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Cake day: February 26th, 2026

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  • I’m really excited that Durham where I live has a new program called HEART where you can dispatch non-police first responders. One time I was at a library down town and someone came in from one of the rent controlled housing areas down the street and asked them to call someone, or call 911, and they said “do you want us to call police, or call HEART?” So the person said HEART and someone came and talked with them about what was going on

    I don’t know what they were dealing with or what they needed help with, but it makes me happy that there are more tools in our community’s toolbox now, because when all you have is a man with a gun, every social issue looks like criminals doing something nefarious who you must shoot. We need people who can engage with the social issues folks are facing





  • The geometry of the area the bit slots into is different

    I believe the difference is that the Philips bit is kind of a star shape, where the blades and the slots that fit together are widest at the middle where they converge, and narrow towards the outside, creating a wedge that ramps the bit out of the fastner. And with JIS they don’t narrow, creating a simpler plus shape that functions like two flatheads intersecting with eachother, but with a pointed tip so its self centering

    The dot is there to communicate which kind it is since they look a lot like Philips. I believe thats also why posidrive has the little lines- so you can tell the difference. No idea what posidrive is about, maybe its similar 🤷🏻‍♂️

    Edit, I was able to find some diagrams attempting to show the geometry differences (sorry, the side depicting each geometry swaps between the two pictures)