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voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

Handiklap posted:

smooth like a dragonlion

Common misconception actually

Christ what a lovely page snipe, here have an actual dragon dance gif:

voiceless anal fricative has a new favorite as of 08:41 on Nov 16, 2018

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Gort
Aug 18, 2003

Good day what ho cup of tea
That's kind of horrible to look at

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

Gort posted:

That's kind of horrible to look at

Turn your monitor on

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

JEEVES420
Feb 16, 2005

The world is a mess... and I just need to rule it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkFAcFtBD48&t=36s

Trabant
Nov 26, 2011

All systems nominal.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

He's hanging onto the pants of the guy in front.

As he stands up, he lifts the guy behind him who stabilises himself by placing his foot on the side of the pole.

I had to watch it a LOT to work it out. Just incredibly smooth move.

Yup, and the guy in front does a little extra hop as soon as he's on the pole, to provide additional upward momentum for the guy in the back. Genuinely awesome routine.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



https://i.imgur.com/DVVCKxd.gifv

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Tumblr of scotch
Mar 13, 2006

Please, don't be my neighbor.
Nothing weird about this, just some cold on the cob

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻




I couldn't eat that. Too sticky.

Stretch Marx
Apr 29, 2008

I'm ok with this.

Ice storms are the best storms. Throw a rock at a tree and watch it shatter.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

minato
Jun 7, 2004

cutty cain't hang, say 7-up.
Taco Defender
e: wrong thread

minato has a new favorite as of 02:41 on Nov 18, 2018

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



https://i.imgur.com/KV1iEnp.gifv

Goon Danton
May 24, 2012

Don't forget to show my shitposts to the people. They're well worth seeing.

Rocket mass heater?

gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug
More like a bed-stove, I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_bed-stove

jobson groeth
May 17, 2018

by FactsAreUseless

The description of that bed stove thing sounds like it's a stove with ducting that can be used to route heat / smoke from the stove under the bed / floor rather than a fire just under a bed. This looks more like a plain old mass heater.

noether
May 1, 2017

some kinda cutesy shoggoth

this is some dahir insaat poo poo

CloFan
Nov 6, 2004

https://i.imgur.com/8OAIfJr.gifv

IncredibleIgloo
Feb 17, 2011






No

Roblo
Dec 10, 2007

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

Jesus Christ that's horrendous. Eugh.

Lurking Haro
Oct 27, 2009

noether posted:

this is some dahir insaat poo poo

There aren't enough quadcopters involved to qualify it for that.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
That's way too much tongue

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
And also if I'm not misinformed I do believe that's the kind of tongue that goes outside your orifices.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
When you said your dog was a "frenchie" that is not what I pictured

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
You know I tried so loving hard to post what a good boy but I couldn't.

Here, a better dog gif

https://i.imgur.com/pAb0hpz.mp4

You're welcome, goddamn.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
Oh and in the meantime someone produced this

https://i.imgur.com/3F39mp1.mp4

Hfs a petri dish of 100 proof nerd poo poo :eek:

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
I'm playing spot the fetish

https://i.imgur.com/5G70Fcc.mp4

Whadya got?

E: vvvvvvvvvvvvv Good one.

Karate Bastard has a new favorite as of 01:07 on Nov 19, 2018

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



https://i.imgur.com/7VA5CRe.gifv

DryGoods
Apr 26, 2014

Dogs, on the other hand, can connect with that pathos.
https://i.imgur.com/pw8k66h.mp4

Poldarn
Feb 18, 2011


BrazIIIIILLLLLL!

CloFan
Nov 6, 2004

Maintain VFR

A+ job

Samuringa
Mar 27, 2017

Best advice I was ever given?

"Ticker, you'll be a lot happier once you stop caring about the opinions of a culture that is beneath you."

I learned my worth, learned the places and people that matter.

Opened my eyes.

BetterToRuleInHell
Jul 2, 2007

Touch my mask top
Get the chop chop

Someone explain to my dumbbrains how this is more cost effective than hiring people to do this. I mean, there's the investment in the tech to do this, the warehouse design to accommodate these lil' bots, and in the end each lil' bot is distributing one package each, whereas a person with a hand truck could or a laundry bin could seemingly do the same thing.

Aramoro
Jun 1, 2012




BetterToRuleInHell posted:

Someone explain to my dumbbrains how this is more cost effective than hiring people to do this. I mean, there's the investment in the tech to do this, the warehouse design to accommodate these lil' bots, and in the end each lil' bot is distributing one package each, whereas a person with a hand truck could or a laundry bin could seemingly do the same thing.

Probably error rate. Packing errors are a massive pain point in logistics. Also this massively parallelises the tasks. So imagine the person putting the parcels on the robot it actually delivering them by hand. The order the parcels are coming in is unknown so she'd have to just go round and round the warehouse finding the right place to drop the parcel off, lots of doubling back and lots of potential for error. With the robots the parcel that has to go to the far corner of this warehouse does not stop any other parcel being delivered.

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

The robots don't sleep, don't eat, don't need bathroom breaks or sick days. They draw no wages, require no healthcare, and they can't sue you. Robots don't need to match or exceed the efficiency of human workers to be cost-effective, because they have far fewer built-in opportunity costs.

Maybe those specific robots don't, but Amazon and a lot of other companies are willing to invest in developing the tech because they know that robots are the future of labor and because they know how valuable it is to control the means of production.

Skippy McPants has a new favorite as of 15:38 on Nov 19, 2018

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

Seriously, each of those bots probably costs like, $50? That's like half a day's wages at a distribution centre somewhere with even a lovely minimum wage.

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

They definitely cost a lot more than that

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Bad Munki
Nov 4, 2008

We're all mad here.


Doesn’t matter, though. It’s a one time cost, and as long as the maintenance cost per hour worked is less than that of a human, the robot wins eventually.

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