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This smoking pipe made from asbestos (media.piefed.social)

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[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm stealing that theory and practice quote. That's great.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

I stole it too, enough decades ago that I forget who I heard it from. I think it may have been an old grizzled Chem Engineering professor my first semester of college