If you are male than you can make some sweet circular motion in the shower as well.
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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In the shower?
Nah, man. I do that to my wife as a power move when I step out of the shower.
I thought everyone in this community was in the shower 24/7
I think you have it reversed
Loituma is a Finnish quartet whose members combine the Finnish vocal tradition with the sounds of the kantele. Loituma were selected Ensemble of the Year at the 1997 Kaustinen Folk Music Festival. Loituma members compose or arrange the tunes by themselves, often using improvisation. Lyrics come from many sources, two main traditional sources are the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland, and the Kanteletar.
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Wait'll you hear about levers, wedges, incline planes, and screws!
(Websearch simple machines)
Screws are just wandering inclined planes
Yeah that just sounds like rotation and inclination with extra steps.
I think this is the first time I've seen someone make a contraction out of "till."
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ITT: OP reinvents the wheel.
For my next trick, I shall reinvent fire
Not to be overly pedantic, but fire is naturally occurring. Humans only invented ways of utilizing it.
Simplifying what the others said, humans discovered Fire. But they did invent the campfire, the torch, the cooking fire, the pyre, and a bunch of other "fires" (as tools).
So, the "invention of fire" makes sense just fine, I think
Wheels in the form circular rocks are also naturally occurring. Plenty of human "inventions" are actually just finding useful applications for existing stuff. Like penicillin from mold. And organic iPhones from the Apple tree.
I love pedantry. Just to kick it up a notch, I'd like to point out that people are a part of the natural world, therefore our technology is a part of nature. For example farms don't seem natural, but I think most people would agree that ants are natural. Some ant colonies engage in farming, and we accept that as a part of nature.
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Smoke some herb and get ready for this, all motion is curved, there's no such thing as straight motion. The summation of movement can be said to be linear.
Spiral power!
Spiral power, you say?
Edit: it is Junji Ito's Uzumaki.
Loved how people compared the drawings quality to the gumball episode where everything just becomes blocks. Still liked the commitment to the story.
The anime in great relaxing Friday choice
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Wait till OP discovers the lever.
He'll lift the world!
Add a cam or rack and pinion and oh baby you got a stew goin.
If you use Circular Motion with both fists perpendicular to your chest in a vertical orientation, with both fists maintaining a 180° offset from the other’s circle, you can look like an old-timey boxer
I will say conservation of angular momentum really feels like a cheat code sometimes. “This thing can’t be tipped because it’s spinning too fast”
Orbital sanders trip me out every time. I want to lift it off and put it away sideways like any other tool but orbital sander goes "lol dude you can't do that".
An engine lathe is one of the only standalone machine tools that is capable of recreating itself in its entirety.
And not only can it recreate itself, with the correct tooling setup it can recreate itself in a more precise, accurate manner than it itself is built.
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It can be vicious tho
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