That’s a great Fitzgerald quote. I had to look it up. Written after The Great Gatsby but published shortly before, The Rich Boy is a novelette. From 1926.

1926. I fucking hate knowing history. I fucking hate feeling like Cassandra.

Sometimes a DIY icepick lobotomy doesn’t sound like a bad idea.

I’ll go with you.

I’m still going to want to have a hard talk with God about why She allows cancer babies and such…

Rock and roll. I’ve seen bad things happen when someone decides it’s a good idea to modernize a PC based CNC control. (I hate PC based controls). They get their own little fence to live inside where it’s always 1999.

At least the lathe isn’t running punch tape.

Don’t upgrade or mess with the control. Disconnect from the network if it’s on it. It should have RS-232. Throw a Pi or other SBC that does serial and a 12V level shifter; use that to feed it programs.

Also, make an image of the hard drive if it has one and start looking for a spare drive on ebay.

Wow! That’s amazing, I’ve never heard of a blue bee. That’s just really cool. I bet it was confusing when you first saw it. I’ve heard of/seen solitary bees but didn’t think about it. Did a little beekeeping work as a kid.

We’ve got a couple weird ones on the other side of the pond that I’ve been around. (wasps, actually)

Cow killer/Red velvet ant it’s sting is in the top 10 for most painful. They’re beautiful.

Cicada Killers are huge, 5cm/2in long. I had one fall out of a tree with a cicada right next to me. I thought it was birds fighting.

Didn’t even think it about it not being a honey a bee. You’re right.

Drones don’t have stingers. Queens and workers have stingers. Queens are from worker larva that are fed royal jelly that transforms them into a queen that is capable of reproduction. Workers are technically female but they’re closer to asexual.

So, that badass enby ace bee gave that motherfucker what for.

The whole Tankie thing. Just like MAGAts but on the other side. They’re authoritarian left with lots of Chinese and possibly Russian influence. Far left most of us support are on the opposite end of the authoritarian/individualistic axis from both Tankies and MAGAts.

Was looking up tracks in a field guide the other day and ran across this super cute rodent, The Mountain Beaver.

Jerboa has served well as the replacement for me.

Don’t they slightly increase rain and slightly decrease UV? The particulate in the exhaust acts as nucleation sites for water droplets and crystals.

I don’t think it matters to Putin. I think this is catastrophic for Russia and will be the end of Putin’s Russia. No telling what replaces him, but it will probably be another strong man.

However, barring dark horses, the collapse will take years and many Russians and Ukrainians will die.

Probably turn up the meat grinder dial. Russia’s history has shown it can always get worse and they have no problem with human wave attacks. They have a significantly larger population than Ukraine.

Lunchables! You gotta keep that. Wonder if his Mommy still packs his lunchables and lays out his clothes every morning.

So other than clit-mouse, what’s the actual name of the nubbin thingy?

The bat boy stuff always astounded me at the grocery store.

My son and I laughed our asses off over that presentation. Brilliant but kind of disgusting.

Hand code is still used. Most frequently, a sub is hand coded with incremental moves and then called at a point. A lot of probing, weird moves, edge cases all still get hand coded.

Hand editing CAM produced programs constantly occurs at the machine as well.

3D printing gcode is pretty ugly because hobbyists “improved” the language without really understanding why it was so stripped down.

Modern Gcode is really meant to be machine generated and human readable/editable.

They’re not wrong. The deaths of Indians from the Americas and the aborigines from Australia far surpass the technical definition of genocide. Throw in banana republics and other nation building and it is totally arguable that the US has been complicit in many other genocides, for instance.

Damn skippy. Gaslighting and basic ass lying are different things. But hey, it’s trendy right now. Next, we’ll find out how he’s a malignant narcissist.

Dude posted a shill review. It’s called shilling. It’s a form of lying for profit. He likely did it to advance his career or because he was afraid not to. His employer likely encouraged the action without directly ordering it.