derrickoswald

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What personal actions you take to stay optimistic? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Take articles that have positive, uplifting, long-term improvements in societal well-being and republish them on social media. e.g.

It ain't much, but it's honest work.

dog bed in c/sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works
[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

binding

That's the answer I was looking for. Thanks. But now, the skill level required has increased from Beginner to Intermediate, and I have to find something to use for binding material.

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dog bed (sh.itjust.works)
 

(just visualize a very rough, thick, quilt/rug to go on the floor)

I've sewn a bunch of old jean pieces together, mostly to learn how to sew jean material with a twin needle (only broke one so far) on my cheap sewing machine, but I didn't think the project through completely.

There are two problems.

  1. It seems the quilt batting I can find around here is pretty thin (1cm) and pretty expensive: CHF18 (US$23) per meter, and it is only 150cm wide. So to double or triple it up to get some decent thickness, for an ~84cm × ~84cm top and my scrap project is starting to look a tad expensive (like near enough to half the cost of a sewing machine). Any thoughts on stuffing material (it's just a dog bed after all) - or should I just suck it up and buy the batting? I've looked at using a rug purchased from a low-end Ikea-type store, but they seemed too thin and too expensive - and it goes against the reducing waste idea, right? I thought maybe I could piece together a second layer of batting from the remnant of one purchased meter, to get a bed that's at least a couple of centimeters thick, but wasn't sure how much integrity a separate strip would have when just tacked in (see problem 2). Or I guess I could cut the cover down to under 75cm × 75cm; it's not that big of a dog. Any feedback?

  2. I was planning on using an old shower curtain for the bottom under cover, with through tack stitches, instead of buttons, at the checkerboard corners: no problem there I think. But making a bag, to put the filler in, by sewing it inside out leaves one edge different than the others (as the last closing seam) when it's turned right-side out. How do quilts normally get closed on all sides?

Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode' in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Here's a link to a site that works in Europe instead of the idiotic USA Today Sorry, this site isn't available in your region. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/americans-with-six-figure-incomes-are-in-survival-mode/ar-AA1Qr3t1

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Trump Is Pushing Us Toward a Crash (web.archive.org)
 

Pretty good piece published by the New York Times, but obviously not their consensus opinion. Accurate (IMHO) comparison between 1929 and 2025 stock markets.

[Vote] Should we defederate from maga.place? in c/agora@sh.itjust.works
What is a concept or thing you became aware of that you can explain fluently but that you do not (*yet*) possess the word or phrase to coin it with? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

I think there are a number of word phrases in English that would be, what are called, Trennbare Verben in German. To give English speakers the idea, when somebody says they "work out", it's not like just "work" - it has a specific fitness idea because of the additional word "out".

In German, the equivalent verb would be "outworking". In common English grammar, the "out" is always separated. In German, many words can be inserted between working and out - so like "working on the elliptical machine out". That need not be the case in English, but it often is.

In English I would like to say "I outbuffed the scratch in my car with a chamoisé.", or "I uppicked a record from the flea market." or "I uppumped my tires last week." or "I downfell and broke my ulna while skiing."

Which is more correct: "I pumped up my tires last week." or "I pumped my tires up last week."?

In German it could be "I buffed the scratch in my car with a chamoisé out.", "I picked a record from the flea market up.", "I pumped my tires last week up.", and "I fell and broke my ulna while skiing down."

I'm just saying we should normalize these two-word combinations as a "standalone verb" concept so the trailing qualifier is not so difficult to parse and locate correctly in a sentence - since each of the meanings absolutely requires both parts of the verb.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It has been my experience, anecdotal as that may be, that a considerable portion of Wikipedia editors are fervent deletionists about anything not found in a paper encyclopedia, Molly White's impression notwithstanding. The mind-set is, that at some point in the future, Wikipedia will actually be printed out somehow, and any extraneous pages just add more cost with no redeeming value. My own vision is more along the Encyclopedia Galactica line - the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes to mind - where notability is a very low bar, as opposed to the current policy. Should there even be a deletion policy? Why? Maybe a better system would rank the topics by page views and surface the better ones. Why are some editors gatekeepers about public knowledge with their speedy deletion trigger happiness? That's not the way it works in science publications - ooooh, I guess we need more that one Wikipedia to make that work.

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A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia (archive.ph)
 

“It’s tired of raw fish and wanted to give cooked a try,”: Ashcroft Fire Rescue, B.C.

cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/15088671

A small brush fire and power outage in British Columbia started on Wednesday not with lightning or a careless camper, but with an airborne fish, according to fire officials.

With the help from nearby ranchers and employees from the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, a Canadian electric utility company, firefighters were able to contain and extinguish the blaze, Ashcroft Fire Rescue said on Facebook.

What architectural style would you like to see come back? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's some good Art Deco in Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley

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The Terapixel Panorama - of the Battle of Murten (terapixelpanorama.ch)
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On 22 June 2025, the anniversary of the Battle of Murten fought in 1476, the EPFL releases an immersive experience terra-pixel digital twin of a 10m x 100m oil on canvas panorama, painted in 1893 ... https://terapixelpanorama.ch/

Is there a limit on presidential pardons in the US? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Theoretically, it seems second degree murder can be subject to a pardon... https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pardons-two-police-officers-convicted-murder-black-man-washington-2025-01-23

From the office of the pardon attorney: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-grants-president-donald-j-trump-2025-present

January 22, 2025 - 2 Pardons

NAME and WARRANT		DISTRICT		SENTENCED							OFFENSE
Terence Dale Sutton, Jr.	District of Columbia	66 months imprisonment; three years supervised release	Murder in second degree; conspiracy; obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting
Andrew Zabavsky			District of Columbia	48 months imprisonment; three years supervised release	Conspiracy; obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting
What is the smallest hill you would die on? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Code indentation should never use tabs, only spaces.

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I'm curious how many collectors-item level baseball cards were wrapped around bicycle forks with clothes-pegs in childhood to make a flappity-flap motor sound in the spokes. (sh.itjust.works)