Timepiece With The Fewest Moving Parts:

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If you have more I'd love to see them this is my favorite meme format ever

how do magnets work. do you think they just like each other

rings of power has cured my impostor syndrome because how is ‘the most expensive show ever made’ written at a 4th grade reading level, directed by people who still think blood splattering the camera is le epic, and costumed by hallmark channel dropouts

But then the for-profit, privately operated prisons would lose the free labor that they rent out! Even worse, the prisoners would be more likely to successfully integrate into society upon release rather than reoffending, and THEN how are the prison corporations supposed to get their paycheck from Uncle Sam? I suppose that next, you’ll tell me that we shouldn’t even be imprisoning nonviolent marijuana users, or overpolicing urban areas inhabited by socioeconomically disadvantaged demographics. It’s like you don’t even respect how hard the prison lobbyists work to EARN the current system. Grow up

I'm not actually inherently against the idea of prison labour in the sense that I am not against fairly compensated, voluntary jobs for prisoners. If there was a well-regulated program in place to give prisoners jobs with the same paycheque anyone else in that field gets, with training, work experience, job skills, etc when they got out I'd be all for it. That way they'd have a proper resume and demonstrated skills to fall back on and could find work and rejoin society again on their own independence, like how rehabilitation is supposed to work. Actually, add some financial literacy and life skills education on top of that while they're serving their sentence, and you're setting them up for success rather than re-incarceration when they get out again. What I'm against is slave labour forced upon prisoners for pennies on the dollar, if they get anything at all.

“Oh boy, I love exploring the underdark! I hope I don’t find anything scary down here”

The terrible beholder:

I love how mission impossible dead reckoning part 1 opens en media res on a train, with tons of characters we haven’t been introduced to before, I’m sure we’ll meet them in a flashback or something after the title card..? Very subversive of them

With severance season 2 around the corner it’s time for me to share the time I accidentally watched 4 minutes of an episode on mute and thought it was a brilliant way to show the sensory deprivation experienced by the innies

Incorrect post! Pendulum clocks do not perform well at sea because their regular swinging is easily disturbed by a ship’s rocking motion. John Harrison, inventor of the first seaworthy clocks for determining one’s longitude, made his first two models with spring-loaded dumbbell oscillators and his later two models with coil-spring balance wheels. I must confess, though, that none of Harrison’s clocks are as cute as this one.

This website has great technical animations of the Harrison clocks’ mechanisms, and the book Longitude by Dava Sobel provides an excellent and entertaining historical account of their development.

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