Rosemary @Rosemary@awoo.space

@Motodrachen How do you change which gears are engaged to the shaft, though? What I'm getting from this is that you need to have one of the three gears connected to the input shaft, one to the output shaft, and one fixed in place, but how do you rearrange all that with so little room to work, without having far too many moving parts for any semblence of reliability?

@Motodrachen If you don't mind explaining something I'm having trouble understanding, since this seems like your area of expertise: Something I've never understood is how exactly changing gears works in them. Everything I can see just says "it's just using planetary gears" in the same way you might say "it's just using magic"; I don't follow how planetary gears allow you to do anything regular gears don't, except perhaps having concentric input and output shafts.

Today I learned: Apparently, automatic transmissions are hydraulic computers. Or at least the ones up until recently; recent ones have more and more electronic control.

@shriekingmarxist Is this a reference to something?

@smouldery I don't recall what exactly, but I remember there being some problems with switter that resulted in large portions of the fediverse blocking the domain. I think it was something to do with the fact that the instance allowed NSFW icons, which are one of the few things that _can't_ be CW'd, and CWing NSFW content is basic courtesy here.

@JulieSqveakaroo Well, we appreciate the weird.

I wonder if anyone has ever tried to prank archaeologists by finding some ancient burial site or something and adding anachronistic things to it? Like putting medieval cutlery in a site from the bronze age.

What exactly does "tactical" mean in the context of weapons, anyway? Like "tactical" pocketknives or axes, autc.

@cozykaffe@snouts.online Have you heard of the World Tree tabletop RPG setting? It has such creatures.

@cozykaffe@snouts.online A decent amateur telescope will run you a few hundred dollars, and a good one a few thousand, but you can get cheap ones for less than $50.

@cozykaffe@snouts.online Have you considered getting a cheap telescope to look at it up close?

@monorail aooo!

"The merging clinic: Two people walk in, one person walks out"

@Caudle It depends on whether there's Take 5s or Toblerones or not.