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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • dQw4w9WgXcQtosolarpunk memes@slrpnk.netProblems
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    15 hours ago

    The town I grew up in had several public apple trees. I have fond memories of climbing the trees with my friends to get apples.

    Maintenance is a thing, though. If not properly maintained, the apples will often grow too densely, yielding only small and sour apples. I would never consider the apples in my home town to be filling food - at best it would be a small snack. It would require a lot of labour to maintain a tree to the point where it would feed people in need.


  • I’m also bothered by very detailed QR codes. Milk cartons in my country had a QR-code for their website. It would be a ~10 letter url, maybe with a short path. But for some reason, the QR code was extremely detailed, as if it contained several kilobytes of data. I’m not sure if there were a large number of tracking-related parameters in the url, but it was very obviously unreasonably large.






  • I don’t know. Maybe you live in a place with low teperature variations. When I get into my car on a hot summer day, I like to turn the temperature down bellow regular comfort temperature to cool down quicker. When I’m stumbling into the car after shoveling snow and scraping ice from the windshield, I like to turn it a bit higher. On long drives, I sometimes get warm after spending several hours in the leather seat, so I turn the temperature down. My girlfriend likes the temperature a bit higher, so when she uses the car, it’s turned up.

    It’s a comfort thing, and it’s definitely something I change a lot with my mechanical dials.







  • Not sure if this is a thing everywhere, but a lot of bakeries around here will serve baked goods on a plate with a napkin under the baked goods. Not a big problem with things like croissants, but when cakes and stuff with sticky bottoms are served like this, it drives me insane. Both the purpose of the napkin and the plate has been defeated.





  • dQw4w9WgXcQtoScience Memes@mander.xyzLaunches
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    21 days ago

    Gravity assist with one of the larger planets to make a very narrow orbit seems to be the most efficient way. But you need the planets to align correctly to have an efficient route.

    “I’ll launch you into the sun once there is an appropriate transfer window to Jupiter” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.


  • dQw4w9WgXcQtoScience Memes@mander.xyzLaunches
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    21 days ago

    The vessel would still have a lot of speed after escaping earth’s orbit, so the trajectory would become a large orbit around the sun. You still have to slow down by about ~30km/s (or ~100 000 km/h) to make that orbit intercept with the sun’s surface.