Glue used to be rare and magical.

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• nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Before or after going to school uphill?

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  • huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Which direction to? It’s uphill both ways

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    back in my day we used wax or pine sap to stick things together and we liked it. We LOVED it!

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Of all the technological change I’ve lived to see, glue and tape have improved the most.

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Over the past 200 years, chemistry has taken massive leaps forward. A lot of guesswork and mystery is now gone, but that doesn’t mean there are no perplexing problems to solve. Most of the simple cases are pretty clear, and you can predict the result with a few simple formulas. When you start talking about more complex cases, there’s still much to be done.

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  • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s this tape called frog tape. It’s quite amazing. Uses powerful science

    And gorilla tape can remove your skin

    And silicone tape fuses to itself molecularly

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I guess Tesla missed that memo then…

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Doesn’t matter how good thing have gotten when you choose to be cheap and use the wrong stuff.

      Same thing with their leaking displays because they ignored the extreme heat minimums real car manufacturers used.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s actually funny going back and watching early episodes of The New Yankee Workshop and hearing Norm brag about the “new” glues that were coming available. “This is a one-part glue, you don’t have to mix it up, it’s ready to use in the bottle, it’s water proof and it cleans up with water! I wouldn’t have even tried doing this myself without these modern glues.” They avoided showing brand names and such on the show; Norm was usually careful to hold the glue bottle with the back facing the camera, but he’s clearly holding a bottle of Titebond 2, with it’s blue cap.

    And I mean, yeah. imagine building furniture without PVA glue, you change how you think.

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• Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure we had glue before we were even our current species.

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  • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Like what? Spit? Poop? Semen?

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    • nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Like gelatin, casein, starch, horn glues? They are old as dirt.

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    • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Tree resin you can get ahld of on accident, light a green piece of wood on fire, you get glue. Animal products can turn to glue with again just leaving it in a fire a long time or a hot enough fire. Humans have been making stone tools a lot longer than Homo Sapiens have been around.

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s the glue definition of reversed Theseus.

    We started with a sticky mess. Now we have strong adhesive. The technology evolved from the one to the other but are they still the same thing.

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• bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Egg is pretty good.

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  wax or pine sap

  How the hell do you huff that though?

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  • riskable@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    With the ghost of solvents past.

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• SGGeorwell@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why did I read this and my inner voice had a whistling tooth on the S’s?

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