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Poe's Law, man. I'm now getting Poe's Law indecision but applied to whether someone built something painstakingly, meticulously wrong for clicks.
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I guess the horizontals are set into the walls and the verticals were put in with the L brackets later by someone who didn't like looking through the gaps.
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Apr 19, 2024 07:24
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noooooooooooooooooooooo
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Apr 19, 2024 08:05
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Oddly, the thing I hate the most about that photo is the spindles.
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wheatpuppy posted:Oddly, the thing I hate the most about that photo is the spindles. Way to doxx yourself, Devil Troll 
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Apr 19, 2024 10:07
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  All the big brain science books (completely pristine) for their cool shelf to show how sciencey and cool they are. But oh no, how come this design isn't working? 
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Apr 19, 2024 11:10
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'Big brain' is a funny way of saying college textbooks.
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Apr 19, 2024 12:06
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Totally unused and decorative College textbooks.
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Apr 19, 2024 12:50
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Nah it's good, those brackets are rated for like 300 pounds!
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Apr 19, 2024 13:01
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Zesty posted:
Some kind of backing would help but it also needs a brace under the right side.
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Apr 19, 2024 13:40
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Zesty posted:Totally unused and decorative College textbooks. Is this a thing? Who pretends to be a physics major? Why not pretend to be something useful?
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Apr 19, 2024 14:07
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The best is that they clearly have at least three sets of those honeycombs. Look ot the left, there's one that's off to the side. They need to put them so that the bottom is on the left and right and supports the middle
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Apr 19, 2024 14:09
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i'd stuff some rags in the right corner to wedge it up
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Apr 19, 2024 14:14
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simply fill the gap with unopened funkopops
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Apr 19, 2024 14:49
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CarForumPoster posted:Is this a thing? Who pretends to be a physics major? Why not pretend to be something useful? I've got a similar stack of engineering textbooks that are worth roughly zero dollars to anyone else. I'm still glad I kept them once every year or two when I can pull out an old formula. I'd imagine physics textbooks are even less referenceable.
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Apr 19, 2024 15:16
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It's like shelving, but with a whole lot of less usable space
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Apr 19, 2024 15:38
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Leviathan Song posted:I've got a similar stack of engineering textbooks that are worth roughly zero dollars to anyone else. I'm still glad I kept them once every year or two when I can pull out an old formula. I'd imagine physics textbooks are even less referenceable. I have a similar stack of political theory books that are even more useless but with the added benefit that they started that way, too. They're currently an impromptu podium to stack some stuff on.
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Apr 19, 2024 15:41
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CarForumPoster posted:Is this a thing? Who pretends to be a physics major? Why not pretend to be something useful? You buy the textbooks your first semester only to find out that your professor refuses to teach anything from it. Semester ends and oops McGraw-Hill released a new edition (moved some chapters around) so there is no value in your book anymore so now you spent $175 for a paperweight. Second semester you don’t buy poo poo unless you absolutely have to.
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I have you all beat. I got my BA in religion
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Freaquency posted:You buy the textbooks your first semester only to find out that your professor refuses to teach anything from it. Semester ends and oops McGraw-Hill released a new edition (moved some chapters around) so there is no value in your book anymore so now you spent $175 for a paperweight. Had to buy a book with a one time use code to get a log in for the online quizzes that we had to take. Couldn't resell it because the code wouldn't work for another student. The author of the book? The professor of the class!
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One of my professors wrote his own textbooks, but instead of publishing them he just printed them out for us. We only had to pay $20 for the cost of paper and ink. Best professor ever.
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Uthor posted:Had to buy a book with a one time use code to get a log in for the online quizzes that we had to take. Couldn't resell it because the code wouldn't work for another student. This always seems sketchy, but the professor earns piss all on one class's worth of textbooks. We're talking on the order of a buck a book, if that. Chances are they were assigning it because it was, unsurprisingly, the text they're most familiar with and that meshes best with their course structure. Now, insisting on using those online quizes with the bullshit log in code? That's laziness. When I was teaching I would go out of my way to avoid any and all online quizzes and told the students this very emphatically on day one so that they could go hit ebay or amazon and buy old copies of the textbook. After a few years I had a fairly good list of the different publication years and what was different between them so I could steer them away from any that would be problematic. For that course (a basic World History since WW2 one) you had to go back like a decade before you saw a revision serious enough that it caused problems. This, however, is the pro move: Buttchocks posted:One of my professors wrote his own textbooks, but instead of publishing them he just printed them out for us. We only had to pay $20 for the cost of paper and ink. Best professor ever.
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Cyrano4747 posted:... WW2 one... Phrases you don't want to hear from time travelers
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Cyrano4747 posted:This always seems sketchy, but the professor earns piss all on one class's worth of textbooks. We're talking on the order of a buck a book, if that. Chances are they were assigning it because it was, unsurprisingly, the text they're most familiar with and that meshes best with their course structure. They did say they were donating whatever they made from those books (I vaguely remember it being in the memory of their kid, but it was so, so long ago), but I was still struck with them forcing us to buy it. I did have one professor tell us what books we could check out from the library, and, btw, here's a xerox copy of the important pages they are going to reference.
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Leviathan Song posted:I've got a similar stack of engineering textbooks that are worth roughly zero dollars to anyone else. I'm still glad I kept them once every year or two when I can pull out an old formula. I'd imagine physics textbooks are even less referenceable. I also have this (MechE) That said, the poster was claiming that they were essentially pretending to be a physics major. Like they had physics textbooks but hadn't taken physics courses. If youre gonna pretend to be something pretend to be a doctor or a fish or something.
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I majored and doctorated in history. What are these "textbooks" of which you speak? I haven't seen one since high school.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I majored and doctorated in history. What are these "textbooks" of which you speak? I haven't seen one since high school. Theyre things you use on the road to getting paid for the field you studied. (Except Physics)
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Benagain posted:Nah it's good, those brackets are rated for like 300 pounds! Where's the insulation?
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Jesusfuckingchristgetthatawayfromme! Buttchocks posted:One of my professors wrote his own textbooks, but instead of publishing them he just printed them out for us. We only had to pay $20 for the cost of paper and ink. Best professor ever. Same. Well, actually, we paid the campus print center, but same thing. I really liked that guy. Coincidentally a physics professor. I still have those, because hey, physics! Also some math (calculus, diff eq.) and engineering (statics and dynamics, as I recall) textbooks, because of course they changed editions and were worthless to sell back, so why not keep them?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I majored and doctorated in history. What are these "textbooks" of which you speak? I haven't seen one since high school. Well, back in my day, they had physical books in college, instead of the digital copies that cost the same, but are even impossible to sell back. 
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They could have added a couple of supports but meh sounds like work
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A triangle is the strongest construct, that one is going to be as durable as the Eiffel tower
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