Compression so garbage can’t tell if it’s from ps or a label maker sticker.

I have a set of values:

• Be social
• Seek autonomy
• Give solidarity
• Live in community
• Be healthy
• Have a clean home
• Work is to support other values, it’s not a value itself

And so on…

The choice i make is the one that aligns best with my values. If i have time to think that is. Otherwise my subconscious picks it’s own weights.

There’s a hierarchy to the values but they change in substance and position over time. That’s by design. Humans grow and change.

Circularity and contradiction? That’s fine. As long as it’s aligned with my values I know I’m unlikely to regret it.

CBT has its roots in stoicism but stoicism is definitely not a form of CBT.

Turns out back alleys make great health clinics!

The aphids have an oily layer that keeps them hydrated. The soap breaks this down and they dry out.

Amazing how hard it is to express the TE in TERF is an absolute.

Also fridge at home gets less gas exchange than open air fridge at supermarket so the ethylene builds up and your fruits turbo-ripen to mush.

Right! But those are the same thing as number of coils is the spring length divided by a geometric constant. At free length there is no strain. At compression you reach max strain/torsion. Each coil turn, assuming all are equal, adds equally to the sum of restoring force. Looking at spring free length you’re just paying attention to the summed forces of the active coils.

The dead coils contribute negligibly because they would need to impinge the neighboring wire to deform. (Relegated to pure torsion) Which i think is basically what you were saying…

I guess unit cost is going to be pretty levelled at those quantities…

I’ve only really worked with smaller batches so it’s just a bit of a shocking concept.

It reduces the effective free length of the spring.

Let’s just rearrange the equation for a spring at full compression:

F=-kL

k=-(F/L)

Whether you use one full length spring or two half length springs doesn’t matter, the spring constant is unchanged.

By reducing the free length the “dead coils” slightly increase stiffness. They have an impact on the total force at compression.

I think in this image were looking at what, maybe 10% difference in any of those factors? For the life of me i can’t imagine this matters terribly much in a pen.

If the coils are the same wire gauge and pitch then putting two springs in series is the same as having one spring of twice the free length.

As stated in other comments it could be:

• to act as a guide for buckling (what you said)
• Aesthetics

Ones i haven’t seen here which I’ll posit:

• to reduce wear on the plastic guides
• to limit travel (the spring could act as the button stop)

You have your own thread rolling tools!? This is crazy, I’ve never heard of a company making their own hardware where COTS is available.

Goatse vibes

Haha ahhh pre-enshitified internet was so good. Anonymity through obscurity ig.

Not sure i’m particularly concerned what most search provides consider “suspicious” these days.

I remember websites having links to other websites that weren’t really affiliated and that being as effective as an searches. You clicked through the internet like it was a file folder system managed by thousands of html authors playing the telephone game.

The animation and soundtrack actually didn’t bother me after the first couple arcs. I think it has a lot to do with how the show engages with emotions. It’s not meant to dig too deep. It’s supposed to be a sort of all ages work and it achieves that. I can totally see how people enjoy it btw. Not knocking it, it’s a really big accomplishment in its own right. It just lost my interest after a while. If it evolves beyond there, it wasn’t fast enough for me. Which is weird, because i usually like slow burns.

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Yep!!! Hold down a job so you’re fine! Not to mention the last time my house was clean was 7 years ago when i took a half dose of adderall…

Symptoms? Yes. Diagnosable? That’s a different story…