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i wish u a nice day <3

TYYYY you too :3 stay comfy

oh we have soldering stuff and we know how! just too lazy to go downstairs, even though we ended up putting the radio in our garage anyways lol

but hacker/makerspaces are awesome!!! definitely +1 to that :)

thank you for braving the seas of twitter for this!! :)

at a local middle school one of the students threw a container of cream cheese at the math teacher after she used an AI generated image in her lesson. from what we heard the students were mocking the teacher incessantly for that. this is definitely a phenomenon in the real world, at least where we live.

still, demographics vary!!! the people we know in real life are reasonably technical, and are thus more in the “internet” camp. depending on how you meet the people you know, they may have a higher or lower probably of having one opinion or another. this is certainly an interesting topic, so please do feel free to go more in depth into your own experiences! :)

moths r so cool!!

plan 9 when

the technical term is “buttering the brick”, and as an added bonus, mortar is colloquially called “mud”! hehe

yiff yiff hooray!!!

inside of us there are six, and its pretty much a perfect split between these two archetypes lol

hehe. if you thought lead was toxic, in a textbook we have from the 1970s about hand drafting and sketching, on the very same page lesbian rules are mentioned it notes the following:

Pencil lines or dirt can be removed from tracing cloth by rubbing lightly with a cloth moistened with carbon tetrachloride (Carbona) or benzine [sic] (Energine). Use either with care in a well-ventilated area.

we also have a couple masonry textbooks, and lesbian rules in masonry applications look to be very antiquated, at least from a quick peek at them, sadly.

then again we did yuri with another girl irl on a brick construction site recently! perhaps the true lesbian rules were the girls and fembys we kissed along the way

public works projects are interesting. while the citizens of a municipality should have a say, in this situation business owners perceive an advantage to this change and are willing to more aggressively lobby for it than those citizens. this does not exactly even mean it will truly advantage them, perhaps the bike traffic does help their business more than the parking (this is the case where we live). or perhaps they are right. regardless, the typical bicyclist will have much less motivation to voice their opinion(s), as they can be encouraged to just take another route or contend with the traffic, as annoying and dangerous as it is. advocating for this stuff often requires going to meeting halls and so forth, which takes time, social effort, and the courage to disagree with very motivated business people!

still, if you want stuff to change where you live, do go to your city/county/other local meetings relating to the problems you want to provide your perspective on. it’s definitely some effort, frequently a lot of it! but its often not a case of “someone will voice this opinion in the meeting, so i don’t gotta go”, and you attending really can make a difference. different municipalities of course have their own attitudes. maybe they won’t listen to you at all, or maybe the meeting has been widely advertised and many are attending it!

regarding this proposition in particular, what we will say is that where we live, the expenses this project would result in could equate in value to the funds that our city’s fareless and very awesome bus transit system uses to maintain their fleet over the course of years! of course it’s not as simple as that, but 1.2 million dollars is still a lot of dollars.

p.s.: we bicycle everywhere if we aren’t walking or taking the bus. where we live there is one of these three lane downtown roads. it sucks. the other downtown areas are a lot better but three lanes is very uncomfortable to bike through. please support your local bicycle infrastructure!

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do post!! would love to read through at least some of it. most of our (otherwise tiny amount of) biology knowledge is related to medicine, so it sounds like a fun opportunity to learn new stuff.

our start was a bit more convoluted. we have been working with various CAD softwares over time, and often still do for CNC machines, notably 3d printers. but due to circumstances, we also basically have access to an entire (architectural) drafting classroom that sees no use! so so much cool stuff. nice drafting desks, hand implements ranging in age from very contemporary to being war reparations from germany—stuff that has “Made in Germany - U.S. Zone” printed on it—lots and lots of books, boxes of ames lettering guides, and this is just the stuff in the classroom itself! we didn’t want all this stuff to just sit abandoned, so we decided to learn to make use of some of it. there is so much cool technique, and given this opportunity we felt obligated to ensure it wouldn’t just be lost to time.

again, it is an architectural teaching room, so we did have to procure our own engineering scales and such. still, hand drawings are so so so satisfying. there is truly nothing like sketching out an idea, putting some dimensions to it, laying it out on a nice, big sheet of paper, lettering out all those accompanying dimensions etc., and then bringing it into reality with the lathes and vertical mills and welders and other facets of the fabrication shop.

near all the fab and design stuff we do is personal hobby, so we do stuff however we feel really. again we do use CAD not infrequently! but by hand is far more gratifying.

on that note x3

HEHEHE “defenestration” made the german speakers among us giggle. a german word for window is “Fenster”, so the apparent francofication (often considered a high class sounding language) put together with the deranged context makes it 10x funnier

FROM EVERY CANADIAN RESIDENT

if non-residents are exempt, thats one way to promote an influx of inbound travelers :3c

either that or this happens (also nsfw!)

for extra hallucinations simply assume the consumption of one (1) early 1900s fire extinguisher’s worth of carbon tetrafluoride as part of your scribe’s daily fluid intake

every time we see AI mix up *U* and *V* we just imagine it not as a machine, but instead as a european renaissance-era writer who accidentally time traveled into the current year and promptly got locked up in a cubicle with a real-time brain scanner wired up that interfaces with chatbot programs seen online

the character’s name is bernd das brot! they are a depressed bread slice tortured on late night german kids television both psychologically and physically, there are plenty of clips on youtube etc. all very fun to watch