dream_weasel

Gotta love him though.

No, it appears he hit the break instead of the brake.

Am I having a stroke or are you?

Go reread. I never called anyone “dumb as shit”, just the comments. Rude? Sure I’ll own that though.

I’m pretty sure you left more comments than one on what I wrote. Your commentary sure has the feel of “pretty worked up” but I won’t pretend to be a psychologist and tell you it’s a sign of mental illness: that’s a thing that’s reserved for real assholes on the Internet.

Edit: Yeah I left 4 comments in one chain and you got me twice. Seems like you have the same kind of itch to comment when the mood strikes. If you’ve got an excuse I’m sure I’ll hear about it.

I had a few bourbons last night and over-commented to be sure. Mea culpa. I spent quite a lot of time learning to make clear ice and I had to navigate all of this BS to get to the easy solution.

As a critique of your comment, I didn’t resort to ad hominem I was talking about the comments themselves.

At the same time, there’s a little bit of pot and kettle action going on here which is not lost on me.

Have a great day.

I’ve never tried money dog.

I feel like “lose out” is an overstatement. There are/were still steady rent payments even if the whole bottom falls out.

You win that’s right. I read the first part and checked out because it’s Rube Goldberg clear ice. Directional freezing is the way and everything else is stupid noise.

There are so many dumb as shit comments in this thread about agitating and boiling and purifying water and you’ve got the actual answer, thank you.

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You are the only person in the thread to get this right. Nobody else actually has done it and it shows.

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This is overly complicated.

The practical answer is directional freezing. Put the mold for the thing you want to be clear in a small cooler (or buy an insulated mold thing), be sure there is a hole in the bottom, fill it with water and put it in your deep freezer. Voilà clear ice for whatever purpose.

You don’t need to agitate it or boil it or use special water, just use tap water and the right set up and it works fine.

How many we talking? 3? 5? 20?

Idk probably about $250

I’m a neovim guy myself, so mostly I’m in markdown. Most of the latex stuff is for document production and it’s easy as keeping a skeleton file with the includes set up on a letter heading. If I have something that NEEDS to be printed and markdown wont do it, I’m definitely using latex not libre. I’m not sure I can even use any kind of writing tool without vim bindings anymore anyway.

Matchmaker matchmaker chop off his cap! Grind off his rind, so his dick slaps!

Ew no way. Best way to make document structure portable, or to move prose or visuals between contexts. It’s also exceptional if you want to automatically generate documentation with code or services that generate graphics.

ALSO you can version control it with git which is a good enough reason in and of itself unless you can use markdown for your purposes instead.

I don’t know why you think it’s a generational thing. There has always technical people that filled in the gaps that the more extroverted management types didn’t care about. How do you think things worked when millennials were still in diapers?

Uh… Unless you worked at the forefront of technology where more people probably WERE qualified, by and large these things worked on paper/transparencies I would presume. If PowerPoint and PDF were people, they are themselves millennials and gen z (ish) respectively.

Now, when millennials were about 10 you’ve got a decent point ;).

I think we have different definitions of “easily”.