if she’s mobile. Even gentle movement of limbs by another person can help prompt re-connection of neural pathways.

Good luck

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

The kind of person who reads 30 minutes a day for 20 days straight. That’s not really so bad, you’re outreading the vast majority of people there.

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

I would recommend David Graeber or however it’s spelled writing. Any time you read anyone’s opinion take it with a grain of salt but Debt and Bullshit Jobs address many things, some of which can be taken as criticism of capitalism.

James C Scott is another anthropolgist and his most accessible book is probably seeing like a state. It’s relatively even handed in it’s critques of capitalism as it focuses on states including the USSR. It highlights quite well how markets and states can crush humanity because they have wildly different goals to people.

You probably don’t want to jump right into hardcore theory so this might be a gentler intro into asking why society is the way it is and how it might be different without expressly pushing a particular political theory.

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

Was a goth, mocked emos and scene kids. Learned my lesson, rock on you little weirdos, enjoy your time of experimentation

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

to my hormone soaked brain being disaffected and into the grotesque was infinitely cooler than being disaffected and sad.

We enjoyed punks though, there was this group of kids that’d meet up in the city and we’d be punks, metalheads, and goths all confident in our superiority to emos who we called posers.

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

cringe finds us all. Our curse was out fear of it, our blessing is we can free future generations with our knowledge.

There’s no escaping regret, so lets all just celebrate ourselves and understand others are doing the same.

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

this is just big hair again. Let 'em have fun you fucking lunitic school

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/3b863432-70e6-4965-99a3-084d0181e44b.jpeg

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

Ah yes, the radical left rolling out programs like 5 eyes. The radical left that makes it legal for corporations to throw cameras everywhere and deploy facial tracking software. The left who deregulated everything till credit card companies are allowed to determine who can access their money and what you’re allowed to spend it on. That radical left sure does love rolling out censorious police state stuff.

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

I swooned. The masculine strength of his opinions assaulted me in waves. I tried to resist but my feeble feminine brain was unable to come up with a single rebuttle, my resolve cracked under the strain.

“Oh take me, take me now under the steely gaze of your Anne Rand poster” I gasped, racistly.

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

Those parties aren’t left wing…

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

the Democrats are a primary party in a military cult empire that indoctrinates children with flag rites and coups every government that dares to call itself socialist. I’m guessing you’re part of that military cult and thus don’t understand how insane it seems from the outside.

There are left elements, that sandy man seems to flirt with Democratic socialism, although not very strongly. It doesn’t seem like he has much power though.

Labor in the UK has thoroughly remade itself after Thatcher with the new labour movement which distanced themselves from their unionist and socialist roots. They now don’t have any particularly leftist policies, although they are less right than the Tories obviously.

In Australia labor did a similar thing after the USA couped our only elected socialist government and replaced the labour leader with a CIA groomed dude.

The right is utterly ascendant in global politics and has been since the rise of neoliberal economics under Reagan and Thatcher. That power is beginning to wane, but don’t confuse being left of “we should hunt the homeless for sport” with being a leftist government. Leftism isn’t when shouting slurs gets you tutted at, it’s Democratic businesses and worker owned collectives, nationalised infrastructure, anti imperialism, open boarders, welfare above the poverty line, universal recognition of human dignity etc.

In Australia the most mainstream leftist party would be the greens who hold at most 1 to 3 seats out of 150 regularly. Similarly in the UK I am given to understand. There are more radical parties but they’re even more marginalised.

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

Yes, I posted a comment reply with further information here

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

So if you check my other comment in the thread the Z axis isn’t moving at all with XY translation which suggests to me the mesh isn’t being used period.

There could be mechanical issues too but I think focusing on the software first is likely to be fruitful.

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

Yes, the mesh saves and loads correctly. I had the Gcode wrong which you can see in my comment and the post edit. Ongoing issues though

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

If you check my edit the second it’s seeming that something like this might be the case?

Do you know if this problem sounds like a mechanical issue?

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

So all I have currently is M420 L0 S1 as I mention in my post. Make sure it comes after g28 in case that’s configured to unload autolevelling. Make sure L# matches the slot number your mesh is saved to.

To see if it’s working. Print a skirt around the whole bed. Put an Allen key in the grub screws of the couples between the Z motors and the screws and watch or feel for deflection. The movements will be subtle.

It’s also worth seeing if comparing manual levelling using a feeler gauge or paper sheet and the nozzle tip creates the same mesh as automatic levelling using the probe. plus or minus Z offset of course. If there’s a skew to the manual mesh you need to fix axis alignment.

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

Well someone would die when you pulled the trigger

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

It would cause the rapid emission of various kinds of radiation. The thin amount of lead pictured would not meaningfully shield the user from the more penetrative radiation, in particular they would get hit by a looooot of fast neutrons. Some of which they would have the misfortune of slowing down as water is an excellent neutron moderator. These slow neutrons would then kill the person before they knew what happened.

About 2 weeks later their body would catch up to their status as a dead man walking and it would become official.

At the other end of the device the target would suffer fates ranging from nothing, mild increases in rates of cancer, all the way to similar status.

It would not be very useful as the beam isn’t particularly collimated and so would lose effectiveness over distance rapidly. As well as the obvious downside of requiring a suicidal user.

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

This guy is a moth or something.

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

You live in a world with 7 billion other people and the weight of all of history to compare to.

Huge numbers of them are going to just be flat out better than you in every single way. Incomprehensibly large amounts are going to be comparable in certain ways and just luckier at times when it counted.

None of those people brightened your friend’s day with a joke, cooked and shared a beautiful meal with your family, planted a flower patch on your street, whatever you did that contributes in some local way.

You can be meaningful and find contentment without being world changing, and every single world changing person was supported by a world of people doing their own little things to contribute positively to their life.

naevaTheRat, 11 months ago

Hurting my self in medically advisable ways makes the brain work better.

Also I can carry my giant sook of a dog up scary stairs.