exasperation

You're paying way too much for antimatter, man. Who's your antimatter guy?

Slang term for ejaculating, usually with some projectile distance implied. Very popular term in the mid-2000's, see Get Low by Lil Jon.

Depends on the city. Jeopardy is syndicated, so it's not run on the affiliates of any specific national network (ABC, CBS, NBC, CW, Fox, etc.), or even at any specific time.

Depends on how you want to use Lemmy. When using it as a link aggregator, you'd probably want to hide the stuff you've already clicked on. But as a discussion forum, it doesn't hurt to go back to threads you've already seen to see what new comments have been made since.

There's a time and a place for some intellectual humility, and that swings both ways. There are a lot of things we just don't know about the people we're close with, and at the same time there are a lot of things we don't fully understand about ourselves, that the more objective outside observer may be able to identify pretty easily.

And that goes both ways in a parent-child relationship, a sibling-sibling relationship, a friend-friend relationship, or even a spouse-spouse relationship.

My wife certainly knows certain things about me that I myself have blind spots about. And vice versa.

The mugs seem like an interesting approach. I might try that later.

Methods that don't work for me:

Filtering: The dissolved gases don't get filtered out, and will still form bubbles and cloudiness as it freezes.

Vacuum pressure pulling out dissolved gases: I've tried this a dozen times, it just doesn't get all of it out, even if you bring it to a low pressure boil at room temperature. Or new gas is being dissolved in the time between pulling the ice cube tray out of the vacuum and it freezing a few hours later in the freezer.

Directional freezing in a dedicated ice cube tray with holes connecting to a water reservoir

There are some products that basically do the same thing as the cooler method, but with a dedicated ice cube tray already cut to size. The idea is that you do the directional freezing in an ice cube tray, and that when the timing is just right, you can pull the whole thing out and just pull the ice cube tray up with formed clear cubes ready to go.

Pros: very easy, nice uniform size and shape with crisp 90° edges.

Cons: gotta get the timing just right, requires buying a dedicated setup for plastic and silicone pieces that aren't useful for anything else.

Directional freezing in a cooler/ice chest

This is my go-to method, and requires only 2 pieces of equipment in addition to a freezer: a cooler that fits in the freezer, and a serrated knife for cutting cubes. (Note that the serrated knife tends to take a beating, so it doesn't hurt to have a dedicated cheap knife for this purpose).

1. Take a cooler, take the lid off, fill it halfway with water.
2. Put the lidless cooler in the freezer as an open container.
3. Pull the cooler out 12 hours later or however long for the thickness of the slab of ice to match the size of the ice cubes you want to make.
4. Take the frozen slab of ice off the top and put it on a cutting surface. Discard the excess water.
5. Let the ice warm up to melting temperature throughout the slab, so that the ice doesn't crack excessively when you cut it.
6. Saw into the ice with a serrated knife, just enough to where you have a distinct line.
7. Hit the ice at the seam, watch the ice split off. If you don't care about the knife, you can just use the knife as a chisel to hammer at with your palm or even a mallet.
8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for each cut you want to make, until you have cubes or prisms you want to use. I make 1" x 1" x 5" (2.5 x 2.5 x 12.5 cm) prisms for highball glasses, or 2" (5 cm) cubes for tumblers.
9. Put the ice back in the freezer for later use. I recommend spacing them apart on something until they freeze solid, so that the wet ice doesn't stick to itself.

Pros: easy, reliable, no special equipment needed.

Cons: the edges and corners tend not to be perfectly straight, if that matters to you. It also tends to take up a lot of space in the freezer while in progress. And if you forget about it, you might find yourself with a big block of ice that you can't get out of the cooler without thawing.

Other notes: the insulation of the cooler does matter some, as a very well insulated cooler tends to make for a more uniform thickness in the slab of clear ice you make.

I just subscribed to cocktails. Thanks for putting that together.

I still have a few reddit alts that I lurk with, at least until we get enough activity on Lemmy on those topics:

• Sports discussion, including specific leagues and teams
• Discussion about my specific local city (and maybe the other cities I frequently visit)
• Things relevant to my career/industry in law
• Economics and financial news
• Food and cooking
• Television shows and movies, including specific shows or narrow discussions
• Super specific hobbies and interests, not just the stuff I'm personally into, but also knowing that there's a community around some other hobby so that there is lots of archived discussion where I can just click around and learn something new. For example, the most recent plane crashes in DC and Toronto, I went to the aviation community on Reddit to see what experienced professionals were saying about those things as the news broke.

Lemmy's good on all the tech and science stuff I like, and most of the memes/humor that I'm looking for. It's coming along on some mainstream interests, including the ones I've listed above, but still has a ways to go before the organic discussions reach the level of detail and expertise that reddit has. But it's on the right track, and I'm optimistic about those things filling in over time.

Yup. If, for example, you're designing a deep space mission, where every gram counts, there's a conversation to be had about whether it's cost effective (and appropriate risk) to send nuclear reactors and fuel aboard those spacecraft.

Or using modern engineering, whether an aircraft carrier should be powered by nuclear fission or internal combustion of hydrocarbons.