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What if you just made the whole bone titanium
a couple weeks ago I posted about how bone grows into titanium implants because cells can't find the boundary
turns out there's a catch engineers have been trying to solve for years:
titanium is too stiff (~110 GPa vs spongy bone's 0.02–3.7 GPa)
so the metal takes all the load, and the real bone around it actually weakens because physics says "why maintain structure that isn't carrying stress?" (stress shielding)
enter selective laser melted Zn-1Mg-0.1Sr gyroid scaffolds:
→ mathematically generated TPMS gyroid lattice (70% porous, 550 μm pores)
→ elastic modulus tuned right down to 2.3 GPa so it flexes like real cancellous bone
→ alloying zinc with 1% Mg + 0.1% Sr precipitates Mg2Zn11 & SrZn13 intermetallics, more than doubling strength over pure zinc (33.7 MPa)
→ degrades at 0.36 mm/year with zero hydrogen gas pockets
and the wildest part
as it dissolves, it turns its own surface into calcium-phosphate & zinc-phosphate minerals while feeding Zn2+ and Sr2+ ions that make bone-forming cells grow faster
titanium tricks the skeleton into adopting permanent metal
this thing holds the load, feeds the bone to rebuild itself, and vanishes when the job is done.
radical engineering.
Agent Orange 🇺🇲 retweeted
In any case there is a limited number of men and women in the world and what behavior you engage runs the risk of actively lowering the volume of desirable mates, leaving tons of people unhappy. Unrestricted sexual access is an idea that was deemed too stupid to try in any society prior to our own for reasons which should be self evident
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>be Lula
>get convicted of corruption
>get sentenced to 12 years
>get released by the STF on procedural errors
>never actually acquitted lmao
>beat Jair Bolsonaro in 2022
>Jair gets thrown into jail over an alleged coup attempt
>Congress votes to cut his sentence
>Lula vetoes it
>four years later, face his son
>during a debate, threaten to also lock him up if he loses the election
>election day
>former private lawyer, now STF judge, extends voting by 2 hours nationwide
>request came from Lula's own coalition
>win by 4 million votes in a runoff with no paper trail
>next day, Moraes orders the losing candidate to surrender his passports
>victory speech: "we're going to regulate social media"
>"democracy" lmao
>RIP Brazil
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Had a nice moment at dinner last night. My 4 year old son reached out hands and wanted to pray before dinner…we say grace with varying frequency but he likes it (and we do too when we remember)
After I blessed our meal, he wanted a turn to talk…he listed a bunch of things he was thankful for in a childlike way…his dad, his mom, his sister, his dog, his cat etc…I said wow we have a lot to be thankful for!
Then my daughter added a comment about how many things and I repeated an old maxim I forget the origin of:
“Count your blessings, list them one by one and you’ll be amazed at what the Lord has done.”
Hang on to these odd moments amici, life passes in a blink.
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Fun fact, Congress once passed a law that any American woman would lose her citizenship upon marriage to a foreign man
I'm sure this is entirely offensive to modern feminist sensitivities, but it doesn't seem too out of line with scripture or historic western culture
He’s been married to an American citizen, has been for four years.
That should be automatic citizenship with your marriage license! That is bullcrap!
@DonJBacon
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I remember like 4 weeks ago when you guys had a Nation Wide Scitzophrenic Episode about American invasion and were begging for mercy and for money
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"What do you mean, 'There are heroes on both sides'? What are the political commitments of the Confederates?"
Who cares? This is what people don't understand about the "politics" of Star Wars. You know exactly what the opening crawl means. This is an epic battle between evenly matched forces, who are both doing some of the coolest Warhammer 40k shit you've ever seen and blowing each other to smithereens. It literally doesn't even matter who's on whose side or why. The battle is just a maelstrom Anakin and Obi-Wan have to make their way through, flying like angels in perfect synchrony, to heroically rescue Satan from the clutches of Robert E. Lee.
Then their ship gets ripped in half by an attack from their own forces, and Anakin, the Messiah of the Universe, has to crash-land it through the atmosphere with the aid of his best friend, Errol Flynn, while the evil Emperor and R2-D2 glance at each other pensively, betting it all on their heroes. That's the opening of the film.
Let's dispense once and for all with this fiction that George Lucas didn't know what he was doing. He knew EXACTLY what he was doing.
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Fake & Gay!
Moussa Diawara, the Malian national featured in this shockingly poorly researched @60Minutes report, now faces allegations of immigration FRAUD after his asylum application surfaced, revealing that he claimed to be a HOMOSEXUAL man who feared persecution in Mali.
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🚨 #FOXEXCLUSIVE: 60 Minutes featured a deported Malian national whose wife and two children spoke about how much they miss him and want him home.
But we exclusively obtained Moussa Diawara’s asylum application, where he said he was seeking asylum in the U.S. because he was gay and feared being killed if sent back.
Now, DHS is pointing to his case as an example of alleged immigration fraud.
In his own words, Diawara wrote:
“Although I was born as a boy, but things appeared differently for me as I was already having female behaviors and feelings.”
“I was more comfortable being intimate with boys rather than with girls.”
And describing his life after arriving in the United States:
“Since I came to the USA I had the possibilities to express my feelings to men without any embarrassment no reserve.”
Read the asylum application for yourself:
Every time I feel like an ugly chud a girl will smile at me or flirt and then I'll think about it for the next few weeks.
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I started these Shadow of the Colossus paintings in acrylic. When they are dry a glaze and vellatura layer woll be applied to deepen the shadows and create atmospheric effects.
