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welp i took a diversion tonight and installed some better lighting in my abrasive blasting cabinet.
what i can say about harbor freight tools is that they're good for people who don't value their time. most of their tools require some tweaks or improvements to be actually usable.
their blasting cabinet is one of the all time worst designed pieces of equipment i have ever encountered. just the way you have to put it together with a zillion tiny nuts and bolts, truly they hate their customers.
if you ever have to assemble one (or disassemble parts to upgrade their shitty lighting) you'll be cursing them
i am getting ready to sandblast this acura steering knuckle casting and decided i couldn't deal with the weak little fluorescent lamp in there so i put some LED strips in there instead.
if you have one of their blasting cabinets, you'll want to do that, and also install a bottom siphon feed tube instead of their dumb little pickup tube. after those 2 mods it becomes actually usable
i think at the time i bought the thing i was on a budget and it's served its purpose. it's just generally unpleasant to use so for anything more than occasional use, just get something better
Reason why I focus on Jewish culpability for Palestinian genocide(rather than abstract "Zionist" culpability), is not because I want to feel morally righteous(I am flawed⇒I cant be morally righteous), but because without honest accounting for massive crimes like Genocide & deflecting accountability by playing "antisemitism" definitional games, we allow similar/worse crimes more likely to happen in the future
Did you know #Microsoft is shutting down Chinese universities by blocking access to their services? When will this come to Europe and the rest of the world? How dependent on Microsoft or Google is the day to day work in your organization?
Sich von den #USA zu emanzipieren heißt auch, von #Microsoft wegzukommen. Im Ernstfall könnte man darüber hier praktisch die komplette Wirtschaft lahmlegen.
Frankly there is no reason why the #QOwnNotes #flatpak package has to be updated every goddamn day. I've never done this before but I've ignored all future updates for the package entirely. Spamming me via System Updates for bullshit minor updates every single day is a bit much.
In our work documenting the social media failures contributing to #TigrayGenocide (dair-institute.org/tigray-geno…), we tried to be proactive in thinking about what we can contribute to the foundation of the new social media platforms being built. We also tried to issue a warning of the current rampant incitement to violence and warmongering on social media, preparing the groundwork for another devastating war.
From our statement, dair-institute.org/blog/tigray…: "We can't say that we did not know. We are ringing the alarm bells for what is to come and urge you to act with us." What does it take to stop the most violent genocidal & graphic content from being shared on these platforms with impunity?
#Reddit decides to give me a three-day ban for the following:
- Discussion talking about rolling coal and how truck drivers that modify their trucks to "roll coal" are basically assholes. - Lawyer chimes in and says technically rolling coal on somebody is assault but good luck getting that proved because an assault has to have "harm". - To which I reply with the following hypothetical: -- Say the victim has asthma -- They get "coal rolled". -- They have a serious asthma attack as a result -- Severe asthma attacks can be fatal if not treated -- Vitim dies. -- Now the driver could be charged with voluntary manslaughter! (I would hope because choosing to roll coal on someone is clearly a voluntary act.) -- Me: "Sucks that someone has to die first though for that [being prosecuted] to happen."
And for this Reddit has given me a three-day ban for threatening violence. Reddit has so far gone off the deep-end it's like a fucking different universe over there.
There was not one single thing in my original comment that threatened or called for any violence.
So I go to do an appeal and they only give you 250 characters (not even a fucking tweet's worth) to make your case.
So I basically told them to read this. That this is my fucking appeal.
"Over the boos of his classmates’ rich parents, the threats of his college’s craven administrators and influential alumni, and the rumble of jackboots descending on campuses countrywide, this young man refused to be cowed into silence."- Dan Sheehan
NYU student Logan Rozos denounced #Israel ’s #US -funded genocide in #Gaza during his graduation speech to big applause. In retaliation, #NYU has withheld his diploma and is threatening further disciplinary action.
_Hillary Clinton Post About Qatar Jet Backfires - Blocking Comments Did Nothing to Save Her_
FTA: “No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious,” Clinton wrote. ... “Be serious. Nobody give[s] millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation without expecting anything in return. Be serious,” one user wrote, reposting Clinton’s post along with a screenshot of donors to the Clinton Foundation.
No one is above the law, right...May Karma give him exactly what he deserves, and then let justice take care of the rest.
"The FBI, DHS and Secret Service are now investigating former FBI Director James Comey over his Trump assassination social media post.
“We are aware of the recent tweet by former FBI Director James Comey, directed at President Trump. We are in communication with the Secret Service and Director Curran. Primary jurisdiction is with SS on these matters and we, the FBI, will provide all necessary support,” FBI Director Kash Patel said on Thursday evening."
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that Russia would make “adjustments” in its demands to Ukraine “due to developments on the ground,” a vague declaration following the Kremlin’s confirmation that strongman Vladimir Putin would reject Ukra…
FBI head James Comey is getting lambasted online after he shared a post on social media that many are taking as a "hit" on President Donald Trump's life.
Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) is giving the first keynote at #PyConUS tomorrow morning. But tonight, he has a stop on his book tour here in Pittsburgh! It's at 7PM ET at White Whale Books, which is just a few miles from the convention center.
Conversation, community, and culture. Pittsburgh's family-owned, general interest independent bookstore. Check out our online store, literary events, and writing workshops.
CBC's #WhoBrokeTheInternet has been awesome so far. Highly recommend it! Hosted by @pluralistic with lots of great quotes, clips, and interviews - the production quality is high and the history lessons are necessary! Here's a link to the intro: mgln.ai/e/12/cbc.mc.tritondigi…
@zephyrotv @patrick @Darren True - but it was decent many many years ago, even if not up to the level of Al's (beef) or Superdawg (dogs). But it is pretty much the only hope of getting Chicago dogs and Italian beef down here in Cackalacky someday (they have locations in FL and Atlanta).
And while we are at it, Culver's is overrated IMHO, at least the burgers (custard is solid). Kopp's über alles.
@zephyrotv @patrick @Darren I’d agree with your assessment. When I’m back up there, I’m just happy to get something I can’t get down here and will go to wherever is convenient. I’m not going out of my way or waiting in lines for that.
@zephyrotv @patrick @Darren Agree on all points there. Will take Culver’s every time over those others for sure. I don’t dislike and think I used to like it more, but I don’t get fast food often so tend to go Steak & Shake first.
#ElonMusk's political action committee failed to pay registered swing state voters as promised during last year's U.S. #election in return for signing a petition or referring other #voters, according to a proposed federal class action #lawsuit.
In the nearly 4 months since President Trump returned to office, nine detainees have died while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the agency's acting director.
How to test for leap years (until year 102499) in the proleptic Gregorian calendar with just three 32-bit instructions, with detailed explanation of the bit-level tricks.
"Thousands of pages of documents show school districts around the country did not understand how much ChatGPT would change their classrooms, and pro-AI consultants filled in some of the gaps."
In our conversation with Malcolm Harris around his book Palo Alto, we discuss the ways in which the AI bubble is similar to the gold rush (see conversation at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayLt...).
In the gold rush, it wasn't the people who were looking for gold who made the most money, it was those selling shovels or providing support to the people looking for gold.
In this Generative AI bubble, besides those selling real hardware like Nvidia, the people making money are those creating surrounding businesses in telling you how its going to make all your problems go away.
Join us for a conversation on the seedy underside to Tech’s past, present, and future.————————————————————————————————————————————————If the industry’s most ...
New, from me: Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US
A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of a vast network of companies in the U.S. and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam westerners seeking help with trademarks, book writing, mobile app development and logo designs, a new investigation reveals.
This story was quite a lot of work, and I really hope some good can come of it. The scale of this operation is something to behold:
A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of a vast network of companies in the U.S. and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam…
Weirdly, this story appears to now be buried in Google. If you search on the headline in Google (Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US) you will see tons of places linking to my story, and you will see tags from the story. I don't see this behavior for any other story of mine on the homepage of KrebsOnSecurity.com now. But the story itself is basically gone from Google's search results. Gee, I wonder how that happened?
Wow, I got caught up with these guys a couple years ago with trademark registration. They impersonated USPTO attorneys, forged documents, the works. I did get a refund from my credit card company, thankfully. These bastards deserve everything coming to them.
A San Antonio, Texas mother was arrested this week for allegedly helping her troubled 13-year-old son with a planned school shooting by buying him ammunition, magazines and tactical gear.
@silas I was fine with him before he turned into the biggest bitch about NAS. I get that we can be awful, but we were core fans. I started listening it like the 500's, but now I'm just a nazi quadroon. @Richard
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HHS allegedly will stop recommending covid shots for children. so if they're off the "recommended" list from HHS, this in theory means they should be off the CDC schedule soon and pediatric practices will stop administering them. it remains to be seen how this will play out at the state level because whatever the current administration recommends, libtards automatically want to do the exact opposite.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is part of the HHS, recommends that individuals aged six months and older should be given an updated...
the evil eugenicist in me thinks it's a good thing for libs to cull their own offspring to prevent them from multiplying... but that's not fair. even kids raised by libs (like myself) can recover, to an extent and they deserve a chance.
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Hello! I've recently been working on the pathfinding for NPCs in my game, which is something I've been looking forward to for a while now since it's a nice chunky problem to solve. I thought I'd write...
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woodland creature
in reply to woodland creature • • •their blasting cabinet is one of the all time worst designed pieces of equipment i have ever encountered. just the way you have to put it together with a zillion tiny nuts and bolts, truly they hate their customers.
if you ever have to assemble one (or disassemble parts to upgrade their shitty lighting) you'll be cursing them
woodland creature
in reply to woodland creature • • •i am getting ready to sandblast this acura steering knuckle casting and decided i couldn't deal with the weak little fluorescent lamp in there so i put some LED strips in there instead.
if you have one of their blasting cabinets, you'll want to do that, and also install a bottom siphon feed tube instead of their dumb little pickup tube. after those 2 mods it becomes actually usable
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