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Hey, we're all terrorists! I like dogs, Hitler liked dogs, and I don't want to give my pin to the police, that makes me a criminal, right?

You can fake a lot of interests. I often faked interest in the state of the company I was working for, in exchange for money. I faked interest in random topics to get a degree. If faking interest in your mineral collection gets me someone to listen to my problems, that is a good exchange in my book. And who knows, maybe I learn some cool mineral fact.

Maybe you should stop being friends with sex predators. Being gay does not prevent you from being an abusive asshole, and should not shield you from being called out if you are one.

So, first actual test: The general sentiment is "a few S levels" higher than the original whip of my Anytone 878, with a notable directionality. I can talk to my friend from the other side of the city with just 2W as well. Great success! Also, it survived 7W for quite a while without getting hot. Although my fingers (I was holding it in the air) started tingling a bit ;)

Especially since the "plates" are just some overlapping pieces of the brass coil covered in heatshrink... It makes me wonder how to make a 70cm loop, at that point, the capacity would be so small, I might get away with a horseshoe design of some kind.

Sadly I just have an FM radio, but maybe I'll try it at the local club station. I am not sure how much power it will survive, though.

Nobody mentions an instant divine lightning strike at the climax while sleeping with a bunch of porn stars at once while high? I am severely disappointed in the lack of creativity here

I cannot say I disagree. What comforts me is that

a) shit has been pretty tough for most of human history. Point at any "golden" age and tell me how the average dude lived.

b) we - us people, our civilization, and even biological life in universe - won't be around forever. Change is the only constant.

Pretty abstract, but it helps me at least. Do what you perceive as meaningful. And if you have done your best, everything else isn't up to you any more.

Spite is an excellent short term motivation. If you give up, those guys win. Fuck those guys.

The best way to piss them off is to live the best possible life (whatever that means to you), despite their attempts to make life miserable.

And sometimes those guys happen to be in your head. Fuck those guys in particular, we're not going to give in to them.

The Linux kernel actually uses quite a bit of OOP ideas. You have modules that are supposed to have a clear interface with the rest of the world, and they (ab)use structs to basically work like objects. If you try hard enough, you can even do "inheritance" with them, like with their struct kobject. It is actually somewhat well-thought-out, imo. No need to go full OOP, just pick some of the good parts, and avoid the MappingModelFactoryServiceImpl hell or the madness that is C++.

Not the place, my dude

Nobody mentioning 3D printing? :(

For those un-enlightened in the ways of making inedible spaghetti: Hair spray is often used as a makeshift adhesive to make your prints stick to the printer and 230°C is conveniently around the temperatures you print most stuff at.

(I know it's not hair spray, but it would be more funny)