Flux

Flux, 7 days ago to random

I really want physicians to stop claiming a description of the symptom is a diagnosis. I mean "arthritis". Yeah, we already know that.

Flux, 7 days ago to random

Someone needs to remind me that this work is easier in bigger stock. This 1/4" fussiness is no good. But it's a collar and this little test grille is getting there. #blacksmithing #blacksmith #metalwork

Four scrolls in a frame. Many collars left to make.

ZachWeinersmith, 11 days ago to random

Garrison Keillor is really strange to me career wise. He wrote exactly one outstanding novel - his first. Then ever after he wrote the same novel, only worse, and with more weird sex stuff. He also wrote very good (really!) poems early on, and then over time what he counts as poems is just aw-shucks Minnesota stuff. It's like he noped out of a lasting literary career for kitsch.

johnefrancis, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to random

A fine Graham MacKay from Saturday...

I'm thinking PP's going to stick with the strategy:

• blame vulnerable minorities for everything
• say little to nothing in campaigns. Offer no solutions.
• after the election, pivot to a Doug Ford style kleptocracy.

The "working class" supporters get nothing. They got nothing from Harper. They got nothing from Ford. They got not much from Trudeau.

#cdnpoli

Flux, 25 days ago to random

Cut the tapers on this part, and just reached for it to test fit the pins that will go through the holes (to spin the part on the rotary table) and poof it has vanished into thin air. The shop isn't even a disaster area. I'm reduced to looking instead of remembering.
Vexed.
#machining #frustrated

scalzi, 26 days ago to random

To be fair, it's easy to forget something that costs more than you were ever going to spend for it, to do things that your phone and/or laptop already do better

https://gizmodo.com/apple-vision-pro-already-forgotten-about-1851426564

GottaLaff, 28 days ago to random

Should I be posting dopey countdown posts to my move to BC?

Your choice.

Flux, 29 days ago to random

#cbcnews publishes the Fraser institute's "but the wealthy already pay almost all of the taxes!"
Of course the wealthy pay most of the taxes. When you have low income the tax bite cuts deeply into your ability to pay rent and feed your family. When you have high income you can pay much more without threat of homelessness or starvation.
That's the basis of progressive taxation.
If the FI wants the poor to pay a higher share they should back a flatter income distribution.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/wealthy-canadians-fair-share-taxes-1.7179031

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

Chocolate Mousse is really just Chocolate Mayonnaise.

Flux, 1 month ago to Canada

Raising capital gains taxes on the portion over 250k: A very nice move in the new budget. It's unreasonable that large incomes from capital gains have been taxed at half of the income from the sweat of the brow.
#canada

GustavinoBevilacqua, 1 month ago to random Italian

Come si rimettono a posto le superfici di macchine utensili costruite prima degli anni ’70, quando il corpo macchina doveva essere in ghisa molto pesante e duratura?

Con mooolta pazienza!

Questa operazione in italiano si chiama "raschiettatura", e credo che le persone che qui sanno ancora farla siano decisamente poche (io NON sono tra quelle).

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=REeGn4hN1Bg

TomF, 1 month ago to random

Ugh. I don't need glasses to see my desktop monitor, or anything further away, but I do need a set of glasses for reading books or my phone.

But I have discovered that trying to use a laptop, I either have to use it further away than I'd like so I have to use big text, or I have to wear my glasses and hunch over it to get my face closer. Both suck.

So instead I have bought a second set of weaker glasses, specifically for using the laptop.

Getting old is a pain in the arse.

davespice, 1 month ago to retrocomputing

Dear #retrocomputing friends, can you help me identify this bodge wire on IC4 that I found in this M5 PAL VA4 SEGA MegaDrive? Is it a factory-made mod or has someone been in here before me? Thanks in advance!

A close view of the SEGA motherboard showing a bodge wire added to the IC4 chip, a capacitor is connected inline with the bodge wire

snarkysteff, 1 month ago to random

Was Easter Nietzsche’s favourite holiday, because God is dead?

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to random

This day. Already.

Another 🇨🇦 house we wanted to see, already sold. Then take the damn listing down. That's happened 2x in 2 days.

Roofer supposed to fix leak at our Calif. home for sale this wkend. Supposed to pour🌧️ so he'd have to cancel, we;d have to put hold on house; coming today to see if he can do it. Sigh. Did I mention we discovered he's a major Trumpy? We noticed 2 stickers on his truck. I wanted to fire him but can't rt now

Can't sign in to Threads from Mac (not really a bad thing)

Binder, 1 month ago to random

Turning off my camera because the Staff Engineer uses ‘peg’ to mean ‘assign a task to’ & I’m too tired to keep my composure.

DemocracyMattersALot, 1 month ago to random

Georgia GOP Official Voted Illegally Nine Times. Fucking GOP.

“A judge ruled Wednesday that the Georgia Republican Party’s first vice chairman, Brian Pritchard, violated state election laws when he voted nine times while serving probation for a felony check forgery sentence,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

#GOP #ElectionFraud #NoRepublicansEverAgain

Flux, 1 month ago to Victoria

This recumbent bike was abandoned near my house a few days ago, Victoria BC. Anyone able to reconnect it with it's owner?
Please boost!
#yyj #victoria #bikes #recumbent

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to random

#Trump’s Truth Social is now a public company. Experts warn its multibillion-dollar valuation defies logic

“Despite the late-day slide, Wall Street is still assigning Trump Media an eye-popping valuation of nearly $11 billion — a price tag that experts warn is untethered to reality.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/26/markets/trump-media-stock-truth-social?cid=ios_app

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to random

Sorry if I'm not replying. Busy!

We may put offer on a house in Canada that we have yet to see except in photos & vid.

Our kids are up there to see it Sat. when it lists for real, getting lots of interest, it will sell & we still need to drive up, which takes 3 days (we don't fly w Hammy), so we gotta move FAST.

Ack! No pressure, right?

FYI: Finding a house in Port Moody is needle/haystack, so it's crunch time. Our agent =🥇

No, we haven't sold ours yet.

We leave TOMORROW! #spontaneous