It was useful for asking questions that neither you nor the other person would want to put in a public post. For example, someone posted a picture in the bad real estate sub that looked very familiar, and I sent a DM asking “is this X location?”. I might not want people to know I’m familiar with X location, they might not want people to know they’re familiar with X location, but maybe we’re both ok with each other knowing.

But I’m pretty sure its main use was sending hate to people without getting banned.

Yeah about that meteor https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#%2F%3Fsstr=2024+YR4&view=OPC

All the math is weird. 36yr from 2025 is 13149 days = 315576 hr = 18934560 min = 1136073600 sec. But maybe they’re saying there’s still 16:44:25 left until their actual birthday?

Looks like a gear ratchet. Slope on the left piece allows a gear to rotate in one direction. Clamp on a bar on the right allows the assembly to be lifted to allow the gear to rotate in the other direction as well. Like a sort of gear brake?