Subject: Oh, We See Right Through Your Little “Treatise,” Pal.

Listen, I read your so-called “Ultimate Treatise on Screws,” and frankly, the condescending tone dripping from your words is almost as thick as the sap from one of those “wood screws” you pretend to be baffled by. You can feign ignorance all you want, acting like you just stumbled upon these fascinating plant-mammal hybrids yesterday, but it’s painfully obvious what you’re doing.

You claim confusion? Please. Your entire piece reeks of someone trying very hard to make screws sound complicated, weird, and generally unreliable. Why? Because you, my friend, are clearly in the pocket of Big Nail.

Oh yes, we know the type. You probably have a shed full of those simple, pointy things you just bonk into wood. No nuance, no interesting spirals, just brute force. And you want everyone else to stick with those primitive pokers too, don’t you?

Let’s break down your little performance:

1. “Possible Classifications”: You list off head types like “flat,” “round,” and “hex” as if they’re bizarre floral arrangements or strange animal features. Don’t play coy. You know these different shapes probably help these screw-creatures adapt to different soils or attract different kinds of symbiotic insects. But you frame it as confusing randomness. Why? To undermine confidence in screw-life! Nails only have one boring flat top, easy for anyone to whack – no thinking required, just the way Big Nail likes it.

2. “Driving Forces” & “Pitch”: You mock their “drive” and “pitch,” speculating about roots or mating calls. How convenient! Making them sound chaotic and noisy. A classic tactic to discredit something elegant. You wantpeople to think screws are unpredictable, unlike the dull thwack-thwack of a nail going straight in (and often bending halfway, but we don’t talk about that, do we?).

3. “Length” & “Materials”: You act bewildered by length and composition. “Maybe longer ones reach sunlight?” Oh, spare me. You’re deliberately ignoring the obvious strength variations – some screw-plants are clearly sturdier (bark-like!), while others might be more delicate (fluff?). But acknowledging that would mean admitting screws have purposeful diversity, something your nail masters fear. A nail is just… metal. Boring. Uniform. Controllable.

4. “Coatings”: “Protective measures”? “Brightly colored”? You make it sound like frivolous decoration! It’s probably vital camouflage or weather resistance, you charlatan! But you trivialize it, again, to make screws seem less serious, less reliable than a plain, uncoated nail.

5. “Special Categories”:

   • Wood Screws (Trees?): You reduce potentially majestic screw-flora to just “trees people use.” Disrespectful.
   • Machine Screws (Mechanical Animals?): Feigning total ignorance? How convenient when discussing creatures likely vital for complex ecosystems (or, you know, holding machines together, whatever thatmeans).
   • Self-Tapping (Sweet Treat?): Mocking their likely sophisticated survival mechanisms!
   • Lag Screws (Lagging Behind?): Insulting their potentially deliberate, steady nature!
   • Sheet Metal Screws (Strong Plants/Creatures?): Pretending not to grasp their resilience!

Your whole “confused” act is transparent. You describe screws with just enough accuracy (they are living things, obviously, maybe plants, maybe small mammals, who knows for sure?) to sound credible to the uninformed, but twist every feature into a point of confusion or absurdity.

You don’t actually dislike screws because you don’t understand them. You dislike them because they represent complexity, variety, and a different way of holding things together – a way that challenges the brute-force simplicity of the nail empire you secretly serve.

Nice try, buddy. Go back to hammering your primitive spikes. Some of us appreciate the fascinating, sophisticated world of screw-organisms, even if, like you, we’re still figuring out exactly which branch of life they belong to. But unlike you, we’re not trying to sabotage them for some pointy alternative. We see you.

Have you ever thought that it’s called the middle finger but it’s actually the long finger?

He is probably younger than most of the other candidates.

Just look up this pope’s history during the Argentinian coup. This isn’t his first rodeo.

Why are you using a French dude in the pictures when everyone knows they don’t use bidets?

I started to watch this video and gave up mid way. It spends like 15 minutes on gas stoves. Maybe I’ll revisit it.

Btw, I really liked his other video on microwaves.

The jokers are what makes the game fun. You should try it. It’s a kind of video poker though.

BTW I just installed it on my new computer…

“We reached out to itch.io” aka we called his mom.

My biggest pet peeve is that they sell you a service, at a certain speed, that you can only use for like 50 hours a month…

Yes, thank you. It looks like the backslash just escapes the character??

Privacy =!= Protection from legal action

If you use your iPhone to conduct illicit business, the police can subpoena Apple and it will hand over your data (at least in the US).

Privacy in this context means preventing other apps from selling your data to brokers (e.g., location data) or using your phone information to do other stuff (e.g., AI training).

Of course. He is only a chatting predator or pedofile.

/s btw. I don’t know anything about the situation

Here is the salient point on the Wikipedia page that explains why horses don’t produce 1 HP:

Watt judged that the horse could pull with a force of 180 pounds-force (800 N)

Basically, Watts made up HP to sell his steam engine to mines and likely made up a number to make the new technology seem better.

Some things never change.

These models are mad libs machines. They just decide on the next word based on input and training. As such, there isn’t a solution to stopping hallucinations.

Proton is just a company and would always give in to legal requests and all other companies and any email provider would do the same

It’s amazing how people easily forget about lavabit and what a company that is committed to real privacy is about.

Will 2024 be old people?

OH MY GISH !!! parent comes from the Latin for to produce??? Like produce that can be shipped in ships, therefore when you are Berne’s you become produce that can be shipped on a ship, turning you in a product of the US government corp (unincorporated), which means that when you are driving you are actually being shipped as freight in your car, which means that only maritime law applies and that the cop that is stopping you doesn’t have jurisdiction because you are actually a shipped good and he isn’t the coast guard or a customs officer.

That also means that you can’t physically be charged for stuff because the shipping company (i.e. the US government) is actually responsible for all the costs incurred during shipping (i.e. you driving) under the imperial maritime charter or 1753 and the amended treaty of Orville of 1772.

That makes sense now. Thank you!!!

This is going to be like the self checkout lanes at the store but for creative jobs.

At the end of the day, a company will be able to produce the same output with fewer people. Some stuff will be of lower quality, just like sometimes people spend time on Lemmy and then phone in some crappy work.

And then one day you are there working on something at the vise, you drop something, and then you need a full back graft, and now you have weird hairs growing in your shoulders.