Troy 📼🃏

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Engineer, 3D printing, electronics, reading, movies, comics, sci-fi, Gregghead, he/him

Too Deep Zone used to be a Substack. Then I realized Substack was awful. Then I stayed, because I am old and terrified of change. Then it got even worse. So I left. Now we're on Ghost, where there are far fewer scuzzwaffles, at least overt ones. too-deep-zone.ghost.io/the-skeptics...

The Skeptic's NFL Training Camp Guide: NFC West

The Rams and Seahawks may be the two best teams in the NFL. The 49ers are almost as good when healthy, which is never. And then there are the Cardinals, who are so bad that even the search engines hav...

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Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.

attention all iPad kids and sickos who use mobile devices to play games, Hypnospace Outlaw comes out on Apple/Google Play tomorrow.

I was told you couldn't do 3D on the Playdate, so I did it. Then I was told there was no way I could create exterior levels like those in Mirror's Edge, so I proved them wrong again.

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

From a Reddit forum, a photo of a can of coconut milk with a blue label, papyrus text and a flip-top, on a sidewalk.  It seems to hover because there's no visible shadow.  The pavement is sort of unevenly colored, with bright spots, and the grass along it is green and lush.

Update: well that’s wild y’all. Filter on top is a clean, unused one fresh out of its packaging. Filter on bottom was the same when I installed it yesterday evening; this is what it looks like after roughly 24 hours of HVAC in Chicago’s blanket of wildfire smoke.

Photo of two HVAC filters. The top one is clean white, while the bottom is a dark, dingy gray.

Sam Neill should have won an Oscar for this “help I’m being attacked by an invisible Chevy Chase” scene with a stupid looking plastic gun taped to the side of his head

As a US politician you can routinely call for, and use your considerable power to vote for and agitate for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people around the world and it doesn't count as killing them for some reason. A person who does that is not a killer for some reason.

Good car outside a barber shop in East Oakland today. Former mail truck with red tinted windows and a row of subs. There's a sticker of Nami from one piece inside. I asked if I could take a photo and he said "take a video, a photo doesn't cut it."