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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Oceanliner Designs - lots of interesting videos about titanic & other ships of that era.

    Caitlin Doughty/ask a mortician - lots of cool video essays about death

    B1M - lots of cool engineering related videos

    Evan & Katelyn - lots of cool resin creations… gives me cooking channel vibes where after watching a video, i have an intense urge to make things i dont need.

    Well Theres Your Problem - a podcast about engineering disasters… with slides

    Tasting History with Max Miller - a cooking channel that is also a history lesson… super cool

    In addition, just a bunch of urban planning youtube (city beautiful/city nerd/oh the urbanity, etc) & video game content





  • Well known in pittsburgh… really just tastes like a really shitty lunchable IMO. Every time im visiting the city, i grab a piece due to its regional uniqueness… every time though, i immediately regret my decision.

    Also, not sure if it is actually a thing, or if it is just a really weird restaurant, but just east of pittsburgh, theres a pizza restaurant that uses pie dough (like for apple pies) instead of pizza dough. They pair it with an extremely sweet tomato sauce. Was super weird









  • From my understanding, its more along the lines of “risk averse regulators see the side effects as unacceptable”… not “crybaby men are crybabies” like your post infers. (Seriously, your post has some really toxic vibes)

    Birth control has a lot of very horrible side effects… in addition to the common hormonal changes, they also come with things such as an increased risk of stroke.

    For women, child birth is extremely intense on the body with lots of increased risk. Lets look at the stroke side effect as an example… birth control causes increased risk of stroke, but pregnancy causes an even higher risk of stroke. Its easy for regulators to justify the stroke risk of birth control because it actively prevents the higher stroke risk of pregnancy.

    For men, child birth comes with no risk whatsoever because they cant physically get pregnant. lets look at that same stroke side effect for example… birth control provides increased risk of stroke, but comes with no medical benefit. that increased risk is extremely difficult to medically justify.

    Essentially, childbirth/pregnancy is extremely high risk for women, which makes it easier to justify the side effects for a medication that prevents it. The risks of childbirth/pregnancy dont exist for men though, so its much harder to justify the same side effects.

    Yes, it feels unfair and fucked up, but thats because reproduction is inherently unfair and fucked up…

    there may be something to be said about whether or not the regulators factor in the externalities of the pregnant partner when looking at approving such medication… i have absolutely no clue though.





  • Here are a few that I find have consistent high quality content:

    The B1M… His videos seem to really get into the nitty gritty logistics of various large construction projects.

    Caitlin Doughty (Ask a Mortician)… I feel like each video is better than the previous. The historical death documentaries are incredible.

    Climate Town… Videos about climate change & has a really fun sense of humor.

    Neo… Lots of really cool explanatory videos. The editing is really good as well! The recent video on the presidential motorcade was very cool.

    And one more… Reckless Ben… IDK if it really fits within the prompt of this thread… The channel is tough to watch with all the annoying humor & there is a lot of hit-or-miss videos, but at least lately, it seems to really be doing some very interesting things. I enjoyed his series on mckamey manor.



  • I live in an apartment that is right next to active train tracks… a few floors up, i have a prime view of the tracks from my windows/balcony… its a heavily used corridor that sees both freight and passenger service.

    While im not really into trains, (more of a nuisance for me… being essentially right above the tracks), i will say, ive seen some really cool shit that really gave me a real appreciation for people who enjoy trains… since moving here, i find myself actually going to the window to watch them more often than anticipated.

    Personally, the coolest stuff ive seen hasnt been the freight or passenger trains, but the ultra specialized equipment used to maintain the tracks… some examples:

    1- one day, they replaced the railroad ties under the tracks. They had a really cool set of machinery that i can only describe as a robot on rails… the front of it pulled out every other tie, the back installed a new tie in its place with a bunch of other steps in-between.

    2-they were shipping a bunch of railroad rails. The rails were in long continuous segments that spanned the entire train’s length… my apartment perch is on a relatively sharp curve in the rails (really pleasant for noise /s), so it was cool to see how they handled it… the train essentially shimmied back and forth only a few feet at a time to allow their rail payload to bend and adjust to the curve in the track.


  • When i was a kid, a mexican restaurant chain shut down after a bunch of people got sick/died of hepatitis A in my city.

    The day they reopened, it was highly publicized on the local news, and my family went there to eat… i asked my dad if he was concerned about getting sick. He stopped, looked me in the eye, and told me with the upmost confidence “i guarantee you that this will be the cleanest restaurant meal you will ever have in your life”…

    i feel a similar concept applies to this situation… with all the eyes on the 737 max8, there is no way management is going to sell one if it has outstanding flaws/safety issues.