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@AzzyDesignWorks

Azzy runs a small design shop in Pennsylvania, loves jeeps, fast cars and personal liberty. All taxes suck. Follows =/= endorsements. DMs open to real humans.

Finleyville PA Katılım Şubat 2013
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Azzys Design Works
Azzys Design Works@AzzyDesignWorks·
@MorosKostas Republicans don't have the guts to kick the socialists out, even when they get violent and show their colors.
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Salty Medic@MedicNamedHope·
Fun fact : almost every step iny blade making process only works because of blue painter's tape. I have rolls of it everywhere. And I'm already getting the feeling I need more.
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Bill Lindsay
Bill Lindsay@blindsay04·
@ZombieHedgehog_ Been having a blast doing multi color prints now that I have printers that dont make a ton of waste
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@ZombieHedgehog_ Problem is everyone demands they make things cheaper against a market manipulated in price by a nation state. And frankly, its every market that the Chinese produce things for.
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ZombieHedgehog | Hedgehog Makes
ZombieHedgehog | Hedgehog Makes@ZombieHedgehog_·
It turns out not everyone can just "make something cheaper" 😅 While Prusa has a lot of room for improvement, they are clearly still a powerful entity in the 3D printing space.
Josef Prusa@josefprusa

Hi Corey, you mentioned getting DMs from every direction on this. So this reply is partly to you, partly to that broader conversation and comments on both of your posts, because some of what's flying around needs context. It unfortunately isn't that easy. Price is primarily set by the bill of materials. I can't make parts cheaper just by wanting it harder. And there's nothing extra on CORE One, every part has a job. Strip any part and you get a different printer. What most people would not expect and many actually think it is a solution: manufacturing in China doesn't fix this either. Take an entry-level Chinese printer apart, quote the same parts in China at 100k+ volume, the parts alone cost more than the printer sells for in the West. Where is the sense in retail below parts cost? Do this long enough and price perception is permanently skewed. Some of what props it up: 0% interest loans, multi-year tax holidays, free land, free factories, 200% R&D tax deductions. And at the wild end, the state pays consumers back ~15% of the printer's price as a rebate. They are literally running out of ways to push more money into the propped industries. None of that is available to any Western company manufacturing in the West, or even trying to manufacture in China. And this isn't just a 3D printing problem. Same playbook took solar, drones, batteries, EVs. Now it's working on robotics. 3D printing would be done if we wouldn't be soo stubborn💪 About the “competitiveness“ I keep seeing in the replies. God I hate that word. Part of every conversation about every industry, especially in the EU. It’s shifting the problem to western industry side. Real problem is China breaking the WTO rules the next day after joining. So an $899 CORE One isn't a price decision. And unfortunately the "what if" framing, however hopeful, reinforces exactly the view that's hurting us in too many people's eyes. Complex and heavy topic, but tried to add some context.

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LT_Bacon
LT_Bacon@BLThompson88·
@Shadzey1 World Peace is achievable through Big Booty Latinas and Big Titty Goths?!
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Depends on how much land. And how much needs to go in a trust to pay property tax for the next 200 years. Most "charity" isnt. Its good paying jobs for people who dont solve the issues. Id start my own. Probably a church with a psychedelic rehab / therapy center. Probably build a small factory to supply jobs in the area too, without wall street or VC corruption that kills industry.
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Azzys Design Works@AzzyDesignWorks·
@WallStreetApes Localities love these developers because then they can raise property taxes, and the developers are usually friends of the local gov. And they make millions on these developments using illegal labor. We need to normalize single home lots again.
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Wall Street Apes
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes·
In Northeast Georgia this lake full of fish is being drained for a new housing development You can see the water being pumped out and drained through the other side of the pipe The new housing development will have about 450 units and instead of relocating the fish, they’ll die
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@electronranger Fully agree. Only thing I would add is labor practices in China almost eliminate overhead for those companies.
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Electron Wrangler ⚡️🧲💡🇺🇸
While I'm generally opposed to tariffs, in China's case I am 100% for them. They should be set to level the playing field plus 50% to make up for past unfairness. When I say "level the playing field" I mean compensate for: government subsidized real estate, shipping, currency manipulation, etc. Plus any IP theft should result in an embargo on any products using that IP. Prusa is not blameless in all this, but he's 100% right about China's unfair trade practices.
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Azzys Design Works@AzzyDesignWorks·
Greater context for how China dominates in areas of manufacturing. Maybe we need to subsidise building tools and equipment here instead of subsidizing data centers.
Josef Prusa@josefprusa

Hi Corey, you mentioned getting DMs from every direction on this. So this reply is partly to you, partly to that broader conversation and comments on both of your posts, because some of what's flying around needs context. It unfortunately isn't that easy. Price is primarily set by the bill of materials. I can't make parts cheaper just by wanting it harder. And there's nothing extra on CORE One, every part has a job. Strip any part and you get a different printer. What most people would not expect and many actually think it is a solution: manufacturing in China doesn't fix this either. Take an entry-level Chinese printer apart, quote the same parts in China at 100k+ volume, the parts alone cost more than the printer sells for in the West. Where is the sense in retail below parts cost? Do this long enough and price perception is permanently skewed. Some of what props it up: 0% interest loans, multi-year tax holidays, free land, free factories, 200% R&D tax deductions. And at the wild end, the state pays consumers back ~15% of the printer's price as a rebate. They are literally running out of ways to push more money into the propped industries. None of that is available to any Western company manufacturing in the West, or even trying to manufacture in China. And this isn't just a 3D printing problem. Same playbook took solar, drones, batteries, EVs. Now it's working on robotics. 3D printing would be done if we wouldn't be soo stubborn💪 About the “competitiveness“ I keep seeing in the replies. God I hate that word. Part of every conversation about every industry, especially in the EU. It’s shifting the problem to western industry side. Real problem is China breaking the WTO rules the next day after joining. So an $899 CORE One isn't a price decision. And unfortunately the "what if" framing, however hopeful, reinforces exactly the view that's hurting us in too many people's eyes. Complex and heavy topic, but tried to add some context.

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Azzys Design Works@AzzyDesignWorks·
@ocd_offroad Fking firestone. They game my wife a ne battery, but never secured it or the brake master cylinder back, just tossed the parts back under the hood.
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OCD Off-Road 🇺🇸
OCD Off-Road 🇺🇸@ocd_offroad·
After Firestone removed this guys alignment cams in a bad way. Jesse welded new ones on. Drives pretty awesome now lol. (Was a train wreck)
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Azzys Design Works@AzzyDesignWorks·
@Medvjed First video: heating your breakfast sandwich and resolving bed adhesion.
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Pavel B.
Pavel B.@Medvjed·
@AzzyDesignWorks :-D I wish I had some videos like that from our production....🤣😂🤔 May be I can start creating some.... Like... "120 things not to do with your PRUSA printer..." this might be actually working!!!
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Pavel B.
Pavel B.@Medvjed·
Some of you know that (long before I joined PRUSA3D) I once started a small 3D printing business for my husband. I started with two MK3S+ printers and one PRUSA MINI. We certainly didn't have money to spare, and since we needed to grow, so the were buying used MK3S.
Azzys Design Works@AzzyDesignWorks

I know a lot of people are price fixed, but if you have a small biz and do 3d printing, the extra cost is worth the lack of downtime. My Prusa machines are paying for themselves now, and usually making the parts to fix my other machines. And who knew my small post could help stir up a flood of help to get these machines more USA made! Looking forward to see what happens next with @Prusa3D and US made Core Ones!

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Azzys Design Works@AzzyDesignWorks·
@RealBSP3 @Mike_M_Klotz That thing weighs as much as 2 of my Jeeps. Probably also costs 3X both of them. Frankly, I like the look of them, but its no real offroad vehicle.
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𝐁𝐒𝐏𝟑@RealBSP3·
@Mike_M_Klotz Wrong tires, foolish driver, high-centered. I've seen a number of built rigs in that exact same situation. That's not a Cybertruck fault. It's an owner fault. 🤣
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@X9_redux Some of us out here with food allergies appreciate the poultry sausage and "bacon".
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X9@X9_redux·
I saw the wife grab ground turkey at the store so I shouted I'm being assaulted. She put it back.
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Congressman Pat Harrigan
Congressman Pat Harrigan@RepPatHarrigan·
For 20 years, a $6 knob that takes one hour to 3D print has been grounding Black Hawk helicopters four times a month, and the contractor responsible won't sell us the part or the IP rights to fix it ourselves. So instead, American taxpayers have been paying $40,000 every single time to replace the entire system, multiplied by four times a month, for two decades. That is NOT a procurement problem, that is a shakedown, and it is exactly why right to repair has to be in this year's NDAA.
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Wall street and a number of other factors are chasing out our own manufacturing base. There are functionally no 3d printing companies making machine here in the US anymore. Perhaps, instead of subsidizing data centers, we should be subsidizing companies that build secure equipment here, and better still, if its affordable to the general public. We have too many companies focused on quarterly returns than keeping jobs and industry rolling. China has been doing what Apple did in the 80s with computers. they get kids used to their ecosystem with donation, and then those kids want to keep working on that same platform after they get into the workforce. Here's how china does it: x.com/josefprusa/sta…
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@ShamashAran If we are going to go after betting, we should do the same on stock markets. Its the same thing, and both are causing damage.
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