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a reminder that some CD drives in the early 2000s reached high read speeds by just spinning CDs so fast they would sometimes shatter in the drive, and some manufacturers compensated for this with reinforced fronts

qedata.se/e_js_n-cdrom.htm and these magnificent people ran an experiment on when various media would shatter

tl;dr, if you want shards of plastic fired at you at half the speed of sound, old 50+-speed CD drives are where it's at

hey im signal boosting for my friends, pls commission them so one of them can fly down here to see the other and be Real Gay bugwing.tumblr.com/post/177009

remember when they might be giants put this on a shirt as a direct reference to this bizarre old album cover

@theoutrider
Do you think they'll ever stop trying to shoe horn the block chain into everything

🎉WOOHOO!🎉
Fully TWENTY mini grants (posts.bcavello.com/post/174519) have been allocated, & I hate to say it but we still HAVEN'T HEARD BACK from some recipients! 🙀 CHECK YOUR SPAM
Emails from me had "your Mini Grant is here!" in subject
⚠️Any unclaimed grants at the end of this week will be re-allocated! ⚠️

PLEASE BOOST!

@Siphonay@octodon.social what's that? You were expecting waluigi time?

too bad, waluigi time.

@Doggo@meow.social
With metal 3d printing inching ever closer to consumer availability, and hard wearing abs plastic extrusion printers already on the market and getting better, this could very well be a practical reality in the near future. Main challenges will be the moving parts though like wheels and such

video games were invented in 1975 by video kojima when he tried to make a movie and accidentally added Buttons

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