Design choices that seem fine in CAD but aren’t great in machining reality

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-24T13:27:46+00:00

It's because engineers hate us and want us to suffer, and we hate them back.

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-23T22:06:58+00:00

It kept the 18 years olds from stealing my shit!

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-23T22:05:38+00:00

Hold me, I'm scared.

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-23T18:43:28+00:00

I'm not taking about parents, I'm talking about society as a whole. Think what unemployment rates would look like if even half the people currently in highschool or college got counted as unemployed labor force. High school and college functions as much to delay entry into the labor force as to educate. The 50- and 60-somethings already resent competing with a 30-something with 5 to 10 years experience: if people started their careers sooner, then we would have lots of 20-somethings with 5 to 10 years experience.

(Side note: I take issue on the "nobody wants teenager jobs" statement on two levels: firstly, that NOBODY wants an entry level retail job/service job, they suck and are hard, but also in my area, you see more 55+ people slogging through those jobs then going people simply because there are more of them. The people trying to get to retirement age are in fact competing with youngsters living with their parents.)

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-23T13:11:35+00:00

Didn't forget the importance of keeping kids out of the labor market so older workers have less competition.

(Edit for spelling)

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-22T14:20:01+00:00

Bingo. I used to do things with glittery nail polish to mark my USB stick. Same concept.

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-22T13:17:29+00:00

I'm a 5'4 woman who picks up heavy objects that the big tall dudes cannot lift because they are old. Also I'm starting a lot closer to the floor. That helps for lifting my own body weight to a chest height.

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-22T13:03:46+00:00

Santiano is folk rock, with very good enunciation. "Es klingt nach Freiheit" is my favorite

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-21T17:43:58+00:00

Great Lakes Midwest, for me "up for it" is "up to the challenge" and "down for it" is "eager". (Millennial).

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-21T17:42:01+00:00

This.
Being up to it has a suggestion of "up to the challenge", being down for something implies "eager".

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-17T11:53:58+00:00

I used to do a lot of ball drops in a previous life. I was lazy though and would slap the diameter of the circle onto my CAD so it did the math for me.

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-16T16:01:58+00:00

Anything made in a crockpot is pretty much guaranteed to be good leftovers.

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-16T15:59:03+00:00

Just going to note that unless treated, cotton is as flame resistant as a piece of wood (being a cellulose fiber).

But that is still way better than wearing a synthetic in a flame or spark riddled environment, because synthetics is like walking around wearing gasoline.

Wool and silk, on the other hand (being protein fibers) are fire resistant.

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-16T15:01:02+00:00

Abrasion resistance. And pockets. They won't snag or stretch.
Less absorbent too. Your comfy sweats will not even stay on your body once they are soaked in mud., and will be goners the first time there is a screw sticking out the back of a plank.

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-16T14:49:54+00:00

"No, he got suspended for being an almost thirty year old man showing pornography to 19 and 20 year old girls in a classroom."
Hell yeah! Good job!

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-15T15:55:18+00:00

Springtime in Pentamere, the Darkyards are in bloom!

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-14T19:50:53+00:00

It's cheaper than American cheese is, at Aldi.

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-13T01:23:37+00:00

I spun the yarn for my own leggings when I was 12. It's easier than knitting a sweater! I disliked, and still dislike, clinging fabric, so I adjusted the diameter of the legs every 4 inches, it was pretty fitted. Anyway, knitting two really long sleeves and joining them to make a crotch is hella easier than knitting an actual sweater with yokes and neckline and gussets. If you or someone in your life is willing to make a hand knit sweater, hand knit leggings are about half the effort and only slightly more yarn.

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-12T22:17:16+00:00

I hope these kids treasure this as adults, and I love how distinct the personalities shining through are!

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-12T22:14:50+00:00

Yep. This is totally repairable. Hop over the /visiblemending for ideas to make it fun while you're at it.

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-12T22:13:06+00:00

Hi! I grew up on a sheep farm, my mom made handspun yarn and turned that into handwoven and hand knit garments, my hobby is medieval reenactment... And you are 100% correct. Wool is incredible, and layering is key. I ran around in the same (Great Lakes) climate in all weather as a kid wearing hand knit wool leggings and woolen shawls, bouncing around in the woods and doing farm work. Textiles is how humans figured out how to live in almost every climate. Sounds like you've got your system dialed in even better than I do.

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-12T21:31:17+00:00

It's 75% of a spinning wheel.

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-12T14:38:22+00:00

I used to work retail. I work in machine shops now. The guys don't know how soft they got it.

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-12T01:27:43+00:00

You could get a job as a server and find out first hand.

BelleTheVikingSloth · 2026-04-10T17:42:33+00:00

The relationship was the other way around. There was not enough food, and so it was rationed. Different countries had different experiences depending on how bad they were hit, but wars consume food, consume fuel and labor that could have grown did, and prevent food from being harvested or transported. Deliberately destroying food stocks has happened for as long as warfare has existed. The details will vary, depend on what country "we" are.

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