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I just had the thought of making glass nails, and I feel like there's some artistic meaning to be had there, but I'm not sure what it is.

It would be fascinating to see how some of the stranger laboratory glassware is made. Beakers and flasks are simple, but how are soxhlet extractors or vigreaux columns made? Or the weirder condensing columns, too.

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every so often i remember that the swedish vallhund breed exists, and i am DELIGHTED because it's basically like they smacked a wolf with the corgi ray

If you think about it, an internal combustion engine essentially powers a vehicle by hundreds of explosions per second.

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I like to think that I'm at least a little better than Felthry when it comes to social interaction, but really, we both manage to mess things up frequently.

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emptiness levels are 25% and falling

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Apparently, it's called Bowden cable. It wasn't as hard to find as I'd expected.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowden_c

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What is that type of cord used for brakes on bicycles called, anyway?

hypothetical fictional violence 

In that story of Solomon and the two people who both claimed to be mother to a baby, it's rather disturbing how quickly the false mother was willing to cut the baby in half.

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please cw your pokémon sword/shield stuff, at least for a couple hours or so

What does OG as used to mean "original" actually stand for, anyway?

We learned a new word today! Apparently, those little cups that restaurants give you condiments in are called ramekins. Technically the word refers specifically to ceramic ones, but it seems like a good word to use for the plastic or paper ones too.

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housing, mh, (-), help request 

anyone know of any resources for a soon to be homeless person in the kalamazoo area?

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A neat puzzle I just saw: You can place a black king anywhere you like on a chessboard of a given size m×n. Where do you place it such that you can place also the maximal number of white queens that do not attack the king? And how many of those queens can you place?

I wonder if you can get metal playing cards, and whether they'd actually be any good for playing card games with.

It feels like something that would be more appealing to the tarot fortunetelling crowd than to anyone playing card games, for some reason.

If a pentagon has five sides and a hexagon has six sides, how many sides does a dragon have?

Goodnight all. May your sleep be sound and satisfactory.

A one-trick pony isn't necessarily a bad thing to be, if it's a really good trick.

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