HelixDab2

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

I'm a Satanist. I would be fine dating an atheist, depending on their morals and ethics. I would probably be okay dating someone that was agnostic, since technically most atheists are agnostics. I could date most reform Jews, since for most of them it's a cultural religion, rather than a literal one.

I would not be able to date anyone that sincerely believed in a supernatural deity, because I would not be able to respect them, or trust any of their conclusions.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nah, they're cool. Anyone that tells the manosphere to fuck all the way off is cool by me.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Prairie and Craftsman Bungalows. Unfortunately, I don't think that either is a particularly energy efficient design.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I have one. I hated the stock skin. I like having the apps I use regularly groups together by purpose on my home screen so I can get to them quickly. I immediately re-skinned it.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee -4 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Honestly, my advice, unpopular as it might be, is that unless you plan on riding a motorcycle you should probably get an automatic transmission car instead of learning on a manual transmission. Manual transmissions--in the US, anyways--are largely relegated to performance vehicles where people want them. But the hard truth is that automatic transmissions do a better job at driving efficiently and keeping the engine at a safe and ideal load than any driver with a manual. And it's a lot less hassle for most of the driving that people tend to actually do. For instance, it's uncommon to have a cruise control on a manual transmission car, which makes long drives more tiring, and stop-and-go traffic puts less wear on an automatic transmission.

If you plan on riding a motorcycle though, you must learn to use a clutch, because all non-electric motorcycles use a clutch (usually a wet clutch, but Ducati uses a dry clutch); manual transmissions are lighter and more compact, and weight matters a lot on a motorcycle.

I say this as someone that learned to drive on manual transmissions, and exclusively had cars with manual transmissions up through about 2022.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Learn to shift based off the sound of the engine, dont stare at the tachometer.

Do not do this.

Every engine has a different redline. The redline is based mostly on piston mass, which doesn't necessarily correlate directly to engine displacement, given that it's common to have 4, 6, or 8 cylinders in a car. If you're shifting primarily based on engine sound, you can be shifting too low in one car, and then too high in another. The tachometer is a much more reliable way of learning where you should shift in any given vehicle.

Also, constantly running your car in the maximum power band--which tends to be close to the redline--probably isn't great for it.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I'm guess that you don't live in the US? Almost all cars in the US--whether training vehicles or not--are gasoline, and it's mostly larger pickup trucks that are diesel. VW is one of the few companies that sells consumer cars that are diesel, and I'm not sure that they do anymore, not after there was that huge scandal about intentionally cheating EPA emissions standards with their diesel cars a decade back.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

The totenkopf most strongly associated with white supremacists is a 3/4 view with crossed bones behind it. A skull by itself doesn't have a ton of meaning; could just mean that the person is goth. The image used in the chart doesn't look like the symbol most commonly used by white supremacists.

The wolfsangel symbol isn't correct; I don't know what that symbol is, but it's not a wolfsangel. A wolfsangel looks like a Z with a crossbar in the middle.

That should be written as an oþala rune; the 'þ' isn't a 'd' sound, it's a form of the 'th' sound, along with 'ð'. As with all other runes, it's essentially just an alphabet letter. When used by white supremacists, it usually has the ends turned up, but not always.

There are other symbols that get used by white supremacists, but these are the most common.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

Carefully cleaning the udder and teats, and very quickly refrigerating raw milk should significantly reduce the risks of bacterial contamination and growth. This is not done in most cases though, so raw milk usually carries a much higher risk of listeria.

Having had listeria once--contaminated green beans--I very much do not recommend it.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

It took a porn star dying after porn makers in the 2000s forced a horse to rape a woman

Uh. You're going to need to cite a source on that. I'm aware of a man that died after he was mounted by a horse, but AFAIK that was a case where the man was entirely willing because he some really fucked up fetishes.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This article is a very abbreviated version of the book that she recently published, "Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back". If you want to win, you have to address the core issues that the Dems have left behind. Republicans say the right things re: jobs, but they have no follow through, and they aren't doing anything to help reduce the anger against oligarchs. (And the right thing to do to reduce the anger would be eliminate the oligarchs.)

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Thought I could/should work through discomfort and then pain at the gym, supersetting overhead push-presses and triceps dips. LOL, nope, gave myself a labral tear and tore my supraspinatus. My shoulder now has an unpleasant popping feeling + significantly less strength when I'm doing anything like a bench press with my elbows properly tucked; I'll likely never be able to do narrow grip bench press or triceps dips again.

Why was this dumb? Because I was a personal trainer, and I fucking know better than to try and push through pain. But I was trying to get back into lifting seriously after losing a lot of time to the pandemic.

 

I'm trying to install zero-rise clip-ons, because I find that more comfortable for riding at speed than sitting upright. But the instrument cluster and headlight assembly interfere with using clip-ons, so I need to replace the headlight assembly, and relocate the instrument cluster.

Photos are uploaded on Imgur, because they were too large for Lemmy.

First part:

I'm trying to figure out what the individual wires are that are going into the terminal for the headlight assembly. There are a total of five wires in a six-pin connector (with the last terminal plugged off): blue with red stripe (UR), solid yellow (Y), solid black (B), blue with white stripe (UW), and blue with yellow stripe (?UY?).

When I look at the wiring diagram in the service manual, black (B), blue/white (UW), and blue/red (UR) go to the headlamps, and black (B) and yellow (Y) go to position lights, and I don't see anything, anywhere on the diagram labeled blue/yellow.

So, first, which wire does what? I assume that two are low beams/DRLs, two are high beams, black is the neutral (?). If I trace the wiring diagram, the blue/red comes from the headlamp dip switch, so I think blue/red is the high beam, and blue/white is the low beam/DRLs? Black seems to go to everything, so I'm assuming that's neutral.

...But what the hell are the position lights, and what it the blue/yellow wire for?

Second part:

Does anyone know exactly what the connector is that I need here? It looks like it's a Sumitomo DL 090 Sealed Series 6195-0024; does that seem correct?

Third part:

If I'm trying to wire in a 7" JW Speaker LED adaptive headlamp. Since that's only one headlamp, but the existing wiring harness wants to have two high beam wires, and two low beam wires, will I want to splice another wire into the high beam and low beam on the before crimping on terminal ends? And what about that pesky position light? Will that be the red wire--front position--for the JW Speaker headlamp?

...And I still have no idea what that blue/yellow wire does.

 

This is being cross-posted for as much feedback as I can get.

My '12 Honda CBR600RR is nearing the end of it's life at 82,000 miles; there's minor visible scoring in the nikasil plating in the cylinders, and that's only going to get worse.

I can get the cylinders replated--assuming that the scoring is no worse than I think it is--for about $800 + the cost of shipping the block, but that would require being able to entirely rebuild the engine on my own. I'd probably want to also regrind the valve seats, replace the valves, piston heads, and def. piston rings if I did that. I've already got the cylinder head off because the valves weren't holding pressure.

I can get a replacement engine for around $1500-2500. I can replace an engine on my own, although it's a pain in the ass.

Or, I can get a new bike. But I'm not sure what makes and models for my riding style will have any better longevity than my CBR600RR has had.

My current short-list is a crashed '07- '12 CBR600RR (because I can easily swap necessary parts/bodywork, etc.), or a Yamaha YZF R6, Suzuki GSX R750, or Triumph Speed Triple 1050 (which is prone to electrical issues, and also needs some creative headlight adjustment to work with clip-on bars). Does anyone have experience with the YZF R6, GSX R750, or Speed Triple? Any issues to watch out for that might prevent any of them from making it to 100k miles without major mechanical work?

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