Been 6 hours
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We just heard that they cancelled the tsunami watch for our area. I didnāt check out the ocean earlier, but I did hear that they saw some higher than normal waves in California.
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Not a cloud in the sky , 27ā°C (~80Ā°F), just a puff of wind ā¦
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I just had a swim at the beach.
High tide, barely a rippleā¦Nice and warmā¦that must be from the Lava 
Good
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satur9ās preferred pronouns are it/itās 
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Oh. Noticed my mistake as well. Fixed the spelling.
Poor Satur9.
I shall see my self out. Fuck. My English is not working. Iām sorry for that.
Your English is fineā¦ I was just being deliberately obtuse. āFixed itā could have referred to Satur9 or your use of pronouns. 
Thats the only one I struggle with (pronouns wise) taught from a younge age that āitā is offensive so still dosnt feel right saying it but as with everything Iām sure we will all become a custom to it.
Same here in Germanyā¦ we have er/sie/es, so equally to he/she/it, and calling someone āesā would be massively offensive. Similar to reducing someone to a āthingā, not even accepting that theyāre human in a way. Soā¦ sorry @Satur9 for calling you they/them quite frequently here, I will definitely try to swap to āitā, but feel free to correct me if I happen to use the wrong one again 
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The thing is, in English the term ātheyā is equivalent to āitā in essence, and was a perfectly good way to refer to a person in a gender non-specific way, before gender pronouns came into the social spotlight.
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.
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Donāt worry, I volunteered to be fixed can highly recommend.
Youāre working under the assumption that being human is desirable. Weāre terrible creatures. Iāll side with the artificial any day. Iād prefer to be an animate object.
I never mentioned it so thereās really no way you could have known. They is a perfectly acceptable default, and if someone gets upset about using it when you donāt know the personās preference then theyāre just trying to stir up trouble.
I donāt usually communicate or enforce my preferred pronouns because there are plenty of people (like trans people) who have suffered for theirs. As someone who has had it very easy in life, enforcing mine would feel silly. Some platforms like the Discord require you pick though, and Iām not going to lie. Iām an it.
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Today is a holiday for me (MLK day) so naturally I decided to replace one of the door handles on my wifeās jeep. (Salt air does a number on steel parts)
The door handles are well designed. But whoever designed the door could have designed better access holes. The exterior door handle has a six inch hole about 10 inches away from it, and a slightly larger hole near the bottom of the door. I look like I was trying to cut my wrists with a butter knife. Never mind that the door is actually thinner than my forearm in places.
Anyway, we now have a working driverās side exterior door handle!
ETA it only took me 3 hours to install. I have at least learned how best to hurt myself for the next door handle.
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Donāt wanna polute the endochron thread,
@Satur9
Has anyone looked at how the wifi power harvesting stuff compares to the beta voltiacs? Flesh might cause too much shielding possibly
Yeah, Iāve looked into wifi and Bluetooth power harvesting. Unfortunately they donāt look viable.
- you need there to actually be 2.4GHz signals in the vicinity to capture, and youāre sapping power from them
- the capacitance of your skin will attenuate more more than 75% of the signal strength at 1mm depth
- the antennas need to be very large and flat, and tuning is normally somewhat difficult, but much more so in a body with belligerent and numerous parasitics.
If somebody wants to try it theyāre more than welcome. I just donāt think it will work and couldnāt in good conscience ask someone to shed blood for a test that I believe is doomed to failure.
Thatās fair, I knew it wasnāt going to produce much juice, just wondered how 25% of not much compared to a betavotic
Iād be a willing test subject, just donāt have the know how 
Though if anyone would like to send me some new prototypes, Iād be more than willing to get them installed and test them out for you, especially if itās got blinkies 