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@ Machinist @lemmy.world

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  • Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will

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  • Maybe it could be about the triumph of the will? That might be nice.

  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • That's unholy and should be cleansed with fire and chanting.

  • Work smarter, not harder

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  • And batteries. They really wanted to sell you those batteries.

  • The boiled peanut is superior to the baked bean.

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  • Kind of nutty but more like a chickpea/garbonzo than peanut. Very salty, a common variety is cajun. Texture is somewhere between water chestnut and a firm Lima bean depending on how long they've been boiled. I prefer them on the firmer side.

  • The boiled peanut is superior to the baked bean.

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  • Biled P-Nuts!

  • Not sketchy at all

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  • I've totally seen worse. Farmer jackleg electricianing can be real spooky.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    Machinist @lemmy.world

    The boiled peanut is superior to the baked bean.

  • Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company

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  • 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.

  • Every job that I was ever trained to do and every job when I trained others was like this

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  • Hahahahahahah

  • This is what actual brandishing looks like

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  • Thumb bite is a bloody mess.

    Usually only takes one object lesson.

  • It do be like that

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  • I often code directly on the machine control, including single blocking a running program and adding a line while the program is paused.

    Editor on older CNC machines usually doesn't even do lowercase and often has limited alphabet keys. Think '80s green or amber screen.

    A machinist's coding workflow can be real fucky. I go from CAM which is like a highly complex visual programming IDE to notepad. If I'm being fancy I use notepad++ for syntax highlights and diff'ing.

  • a man of many minds

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  • Sounds like you're actually living a full life, learning and seeking.

    Bet you wouldn't change much in your past.

    When I die: I want to covered in scars, in a room of mementoes, and surrounded by my people. (Some sort of bloody last stand would also be cool.)

  • Mission accomplished

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  • My physics professor was Italian and a very snappy dresser. Although, he also wore shorts and soccer jerseys some days.

    Very funny guy and could do trig out to several decimal places in his head. He was one of those rare professors that was doing research but still a great teacher. He was responsible for making math 'click' for me and helped me realize the joy of math.

  • Excuse me while I make my cold brew..

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  • Got tired of paying high prices on razor blades, using disposables was wasteful, and the exponentially increasing number of blades wouldn't get under my nose.

    Switched to an old school Gillette Tech safety. Switched to Barbasol instead of the thicker stuff. Shaves better, cheaper, just as fast. No stupid rituals required. No shaving soap, mug, bristle brush or horseshit required. (I do recommend starting with one of the combo packs of razors to find the one you like).

    I even shave my balls with it.

    My son has his own tech, and has never tried any of the goofy 'modern' crap.

    This was a solved problem nearly 100 years ago. Funny how marketing works.

  • Protests continue after ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis

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  • Or, like, maybe, you should go eat a bag of dicks.

  • I need to vent about plastic milk jugs

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  • I actually think they're correct. It explains most of it and jives with my experience.

    The amount of plastic used is fixed. Here is a bottle blank I have for a 2 or 3 liter soft drink:

    We're assuming that milk jugs are blow molded from a similar blank at the bottling plant just before washing and filling.

    Milk bottles are either High or Low Density Polyethylene. A notoriously elastic plastic. It also creeps all over with temperature, you can take a bowed 3" thick sheet of it, put it on the floor and it will usually be flat in the morning, especially if it's above 75deg F or so.

    Milk jugs aren't a pressure vessel like soft drink bottles.

    They're saying that due to the large surface to volume ratio and thin walls, there is a lot of seasonal variation in final volume. This is primarily due to the compressed air used during blow mold, ain't nobody paying to heat or cool it. Also, the ambient temps in the plant, in the blow mold area may see 40deg F swing, maybe more, over the course of a year. They aren't going to pay to condition the air if it doesn't affect final product. Fuck worker comfort.

    This would be enough to show seasonal variation in milk level due to volume changes, especially since the jug necks up and exaggerates differences. Reduced headspace probably also keeps it fresh longer due to reduced oxygen. Mostly, if your competetior's jug looks more full, you sell less milk. One producer does it, they all have to do it.

    It's a totally believable and logical explanation to me.

  • I need to vent about plastic milk jugs

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  • That makes more sense. Nothing to do with wear. I guess the dimple would be a removable insert. You could have a selection of them and swap when calibrating the line.

    I would think that blow mold is happening right before washing and bottling. Tube blanks are probably supplied in Gaylord's coming from the plastic producer. Transporting semis full of empty jugs doesn't make sense.

    I'm suprised there is that much variation in volume, I would expect the temps to be more consistent. I guess the compressed air temp is the main variable, mold temps should be pretty consistent. Ambient air temp when the bottle is cooling probably also plays a role, more or less shrink before it "freezes". Not sure if they're made from LDPE or HDPE but those are both really stretchy, so I guess they very well could jump all over on size.

    Most of my mold experience is in automotive, which is going to be a tighter process.

  • Google CEO Says We're All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper

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  • Woodchippers are four stroke. Most probably have a V-twin similar to a riding lawnmower.

    You could totally hotrod the hell out of it, however. Just like racing gokarts, you could run nitrous or a turbo.

  • I need to vent about plastic milk jugs

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  • I don't think this is correct and would need to see a source before I believe it. I doubt the dimple is adjustable in the way you're describing.

    The amount of wear needed to change the volume by a noticable margin would be quite significant. Surface finish of the mold would be degraded enough that they would probably scrap the mold before using an adjustment like this as the mold would have sticking problems.

    It might be volumetric compensation, but I doubt it's directly wear related.

    The mold is going to be at least two parts that split to get the blown jug out. The jug feedstock probably starts as a molded tube blank with the threads already in it. Would look like a test tube with a milk jug mouth.

    Thinking about it, and I suppose you could actually call it wear compensation. Machine the mold with max dimple present. As your parting faces/lines take damage, you reface, and take some off the dimple to compensate for reduced volume. Maybe. That's my best guess if it isn't structual. Usually the rest of the mold has taken enough damage/wear that you're scrapping the entire thing.

  • Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior.

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  • Not who you were responding to.

    I've given up. I don't have it in me anymore to keep trying. Never was able to get anyone back to reality after they went deep into it. Friends and family. It's a terrible damn problem. Basically a big chunk of society needs to be deprogrammed and I haven't seen anything that will do the trick.

    Not that I'm in any way disparaging your efforts. Good luck and god speed. Maybe you'll find some sort of magic that will flip the switch. You'd be a motherfucking hero, no irony.

  • techsupport @lemmy.world
    Machinist @lemmy.world
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    Preparing to upgrade to windows 11. Have a bitestick and a punching bag but need advice.

  • Ask Electronics @discuss.tchncs.de
    Machinist @lemmy.world

    Antique Electro-Cautery Unit: Measuring voltage with ADC and general safety.

  • Mushrooms @lemmy.world
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    not a mushroom, but figure someone here will understand.

  • WatchTheRight @lemmy.world
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    klanned karenhood

    whnt.com /news/madison/madison-public-library-cancels-moms-for-liberty-event-citing-capacity-issues-attorney-threatens-legal-action/
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    Sacramento Sheriff sharing automated license plate reader data with anti-abortion states

    news.yahoo.com /sacramento-sheriff-sharing-license-plate-133000119.html
  • WatchTheRight @lemmy.world
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    Sound of Freedom: indie movie that Qs are getting wound up about.

    www.rottentomatoes.com /m/sound_of_freedom
  • WatchTheRight @lemmy.world
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    Hate on Display™ Hate Symbols Database

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    Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene removed from US House Freedom Caucus

    www.reuters.com /world/us/republican-marjorie-taylor-greene-removed-us-house-freedom-caucus-politico-2023-07-06/
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    -meta- content and allowed posts

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    Attacks on Electrical Substations Raise Alarm

    www.nytimes.com /2023/02/04/us/electrical-substation-attacks-nc-wa.html