Extruded aluminum of that type is insanely stable and easy enough to build for a reasonably handy person.

You only need a cheap cutoff saw and a drill, or you can order pre-cut and ore-drilled pieces to order.

There are a number of makers of extruded aluminum building systems, basically tinkertoys for adults. I have personal experience using 80/20 and the Tslots brands. They are functionally identical.

I have used it to build stands for heavy equipment like ultra-cold freezers for labs. It is more than sufficient for any server racking.

The Antikythera Mechanism terk er jeerrrbss!

None of the women I discuss ‘making it’ with want these sorts of pictures.

All of the men do, badly.

Dick pics are for dudes.

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A web TV would suffice for this, given the current state of what remains of the ‘Web’.

There used to be a thing called ‘mutual insurance’ as in ‘Mutual of Omaha’. (They did a nature show called Wild Kingdom back in the before-time)

It’s basically an insurance run like a co-op, not as an arm of some other money-laundering corporate giant.

Some mutual insurances would balance their books periodically and refund a portion of premiums if the claims paid was less than what premiums brought in.

I still remember the jingle.

“Mutual of Omaha …. is people …. you can count on when the going is rough!!”

Easy in retrospect, yes. So easy, that now even neurotypical people can follow recipes and make good beer or wine.

But it takes a special sort of nerd to notice the differences in when that random spoiled fruit turns to alcohol and when it goes straight to vinegar. It takes a deeply different mindset to get obsessed with that question and do the work to figure out how to control the process by experimenting.

A rash of artificial selection experiments has provided serious support for the existence of the type of ‘balancing selection’ at the population level you describe.

One experimental setup I know really well involved frightening aquaria full of zebra fish (an important model species for many things in biology research.

The researchers would hide behind a curtain until everything was quiet and calm, then emerge and make note of which fish swam away to hide and which came to the glass to investigate the investigators.

Breed shy with shy and bold with bold and very soon you have two populations that behave either over-cautiously or in an overly risky way. Artificial selection is a cool way to identify the genetic basis of these sorts of traits.

One conclusion to come from doing this in various model species (even fruit flies have this population level variation in response to new stimulus) is that ‘balancing selection’ seems to maintain populations naturally with about 25% ‘bold’ phenotypes with the remainder taking the careful ‘shy’ approach.

They have been able to identify some of the genetic basis of these differences in behavior, too.

So yea it’s very socially determined which neurotypes will prosper.

As they say,

If you are poor, you are considered crazy.

If you are middle class you are neurotic.

If you are rich, you are just eccentric.

Peyton used the length of hose he normally uses to steal gas for his three-wheeler ATV as an extension to fill the tub on the ground.

Peyton reads well below grade level but he is not stupid.

Plot twist, it’s elliptical.

Hold me and never let me go, you insatiable nerd.

That’s it. I am going as a gravity well this year.

I will wear plain clothes and go up to the person in my social circle most likely to ‘get it’.

I will hug them, not let go while I explain the idea in their ear. We have to go everywhere together that evening with the explicit purpose of recruiting others in that mission. There is no leader of a gravity well, except the center of mass. Which means things might get goofy.

If I can’t convince anyone to play, I will take that big tiddy goth girl and her friends up on their offer to play xbox.

Yeah, what’s this meme about? I use Docker on a pi 4 with 8gb of ram to run Home Assistant and Paperless-ngx, plus some simple out-of-container home network monitoring scripts. The little guy rarely uses all the cores.

Unequivocally yes, but not always. You need a coordinated media campaign, a potent symbol, a dedicated core of supporters and the right combo of circumstances.

The Indian Independence movement depended in large part on boycotts. Ghandi’s followers wove their own cloth and wore traditional dhoti, both as a boycott of British cloth and as a public symbol of solidarity.

My favorite was the Salt March, wherein Ghandi used the general unfocused bitchiness around new salt taxes to make a media spectacle and demonstrate that Indians didn’t need British salt. Or anything British at all.

He marched down to the beach over a period of days gathering followers and media attention. Then he stood in the water and made salt in his bare hands using seawater and the bright hot sunshine.

18 years later they won their independence in a relatively bloodless way.

As an example Salt March

The FLX1s meets those criteria. No direct experience as I too am searching for a linux phone, but this one is a lead contender.

FuriOS

Like lambs to the cosmic slaughter!

It is interesting. Sadly I am very familiar with thought-stoppers as an escapee from an insidious cult.

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I stole your smoothie while you were showing genuine interest in another persons perspective. Classic mistake.

Vegans who are into bondage are hard core. Without silk and leather, they have to use hemp rope. That stuff is scratchy! (This is assuming said vegan is also concerned about using petroleum derived products)

It would look like the aftermath of a Nestea plunge.

(An old tv commercial reference)

Eewww