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StringTheory

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Fun with strings! Ukulele, knitting, physics!

  • Your brain finds it easy to size up four objects but not five — here’s why

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  • This is cool. I always wondered why I can instantly grasp 1 through 4, but 5 and up become abstract. Thank you for posting this!

  • It's Past Time To Ban Right-On-Red

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  • And even when “right on red” is allowed, they will still lay on the horn when you stop. As if they don’t know you have to stop at the red and only proceed with your turn after a full stop and if the way is clear.

    Actually, maybe they don’t know you have to come to a full stop before turning?

  • Your Sweaters Are Garbage: The quality of knitwear has cratered. Even expensive sweaters have lost their hefty, lush glory.

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  • A good place to start on YouTube is Bernadette Banner’s channel. She is a clothing historian, so there’s a lot of historical and historical recreation stuff, but she also has a few basic repair and tailoring techniques videos. She wrote a mending book that I hear is much more in-depth than her videos (I haven’t read it). https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/make-sew-and-mend-bernadette-banner/1139915226

    Patagonia Wornwear has a lot of repair instructions for outdoor gear (you don’t have to buy their repair materials). https://wornwear.patagonia.com/repairs

    Reddit “visiblemending” and “invisiblemending” are also very good resources.

  • Your Sweaters Are Garbage: The quality of knitwear has cratered. Even expensive sweaters have lost their hefty, lush glory.

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  • There is a generation of little old ladies who are passionate about sewing, but have no-one to sew for. Their kids are grown, and their grandkids don’t want handmade clothes. Ask at a senior center or at a local (not chain) fabric shop, seek out one of these ladies and hire her to sew for you. Or barter: help her around the house or garden or drive her to appointments or to get groceries, and in exchange she sews clothes from fabrics and patterns you choose. Or tailors used clothes to make them fit you better, or mends your worn clothes, etc.

  • Your Sweaters Are Garbage: The quality of knitwear has cratered. Even expensive sweaters have lost their hefty, lush glory.

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  • Your Sweaters Are Garbage: The quality of knitwear has cratered. Even expensive sweaters have lost their hefty, lush glory.

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  • Your Sweaters Are Garbage: The quality of knitwear has cratered. Even expensive sweaters have lost their hefty, lush glory.

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  • I did a deep-dive reading and watching videos learning about sturdy and long-lasting fabrics and materials. Learned a bit about tailoring for durability, too. (For example, Duluth Trading shifted the inseams on their Firehose pants forward. The forward seams don’t rub on each other when you walk, and so the inner thighs don’t self-destruct as quickly.)

    There are also a ton of excellent resources on how to mend clothing and properly care for it. And it doesn’t take much effort, really.

    So now I have a bunch of older clothes, with subtle repairs, still in good shape. Sure, I’d like some sexy new trendy disposable stuff so I can be one of the cool kids - but that’s how fast fashion gets its claws into you. Preying on our magpie-like desires for shiny new things makes somebody big bucks. (And creates huge waste and exploits desperate workers.)

    Buy sturdy “classic” clothes. Keep them in good repair. Fight the system.

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    California governor Newsom vetoes bill that would have set a $35 cap for insulin

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  • Yep, it will be free for California residents in need, and much cheaper for everyone else. Pharma corps have been running amok raising insulin costs insane amounts. California can make their own and provide it directly to residents for far less money than they spend buying it from the companies.

  • Menlo park, CA

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  • Boulder City Council eyes ‘safe outdoor space’ for homeless people

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  • Just give ‘em bus tickets to Seattle and Portland, like Idaho does.

    /s, but not really. Seattle even has a program to give people free tickets back to their hometowns.

  • The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, everyone 🤦

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  • Thanks, I hadn’t seen that word before and had assumed it had something to do with cars (car-nist).

  • The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, everyone 🤦

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  • What’s a carnist?

  • Homes "unaffordable" in 99% of nation for average American

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  • The “Cheap Old Houses” website is reassuring. It’s not a McMansion in the tony suburbia of a large popular city, but there are small reasonably priced houses in smaller cities and towns. https://www.cheapoldhouses.com/

    I have two friends from high school who found houses under $100k within driving distance of larger cities ($60k in Kansas, $32k in Illinois)

  • Elon Musk attacked German support for migrants and promoted a call to support the AfD, a far-right extremist political party

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  • At least, not yet…

  • Seattle Loosen Downtown Zoning Regulations

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  • They want to stop a certain type of population from declining. Can’t let them be replaced, y’know! Of course, the planet’s human population is exploding… unless you don’t consider some people to be human.

  • Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe?

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  • “The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous helping of gravity. The universe had a definite tendency towards awareness. This suggested a certain subtle cruelty woven into the very fabric of space-time.”

    • Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

  • What is the best unorthodox guitar tuning?

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  • Best for what?

    If you want to play baroque, go re-entrant like a ukulele and take off two strings.

    If you want to play Hawaiian, take your pick of a bazillion slack key options. (Start with material from Jeff Peterson)

  • Texas teacher fired for showing Anne Frank graphic novel to eighth-graders

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  • Despite claims by school officials that the adaptation had not been approved, KFDM notes that the book “was on a reading list sent to parents at the start of the school year,” so the district’s suggestion that the teacher “went rogue” seems…not true at all in the, y’know, actual sense of the word. A source close to the teacher told KFDM that the school’s principal had approved a syllabus that included the book. “There is an active investigation,” Mike Canizales, a spokesperson for the Hamshire-Fannett ISD, told the outlet.

    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/texas-school-fires-teacher-over-anne-frank-graphic-novel

  • I know this isn't fuck bad parking...

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  • Can you document this and present it to your town council? Give them your pictures and a brief write-up, and suggest a solution.

    It looks like this is a pretty ambiguous sidewalk and could easily appear to be the verge of the street (rather than a sidewalk). A defined pavement with curbs would be a far more effective sidewalk, with the added benefit that anyone parking on it would clearly be in the wrong and could be ticketed or towed.

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    150 years of Masc Women causing a Moral Panic

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    The Global South is forging a new foreign policy in the face of war in Ukraine, China-US tensions: Active nonalignment

    theconversation.com /the-global-south-is-forging-a-new-foreign-policy-in-the-face-of-war-in-ukraine-china-us-tensions-active-nonalignment-207078
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    96.4% of Americans had COVID-19 antibodies in their blood by fall 2022

    theconversation.com /96-4-of-americans-had-covid-19-antibodies-in-their-blood-by-fall-2022-207448
  • Music @beehaw.org
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    Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) on Harpejji G16 by Mathieu Terrade.

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    Honoka - Don't Stop Me Now (by Queen)

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    Elevated Access - free transportation out of Gilead states for medical care

    www.elevatedaccess.org
  • [closed] Wow This Lemmy Exists @lemmy.ca
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    Ukuleles! Ukuleles! Ukuleles!

  • [closed] Wow This Lemmy Exists @lemmy.ca
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    HydroHomies

    beehaw.org /c/hydrohomies@lemmy.ml
  • Hydro Homies @lemmy.ml
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    Stay hydrated to sleep better, y’all!

    academic.oup.com /sleep/article/42/2/zsy210/5155420
  • Hydro Homies @lemmy.ml
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    Quicker clean drinking water for our homies in difficult conditions

    energy.stanford.edu /news/new-nontoxic-powder-uses-sunlight-quickly-disinfect-contaminated-drinking-water-0
  • Music @beehaw.org
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    “Sunshine” by 4StringBoy (fingerstyle baritone ukulele)