TheMechanic

@TheMechanic@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She broke it so she could baguette properly....⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always a baguette and some celery

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duality of Japan⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work in manufacturing. One place used the Japanese standard of manufacturing with paper based progress gates and faxing copies to other sections. They also paid cash for any outside contracts. The whole system worked flawlessly. Those negatives are not as bad as they seem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stereotypical religious nutjobs in the 80s and 90s were all "The end is nigh!" Now that science supports them, they're all "Everything is A-OK!"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did spend some of my childhood stealing traffic lights and street signs. It wasn’t Satan that made me do it, it was the boy scouts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gangsters have gone out of style because its safer and easier to be a white collar criminal⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up in a family who were professional criminals. Nearly all of the first and second generation eventually got into real estate development and the several of the second generation went into tax law. A bunch of other families I knew of got into local politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just say no, kids.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  She was such an addict she even went for Nelix’s viscous delta quandrant seed blend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fishing for math⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Archimedes constant for pi is good enough to get to the moon. Send it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhone 15 overheating reports, with temperatures as high as 116F⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nearly 320K in the normalest units.