When we play we occasionally get wrecked by Rando Cardrissian

I don’t know about open-source, but Animated Knots is the place to go to learn knots.

Diesel engine > generator > motor is frequently used for trains nowadays. Transmissions can be super inefficient, especially with discrete gear ratios

I wonder how many of those are bots or paid trolls

Yoink the motor out of an old otherwise-scrap EV and diy a wind turbine

You’re not going to absorb enough to be dangerous using it to clean something like this, and if you’re drinking the stuff, well…at least the methanol warns you before it kills you

I’m seconding The Long Earth. It’s by Baxter and Pratchett, quite good; I’m partway into the sequel

Manifold Time by Baxter is also really good, haven’t read the other two in the trilogy

They’re making Wheatley

Set and setting matter a lot, as does intent going into things with the drug. Ketamine can offer perspective and help you become a better person, that doesn’t mean it always does.

When Elon Musk does drugs, do you think he goes into it looking for enlightenment, or looking to party?

we have rules. And then we don’t use them

That’s the most succinct explanation I’ve seen of what’s wrong with English

I have a funny feeling that if that one happens, it stops being anybody’s problem

https://xkcd.com/687/

Couldn’t give a fuck about speed labelling, how about wattage?

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/humans-2

Sawdust is too fine to make paper from, the feedstock to make pulp is wood chips. Some of that will be scrap from lumber mills, but most is grown specifically to be used to make paper

I just have the batteries taped in because I lost the cover :(

You don’t use forced-air furnaces with furnace filters?

Presumably they are a vet or vet tech

A homeowner in the Palisades without fire insurance probably doesn’t have it because their insurance company dropped them, after doing the calculations and realizing how likely a fire was

erringly

eerily