I hate the past. To me, the past is something we should learn from but never return to. I have no desire to return to the days where gay and the r-slur were every day jokes and and “Tits or gtfo” was a common reply to women on the internet.
But I love old machines and gizmos. I love gears and levers and buttons. I love things that clunk and whir. Vinage music boxes, Clockwork toys and VHS machines that sound like they’re trying to go into orbit when you rewind a cassette. I’ve always liked old stuff for as long as I can remember.
Is it nostalgia or just autism? Is it something I should be ashamed of?
While contraptions are generally larger than a gizmo this is incidental rather than defining of their relative natures. A contraption has some sort of inherent risk, be it of breakdown or explosion. While a gizmo is a specialised or unknown/not understood by the speaker gadget.
So something can be both a gizmo and a contraption.
The reason we like contraptions but dislike devices is both because of the intrusive nature of devices, but also because of the Freudian nature of ti. The unstable nature of the contraption and the risk bound to it stimulates the Todestrieb as Freud would have called it. While the experimental and creative nature of a contraption stimulates the eros
I too make vibes based definitions to make synonyms distinct. Cause they fucking are. They are different sauces on the same food.
:wittgenstein: All communication is ultimately vibes, and as long as we have a shared sense of those vibes it is correct use of language.