This goes really well with the post a few lines up “TIL: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels”

She was probably very relatable to them.

My coworker moved to Sweden for three years, and his kids had a much less favorable experience.

Language classes in school are horrible. You’re going for an hour a day for 180 days, with significant gaps every few months, and moving at the rate of the slowest learners in the class.

500 hours of constant, immersive study would likely get you most of the way there, which is not the same as being immersed for 500 hours without study :)

I thought I was doing well with Duolingo once, then realized, 40 hours in, that I had almost no concept of formal/informal, and barely had any verb conjugation or grammar.

I love French idioms. A couple of years of high school French decades ago has left me with recognization of maybe a couple of hundred nouns.

blah blah blah blah fish… wait what?

To a person who is drowning the fish.

I just looked up my state laws, and yeah, it specifically states parallel.

Fucking YIKES

TIL

Have you seen the prices on the non-Euclidean filament these days? Only Voidstar labs can afford that shit.

it’s a gear, so you need the layers to be perpendicular to the rotation to give it a chance, but the final drive interface came up off the gear like a tophat. It was not a good candidate for FDM. Realistically, it wasn’t a good candidate for resin either. The tophat really needed to be metal with an interface into resin or nylon for the gear to gear surfaces.

Resin was one of my early thoughts. The original Nylon is pretty tough, and they kept breaking gears. (I think he was overvolting it) He tried replacement boxes but they just broke immediately, he managed to get a couple of original gears at $80 a piece, but they didn’t last long either.

I think the right answer would have been to replace the motor with something that had a higher Kv and done a belt drive. (like electric skate parts with a little more ratio)

Yeah, even annealing it didn’t help much. I think the original part of the injection-molded nylon was a bit under-specified.

It would have been a good project for metal, but it would have been 4 years in the box and cost more than the original ride-on.

Gear D was what broke, it delivers the full thrust to the final axel and take most of the force when the wheel take a hit. there’s no welding that

I printed an ABS powerwheels gear out for a friend to test the fit. 100% infill, tt was chonky, was going to get it redone in nylon.

it fit and was ripped to shreds in 30 seconds :)

I’ve had a good one before. They’re rare AF. Most places just seem to throw some overcooked butter-drenched lobster claw meat on a Pepperidge Farm top split and call it a day. You need to go somewhere with an actual chef to get one properly executed. (or maybe an ancient Northeastern grandmother)

Lobster salad, no huge chunks, relatively dry, properly salted, moderately spiced. A Top-split roll that’s soft on the outside and crunchy butter-fried on the inside.

Even at their best, you won’t cry for it when it’s gone. It’ll just be a “that was good” and a nice solemn happiness that you ate it.

Neither is meat, but if you slice through it it can be.

Living bones aren’t as rocklike as they seem.

Kryptonite lays him out right away even from a reasonable distance.

Even the plutonium demon core won’t kill us right away.

A little touch of hydrogen cyanide and we’re gone though. We’re fragile AF

It’s almost twice as many characters, but only one more syllable. It feels so long counting it out :)

of course, english has a lot going on that’s unreasonable as well so …

or fingersAtTheEndOfTheFeetNotToBeConfusedWithTheOnesOnTheHands

In 1991, I worked at a Christmas tree farm. They had an ancient tube stereo with an 8 track and one single Christmas tape. Volume at 11.

In 1994, I got a job at a newly built Staples. They had no internet and they chouldn’t get their satellite connection to work, so they sent us a commercial song box that contained an 8 track of pop songs from the 70’s. To this day, I can’t listen to Sweet Home Alabama.

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Zillow estimates 5.7 mil.