Larry, don’t leave him hanging

Mood

I should feel surprised

The US government sent astronauts to the literal moon 60+ years ago. This is the true failure of capitalism–the difference between people working on a project for the passion and the challenge of it… and a bunch of people working on a project because they want to scrounge up a paycheck to survive and benefit themselves. I’m sure the Space-X engineers are passionate, but the type of people you need to truly design next-gen tech will only be found at an institution like NASA where they will truly believe in the mission.

People can lie and put up whatever fascia they want, but I don’t think it’s possible to truly give 100% when you know your efforts are going primarily toward support some jackass billionaire instead of a nation of your beloved peers.

Minimizing America’s lead in the international sciences to own the libs. Letting other countries make and patent new technologies to own the libs.

Got 'em!

I’m cool with this. Let’s devalue the trades by having an over-abundance of blue collar workers while simultaneously increasing demand for white collar jobs by reducing the supply of educated workers.

I get my toilet unclogged for even cheaper, and I get more money ten years from now when demand has risen.

I’d prefer to just have educated workers instead of glorifying back-breaking manual labor that the employees hate, but ill take a win where I can lol

Not sure how anyone can look at this and believe these two things concurrently:

1.) This is acceptable, and… 2.) I’m not the bad guy

There is really no acceptable justification for any of this, tbh. If there are still “bad people” and “terrorists” in Gaza, why doesn’t Israel just man up and go get them instead of starving this random person to death?

Chemtrails lol

Imagine hitting a house with your ship lol

Engineer here. I’m guessing the Y-shaped log acts as a support to hold the lever-log while the olive sack stack is removed for refilling. I’d guess two or three guys lift the log while someone pulls the stack out, and then they rest it on the Y so that they don’t have to lift it from ground level each time.

And to answer some other questions from the thread: it may be useful to have the pulley attached to the boulder instead of the groubd so that they only ever apply a known force to the olives during the squishing phase. Otherwise, they could compress the olives until the skins squeeze through or the sacks burst. Once the rock begins to lift, the press is complete.

Americans can afford 1 or 2 American products, but 30 American products? Out of the question.

Right? What else is left? The red police state just grows stronger.

This was literally my first thought. You’d basically have to go through every one of the millions of components across every square inch to verify there was nothing sketchy going on. Not to mention, you’d have to review all of the software and firmware to make sure it wasn’t modified or sabotaged in some way. It would take an excruciating amount of effort to make it “safe”.

I think Trump has Trump Derangement Syndrome

I don’t really care what you think, tbh

Tbh, I’m always smoking the house up to get the right crisp on my chicken. I might be using the wrong oil, and I know I’m probably not the only one lol

Yeah, and I think everyone has forgotten that even the cheap, easily broken stuff helps us save money. I’ll happily buy the cheap 100 dollar Chinese tool to fumble with for an extra couple hours on a one-time car repair that saves me 500 dollars compared to the only American option, or 900 dollars going to a shop instead.

Things are just going to end up broken and unfixable in the non-industrial world too.

I never see more cops than when I go to Texas. It’s insane

An amazing insult, tbh

The Repubs wanted to come in and strong-arm everybody into doing what they wanted. They didn’t consider that the other guy could just walk away and avoid the interaction entirely tho. Gonna be seeing a lot more of this