Cry me a fucking river
i love how thanos went from looking like a truly menacing, unhinged villain who wears his goofy pajamas all day to a middle class dad whose only hobby is eating hamburgers
materialsscienceandengineering:
Smart technology for synchronized 3D printing of concrete
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a technology where two robots can work in unison to 3D-print a concrete structure.
This method of concurrent 3D-printing, known as swarm printing, paves the way for a team of mobile robots to print even bigger structures in future.
Developed by Assistant Professor Pham Quang Cuong and his team at NTU’s Singapore Centre for 3D Printing, this new multi-robot technology was published in Automation in Construction, a top tier journal for civil engineering. The NTU scientist was also behind the Ikea Bot earlier this year where two robots assembled an Ikea chair in 8 min 55s.
Using a specially formulated cement mix suitable for 3-D printing, this new development will allow for unique concrete designs currently not possible with conventional casting. Structures can also be produced on demand and in a much shorter period.
We are multiple generations now with no experience with strikes, and I see a lot of confused, well meaning people who want to help but don’t know strike etiquette.
1. Never cross a picket line of striking workers.
2. Never purchase or take free goods from a company who’s workers are striking
3. Honk to support strikers if you drive by a picket line.
4. Join strikers on the picket line even if it’s not your strike, but follow their directions and defer to them while there.
5. Say “that’s great, the strike is working, the company should negotiate with their workers” whenever someone complains about profits lost, inconveniences or other worker-phobic rhetoric. Always turn it back on the company, who has all the power and money.
This is not to be contrary, but from a genuine desire to understand… why not take free stuff? The company isn’t making money from it.
For example, McDonald’s is giving out free cheeseburgers on the day scheduled for a strike. Why not go in en masse, demand your free cheeseburger, and overwhelm them with orders that they can’t fulfill quickly. Loudly complain that they should have been prepared for the demand created for such a promotion and ask why more people aren’t on shift right now.
Again, I accept that there may be a flaw in my logic, but can’t see it myself? Help me out?
Companies, especially large multinationals, often give out free products to maintain a stronghold on market shares. When workers strike, their power lies in showing their employer that they can’t operate without them, and that they will lose money and customers if their business doesn’t reach people. When McDonald’s doesn’t give you a free hamburger, they think you will go to Burger King during the strike, get used to it and maybe never come back. Multinationals can afford to move their vast amounts of capital from region to region very easily, and will give away free products to try to limit their loss of customers during a strike. By not taking those products, you helping the workers leverage their only source of power, which they will use to negotiate fair wages, cost of living adjustments, breaks, overtime wage structures, holidays, extended benefits and an equitable grievance structure.
When you don’t engage at all with the company, you are helping these workers have time with their families, pay their rent, have healthcare, and set wage standards across industries. Even better, the less you engage the faster the company will cave, the faster the strike will be over and workers will be back at their jobs pulling a paycheque.
No such thing as a free meal
Don’t be a scab, never cross the picket line.
ineedtostopchangingmyusername:
your heart is a muscle the size of a rat
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Your brain’s about four times the size of a cat’s
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Your lungs can hold 5.5 liters of air
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The soles of your feet can never grow hair
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in high school my science class went on a field trip to a nuclear reactor and someone asked if it was safe to swim in the pool of water with all the cooling rods at the bottom and the tour guide answered “oh definitely not. you wouldn’t get cancer or anything, you’d just get shot before coming with 10 feet of it”
I like haunted houses in theory BUT I have no idea how to react when the actors speak to you. They ask me a question and I just… answer it…
The scariest part of a haunted house is the unscripted social interaction.
Scary nurse in a creepy voice: “Do you have an appointment to see the doctor?”
Me: “Uh. Do you accept walk-ins?”
Scary farmer: “I like to kill people!”
My friend, brightly: “I like to die!”
