Random Thought Thread

Boattale said:
Why do Mexican people mash beans?
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Back in the days when poverty was more rampant and food was more scarce, in many cultures pureeing food served quite a few purposes like making it easier for their elderly with bad teeth or no teeth to be able to eat plus more crucially, food would expand faster in the stomach making its consumer feel full faster, keeping enough portions for everyone. Mashing food would also maker slightly older and staler food look like something newer.
 
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Fonedork said:
Yes. We should be thankful that these images only require as much energy as all the humans in this country combined.
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That's okay. We can just outlaw incandescent lights. I like these mercury filled fluorescent tubes they made me switch too.

We should all drive shitty little four cylinders that sip fuel and the EPA should mandate increasingly tight fuel consumption standards, we have to save the environment.

As long as there's enough electricity for AI and bitcoin, I think it's a reasonable sacrifice. What would we do without those things.
 
FWIW, I have always liked big bore 4 cyl engines. I'm talking those the past bulletproof 2.4L Honda motors or the 2.5L / 2.7L Toyota motors. I'm onboard with what Nathan is saying about these modern sh*tty lil 1.1L, 1.2L turbo engines for our roads here in the U.S. I think that those are serviceable in European type cities but problematic over here in the long run. Application matter.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
That's okay. We can just outlaw incandescent lights. I like these mercury filled fluorescent tubes they made me switch too.

We should all drive shitty little four cylinders that sip fuel and the EPA should mandate increasingly tight fuel consumption standards, we have to save the environment.

As long as there's enough electricity for AI and bitcoin, I think it's a reasonable sacrifice. What would we do without those things.
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I don't know .... my wife's 4 cyl S2000 (2l) with max 9000 RPM and VTEC is a cool ride. Except me having to ride it with the roof down.
 
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Winner of the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition. Absolutely fascinating.


.002” long sections of two exceptional silk threads from the Australian net-caster spider, Asianopis subrufa, captured with a scanning electron microscope by Dr Martín J. Ramírez.


You can read about it, and the rest of the winners, here - but I thought this shot stood alone.
 
Matthew Gregory said:
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Winner of the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition. Absolutely fascinating.


.002” long sections of two exceptional silk threads from the Australian net-caster spider, Asianopis subrufa, captured with a scanning electron microscope by Dr Martín J. Ramírez.


You can read about it, and the rest of the winners, here - but I thought this shot stood alone.
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Things come out of the rear ends in Oz, in fascinating ways… 😂

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-do-wombats-poop-cubes-scientists-get-bottom-mystery
 
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