Weight and speed. The arm itself is hefty and requires a fair bit of torque to move around and you want these operations to be completed quickly.

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If you say you’re bi nobody thinks you fuck woks.

You can be someone that’s not inherently against capitalism and for free communications platforms. I think stuff like this is a good start for polycentric regulation, which I see as important for any type of a voluntary or anarchist future.

I’m socially pretty left but a voluntarist and it feels pretty hostile. Even socially moderate or liberal cons will feel pretty bad. I’m just used to chillin’ in left spaces so it’s whatever.

Once you get the basics down it’s pretty much all transferable. There are some minor workflow changes, but the functionality isn’t all too different.

Modern day, proper parametric modeling with robust and intuitive constraints.

I got a maker sub to solidworks. I couldn’t keep up with 360’s oddities and feature changes.

CSS class?

I’d love to be able to get a small lifepo for the city and keep my ICE for longer distances.

It’s so well researched for such mundane items.

I didn’t expect to enjoy his content so much. He packs it with so much info that the pacing works and it keeps me interested.

Consider checking out post 10. He runs around new england unclogging culverts. Super nice guy and it’s such a specific thing it’s kinda great.

Breaking Taps - Makes lab grade equipment and other wild science shit…at home.

The Thought Emporium - Genetic engineering at home.

Technology Connections - Deep dives into the tech that surrounds us.

I don’t oppose the corporation, but I dislike some of the things we make. If they ask me to work on something I object to then I’ll worry about it then.

Even emails cost tokens. I’ve added money to accounts of people I went to school with and said hi. It’s a fuckin’ racket.

I don’t have a lot of allies here, but I may pick a lefty instance because I prefer your comrades over liberals, too.

The chemical stuff is tough. I mean, viscerally, you’ve got smells that at least tell our brain to avoid it sometimes, but mostly the threat isn’t immediate enough to make an impact. Solvents dry out your skin at which helps for some. It’s just hard to make someone think that walking to a tool crib or supply cabinet is worth it over ten seconds of exposure. I’m that way with solvents (IPA and MPK).

It’s getting better slowly. I get it for some things, though. If you’ve been running a manual mill for 30 years, a little piece of plexiglass isn’t going to make you any safer and we waste effort on dumb shit like that too often. It makes it harder to get people to do some of the other things. Coming into the industry when I did helped. Watching a bunch of guys retire broken or die working has an impact.

As much as I hate heavy-handed policies, having large areas that are hearing protection required seems to work alright. There’s no question about the sound level of a certain task or any room to argue. I managed to shake hands with my boss, his boss, then our director with a pair of ear plugs for each within a span of about 30m once. They didn’t think it was as funny as I did. The look on their face when they saw what I put in their hand was priceless, though.

Are you familiar with the hexavalent chromium changes a few years ago? Those of us in aircraft were exposed to it daily in paints with no PPE then they’re all “oops. We’re cutting exposure limits by 100”. And, of course, aircraft mechanics refuse to follow controls because we’ve done it this way for decades. It’s the only thing that has the corrosion resistance properties needed for aircraft, so here we are.

Never buy a musical instrument from this sort of place.