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Sip of beer, mostly foam, almost certainly a yuengling or Budweiser.

Also would occasionally have a small glass of wine or champagne for holiday dinners and such.

Liquor was a shot of some kind of fruity vodka, chased with some Gatorade. I was about 18 or 19, didn't really drink but my girlfriend did, and she wanted to have a drink with me so I obliged. Only time I drank with her.

Couple years later I was still living at home, I was about 19 or 20, parents were out of town and I was looking to make dinner. Found a recipe that sounded good that called for some beer, texted my parents I was gonna use a beer for cooking and got the ok. Used about half the beer, drank the other half. I believe it was a yuengling Oktoberfest.

First proper time drinking was about 2 weeks before I turned 21. I stayed on with my old scout troop as a leader, and we were going to be away on a week long canoe trip over my birthday. I was at a friend's shore house hanging out for a few days, and since a couple of us were 21, we grabbed a case of beer, I believe corona and a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black. We didn't go hard, we sat on the deck, smoked some cigars, had some scotch and a couple beers, but mostly we just hung out, went to the beach, and played D&D.

After I got back from my trip, for my first legal drink I went out with some coworkers after work. Had a few Yuenglings and a shot of Jack. Had a nice buzz going so I walked home. Had the hiccups most of the way.

Well your guts and skin and other tissues do have some elasticity, I suppose it is possible that a large gas bubble might be able to expand your abdomen slightly.

We're very much into spherical cows in a vacuum territory here. I don't think there's any way this would be realistically measurable,just fun to think about.

I think that, theoretically, if someone's flatus contained an abnormally high amount of lighter-than-air gases, like hydrogen and methane, they might get very slightly heavier. Having a gas like that inside of you would, I think, provide a bit of a buoyant force lifting you away from the scale that would make your weight read lower, and releasing that gas would sort of drop your full weight onto the scale.

In practice, methane and hydrogen are only part of a fart, and other gases and such in the mix are heavier than air, so at best you might break even.

Probably a few caveats to that about temperature and pressure and such, and it's doubtful that anyone's gut produces enough of the right kinds of gas for that to happen.

It will of course depend on which place you go to.

I've only noticed 2 at this place (but it's pretty wild how quickly you stop noticing peoples bodies when everyone is naked, so there may have been more,), but one of them is an employee, and another was a performer they had for an event.

The clientele is mostly (but not entirely) middle aged white people, and I've seen more than a few trump stickers on peoples vehicles there, but they do have rules about not discussing politics and religion and aren't afraid to kick people out if they make an ass of themselves, so I haven't witnessed anyone saying or doing anything transphobic. This place is also fairly popular with swingers and such (behind closed doors, nothing sexual allowed in public) and we're all a little weird since we like going to nudist resorts, so I think everyone has adopted a pretty "live and let live" attitude towards people with lifestyles that are different than their own.

No shortage of gay, lesbian, bi, pan, etc people though, and there are usually more than a few rainbow flags flying around the campground.

So I can't really imagine anyone making an issue of it at the place I've been going.

There's also a few nude/clothing-optional resorts out there that cater more specifically to LGBTQ people, so that's potentially also an option.

Also, weirdly, I feel like in a lot of cases, depending on the state of their transition, it may be harder than you think to tell someone is trans/gender non-conforming there. Can't exactly base your assumptions about someone's gender by the clothes they're wearing after all. Not that people would necessarily assume the right gender, mind you.

It's not everyone's thing to be sure, but I started going to a nudist resort largely because of this. I really just wanted a place to go hang out that has a pool that's not overrun with kids.

It is technically a family resort, not too many people actually show up with kids, but there's occasionally a few, and while I don't particularly want to see naked kids (or honestly most of the adults either, nudists are rarely the kinds of people you'd want to see naked,) the parents are obviously keeping an eye on their kids there and keep them under control.

My gaming PC is hooked up to my TV, Big screen, surround sound, hue lights synced up to it, it's a pretty nice setup

So I got a set of bone conducting phones for when I'm on discord or whatever. I'd rather have the surround sound for the in-game audio, but I don't necessarily need my idiot friends laughing and cracking jokes in glorious 5.1, so they let me still hear and talk to them while leaving my ears open to the speakers

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism defines binge drinking as a pattern of drinking that brings a person’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08 grams percent or above. This typically happens when men consume 5 or more drinks, and when women consume 4 or more drinks, in about 2 hours.

By that definition, most of my drinking probably wouldn't count as a binge. I might, over the course of a day hanging around camp or whatever, have a dozen or so drinks, but that's spread out over almost as many hours.

I have seen other definitions that call any day you have more than 2 a binge, and by that definition, sure, I have an occasional binge, but I don't know if I'm a fan of that definition, it feels like there's too many variables with body weight and metabolism and such, and of course how quickly you're drinking, there's a big difference between a 300lb man killing a 6 pack over the course of a day and a 100lb woman pounding them one after another, so I like how the NIAAA definition ties it to BAC.

I enjoy drinking, I'm under no delusion that it has any physical health benefits, it's quite literally poison.

There's maybe an argument for it having mental health benefits if used in moderation, but probably not any more than having any hobby or socialization would do for you, we all need to unwind somehow.

Also, this definition of "moderate" drinking really rubs me the wrong way, one to two drinks a day really sounds to me like someone with a drinking problem.

Not that two drinks is really a lot of alcohol, on the occasions I drink, I'll usually have more than that, sometimes a lot more.

But on an average week, I'm having maybe about two drinks, probably less.

And even if I make some pretty wild overestimates about how often I go to parties or whatever and how much I drink there, I still average out to less than 2 drinks a day. More realistically I probably average out to more like ½ a drink per day.

And like I said, I'm someone who likes alcohol. I have a fully-stocked bar at home that would put some nicer establishments to shame. For certain date nights it's pretty much a given that my wife and I are going to kill a bottle of wine between us. I'm certainly no teetotaler.

That's basically what I had in mind. Steam has this as an option for the big picture mode UI and I like it a lot.

Personally, I'd prefer if games and such would use universal face button glyphs on-screen.

I've switched back and forth between Xbox, Nintendo, and PlayStation controllers so much that I really don't have a mental map of which button is which, and in game I'm usually not looking at my controller to be able to tell.

Which feels like it leaves a lot out of the picture to me.

On an average week, where I don't go to a party, I'm not on vacation, etc. I'm probably averaging out to less than 2 drinks a week.

When I try to factor in those parties and such, even with some pretty generous estimates, I barely average out to 1 drink a day.

Of course when I do have those parties and such, I probably go above that average for that particular day/week.

And I feel like there could be some pretty significant differences between someone who is actually having a beer or two or three almost every day, and someone like me who drinks little or no alcohol for most of the year, but does get a bit drunk at a party a handful of times a year.

Both might be pretty similar in terms of total average alcohol consumption, but the pattern is obviously pretty different.

And I'm not saying that one or the other is necessarily any more or less harmful, but you never really see the data broken down like that and if they're not looking into it with that sort of detail, I feel like that's leaving themselves open to really miss something important.

Yeah, how much OP actually complains about this is kind of a big factor here.

I run up against something similar with a few of my friends. They spend a lot of time complaining that they're bored and lonely, but no matter how many invites you throw their way, they never seem to make any effort to follow through with any plans. They say they're interested, but they never let you know when they're available, or they don't show up, or they come up with flimsy excuses, etc.

And there are times I really wish I could force some of them to just show up to something so they'd stop complaining.

Having a social life is hard, I get it, we all only have so much time, energy, money, etc. shit comes up, we have other obligations, we all like to just veg out on the couch sometimes

But if you're not willing to put forth even a little effort to follow through on plans, rearrange some things, inconvenience yourself a little, at some point you kind of lose the right to complain.

And it's not that you're not allowed to complain about it once in a while. But at some point, it's just not fair to the people you're complaining to if you're not actually making an effort to do something about it.

I'm not sure if these are quite the same sort of thing you're looking for, I haven't read any of the examples you provided to compare, but two podcasts that are personal horror favorites of mine and kind of feel like they might sort of rub up against what you're looking for- Old Gods of Appalachia, and Alice Isn't Dead

The fifty fifty one movement has been organizing protests usually about monthly and you can find them pretty easily on their site

Next widespread one I see planned is 9/1 for Labor Day.

You are correct, should have double-checked that the two PVAs referred to the same thing.

I think the rest of my comment still pretty much stands though, PVA glue isn't quite water soluble but the cleanup for it isn't much more involved and doesn't involve any exotic solvents or anything

It's around $40 for a spool, I'm not sure what that works out to per square meter of printed board, and I'm far too lazy to work that out.

It also seems to me like it could be a more efficient use of board space since it could be printed closer to the shape of the traces than you'd probably want to trim a board to by hand so you can save on material a bit that way. A bunch of cut corners and notches cut out of a few boards could add up over a few prints.

I'm just spitballing some thoughts, I don't do nearly enough circuit designing to have a horse in this race, nor the desire to really work out the economics of it but especially for someone who already owns a 3d printer and maybe is already using PVA filament this seems like something that could fit well into their existing workflows.

It could just be the parts of the internet I inhabit, but I don't think it's really a recent thing, I think it's just hitting a point where the masses are really starting to take notice of it.

I'm pretty sure I remember seeing memes about CCTV cameras and such in the UK about 20 years ago now, and I don't think it's an accident that things like 1984 and V for Vendetta were written by British authors and set there.

As an outsider, it's certainly looked to me like the UK has been kind of a nanny state for a long time, and it's not a long walk from there to the kind of bullshit we're seeing more of now.

It's arguably easier, but I think it depends on your use case.

Etching usually requires a couple chemicals that not everyone has the space to store properly, like if they live in a small apartment and have kids, and even if you go with safer alternatives like vinegar over ferric chloride, after use the etching solution should still be considered poisonous and needs to be handled and disposed of with some care.

Also worth considering is that this method is solder-free, so in addition to not needing to solder anything, it's easier to recover components, no desoldering needed, just warm it up a bit and pull out the components for reuse.

Just thinking back to different points in my life, I used to live in a small apartment with my wife and a roommate. I wouldn't have wanted to keep acetone around there, anytime I used it it would have stunk up the whole place. And I didn't really want to do any soldering there, our ventilation wasn't great and our smoke detectors were on a hair trigger, and I lived in fear of losing my security deposit from dropping a stray blob of solder burning a hole in the carpet or something. PVA printing is pretty innocuous as far as fumes go, and I wouldn't have needed much equipment beyond an electric kettle (other than a printer) to play around with this there.

Really though, I see this being most useful for a situation where you want to prototype a few iterations that you'll want to field test. I wouldn't want to etch a dozen prototype boards that can't really be reused and have to desolder to recover all the components, but I could see printing out a dozen prototypes this way and refusing the liquid metal and such.

I'd probably still want my final board to be etched, but this gives you a good way to workshop a bunch of revisions without throwing out a bunch of etched boards.

Also I don't know how the cost of PVA filament stacks up against copper clad boards, but just kind of guestimating from my limited knowledge of 3d printing, it seems like the cost of boards vs filament is probably about the same or maybe even better. Sure, there's the startup costs of getting the metal and a printer, but I feel like a lot of the people who would want to do this probably already have a printer or were looking for an excuse to get one anyway, and the metal is reusable.

I skimmed through the paper, and I agree that it looks pretty damn digestible for the average tinkerer to understand and implement themselves if they so choose

But just kind of a quick summary for people who still won't read the article

You basically 3d print a circuit board out of PVA (which is basically the same material as regular white elmers school glue, so EDIT: that's not quite right, see below non toxic and water soluble) with hollow channels instead of circuit traces.

Then you fill those hollow tubes with the gallium/indium mix, which has a very low melting point, like "glass of warm water" low.

Insert any components you need and secure them into place with a drop of glue, and BOOM you've got a circuit board.

And when you're done, just dump it in a glass of water. The PVA dissolves and you can fish out the metal to reuse in a different project.

Like you said, the only "specialized" equipment you need is a 3d printer that can handle PVA filament.

Not necessarily something that's going to be useful for any industrial production applications, but this could be huge for hobbyists and even prototyping for businesses. Most traditional methods for making a PCB call for some kind of nasty chemicals and they're not really reusable, especially not for the home-gamer, this could make for a nice step-up for the people who don't want to deal with this and want something a little more polished than a breadboard or a mess of soldered wires

And I'm glad that your heart is in the right place, but your brain absolutely is not. You're playing at some naive, idealistic version of politics that's going to prevent us from making the changes we need to to turn the tides against Israel.

Sometimes, unfortunately, you have to hold your nose and vote for a candidate who kind of stinks to make sure we're not getting something even worse.