@orthodoxmason Have some land near a town in VT that is known for this historic style of stonework called Snecked Aslar that looks very much like a “patio wall” to me:
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Professor Ratchet
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Professor Ratchet
@plasticmpire
seeker, builder, investor, father, biker
The heart of the empire Katılım Ağustos 2015
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Folks are quite good at sensing when something in a building feels off, but struggle to name the why. Stone veneer is a classic example of rarely achieving the look of the real. Let's talk about one of the main reasons it fails to convince. Let's talk about the "Patio Problem".
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Liability insurance is for when you have money to lose. If there’s no money you are judgment proof as the kids say. Yeah, in theory they could come take your 1 machine and thereby put you out of business I guess, but mostly the lawyers won’t even bother taking the case. Set up an S Corp if you are in an industry where you really have to worry about claims I guess?
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@zanehengsperger Dude, why? Why make shit up? First years liability insurance alone is 10k, if the poor sap can even get it for his garage biz.
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most net new US manufacturing businesses can be started with $25,000
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Hamburger sauce is sort of a thing (Big Mac/In N Out/Thousand Island) but hotdog sauce is pretty clearly made up. Im usually a mustard only guy but it’s normally served with options (chili, cheese, onions, kraut, ketchup, yellow and brown mustard, chopped tomatoes, relish). Mayo/avocado/other stuff on hot dogs seems popular in south america.
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it literally says American hotdog sauce i was convinced this is an American thing since i was a kid SAME WITH HAMBURGER SAUCE
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i just found out my American friend doesn't know what hotdog sauce is.
It literally has an american flag on the bottle of hotdog sauces wdym they don't have it and never heard of it? Germany just made that shit up!???😭😭 HUHHH
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You need to take a page from club promoters and pay to import some art hoes. A few minor Instagram influencers on the ground full time taking picturesque selfies, some kind of periodic event to draw people from the NYC scene. Look at what my man @TaoRuspoli pulled off in the fucking Salton Sea of all places, a dwindling saline puddle in the god forsaken desert….
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Once again: Broke Artists need to PICK A TOWN in the middle of nowhere and flock to it.
Preferably a town that is:
1. Actively dying / hopeless
2. Chock full of DIRT CHEAP housing
3. In a high-minimum-wage state
4. Has some kind of public transit
Ogdensburg NY comes to mind. As does Herkimer, Tupper Lake, Malone, Binghamton, and Massena NY.
Each has some kind of a local bus, some kind of connection to coach bus or Amtrak, low rent, and crazy cheap property.
Literally anyone who wants to live a low-rent lifestyle, making art, writing novels, hanging around in warehouses and cafes, etc can show up in one of these towns and make it work.
$16/hr minimum wage, houses for as little as $40,000 (Ogdensburg and Massena) or, on the higher end, $100k (Tupper Lake).
STOP being fixated on NYC / Philly / MTL. Just make the leap. I'm already up here. I already paved the way.
And if you want it even cheaper come to a village like mine, my house was $33,000. There's a cabin down the road from here for $17,000. You do not need to work a job here, period.
cold 🥑@coldhealing
President Trump please annex Montreal there's nowhere in America for broke artists New York is too expensive and Philadelphia is too bleak
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@PollyMonopoly @shagbark_hick An impounded vehicle with unpaid fines can usually be auctioned off. With the dirtbike kiddies they’re often riding stolen bikes with defaced VINs so there’s nobody to return them to.
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@plasticmpire @shagbark_hick They’re not the city’s to sell. If they sell them they’re no better than thieves selling stole merchandise.
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@ThymeToBeBorn A friend living in rural Maine got a scholarship to Exeter in a similar situation. Definitely worth looking at boarding school for HS if they can’t get what they need locally.
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My son, 11, just scored in the 97th percentile in math for 12th graders and maxed out the language arts portion. What do I do about this? I have a lot of little kids, can't focus on anything with him, live in the middle of nowhere, and can't leave the house.
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@shagbark_hick @DrKrisEdward We’re going to pave them over for data centers.
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@DrKrisEdward And what of the regions that are not suitable for farming?
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@bobbyfijan @JHWeissmann Agreed! But again just talking about DC there’s a map published by the city government showing where bikes are not allowed on sidewalks, and they are legal everywhere else.
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@plasticmpire @JHWeissmann If someone isn’t supposed to be on the sidewalk … but they’re on the sidewalk, it’s their fault.
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I'd add that DC compounds this problem by letting lunatics ride ebikes at 20 MPH on the sidewalk.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Street design paradox — cul de sacs with no through traffic are safer for kids but leave them with nowhere to go. Connected grids improve mobility but today’s taller trucks/SUVs and distracted drivers are dangerous to children. slowboring.com/p/why-kids-don…
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DC allows bikes (and e-bikes) on sidewalks outside the central business district. We also have many surface streets with cars routinely exceeding 50mph. If the cars obeyed the posted speed limits (or we had a commuter tax that discouraged some trips and imposed part of the cost of maintaining the city’s infrastructure on its actual users) you’d have fewer cyclists on the sidewalks. I hate seeing bikes blamed for car problems. I ride in the street 99% of the time, pass pedestrians safely and respectfully when it’s not safe to be in the road, and while I do see assholes on bikes, they are a non issue compared to cars. It’s the difference between me or one of my kids getting banged up or getting crushed to death.
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@JHWeissmann this is a good slant. Bikes and e-bikes need to regulated. they should not be on sidewalks
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@emm0sh Yes, I have a metal lathe in the home shop and it terrifies me.
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before i was allowed near a lathe i was forced to watch lathe accident videos. the fear response part of my mind now treats lathes the same as crocodiles
Cooper@CooperZurad
everyone needs a good solid pair of lathe gloves
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@SMT_Solvers @TheAdamWaite That’s what periodic oil crises are for.
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@TheAdamWaite I'm just noticing that having cheap energy makes poor energy choices less costly and they can add up like slop code if you don't take the time to refactor every so often.
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Cheap energy since 1950 has meant a lot of energy efficiency went to shit. There is a lot to learn from hand/horse powered tooling lost for a few generations.
America First - Iowa@af_iowa
Everything has gotten shittier. The technological advancements that made life objectively better have halted. All we have is more distractions.
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@GeniusGTX Ok follow me here - you launch starship naked and fabricate shield tiles on the moon. You pick up an extra few tons of payload capacity which is nothing to sneeze at. Can be that much harder than orbital data centers.
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Elon Musk says one heat shield problem could kill Starship's reusability for years.
Starship is the most complicated machine humans have ever built.
The hardest part isn't the engines.
It isn't the steel.
It isn't even the explosion margin on liftoff.
Musk named the one remaining bottleneck.
"It's having the heat shield be reusable. No one's ever made a reusable orbital heat shield."
The shield does two impossible jobs.
"It's gotta make it through the ascent phase without shucking a bunch of tiles, and then it's gotta come back in and also not lose a bunch of tiles or overheat the main airframe."
40,000 tiles per ship.
Musk reframed the consumable problem through brake pads:
"Your brake pads in your car are also consumable, but they last a very long time."
The shield must consume slowly.
It must not require inspection between launches.
Musk on the current state:
"We have brought the ship back and had it do a soft landing in the ocean. But it lost a lot of tiles."
A soft landing is not reusability.
The bar is daily launches. One ship. Many flights.
Musk, on the gap that's left:
"You can't do this laborious inspection of 40,000 tiles type of thing."
The first reusable heat shield in history is the last gate to Mars.
If you're new here, @GeniusGTX is a gallery for the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. Follow along for more similar content.
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk ), CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Dwarkesh Patel's ( @dwarkesh_sp ) podcast
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@UltimateLM30 @Empty_America Idk my motorcycle got me laid at least a couple times.
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@Empty_America Tbf when everyone is autistic and caring about looks or some abstract game of social status derived from social media, etc. most of that gets devalued. It was more rewarding to be in a band or ride motorbikes in the 70s than now
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One interesting thing about "soys" is that they don't even WANT to do cool or interesting stuff.
It's inherently repelling/impossible for them.
They call anything other than video games and office job a "LARP."
FortWorthPlayboy@FWPlayboy
Older Men can make up for lack of Cash game utilizing Adventurer Game Artist Game Musician Game Pilot Game Sailing Game Traveling Game Athlete Game Mercenary Game KEY is younger girls are searching for MASCULINITY that younger more estrogen based video gamers aren't delivering
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We are at the point where homes with access to the best possible recreation don't actually cost as much as suburban tract homes.
If you can somehow escape from that entire reality, you can live by the sea or in the mountains for *less* than an outer ring suburb of Columbus.
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@PauloMacro Every cycle is about leverage building up to an unsustainable level and then some minor disruption of the expected cash flows causes a rolling crisis. The questions to ask are, do we have enough fuel (debt) and a spark (insufficient demand/excess capacity).
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I remember when ‘perception’ was ‘eyeballs’ but ‘fundamental reality’ was hyperbolic growth in fiber and network gear demand where the order book was insatiable for a world-altering technology. There was no catalyst on 24 March 2000. It just stopped getting bigger, for no reason, that day.
This is just a lack of experience talking, but we all get there eventually when we have lived thru a really epic one
Citrini@citrini
People keep confusing a bubble with “stocks go up and get overvalued”. A bubble is when when a prevailing trend and a prevailing misconception about that trend interact reflexively, each reinforcing the other until the gap between perception and reality becomes unsustainable. A bubble is not when everyone realizes that right now every iota of AI demand eventually, at some point upstream, must move through memory OEMs. Nor is it when estimates continue rising because things are better than expected. And it’s not just when stocks trade expensive to historical valuations. The reason behind the moves in the AI infrastructure layer so far have been simply that we don’t have enough. They’ve been driven by the fundamental reality more than the perception of the future. It’s why the bulk of the most bullish parts of this cycle have been lumpy and centered around earnings season when companies uniformly come out and confirm there’s still not enough. In the bubble, the reality is driven by the market - not the other way around. Everyone keeps saying “people are gonna freak out if it’s not a bubble!”. I think that’s silly, we have a transformative new technology that needs crazy capital to fuel it coming to fruition, that has and always will result in a bubble as long as we have financial markets. But if you want to call the top in a bubble, you need a much stronger view on what the misconception is and what negative catalyst forces broad perception to align with realizing it than you do on valuation.
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@RokoMijic Ok but it was definitely a “dog catches car” situation and he had no idea how to parlay his moment of fame into real career, did not have the instincts required for showbiz, maybe didn’t even want to be famous. Internet bear hug of death.
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Wife immediately divorced the hillbilly guitar guy when he made some money, took 60% of his wealth
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A.B.@AugustusBenle
>30 something poor Virginia boy >Married with two kids >No career >No prospects >Commits to creating a music career out of nothing >Makes millions overnight >Wife divorces him and gets half of his newfound wealth
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@LindyTasteful The ideal woman just “naturally” looks good and never wears any makeup. By divine creation.
The notion of makeup or having a makeup routine ruins the magic.
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The ideal man just "naturally" looks good and is in great shape. By divine creation
The notion of Looksmaxxing or being on a strict nutrition/gym routine ruins the magic. The sprezzatura is suffocated.
Acyn@Acyn
Kayleigh: I always wanted a looksmaxxing boy said no one ever. To me, real masculinity is taking your family to church. To me, it’s attractive.
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@ablata_at_alba I had one for a while and I liked the blade but it never wanted to stay closed in my pocket.
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Cary Bleasdale@Cary_Bleasdale
@kitten_beloved Buy an opinel. They're cheap, good quality, and they look classy. When people snap open their StabCo Cutzer 5000 with triple snap action in the office they look like murderers. Pull out a beautiful wooden French knife and you look like you have strong opinions on cheese.