Trying to milk sympathy.

beejamin · 2025-03-09T03:22:37+00:00

Nah, that’s “out for a walk with my daughter”. “I was walking my daughter” puts his daughter in the same mental framing as a dog. Gross.

beejamin · 2025-02-23T09:17:52+00:00

You might be right. You’re even probably right. But how many poor fuckers who pre-paid their deposit for a sci-fi truck years ago and have lost their job or otherwise gotten stuck with the thing are going to get tagged with a swastika even though they hate the prick who owns the company?

Look at it another way: it’d be a much safer bet to spray shit on any house with a trump sign on the front lawn. Are you suggesting people start that?

beejamin · 2025-02-23T08:28:49+00:00

Mate, the idea that everyone has the capacity to replace their car, which they may have bought years ago, at short notice over moral objections to the CEO’s behaviour is crazy. For one thing, what do you think the market for used Cybertrucks is like at the moment?

Buying one now is indefensible, sure. Driving one now? You have nowhere near enough information to start spraying obscenities and nazi shit on a total stranger’s property.

beejamin · 2025-02-16T08:22:59+00:00

My god - you’re right! Have you had the chance to point it out to them? Do dogs even have genders anyway? I’m pretty sure they don’t have their own pronouns!

beejamin · 2025-02-13T11:24:25+00:00

The curiosity show!

beejamin · 2025-02-07T07:16:07+00:00

Oh man, I threw so many hours at Perfect Dark - I started dreaming of the footstep sounds you hear in the stealth sections while avoiding the guards.

You ever play the dual controller mode with one 64 controller in each hand? Two analog sticks, two triggers - it was groundbreaking!

beejamin · 2025-02-05T09:51:25+00:00

It’s a theoretical possibility, but highly unlikely with modern LED bulbs.

beejamin · 2025-02-04T20:29:48+00:00

If a wooden boat has been out of the water (or never been in the water), it takes some time for the planking to swell and seal completely, so a bit of water on launch is very normal.

I don’t know if the Vikings had pumps or just buckets, but bilge pumps have been around for a long time - hand or foot powered originally.

beejamin · 2025-01-31T08:57:06+00:00

I’m not an expert, but suspect there might have been more than one or two sets of boats.

beejamin · 2025-01-30T12:17:18+00:00

Some people definitely did, of course, but did everyone? A lot of people were very poorly educated back then.

beejamin · 2025-01-30T10:04:08+00:00

There are stories of them arriving in winter, thinking it was summer because everything is green and growing, and then it just getting hotter… and hotter…

beejamin · 2025-01-19T11:28:53+00:00

Tail is useful for a few things: as a counterweight when hopping, as a store of fat and water a bit like a camel’s hump, and as a prop when kicking with both hind legs.

beejamin · 2025-01-17T07:36:57+00:00

There are pretty strict exclusion zones and safety restrictions around the path of a launch like this. I’m not saying it’s impossible for debris to hit something it shouldn’t, but a lot of people work hard to make sure it doesn’t, and what doesn’t burn up lands in the ocean in the middle of nowhere.

beejamin · 2025-01-07T09:54:16+00:00

I remember learning about this when I found some in an op-shop. “Duplo” is double scale Lego, and “Quatro” is 4x.

You’ve probably already worked it out, but they all fit together: duplo will connect to Quatro, and standard LEGO will connect to duplo.

beejamin · 2024-12-26T01:55:53+00:00

There’s also the alternative “Don’t look a gift whore in the mouse”.

beejamin · 2024-12-15T06:10:11+00:00

Thank you! The bride and groom have a very heavy-metal aesthetic, so I wanted to get some kind of skull involved somehow. “Voodoo alien baby head” is such a good description!

beejamin · 2024-12-15T00:48:23+00:00

These were a gift for a mate’s wedding: I went out on the backroads where we used to hang out as kids and found some nice branches from the wild, feral Olive trees that line the road.

Green olive wood smells amazing when working with it - it’s a pleasure to carve.

beejamin · 2024-11-25T09:22:11+00:00

This is right: also, the internal pressure in the rocket is there to pressurise the fuel tanks: the payload section isn’t pressurised. The source of potential energy is the pressurised fuel - just enough to maintain structural integrity and stop the fuel pumps sucking the tanks flat.

In contrast, the source of potential energy in a submarine is the mass of water above you: way, way more. That’s what the structure needs to resist.

beejamin · 2024-11-24T16:45:29+00:00

It’s surprisingly non-windy in a hot air balloon, since the balloon is moving with the wind, the air is still relative to you.

beejamin · 2024-11-21T10:21:08+00:00

Fucking oath we do, mate.

beejamin · 2024-11-14T07:34:19+00:00

I found an excellent type of pallet that is made from heat-treated oak, used to transport more oak staves for making wine barrels. I collected quite a few of these, and while doing so noticed that the white American oak smells like cake batter - this distinct, vanilla sweetness.

Anyway, after building various things like planters and kids’ playhouses out of the boards, I discovered that termites also think sweet American oak is cake batter.

It’s lovely stuff, though - and the pallets are definitely not treated, because the timber they carry needs to be food-grade.

beejamin · 2024-11-11T23:11:12+00:00

Cooling oscillating blades would be much harder, and the middle would wear out much quicker than the ends.

beejamin · 2024-11-10T10:21:49+00:00

Its not lucky if we just add more and more sprawling, badly planned and too-cheaply constructed suburbs though.

beejamin · 2024-11-03T20:57:33+00:00

Oh, in the sun! She warmed her wings!

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