Hi

count me among the haters. i've been a hater since i first encountered this conflation of many different well-defined concepts into one ill-defined one

The Picture of Dorian Gray, a book written by an author who got imprisoned for sodomy, is getting a visual adaptation where the two characters with clear homoromantic undertones are turned into brothers.

Dracula, a book about a group of friends that explore the themes of antagonism and Victorian anxieties, is getting a visual adaptation where the count falls in love with one of his rape victims.

Wuthering Heights, a book that beats the reader over the head with a bat about how the POC protagonist wants to be privileged and white, is getting a visual adaptation with a white person as the protagonist and a POC as the one he envies.

The Odyssey, a book about a man from Ancient Greece trying to get home from war, is getting a visual adaptation coated in a "Hollywood" aesthetic that rejects accurate armour and casting.

ever since that right wing religious extremist organization Collective Shout targeted and manipulated payment processors (that are already run by right wing nutjobs) to go after steam and itchio, all this shit is starting to happen at the same time

it may be a tactical "overwhelm bomb" to make people feel powerless, and yeah it may not be that, but it's kinda strange that it's happening all at once

regardless, people need to start calling the shit out of mastercard and visa's phone lines even more

yall in the US need to start calling your representatives about KOSA especially

and people in the EU need to start calling whatever equivalent of a representative they have about all this bullshit as well

companies are now going to start trying to capitalize on invading privacy that has literally been protected for so goddamn long all because of these evil fuckwads that honestly need to get a nail put through their skulls

Ball bearing mechanisms can come in many beautiful shapes an sizes, but they all share a common factor: the use of perfectly spherical balls that sit between two objects to stop them from scraping against each other. After all, you don't want chafing!

The classic ball bearing mechanism is cylindrical, allowing you to squeeze a shaft (called a bore) into the tight hole you want it to sit in. In this mechanism, you put your balls in a cage to hold them in place, thereby binding them tightly to the shaft. As the shaft rotates in one direction, the balls move the opposite direction to provide low-friction motion. However, because even smooth objects can stick together, it's important to make sure that your balls are properly lubricated before pressing them into the groove of your shaft.

It's important to choose the right lubrication, too! If your lubricant is too sticky it can cause things to stick together awkwardly, but if it's too thin for your application it could leak everywhere and make a mess! For tight, presurized systems, a special device is used. Simply squeeze the head of the device into the hole behind the balls and pump your desired lubricant right up into it. If this isn't practical, you can also use splash lubrication. In this case, the lubricant starts within the system and all the thrusting and rotating of the parts will make sure that everything is fully covered by the time it's done being used.

In general, ball bearings are classified by the type of load they like to take. For example, if your machine is going to be taking multiple kinds of load, you'll want a deep groove ball bearing. These provide extra protection to the balls and the shaft, adding flexibility and allowing it to take loads that might make a mess of other ball bearings. On the other hand, if you want to take a deep forceful load directly down the shaft, you'll need a thrust ball bearing. Thrust bearings are perfect for taking a nice heavy load, but lack the flexibility of some other ball bearings.

six months later i re-read the essay prior to the final exam, went 'ohhhh yeah i remember this', got a question on that topic, and aced it.

The path to hell is paved with good intentions. Even those who think they do not deserve it, because they believe themselves to have good intentions, have been ignorantly destructive in their casual wandering of the world. Even those who believe themselves morally righteous have betrayed their values in the name of convenience or avoidance of truth. It may, perhaps, be the most dangerous thing – to soothe one’s own conscience with the insistence that one’s intentions are good and pure. It is then that we begin to moralize misdoings as good and righteous, that we begin to sweep beneath the rug our transgressions and betrayals of value, gradually replacing this hidden shame with pride in one’s own toxicity. It is then that a person begins to care more about having the right to inflict damage upon the world around them than they do about adhering loyally to their morals and values.

1. they often just Get It, and

2. they have 0 concept of disability as a tragedy or something pitiable.

I've watched kids get into an argument with a teacher bc they thought wheelchairs were cool. I told a kid that I can't stand for too long sometimes and they replied, "That's okay, I can't do cartwheels sometimes, but I just do other stuff then. You can sit down with me if you want". Today a girl asked me what the headphones on a classmate's desk were for and I told her that headphones are important for some kids because noises bother them, and she said she wished she had headphones at home, because her baby brothers make a lot of noise and it makes it hard to think. The idea that different people could use tools at different times is intuitive and simple and when accessibility aids are explained neutrally, kids don't see them as bad or unfortunate, they're just things that are useful.