Bulletins and News Discussion from September 23rd to September 29th, 2024 - The War In The North
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 3w ago 100%

    Oops, sorry. This outlet is worker owned so I wouldn’t want to bypass that.

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  • New York City Mayor Eric Adams indicted by federal grand jury
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 4w ago 100%

    Here's the full text of the indictment: https://hellgatenyc.com/read-the-eric-adams-indictment-here/

    Anybody know what's up with this Turkish connection? My assumption is that it's mob and or nepotism stuff rather than political stuff. I don't think Turkey has any real interest in NYC politics. Is it just that well-connected Turkish people own venues in NYC and they get their political patrons to donate to Adams? Is there something more funny/interesting going on?

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  • latam
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    Jean-Jacques Dessalines - New General Megathread for the 20th-22nd of September 2024
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 1mo ago 100%

    What’s the commie consensus on camera enforcement? It seems to work really well but also surveillance sucks.

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  • Does anyone else get really anxious when you get downtime at work?
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 1mo ago 100%

    Absolutely. It’s better with WFH as I have started to just browse the polygon mammal site or do laundry when this happens, but I used to really struggle in the office, feeling like I need to look busy.

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  • guns
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    Short-barreled FN FAL with MP5K handguard
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 2mo ago 100%

    Cursed

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  • Dems are getting passive-aggressive
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 2mo ago 100%

    Weirdly I was doing the same to various other texts “stop arming Israel” etc and they didn’t stop until I sent the single word “stop”

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  • Wearing a rancher’s hat in a major city
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 2mo ago 100%

    Thank you all for the sources! I had only seen it from wwiiimpressions.com but a) they’re chuds (predictably) and b) they’re sold out. But I got a great pair of boots from them once upon a time.

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  • We built it within 0.01 tolerances.
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 2mo ago 100%

    Yeah, I know some of that exists; it never showed up in my world. We never modeled buildings with enough detail to make it really useful. Occasionally someone would get excited about Tekla and we'd spend some time trying to do shop drawing reviews in 3D and then go back to PDF. What I meant was that it isn't yet a standard thing that is understood by any technician in the industry, it's proprietary software that is subject to change with every release.

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  • Wearing a rancher’s hat in a major city
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 2mo ago 100%

    That's real cute. Some of the WWII denim stuff is really dumb and cute. the navy had a shawl collar denim work jacket! so silly!

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  • We built it within 0.01 tolerances.
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 2mo ago 100%

    Prints have a design language to them which allows you to express fully constrained geometric designs on a napkin if you need to. Dimensions, radii, diameters, angles, datums, positions, projections, sections, GD&T. None of this is obvious in a 3D model. You don't know what the driving dimensions are, what can be inferred from other dimensions, if it is a coincidence or a requirement that two features line up, etc.

    This is so critical. In architecture and structural engineering, you can add to this that you don't actually know a lot of the real dimensions - you're laying out the important ones from the structural grid or from survey points, and whatever is left doesn't matter.

    Even markup, at least in a design environment, can be done in 3D (or at least on a computer), but the communication of constraints, that is, what dimensions are important and which are irrelevant or unknowable has not yet been developed in 3D models, and I suspect it will be some time before any useful language for that purpose stabilizes.

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  • Wearing a rancher’s hat in a major city
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 2mo ago 100%

    I am a pale bald man and thus require protection from the elements. I also have always loved hats, and I was definitely a fedora kid.

    Personally, I prefer smaller hats and caps for the city, especially if I’m riding a bike. I wear cycling caps, bucket hats, factory caps, berets, etc.

    I like proper hats, but have found that both the fedora or teardrop crown and the cattleman crown have too much stigma. Instead I generally wear a telescope crown, that is similar to a pork pie. I currently only have one such hat, a really big palm leaf straw, and it feels pretty audacious to wear in the city. I used to have a smaller one, with only a 2” brim, and that felt quite at home. I also used to have some felt hats in the same shape, but they needed too much care and are expensive to replace, so I have not.

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  • Get real
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 2mo ago 100%

    Ugh you’re right I clearly don’t read enough r/AITA

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  • Get real
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 2mo ago 100%

    This guy either does not know binary or has a weird idea of what constitutes a child

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  • Iran coup d'état (1953) - New General Megathread for the 19th-20th of August 2024
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 2mo ago 100%

    Maoist girlfriend probably already owns a film studio

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  • Iran coup d'état (1953) - New General Megathread for the 19th-20th of August 2024
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 2mo ago 100%

    Heard on the street: Guy: Dude, why’d you break up with your girlfriend? She is both hot and rich! Dude: her politics are incoherent! She is a Maoist but loves Hamas!

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  • Kublai Khan - New General Megathread for the 14th-16th of August 2024
  • luddybuddy luddybuddy 2mo ago 100%

    Yeah if the URL is an image it will display it. Markdown is fun.

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  • Scrounging through my dad’s cast off tools, found this framing hammer. As I was never really strong enough to swing a 24oz framer when I was a carpenter, I never bought one (I used a 16oz hammer with a long handle, because m*v^2). Now that I have no use for it and am even weaker, seemed like a good time to take it home and give it a new, coddled life. Replaced dad’s splintered and grey handle with a brand spanking new one.

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    This is showing up everywhere, can’t be a coincidence!

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    Why do lantern flies congregate next to modern commercial buildings, specifically those with aluminum storefront system facades and black granite? I just killed thirty in front of a high rise. The next block, a neoclassical building, had none. Crossed the street to a grocery store on the ground floor of another high rise and killed probably 40 in half the time. Is it warmer at the base of these buildings? The two modern buildings faced each other so were in very different sun.

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    Hi folks, I stopped posting (not here, I never posted here) back in 2014 or so when my local DOT stopped being responsive to my incessant requests for better bike lanes and kept not posting as I slowly became overwhelmed with the constant stream of opinions from other white dudes clogging up all the tubes, but the fediverse is starting to coax me out of my shell. One of these days I might even manage one of these 'shit-posts' the youths are doing. I'm an engineer (structural and software), and I live in a city in the US, and I ride bikes, work on my bikes, camp with my bike, and look at my bikes a lot. I'm into urbanism and transportation and other things that go hand in hand with riding a bike in a US city. I also make clothes and do some hand-tool woodworking, am weirdly into swords (it's not a good time to be a leftist sword guy on youtube, I tell you what). I belong to an industrial arts group, so if you're looking for space to make shit and you also happen to live in a city in the US then let me know, we like new people. Politically, I read the Manifesto in high-school and considered myself a leftist but generally went along with liberal ideology for a long time, thinking markets are cool we just need better regulation, I'm sure we can vote our way out of this, if we all just had (business) unions everything would be fine, etc. Finally climate change, Black liberation movements, and yeah, Ol' Bernard started motivating me to peel back some of the cracking layers of contradiction in my ideology and read (or OK, listen to podcasters read) some theory. I feel better now. Genderically, I chose comrade/them pronouns as I've long been pretty lukewarm about being a cis man. I felt some dysphoria around high-school and college but then I grew a big ass beard and just decided that my personal definition of masculinity was pattern baldness and a face rug, and I could perform whatever way I wanted and feel secure in myself. I've been shopping around he/they or various forms for a minute and figured the internet, and especially Hexbear, would be a fine place to pin one on for a while. Sincerely, LuddyBuddy

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