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    • GustafG
      Gustaf
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      Maybe not, but it will allow us to feign interest in half the conversations here.

      "Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz

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      • Gators1G
        Gators1
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        Tim De Chant  /  May 12

        Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that’s stronger than steel | TechCrunch

        Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that’s stronger than steel | TechCrunch

        The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.

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          oyaji @Gators1
          last edited by

          @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

          Tim De Chant  /  May 12

          Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that’s stronger than steel | TechCrunch

          Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that’s stronger than steel | TechCrunch

          The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.

          First line:
          “…It actually comes from a lab in Maryland.”

          © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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          • TazzT
            Tazz
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            2018 project in Japan

            Jenni Marsh  /  Feb 20, 2018  /  style,design

            Tokyo to build world’s tallest timber tower | CNN

            Tokyo to build world’s tallest timber tower | CNN

            The W350 will stand 1,148 feet tall, be completed by 2041, and cost an estimated 600 billion yen ($5.6 billion) to build.

            GTFO

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            • PakoonP
              Pakoon @Gators1
              last edited by

              @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

              Tim De Chant  /  May 12

              Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that’s stronger than steel | TechCrunch

              Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that’s stronger than steel | TechCrunch

              The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.

              Isn’t it good Maryland wood

              ♙♙♙ Michael Waltz added you to the group.

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              • O
                oyaji
                last edited by

                @Tazz As I recall, the Germans have been doing some big projects in wood as well, just not to this scale, 1,000+ feet!

                © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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                • Gators1G
                  Gators1
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                  At least Maryland is good for something. Maybe all those assholes will leave my Virginia roads and go carve some wood steel shit or something?

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                  • PakoonP
                    Pakoon
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                    I wonder if you could use it to make a veneer chair that is less than 2mm thick.

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                    • Gators1G
                      Gators1
                      last edited by

                      Or a very durable and not ghey desk lamp?

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                      • PakoonP
                        Pakoon @Gators1
                        last edited by

                        @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                        Or a very durable and not ghey desk lamp?

                        That too.

                        ♙♙♙ Michael Waltz added you to the group.

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                        • Gators1G
                          Gators1
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                          Moar FPSs!!!

                          Moore's Law is Dead — Welcome to Light Speed Computers

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                          • JamJ
                            Jam @Pakoon
                            last edited by

                            @Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                            @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                            Tim De Chant  /  May 12

                            Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that’s stronger than steel | TechCrunch

                            Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that’s stronger than steel | TechCrunch

                            The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.

                            Isn’t it good Maryland wood

                            Class A rated so that must be why you didn’t light a fire!!!

                            "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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                            • Gators1G
                              Gators1
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                              Get rid of shitty Google search results with eleventy ads…

                              The Secret Google URL For The "Good" Search Version

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                              • GustafG
                                Gustaf @Gators1
                                last edited by Gustaf

                                @Gators1

                                Dumb and Dumber - We Landed on the Moon!

                                "Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz

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                                • TazzT
                                  Tazz
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                                  Screenshot_20250624_091737_Brave.jpg

                                  GTFO

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                                    oyaji
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                                    “If it still ain’t fixed, get a bigger hammer!”

                                    © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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                                    • Gators1G
                                      Gators1
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                                      Looks like we are offshoring CEOs now.

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                                      • GustafG
                                        Gustaf
                                        last edited by

                                        All of their parents are still disappointed they’re not doctors.

                                        "Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz

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                                          oyaji
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                                          Cheating is endemic in their society. So are these people India’s (and by extension, the world’s) greatest cheaters?

                                          © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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                                          • KilemallK
                                            Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @oyaji
                                            last edited by

                                            @oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                            Cheating is endemic in their society. So are these people India’s (and by extension, the world’s) greatest cheaters?

                                            Don’t forget unremitting class war.

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