the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@kat random question: why are you using different colors than everyone else?
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@BatElite @socks What petra said!! try having like five of them
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@zaradragon *pets it gently*
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@socks behind you!
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@hi_cial it would be nice if the law actually required explicit consent to be added to a mailing list
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@hi_cial hmm. that shouldn't be legal either, there should be some kind of contrast requirement for that stuff

also i'm pretty sure the requirement is for an unsubscribe button, not a reply, but still
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tails!
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@JulieSqveakaroo that is probably what we should do
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this... cant' be legal, right?

i don't even know why we keep getting emails from this company, we've never heard of them before
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@zaradragon honestly i wish we got that more though
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@hi_cial it's more the dysphoria that comes to mind for us but yeah that's definitely true too

maybe not if it was like, a lizard tail or something but definitely dog or cat or hyena tail would be more of a mood indicator thing
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@typhlosion @lioness That's a 16-bit extension of the 6502 instruction set, right?
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@hi_cial hey a tail would make the dysphoria so much more bearable for us too so i definitely understand what you mean
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@Kyresti metallurgy always gets me rambly, sorry about that
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@Kyresti Copper, tin, and arsenic (you can replace the tin in bronze with arsenic and get a material with very similar properties) are all fairly uncommon metals, but smelting them is very easy and can even be done (badly) in a campfire, and bronze is easily hammered back into shape if it gets bent. It's also really easy to make the alloy, just stick the molten metals together--or, as in the earliest cases, just smelt naturally co-occurring copper and tin-and/or-arsenic ores without realizing what you're doing

Iron on the other hand is incredibly common, but extracting it from its ores requires a higher temperature than you can get with an open flame, it absorbs carbon very readily which makes it increasingly brittle, and it work-hardens rapidly, so it can't be cold forged (at least not with iron-age technology) and you can't field-repair an iron tool that got bent too many times (bronze work-hardens too, but slower, and it's more malleable which makes it more conducive to cold forging)
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@typhlosion Sharex can do that. We mostly use it for screenshots but it can do video too.
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@Kyresti @starkatt Something a lot of people don't realize is that iron didn't beat out bronze in prehistory because it was necessarily *better*, it beat out bronze because it was *cheaper*. And then people eventually figured out how to process it right so that it *is* better than bronze, but that took a long while longer.
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@Kyresti @starkatt Too much carbon, or just too much work-hardening, and your steel will shatter instead of bend. Pretty sure excessive phosphorus will ruin a steel too, but you're more likely to get a bunch of carbon added while welding than phosphorus. Unless you're using some *very* inadvisable fuel for torch welding.
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@Kyresti @starkatt Any steel that didn't do that would be unsuitable for use in most applications, because it'd be far too brittle!
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