Only from an outside perspective. Inside the black hole it’s already next Tuesday.

I’ll think about it.

This may seem counter-intuitive, but air in this case is the problem, so filling it less introduces more air (which is compressible) versus liquids which are generally incompressible.

But OP mentioned the bottles they use are not great so the problem they face may really be about getting better containers.

There at the end he revealed the point of the exercise; it wasn’t to have a functioning disk, but to push one’s individual skill boundaries and learn new ways to solve problems. If the disk worked at the end then it would be a double benefit, but that wasn’t the point.

It’s a lot like learning to fly or sail a boat. Are there more economical means of travel? Absolutely. But in doing these things we gain new tools to solve adjacent problems.

Do I have a need to finely and evenly spread a magnetic slurry? Nope. But the wire-wrapped rod may very well help me out in the future!

Wait until you hear about pickling. A number of military aircraft at the “boneyard” At Davis-Monthan AFB are still suitable for service; their engines having been removed and pickled within a special crate beside the aircraft.

Marine desalination systems are pickled between extended periods of non-use.

And there’s also the traditional use for pickled.

Insecurity screams; confidence whispers.

You make a fair point; maybe I’ve become too cynical, but probably not. Seems like everything everywhere is enshittified all at once lately.

Yes.

*.ph should at the very least be Philippines, but to be completely honest I do not know.

*.ru

Uhh, no thanks

I’ve heard it put as “all life is suffering”. It can be a bit dark, depending on one’s headspace, but liberating if simply accepted.

There’s a tragedy in her eyes, a soft whimpering which we were not supposed to encounter again after that war.

We humans are gluttons for suffering sometimes.

Are there actually people out there not paying attention

Have you ever been to a Costco?

Why can’t the world have more of this and less of… everything else that’s going on right now?

Because if it doesn’t generate shareholder value, corps are not interested.

This is a “dummy pronoun” and I only know this because this popped up as a TIL earlier this week.

It’s what it’s.

Because stupidity is immortal.

Really? I’m getting mixed signals tbh

¿Queue?

That’s two levels deep, and an amazing take.