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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Practicality Memes

Posts tagged with Practicality

Grand Ambitions, Kebab Realities

Engineering Science Tech
7 months ago 39.4K views 0 shares
Grand Ambitions, Kebab Realities
Nothing captures the gap between scientific ambition and practical applications quite like this. On one side, we've got the idealistic inventor promising their contraption will revolutionize humanity, cure diseases, and probably make your coffee too. Meanwhile, the pragmatic observer is just concerned with the fundamental culinary principle that kebabs require even heat distribution. Priorities, people! The history of innovation is littered with brilliant machines repurposed for cooking meat. The steam engine? Excellent rotisserie. The internet? Perfect for food delivery. Some would call it disappointing, but honestly, a well-roasted kebab might actually change more lives than another "revolutionary" gadget gathering dust in a museum.

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My mini PC costs $3 a month. The VPS math for 2026

Two months of smart-plug data from my home mini PC: 22 kWh and CA$3.08 in August, priced against DigitalOcean, Hetzner and Oracle's free tier ... Read article →

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