You can also use a tap as a lathe threading tool if it’s got the tooth spacing you want, and the diameter is bigger than any of the dies you have

Real machinists will be sad with you if you do this

(Don’t blame me I saw This Old Tony do it)

I thought I knew something once but it was just cramp

No way that’s a 25 year old man…

Entertaining timeline combo

+1 for Well There’s Your Problem

From the Trash Future/Lions Led By Donkeys/Kill James Bond group of folks, extremely leftist and dark comedy takes on engineering disasters, with slides

In the Tira Mesa obviously

Looked it up - dialectical behaviour therapy, apparently

Yeah you’re right - I presupposed there was a right answer and worked backwards

B

The four answers sum to 100%, so on average each answer has a 25% chance of being right, and 25% is two of the options so you have a 50% chance of picking one of those

My favourite is Fritz Zwicky’s “spherical bastard” - someone who’s a bastard whichever way you look at them

You can have it back, we’ve had far too much

Hasn’t rained where I am in literally months

Literally true

The plan was full of odd choices so I had to have 5x the back and forth with the client just checking which things were required and which the machine had hallucinated, whereas even just a napkin sketch would’ve been easier since I’d know everything on there was intentional

One of my most formative memories was the Eyewitness Space Encyclopedia

Peak UI design as far as I’m concerned

Strider the size of a spider

*mad engineers

Most mad scientists are actually mad engineers

Do you have a mad control group? Which mad journal did you publish this in?

And I’m sure AI will be able to do all the wiring and plumbing and decorating /s

Where I live we also have this place…

I’ve played the cello for most of my life and I like to think I’m quite good at it, but it’s transferred very little to other instruments - I can play the fiddle but only if I hold it like a tiny cello, and can pretty much get a tune out of anything else with strings but only just

No experience with blowy ones though so I wouldn’t know where to start there, and I wasn’t any good on the keys

Some quotes from him in here

https://www.reddit.com/r/GeoWizard/s/hjt0okRLmv

In particular this bit which is just straight out of the Great Replacement Theory playbook “Think about it. Either there would be civil war, or the British culture and values that we hold so dear; freedom of speech, fairness, justice along with all the other stuff we cherish; our music, sense of humor, pubs, Christmas, etc would eventually disappear and be replaced with other ideals”