When it’s actual news, I’ll hear about it regardless.

I’m not going to perseverate over every headline, I have a life to live. The media is actively trying to piss us off, they’ll skew and distort and all but fabricate to keep us angry and engaged.

I’m not doing it. I can’t recall a single time in my life that keeping up to date up to the hour has actually improved anything for me. Sitting around just knowing stuff is happening isn’t going to change my life for the better.

I live in a safe republican state and a leans Republican district. I could send a letter to my senator, call my representative, spend hours of my time just worried about something, and still, they’ll vote how the party wants them to. Being informed and doing the things I’m supposed to do won’t change anything.

I occasionally run a lathe at work. The big CNC one says it will do 10,000 rpm

If you ever run it that fast, the jaws will start to separate and the part will come flying out at Mach 4, bounce around the inside of the machine for several minutes, destroying the chuck, all the tooling, and the chip conveyor in the process.

Another fun fact, these machines go from 5000 rpm (the fastest you’re assuredly safe to run it) to 10 at the snap of a finger and back up again. All of that energy has to go somewhere. So there’s a heat coil, pretty much identical to the one in your oven, that takes all that extra energy. It doesn’t normally get all that hot, but if you’re running a lot of parts with a lot of diameter changes, it can get hot enough to glow.

Basically oscillating the tool up and down while rotating the workpiece back and forth, while spinning the tool very, very slowly.

That’s from the cheese frying in it’s own fat while it cooks and it’s delicious

Laughs in G code S1 g54 x0y0 g0 g90. F50 M3; z-.5 a45 z0 a0 z-.5 a45 z0 a0 z-.5 a45 z0 a0 z-.5 a45 z0 a0

I found this in my app list, it hadn’t asked for any permissions. If it’s looking at every image I get, it’s doing so extremely discreetly.

Sus. Very sus.

What the fuck did I just read?

Am I having a stroke?

We also didn’t make the model T suggest replacing the engine when the oil light comes on. Cars, as it happens, aren’t that great at self diagnosis, despite that technology being far simpler and further along than generative models are. I don’t trust the model to tell me what temperature to bake a cake at, I’m sure at hell not going to trust it with medical information. Googling symptoms was risky at best before. It’s a horror show now.

So can web MD. We didn’t need AI for that. Googling symptoms is a great way to just be dehydrated and suddenly think you’re in kidney failure.

Why is your entire comment history deleted?

Nah let’s fuck em up fam.

Be the radical leftist Jesus wanted you to be, and that the conservatives are already accusing you of being.

The rock is quite useful as an industrial tool. It’s when you cut it in to a fancy shape and wear it that it’s pretty useless.

We use diamonds to test the hardness of materials, grind really hard things smaller, orient and locate specialized cutting tools, and cut through really hard things. Hell we sell garnet by the barrel to help cut through regular materials. Orderly carbon or, in many cases orderly aluminum oxide, is something we need a lot of. The price going down on those is actually good for manufacturing.

The current court has already done that for abortion. You think they won’t do it again?

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That, at present, is where the wealth is coming from.

If the Fed just keeps printing money, eventually that too loses all value. It needs to actually be able to buy things. Sure it’s backed by US securities and bonds, but if the US isn’t capable of collecting taxes, because it’s people aren’t making any money and have started to barter amongst themselves, then they can issue all the bonds and bills they want and it won’t mean a damn thing.

Money is their only real leverage. They’re racing to find the minimum amount of money they can give us and still maintain that leverage.

There’s a critical point in wealth disparity where money begins to lose value. As the amount of wealth that can be extracted from the working class dwindles and the people who have too little find other ways to barter with each other.

Fun fact, we have already seen an early attempt at this. And while I think we’re still a ways away, it’s not exactly without precedent.

IS going to run out of water. Not HAS run out of water.

And we know. We been warning yall fucks for years that the aquifer ain’t filling back up and gotdangit they just keep paying us to grow corn on land that ain’t suited for growing beans. And everybody knows corn and sorghum ain’t no good for the soil neither.

Joking aside, we’ll deal with that impending apocalypse like we’ll deal with all the other ones. By pretending it isn’t happening.

Y’all damn coastals with yer big fancy oceans. WE GOT OCEANS TOO WE JUST KEEP EM UNDERGROUND SO THEY DON’T SCARE MEEMAW.

Everybody knows meemaw’s ascared of the deep water. And when she gets agitated she gets to her whippin stick.

He should shove it up his ass.

I don’t want it to be quick and painless for him