the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

fun fact: vinyl chloride, the monomer that the popular polymer polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is made from, is actually horrendously toxic, carcinogenic, ozone-depleting, and a fire hazard

kind of amazing how something as dangerous as that gets made into something as safe and everyday as PVC
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what are those buttons called that are all in a set and pushing one button makes the other ones pop out
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macaroni and cheese: good
macarons and cheese: weird but okay if it's like ricotta or cream cheese with sugar
macaroons and cheese: what
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was going to look up some headphones someone mentioned out of curiosity and: what the fuck discord why is there a loading screen on your right click menu
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snakes are cute
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it's really hard to find information and pictures of this thing because HP has since reused the part number for a printer, but i think it's a design from the mid-60s or maybe very early 70s--it's not tube-based, but it's from a time period where "fully transistorized" was a selling point
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/184216346310?hash=item2ae4265ec6:g:~tUAAOSwbIZcTFMl thinking about this bit of equipment in our lab, super reliable useful thing and not even loud at all like our other high voltage power supply is

that's a ridiculous price on the ebay listing though, we got ours for like $300 plus like $50 shipping (it's a really heavy thing)
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remember when HP made good quality stuff?

We don't, we weren't born then
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@bj You posted a thing a week or two ago about doing art of people to get a little outside your comfort zone; I'm wondering, did you ever do anything more with that?
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there are certain things that, even though they're not the specific dialect we speak, we still say when referring to certain things

like fish and chips is always fish and chips even though we don't call them chips here, and the ZX spectrum is the zed-ecks spectrum, even though Z is zee here
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@Zest on that topic

what's the process for commissioning you
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really want to get a commission from @Zest.... it does great stuff
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*funges a token repeatedly*
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since it seems it is not, in fact, one of those things that everyone knows, just for anyone curious the answer is ↑,←,↓,←

we always remember it as just going left and alternating up and down between lefts, since there's no penalty for a wrong direction other than having to start over that always gets it done within 7 screen transitions, and we forget where it starts a lot
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is it the case that everyone knows the way to get through the lost woods forest of maze in zelda 1 or is that just us

it feels like one of those things everyone knows by heart
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where exactly did "governor" as a form of casual address for non-gubernatorial strangers come from anyway
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