I find it very difficult to believe that you don’t like a single Spielberg movie, just on a quantity level. He’s made so many at this point, at least one must tickle your fancy.

As someone in the inside, what’s the rationale behind having to publicly post jobs like this? Why can’t you just offer the job to the person you want to give it to?

I want to know how polar bears figured out that they need an air hole in their dens. Is that passed down instinctually or demonstratively? Animals are so cool.

Rating inflation. If someone called you a 5 or 6 out of 10, you’d feel bad. 7/10 is the bottom of acceptability, just like 72° is room temperature.

Bought one of these a while back, and it’s been great. Yeah, you can get hundreds of cheapo nozzles for the price, but not having to deal with increasingly shitty prints and nozzle changes has made it worthwhile for me, at least. I don’t even use abrasives, mainly just matte PLA.

Wow, that one guy had a huge stick up his ass.

Great reference. The Bobs haven’t really achieved anything on this scale yet, though. The closest is the Skippies’ Matryoshka Brain, but IIRC they’re using a system of satellites around a brown dwarf star, which would be somewhat comparable in size to Jupiter. The Others’ Dyson Sphere project is closer, but I don’t think we really got a sense for how far along they were, and it looks like their home star is only a bit larger than Sol.

Sorry if that came across as nitpicky, I was just excited to see a Bobiverse reference in the wild.

Edit: Got the Others’ star mixed up in my head, it looks like it’s either a red dwarf or completely fictional.

People always argue that -num isn’t a legitimate way for the name of an element to end, but I never see you guys talking about Platinium.

It’s wild to me that kbin has users, for all the problems it seems to have.

There are plastics that aren’t oil derived. Some of them are even compostable in an industrial setting.

I kind of thought the Spock thing would convey I wasn’t 100% serious in my reply to a weed shitpost.

Standard middle school definition of species is applicable here. If they can breed and their offspring is fertile, they’re the same species.

QED, Spock is sterile.

Human legs are just recessive genes, obviously.

Apparently it’s the fancy word for wind power.

As a 3d printer enthusiast, I object to you implying that 3d printed parts aren’t high quality, while acknowledging that you’re very correct.

I pronounce it with the a sound I’d use in “warp”.

I worked in a big box store for 8 years starting in 2013, and we always carried these. I don’t think we sold many, but we always had them around.

Blender is the last thing I would recommend to someone making functional parts like that. Fusion 360 is probably a more intuitive leap from FreeCAD, or OnShape, which I wish I had learned instead of Fusion in the first place.

Not really. You get to 12.5 pretty quickly with 100 degrees. 64 is better due to it being a square of 2.

I don’t know if this’ll help, but I find it interesting. Fahrenheit was designed to make creating thermometers easier. You pop your new thermometer into some ice water, call that 32, pop it in your mouth, call that 96 (human body temperature is actually 98.6, but these weren’t the most precise instruments), and then you can just keep dividing the space between them in half until you get 64 degrees.

Obviously Celsius is more scientific and practical in modern times, but I think Fahrenheit is fascinating, if nothing else.