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  • Yes, in this sense.

    Clicking the mechanism converts the manual input to a mechanical or electrical output.

    If you pushed the lead down entirely by hand it wouldn’t be a mechanical pencil, which is exactly why you pushing or flipping a plastic cover into place entirely with your own muscle power makes it a manual shutter.

    When you type on a mechanical keyboard, what, precisely, do you think is happening? Are you literally outputting a letter by pressing your finger down? For that matter, what do you think a mechanical keyboard does?

    Fucking Google it.

    I do love having to explain basic terminology to a relatively well educated yet stupendously deaf audience.

    Really restores my faith in humanity.

    We’re not fucking cooked, and the mental infantilization of the population is not complete.




  • Do you believe a ball is a mechanical system?

    You can have a manual input to a mechanical system. For example, pulling a lever to operate a machine.

    The typical distinction is whether it uses and translates the input through various mechanisms. Moving a shutter with your thumb is not a mechanical shutter.

    Flipping a switch or pushing a button to do same thing could be. The manual input is translated to a separate output instead of the person providing the energy directly.

    Did I explain this middle school vocabulary lesson to your satisfaction?








  • Yeah I worked at a Subway in college.

    We’d just set it aside and it became a worker’s sandwich later.

    Literally my favorite moment working there: Some douche was trying to be aggressive about the cost for some reason I don’t remember, some nonsense of some sort. Said he wasn’t going to pay for what he ordered. I say “Okay! Bye!” and threw that shit in the trash right in front of him. The sheer shock on his face as his little tantrum didn’t work out the way he wanted… Like we were paid enough to give a shit, lol.