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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social

I just opened this box of tissues to find they’re stacked in there vertically instead of horizontally. How does such a manufacturing malfunction even occur?? Tonight at 11.

Yellow box of generic tissues.
aug 11, 2025, 11:41 am • 92 5

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Daddy Dolphin @adamboyle.bsky.social

Make a hole on the side

aug 11, 2025, 12:19 pm • 5 0 • view
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Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social

Adapt, overcome, improvise

aug 11, 2025, 12:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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Spooky Season Post Monger @dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social

I blame Communists controlling the means of production bsky.app/profile/carl...

aug 11, 2025, 12:03 pm • 1 0 • view
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Pavel🐀 @spavel.bsky.social

This is why they call it innovation instead of outnovation

aug 11, 2025, 12:14 pm • 6 0 • view
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Ravin Boodram @rvbdrm.com

Six sigma grindset gone wrong

aug 11, 2025, 11:49 am • 9 1 • view
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Esther van der Stappen @esthervds.bsky.social

I have never experienced this, but I imagine it might even work better than horizontally? At least for the first 5 tissues?

aug 11, 2025, 11:45 am • 4 0 • view
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social

I tried pulling one out and about 20 came out in a hunk🥴

aug 11, 2025, 11:49 am • 1 0 • view
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Esther van der Stappen @esthervds.bsky.social

I see my imagination fooled me.

aug 11, 2025, 11:57 am • 2 0 • view
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social

I respect the hope in the face of chaos

aug 11, 2025, 11:59 am • 4 0 • view
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Chairman Maomao @americaonline.bsky.social

Serial tissue use is for chumps, now you can unlock the power of massively paralell tissue consumption

aug 11, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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maxgbowman @maxgbowman.bsky.social

👀

aug 11, 2025, 11:43 am • 0 0 • view
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social

so, if Australian tissues are upside down. I suppose these were manufactured somewhere on the equator.

aug 11, 2025, 12:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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BonkoBoi @bonkoboi.bsky.social

I was thinking that or the factories planar orientator needed to be recalibrated

aug 11, 2025, 12:30 pm • 1 0 • view
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social

Well of course! When you get new machines the planar orientator has to be set to equator (or wherever you are) settings. They tested it at the machine factory in Europe or wherever, everything worked fine there and they didn’t bother to run a test after. Rookie mistake if you ask me.

aug 11, 2025, 12:40 pm • 2 0 • view
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🇨🇦𝙈𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙙𝙮🇺🇦 @multiverseandy.bsky.social

What brand is that?

aug 11, 2025, 11:53 am • 0 0 • view
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Brian Ragle @ragle.bsky.social

Just remember, you DID pose this as a question you wanted answered. ;) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekgF... See also: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBKW... Assuming your tissue brand was packaged with a similar machine as this...

aug 11, 2025, 12:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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Brian Ragle @ragle.bsky.social

...I would posit a guess that the error occurred at the moment the stack of tissues was shoved into the box. As you can see in the second video above at around the 1 minute mark, the tissue stacks arrive at this stage sometimes not fully squared. ...

aug 11, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Brian Ragle @ragle.bsky.social

...as the Big Smasher Thing comes down to press them smaller to fit the box, a slight maladjustment could, theoretically, cause the whole stack to shift sideways and then be shoved into the waiting box, where shipping and handling will cause the tissues to settle in more fully sideways.

aug 11, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view