And I’m sure AI will be able to do all the wiring and plumbing and decorating /s

See also: Frome, Beauchief, Alnwick, and basically anywhere in Wales

For rectangular ones like this they often build it on shore as a big metal tube, and sink it into the water afterwards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersed_tube

(unprompted)

Their bread is sweet, their chocolate tastes like vomit, and everything has high fructose corn syrup in it

On the other hand, real Texas bbq is amazing

In the UK it’s a first-year university student, what Americans would call a freshman, but I doubt that’s what the meme means

I remember the first time I had beef wellington as a kid, not knowing what was in it and thinking oh it’s just a long meat pie, then being incredibly confused why the first bit of meat I got to just kept on going

Man I want some now, might have to make one

It’s been a long time since I read the Magician’s Nephew tbf, but I’m pretty sure she was there too?? This was not the flex he thought it was

Grandaddy grades the peas

Twice as long - all the structural elements are the same, you just line up more of them

Engineers love these things because they’re real easy to design, and very efficient in usable volume vs materials (which is why they’re used for every warehouse/big store/factory)

Obviously not great for living in or anything but that’s the joke :)

If engineers had our way all buildings would look like this

This is the ideal building. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like 😆

It’s not really smooth up close haha just standard sorta 0.2mm layer height, sanded down a little, then I spray painted them gold which hid some of the rough spots

And yeah I’m a big believer in repairable tech, 3d printers are huge in terms of being able to replace the kind of custom shaped plastic parts that the manufacturer doesn’t sell spares of and the appliance is completely unusable without (as I’m sure is the intention 🙄 planned obsolescence is truly one of the worst things we’ve ever come up with)

I mostly use mine for functional stuff, odd shaped brackets, pipe adaptors, electronics enclosures, so not very photogenic, but my two favourite things were a replacement door latch for the microwave, saved the cost of buying a new one, and a very nerdy bit of wall art 🖖