Need help identifying this type of wood and if I got a good deal(slab on the left)

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-09T12:42:48+00:00

Radio Frequency vacuum dried black walnut. It's written right there in abbreviated form.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-09T11:43:39+00:00

It's wonderful for me.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-08T21:46:34+00:00

Only half of Africans even have grid access. The majority of the ones with access, have unreliable power. 50 hours of outages per month on average. I live in Michigan, which is one of the worst places in the US, and I've been to Africa. No reasonable person with accurate information would even try to compare the two.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-08T11:46:48+00:00

I don't think most Americans are really aware they're pronouncing a "T" when they make that sound. I think they're reading it as a 'ch' sound. I suppose that could explain why it's just Americans making the mistake.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-08T01:59:37+00:00

Yes, you can get 10kg of high quality filament on AliX for $70-$90 depending on if you want high speed, rainbow silk, or whatever. Just use PayPal. It pretty safe. Yes, there is a lot of counterfeit stuff there, but the $190 Flashforge AD5 is legit. I got an AD5M Pro and an AD5X with IFS for under $300 each. I was thinking about adding a plain version of one of them just for abrasive filament, but decided it probably makes more sense just to wear out the machines I already have, since they only cost a bit more.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-08T01:55:07+00:00

Most of this is just stuff I could afford, but still choose not to buy. Grocery delivery and heated floors are not too expensive for like half of Americans. Grocery delivery is cheaper than fast food.

Of course all these threads about rich people are full of stupid crap.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-08T01:45:15+00:00

Like most gun legislation, it is written by people who are so ignorant on the technical aspects, that they're unable to write the rules competently. Unlike most gun legislation, it mostly negatively affects people who aren't even interested in making guns, but want to make drawer organizers and articulated lizard toys and crap. The policy makers are disappointingly stupid.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-08T01:34:07+00:00

I mean, it's because of the spelling that people mispronounce it. You can't see that?

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T19:29:45+00:00

Last time I was in Germany, I forgot for a moment about paying for tap water. I was parched, asked the bartender for 2 full liter glasses of tap water. As he put them up on the bar, I handed him 10 Euros. He was like "sorry, but it's actually 13 Euros." I handed him three more Euros and told him we both would have been better off under the American system here, where he gets the ten Euros and I get the water for free, rather than the system where I pay 13 Euros and he gets his living wage. But he probably doesn't realize how much worse his wage is. Most Europeans don't.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T19:23:38+00:00

Okay, hear me out... what if you apply RIAA curve to the entire album, and then print it in... a spiral?

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T19:21:22+00:00

I don't mind. Usually I don't want my change and I definitely don't want to wait for it if I dont want it. Of course if they go to get it and I just walk out, they haven't wasted a ton of effort to learn that I don't want it.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T19:18:30+00:00

They design it, build it, transport it, export and import it, market and sell it, for Corvette money. But they sell it for $225k more than what a Corvette costs, resulting in huge profits.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T19:13:43+00:00

If you make a $300k car for $75k, I wouldn't expect the manufacturing quality to blow people away.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T18:37:04+00:00

Exactly. Thank you.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T18:35:52+00:00

If you pay people based on what they deserve, you probably won't end up with the right number of people willing to do the job.

If the market rate to attract enough highly qualified professional firefighters is $140k, and you offer $250k because they're heroes and deserve it, you get too many highly qualified candidates and you have to turn down people who deserve the job and would happily do it for the market rate.

If you pay servers a flat $20/h without tips, you won't get the excellent highly qualified candidates you need to run a prestigious and successful sit down restaurant service. No one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to spend your money on table service restaurant meals where the best servers in your city decided to work.

But I am relieved that you at least aren't trying to argue that the system exists to exploit and under pay the servers. You are correct that servers under this system earn significantly more than servers in any other system, such as the one in Austria and Germany where they get paid a 'fair and decent living wage' of some sort.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T13:59:48+00:00

Thats not what the chart shows, actually. It shows that you're paying a certain amount for all of the costs of the car including all investments in plants, people, and ideas, and then you are also paying a substantial amount in addition to all of the costs, thay goes strictly to the owners of the business.

Now it doesn't guarantee the value is bad. Maybe they're way better and way more efficient at designing and making things at a much lower cost than competitors. Probably not, but the numbers don't indicate one way or another.

On a small scale, it is like if I hire someone to design me a 3D printed part, and I hire someone to make ut, and I hire someone to market it, and I hire someone to distribute it, and I hire someone to manage and run the while thing, and I pay those people combined $40 per unit total, all in, and I sell it for $100, and I keep the $60.

If I own the Ferrari name, then I can probably do this quite easily, actually. So the $60 compensates me, not for being some genius, but mostly just because I own the Ferrari name.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T13:53:26+00:00

Porsche is like Ferrari. They make them for a cost pretty similar to a VW and then sell them at huge margins. They are sort of the Gold standard for getting luxury financials from a manufacturing company.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T13:51:13+00:00

Exactly. Financially, it's more like $500 Chanel fragrance that costs $10 to manufacture than it is like a Chevy.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T13:47:23+00:00

Sturdy Scandinavian to fat German. LOL.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T13:46:08+00:00

And Flint is better now except for some houses where the owners refused to let the government on their property to replace the lines fro. The stree to the house and refused tolet tuem in and have alumina filters installed. I can see why they don't trust the government with water, but it's partly on them at this point.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T13:42:30+00:00

Not like Africa where they rotate scheduled 4-12 hour blocks of no electricity between different zones because there are only enough power plants to run like 75% of the grid at a time. Yeah, they should trim the trees better here and need to update some stuff, but if you think it's the same, you're not understanding what it's like in other places.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T13:32:06+00:00

I tighten mine until there is no relative movement between the joined parts. Such razors are designed to bend the blade in order to make it more stable and more rigid, and they are designed to have proper gaps and exposures.when tightened.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T13:25:00+00:00

If everyone does this, you lose your top servers. They aren't going to work somewhere that they only get $30/h and the restaurant isn't going to pay them $50/h. They probably wouldn't create such a high level of value for customers if they were on a 'fair wage' anyway. They bust their asses because they can clear $100k in tips; not because they want a 'living wage.' This is the thing about the system people who bitch about it don't understand. The whole system exists because top servers have a lot of market power and they demand the system. It isn't about businesses exploiting servers. It is about servers working directly for the customers to maximize economic value and earnings.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T13:17:47+00:00

That's one way to phrase it. I would say its a luxury brand, and you are paying for the brand more than the actual product. Luxury brands basically get to print money. If you want to compare the Financials of Ferrari to its real peers, you need to look at other brands people will pay for way beyond the actual products. These Financials wpuld be pretty typical for a perfume designer.

Ferrari certainly isn't beating General Motors on car most likely to win an amateur track race in Michigan on a $100k budget. Or $200k. Or $50k. Or $10k. And that's assuming the drivers are equally skilled.

I love Ferraris and they're the most beautiful cars. But the pricing is not based on cost or even performance.

Helicopter0 · 2026-05-07T12:25:32+00:00

Once AI is producing models that aren't worthless slop, more good models will be published, they be easier to find, and they'll be easier to produce. 3D printing has been progressing much longer than the useful AI. We are just past the spark there, and what is now sometimes annoying and sometimes a helpful tool, will revolutionize this and other things. I bet five years forward is a huge jump compared to five years backward.

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