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  • The manual lathe is the most dangerous piece of equipment in a shop in terms of fatalities. They cannot be made ‘safe’. You can only train people how to use them safely and not put idiots on them.

    I’ve seen the chuck key of shame used and support its use. My rule was one chuck key fuckup, second offense, immediate termination.

    I used to have a safety presentation on lathes. It was called, “The Happy Fun Lathe Safety Presentation.” Kittens and puppies on the title and chock full of gore.








  • Machinist@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow do ye find new music?
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    12 days ago

    I mean, I have a home server setup with 32 terabytes of NAS in a RAID 5 running the *Arrs and Jellyfin pulling from Usenet. Also running Calibre and paying for Anna’s.

    Like I told a friend that got huffy with me over how I do my sailing, “I been pirating since you had babyteeth.”

    You can be prickly if you want, but increased piracy is a symptom of a service problem. If Netflix hadn’t gone to shit, I’d still be using it. I’m considering paying for Samsung’s art subscription for my TV.

    I will pay a reasonable price for convenient media. Make it difficult or expensive enough, and I’ll sail the high seas. Time is money.



  • Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. if my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this is liberating. He no longer has to worry about trying to be the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken. The crowning touch, the one thing that really puts true world-class badmotherfuckerdom totally out of reach, of course, is the hydrogen bomb. If it wasn’t for the hydrogen bomb, a man could still aspire. Maybe find Raven’s Achilles’ heel. Sneak up, get a drop, slip a mickey, pull a fast one. But Raven’s nuclear umbrella kind of puts the world title out of reach. Which is okay. Sometimes it’s all right just to be a little bad. To know your limitations. Make do with what you’ve got.

    -Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash






  • Snore.

    I can’t stand most superhero crap. So boring. Predictable. Sophomoric. All the heros constantly tripping over Deus ex machina at the last second.

    Do like The Boys, some Punisher stuff, Judge Dredd, the latest Crow movie was fantastic.

    Couldn’t give a shit less about comic books.

    They need to bring back the zombie craze, we got a few good movies out of that. Or maybe some more post apocalyptic stuff. Maybe Fox or whoever could unfuck the Alien and Predator franchises. But more superhero shit? I was over the fad before it started and it just keeps dragging on.

    Quit milking this cow, nothing but dust in her udders now.