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 [Spinning Fish] We finally know what caused Florida fish to spin in circles until they died. For months, scientists have been racing to figure out what’s ailing and killing dozens of fish species, and to save the critically endangered smalltooth sawfish. Video |
| Airbnb: who is ‘Rachel’, and how has she taken over my booking? When I got a confirmation email addressed to the wrong name. I suspected an error and cancelled. Then £500 was taken from my account. Link |
 [Contrails] Why airplanes leave white streaks in the sky. Contrails are a problem, but not how you might think. Link |
| [Poop Talk] Some s**t you just can’t make up (bad pun intended). Australia’s health campaign praised for encouraging employees to poo at work! On Facebook, a more straightforward post asking followers to “Discuss” pooing at work sparked a lively conversation, amassing over 5,000 likes and 3,600 comments. Link |
 [“Ad overload”] I too am fed up with the bombardment of ads. I switched browsers from Chrome to DuckDuckGo and haven’t received one ad so far. |
| [Obey The Police] With approximately 70 years of interaction with traffic police, I have these comments regarding the Miami football player, Tyreek Hill. I was an aggressive driver and loved to speed, consequently had many interactions with the police. I learned the hard way of how to deal with the police during a traffic stop. First don’t speed, second pay attention to what the officer wants you to do and then comply with his directions. When told to roll down your window — do it. And when told to get out of your car. Just do it. If you don’t the results will not be to your liking. Obviously, the big football star thought he was too important to obey the police instructions and look what happened. So who’s at fault here? It’s the big star |
 Who’s stealing the catch from your fishing line? Shark theft on the rise in Florida. Link |
| [Obey The Police] Police in Miami have released bodycam footage of a traffic stop involving American football star Tyreek Hill, who was pulled from his vehicle and handcuffed by officers. What an asshole. Why is it that Blacks have such a hard time obeying cops? It never, ever, ever turns out well for the driver. Video |
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| [Self-Healing Cars] Testers are doing everything they can to put the company’s protective film to the test. Wire brushes scratch the coating to assess its “self-healing” properties, and a machine affectionately called “the Gravelator” shoots a steady stream of rocks at sample pieces to see if the paint underneath is damaged. Video |
 How Intel lost the Sony PlayStation business. Intel lost out on a contract to design and fabricate Sony’s PlayStation 6 chip in 2022, which dealt a significant blow to its effort to build its fledgling contract manufacturing business, according to three sources with knowledge of the events. Link |
| [Captain Doom and Gloom] Cool machines at work. I have been watching a lot of these tech videos of how things are made. The videos go from a back yard workshop in China to massive industrial factories all over this rock. The Chinese seem impervious to hard, back breaking work, where we Americans want machines to do for us. We have forgotten how to sweat and toil, but bitch and moan that we have to lift a leg to fart. If someone developed a machine, like in a SiFi flick, that makes anything from pure energy, then this world would stop. Try to view some of these videos then worry when China will have such an instant product maker. Videos |
 The Mecanum wheel is an omnidirectional wheel design for a land-based vehicle to move in any direction. It is sometimes called the Swedish wheel or Ilon wheel after its inventor, Bengt Erland Ilon (1923–2008), who conceived of the concept while working as an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB, and patented it in the United States on November 13, 1972. It consists of a series of rubberized external rollers set at a 45° angle to the wheel. Each wheel is independently-driven, and the direction of travel is dependent on the interaction between the directions each wheel is driven in relative to the others. Uses include forklifts which require very tight maneuvering, autonomous robots, and wheelchairs. |
| [Ingenious Engineering Solutions] China will win because they are not afraid to sweat and work hard. Video |
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| Hello Piners! From a land far, far away. |
 A new study has revealed that London’s Crystal Palace was built in just 190 days thanks to a now standard innovation – the screw thread. The design of the glass structure was approved in 1850 and constructed in time for the Great Exhibition of 1851. At more than 560m (1,837ft) long and with a giant glass roof supported by 3,300 cast iron columns, the structure was so large that it would expand by up to 12in (30cm) on a warm day. The study has found that the Crystal Palace is the earliest known building to use Whitworth screw threads, later known as British Standard Whitworth (BSW), the world’s first national screw thread standard. Link |
 [Sick Days] The research supports you taking a sick day. A new psychology survey finds ‘presenteeism’ is bad for both you and your employer. Link |
| [Obey The Police] What is it with people not obeying the police? This insolence is rife with Black people mainly and many White people too. A cop tells them to lie on the ground and they won’t. How do the drivers think it will turn out? Do they think the cops will just go away? |
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 [Assassin] If you could go back in time and kill Hitler, would you? Would it be your duty to kill him knowing what you do now. |
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| [Friend] Just because you know a man doesn’t make him your friend. |
 [New Vehicle Security] A tow truck driver showed me how he enters locked vehicles so he can aid the driver or tow the vehicle.He slipped a thin wedge into the top right corner of the driver’s door between it and the body. Then he pushed the wedge down until there was enough space to insert the dull end of his daughter’s fairy wand into the space and then pushed the rocker switch for the door lock to open. On older vehicles with the kind of lock that you pull up, he had a loop on the end of a different stick that he’d use to pull the thing up. He had an assortment of sticks for every type of door lock. It took him only a minute or two to get into my new Ford pickup. |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 9/17/24 at 8:43 am. |