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[–] notabot@piefed.social 32 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The saving on the knob alone would pay a reasonable chunk of a basic but useful printer. Use it for a few more things and you'll be in the black even ignoring the more fun things you might do. The time it takes to learn a CAD system can also be fun if you enjoy that sort of thing.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Yes, I'd say that's very much the point of the strip. The journalist is being incredibly intrusive in persuit of their own career. All the characters in this series are basically caractures, it's very much a product of it's time, but it still resonates today.

Edited to add an explaination as my initial comment wasn't helpful on it's own.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Otter 1: If I wriggle juuust right I can escape.

Otter 2: I am displeased by the current state of affairs and wish to speak to the manager.

Otter 3: Hugs plz.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why is this filed under 'theonion'? Does anyone actually think he wouldn't start a nuclear war to avoid embarasment, let alone what would happen to him if anything damning came out in those files? I sippose the only unbelivable bit is that he is planning anything, rather than being told what to think.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, they really had to rise to the occasion here. Some people would have disposed of it irresponsibly, but I guess they're just bread better there, although whoever left it in the sun must have been baked.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

No need to make snippy comnents, he had to do it, there was a claws in his contract.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Pawns can be promoted to queens when they get to the other side, and when the elite pieces get past the pawns they get promoted to 'media', and can slowly, but surely, pick them off.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

2,500 custard creams a minute is a mind boggling number, but what put it in perspective for me is that it comes to 250 tons a week.

Assuming there isn't a warehouse filling up sonewhere, the world is eating more than two blue whales of just their custard creams a week. Many other factories make them too, as well as their biscuit cousins like bourbons. That's a lot of biscuits!

Truely the heros we need in this tired world.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 13 points 4 days ago

They're special onions, err... bath onions. Very good for you.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago

You'll need a bracket that's designed for the card I think, but if you have a drill and there's a blanking plate you can canibalise you could probably make something good enough for a headless server.

It is a fun picture, I enjoy pictures of mildly horrifying kludges that do the job.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It's not screwed in, and you're going to be hanging a fairly heavy cable out of it. It'll probably be fine short term, but any vibration or movement of the machine or monitor risks partially dislodging the card.

It also looks like you have removed the bracket and reattached it outside the case, which will mean that the plug on the cable can't mate properly with the socket, likely leading to intermittent issues.

In short, it might work for testing the machine, but it'll cause you pain in the long term. Get, or make, a full sized bracket and it'll be much happier.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 16 points 6 days ago

Dr Kumar said the cobra had died apparently because of the trauma to the head and mouth from the child’s bite.

Nah, I'm going with it dieing of a combination of shock and embarrasment. That is not how a snake bite is supposed to go.

If the kid's first reaction to somerhing deadly is chomp, I pity anyone who crosses them in the future. I don't think it would be inappropriate for them to wear the fangs as a trophy, and a warning.

 

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