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Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6

My name is Mahmoud. I live in Gaza with my family, and we are going through a very difficult financial situation. I tried to create a donation link for my family, but I couldn't find someone to help organize and manage the campaign 🥺💔So my friend Ahmed decided to support me by sharing his own family’s donation link, and we agreed to split the donations between our two families.

Right now, we have almost no food, and the cost of living has become unbearable due to the siege, soaring prices, and the closure of all crossings.Everything has doubled in price in an unimaginable way 🥲🥺

We might be forced to flee to southern Gaza after the announcement of a full invasion of Gaza City 💔

The bombing and destruction never stop — not for a single moment. There is no longer any real life in Gaza. We are just struggling to survive, trying to secure the bare minimum: water and food.

Winter is coming, and we have no winter clothing after our home was destroyed and we were displaced multiple times 😭🥲Please, we urgently need financial help to buy food and store some in case the situation worsens.

This is our donation link.

Please remember: donations are shared between two families. So, for the sake of God, help us, my friend. Save our children, my younger siblings, my parents, and even my older siblings — we are all homeless and hungry 🥺🥲💔

Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”

If you're tall, you're applying your force at the very top of the chair when you go back... That multiplies your effort to exert more force. Combined with you just straight-up having more mass, that means you apply enough force to tip the whole chair over. You need a larger chair, with more mass in the base. (And probably a larger gauge of spring inside, too.)

The smaller person is having the opposite problem. It's a different kind of lever, but the same fundamental relationship:

The bottom of a chair is a second-class lever, with effort extended on the opposite end from the pivot, and resistance applied between them. But you still have the same issue: the effort is intended to applied at the very end, and you're applying it closer to the fulcrum, thereby cutting the down on the effective force.

And these differences can be significant! Even within manufacturers. The distance from the base of the seat to the end of the foot-rest on the La-Z-Boy Pinnacle model is about 40", of which less than half is the foot-rest part; in a La-Z-Boy Redwood, it's 5" longer. Which means that if you put a small person in a Redwood, their force is going to be exerted about 5" closer to the fulcrum than it should be.

(There's also 2 different recliner mechanisms: la-z-boy's, which is patented, and everyone else's, which isn't. You actually don't get that putting-the-chair-down problem in a la-z-boy, because la-z-boys you HAVE to use the handle. But that's beside the point.)

WHY HAVE I SEEN NO ONE TALK ABOUT HOW THE GRACE SCULPTURE LOOKS LIKE THE LITTLE DUDE FROM THIS MEME