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4d ago
inVent: my trench shovel beats the fancy trowel every single time and I'm tired of pretending otherwise
Dale's right. Peeling thin sheets at 95 degrees saved my wrist too.
16d ago
inPro tip: the Antikythera mechanism has at least 30 bronze gears and I only learned that from a museum placard in Athens last month
Museum labels have done that to me more than once. I spent years thinking the terracotta army was just a bunch of identical statues, then I read a placard in Xi'an explaining each face was modeled after a real soldier, and now every time I see a photo I look for the different noses and mustaches. Same thing happened with the Rosetta Stone, which I always pictured as some big impressive slab until I saw it and realized it is basically a broken rock with three versions of the same boring tax decree. There is something about standing in front of the real thing and reading the small print that makes history click in a way no documentary ever managed. Those little cards do more work than most of the exhibits.
21d ago
inCan we talk about picking the crying butter robot meme over the dancing one for my group chat?
Thought the disco one was better but honestly the whole joke is that he never gets one.