Test_Tickles
@Test_Tickles@lemmy.world
- Comment on CNC 20 hours ago:
I find that aluminum is the best medium for trial and error because even though it is somewhat expensive, it’s easy on the bits. And that is important regardless of the bulk material costs.
Dude your CNC sessions are totally out of hand if you are having to buying aluminum in bulk. Just get yourself some shibari ropes and a blind fold if you want to take your time and make it an extended session.
- Comment on mercy merci 1 day ago:
Ya, we used to have more of the little fat slow white ones (orb weavers I think) around when I was a kid, and other than cobwebs all over the place, they never gave us trouble. I generally try not to mess with them though, or I’ll do a catch and release. But between the Brown Recluse bite I got as a teenager that took almost an entire year to heal and the other non-poisionous bites I have gotten while asleep or watching tv that take 6 weeks to heal, it’s insta-death if any others are found inside my house.
I just realized that I am a spider racist. White and yellow get the gentle touch, but black and brown are going down. - Comment on mercy merci 2 days ago:
Not all spiders are buddies who will just keep to their website and kill pests. Many are aggressive roaming hunters that just go around biting shit to see if it is edible. And that includes you just sleep or sitting still.
Also, even the nonvenomous spiders have some seriously bad oral hygiene and carry bacteria that causes deep infectious wounds that take months to heal.
Even with all that, if they were just slow or stupid I might take the time to catch and release, but given that the majority are stupid fast, and/or actively trying to leap at me… they gotta die.
Having said that I don’t fuck with them outside, especially the banana spiders, because banana spiders are instantly easy to identify and aren’t interested in starting trouble. - Comment on If it works it works 5 days ago:
Yes except swap the function and variable names.
- Comment on Has anyone sold or otherwise handed off their 3d printing business? 5 days ago:
I fully understand that feeling. Of course there’s nothing that says you won’t be able to start it up again at a later date. 3d printing is seeing a seismic shift right now with cheap and reliable multi-tool systems showing up, by the time the economy recovers, efficient, fast, multi-color, and multi-filament will be the norm. And with some of the more industrial plastics and even metals available through specialty printing services, I think we were already going to see a bloodbath amongst the smaller printing services out there no matter what. So maybe right now isn’t the worst time to dip out of the market anyway. I would suggest that you take this time to hone your design skills or focus on the more niche aspects of the market. You got the opportunity to learn and sample the market while money was gushing into it market, but it was a bubble that was never going to last. So, now you have the choice to take what you have learned and find something sustainable, or just run the other way and do something different.
I can personally tell you that having the market you are in ever so slowly shrink and die under you while you try to squeeze just a bit more out of its husk all the while feeling trapped because you have employees and customers depending on you… it’s fucking brutal. My family and I are doing well these days, but I can only imagine how much better I would have been doing if I had just called it quits much earlier.
- Comment on Has anyone sold or otherwise handed off their 3d printing business? 6 days ago:
Everyone is bracing for the economic free fall that is going to be the next 5 years. We are still at the upper end and it’s only going to get worse under this administration.
So, I have no doubt that people just aren’t spending money on the kinds of things that they were even just last year. I wish I had something better to tell you, but it is going to be a while before we see people having the money to spend on custom designing anything. As the previous poster pointed out, you need to either decide to get rid of stuff and then sell it like you want it gone, or accept that now it is just a hobby that basically paid for itself. - Comment on Smells Great 6 days ago:
Ya, it’s all a big lie brought to you by billionaire dragons. They’re just trying to get you to wrap yourself in a tasty garnish so that they get a nice citrus flavor once they are done roasting you.
- Comment on Phrases like “I am here” or “Are you here yet?” are used today more than in the past because of cellphones. 1 week ago:
“Sorry, my butt called you.”
- Comment on Beards are technically face pubes 1 week ago:
Nice face pubes, dickhead!
I now have a new insult ready and loaded.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 2 weeks ago:
Ouch, so it is an assigned housing situation where the government gets to decide where and how you live…
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 2 weeks ago:
I completely agree if we’re talking about some bros at a kegger, but if it might instead possibly be the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services reporting to the President of the United States and the rest of his Cabinet during a Cabinet meeting, then no. In that case the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services should be able to communicate health related matters better than a drunken frat bro.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 2 weeks ago:
So, is the community forced to purchase the house if someone moves out? Or is it more of a renting situation and you never actually own your home, you just rent it from the community and when you move you lose all effort and time you have put into improving your home?
All you have to do is look at the military “on base” housing to see how bad places can get if you never own anything. And I am not really sure that I would want to live in an apartment situation my entire life. I already think things like “eminent domain” are bullshit, but I can’t even conceive of how truly dystopian it would be to have your housing controlled by the government and whatever whacko managed to claw their way into power most recently. - Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 2 weeks ago:
So, if I am going to college and I am sick of living in a dorm, i would have to buy a house to live off campus?
Or I get a job offer in another city or state, I have to buy a place to live before I even get to find out if I want to stay long term? - Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 3 weeks ago:
Would the police do anything about it even if you had 100% irrefutable proof of who did it? Would you settle for Amazon displaying to those 385 people in your town that sort of look like the thief ads for tools that would make it easier to break into your home?
- Comment on Modern batteries are great! 3 weeks ago:
It hums the notes to the company jingle every time you orgasm.
- Comment on Fell off the horizon into a black hole 3 weeks ago:
It’s just not carbonated.
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 4 weeks ago:
People also understand degrees of meaning and hyperbole. The fact that you seem to think that my response was a comeback shows exactly why you are struggling with this entire argument.
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 4 weeks ago:
Every time I go to the park, I’m able to knock balls right out the park with my favorite bat. Am I more likely to get a career in major league baseball or arrested for animal cruelty?
Your argument is on par with arguing that because you saw an article about people playing base that you think we should arrest everyone in the stadium for animal cruelty. - Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 4 weeks ago:
If your results are different, then by definition what you did was not exactly the same.
- Comment on A sausage is meat in an intestinal casing so when you have anal sex with someone you turn them into a you sausage. 4 weeks ago:
I spent my entire teen years and a good portion of my 20s pounding it daily, often multiple times a day.
- Comment on Elon musk is a pedophile 4 weeks ago:
Of course they do, that’s exactly what the billionaires are paying for. Those highly paid PR teams have this shit down to a science.
- Comment on A broken clock is right twice a day, but a wrong clock is just wrong. 4 weeks ago:
Oh look, it’s Twitter O’Clock.
- Comment on WACK. 4 weeks ago:
Yes it is all weeds, but people are stupid and don’t seem to know that.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 weeks ago:
No, just everyone who is not China stopped mattering.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 5 weeks ago:
Talk about a straw man arguments… Holy shit dude, >people are dying because of bullshit beliefs like yours. No one is using abortions as some kind of regular birth control you fucking nutter.
It’s a fucking medical procedure, people don’t choose to have medical procedures when there are much less dangerous and much much much cheaper options like condoms and the pill. - Comment on WACK. 5 weeks ago:
One of my first jobs had me working retail in the “lawn and garden” department. Every year we would have people buy those wildflower mixes and then 6 weeks later, you would see the same people buying weed killer. I had many people tell me that they couldn’t understand why their lawn was so overrun with weeds the last few years, and of course they were always the ones doing the wild flower mix.
- Comment on None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress 5 weeks ago:
10,000 of the dumbest and most gullible people in the country gathered together in our nation’s capital while the government in power, did what they could to block anyone who might want to stop these chuckle fucks from bringing guns and other weapons into the capital. The government also did its best to reduce the number of security personnel as much as possible, and flat out refused to send help once the chuckle fuckery began.
So, if this army of sacrificial mouth breathers aided by the people in charge couldn’t even take over just the Capitol Building on Jan 6, 2021, you are going to have to give me a better plan than “Nepal did it”.
And let’s not forget that Trump has already declared a state of national emergency for Washington DC and brought in a bunch of gestapo wannabes to start shit. In fact he’s done it in a number of democratic cities in an attempt to get people to riot. Obviously, his intent is to declare a national emergency nation wide and then “due to safety concerns”, he will have to put off the next elections indefinitely. So you are going to have to explain how your plan is something more than your “give Trump an easy reason to declare a state of emergency nation wide”. - Comment on Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there 1 month ago:
The really crazy part is that if they just increased the time slot, they would have room to stuff in even more commercials. So why cut anything at all?
- Comment on Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there 1 month ago:
Even worse was that they would “cut movies to length” which actually meant it was stuffed full of commercials and then parts of the movie got trimmed off to make it fit in the time slot that they wanted to fit it into. I honestly grew up thinking that most of Clint Eastwoods westerns were completely fucking insane. They were just so damn random and often kinda rapey. Then I finally watched one on a cable with no commercials. I was so fucking confused. I thought I was having a stroke. Finally someone understood what was going on and explained to me about how they cut the movies for tv
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 1 month ago:
I think if you look at everything that his administration is doing, I definitely believe that they are trying to stir up enough shit to get people to lash out, and then they will declare martial law and then we will effectively have a new monarchy in the USA.
Do I really think that Trump would have someone killed just to change the national conversation? Of course he would, without any problem. However, I don’t think Trump had him killed mostly because I don’t think Trump is running the show. When I compare his first administration to his second, they are clearly not being run by the same people.
Trump is also obviously as bad off as Biden was at the end. He’s a zombie puppet that gets dragged out for show.