#synthetics

Updated February 2026: We’ve added a new section on caring for down and some notes on Outdoor Vital’s Zero Stitch fabric. What Does Down Fill Power Tell You? The higher the fill power, the greater the loft. Down puffer jackets and sleeping bags keep you warm by trapping the warmth coming off your body, retaining it in air pockets between the down. A higher down fill power means the down has more…

Revised February 2026: We’ve incorporated a new segment on maintaining down and some observations regarding Outdoor Vital’s Zero Stitch fabric. What Does Down Fill Power Reveal? The greater the fill power, the more significant the loft. Down puffer jackets and sleeping bags insulate you by ensnaring the heat emanating from your physique, preserving it within air-filled cavities between the down.…

You know how so easily we put Synthetics as having pleasurable sensations when someone plays with their wires or ports, specially humans?

It's because closing the electricity circuit, or whatever the proper name. Like, humans have a lowlevel electrical current on them, and when we're more '"charged" we take small shocks when touching others or touching other things, it's ideal to use grounders (or whatever the english name) when messing with electronics so our own electrical charge won't mess with them, and so on.

Synthetics, well, produce a lot more of their own energy AND are sensitive to electricity because external higher levels can mess with them. However, the lower levels a human have, probably only is enough to briefly close the circuit in exposed wires and in ports (who never took a shock when conecting a cable of something with its own power source to the computer - me, I took one when connecting my printer to the desktop yesterday, it was off but on the power outlet 🤡), enough to register and, instead of painful and dangerous, it just... Registers. Should be painful but it isn't. Systems don't know how to properly interpret. Ends up interpreted as pleasure, positive feedback, because it's not enough to hurt.