Mildly interesting
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wrote on 8 Feb 2021, 17:25 last edited by Catseye3 2 Aug 2021, 17:37
An excerpt from the book Picnic Comma Lightning, . . . "a beguiling exploration of what it means to exist in the world today. It used to be that our lives were rooted in reasonably solid things: to people, places and memories. Now, in an age of online personas, alternative truths, constant surveillance and an increasingly hysterical news cycle, our realities are becoming flimsier and more vulnerable than ever before."
The above was to put the following mildly interesting thing into context.
" . . . the questions of how we experience the real world, how we access its truths, have become mainstream concerns. On 16th January 2018, in a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, US Senator Orrin Hatch began his statement by taking off a pair of glasses that he wasn't wearing. He raised both hands up beside either eye, clipped them around invisible handles, and brought them back down to the bench. He continued as if this were normal, with perhaps just one nervous little cough registering the mistake. The moment was like a Lucille Ball slip-up, a clown's attempt at gravitas. At the same time, it instantly seemed a perfect symbol of our present state of affairs: the unreality of American politics in the wake of its reality-TV president, the deception of the political classes who no longer even feel the need to disguise their deceptions."
And so on.
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Brilliant
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wrote on 12 Feb 2021, 11:47 last edited by
@brenda said in Mildly interesting:
Brilliant
Pro tip: If you can find a wider piece of yarn that's a bit flat, that works better.
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wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 01:25 last edited by
Euthanasia Roller coaster
Link to video"The concept design of the layout begins with a steep-angled lift to the 510-metre (1,670 ft) top, which would take two minutes for the train to reach. Any passengers that wished to get off could then do so.[3] From there, a 500-metre (1,600 ft) drop would take the train to 360 kilometres per hour (220 mph), close to its terminal velocity, before flattening out and speeding into the first of its seven slightly clothoid inversions.[3] Each inversion would have a smaller diameter than the one before in order to maintain the lethal 10 g to passengers while the train loses speed. After a sharp right-hand turn the train would enter a straight, where unloading of corpses and loading of new passengers could take place.[3]"
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Euthanasia Roller coaster
Link to video"The concept design of the layout begins with a steep-angled lift to the 510-metre (1,670 ft) top, which would take two minutes for the train to reach. Any passengers that wished to get off could then do so.[3] From there, a 500-metre (1,600 ft) drop would take the train to 360 kilometres per hour (220 mph), close to its terminal velocity, before flattening out and speeding into the first of its seven slightly clothoid inversions.[3] Each inversion would have a smaller diameter than the one before in order to maintain the lethal 10 g to passengers while the train loses speed. After a sharp right-hand turn the train would enter a straight, where unloading of corpses and loading of new passengers could take place.[3]"
wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 07:32 last edited by@taiwan_girl I love this! Brilliant!
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wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 14:54 last edited by George K
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@george-k Wow!! That is impressive!!
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wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 17:58 last edited by mark
They don't make them like they used to! lol
Holy crap that is an excessively large door.
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wrote on 17 Feb 2021, 21:56 last edited by
It makes me wonder what they intended to put through it.
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@jon-nyc it's called an "electrician's" or "underwriter's" knot:
https://www.thespruce.com/what-is-an-underwriters-knot-1152873
Used in lamps and things like that.
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wrote on 8 Mar 2021, 15:55 last edited by
That looks wrong. The two cables are supposed to be part of a bigger cable, and that bigger cable is supposed to be fixed by the two screws.
