If the other person can’t follow your train of thought, it can feel as though the emotional and cognitive connection/trust that was built in the conversation was abandoned along with the previous context. This can happen when there is a non-trivial jump in context between ideas.

Steering the conversation can be done by introducing intermediary steps that are connected to the previous topic in a self-evident way. This maintains that cognitive and emotional connection/trust because you are showing that you value the other person’s understanding and participation.

Figuring out what “non-trivial” or “self-evident” means is probably the hard part but you’d probably want to consider each step in, for example:

Grass, meadow, forest, tree, timber, log truck, mill, paper, exports, shipping dock, ocean, ice caps, ice bergs, titantic, James Cameron, Michael bay, transformers.

You could probably go from each one to the next trivially, steering the conversation from grass to meadow and so on through the list. But to go from grass to transformers without intermediate ideas truly makes absolutely no sense.

Or assuming you also have no energy, are completely unbound by these prefects; floating in blissful oblivion.

That’s the beauty of it. We contract all the rail rights and rolling stock out to the highest bidder. Then the free market pressure ensures the customer has the best price. The city can cover maintenance costs, of course!

I have a set of values:

• Be social
• Seek autonomy
• Give solidarity
• Live in community
• Be healthy
• Have a clean home
• Work is to support other values, it’s not a value itself

And so on…

The choice i make is the one that aligns best with my values. If i have time to think that is. Otherwise my subconscious picks it’s own weights.

There’s a hierarchy to the values but they change in substance and position over time. That’s by design. Humans grow and change.

Circularity and contradiction? That’s fine. As long as it’s aligned with my values I know I’m unlikely to regret it.

CBT has its roots in stoicism but stoicism is definitely not a form of CBT.

Amazing how hard it is to express the TE in TERF is an absolute.

Instructions unclear. I read maximum ACAB.

Also fridge at home gets less gas exchange than open air fridge at supermarket so the ethylene builds up and your fruits turbo-ripen to mush.

Right! But those are the same thing as number of coils is the spring length divided by a geometric constant. At free length there is no strain. At compression you reach max strain/torsion. Each coil turn, assuming all are equal, adds equally to the sum of restoring force. Looking at spring free length you’re just paying attention to the summed forces of the active coils.

The dead coils contribute negligibly because they would need to impinge the neighboring wire to deform. (Relegated to pure torsion) Which i think is basically what you were saying…

I guess unit cost is going to be pretty levelled at those quantities…

I’ve only really worked with smaller batches so it’s just a bit of a shocking concept.

It reduces the effective free length of the spring.

Let’s just rearrange the equation for a spring at full compression:

F=-kL

k=-(F/L)

Whether you use one full length spring or two half length springs doesn’t matter, the spring constant is unchanged.

By reducing the free length the “dead coils” slightly increase stiffness. They have an impact on the total force at compression.

I think in this image were looking at what, maybe 10% difference in any of those factors? For the life of me i can’t imagine this matters terribly much in a pen.

If the coils are the same wire gauge and pitch then putting two springs in series is the same as having one spring of twice the free length.

As stated in other comments it could be:

• to act as a guide for buckling (what you said)
• Aesthetics

Ones i haven’t seen here which I’ll posit:

• to reduce wear on the plastic guides
• to limit travel (the spring could act as the button stop)

You have your own thread rolling tools!? This is crazy, I’ve never heard of a company making their own hardware where COTS is available.

Haha ahhh pre-enshitified internet was so good. Anonymity through obscurity ig.

Not sure i’m particularly concerned what most search provides consider “suspicious” these days.

I remember websites having links to other websites that weren’t really affiliated and that being as effective as an searches. You clicked through the internet like it was a file folder system managed by thousands of html authors playing the telephone game.

Yep!!! Hold down a job so you’re fine! Not to mention the last time my house was clean was 7 years ago when i took a half dose of adderall…

Symptoms? Yes. Diagnosable? That’s a different story…

Unclear which is the former and which the latter…

The wild part is “gonna” got autocorrected and it was so much better