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ah how could i forget to post my own blackout poetry piece

Some nerd: Pokémon USUM sucks

Me: You can do a photoshoot with God

Nerd: What-

Me:

So you can just sorta… chill near octosnipers/commanders, and if you are close enough they can’t do anything about it.

some dudes like to talk a big game about how comedy suffers when people are afraid to offend but man, Mitch Hedberg was a white dude working in the era of peak offensive edgelord and his shit holds the fuck up so while most comedians will never come up with anything as timeless as “if carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up” they could at least make an effort

why was edward elric named the fullmetal alchemist, why not the punching alchemist, because by god did he punch some shit

edward elric, the dude who punched the gate of truth open just so he could yell a little longer at his little brother

edward elric, the dude who punched his own dad in the face, his dad, who’s kind of immortal

edward elric, the dude who punched God. like literally. straight up fucking decked him

My grandmother is very afraid of birds. Very afraid, not a fan at all. And, for SOME reason, I don’t know why, my brothers invested in a life sized garden ornament of an owl. We don’t even have a garden to decorate, I have no clue why this is in the house, but in any case they put it in my mum’s room because it had the most space. My grandmother nipped in to get something and lo and behold; she spies the owl.

Naturally, she FLIPS. Slams the door shut, sprints to me, and then, all at once, the fear subsided as her brain kicked back in and told her it was an ornament.

But my mum was asleep in that room. She still is.

What my grandmother did was walk in, spy what she thought was a very real bird of prey and LOCKED MY MUM IN WITH IT

BAD NEWS, MA

THE OWL IS YOUR PROBLEM; DON’T GET MAIMED

more flame sigil doodles

izana’s actually buff af - seriously, check out his my room sprite… these guys were actually really fun to do bc they fall so far out of my usual style ( ‾ʖ̫‾) probably will draw some kid requests next 

How do you prolong the useful life of lubricants?

Wind turbines towering hundreds of feet over many landscapes herald a future of endless, clean energy.

But in a crucial sense, turbines remain rooted in the past: Much like with your car, their engines require lubrication to run smoothly. The question for many chemical engineers is, how do you prolong the useful life of the lubricants?

In a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vineeth Chandran Suja, a Stanford graduate student in chemical engineering, explores one of the core problems: foaming oil.

The problem, he says, is that whether it’s in your car or a wind turbine, each time metal gears grind against other metals, oil gets sloshed around and mixed with air. This often results in the formation of tiny bubbles with varying lifespans. If the bubbles don’t immediately burst, they soon collect into a foam, which is one of the primary mechanisms of engine decline.

The foam is harmful in a variety of ways. It degrades the lubricant and allows gears to grind. Oxygen trapped in oil foams causes the metal parts to oxidize, that is, to rust. And the foam acts like a thermal insulator, trapping harmful heat in the system. Hence, lubricant manufacturers are actively looking for ways to mitigate lubricant foaming.

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