Machinist @ Machinist @lemmy.world

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I'm celebrating Happy Fireworks Day!

I've got new neighbors that are probably about to hear, "Fire in the hole!" unironically for the first time. You can actually see the shockwave from my blackpowder signal cannon. Good chance the cops show up.

I usually use the cannon to vaporize 10oz of kerosene for a nice mushroom cloud of fire, but I'll have to see how it goes.

I'm a pyro.

Y'all wear safety glasses if having bottle rocket fights or roman candle duels.

Now, that's pretty funny.

Nuke a godless communist gay baby seal for Christ!

I miss that T-shirt, I think my mother and ex-wife conspired and burned it.

You can get concentrated permetherin, mix with water and apply with spray bottle to cotton clothes/socks. It bonds to the fiber and keeps the ticks off. Lasts several washes, longer if you don't dry clothes with heat.

Much cheaper to buy the concentrate instead of the premix.

Spray outside, allow clothes to dry outside. Stuff is pretty much harmless to humans. When still wet or in concentrate, it is absolutely deadly to cats. After it has bonded to your clothes, it won't hurt the cats. Doesn't work if you apply it to your skin, the skin oils or something deactivate it.

Haven't had a tick in years since I started using it.

I appreciate the in-depth response. I was really just having some fun trolling engineers. You've been around the block so you understand the arrogance inherent in pretty much anything technical. It's totally immature but it also makes me grin.

I was amusing myself. Trolling engineers can be pretty fun and this is a target rich environment. I've seen a lot of bad engineering over the years and sometimes it's just plain cathartic to make fun of them.

My bad, not design authority as that's a specific thing. They are allowed to design and the guy rubber-stamping often doesn't catch much.

Ultimately, this is a religious issue. Engineers are heathens that should be burned at the stake. Occasionally, you meet a good one who's been housetrained by the people that actually do the things.

Yup. Thing is, it's known that 'machinists' coming out of trade school aren't worth a damn for years. The same is true of enginneers, yet they turn them loose on CAD and they create designs that make everyone miserable.

This is one of the big problems with SpaceX/Blue Origin/Firefly. The designs are piss poor because the majority of their engineers are green.

Engineers shouldn't have design authority until they've spent a few years manufacturing.

Only thing dumber than a mechanical engineer is an electrical engineer trying to design a housing.

You want to understand the deep magic, talk to electricians and technicians.

All hat, no cattle. Too much truck, not enough dick. Just like jacked up stupid trucks, it's suburban men cosplaying. They're imitating a culture they aren't a part of and don't understand.

Yup. There's also McDoodles, Booger King, Taco Hell...

Depressingly acurate.

Alfonso Ribeiro will always be FADDER!

SPEAK UP, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU.

Memory unlocked.

I learned that furries were a thing in 2000. Was acquaintances with a guy that hung out at Wiffle Horse late at night.

Friend of a friend social group stuff. He was always in a booth sketching.

We were all on so much drugs.

My mind was blown that he was selling pictures of cartoon rabbits in football gear and that he was doing it over the internet. His stuff was totally queer. I remember him explaining yiff and how hard we all laughed that he was actually making fat stacks on it.

Thanks for reminding me of that!

I reckon a friend of theirs was looking for something real hard.

Because, at the end of the day, Netanyahu will do or say anything to save his neck. He's not a fanatic like Johnson. He's like Trump and Vance.

I.E. Johnson would die for his beliefs and will kill or allow the deaths of those that he considers to be evil/subhuman like: queer people, immigrants, any religion other than Christianity or Judaism, etc.

Netanyahu will kill or do anything to protect or enrich himself. His Zionism is just a useful tool, and if it didn't serve him, he'd drop it. (Not that that would ever be the case) Netanyahu would load jewish babies into a wood chipper while sucking off an Imam if it would keep him alive.

Look at what these people do, not what they say.

You're so wound up on the whole Israel thing that you're missing the point. Also, quit doing this purity test crap. It leaves you unable to understand the nuance in these things.

Johnson is more of a true Zionist than Netanyahu if you need to frame it that way. He is similar to Ali Khamenei in the fervency of his beliefs. I don't have a good example of a Jewish politician as I'm weak on Israeli internal politics.

Hindsight is always 20/20.

Crazy, ain't it? Lemming really isn't a bad descriptor for a lot the folks on here. Their brains have fallen out just like the MAGAts.

Trump should already be in prison for all kinds of shit. That being said, this is obviously political grandstanding and not the hill to die on. It doesn't matter as it is a non-starter and distracts from the real issues.

However, gotta get that two minutes hate in. Don't think, just scream. Don't be effective in dealing with the far right, just be angry.

okay, that's immaterial to the current discussion.

I would think Netanyahu is closer to the greed and corruption model. He needs the war to keep his slimy ass out of jail.