NaevaTheRat [she/her]

Despite all my rage I’m still a rat refreshing this page.

I use arch btw.

Credibly accused of being a fascist, liberal, commie, anarchist, child, boomer, pointlessly pedantic, a Russian psychological warfare operative, and db0’s sockpuppet.

Pronouns are she/her.

Vegan for the iron deficiency.

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Cake day: June 27th, 2024

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  • Bute is a shining example of the failures of drug policy. GHB is, aside from having a low therapeutic index and being contraindicated with alcohol, not very dangerous as far as drugs go. In a better context, especially one in which concentrations were known and manufacture required the addition of say a dye and a bitterant to help prevent date rape it would have been much less harmful.

    Bute (which is metabolised to ghb) is diverted from industrial sources, which increases risk of contam. The metabolic delay causes people to redose and then OD, and it’s harder on the body because of liver metabolism. Because of it’s valid use in industry in large quantities it’s almost impossible to control.

    Yay, good work. Such winning. Saving so many lives. I love ODs and organised crime.





  • e You’re fine, it’s practice.

    Some of those wires are quite thick which will pull heat away fast making soldering with shitty equipment hard. A good soldering iron* set to the correct temperature will help massively. Flux gets you then last 20% of the way. Most solders are flux cored, but a little pot of rosin flux you either dip the end of a wire in or dab on (i use a sharpened chop stick because no static and cheap) and suddenly the solder flows like water.

    Remember not to heat the solder and instead heat the joint. My favoured technique is to “tin” both sides individually and then put then against each other and a quick touch with the iron to make the joint. Ensures you have good contact and doesn’t require growing extra fingers although it is slower.

    Hobbiest electronics don’t need perfection, some failure is fine you can always repair it since you made it.

    Never be embarressed to learn a new skill!

    • don’t worry about crazy expensive name brands tbh, there’s some pretty great stuff coming out of China quite affordably if you’re willing to trawl through reviews. Not the bottom dollar stuff but usually about ~30% cheaper than the Japanese brands or Weller

    edit: here’s my impatient soldering of the last couple of days:

    Some of the joints are garbage (had to rewire some, lost patience) but if you look at the joints in the foreground you can see how much neater tinning each side and joining can be.


  • Interestingly some contamination can improve the properties allegedly. Many potters insist that mouldy clay, while somewhat disgusting to work with, has better plasticity!

    I’ve been meaning to test the air bubbles claim, it confuses me because even stonewear is not air tight and I have difficult imagining that it would cause cracking on its own. I tried to find papers examining it and couldn’t. Structural weakness? yeah sure but I feel like uneven heating or uneven particle distribution would be the significant factors for failure on firing. Unfortunately I lack the ability to heat and cool in a repeatable way with a fire in the yard :(



  • Yeah that’s where I’m at. Finding the time to read fiction while I was alert enough to really chew on it had been hard. There’s a million and one things to do around the house that need my hands more than my brain though so it’s when I get my self indulgent fantasy nonsense in :D

    If they want to read a silly series about “bonermancy” (immature brain rot drenched necromancy) written by a pretty funny and well educated woman the Ninth Tomb is decent. Some bits drag but come on, you’ve got to admire someone that writes a series going through the different grammatical persons just for the hell of it. That’s china Mieville levels of madness.

    Alas her brain seems to have been damaged by covid and she’s having a hard time finishing it :(





  • Don’t judge me (also audiobook because I have lost the ability to read fiction rip) but harrow the ninth. Purple prose Catholic school lesbian angst. A bit complex, a second person book is quite challenging and Muir floundered a little pulling it off. She stuck the ending though, solid.

    Started Nona the ninth and enjoying it a lot more because Harrow is a joyless ghoul but Nona is extremely sweet and cute.

    I’m curious where Tamson Muir is taking the whole thing. It’s all very gnostic with John as the demiurge, crossing the river/true lictorhood both stand ins for gnosis. Anyway, good stuff. If you want less angst but also complex plots and purple prose Catholic mysticism gene Wolfe’s book of the new sun is a good read too.


  • Non vegans at least have the excuse of being deeply indoctrinated, and having 90+ percent of people reenforcing and defending their behaviour. The ultra rich dont.

    Was talking about the Paris commune in particular, the national assembly is an example of where rich people fall. Rather than share bread they’ll install fascist military dictatorships.

    Keeping people in a cage is crueler and riskier than just killing them. If anyone voluntarily gives up their wealth and power I’m all for forgiveness, I’ve never seen it happen but even serial killers have voluntarily turned themselves in and sought help.

    I don’t think you quite grasp just how far gone the rich are.



  • It’s absolutely not 0, people constantly try non violent means of renegotiating social relations and get nowhere, in fact they usually get executed for the trouble. Revolutions have left people alive and they consistently side with counterrevolutionary forces and violently crush anyone attempting to improve equality.

    I mean french revolution says hello? The worst that can happen is they scuttle off, rouse reactionary forces, and violently oppress billions again. Which they have consistently done no matter how attractive the proposed alternatives have been.

    Also people who aren’t vegan and have encountered the idea also suck, so that isn’t exactly making your point.