Back in my hippie days, we would do a little trick. You get some hemp. Few beads. Whatever. Tie it around your big toe then loop it around your ankle. So it looks like you are wearing flip flops at a glance.

Did it all the time.

As a more informed person. I do not really recommend walking barefoot anywhere except a park or your own space. And beaches.

Cause dogs literally pee on every surface that exists in a city.

And also hepatitis.

Glass. Other sharp things.

Even if you have thick soles, they can take out gashes of it.

And the sidewalk is hella hot in the summer.

Go barefoot at your own risk. But know the risks. Mkay.?

I question the validity of polls right now.

Who are these people that are responding?

Yeah this images illustrate what I mean by a building having the same visual angle as a person.

In this case, it’s actually about half. But you get what I mean.

Work now

Every time I go to the dollar tree and it’s in stock I buy like 5 of them.

Still less expensive than 1 tube of sensodyne.

It’s not as minty. But does the job.

Stock up when you find it.

And yeah. I too will get sores even from using the regular kind for a few days. I think I’ve gotten more sensitive to it since I started avoiding it.

My grand pappy swears that just brushing with baking soda (and water) is best. I tried that though and gagged on the taste and texture.

Y’all remember the supreme brick ?

https://stockx.com/supreme-clay-brick-red

You can still buy one. I guess …

Hey I’m a perception researcher.

In the real world we call this visual angle or retina angle

You can calculate the visual angle of an object based on its distance from the eye and dimensions.

If you want to create another object that “looks” the same size but is at a different distance, you use the same formula but instead you input the distance and visual angle and then it gives you the new dimensions needed for both objects to “look” the same size. (Project into the retina at the same size)

This is actually part of an experiment I did for my dissertation where two cylinders were shown to participants. One was 90cm away. The other 80cm. But the “looked” identical in size. (They had to tell me which was closer without size influencing their judgment).

When it comes to movement. The math for this might be a little more tricky as I’m pretty sure it’s proportional changes.

I’ll be honest, my knowledge of this is lacking (calculus). But I’m open to helping you figure it out.

I also am not familiar enough with blender to help you do this on blender. Only in real life. I mostly use blender for sculpting 3d models for printing. So you would have to figure out how to translate my help to blender.

Honestly this sounds like a pretty cool optical illusion.

I do have an excel sheet I created that I put the formulas in that make it easy to make two objects at different distances have the same retina angle.

So let’s say I have a cube that’s 2x2x2cm. And it’s 50cm away. I first calculate the visual angle of 2cm height at 50cm.

Then I use this information and make it so the object would be at 100cm away. How big does the cube now need to be , to still have the same visual angle. ?

My formula will tell you.

If you are interested I can give it for you and explain how to use it.

There are online calculators for visual angle but none let you use a secondary one to create a matching (in retina angle) item at a different distance. So mine will be very useful to you for that purpose.

There is also some discrepancy issue with what is called lens length. And this factors heavily into virtual spaces.

I’ll go into that later with you.

People are influenced by slight changes in size.

And bigger is interpreted in one specific way. “It’s closer”. Which in your situation would make the object appear to get closer to the camera. So this is actually a big deal to make sure it’s projected perfectly.

Here is a photo depicting visual angle. Basically the big E and the smaller E that is closer will project at the same size. The small E that is farther will project smaller in angle than the same dimensions small E that’s closer.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQjwyDmu1E2UPMVdPzTO3IBUvzW-ieOmw580A&s=

Another image. This shows how two objects that are the same dimensions will project different visual angles based on distance.

https://cdn.cambridgeincolour.com/images/tutorials/wa_narrow-angle-of-view.png

Here is a photo of the formula. And shows that both a human and the Eiffle tower can project at same size.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/83kLc5WkO6I/maxresdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCIAKENAF8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-B4AC0AWKAgwIABABGGUgZShlMA8%3D&rs=AOn4CLD3d56taVe6fL3cI2jIf4VO4wroHw

I don’t want to overload you with info. I’ll try to remember to check my Lemmy later. I’m also in the middle of moving but I’ll help if I can.

Send me a DM if you want to chat more one on one.

Yeah I avoid it for this reason. Also for anyone looking for toothpaste without it.

Sensodyne doesn’t have it but it’s expensive.

Some of the Toms doesn’t but most does.

I found out the cheap dollar tree sensitive toothpaste doesn’t have it either. So that’s what I use.

It’s actually pretty hard to find toothpaste without it. Hope that helps.

It’s a plot to get re elected.

Nothing else.

Fuck politicians and their sleezy ethics.

Let’s hope they do a mutually assured destruction of each other.

The egos are big enough.

Generally the nms community is pretty friendly and inclusive.

It’s one of the few games where women aren’t too worried about their gender being known. Other players will still generally help you out or do nexus missions with you regardless. I’ve only ever been cussed out once by a sexist and after some other players heard about it there was some justice carried out. The greater community doesn’t tolerate trolls or toxic players.

Im part of the facebook group and people are fairly friendly and helpful on it.

It’s probably one of the least toxic gaming communities out there. I’m not surprised the community stepped up and helped the player out.

I take breaks from nms but I always come back. And it’s in part due to the community.

I’m super looking forward to Light no Fire.

Hopefully the same vibe in the community.

Elon edited gork (twitter AI bot) at 3 am to make it say white Africans are fleeing genocide. But instead what happened is the AI bot comments on any posts (regardless of topic) basically saying white Africans are not being racial targeted or suffering from genocide. And specifically saying there is no evidence of genocide. Because there isn’t any.

I’m pretty sure the reason they keep kidnapping people with asylum and green cards and reporting them is cause they can’t actually find that many undocumented immigrants.

I’m aware there are some. But I don’t think there is a ton of them.

It is a slippery slope to ban a party. But. The paradox of tolerance is true. If it’s tolerated. It will eventually take over.

Just like it’s trying to do in the U.S.

Fusion seems legit to me and it’s free for non commercial use. It seems more intuitive than other cad software though they all have a learning curve

I found fusion360 and blender to be best for me. Fusion made by same company as tinkercad.

I tried freeCAD and had constant errors (like 20 at a time) and couldn’t figure out what was going on even tried googling. And that’s when I learned that’s just how it goes with that program.

I like blender to make sculpted models. Tutorials and figuring things out myself was frustrating but now I have a decent grasp on the basics and I find it much easier to use and keep learning new things all the time with it.

I’ve only used fusion for a few projects that required it and had to rely a lot on tutorial videos but I was able to do the modeling. I plan to learn more of it in the future but it’s pretty decent so far.

I’ve not used any of the others you have listed.

Need to start one on onion for doxing ICE agents.

Sue the university if they retract a degree based on 1st amendment rights.

I think he wants them out so that when he orders the military to round up trans, there won’t be any military personnel to object. But he’s stupid.

Plenty of people will object regardless if they themselves are trans or not.

This is trumps biggest weakness.

He doesn’t understand empathy, solidarity, integrity. Because he has none.

And he gets sidelined when others act on those values because he just can’t understand why anyone would stick their neck out for someone else.

Bambulab slicer is based on prusa but has more features like the plate one I mentioned. I also think it’s more user friendly.

I do agree. Printer should be choose based on other factors but the slicer is just the cherry.

Bambu printers are excellent.

They are especially great for newbies. They just work. No tinkering. No replacing parts every few months.

They also print faster and at a higher quality.