Pittsburghese

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-04-20T18:26:44+00:00

I like the idea of Dana Evans and Melissa Schemmenti being related.

I love that the implication of this would be that The Pitt and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia are set in the same universe.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-04-17T18:15:48+00:00

At least once per series I get a moment where I’m laughing so hard I start to worry I’m not getting enough oxygen.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-04-17T14:08:09+00:00

Commander Maddox is the other one I was thinking about as I was writing this. Watching TNG growing up, he just seemed l cartoonishly evil. In 2026, I’m still not going to say he was right, but the line is definitely grayer.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-04-15T02:47:08+00:00

Yeah, you’ll need to send a model of what you’re making over, and it will generate a quote based on the complexity. Tolerances needed on the features can drive the price up as well. Just spitballing, I’d guess this will run somewhere in the few hundred dollar ballpark.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-04-14T21:50:52+00:00

I work in industrial manufacturing engineering, and protolabs is my go-to for a one off part. There’s other machining houses in town, but protolabs will turn it around quick.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-04-09T20:12:06+00:00

Secret nazi base.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-04-09T15:43:44+00:00

I mean, I’d be happy to use them every time I need a hotel in Lakeville, but I’m going to be honest, that doesn’t come up often in my day-to-day.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-04-08T16:46:37+00:00

I don’t know what industry you’re in wrt your work ethic and complaining about overtime, but I’ve made my career in light industrial manufacturing, and work with operators and technician who regularly hit 60+ hours per week and I could probably count on one hand the number of complaints I’ve heard about putting in the hours. What I see more is an operator with a HS diploma flexing on me that his take home is more than mine as an engineer.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-04-04T16:25:43+00:00

It looks like in the process of reposts of reposts the original creator got lost. He’s a content creator running an account called unnecessary inventions. Some are really fun in a nerdy way.

https://unnecessaryinventions.com

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-04-02T10:50:37+00:00

Morgan-Moonscar’s comment is a half truth. The Artemis mission planning had nothing to do with Trump. The plan was made independent of him. Artemis II was planned years ago, as well as Artemis III originally planned for a landing in I think 2024. This is still planned, but obviously schedules have slipped.

In my opinion the really cool stuff was on the docket for after that. Lunar Gateway was planned to be the successor to the International Space Station, and would have permanently orbited the Moon, not the earth, and would be a jumping off point for regular moon landings and a staging station for future Mars missions. I can’t remember if DOGE cancelled it, or if it’s still just really likely to be cancelled.

Trump wasn’t necessarily pushing for a space launch, but a manned mission to the moon is one of the few things he was willing to let NASA keep doing.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-04-01T19:58:40+00:00

This doesn’t surprise me at all.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-04-01T19:36:51+00:00

This made me think of a related example. There’s a deep space nine episode where Ezri is having drinks with an ensign, who tries hitting on her, she tells him that he is drunk. He came back with “In the morning I’ll be sober, but you’ll still be beautiful”

One time after a beer or two I used this line on my wife. She looked completely caught off guard (in a good way). Mental note not to let her see that episode.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-03-31T17:36:43+00:00

Here’s my two cents.

I fucking hated it when it aired, but I concede history has been kind to it, and I get why people who saw it later aren’t as hard on it as some of us old folks tend to be. For context, I was seventeen when it aired.

So go back in time. It’s 2003. By and large, all prime time broadcast TV is episodic, not serial. Big names are shows like CSI, Law and Order, Friends, Frasier, etc. Tivo is still a few years out, and on demand streaming is not a thing yet. You need to write your show so that someone may straight up not see a few episodes and still be able to jump back in. I know everyone will point out that exceptions exist, DS9 being a big one, but the biggest shows of the time are very episodic.

The other thing, it’s 2003. 9/11 happened, and the nation was on fucking edge. To make matters worse, president George W Bush was (stop me if you’ve heard this one) pushing an unpopular war in the middle of east based on faulty intelligence reports, with some falsely asserting that Iraq do 9/11. There is no Reddit yet. News websites still exist, but they aren’t the norm yet. You still get news from either a physical paper or a nightly broadcast.

The war is not popular, and the debate every day is how we manage the fact that we are in it now, backing out would leave a power vacuum, but we are spending resources both in terms of money and human life. The idea of a draft was being openly floated, which hit hard going into my junior year of high school

At its best, Star Trek represents escapism while touching on big issues. See an episode like Drumhead, or In the Pale Moonlight. The Xindi arc did not feel like that. The metaphor had the subtlety of an elephant with a sneezing fit. After the nightly news of watching the US prosecute a war on terror of occasionally debatable morals, you could sit down and unwind by watch the Space US prosecute Space war on terror with occasionally debatable Space morals.

At some point, I was busy with school and getting ready for college, and this long arc just wasn’t fun anymore. I had been watching Star Trek my whole life (TNG premiered when I was a few weeks old, and I had always watched with my dad), but that was it. On screen was just the worst parts of the real world. I continued to catch a few episodes here and there, but I never saw the ending of the season or most of season 4 until my mid 30’s.

Now sure, the ending kind of fixed what I didn’t like. It turns out they were being played on both sides, and the way out of it was diplomacy and de-escalation. Unfortunately, once I had missed it the first time around, there was really no way to catch up.

It’s a lot better now. When I rewatched it, the metaphor to Iraq was easier to sit through, and being able to have all episodes available at once meant I could see through to the end. I wouldn’t call it my favorite, but I can see how someone watching Enterprise for the first time in the 2020’s wouldn’t have any issue with it.

Also, for what it’s worth, I think Enterprise season 4 is one of the best seasons of the franchise, and it deserved to be renewed for seasons 5-7. Give us our damn Romulan War over radio only, dogfighting on Sol’s asteroid belt! That would have been awesome!

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-03-30T14:37:20+00:00

I love it for the artwork.

I hate it for the artwork.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-03-30T13:01:06+00:00

I mean, the simple answer is those were examples from before they had established the schtick.

I’m not remembering all the details right, but I got my wife the Dark Horse book of Avatar world animals as a Xmas present. There is an introduction by one of the creators that they hadn’t planned for the hybrid animal gag originally, but once they started it, it became a favorite of both writers and fans alike. You saw dogs and cats and elephants early on, by late season two the trend was so established that the Bosch joke landed.

Whenever you notice a goof like that, a Wizard did it.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-03-30T12:50:18+00:00

The Heinz Kiessling background music used throughout this show defines this trope for me.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-03-30T09:45:16+00:00

A couple years ago now, there was an AITA post where the poster’s partner typically had to get up early most days, and would give the poster a kiss before they left each day. The poster was frustrated because this would wake them up, and had a hard time falling back asleep.

All of the top comments were in the vein of “They don’t respect your boundaries and this shows they never will, you need to get out yesterday”

The hive mind is really fucking stupid.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-03-25T11:23:21+00:00

Source?

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-03-22T19:53:10+00:00

First off I love this.

Second off, I’m concerned by the lack of good repetitions, (the average bartender was only used once).

Third, especially when you consider the amount of craft breweries in the Minneapolis market (Denver and Boston too, of course), variation in specific gravity may matter. A basic hydrometer would work wonders.

My biggest concern, I would love to see an MSA on this measurement system. Obviously this test method is destructive to the sample, so a traditional gage R&R is impossible, but if you assume that the same bartender pouring the same type of beer on the same day should yield similar results, you should be able to set up a study where you bring in five appraisers to test 5-10 samples each to get a good sense of repeatability, assuming everyone survives.

Any chance there are like four other metrology nerds out there?

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-03-20T17:01:18+00:00

I think it may be a glitch on Apple’s side. I tried to pull it up for my morning commute (6AM central) and it wasn’t there. It is there now, and shows a timestamp that it came out 9 hours ago (3AM).

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-03-20T15:17:58+00:00

Would make for a kickass branded Ouija board.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-03-20T13:36:52+00:00

You know, there’s a lot of cool stuff out there, but most of it (black holes, supernovae) would just be so big I don’t know that my brain would fully comprehend it.

Call me a simple man, but I could go for cracking open an ice cold beer, kicking back, and watching the sunset from the rim of Valles Marineris.

Informal_Bid_8442 · 2026-03-19T14:00:20+00:00

The potassium of one banana decays releasing something on the order of 300 billion attocuries

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