One of many

🏝️ 🚴🇨🇴🏎, enjoyer of electromechanics and other generally cool things

[One of many @mpisneverfree]

My q

[l feII in Dior @LIRIO_AG]

“Ay no, tarjeta gris otra vez”.

[Andrew Nadeau @TheAndrewNadeau]

The snake stares at my closet, “Hey man, why u own so many onesies? You’re fucking 40!” I try to explain they’re socks but the other snakes are laughing too hard to hear. I wake up in a cold sweat. I shake my wife awake. “I need our label mak—” She cuts me off, “It won’t help. Snakes can’t read.”

[Champagne Joshi @JoshWalkos]

Bro was genuinely scared to death. 😂 🤣

[moose @mooseincrisis]

i lied.

[Daniel Franke @dfranke]

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection.

You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum.

You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom.

You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine.

You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two.

You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

[skooks @skooookum]

Congrats on turning 30 man. Things are about to start going wrong. Inside of you. Deep inside of you

[Atomic Coyote @AtomicCoyote61]

"Mean free path of a ballistic child" is a generational phrase

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

Most impressive glitch done I’ve seen in a while

[Brandon Bradford @BrandonLBradfor]

Shutting down the US national Forest service and selling/stripping assets for parts is legitimately stupid and disgusting and you're an idiot for defending it.

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

This is so fucking bleak man

[dustin Couch @Dustinkcouch]

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early

astronaut: moon's haunted

nasa employee: what?

astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's haunted

[One of many @mpisneverfree]

Just dodged a BULLET in the TRENCHES (noticed the toilet paper roll was out before it mattered at my 9-5 office job)

[VINTAGE @CarSighting]

let me know if you know of a more impressive overtake than this one

[kevin meissner @pwnkip]

for years, society was limited to only 16 syrup squares per waffle but with recent combinatorial optimization breakthroughs our research department has achieved previously unheard of densities of waffle syrup

[Cyber City Circuits @MakeAugusta]

never gets old

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

This child is 100% dead if this was a suburban mom in a Chevy Tahoe instead of a Waymo.

Insane headline.

[Jim Belosic (SendCutSend) @jimbelosic]

@Robotbeat We just charge a fair price. Just enough so we can pay our guys a good wage and have some left over to buy more machines. The old way was to charge as much as the customer would bear. Not a good way to scale

[Wes @wmorrill3]

teleoperator kicking himself over not programming Asimov's Laws of Robotics...

Worth considering if we should base today's reality on the science fiction musings from the past.

Testing with humanoid robots is a very interesting new challenge. Historically robots have been confined to keep out zones with rigid walls and laser barriers, lock-out/tag-out, etc. This is the easy way to ensure people don't get hurt by very capable machines. But the more we integrate humanoid robotics into collaborative roles with humans the more we need to remove those barriers by nature of the work.