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“Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now.”

— Unknown

romanceyourdemons

rip to the guy who posted his very expensive yixing teapot to r/tea, only for the comments to be not compliments on his taste as he expected, but instead GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY and I SHOULD CALL HER. he then crossposted it to r/gongfutea, which is ordinarily more dignified and self-serious, but was it? was it?? of course not, because this is reddit, and this was the teapot

fallenangelvictorious

wow I've been trying to get people into gongfu style wrong this whole time. I wasn't even thinking about how fuckable our tiny pots are... not once... truly an oversight...

goodtransgirl

Cheek? When there's so many better options???

thememedaddy

slowavesloth

shieldfoss

#people out there forgetting that the efficiency ALSO trades off against navigability during heists #if i was crawling in the air ducts and got blocked by turning vanes i'd be furious

literallymechanical

ok being serious here for a sec, but you absolutely can climb through air ducts and it's very fun!!!! If you move slow it's quiet, they are not full of filters and equipment (why would they be full of things that obstruct air flow????), and yeah they can be cold and windy but like, that's part of the fun? They're also not dusty, why would a place with extremely strong airflow be dusty?????

I feel like everybody vaguely remembers that one mythbusters episode and quotes it like that was the be-all and end-all of HVAC duct traversal wisdom

No, the actual hard part with air ducts is all the un-trimmed sheet metal screws that protrude into them, you need to watch your hands and keep low. I have yet to see a move where somebody hunches up a little too far and slices up their back (it's not fun!!!)

semusepsu

I spent a year or so installing and replacing HVAC and never have I installed a vent system that a fully grown adult could climb around in. Literallymechanical's comment about the screws is real and it makes me think they might know some of what they are talking about but check it:

The air systems I installed usually had a branching design where the main corridor off of the air intake was in theory big enough for a person, but each branch gets progressively smaller, because this is more efficient, because the farther from the pumps the less air pressure the system has. So while there are large enough vents exist, they are not the majority of vents. Second, these often had crossbars to strengthen them at regular intervals, which would at the very least make traversing them awkward. Third, while some vents have the structural support where a worker could rest their weight on it, and thus presumably a person could go in it, again, this is only true of some vents in a larger system. Fourth, while not dusty per se, the inside of old vent systems are sometimes full of crusty white limescale from condensation. I remember replacing one such system that had been installed in the 1980s. Definitely not the clean interior you see in the movies. Fifth, on the matter of equipment that restricts air flow, most vent systems actually have firestoppers at regular intervals so that a vent can be closed off so that smoke and fire cannot move through the building via the air system. Sometimes literally blocking the flow of air is a good thing!

So yes, if you have a set of blueprints for the vent system, and know the places that you are going are accessible from the largest vents, and supported well enough, and the person in question is small and/or flexible enough that the crossbeams are not a problem, then yes you can use the vents to move around. But really, you are probably better off spoofing your credentials and buying a janitor's outfit as a disguise.

literallymechanical

All true, and those conditions are pretty much guaranteed to converge in a machine room of a large building! Also you don't need blueprints if you just walk around and look up.

Furthermore! You'd be surprised how narrow of a space a fully grown adult can squeeze through with a bit of practice. Turn your head sideways and scoot forward on your toes, with your arms straight to keep your shoulders narrow. But yes, it's easiest near the fans, where the ducts are big and you can shuffle on your elbows. You can even traverse vertical ducts if somebody has tied off a rope to a cross bar and you sort of shrimp-scrunch and have a bit of faith.

And yeah at a certain point you can't go any further, usually not more than one or two branches. So it's not great for infiltrating places, but its still a lot of fun!! It's great to wiggle around in dark spaces with a headlamp, scratches the same itch as caving but much safer, except for the screws.

I had a very specific scar on my back for a while from such a screw (it's a short, wide mark that tapers to a point), and some people have them on their arms. It's a characteristic injury of the sport, like broken toenails on a ballerina or roughed up ears on a boxer.

crazy-pages

It's a sport??

bnq

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind

ceekari

unmute for the unfathomable sounds of mankind being shamed

feylingblooms

there are many ways to hold a fae! just uhhhh maybe not the 3rd one

taillessjackal

the winner gets to be the little spoon

We love some nuzi art

ironlily-art

How to instantly catch every archer's attention around the world.

sugar-petals

hot take in a roundabout way i think that's also why so many of us opt out of becoming parents ourselves

advanced-passenger-train

Does anybody know how to fix it

rosslynpaladin

Start disappointing people and not backing out of it when they are upset, reject feeling ashamed of everything including of yourself, start saying No to things you do not want to do not just things you're scared of, do more of those things you're scared of but wish you could do, make your own plans and execute them, decide to do or not do something without basing it on who will Dislike it.

Free Will takes practice, and the chance of making someone somewhere Slightly or even Very Disappointed In You. But you're an adult and you can't be made to stand in a corner anymore.

neuronflyeater

sometimes you can only be there for yourself

dajo42

5001 being divisible by 3 doesnt feel right

dajo42

shinyhappygoth

Shortcuts to determine if an integer is divisible by:

This is a given.

If the last digit is divisible by 2 (a.k.a. even), then so is the whole number.

If the sum of the digits is divisible by 3, then so is the whole number. The recursivity of this means that if the sum has multiple digits, you can add them up again until you get a single digit and see if it's 3, 6, or 9.

Like the rule for 2, but check if the last two digits are divisible by 4.

If it ends in 5 or 0.

If the rules for both 2 and 3 apply.

No shortcut. Alas.

Like the rules for 2 and 4, but check if the last three digits are divisible by 8. (Yes, this pattern keeps going for 16, 32, etc.)

Like the rule for 3, but the sum of the digits (or the sum of the sum of the digits, etc.) must be 9.

If it ends in 0.

zykamiliah

#THIS POST IS WRONG 7 DOES HAVE A RULE FOR HOW TO TELL IF THE NUMBER IS DIVISIBLE#it's just. not a short cut#you're better off dividing it and seeing if you get a whole number than doing the method

but what IS the rule @anqelbean ???

anqelbean

Okay, so, basically, you remove the least important digit of the number (which is the first digit from the right), you double it, and then subtract it from the remaining number. If the number you get is still large, you do it again.

For example, 294

29 4

4×2=8

29-8=21

21 is divisible by 7

Second example, 1946

194 6

6×2=12

194-12=182

182 is still large, so let do it again

18 2

2×2=4

18-4=14

14 is divisible by 7

none-ofthisnonsense

@capybaraonabicycle

no-shit-sherlock-yall

@as-the-stars-foretold

janmisali

legalize copyright infringement

janmisali

to be clear this is a fully sincere political belief that I have. I am pro copyright infringement and in fact anti "asking for permission to make derivative art"

afoxwithpenguins

Replace copyright with a attribution system

Want to make something that is derivate? Give attribution to the original and go nuts

janmisali

legalize copyright infringement

janmisali

to be clear this is a fully sincere political belief that I have. I am pro copyright infringement and in fact anti "asking for permission to make derivative art"