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2022 - A group of activists use parkour to turn off useless energy wasting shop signs in Montpellier, France. [video]

i think it’s p awesome that the first compasses invented in china were not magnetic, but in fact mechanical - the cart with the little wooden man pointing south was built in a way that no matter which way the cart turned, the little man would always point south

yandere-angela

this is a model of what it looked like

cat-boy-tits

how does this work? it’s so cool and confusing

yandere-angela

the gears are aligned in a way to always turn the little man in the opposite direction as the cart at the same rate of rotation. so if the man points at you, and you turn the cart clockwise 90 degrees, the man will be turned counterclockwise 90 degrees, and still be facing you. if you turn the cart counterclockwise 90 degrees, the man will be turned clockwise 90 degrees, and still be facing you

as for how they got the cart to point south to begin with, that goes into fengshui and cardinal direction geomancy. but long story short, the workshops that built these carts would have their front doors facing south to begin with (using the sun and the stars to figure out which way is south), so all they would have to do is build the cart facing that direction, and the little man will always point south

cat-boy-tits

thank you!

whenyourfavouritedies

[ID: A small cubed box with two wheels forming a cart, with gears visible beneath the box’s clear cover. Atop the gears there is a wooden figure of a person pointing. The cart sits on a shelf /End ID]

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alexaloraetheris

See, a scientist makes a little moisture sensor sensor for his plant to remember to water it.

But a mad scientist chooses that kind of audio.

Put this guy in castle Heterodyne, and they'd be best friends.

#my plants need this

rabiesofficial

Based

diasdelfuego

id: screenshots from twitter thread by @shirilevari on common phonemes in swear words, linked here. the linked paper at the bottom is here. /end id

killorbekillian

me at the parade today

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Grant O’Brien of College Humor/Dropout, known for the series Total Forgiveness (in which he and Ally Beardsley did challenges to earn money to pay their student loans), on student loan forgiveness

comicgeekscomicgeek

“Things that do not directly benefit me have a net positive on society, which I am a part of” is something more people need to learn.

majesticbabw

the whole “it takes a village” thing needs to translate into adulthood too bc i need support!! i need people i can lean on! i need people i can share my thoughts with!! i need a village of mfs who love me!! idc idc idc

catmask

cant recommend this enough but if youre able you should go on walks every day. like fuck weather fuck circumstance uust go outside. got rained on today and it was blissful. even just sit outside get fucked up by crazy ass wind youll never forget how small you are and rememebr everything matters

sexchangedotcom

we need to be talking about veins!! girl theres wires in us!!!

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lostsoullover

Why would you hide this in the tags?

tumbwr

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@pictures-of-dogs

bearotonin-international

normalize having bears in the water

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castellankurze

The Gimli Glider is one of those stories where every aspect sounds more fake than the last and yet it all actually happened.

-A passenger plane was underloaded with fuel because Canada had just converted to the metric system and everyone supposed to double check their numbers got it wrong. -When the plane ran out of fuel they were too far away to make it to an in-service airport and had to head towards the Gimli military base. Which was shuttered. -They were coming in to fast due to a lack of flaps control and had to perform a series of slips (as shown in the video above) to slow down, basically drifting a giant passenger plane. -As they come down they realized that just because Gimli’s been decommissioned doesn’t mean it’s abandoned because a bunch of people are having drag races on the runway they’re about to need. -Despite everything they managed to land safely and no one was killed or even hurt which is why it’s one of the best air disasters to meme on.

zanmor

The Wikipedia page on this is fantastic and my favorite line from it is “Flying with all engines out was never expected to occur, so it had never been covered in training.”

lesferatu

Nice

nitewrighter

I was about to make a post about like… how my family has this lemon tree out front, and one of the funniest things about having a lemon tree is occasionally I’ll be out in front doing whatever and I’ll see someone walking past and quickly grab a lemon off the tree and stuff it in their pockets as quick as they can like they’re shoplifting.

I was about to make a post about how that’s funny and how, y’know people can have our lemons, it’s not a big deal because the tree pumps them out like gangbusters, but I really can’t make that post without thinking of… them…

pretentioussongtitle

I’ll admit it, OP. As soon as you mentioned your family had a lemon tree in their yard I wanted to ask you how they were dealing with the whore infestation.