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Machinist

@ Machinist @lemmy.world

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  • It's a terrible movie. Verges on so bad it's good. Uses more dutch angles than a crooked windmill.

    Book was mediocre with a Mary Sue main that had Goodboy for a last name.

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    How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?

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  • BBS -> Slashdot -> Reddit -> Lemmy -> ???

    They all have their time. I'll see some of y'all on whatever is next. It branches, I didn't do digg.

  • Billionaire Sunjay Kapur has died after swallowing a bee at a polo match

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  • Wow! That's amazing, I've never heard of a blue bee. That's just really cool. I bet it was confusing when you first saw it. I've heard of/seen solitary bees but didn't think about it. Did a little beekeeping work as a kid.

    We've got a couple weird ones on the other side of the pond that I've been around. (wasps, actually)

    Cow killer/Red velvet ant it's sting is in the top 10 for most painful. They're beautiful.

    Cicada Killers are huge, 5cm/2in long. I had one fall out of a tree with a cicada right next to me. I thought it was birds fighting.

  • Billionaire Sunjay Kapur has died after swallowing a bee at a polo match

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  • Didn't even think it about it not being a honey a bee. You're right.

  • Trump military parade met with empty seats amid nationwide protests

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  • I like the "No Kings!" messaging, simple and pointed. We need a slogan that is short and sweet for the soldiers to use. Something that shows them they have agency in this.

  • Billionaire Sunjay Kapur has died after swallowing a bee at a polo match

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  • Drones don't have stingers. Queens and workers have stingers. Queens are from worker larva that are fed royal jelly that transforms them into a queen that is capable of reproduction. Workers are technically female but they're closer to asexual.

    So, that badass enby ace bee gave that motherfucker what for.

  • Been a good couple of years

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  • The whole Tankie thing. Just like MAGAts but on the other side. They're authoritarian left with lots of Chinese and possibly Russian influence. Far left most of us support are on the opposite end of the authoritarian/individualistic axis from both Tankies and MAGAts.

  • Been a good couple of years

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  • Was looking up tracks in a field guide the other day and ran across this super cute rodent, The Mountain Beaver.

  • Been a good couple of years

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  • Jerboa has served well as the replacement for me.

  • We're learnding.

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  • Your analysis is spot on. (most of my career has been in aerospace)

    I would also add that the training programs and apprenticeships that were developed have been gutted as they destroyed the unions.

    The whole rebuilding American manufacturing through tariffs is a total pipe dream. I'm one of the few machinists that stuck through the great recession in my generation. There are no where near enough people like me to train kids and the guys that taught me are dead.

    It takes minimum, four years, to grow a self-sufficent machinist on the job. Trade schools are pretty much worthless, kids come out of trade school and they're fit to sweep floors or maybe punch a button if they're real sharp.

    It would take twenty years of consistent government and corporate support to rebuild and we all they are too greedy and short sighted for that.

    I assume it is similar for a lot of other trades.

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  • Time to program something nasty and tricky or tweaking in a tight part: put on the math metal and figure it out.

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  • Yeah, I think both of mine were working at the time as well. They also are very rigid law and order types and at that time I hadn't begun serious rebellion.

    I actually saw a teacher allow kids to play with mercury when I was in highschool in the 90s. Teacher was ancient and the town was so backwards that it is still known as a sundown town to this day.

    Totally buy the lead explanation for boomers. Saw an old man toss lead split weights in his mouth and put them on fishing line like tying a knot in a cherry stem.

    About all those micro plastics disrupting our hormones...

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  • I researched the banana peel thing in middle shcool and decided it was bullshit. Tried the oregano thing and thought I was high. Didn't try the nutmeg.

    The crater makers made from empty CO2 cartridges were a lot of fun. I remember sealing them with wax and thinking about how dangerous it was having an open flame while holding something that could take off my forearm.

    Never could get the iodine crystal explosive decomposition thing to work, too hard to get ahold of the precursors when I was a kid.

    It's a wonder I survived, thank jeebus I couldn't get ahold of mercury.

    Where the fuck were my parents?

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  • It's wincest. Especially if it features little people.

  • VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.

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  • Whoa. I haven't heard of Pervertube. I have specific tastes involving a dirty mattress with no sheet or at least one overflowing ashtray.

    NEW PORN!!!!!!1!!!!1!!!

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  • Imagine you have a cookie cutter in that shape. Cut a cookie as thick as the chord of the largest arc.

    View the new vertical surface of the longest arc that is now a cylindrical section.

    Viola, square. 😁

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  • It's possible, but there needs to be a thickness in addition to the length and width.

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  • Not OP, but I was unaware of that. That must have caused most all the AIDS that was caught through transfusions.

  • Programmers, is this accurate

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  • Apache Pig from the image filename.

  • Eight US states seek to outlaw chemtrails – even though they aren’t real

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  • Don't they slightly increase rain and slightly decrease UV? The particulate in the exhaust acts as nucleation sites for water droplets and crystals.