Steve Irwin was one of the best! Thanks for the reminder! Enjoy your Majohn!

The study shows that this strategy is only half effective.

I don’t think their research is in conflict with your perception here.

“The study found that just having a first-class section on an airplane quadrupled the chance of an air rage incident and that loading economy passengers through first class doubles that again.”

The whole experience is shit and having a first class section makes it even worse psychologically.

I want to thank you for your reply. Hearing about someone like you and your attempt to improve your community and the world I the ways you can is so uplifting!

People are social (even the introverts) and the return on in person, deep social interaction is another reason it’s important to fight the allure of convenience of online media being ones primary and most influencial social interaction. I love that you’re doing it!

The Goulet family has released a video statement on the Goulet Pens YouTube channel for anyone interested in their response.

https://youtu.be/ZuKNTuG7GY4

I’ve also made my last purchase from Goulet Pens. But I’m excited about the products themselves.

Thanks for sharing the information so everyone can make informed decisions going forward!

This is disappointing information to me who just spent money on inks and pens from Goulet Pens that I was going to post about this week. I’ll still post about the inks and pens because the ink and pen manufacturers are not the disappointment here.

Speaking as __ an internet janitor __ a moderator of this community, I want to remind people that there’s nothing wrong with being passionate about the issues you value highly and being motivated to take your business elsewhere as a result. But I’ve been on the internet for a while and seen people have extreme responses going as far as harassment and attempted violence against anyone who they perceive as not as committed to their values as themselves. Please don’t be that person.

Rather than take a defeatist veiw from this line if thinking, it will do well for your mental health to first spend more time, energy and thoughts on things you can control. Not just things related to environmentalism, but broadly reduce energy, engagement and focus from the things you don’t have significant control over and direct them to those things you do have control. It’s good to get a broad picture and observe the world around you outside of your control in small doses, but it’s easy to over indulge in an unfocused survey of problems in the world, especially on social media. (I include Lemmy communities in the social media category).

Furthermore, when you do engage with these problems, do so with more narrow focus and in more depth with an eye towards understanding the level of impact the problem has and what organizations or policy positions you can support to amplify your limited influence over the issues that causee the problem. In this way you can mitigate the feelings of helplessness and sense of there being many existential and imminent problems you need to contend with but cannot remedy. You can turn seemingly untouchable solutions into real possibilities without overwhelming your emotional capacity by working with others.

I am not happy now.

$1.40 delivered makes this a an obvious value for something that has a minor drawback. The tool in hand us definitely better than the one you don’t have access to when you’re ready to use it. I love it!

Wow! Nice review!

It seems I am not either type of person that would purchase this pen.

Wikipedia has a great image of orientations on the dates of Saturn’s opposition from 2001 thru 2029 (copied below). It really shows what’s going on and the approximate timing of visibility of the rings as they change from a Northern to Southern view from Earth’s perspective. Between March and November of 2025 the rings will be in the least visible orientations.

You’re off to a great start! Thanks for joining!

I like the deep purple ink and the patinaed look on your pen.

Awesome story! Thanks for sharing!

Copying the text from Pixelfed below:

zhang.dianli I used my first #FountainPen when I was 9 years old. I switched to using fountain pens for the bulk of my writing in my mid-20s. Today I almost exclusively use fountain pens for everything but the increasingly rare situation of having to write on copying paper. (I also occasionally use #DipPens for actual writing, but not as a rule.)

Coming to #China was like coming into fountain pen heaven for me. Everything was done with fountain pens here, so fountain pens were plentiful, highly varied, and generally cheap to buy, even while being very nice pens: not for decorative use like overpriced Montblancs (which are shockingly bad for actually writing with!), but for actual, day-to-day writing tasks.

Yesterday I got this set of four. They’re super-elegant in design. The barrels are 100% wood. The brass adapter at the end of the barrel is machined brass into which the section screws internally and onto which the cap screws externally. The section, too, is made of machined brass and accepts one of the more common feeds into which an internationally common reservoir or cartridge can be fitted. (The feed and reservoir are the only plastic components on the entire pen.) The nib is iridium-tipped but is otherwise likely stainless steel. (I’m not sure what the gold trim is made of, but it doesn’t look like actual gold to me.) The final components, the cap and clip, are made of machined brass and stamped, electroplated stainless steel respectively.

The pens have a respectable mass, look good, and cost the equivalent of about 9 US dollars. Not each. Total. After shipping.

I told you. Fountain pen heaven!

That’s an interesting observation, it’d be interesting to see what could be the reason why that pattern might hold in a proper survey. But it could just be chance that it was that way at that particular facility.

Keep talking with your psychiatrist.

Impromptu Rorschach test creation!

I found some cheap dot grid and full line grid keaft paper on Amazon. It works pretty well for the price.

Seems like it’s pretty much like any other surface in your kitchen, it requires regular cleaning.