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is it that sort of "it seems like bad things are happening to me so i'm going to complain and completely ignore all context" that the tea partiers are really good at?
is it that sort of "it seems like bad things are happening to me so i'm going to complain and completely ignore all context" that the tea partiers are really good at?
Yes.
And misogyny, more often than not, although sometimes it's just misguided rather than in bad faith.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
tbh if you ever look at MRAs talking amongst themselves (on their forums, subreddits, etc.) a lot of the time they don't even bother to hide their misogyny
As far as I can tell, they're pissed that women won't have sex with them. So they blame the world and claim that society is discriminating against them, rather than admitting that they could be the ones who are wrong. That's all.
I have a book from the library called "Inventions and discoveries of the Nineteenth Century".
So, I learned that the simplest kind of bridge is this kind:
Now, let's imagine you put a weight on it in the middle.
The top of the plank is shorter than the middle of the plank, which is shorter than the bottom of the plank. They were, before we put the plank there, the same length.
The top of the plank was compressed, squished together, put under pressure. The bottom of the plank was stretched, pulled apart, put under tension. The middle of the plank is the same length as before and is in fact, under no pressure or tension. The middle of the plank, the part in equilibrium, is just weight, adding more of a burden to the bottom.
What if we turn the plank around, so it's really hard to walk on?
Well, now the top is farther away from the middle, and farther away from the bottom. This is important because leverage. Also, the equilibrium part has more volume now, so we can remove it and in doing so remove even more dead weight.
But, the thing is, we still have to keep the top and bottom connected, so we leave a little strip of middle.
We have a girder.
Now, remember that the top bar of the girder is under pressure while the bottom is under tension. Substances often have radically different capacities with regards to pressure and tension. Wrought Iron can support 17 tons per square inch in crushing pressure before breaking or being crushed; but can support 30 tons per square inch in tension before it breaks or splits. Cast Iron can support 50 tons per square inch in crushing pressure but only 8 tons per square inch in tension.
Ropes are good at resisting tension, and the property of resisting tension is called tenacity. They, however, are not very good at resisting pressure. Bricks are the inverse, an ordinary red brick can support eighteen tons of weight; a thousand pounds per square inch. This is why at the bottom of really big, huge buildings, they still have ordinary bricks. However, bricks are no good at resisting tension, and you can easily pull a brick apart with your bare hands.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
As far as I can tell, they're pissed that women won't have sex with them. So they blame the world and claim that society is discriminating against them, rather than admitting that they could be the ones who are wrong. That's all.
Yep.
There's also this bizarre sense of entitlement whereby women exist only to serve them and pleasure them sexually. They'll never outright admit they think that, of course, but it comes across in their words and actions.
Now, remember that I said that cast iron could take 50 tons of crushing pressure but only 8 tons of tension? This means that it's resistance to crushing pressure is about six times greater than its tenacity. Since the top of the girder deals with crushing pressure, and the bottom deals with tension, the bottom needs to be about six times wider or thicker than the top, so it can support the same amount of weight both ways.
The middle is just there to connect the top and bottom, but if you split the middle of the I girder, you get a box girder.
You go from ..
to
Just imagine that each web in the box girder is half as thick as the single web in the I girder. Also, imagine that the bottom flange is about six times as thick/wide as the top.
Now, you have a girder with space inside of it; and the ability to resist tension and pressure are unchanged. Now, what if we turned each web into a series of triangle, we decrease the weight while keeping the same strength, so i can support more weight of other things because it doesn't have so much weight to support itself.
Lots of girders inside girders inside girders, and you can make a darn good bridge.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I wish I could find the source for this
All a Google reverse-image-search turns up is pinterest reposts :\
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I've long wondered why Pinterest doesn't seem to get the level of hatred that WeHeartIt does from Tumblr folk
Since they're almost as bad about the whole "reposting other people's work without attribution" thing
why would anyone want to have sex with someone they despise
like i could see finding someone you dislike attractive, but like i wouldn't ever want to screw such a person in a bajillion years
I think it's the same reason why a normal person would get angry at a dishwasher for not doing a good job cleaning the dishes, but would continue trying to use the dishwasher until it becomes too much trouble.
So, it gets just as much strength as if it were all continuous solid wrought iron, but with much less iron. In fact, without the dead weight, it actually has more capacity to support weight. Also, it allows you a view outside, lets kids play poohsticks, and since it uses a fraction of the metal, you can make more bridges with the same amount of iron. The girder bridge was the preferred bridge for trains, because it was very able to take weight and stay straight.
And then came the suspension bridge, which is made to have that amazing bend in it, and can take much more weight, but the whole "staying completely level to the fraction of a centimeter"? IT doesn't do that so much. And trains, well, with a train you want your bridges to be level, you don't really want a suspension bridge. Suspension bridges are for cars.
Suspension bridges are made to wobble a very little bit, to bend instead of break. Very ductile, staying useful where a girder bridge would break.
But the disadvantage of suspension bridges is that they're no good when the ground itself is wobbling, it makes stuff like this happen:
The wobbling was a feature, not a bug. That was the best thing that could have happened, structual integrity-wise. If it hadn't cracked, it still would have been completely usable after that wobbling. But you can't drive a car on a bridge wobbling like that. You just need to wait for it to go back to normal.
why would anyone want to have sex with someone they despise
like i could see finding someone you dislike attractive, but like i wouldn't ever want to screw such a person in a bajillion years
The very visual male libido, combined with sexism and a female-objectifying mentality, maybe? I suppose it might be a similar mentality someone might have about a video game that has badly implemented mechanics but is also really cool to look at? Or maybe about a big, well-furnished house with an unfortunate rodent problem? It's different when your objects of desire are objects to be manipulated, instead of people.
A girder bridge wouldn't have wobbled, wouldn't have bent right until the moment it was either crushed or split. Assuming the earthquake isn't strong enough to destroy the girder bridge, it is safer than the suspension, because the suspension wobbles.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
It's like when men say things like "a man can't ever be just friends with a woman" or the kind of thing in certain TV and movies and music lyrics (and real life) where a man will just be interested in sex and everything else is a game of saying or doing the right thing so the physically attractive woman will have sex with him. Having been exposed to this culture first-hand for years, I understand how this thought process works.
The cantilever bridge is the best of both worlds, combining principles from both, but it cannot be as long as the suspension bridge can. Also, it is less efficient for the amount of metal used than a standard girder bridge. But it has no falsework, or at least very little (falsework is the wooden beams needed during construction.).
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*hugs Byakuren*
I burned this to CD, with the twist that Indignant Divinity is played like 18 times.
is it that sort of "it seems like bad things are happening to me so i'm going to complain and completely ignore all context" that the tea partiers are really good at?
it's not something i recognize based on the tiny snippets there
(is it music related to KLK?)
So, I learned that the simplest kind of bridge is this kind:
Now, let's imagine you put a weight on it in the middle.
The top of the plank is shorter than the middle of the plank, which is shorter than the bottom of the plank. They were, before we put the plank there, the same length.
The top of the plank was compressed, squished together, put under pressure. The bottom of the plank was stretched, pulled apart, put under tension. The middle of the plank is the same length as before and is in fact, under no pressure or tension. The middle of the plank, the part in equilibrium, is just weight, adding more of a burden to the bottom.
What if we turn the plank around, so it's really hard to walk on?
Well, now the top is farther away from the middle, and farther away from the bottom. This is important because leverage. Also, the equilibrium part has more volume now, so we can remove it and in doing so remove even more dead weight.
But, the thing is, we still have to keep the top and bottom connected, so we leave a little strip of middle.
We have a girder.
Now, remember that the top bar of the girder is under pressure while the bottom is under tension. Substances often have radically different capacities with regards to pressure and tension. Wrought Iron can support 17 tons per square inch in crushing pressure before breaking or being crushed; but can support 30 tons per square inch in tension before it breaks or splits. Cast Iron can support 50 tons per square inch in crushing pressure but only 8 tons per square inch in tension.
Ropes are good at resisting tension, and the property of resisting tension is called tenacity. They, however, are not very good at resisting pressure. Bricks are the inverse, an ordinary red brick can support eighteen tons of weight; a thousand pounds per square inch. This is why at the bottom of really big, huge buildings, they still have ordinary bricks. However, bricks are no good at resisting tension, and you can easily pull a brick apart with your bare hands.
Hahaha I accidentally wore the wrong socks with my suit and no one noticed.
Apply not your human logic to the sapient pond scum.
tension, the bottom needs to be about six times wider or thicker than the top, so it can support the same amount of weight both ways.
The middle is just there to connect the top and bottom, but if you split the middle of the I girder, you get a box girder.
You go from
to
Just imagine that each web in the box girder is half as thick as the single web in the I girder. Also, imagine that the bottom flange is about six times as thick/wide as the top.
Now, you have a girder with space inside of it; and the ability to resist tension and pressure are unchanged. Now, what if we turned each web into a series of triangle, we decrease the weight while keeping the same strength, so i can support more weight of other things because it doesn't have so much weight to support itself.
Lots of girders inside girders inside girders, and you can make a darn good bridge.
That analogy makes me feel horrible. I'm sorry.
And then came the suspension bridge, which is made to have that amazing bend in it, and can take much more weight, but the whole "staying completely level to the fraction of a centimeter"? IT doesn't do that so much. And trains, well, with a train you want your bridges to be level, you don't really want a suspension bridge. Suspension bridges are for cars.
Suspension bridges are made to wobble a very little bit, to bend instead of break. Very ductile, staying useful where a girder bridge would break.
But the disadvantage of suspension bridges is that they're no good when the ground itself is wobbling, it makes stuff like this happen:
The wobbling was a feature, not a bug. That was the best thing that could have happened, structual integrity-wise. If it hadn't cracked, it still would have been completely usable after that wobbling. But you can't drive a car on a bridge wobbling like that. You just need to wait for it to go back to normal.
Serious Response: Darn, you're right. I wouldn't know how to respond, either. I don't even know what sort of response I'd want.