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My goto flux is knockoff Kingbo RMA-218 from China (the whiter stuff is much better than the yellow stuff, and is thankfully the more common variant).

All that needs is some flux and more solder per joint.

Alternatively (and what I personally prefer), you can tin both ends and then join them together. This works because most solder has flux inside of it (specifically, solder is a hollow tube with flux inside).

In chemistry, the rule is called "like likes like" or "like dissolves like", which means that similar materials like to join together, and dissimilar materials don't.

Oxide layers on metals prevent other metals (like solder) from joining to it. What flux does is it chemically cleans the surface as it heats up, removing that oxide layer. This then makes it easier for solder to join to metals such as copper.

A common, more obvious form of an oxide layer on metals is a rust (iron oxide) layer on iron. That rust has very different chemical and physical properties to iron, as it is now a fundamentally different material.

It is, but... you know.

Literally everything is a red flag in this post. Stay far away from this person.

I personally think you need to take some time off dating in general (both women and men) to really figure out what you want (not just sexually or romantically, but what you want a relationship to be). Don't let other people influence that. Dating out of lonliness is a great way to get stuck on the receiving end of an abusive relationship. You need to be comfortable with and love yourself before it is possible to be in a healthy relationship. It is a lot of work to do so, but it is absolutely worth it in the end.

Also unrelated, but make sure you stay far away from drugs. They will make not just this situation, but every situation worse.

After the War on Terror was declared, it essentially meant that the executive branch could essentially go to war with any country if they call them terrorists without former approval from Congress.

Sounds like some kind of addiction, possibly?

I'm not sure, but I'll think about it while I heat up my dab rig to take some massive fat dabs so I can smoke a joint while loading a bowl.

Larry David, is that you?

Yeah, James Madison definitely made a mistake writing "and", but also fuck the courts for that ruling.

I mean, it's quite literally a Nazi fascist cult. No need to call it anything less

It's mainly a mix of economic frusturation and a divide and conquer strategy by the rich in order to have the masses blame immigrants and people of other races/religions/genders/sexual orientations/etc. for all of their problems instead of blaming the elite class and capitalism. The lie of meritocracy being real also plays a big role here ("temporarilly embarrassed billionaires").

There is another angle, though, and that's sexual frusturation. When a teenage male has issues getting laid and they look online for some kind of support, they find people like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson who tells them that men who "get laid" are "alphas" or whatever and that women should be treated as subhuman or as slaves. These incels have likely never actually attempted to make friends with any women outside of a sexual or romantic context, because if they did, they would learn that women are the same as them, even when it comes to their struggles (even pertaining to dating/sexual frusturations).

I think the latter reason (specifically Gamergate) sparked the fire that made the first truely possible on a scale that we haven't seen in our lifetimes.

There is also the additional piece of info that the majority of people won't take action against what is happening in politics until it personally affects them, which is a very unfortunate reality.

I hear Elon has been wanting to colonize Mars.

Cult. MAGA is a cult.