Fundamentally, Trump was explicitly and repeatedly promising the end of modern society. That’s literally what “make America great again” means. They can’t all be surprised that he actually delivered
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they're morons sky
aug 26, 2025, 2:16 am • 19 0 • view
Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks and the rest of the talent they are geniuses
aug 26, 2025, 2:20 am • 5 0 • view
Reminds me of all those losers who fantasize about going back in time, where they will surely be kings instead of peasants.
aug 26, 2025, 2:14 am • 13 0 • view
I spend a lot it time thinking about how I know how to talk to the thinking rocks better than most people, and even give them complex instructions, but I don’t actually know why the rocks think or how to make them think. It’s troubling. I’m not even really sure how to make a steam engine
aug 26, 2025, 3:04 am • 8 0 • view
Rocks think because of the semiconducting effect and you can lithograph that into silicon. Logically it’s all just relays wired up weirdly
aug 27, 2025, 4:18 am • 1 0 • view
A relay is nothing but an electrically powered switch. If not done as semiconductors they are just a bunch of electric magnets
aug 27, 2025, 4:21 am • 1 0 • view
If you are interested in „how to make a computer from an electrically powered switch?“ the book „CODE the secret language of computers“ is fun and easy to read
aug 27, 2025, 4:23 am • 1 0 • view
I hope that when civilisation collapses someone will think I’m valuable enough to give food to due to knowing how to make these things from scratch. I fear nobody will
aug 27, 2025, 4:29 am • 2 0 • view
The tricky thing about the steam engine is the pressure ventile regulator. Is two weights that rotate around an axis and are attached to it in a way that their position to the centre of the axis varies with speed. Now when they move away from the axle, they open a ventile to lower pressure
aug 27, 2025, 4:16 am • 1 0 • view
Now the force that turns the axle with the weights is the pressure and that way you have a feedback loop letting the engine run at a stable pressure. Not the most efficient but a pretty safe way to make it run at a certain pressure
aug 27, 2025, 4:27 am • 1 0 • view
Now if you connect it to be driven not by the pressure but to the wheel/shaft that you use for your machine you have a mechanism to have a stable rpm no matter the load
aug 27, 2025, 6:01 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you for this, I learned a lot!
aug 27, 2025, 1:30 pm • 2 0 • view
My pleasure!
aug 27, 2025, 2:14 pm • 1 0 • view
The second important thing is recycling the waste heat a second time to increase efficiency, similar to modern central gas heatings
aug 27, 2025, 4:16 am • 1 0 • view
Not all, but a f**kton will be.
aug 26, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
See also bsky.app/profile/sky....
aug 26, 2025, 2:13 am • 92 15 • view
I am so angry about the screw worm thing and it doesn't even affect me. But the eradication program was a shining example of USAID partnering with other countries to help the US as well as other people. Got dumped into USDA and lost a lot of the institutional knowledge and goodwill.
aug 26, 2025, 4:38 pm • 25 5 • view
I’ve been screaming about this since #Trump started threatening #Panama ⚠️But who listens to #Women who come with fucking RECEIPTS⁉️ Have you SEEN what these #ScrewWorm | #BotFly #fuckers look like⁉️ I swear I was posting vivid & well-researched warnings everywhere for months & nobody gave a fuck
aug 29, 2025, 11:28 am • 0 0 • view
He is sadly a rare politician who delivered on his election promise. In his case, it's fascism.
aug 26, 2025, 2:14 am • 6 1 • view
It's amazing how much you can deliver when you're willing and able to threaten anyone getting in your way with both the state and the mob.
aug 26, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
I'll admit I've been confused about *why* Trump's goons want to destroy the US but I think it's just this: American society is a public pool, and they'd rather fill it with concrete than integrate it.
aug 27, 2025, 3:29 am • 50 8 • view