Yes! Thank you!!!

It was really more some kind of oscilloscope that needed to be programmed then it played the whole animation.
I have never heard of that before or after seeing that video and I think it’s a bit of an obscure technology.

True

Is hundreds of thousands of dollars of inventory a lot of inventory?
Depending on the nature of the inventory it could be anything between one machine to a full warehouse. I feel we’d appreciate your comment better if we knew that, and what your normal role in the company is.

A lot of these examples also seem to require you to function differently, or to lie about what you’ve been doing.

I’ll try that! Does it work well for you?

I agree this is all about semantics, you seem to consider nature only for its bad sides (but don’t forget we also get all our food from nature).

Nature is really terrible, actually. It’s an endless cycle of violence, death

Dying sucks but I don’t think we should ever stop doing that (at a reasonable age, let’s be clear).

I agree that being above the violent killing part of nature should be an ideal, but I’m sorry to say I don’t believe we’re there yet, people are still killing; for food, for fun, for greed, just look at the news… :'(

I resent this “man is part of nature” argument because at face value it romanticizes suffering.

Here you raise an important question: does being part of nature exclude us from using technology?

I don’t believe so. To me being part of nature does not mean to live like our ancestors did when there was no manmade things, or when you would get burned at the stake for doing science…
(I’m not sure in what periods of history you would consider we were part of nature).

The way I see it, we could be part of nature while using a lot of the technologies we use today. We would just need to tweak (a lot) of them and drop the use of many more, but I’m convinced that, if everybody started taking their responsibilities, we could find effective ways to produce enough medicine and food without the damage that those currently cause.

So yeah, I get you, you get me, we just don’t mean the same thing when we say nature :)

Thanks for a well thought, well written answer!

I guess I missed the point of the comic a bit…

I think you’re right, they either expressed themselves wrong or misinterpreted the panel.

So, for this I guess there was whoosh! My bad.

I should’ve thought some more before replying to you.
I saw someone defending ecology under a post that could be seen as ridiculing it so my brain went all white knight towards what seemed to me like a pedant dick… But turns out I was the dick.

The point the comic is trying to make is that things were not better in the past, right?

That’s a pretty broad take that is obviously full of holes.

Pretty sure no whoosh happened here and the person you’re replying to was just pointing at one of those holes.

Saying we’re above nature sounds like we’re better than it/better without it (which some people seem to think but please, let’s not give that idea more traction by declaring it a fact).

I think it’s more like humans are trying to separate themselves from nature.

So did you! Pretty sure you’re right about the artist being a dude for the reason you mentioned.
Thanks for giving my point a thought.

I agree with the sentiment but “Absolutely no woman has ever fantasized” about that?

Do you really believe that? If not, why use these words? I don’t think it serves your purpose and it’s too bad.

Don’t hate me please. I’m just talking semantics which are important to me

Openings and indentations aren’t the same thing though, are they?

Where I live there are few unused radio frequencies.
And if you drive for 20 minutes to another region you’ll find that whatever frequency you were on is being used…
I doubt that’s a problem in the USA though.

Glad it worked!

Was it worth much?

Thanks! Haha I will keep you updated on new arrivals in the family :)

Thanks :)

Good idea ^^ I may take it that way

Thanks for the tip! I was wondering how one is supposed to unscrew those and this makes a lot of sense.

I think on of the screws is warped though, I gave the headless one a slit to be able to fit a flathead screwdriver in there and it didn’t help.

I hope I will remember this next time I disassemble a knife.

Thanks!