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    1. Ravenclaw Conspiracy‏ @RavenclawConsp 11 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot @FreyjaErlings

      Yes, except that pipes don't clog because they have too much stuff passing through them. They clogged because the stuff is stuck, because it's too big or the wrong shape or something.

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    2. Ravenclaw Conspiracy‏ @RavenclawConsp 11 Nov 2020
      Replying to @RavenclawConsp @arthur_affect and

      Both physical pipes, and bandwidth, are limited. There's a finite amount that can be transmitted per second. But the limitations of physical pipes doesn't _cause delays_, because there never has been a system we've set up like that.

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    3. Ravenclaw Conspiracy‏ @RavenclawConsp 11 Nov 2020
      Replying to @RavenclawConsp @arthur_affect and

      We could have hypothetically done this, a giant switching pneumatic tube system. Messages travel through in an automated system, and if you get a lot, messages get delayed or even lost. Exactly like the internet. But we don't have that.

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    4. Arquinsiel Teknogrot‏ @Teknogrot 11 Nov 2020
      Replying to @RavenclawConsp @arthur_affect @FreyjaErlings

      We actually did. You can see it in the wikipedia article. The switch was "a person" and if every tube sent in a message at once that person was going to start delaying messages.

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    5. Ravenclaw Conspiracy‏ @RavenclawConsp 11 Nov 2020
      Replying to @Teknogrot @arthur_affect @FreyjaErlings

      Yes, and basically no person alive _has any experience with that sort of system_. Making it a really shitty metaphor, especially a metaphor for the internet, something that more people had experience with even back then.

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    6. Arquinsiel Teknogrot‏ @Teknogrot 11 Nov 2020
      Replying to @RavenclawConsp @arthur_affect @FreyjaErlings

      ... My local supermarket has it for handling cash. It was built in 2004.

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    7. Ravenclaw Conspiracy‏ @RavenclawConsp 11 Nov 2020
      Replying to @Teknogrot @arthur_affect @FreyjaErlings

      Your supermarket does not have a pneumatic switching system. Your supermarket has a bunch of individual tubes.

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    8. Arquinsiel Teknogrot‏ @Teknogrot 11 Nov 2020
      Replying to @RavenclawConsp @arthur_affect @FreyjaErlings

      Your insistence on a very particular form of hypothetical which you have constructed in great detail while moving goalposts to do so does not help the position of "this is a bad metaphor" as much as you might think.

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    9. Ravenclaw Conspiracy‏ @RavenclawConsp 11 Nov 2020
      Replying to @Teknogrot @arthur_affect @FreyjaErlings

      No, the fact other people keep trying to come up with tubes that sorta kinda but-not-actually do this...rather proves it's a shitty metaphor to start with.

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    10. Ravenclaw Conspiracy‏ @RavenclawConsp 11 Nov 2020
      Replying to @RavenclawConsp @Teknogrot and

      Let me flip the question around: can anyone show me a single tube system where people sometimes try to do things over the tubes, but can't because too many other people are using the tube system, causing their things to be slowed down? A single one, at all.

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Nov 2020
      Replying to @RavenclawConsp @Teknogrot @FreyjaErlings

      Low water pressure Yes, nobody wants specific molecules of water that they ordered from the pumping station that they have to wait for while other people get theirs But as a general metaphor for how it feels to wait a long time for web pages to load it works fine

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