SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
https://hackaday.com/2023/01/05/excuse-me-your-tie-is-unzipped/
If you ask your typical handyperson what's the one thing you need to fix most things, the answer might very well be duct tape. But second place — and first place in some circles — would have to be zip ties. These little wonders are everywhere if you look for them. But they are a relatively recent invention and haven't always had the form they have today.
The original zip tie wasn't called a zip tie or even a cable tie. In 1958 they were called Ty-Raps and produced by a company called Thomas and Betts. Originally meant to improve aircraft wiring harnesses, they found their way into various electronic equipment and packaging uses. But they've also become helpful in very unusual places too. A policeman trying to round up rioters would have problems carrying more than a few conventional handcuffs. But flexible cuffs based on zip ties are lightweight and easy to carry. Colon surgeons sometimes use a modified form of zip tie during procedures.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday January 10, @04:08PM (10 children)
I satisfied your challenge with my first response, don't you wish you had a less-stressful candidate to spin your yarns about?
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10, @09:34PM (9 children)
No, the challenge was to provide a link to an actual tweet. Despite all your effort and at least five posts you have still failed.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday January 11, @12:59AM (8 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12, @11:32PM (7 children)
So the four year media blitz about Trump's incessant tweeting was about one Tweet.
And the challenge was to provide a link. Six posts, no link. You have not passed the challenge. But you can give yourself a participation trophy.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 13, @05:17PM (6 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13, @08:48PM (5 children)
Have you really convinced yourself that you provided a link? I mean I can sort of understand you being wrong when all the media you see is telling you the same thing, but you can just scroll up the page and read this whole thread. No link.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 13, @08:58PM (4 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 14, @02:55AM (3 children)
My stated point was that despite four years of media outrage over Trumps incessant racist and sexist tweeting, you cannot provide a link to a single racist or sexist tweet.
You then claim that one tweet that did not have Trump being racist or sexist - but was deleted because someone in the background of a video was - somehow proves that the media outrage was correct and Trump incessantly made racist and sexist tweets for four years.
Point stands.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday January 14, @03:59AM (2 children)
If you were actually serious about proving your point you wouldn't be going "show me one tweet!" then bitching that you didn't get a thousand when the first one becomes too much for you to tackle.
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 14, @09:00AM (1 child)
So you admit that more than four years of media hysteria was about one tweet.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday January 14, @05:31PM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩