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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • When do kids in the US go to university, because I would have thought that would be the main time for it. Away from your parents for the first time, eventually having your own accommodation for the first time.

    Although maybe the fact in the US drinking isn’t allowed until 21 would have some effect, because I’m pretty sure that alcohol was initially what made me so attractive.




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    “What’s going on, buddy?” Carega asked, approaching the teen in a white ball cap turned backward, sweat soaking his shirt, and hands on his hips

    Oh, I see he’s acclimatized to the local culture. What an utter bellend, his parents must be so proud. I assume he’s a follower of little Tommy five names. The British version of Alex Jones


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    That’s because it’s new. The wobbling ones are not the cheap ones, they’re just old. People buy a house and it has a fan and they never think about it just like you never think about a light fitting.

    The one in my grandmother’s house is probably around 50 years old, no one thought about it until it basically disintegrated one day and then we realized that no one has any idea when she bought it. Found a manufacturing date on a label.


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    There are tutorials online explaining how to do it but you have to know to look them up.

    Very basically you run the fan at its lowest speed and watch to see where it wobbles and you put the weight on the opposite side of the pointer which it wobbles. Usually about 25% of the way along the length but you have to do a bit of trial and error to work out exactly how far along it needs to be.

    But it’s better to watch the videos because they’re clearer and it’s easier to understand when you have a visual reference










  • Well he said all sorts to try and justify it but really it was a cost-cutting exercise, of course it was a cost cutting exercise, why else would they do it?

    Anyway that explanation doesn’t make sense, if using lidar was a crutch then surely that’s a good solution right. It’s a bit like going, no you shouldn’t use wings on your aircraft that’s a crutch, you should be using the antigravity tech that we don’t have yet.

    In the long run there probably are going to be better solutions (that’s how civilizations advance), but those better solutions don’t exist yet, so… maybe we should use what we have.