If full time Walmart employees need government assistance programs to afford food and pay their rent, is it not Walmart who is leaning on government assistance?

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  • Many churches and especially political action committees based on Christianity function as death cults. I’d say they definitionally don’t care at all about earth or the people on it. Not wanting people to go to hell stands in juxtaposition to their desire to themselves be raptured.

    It also begs the question of why we allow people who yearn for the end times to be the preferred leaders of what used to be the most powerful nation, but a little out of scope for a dumb church sign.





  • You’re obviously going to have doubts about the validity of your feelings under a roof with that much ignorance. People can be dismissive for many reasons, but I think language can sometimes be important. If you don’t exude confidence it tends to be treated as affirmation of your views not mattering.

    If you state plainly that you’re upset, you’d like some of their time, advice, and attention, and you still receive this type of response, it’s reasonable to write them off and lean on friends instead. Highly recommend therapy.








  • I think the act of not accepting the phone call tells you everything about him. He isn’t interested in you for a reason he’s not proud of or he truly thinks nothing of you and is incredibly selfish. It’s normal to feel all of those ways about a perceived rejection, but in time you’ll easily see that anyone who sees no need to explain something about you to you is a crappy mate anyways.

    Just my suspicion is that he was actively pursuing more than just you and your hesitency was making the completion of your summary difficult for him. This could be misogyny about a perceived imbalance in power dynamics, but just keep in mind, again, that someone who feels chivalry is an important 2 way street on a literal first date isn’t trying that hard. You will find guys far more there for you; in presence, respect, empathy, and patience.

    The long term relationship switching to open to short sounds like he’s still tuning his wants and needs, and that’s personal to him. You’re only responsible for changing your bad decisions in the relationship, which honestly after 1 day there’s not much to analyze. Just be happy, as you will be eventually, that he didn’t waste more of your time in this earth hiding information from you the way he did by not accepting the call.





  • I disagree that pihole can’t be used in the instance of a laptop since you can still use it as a dns remotely, but an opendns account was effectively made for this purpose.

    Use commonly available white lists and blacklists for kids only content.

    Pihole also has built in monitoring for dns requests. I’ve never paid for opendns but it does too.

    Arris routers allow smtp data logs to also show direct IP interactions. I imagine lots of routers do. Using solarwinds software demos you can easily parse through them. You cannot control these requests non-locally, but I’d ask what you’re trying to look for if these requests are consistently made out of the house and are limited to IP only requests without dns. An app you don’t want them using? In that case reroute the apps known IPs to 127.0.0.1 locally and remove admin rights from the user. This will also lock them to opendns.

    Set rules for yourself about what constitutes a problem ahead of time. Snooping can lead to the bending of rules in search of something that’s not there. Internet traffic is rife with advertisers sideloading all sorts of dubious shit. The context of other IPs or hostnames connected to before and after is important when looking at log data.

    Edit: Easiest way around this is to install a USB nic. A domain and GPO is how corporations prevent this scenario with minimal user impact.


  • A program which contains or accepts a database of yeast characteristics and computes likely chemical reaction favorabilities given temperature, alcohol content over time, fermentables availability, volume, and time. An example might be, “This recipe process will produce undesirable phenols” when you use more sugar than a 6% strain can use, which will stress it out and release bad flavors. Each yeast has tolerances. Also given temperature you could make predictions about desirable phenol metabolite flavors and aromas such as banana, cherry, raisins, etc. You could also do a worst case likely scenario on ambient temperature needs for a fermenter of a given size to resist heating as a result of yeast activity, so if you’re targeting 60 degrees “banana” zone, you would need to have it in a fridge at 50 degrees or whatever during the first few days of fermentation to keep it from going higher into other flavors.

    This is complicated and may require research papers. The internet can often be wrong about brewing tips and explanations for results, so I’ve found scientific literature or some Belgian brewing books like, “how to brew like a monk” to be good solid information that isn’t based on nisconceptions.


  • Audio custom box fabrication is currently reliant on either clunky web tools for computing resonant frequencies, port recommendations, bracing requirements, etc. There is a very nice app called bass box pro, however it’s so old that it requires compatibility mode and has a comically outdated GUI. Even within this app it does not account for complex shapes, cubic feet of the room or car open air, ideal locations for loading walls relative to the listener, direction of the cone, effective of distance from cone to port, Massloaded Vinyl thickness to bounce what % of the energy or what the floor on a downfiring sub is made of and if you need a pad for it, effects of constrained layer dampening on the inside of the box, different infill material than polyfill, thickness of the wood by wood type, final prediction weight, tips and hints on how to slide each stat up and down, so like if your maximum space allotment would give you a resonance of 37hz, what would you change to raise or lower it within different constraints like space, port dimensions, rigidity, power, etc.

    It’s heavily math-based, but the current solutions are behind the times and while it’s easy to find explanations for each question, having a self enclosed app would be great. Also FYI bassbox pro isn’t cheap, so it’s got actual value and will not really expire if the solution is global. Bassbox allows you to enter databases of new speakers to keep it relevant. Allowing car cu ft, speakers, building material specs, or something crazy like an stl or step file to accurately describe a shape or a box would be fire