Literally Mechanical

#Engineering, #science, #nanotech, and #fusion reactors. Find my fiction at the SCP Foundation and #my fiction tag.

[literallymechanical]

yeh

[literallymechanical]

pinning this so people can understand what my whole deal is

[literallymechanical]

#toast #the machine #fusion #engineering #fiction

[kata4a]

(brittany spears voice) start toiling bitch

[markovchaingang]

i'd like to formally apologise for my behaviour last night, which i can only describe as "fucking badass"

[literallymechanical]

Mazda hatchback with "baby on board" stickers cut me off in a school zone to hit a stale yellow light at 45, but I understand; schools out for the summer and baby needs to learn the rules of the north Jersey roads early

[literallymechanical]

Mad Max: Pulaski Skyway

[literallymechanical]

Mazda hatchback with "baby on board" stickers cut me off in a school zone to hit a stale yellow light at 45, but I understand; schools out for the summer and baby needs to learn the rules of the north Jersey roads early

[literallymechanical]

This is not in any sort of principled stance or hot take or anything, because I honestly am baffled by my own reaction here! But when I heard that there was going to be a movie adaptation of the odyssey my entire reaction was just, "why?"

I read the Odyssey in high school and I liked it! But I feel absolutely zero emotions about seeing it on screen. Just a big "why would somebody take the time to do that?" Which is weird!! Because I have been excited for movie adaptations of books before! But not this one???

Somebody needs to help me process my feelings around this, I fired my therapist when he got a little too supportive of my ambitions

[red-mercer]

It's a story about Greeks and their Gods of which the movie features neither

[literallymechanical]

That's not it, I haven't been keeping up with the discourse and I know very little about what choices were made for this adaptation. This is literally my reaction from the first announcement before I even knew who was directing it.

[obliviousfloral]

Because it was made for money and accolades, not out of heart or passion

[literallymechanical]

I cannot emphasize enough that the details of the production did not matter in the least to me, this could be Guillermo del Toro's self-funded ultimate vanity project with a fully animatronic cyclops and I'd still be like 🤷‍♀️

[literallymechanical]

Figured it out: I liked the Odyssey as a poem. My ideal adaptation would be a stage play with the narrator standing center-stage and reciting the whole thing, while a shadowcast of actors play out the scenes in the background in complete silence with no spoken lines. Or like, marionettes instead of live actors maybe. That would be cool.

[literallymechanical]

That being said, I did really like O Brother Where Art Thou. Somebody should make a musical-comedy Iliad

[literallymechanical]

This is not in any sort of principled stance or hot take or anything, because I honestly am baffled by my own reaction here! But when I heard that there was going to be a movie adaptation of the odyssey my entire reaction was just, "why?"

I read the Odyssey in high school and I liked it! But I feel absolutely zero emotions about seeing it on screen. Just a big "why would somebody take the time to do that?" Which is weird!! Because I have been excited for movie adaptations of books before! But not this one???

Somebody needs to help me process my feelings around this, I fired my therapist when he got a little too supportive of my ambitions

[red-mercer]

It's a story about Greeks and their Gods of which the movie features neither

[literallymechanical]

That's not it, I haven't been keeping up with the discourse and I know very little about what choices were made for this adaptation. This is literally my reaction from the first announcement before I even knew who was directing it.

[obliviousfloral]

Because it was made for money and accolades, not out of heart or passion

[literallymechanical]

I cannot emphasize enough that the details of the production did not matter in the least to me, this could be Guillermo del Toro's self-funded ultimate vanity project with a fully animatronic cyclops and I'd still be like 🤷‍♀️

[literallymechanical]

Figured it out: I liked the Odyssey as a poem. My ideal adaptation would be a stage play with the narrator standing center-stage and reciting the whole thing, while a shadowcast of actors play out the scenes in the background in complete silence with no spoken lines. Or like, marionettes instead of live actors maybe. That would be cool.

[literallymechanical]

This is not in any sort of principled stance or hot take or anything, because I honestly am baffled by my own reaction here! But when I heard that there was going to be a movie adaptation of the odyssey my entire reaction was just, "why?"

I read the Odyssey in high school and I liked it! But I feel absolutely zero emotions about seeing it on screen. Just a big "why would somebody take the time to do that?" Which is weird!! Because I have been excited for movie adaptations of books before! But not this one???

Somebody needs to help me process my feelings around this, I fired my therapist when he got a little too supportive of my ambitions

[red-mercer]

It's a story about Greeks and their Gods of which the movie features neither

[literallymechanical]

That's not it, I haven't been keeping up with the discourse and I know very little about what choices were made for this adaptation. This is literally my reaction from the first announcement before I even knew who was directing it.

[obliviousfloral]

Because it was made for money and accolades, not out of heart or passion

[literallymechanical]

I cannot emphasize enough that the details of the production did not matter in the least to me, this could be Guillermo del Toro's self-funded ultimate vanity project with a fully animatronic cyclops and I'd still be like 🤷‍♀️

[literallymechanical]

This is not in any sort of principled stance or hot take or anything, because I honestly am baffled by my own reaction here! But when I heard that there was going to be a movie adaptation of the odyssey my entire reaction was just, "why?"

I read the Odyssey in high school and I liked it! But I feel absolutely zero emotions about seeing it on screen. Just a big "why would somebody take the time to do that?" Which is weird!! Because I have been excited for movie adaptations of books before! But not this one???

Somebody needs to help me process my feelings around this, I fired my therapist when he got a little too supportive of my ambitions

[red-mercer]

It's a story about Greeks and their Gods of which the movie features neither

[literallymechanical]

That's not it, I haven't been keeping up with the discourse and I know very little about what choices were made for this adaptation. This is literally my reaction from the first announcement before I even knew who was directing it.

[literallymechanical]

This is not in any sort of principled stance or hot take or anything, because I honestly am baffled by my own reaction here! But when I heard that there was going to be a movie adaptation of the odyssey my entire reaction was just, "why?"

I read the Odyssey in high school and I liked it! But I feel absolutely zero emotions about seeing it on screen. Just a big "why would somebody take the time to do that?" Which is weird!! Because I have been excited for movie adaptations of books before! But not this one???

Somebody needs to help me process my feelings around this, I fired my therapist when he got a little too supportive of my ambitions

[kremlin]

image i dont recall making

[firebendinglemur]

I’ve come to make an announcement: Cobalt the Transition Metal's a bitch-ass motherfucker. He pissed on my fucking calculations.

That’s right, he took his T2g fucking hybrid d-orbitals out and he pissed on my fucking calculations, and he said his crystal field splitting was THIIISS big. And I said “that’s dependent on a largely arbitrary choice of Hubbbard U constant!”

So I’m making a callout post on my Tumblr dot com: "Cobalt the Transition Metal, you got a small crystal field splitting, it’s the size of your spin splitting except way smaller."

And guess what, here’s what my crystal field looks like: PFFFFFFFFGJT. That’s right baby. All magnetoresistance, no anisotropy, no hysteriesis, look at that it looks like two plateaus and a cliff.

He fucked my calculations so guess what, I’m gonna fuck the conflict minerals market. That's right this is what you get, my super laser sanctions. Except I’m not gonna piss on DFT + U, I’m gonna go higher. I’m pissing on the Hartree-Fock!

How do you like that, Walter Kohn? I pissed on the spin-orbit coupling, you idiot! You have twenty-three hours before the coupled cluster Monte Carlo method hits the fucking walltime, now get out of my fucking sight before I quit grad school and interview at Raytheon!

[amazoogle]

we've sent 2,500 senior dogs to a six week Javascript bootcamp using the funds we raised from our ransomware operation. and that's just the beginning. starting next month every fruit will be different

[beemovieerotica]

most beautiful instagram account

[literallymechanical]

I love when a poster tries to convince people they know what they're talking about by presenting bare-minimum academic credentials and nothing else. It's giving nothing.

[nagi-kirima-style-cateran]

Like sure I get that bachelor’s degrees aren’t shit, but I’ve gotten published in pop science publications talking about fields that have nothing to do with my degree. I know a linguist who’s written several articles about physics, a physicist who’s written about biology, and a my grandmother worked in computer science with a degree in American studies.

Understanding most topics on a surface level or even a bit deeper is just reading and doing math.

[literallymechanical]

Least trustworthy pop science writer?

Linguist writing about physics

Physicist writing about biology

Voting ended onJul 18

[literallymechanical]

[seat-safety-switch]

Have any of your kids become machinists lately? The signs can be subtle, but they're there. Every day, thousands of children become obsessed with precisely fabricating intricate mechanical parts. Only some of them become productive members of society, like hot rod builders or railway clock engineers. Virtually all of them are lost to constructing scale-model steam engines. Concerned parents are watching for the following signs.

Police know that the first sign of affiliation into a new gang is a change in the subject's vocabulary. New words. Unfamiliar names. Did little Johnny never mention the words "locating datum" before he suddenly blurted it out by accident one night at dinner? It may be time to have a conversation with his teacher, to find out more about who he spends his time with at school. If you can get to it early enough, you can nip it in the bud.

In a similar vein, it's important to figure out where all their money is going. Kids who get hooked on the machinist lifestyle will often buy ridiculous things in order to "prove" their affiliation with the gang. One mother of two in Rhode Island came home to find a bunch of strange metallic cylinders on her doorstep, shipped overnight from FedEx to her youngest child. Round stock. She thought it was "just a phase." Her child is doing time in a federal penitentiary, after getting all fucked up on DYKEM markers and stabbing an engineer for submitting an insufficiently dimensioned drawing.

Last, an obsession with precision is often your last chance to have a talk with a wayward child. Are things in your house suddenly becoming rigidly aligned to an invisible grid system? Are you noticing things becoming burnished or otherwise polished, that weren't before? A trusted adult's timely intervention when your kid is micrometering a piece of sheet metal found in the alley may be all that is saving your kid from a lifetime of obsessing over thousandths.

With your vigilance and hard work, we can keep children from growing up to become machinists. Nobody's dream for their child should involve "estate sale full of hundreds of thousands of useless brackets."

[literallymechanical]

I love when a poster tries to convince people they know what they're talking about by presenting bare-minimum academic credentials and nothing else. It's giving nothing.

[nagi-kirima-style-cateran]

Like sure I get that bachelor’s degrees aren’t shit, but I’ve gotten published in pop science publications talking about fields that have nothing to do with my degree. I know a linguist who’s written several articles about physics, a physicist who’s written about biology, and a my grandmother worked in computer science with a degree in American studies.

Understanding most topics on a surface level or even a bit deeper is just reading and doing math.

[literallymechanical]

Least trustworthy pop science writer?

Linguist writing about physics

Physicist writing about biology

Voting ended onJul 18

[armoreddragon]

It's business time.

Leather collar with an integrated formal necktie. For when you really want your boss to jerk you around.

Made a couple of these last year to vend at events, they were a hit with the crowds. Haven't posted them up for online sales yet, I just have this nagging feeling that I could make the design better somehow.