quietsamurai98

"Freeman contends that the works are substantially similar because both take place in a high school in Alaska. Alaska is a place known to the public, so setting a novel in Alaska is not copyrightable. Neither is setting a novel about teenagers in a high school."

"Each heroine also has a biracial gay male friend, both of whom are charismatic and charming and occasionally provide comic relief. But none of these traits is copyrightable."

i'm pretty sure the design i'm using is some kind of frankenstein of a table loom and a rigid heddle loom. it has two shafts, both of which have rigid heddles, with one being able to raise the "even" warp strings and the other being able to raise the "odd" warp strings (and neither being able to lower any warp strings). the two shafts can be raised/lowered independently of each other, but a shed only forms if you raise one and lower the other, so there isn't much point to raising our lowering both at once.

you can only do a 6" wide plain weave with it, which is just fine for what i have in mind (a red and black plaid scarf)

but man... that eight shaft 11" 3d printed loom is calling to me like the green goblin mask...

i must not start a new project.

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.