34 points

Why’s it look like that? It’s cool, but creepy at the same time.

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Fluidic logic is very, very cool. It’s basically a low-bit computer, but using transmission fluid instead of electricity

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This is indeed insanely cool, there’s an animation of an oscillator there that is remarkable. And there’s no moving parts

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Yeah, shit’s wild. The transmissions here aren’t true fluidic computers, because they still have solenoid valves controlled by an external computer, but anything with that much plumbing is basically magic

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6 points

well damn. That reminds me of the classic two BJT oscillator but it’s just fluids

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16 points

Mechanical (?) computers sound very cool. So it like directs flow in a way that resembles binary?

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There’s still actual solenoid valves controlling the flow (acting as the logic gates), the voids you see in these transmissions are the paths the fluid takes, same as traces on a circuit board or chip.

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3 points
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31 points

beautiful designs for my future machine cult

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12 points

Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter

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5 points

I am very interested in joining up. Do early members get anything special, like having a radiator grafted on to our heads or something?

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28 points

Everything about car ownership is against the ideas of “the church.” Financing is a sin. The model year system, which makes people covet new models, is a sin. The fact that we must overindulge ourselves when considering buying a car is a sin. People using their phones and compromising their attention while driving is a sin when people like this forego their responsibility.

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Didn’t know about the demonic chip conspiracy, but now that I think about it, the straight lines and circles do loosely resemble the markings in sigils. We can’t have nice things because the designs resemble runes from 600 years ago. Too bad!

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13 points

Modern PCBs don’t really have through hole connections anyways. It’s all square surface mount pads now.

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they still have vias though

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16 points

Saw the images before the caption and thought they were AI generated.

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