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First, as mentioned, you're not bothering anybody around here, and honestly being able to vent these things and get the responses of other randos you know on the internet is pretty much the charm of this place anyways ;) Second, the recommendation to get laid sounds like the old sports adage of...

This is what I've had to learn over time. Now I'm far more of a DCA adherent. Know what you feel will appreciate in value over time, invest in it regularly, when the money is there make the purchase. Trying to play "I have the money there, but I'm waiting for a market dip" is the gateway...

Oh yeah, visually I get it. I saw someone who did a print of the Planet Express ship from Futurama in a copper infused filament, then put in it, I believe, a mild vinegar soak to cause oxidation and got a fantastic green patina on it. For me, it's that more of what I print now are for...

Yes, but also there are levels to it. There's "ready for some bad things"... all the way up to "I'm off grid, wholly self sufficient, and building my own alternative society and militia". You can always strive to cover the points you can on the list, be as prepared as is possible for you, and...

Found this interesting...

Well, I have thought about this. I'm not sold on the idea of metals within filament for FDM. Since you'll never actually melt the metals, it's just powder suspended in plastic. Possibly good for visuals/appearance, but that would mostly be it. I'm more interested in what I'm seeing with...

The fact is I don't think anybody on this board is in a position to have any truly "not priced in" intel or alpha on any stock. I work for a company where we have open and closed trading windows for our stock as block against potential insider trading around the earnings announcement windows...

I will say I am still seeing "lower highs and lower lows" on the daily for BTC, which is not the trend one wants for profits...

I think this covers is... (and tagged in an apropos way for today..)

I see it as this board is a gathering of autistic gibbering shitheads.. But they're MY gathering of autistic gibbering shitheads, and I don't deny being one myself.

Been a while since I remembered my duty to provide quality potato based content....

Yeah, I'm gearing up to get a new set of wheels for the wife. I know what she wants (nice/luxury compact SUV or maybe compact wagon). Searching around, finding the various makes/models which fit. And it's become obvious that people are not just "leasing a car for a year and turning it in so...

I think the markets have, for the most part, figured out how to trade around Trump and Tariffs. It will take some abnormally large event on that front (like China tell Trump to F off and moving on Taiwan) or a black swan level event outside it , like Iran pulls an underground nuclear test out...

Did a second run of polishing (First round was progressive sanding up to around 1000 grit, then a 1000 grit with wd40 for a wet sand, so today I did a legit buffing run on it with white polishing compound. Got to a near mirror state on the top and bottom. Also added a "handle wedge" (the wedge...

I'm just happy they're killing the playoff LTIR loophole.

Can't remember if this one's been here or not...

In the US it's completely normal that if you request a copy of your imaging they burn a CD. In my folder I have for my current kidney situation I have 3 CDs. Each time I am going to see a new Dr, I simply copy the contents of each into a subdirectory on a cheap thumb drive and give it to...

3k in this round... Almost 20k in the last 2 months. And it's not the individual layoffs, it's the things they're doing in restructuring internally that are more worrying. I know some people in sales over at MSFT, it's not pretty, getting uglier, and MSFT seems sure "AI will smooth out all the...

This is beyond that and it's a trend that happening across tech companies now. Slews of new high level executives are all of a certain "type" and the new strategy is cutting costs by all means. It's also a resurgence of the belief that "With a spreadsheet you can manage anything, if your row...

Did the polishing I wanted on it. Nicely reflective now, not a perfect mirror finish, but close enough. Also realizing that if this doesn't end up being a maul it might make a nice hood ornament. ;) Definitely has some flaws, but I can see what caused them and how to work around them...

Blood is in the water at MS....

I guess so. I think the furthest down that path I've ever gone was being on the "higher than is natural for your age" Testosterone. I did the pellet thing for around 10 years. And they would show me the numbers and talk about how to boost for "someone my age". I asked them "Why not boost me...

On the topic of the leg cramps, how's your potassium level? I had that problem off and on and just started working in a banana every other day and it cleared my "wake up screaming with cramp/charlie horse" scenarios... I had what I will call a "very Persian dr." who did my first cyst removal...

So my question is how are these weightlifters who are apparently willing to play guinea pig with their bodies getting all this stuff that's , in some cases, even pre-clinical trials? NGL though, if they pan out and don't kill folks it would be a game changer for a lot of people.

It would make sense to keep it and rent it with the mortgage being "cheap money" assuming you can swing something workable to live in. But I'd say to keep having the right home around you, and your sanity, above a good rate. ;)

So I went out to water things in the back yard today and this was essentially my reality with my two dogs.. Except that then they discovered phase 2 of hose which was..... The rotating water sprinkler.

That's great news! Good to hear you're making that forward progress, even if it's little steps at a time... That's what matters. Sounds like a lot of positive "you time" to boot, which is almost never a bad thing. If not moving in with the parents a consideration might be if selling the...

Jerky Bar.... Fudge Bar... Fresh made brisket and BBQ sammiches.... Wawa isn't in the same league, not even really in the same sport. Unrelated :

Yeah, I'm reading some analysis which is pointing out that the market is acting like this whole thing was for public show and a ball of inconsequential brouhaha over the weekend. I'm hoping they're right. And since I still see a bright future for BTC, I'll consider it dropping a little a...

So on the topic of these new "Not-xbox but kinda really xbox handhelds".... @Mrs. Haus is leaning towards wanting one of the better ones since it would let her apparently play the whole of gamepass, plus the whole of her steam library on a device she could carry around. Is that a legit use...

I'm not pissed I didn't pull the trigger on the sale of stock I was going to do last week, but didn't because I had a flurry of Dr's appointments and work crap distract me. Any word on the futures market yet on how bad the pain will open in the US in around 19 hours?

The US called the operation to bomb Iran "Operation Midnight Hammer" sending stealth bombers in. Ergo the resurgence of "Hammer Time" as a trending thing. Just finished casting the "handle cap" for the hammer. That's the part with a wedge in it that you hammer in to wedge/lock the handle to...

What? In order to celebrate it I need to make another eagle head hammer, but make it wearing a Yamakule? And paint it black so you can't see it?

I will admit if this works my next will be the obvious (A comic accurate Mijolnir), and then after that a comic accurate Stormbreaker (aka Beta Ray Bill's hammer)

Yeah, I picked this up during covid as something to get me away from my computer and the WFH hell of post Covid life. Was doing a deep 3d printing youtube rabbit hole one night which led me to a video on "lost PLA casting".... Which led me to "how to build your own home melting furnace"...

Some pics of my other silly distraction casting.... Aluminum open sided molds, and my first attempt at lost PLA on top. Various, mostly sand casted, but some 2 sided graphite molded, coins... One sided (open back) castings in aluminum, brass, and copper. Crappy pic of my small amount of...

I have a lot of wooden homemade frames/flasks. And yeah, I'm rough on them and slight overspills start burning them. I have seen a thing to semi fire proof them though. Getting that Sodium Silicate in like a 40% solution, then soaking the wood frames in it. Then you sit it out for a day to...

For @Soygen @MusicForFish and anybody else interested. Since this "Haus' Personal Maul" project is not far outside the realm of 3d printing, "technology" or "gadgets" I made a post in the Off Topic section with an overly exhaustive picture laden update. ;)...

Now it's time to see if this was a complete failure... So with a pair of pliers I pull out the metal. That core is now hyper brittle sandstone... a couple pokes with a screwdriver and... Now to start post processing with a sawzall and a grinder... Give it a once over with the wire brush...