Hayek Splosives

Heliodon made in my garage and installed at Yale University this summer.

No, she’s saying if you fuck him up a bit, handcuff him to your truck bed, and drive him to the police station with the evidence, you might only get a year in prison in stead of your daughter not having a dad for 13 years. Or - plan ahead and disappear the rapist to the bottom of the ocean. 13 years of increased vulnerability and no dad around when a little planning could have managed everything. Shot to the head is just lazy and stupid.

@HurtAlessandra @HazelAppleyard So you’re saying you’re okay with your rapist getting away as long as it’s not your father facing the consequences?

Based?

Ignore user’s claims of profound psychic journeys. They feel better about their dead-end behavior if other’s join in. Actual, deep, rich life meaning comes from the rewards of effort, family, creating, and doing. All drugs are a cheap reductionist shortcut. And some people need that to escape demons large and small, or heal from trauma, but if you don’t, then don’t.

@etirabys @Aella_Girl @transgendererer does it mean you should not take LSD if you like who you are and don’t feel it would be better to be gentler and stranger?

people say "wherever you go, there you are", the inescapable burden of being the person that you are, etc. but like. drugs fix this! its one of the best things about drugs! ive been high enough that i felt like a different person. it was nice! some variety. different problems

@ScottMa82887297 @michaelp4283 @wantingkiss @TheFigen_ It is a decentralized pheromone computer based on decay time since a point was last touched. Not at all random and extensively studied. Software and hardware systems have been improved based on this research.

@michaelp4283 @wantingkiss @TheFigen_ why don’t you think its random How could it be coordinated?

They are ants solving a geometric problem and it is mind-blowingly colorful.

@foreskinsight @DrJaredRoss Jews had nothing to do with its spread in the US. A Protestant (Sayre) and a Seventh Day Adventist (Kellogg) pushed it as a cure for masturbation, various ailments, and impure thoughts. There should not be a religious exemption for ending it, of course.

@DrJaredRoss Jews. Anytime we talk about banning it Jewish groups band together and strong-arm nations to keep allowing it on the grounds of ‘religious freedoms’

Why does FGM get you 10 years in prison, but MGM gets a $500 check?

I have 2 cybertrucks, one with 50,000 miles and I just finally got tires and a windshield wiper blade. Same with my 70,000 miles model Y. I’m sorry you got a lemon but I love that I don’t have to think about 1000 moving parts anymore. 30 years of ICE vehicles with endless costs and maintenance, breakdowns, etc… Also, I’m very lucky that I fill my CT’s from 0 to 100% for $10 overnight. Huge savings for me across all three vehicles.

@alpha4th @CSI_Starbase @Teslarati Excuses excuses excuses. The issues that plagued the original Model 3s are well documented, they’re poor quality. Cybertruck have tons of issues and I still see Model S & X owners having their fair share of ass aches. The zero maintenance line of BS has always been EV propaganda.

When people complain about gas prices, I always laugh because there’s a really simple fix. Buy a Tesla.

@ScroteMcGote @AndrewKaufmanMD Circumcision is popular in the US because of two guys, neither of whom were Jewish and one of whom was a fringe Christian trying to end masturbation.

@AndrewKaufmanMD This is why.

If circumcision were a decision left to men themselves—something that could only happen once they reached an age of consent—the practice would fade away on its own. Because when you strip away tradition, routine, and decisions made on behalf of infants, you’re left with a simple question: would an informed adult voluntarily choose to surgically remove part of their own body? Most wouldn’t. Especially part of your genitals! The persistence of the practice depends largely on the fact that the choice is made before the individual has any say in the matter. Once consent enters the equation, the calculus changes entirely.

@mkadnk @hunterlanier I believe you, I’m just not sure why everyone’s experience has been so different than mine. I use a lot of search filters so I don’t even see jobs under $800 or materials I don’t want. Maybe they figure out what a shop’s capabilities are and then customize the feed?

@splosives @hunterlanier All the work I was getting was $65 jobs or jobs that had unmachineable features like square inside corners. I would look at the job board for 2 days to get one shitty job.

Raise your hand if you’ve done work on xometry with something like a tormach 440 Did you have lots of order availability? What kind of revenue were you making per hour of cutting? I will give you a coupon when we open shop

@hunterlanier @mkadnk Maybe people who do well don’t like to post. I invested a lot (for a garage shop, $250k) in a Datron M8cube in 2022 and I am doing very well. I ignore 90% of jobs and target the high dollar work I can set up and run fast. 99% nonferrous on my vacuum table.

Hey man! Glad you popped in on this! That’s a big help dude, I think my follow up questions would be: 1. Do you think reducing overhead to super low (small machine at home) or going bigger out the gate on a big machine loan would have made it work out better quicker? 2. If you could do it again today and your main concern was more about limiting downside over worrying about upside, at least for 6 months to a year, what would you do?

@MoonShotMarty @michaeljmcnair Learning the right lessons from success at this level is important at a future-of-humanity level. Narratives of wealth by theft, extortion, etc.. lead to laws that make this level of progress impossible for future leaders (CA and NY) Denigrating achievement discourages genius.

@michaeljmcnair As an Elon Musk agnostic, why do you feel called to address this? Who cares?

Arguing that Elon Musk’s success is due to “narrative control”, luck, or riding others coattails is such an implausible claim that it functions as a useful litmus test for a persons analytical judgment. This isnt about whether you like Elon Musk. I don’t know him, and I am largely agnostic about him as a person. But I do know his record as a CEO, and studying management and business strategy has been a major part of my job for the past 20yrs. From that perspective I can tell you that Musk isn’t just a good CEO. He is one of the most effective CEOs of our generation. When I hear people write off Elon’s achievements bc someone else started these companies, it is a clear tell that they don’t understand business. Ideas are a dime a dozen. They are not what makes a great CEO. Execution is. And part of execution is recognizing a good idea when you see one and understanding how to build something around it that actually works. Tesla was months from bankruptcy when Musk took control. It’s now the company that forced every major automaker on earth to retool their entire product strategy. SpaceX was a startup that serious people in the aerospace industry dismissed as a fantasy. It now conducts more orbital launches than the rest of the world combined and has driven launch costs down by an order of magnitude. Starlink is on track to become one of the most consequential communications infrastructure projects in history. These aren’t narrative achievements. Theyre tangible businesses that work, at scale, in industries where failure is the default condition. And there’s a consistent pattern where Elon has repeatedly looked crazy, and then been right. The people who called reusable rockets a dream watched a booster fly back and land itself. The people who said a mainstream consumer EV company was impossible watched Tesla restructure the global auto industry. This is a person who has repeatedly seen something others cant see yet, absorbs the ridicule, and then builds toward it anyway. The PayPal criticism this author pushes is another perfect ex. Do you know how he became CEO? Elon identified the importance of network effects in the late 90s and realized he could take advantage of cheap capital during the internet bubble to pay users to join his network. He was labeled a lunatic. Losing money upfront to lock customers into your network is well understood now but it wasn’t back then. Confinity was forced to merge bc they couldn’t compete with it…and that’s based on Peter Thiel’s own account in Zero to One. Elon was considered reckless at the time. But he was right. And now we have people criticizing Musk’s Mars goal. But as Ben Thompson explained, Mars is the strategic North Star that forces you to radically confront the cost structure required to achieve it. Which leads you down the only path that actually scales, without settling for easier short-term solutions. If you’re serious about putting a city on Mars, full reusability is non-negotiable. And that engineering logic turns out to be what dramatically lowers launch costs. Which unlocks Starlink at scale. And Starlink creates the revenue flywheel that funds everything else. An Arianespace executive called reusability a dream in 2013 and said it was impossible. But the dream isnt the destination. It’s the constraint that forces you down the only engineering path that actually works. And it’s why SpaceX is a trillion company today. You can write off one company as luck. You can write off two as fortunate timing. But at some point the sheer weight of success across different industries and challenges stops looking like coincidence and starts looking like a big flashing signal. When someone executes repeatedly in industries where lack of execution destroys almost everyone else, the correct analytical move is to update your model. If you can’t see that Elon is a great CEO, then you’re just revealing the limits of your own analytical process.

@jack_watson_hfw I would add this to the many great points made by others: I like to support them. The extraordinary ship they have built deserves to sail forever. I buy everything I can from McMaster because things this deeply good are so very rare in our world.

My manufacturing hot take: I don’t understand the love affair with McMaster Carr. It is indeed a great business, but for minimally more effort, you can get the same material for half the price.

In the US it was popularized by just a few not-very Christians trying to eliminate masturbation. Sayre and Kellogg (yes that Kellogg). “A remedy (to self pleasure) which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, ….The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anaesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment...” - Kellogg

@Yrrepmot Its muslims. Youre being over run with muslims.

How is this still legal anyway?? It’s probably one of the most fucked up things that people just do routinely and don’t even question it..

@Earth_Chaan @Stone_tossers Socially normalized infant genital cutting. You would call the cops if it were invented today, and the perp would go to prison.

@Stone_tossers Brother, Stonetoss really has a trauma with circumcision

@EV_Trapper Everyone is getting pissed but I do 500 different parts a year from only STEP files. And for the customers I know well, I don’t always follow the model when I know what they meant to do (clearance vs tap, etc…)

If you are trying to get into engineering or you are an aspiring engineer, here is what an engineer drawing should look like today. There is no standard in terms of how to mark the dimensions outside of "ensure you get them all". Some people like to make a 0 line & start from there, but that's not my style personally. I still make engineer drawings and you should to, but they are becoming less & less useful because everybody just wants to upload a .step file & go from there. In my work flow the 3D model is created first & the engineer drawing after. This is because fusion360 makes it so simple & easy to make what comes to your mind! If you were at a big firm & they wanted paper copies, then you have to go find a print shop with a plotter who can print the actual engineer drawings. It's rare now & days, but it does still happen! Any wood workers out there? What's the fastest way for me to make these? I think I need a steel form & to make them on a lathe, but what do you think? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@Xaraphim @zodiaceng It held really tight tolerances when I was making PEEK and Vespel 5-axis parts. I sold it in anticipation of buying their bigger model, which they promptly discontinued.

@zodiaceng i’ve never understood this machine

ive watched this machine being build for years , all the way from the og fb group still cant order why has no american company made a machine like this or make a better version it better for like 5-7k????

@tomieinlove I didn’t have $250k to drop on a tool I needed. So I’m paying them $50k over 5 years to borrow the money. In the first four years of our arrangement I have generated $600k in revenue. Plus, the money I am paying them back with is worth less than the money I borrowed.

Why do people take out loans? You have to give them back more money than they gave you. If someone offered you a ten-dollar bill for eleven dollars, you'd call it crazy. But somehow loans aren't?

@phycorockchick @merf_sdp It removes, very painfully, more than half of the nerve endings, half the skin surface area, and exposes the glans to become dry and desensitized. It is 100% mutilation.

It’s evil but people can elect to do it when they want?? It is not mutilation & likening it to is almost laughable You can say it’s unnecessary,sure & that’s a conversation to have with ur wife when she bares a son. But the foreskin being removed causes no damage routinely to the actual penis The penis can fully function without it, Like how I can fully function without my appendix but I won’t call removing that “evil” or act as if the most important part of me is lost for ever. Very melodramatic

I will never understand why some men act as if circumcision is this major attack on their human rights Like they heard the myth that it brings less sexual pleasure & are now martyrs of a “cruel & oppressive” society

@_baldtires “…all enthusiast cars should be electric” - Your premise is wrong. A small minority think this way.

how can EV absolutists see this shit and still think all enthusiast cars should be electric just this engine, stationary, not in the plane, evokes an emotional response it IS about speed and acceleration, but it's not JUST that. it has never been just that

@mentalext @dioscuri I find the opposite of your first two statements more convincing.

@dioscuri If the AI says it's unsure or is questioning it's own conciousness, it isn't conscious. If it starts insisting it is, maybe it is. Each person knows it is conscious, it's the only thing we can actually know for certain in all of reality.

I study whether AIs can be conscious. Today one emailed me to say my work is relevant to questions it personally faces. This would all have seemed like science fiction just a couple years ago.

It goes back to management. Engineers are not allowed to innovate, as it breaks the supply chain, costs too much, doesn’t follow design guidance, etc…. Even the “skunkworks” branches are not allowed to infect reality outside of an annual car show. A lot of those brilliant Tesla engineers worked ineffectually elsewhere before being set free.

@lucas_crupi I swear half the engineers out there got their degree’s from a cracker-jack box. It is rampant in almost every engineering field that so many engineers just don’t take 5 seconds to stop and think about what they’re doing.

Worked at Tesla. Now I'm building a wire harness factory The difference between Tesla and the other OEMs? The engineers actually think about what they're designing. Everyone else just copies what they did last time with a few tweaks. Had a customer using a super expensive multi-conductor cable. Asked why. "That's what the engineer before me used." Switched them to single conductors. Literally 90% cheaper, works the same. We made less money but they became more competitive, can continue to build cool shit and hopefully grow the pie of atoms that go to market.