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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • That’s kind of like saying that ford can’t make a model t anymore.

    I’m sure they could, there’s just no reason to.

    I’m also sure the contractors that built the Saturn V, those that are still in business, could build equivalent parts today if the government asked.

    The Saturn five was an absurdly large rocket designed specifically to get 3 people from earth to the moon. It was insanely expensive per launch, and the only reason it ever flew was because the government was writing nasa blank checks in order to beat the soviets.

    Today the government wants a reasonable dollar figure for a launch, and the days of spending a billion dollars per launch are long past.


  • The “front” or “forward” direction of a screw is clearly the face of the fastener itself, be it a hex head, Phillips, or Slotted screw. Picking a side of a face as the front doesn’t make any sense. The whole thing needs to rotate one direction or another, and it will either rotate to the right to tighten, or the left to loosen.

    If I ask you what the front of a clock is, are you going to tell me it’s the top curve near the ceiling? No it’s the face of the clock, and the hands rotate around it to the right.




  • What the fuck are you talking about.

    You’re either rotating the fastener to the right or the left.

    It doesn’t matter what side you’re talking about, because you’re not moving one side of the fastener, you’re rotating the whole thing one direction or the other.

    Clockwise just means something is rotating to the right.

    If I ask you to turn around to the right, are you going to ask me what side of you I’m referencing?


    • we invented the modern car, y’all are driving on the wrong side of the road
    • a switch is a switch, if you don’t like the direction it goes, just flip it over and put the cover back on, half the switches in my house go one way, and the other go the opposite way, some of them are even sideways.
    • y’all sank the ship that had the US copy of the metric standard on it, and also invented the imperial system in the first place.
    • if you look at the entomology, the US largely uses the original English pronunciation of things, it’s the British who have slowly changed their pronunciation over the centuries. We did have a guy who intentionally changed a bunch of the spelling, you are right about that.

  • Oh they definitely did.

    Before the pandemic, I’d see one or 2 highly questionable moves in a drive.

    Now it’s like a dozen.

    I see people making lefts on red, cutting off semi trucks, weaving in and out of traffic, driving with absolutely no lights at night, and my god the speeding.

    A few years ago it was normal to see people doing like 5 miles an hour over the limit, now it feels like half the people want to do 10 or 15, even on surface streets.

    I wonder if it’s that most people drove less during the pandemic, the fact that cops around here were told to only pull people over if they were a direct threat to the public, or if the social isolation just made some people way more self centered. But driving has definitely gotten worse since the pandemic.