Smaller circle inside “what people actually understand”, “what people actually care about”.

“All-one or none”

After reading the article it is clear to me that Meucci made precursors to the electromagnetic telephone but did not actually invent the modern version as popularized by Bell.

There is no solid evidence for him having created the device or even described how it was created before Bell. He experimented with a bunch of similar things, and filled a patent caveat that described the general concept (i.e. sending voices over a wire using electrical current), but it contained no details as to the actual mechanism. All his descriptions of how he created the device were made years after he claimed to have built it, and after Bell’s version was widely known.

Indeed, topograpgically it is not a hole.

Sci-fi short stories

• The Fifth Gift
• Report on the Barnhouse Effect

Requirements for officers to wear body cameras are meaningless without significant penalties for turning them off when on duty

“In addition, we have received this image submission earlier today from an anonymous member of our community, who also offered the c/reddit moderation team, and I quote, “one Barbie-llion dollars”, to set it as the community banner. We’re not sure what to make of this”

The dog is at least cute

Uncensored image - NSFW

You’re welcome

What about elephants? Or blue whales?

Per the bible humans were created after all the other animals IIRC.

To the tune of “In the Air Tonight” by Phil Collins

It was the top post in my feed so I thought I had somehow opened the reddit app by accident even though I’ve uninstalled it.

Why the first reaction frame? Instagram is owned by Meta, of course they’re going to have incredibly invasive data collection policies.

Obligatory William Osman

Same, the ability to access Google drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox files alongside your local files is awesome.

It says it’s on Android too but I don’t see anywhere to download the Android version.

Left: police officer who was fired for allegedly having sex with five (?) of her fellow officers; there were a lot of memes about her being promiscuous, which this post appears to be referring to, but it later came out that she was coerced and sexually assaulted.

Right: a submarine that imploded catastrophically due to extremely poor engineering and deliberate disregard for safety features, killing its five passengers.

I have done destructive strength testing on carbon fiber. It would not shatter like porcelain. Carbon fiber is made of thin, very strong but very flexible stands of carbon embedded in more brittle resin (plastic). The resin by itself probably would shatter. Carbon fiber will snap suddenly as the resin fails, but the fibers keep it from flying apart.

With steel, it would depend very much on the alloy. Some are very ductile (will bend very far without breaking) whereas some are more brittle and actually will shatter with enough force.

This video gives a good idea of how steel would compare to carbon fiber. Carbon fiber starts at 3:57 and high speed steel (a very brittle steel) at 6:19. There is no ductile steel, but 6061aluminum at 2:48 fails pretty much the same way just with a lower force.

https://youtu.be/ifOzrOgpI4g

It looks like a speech bubble with three dots inside it, to the right of the like/dislike buttons at the bottom of the post.