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XeroxCool

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  • what happens when you cut something?

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  • That looks like my cheddar! That's why, without the aid of an industrial shearing rig, I have to hold the knife at about 15 degrees off vertical, cutting edge towards the block. The cut goes straight down. I've accepted the superiority of using a small santoku knife and having to hand wash. I really should get a wire slicer

  • what happens when you cut something?

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  • Cut paper makes a ton of dust and fiber. Ever empty out a shredder? It's a significant maintenance issue for print shops

  • what happens when you cut something?

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  • This is pretty much what I was going to say. You always lose material, but the amount lost varies drastically based on the method. Even when using a knife or shears in a purely straight motion (no sawing or sliding), the material has to deform to make room for the cutting device. It may rip apart, it may bulge into itself, it may crumble, it may do it all. Try cutting a thin slice off a nice block of cheese and you'll see nearly all the deformation go to the slice, while the knife will be coated in cheese

  • In-N-Out Officially Removes Number '67' from Its Ordering System After Viral '6-7' Trend

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  • Oh, ticket #67. The tickets print numbers 65, 66, 68, 70 now. 69 was previously removed. I thought it was a #67 burger, I guess like the numbers at Jersey Mike's. It makes more sense that they banned it because teens would cause a riot when order 67 got called out

  • In-N-Out Officially Removes Number '67' from Its Ordering System After Viral '6-7' Trend

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  • It's the ticket order number they call out

  • In-N-Out Officially Removes Number '67' from Its Ordering System After Viral '6-7' Trend

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  • I thought we were going to share relatable nostalgia around "42" but no, we did not.

  • We are closer to Halley's Comets next visit than its last

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  • The SR-71 could almost outrun the moon. Maybe it could. Claimed max 2,200mph vs average 2,288mph of the moon

  • We are closer to Halley's Comets next visit than its last

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  • Eh, I get the sentiment. Nothing in space comes to a stop and most speeds are well beyond human comprehension. The Earth orbits at 67,000mph, escape velocity is like 27,000mph, the ground at the equator moves at about 1,000mph, the Voyagers are in the 30k range, and the Park Solar probe peaks over 400,000mph. So to learn that a comet is a tangible aviation speed was neat to me, at least

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • My roku has an internal rechargeable battery and lasts months. But what's infuriating is I read up further and found it doesn't actually use my wifi network. It's direct to the TV. So why wouldn't it work without internet? Insane.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • I didn't connect my free Roku TV to the new wifi, and suddenly the remote works like shit. Turns out, it's a wifi remote that would rather not use infrared and the infrared receiver has been slightly blocked this whole time.

    The way to set it up without connecting it to wifi is very hidden. I had to look it up after because I couldn't figure it out. I fucking hate smart tvs.

  • Trump launches $1m ‘gold card’ visa scheme amid immigration crackdown

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  • I had no idea. I mean plenty of subscription models (including credit cards) still rank platinum higher than gold. Apparently, the value of platinum was higher than gold only for a short amount of time, relatively speaking, from the 1980s to 2010s. Platinum has big industrial applications, but the consistency of gold's value for alternate currency/holdings outweighed platinum's volatility

  • What are the most sentimental items to you and why?

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  • One time I found the most circular rock I'd ever seen. About 2.5" wide, 1/2" thick, smoothly worn by the ocean. It was a pale gray rock with dark speckled pits. It was like a cartoon moon. I took it from the beach, intending to keep it as a souvenir of the trip. It never made it. It was accidentally thrown out in the chaos of leaving a hotel.

    I stole that rock from it's ocean view home and sent it to a landfill. It was just a rock and it tears me up unnecessarily.

  • Job Hunting

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  • Overqualified = they're going to pay you less than your worth and you're going to continue job hunting

  • What was good while it lasted?

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  • I'd happily take your input, but it sounds like you're just disengaging

  • What YouTube channel to you has degraded in time?

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  • The older I get, the more I associate with the man who shit the fuck up and just let out a couple tears upon seeing the curvature of the Earth from a U2

  • What YouTube channel to you has degraded in time?

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  • Their spinoff shows haven't been the same, either. It's less about the cars and more about playing up their personalities. Or I'm just getting older and am tired of Clarkson being a condescending, belligerent prick about everything. To a lesser degree, I'm a bit bored of Hammond as well. Somehow, May is who I enjoy the most. Geek out, dgaf

  • Empowered witches

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  • This is new info to me, so not sure who else, but Paganism isn't a single system. It's anything the Christians were trying to erase in Europe. The wildly varying descriptions occur because it was just the negative terms applied to any other group. Going to church is a ritual. Consuming eucharist is a ritual. Priests are channels to their god. Hyms are chants. Prayers are incantations. All just negative terms applied to the out groups.

  • What was good while it lasted?

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  • That's a possibility. I finally figured out a method, albeit slow, to bring myself to read. It's become my main passtime on flights. Took 11 months to read Revelation Space, the first book I've actually read since like 10th grade. I'm planning to continue the trilogy.

    My gripe with Avatar is that it feels shallow in plot, like it's a sales pitch for the next-gen CGI as it develops new elements. I also got stuck watching 2/Water in 3D, which I hate due to the uncanny forced focus. I get there's a continued narrative of exploitation of indigenous people's resources and ecological exploitation in general, but it's not seeming too deep to me. 1 was blue Pocahontas, 2 was a CGI whaling/Pacific conquering documentary. But I welcome your input, if you'd like to expand my view

    I saw half of Dune (1984) after Dune 1 (2021) and wow, I'm glad to see the Villeneuve take continue. I didn't see it in it's era, but Star Wars 4 wasn't nearly as hokey, right?

  • What's going on with Quentin Tarantino?

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  • That's why I specified "on this platform", where the demographic leans towards having been 10-20 years old at the time of the movie release and going into IT/coding after that. But I mean, I was being a little facetious with it. It's a cult classic with some awful interprations of hacking

    skateboards into server room

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    trying to remember how to draw // remembering I never figured out how to draw people

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Watching "They Live!" has opened my eyes to how often the movie is referenced, as if I put on the same sunglasses