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  • Depending on the situation, sure. If the comic doesn’t have a signature in the margins already (like XKCD) then credit in the title/body. If the signature is in the margins, and cropped out, then that’s bad form. Comics are often re-shared and the title/body doesn’t always come along.

    After you remove the signature from the comics, credit is going to quickly get lost as the re-posts happen.






  • If the dishes need to be done, and I have time. I do the dishes.

    If my non-platonic roommate notices the dishes need to be done, and they have time, they do the dishes.

    Basically, unless it’s a pretty complicated task that only one of us is proficient in, whoever is available just does it.






  • Look up Paul Sellers on YouTube. You’ll have to pull up his backlog, cause he’s pretty old and doesn’t do as many project videos anymore. There’s also a ton more “hand tool only” woodworkers on youtube, but I found that he’s an easy one to watch.

    He shows you how to bootstrap a workshop from nothing with just hand tools that you can ebay for not much.

    You can start with smaller projects that you can not worry about much, and then work your way up to “dining table for life”

    Just build a small box with a couple drawers out of the hobby boards at your local hardware store. Try to stick with harder woods like poplar, oak, walnut, etc. They’re a little more expensive, but they’re easier to work with cause they don’t smoosh so much when you try to cut them, and building small things doesn’t take a lot of wood.

    You’d be surprised just how accessible woodworking is. You just have to be ok that it’s going to take a lot longer if you don’t have a giant workshop full of high end, expensive machines.


  • It honestly depends on how TECHNICAL you’re trying to be.

    If you’re being super well acktually - then zero elements were created by the big bang. It was way too hot and dense and it was only subatomic particles. Everything had to cool slightly, and stuff had to decay slightly, for any elements to be created at all.

    Then after that, the VAST MAJORITY of elements were hydrogen and helium, yes, but there was a very small amount of other elements (lithium being the biggest part of that small amount of other elements). The fact that it’s a sliver of a percent doesn’t matter, the universe is enormous and larger elements, while rare, actually did exist back then.

    This deuterium then fused to heavier nuclei, including tritium, helium-3, helium-4, and lithium-7.[2]: 315  Helium-4 has a large binding energy, which means that once a helium-4 nucleus is formed, it is difficult to break apart and incorporate its constituents into heavier nuclei. Therefore matter in the universe is primarily hydrogen and helium-4 after BBN.[13]: 68  Standard BBN predicts, by the time BBN ends, the universe is composed of about 75% of hydrogen and 25% helium-4 by mass. Roughly 1 nucleus in 100,000 is deuterium or helium-3, and 1 nucleus in 1,000,000,000 is lithium-7. Even smaller amounts of heavier elements, as heavy as oxygen-20, have been predicted to form.[10]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis

    So really - there’s no reason why some crazy weird elements couldn’t have also been created, it’s just rare - which is the whole point of “crazy rare super metal - Uru - was created at the beginning of the universe”