Donegan OptiVisor Headband Magnifier - https://doneganoptical.com/product/optivisor/

with optiloupe - https://doneganoptical.com/product/optiloupe/

and Quasar LED lighting attachment. https://www.esslinger.com/led-visor-lighting-system-attachment-for-optivisor-headband-magnifier/

I originally got it when I was doing a bit of electronics work. But every couple of months there’ll be times when I really want a hands-free magnified view of something I’m working on, even if it’s just for a household chore. There are plenty of cheap knock-off out there, but I believe this is the original. I was at the Intrepid Museum in NYC and there was a photo of a NASA engineer wearing one of these.

To be fair, I have an Engineering degree and still don’t know how magnets work.

!!! INSANE CLOWN POSSE !!!

see [email protected] for more info

Well if you’re on the lemmy.world default web interface there should be a “Create Community” button at the top of the page. I never used it tho.

If you want to look for existing communities, check out the Lemmy Explorer. Apparently there are several existing MMA communities: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=martial+arts One strategy is to take over an existing community: 1) contact the listed mod, 2) if they don’t answer then contact Support for that instance and ask to be made a mod. But if you end up just making your own community, then you can make posts announcing it on all those old communities.

Check out [email protected] especially the “weekly thread - how is everybody doing with their communities?”, it’s basically people giving each other regular advice about that.

Being randos on the internet, spouting bullshit is actually one of our primary activities.

I disagree. This community aspires to be one of the low-bullshit places.

How about “no politics involving people still living and active”? i.e. you can discuss Nixon but not Trump.

yeah, my first instinct was to nuke it from orbit.

OK, but if you get on a horse’s back, are you riding, or flying?

On Piefed, you can schedule posts, fwiw.

c’mon, fam, you were SPRINKLING some nuance…

“Balls in the Vise” is a pretty good band name!

Rumsfeld’s statement brought attention to the concepts of known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns, but these were in common use in US defense procurement by the late 1960s. In a 1968 study sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association, Hudson Drake from North American Rockwell argued that defence contractors had to solve both known unknowns and “unanticipated unknowns”.[5] Also in 1968, Lt. Gen. William B. Bunker noted that when developing complex weapons systems “there are two kinds of technical problems: there are the known unknowns, and the unknown unknowns.”[6] The usage was common enough for an industry shorthand to have developed where unknown-unknowns were referred to as “unk-unks”.[7]

The term was commonly used inside NASA.[8] Rumsfeld cited NASA administrator William Graham in his memoir; he wrote that he had first heard “a variant of the phrase” from Graham when they served together on the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States during the late 1990s.[9]

it’d be funny if the hiccups were just transferred from fist-ee to fist-er.

It’ll cure your hiccups… BUT AT WHAT COST!!!

I never notice who’s driving a “cybertruck” bc I’m too busy cringing.

Free version: https://hicfix.com/

Yeah, apparently something along those lines has been shown to work:

Drinking through a straw with the ears plugged is a folk remedy that can be successful.[34] In 2021, a scientific tool with a similar basis was tested on 249 hiccups subjects; the results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).[35][34] This device is named FISST (Forced Inspiratory Suction and Swallow Tool) and branded as “HiccAway”. This study supports the use of FISST as an option to stop transient hiccups, with more than 90% of participants reporting better results than home remedies. A non-commercial resource describing a similar suction-based technique using a regular straw and water bottle has also been published online.[36] HiccAway stops hiccups by forceful suction that is being generated by diaphragm contraction (phrenic nerve activity), followed by swallowing the water, which requires epiglottis closure.[37]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccup#Folk_remedies the “non-commercial resource” referenced: https://hicfix.com/

Another approach that worked for me once:

A breathing exercise called supra-supramaximal inspiration (SSMI) has been shown to stop persistent hiccups. It combines the three principles of hypercapnia, diaphragm immobilization, and positive airway pressure. First, the subject must exhale completely, then take a deep breath. Then, they must hold their breath for ten seconds. After ten seconds, they must take another small breath without exhaling, then hold their breath for five seconds. Again, without exhaling, they must take another small breath and hold their breath for five seconds. Upon exhaling, the hiccups should be gone.[33]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccup#Folk_remedies

I think the TESCREAL people are pro-AI, but tbh I’m not 100% sure.

Yeah it took me a while to figure out. Basically they’re making fun of a specific set of techbros.

• This article, linked to in the sidebar, describes their perspective: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/before-its-too-late-buddy/
• this wikipedia article describes the people they are making fun of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL

Yeah that’s right. discuss.online musta defederated from awful.systems, or it might be a bug…