There’s the whole thing where the first few joints of your fingers and toes turn black and rot off, but sure, eat some ergot.

Also, Datura is a common weed. Collect a bunch of seeds and share with your friends so y’all can all trip for days and not even know it. The kidney failure can kind of suck.

It’s an old saying, longer version I know is:

“Saddest thing in the world is a cat scratching at the window because it used to be an inside cat.”

It would require Von Neumann machines to do it. Of, course, we could end up being turned into grey goo with that sort of tech.

But, yeah, simply invent self-replicating nanotech. Shoot it at the moon, Mars, Ceres. Viola, data centers in space. Use the same tech to clean up the enviroment and eliminate oil dependence. Might as well rebuld the coral reefs and old growth forests. Also cures cancer and the common cold. And is the fountain of youth. And we all live happily ever after in the computer.

Woah, this could be really cool for certain kinds of machine motion if it is computationally easy/fast/cheap.

Correct, specific to his fiction. I don’t know if I’ve read a non-fiction book of his. However, I’ve never read a bad article or essay by him. He has great insight.

His ideas are fantastic. Execution and characterization are spotty. Been a while since I read anything of his, but IIRC, he has a tendency to dip into surrealism or absurdity that feels cringey instead of his artistic target.

In some ways, it’s similar to a lot of Golden Era SF. You read it for the ideas, not the story.

I do have a favorable opinion of him and his work. I’d really enjoy Doctorow being paired with a traditional fiction author and both being rode herd by a hardass SF editor.

I think I saw a nipple!

This is a very sharp article. Think I first saw it on Hackaday. I should be using the checklist more often. If there is to be a 3D print bible like Machinery’s Handbook, this article is foundational.

In particular, chamfers and fillets and their relationship to strength by reducing stress risers is often missed on amateur designs.

I need to look at crush ribs and ribs for screws/bolts more.

The idea of a sphere being the most efficent shape is counterintuitive when most mechanical design is inherited from subtractive manufacturing. Also, speed holes reducing strength and increasing material usage is wild. These are powerful ideas that are going to cause almost a philosophical change in manufacturing. It’s going to take decades. Absolutely mind-blowing stuff when you really think about it.

DFM, in general, is a woefully underappreciated aspect of engineering. One of the great things about 3D printing is that the designer is generally forced to eat their own dog food.

MEs should recieve more education about DFM. 3D printing would be an easy way to force them to understand the difficulty poor design causes. Of course, DFM for subtractive is a larger and more complex subject, but printing would at least teach the lesson with a little sting.

Exactly. I used dying grannie as an example talking about it. Also, “You haven’t made a major purchase in 6 montths.”

Woah.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs

This may be the true inverse of that statement. Automated for maximum efficiency/extraction.

Cyberpunk dystopic as fuck.

Right there with you on small trucks, the kid and I have been drooling over the Slate even if it is Bezos. I drive a '98 Ranger, and we’ve been kicking around the idea of a Ranger electric conversion.

I completely agree. Making statistics lie is a dark art.

The fascist fuckheads and their followers are doing so much blatantly evil shit that there is no need to embellish anything. The plain facts are plenty apalling all by themselves.

Nah, they’re saying sales have only dropped by 10% from 2024, in the US. Which is fucked up.

Wonder if that’s because left aligned types had already quit buying them in '24? He was already being a total fuckhead during the election at that point.

Hell of a way to squeeze a statistic.

It’s wincest. Especially if it features little people.

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!!!

Holy shit! Are you really unironically defending the North Korean government? Like, are you trolling?

Woah. That’s pretty wild. If you’re not trolling, what country are you from and how would you describe yourself politically? Where do you get your news?

I’ve only got 32tb in the family Raid 5 (actually 24TB since I lose a drive to parity), but my girl really loves her trash TV while she works so we’re on like 90% full.

And I’m just a podunk machinist.

I thought middle management was the guy in between the crew and upper management?

Absolute shit stressful job, btw. Never doing that shit again. If you have a heart, that job will kill it.

Whore isn’t really gendered? There are more female whores than male whores in sex work but there are more male whores in politics than female. It is an insult about submission and service with a sexual connotation.

I think you’re seeing a difference in cultural weighting of common profanity. I’m from the deep south of the US.

I’m used to cunt being considered more offensive than whore. Whore is a milder obscenity than fuck, shit, or cunt. It is similar to slut, dick, or piss.

Wait, what did they do to the peace sign? Also, what about the hand signal?