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Machinist

@ Machinist @lemmy.world

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  • The meaning of life?

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  • After a foray into consulting and plant management, I'm back in the shop working with my hands and programming. My favorite part of the trade is teaching kids. (Enough grey in my beard that anyone under 30 is a kid). I could make more money doing other things but I don't need the stress.

    I hope I'm able to work until I die, even if I 'retire'. I've begun learning Blender and mixing it with CAD so that I can do sculpture.

    I love the smell of black cutting oil.

  • Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI:

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  • Skinner's glare of disdain would have flayed the flesh from his bones. It would have been a Monster of the Week episode. Mulder would actually help with the coverup and chalk it up to a one time involuntary psychic event. Scully would have cocked her head, pursed her lips, squinted, and said, "hmph."

  • Littering 🚯

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  • Lead shot for waterfowl hunting has been banned in the US for a few decades. It's still used for upland bird hunting. I think it's still frequently used illegally for waterfowl.

    Not an expert, but have a decent layman's understanding. Could totally be wrong about the next part:

    It's my understanding that lead contamination of wild animals through hunting primarily occurs due to various sizes of bird shot. The greater surface area allows a much higher level of contamination. It also forms lead dust in the shell from friction and when fired. It's also easier for animals to eat it. Rifle rounds and slugs are fairly inert as the larger size prevents most consumption and less absorption when it is consumed.

  • Littering 🚯

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  • My guess is that migratory waterfowl eat lead shot when 'grazing' the bottom of wetlands. This bio-concentrates the lead in eagles when they prey on ducks and such.

  • ICE agents keep accidentally shooting themselves

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  • Read about this years ago. This is the only accidental discharge I've heard about. Worn leather holster pulls the trigger. In fairness, an argument can be made that using a worn/flexible holster was negligence.

  • I totally agree, too much is too much.

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  • Is that a baby sloth?

    I'm not the sort that gushes all the time about baby animals, but that is like the cutest little thing ever. I want to squish it and pet it.

  • Senator Mark Kelly says he will 'seriously consider' running for president

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  • Ben Franklin did it.

  • ‘Buried at the Trump Golf Course’: Explosive FBI interview unearthed in Epstein files

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  • So he just did it for the love of the game, how funny. You're awesome and thank you kindly for the link!

  • ‘Buried at the Trump Golf Course’: Explosive FBI interview unearthed in Epstein files

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  • I would really like to know the whole story behind this.

    Butt seriously, what sort of lost bet led to this?

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    Foreign Music

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  • Tuva. Isn't that the Mongolian metal band that does that dual tone throat thing? That shit's grindy as fuck. 🤘

  • Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will

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  • Maybe it could be about the triumph of the will? That might be nice.

  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • That's unholy and should be cleansed with fire and chanting.

  • Work smarter, not harder

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  • And batteries. They really wanted to sell you those batteries.

  • The boiled peanut is superior to the baked bean.

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  • Kind of nutty but more like a chickpea/garbonzo than peanut. Very salty, a common variety is cajun. Texture is somewhere between water chestnut and a firm Lima bean depending on how long they've been boiled. I prefer them on the firmer side.

  • The boiled peanut is superior to the baked bean.

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  • Biled P-Nuts!

  • Not sketchy at all

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  • I've totally seen worse. Farmer jackleg electricianing can be real spooky.

  • Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company

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  • It would require Von Neumann machines to do it. Of, course, we could end up being turned into grey goo with that sort of tech.

    But, yeah, simply invent self-replicating nanotech. Shoot it at the moon, Mars, Ceres. Viola, data centers in space. Use the same tech to clean up the enviroment and eliminate oil dependence. Might as well rebuld the coral reefs and old growth forests. Also cures cancer and the common cold. And is the fountain of youth. And we all live happily ever after in the computer.

  • Every job that I was ever trained to do and every job when I trained others was like this

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  • Hahahahahahah

  • It do be like that

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  • I often code directly on the machine control, including single blocking a running program and adding a line while the program is paused.

    Editor on older CNC machines usually doesn't even do lowercase and often has limited alphabet keys. Think '80s green or amber screen.

    A machinist's coding workflow can be real fucky. I go from CAM which is like a highly complex visual programming IDE to notepad. If I'm being fancy I use notepad++ for syntax highlights and diff'ing.

  • a man of many minds

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  • Sounds like you're actually living a full life, learning and seeking.

    Bet you wouldn't change much in your past.

    When I die: I want to covered in scars, in a room of mementoes, and surrounded by my people. (Some sort of bloody last stand would also be cool.)

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    Sacramento Sheriff sharing automated license plate reader data with anti-abortion states

    news.yahoo.com /sacramento-sheriff-sharing-license-plate-133000119.html
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    Sound of Freedom: indie movie that Qs are getting wound up about.

    www.rottentomatoes.com /m/sound_of_freedom
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    Hate on Display™ Hate Symbols Database

    www.adl.org /resources/hate-symbols/search
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    Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene removed from US House Freedom Caucus

    www.reuters.com /world/us/republican-marjorie-taylor-greene-removed-us-house-freedom-caucus-politico-2023-07-06/
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    -meta- content and allowed posts

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    Attacks on Electrical Substations Raise Alarm

    www.nytimes.com /2023/02/04/us/electrical-substation-attacks-nc-wa.html
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Are there any communities tracking qanon/fascist/magat terrorism, threats, and laws?