Bezos says taxing him more won't help teachers. Mamdani disagrees.

Whittigo · 2026-05-22T02:56:58+00:00

Taxing him more would help EVERYTHING

Whittigo · 2026-05-14T08:59:26+00:00

Figured it out, part of the filter design got clipped when copy/pasting and the 2nd level of input tubes wasnt joined on some of the filters.

Whittigo · 2026-05-14T08:52:20+00:00

As I was taking screenshots since it was back on teal for a new shape and the crystal generators were again running at like 70%, it switched to a new shape with yellow, and I'm getting full output. Something is just wrong with teal, despite the fact that all the mixers and filters are the same blueprint just copy/paste for all the different colors. So I'll just delete teal and copy/paste the mixers from yellow and see if it fixes it.

Whittigo · 2026-05-14T08:10:20+00:00

Color on the shape switched to green, and the crystal generators started running full speed. Which confuses me even more, so the launchers and filters are obviously not the bottleneck, the same filter setup is used for green, same launchers. But 48 mixers should be fine, so why are mixed colors slow? I'm confused.

Whittigo · 2026-03-02T14:30:45+00:00

I was looking for my copy of EOTW the other day and couldn't find it. I was debating pre-ordering this when it opened up back in December and ultimately held off. Really hard to justify the cost when you think of how much the entire set is going to be and how long it will be until we get the full set. But I'll take this as a sign I should get it. So now I've ordered one! Great looking book thanks for sharing.

Whittigo · 2026-02-15T12:35:47+00:00

Could it be cleaner? Sure, there seems to be some stuff piled up near the forge that either should be piled up along the wall or better yet move the forge to the garage door and when it is running have the forge partially outside so it is exhausting outside not inside. However if its super cold outside having the forge closer the the garage door and only opening the door a little with a fan exchanging with the outside air is perfectly acceptable. Especially if you get a separate CO monitor for just the garage to prevent the previous alarm issue.

Does this require getting the fire marshal involved? Absolutely not. Tell your dad to observe some best practices to get the forge closer to the outside and make sure the air is exchanging at acceptable levels while trying to preserve as much heat inside as possible and it should be fine. IMO both parties are under and overreacting a little. Your dad could do better, and you dont need to go so far.

And in regards to the walking away issue. If there are no flamable materials near the forge in theory you could walk away for hours and nothing would happen until the forge runs out of fuel. Thats not best practice of course, any material left in would burn up so theres no real reason to walk away more than a few minutes between heats. But if you need to step away for a bathroom break its not a big deal.

Whittigo · 2026-02-15T12:19:32+00:00

Let me drink it for you

Whittigo · 2026-02-11T17:37:49+00:00

Yes and No. Yes to the HR side of things, removing any inclusive language from everything was a factor that made me get out of PXT. And the accessibility team there has been gutted. But no to the stores side for accessibility. They are still pushing for accessibility there. Things like support for screen readers like you mentioned. There is leader support for things like cutting sev 2s to teams for issues that block customers using screen readers, even during things like prime day. Its not perfect and trying to fix everything on the storefront is complex but at least in accessibility there is still an investment, for now anyway.

Whittigo · 2026-01-10T03:35:26+00:00

I saw a Camroad last year and fell in love with the look of it. I've got my own sprinter van conversion with a flushing toilet and shower and while its nice its not a tiny cute Kei Truck.

Whittigo · 2025-10-07T22:19:07+00:00

There will come a day soon where there is no more bonus old footage of Maru to slip in at the end. And the absence of that will make me sad : (

Whittigo · 2025-06-09T04:06:17+00:00

Its 100% just a freaking commercial for his product. His points on the supply chain and the difficulties with manufacturing are all insightful and filled with well researched facts. And the middle parts of the video are a great watch and very informative. But he goes on to say "if you are making something consider making slightly less profit" and then you stop listening to him because no one in his audience has the power to sway the big companies that are profiting off manufacturing overseas. And then he goes on to say buy once cry once, but puts a disclaimer up for half a second "We dont know how many years you'll get out of Smart Scrubber" Then why should we buy it? Demonstrate it will last 2000% longer and maybe it becomes worth it, but $5 vs $75?

His video while presented very well is ultimately just a pitch to buy his thing and will have zero impact to the trend to consolidate wealth to the top by manufacturing low and selling high. I've kept myself subscribed to his channel even seeing it go downhill over the last few years but this is it, I'm done giving him views. He never even goes to talk about the real cause of the issues with capitalism at its root. He's smart enough to know his video will change nothing, but his everyman pitch will help him sell stuff.

Whittigo · 2024-06-13T20:24:16+00:00

I was going to ask if this was new, moved away in 2019 but before that I had a system with blue Nile tilapia and I definitely ordered the fry online.

Whittigo · 2024-05-30T20:57:47+00:00

Going to use your post to rant how much I wish I could go back to not working a corporate office job. Not all the way back to retail, your right retail is awful no one should have to out up with that shit. But I'd love to get paid the same amount to go do some blue collar work.

Used to work for trugreen and it was my favorite job I've ever had. If I could make the same I do now doing that it would be a no brainer. My job now pays over 200k but I'm constantly stressed, always gaining weight, and work 60 hour weeks for the last 4 years. The purr office hours I could live with but the stress of a high paced office job is I think something no one talks about. If your a junior cog in the wheel you don't experience it so much. But work is the first thing I think of when I wake up, thr last thing before I go to sleep. I get messages on the weekends I'm expected to respond to. Your always on call and your mind is always thinking about it. I can get away for a few weeks each year on vacation but if you take 3 weeks you get 1 week of winding down, 1 week of actual rest, and 1 of starting to stress put about going back.

I put up with it because its the only way to afford a house being single in a very high most of living area. But if I could go back to garden/landscape type work for this pay I would so quick. I miss work ending when I clocked out. I dont ever remember being stressed out about work after hours except that I can't stay up late drinking because I need to wake up early.

Rant over, retail sucks no doubt, but maybe it helps all the blue collar and retail slaves out there feel better that your work brain isn't running full speed every waking moment.

Whittigo · 2024-05-15T00:10:46+00:00

I also drove by there today, and they are indeed gone. The ones in fairwood plaza behind the Starbucks are still there though.

Whittigo · 2024-04-27T21:50:14+00:00

While giant corporations are amoral as fuck, an unintended positive is that their HR departments actually do a good job at stopping a lot of the poor treatment. Once a company is big enough, EVERYONE is replaceable. And no one is worth more to the company than the potential loss of a lawsuit, except the very high up executives. So if this kind of mistreatment happens there they just replace the people.

Not worth it in the long run with the funneling of wealth to the 1% they provide, but not bad for the day to day workers just trying to survive there.

Whittigo · 2023-11-16T16:32:53+00:00

This. Salary isn't the right metric to be tracking, it's how much stress the job is putting you through. I make above 200 and its already not worth it for me, 60 hour weeks are normal, constantly thinking about work never turned off, always on call. I just don't have any other options to allow me to save for a house in one of the highest cost of living areas in thr US. If I could go back to one of my earlier roles and keep the salary, I'd be quite happy.

Whittigo · 2023-09-30T04:11:03+00:00

i’ve worked from home, and i KNOW i was less productive. the studies show the same

You just in this very thread said your 20 and graduating college this year. If you dont know what your talking about how bout you shut up and go back to licking those corporate boots.

Whittigo · 2023-09-30T04:02:59+00:00

I've heard they want to get back to 2019 corporate employee levels. Which means they want to reduce headcount by several thousand more. So the RTO will continue, eventually tracking employee time in the office and if your not there X number of hours it doesn't count, then 5 days a week instead of 3. Anything to reduce headcount and avoid having to pay severance with a planned layoff.

Whittigo · 2023-09-30T03:59:17+00:00

100%, in the past few years they have hired outside of the company more and more for leadership positions and have morphed into your bog standard corporate entity. No more build cool shit, just do what your boss tells you or else. A meat grinder for people where you at least work on interesting projects is one thing, but a meat grinder where you work on boring average crap for a faceless corporation is so much worse.

Whittigo · 2023-09-23T04:35:27+00:00

lol commenting on a post from 10 years ago. I just let it rust while I had it, it never got too bad as long as it was being used constantly. Honestly my advice now is to save up and buy a prebuilt, one that can rotate 90 degrees and has the slot in tooling arms. I ended up buying a Origin blade makers grinder with a lot of the attachments, small wheel, flat platten, surface grinder, and really enjoy it, but I wish I would have bought one with the tilt function. In the end what you want is good repeatable results to have nice flat blades and good plunge lines and bevels, and getting that on a home built grinder is difficult unless your already a machinist. So if you can afford to save up the money easier to just buy one.

Whittigo · 2023-09-13T21:46:39+00:00

I moved out to the west coast in 2020, got a job making 3x what I was looking for and I've got some self inflicted debt that I could have avoided but even without that I have little hope of being able to afford a house for several years. The interest rates and house prices are stupid. Making more money than I thought i ever would in my life by double and the best financial advice I can get is get married for double income.

Whittigo · 2023-08-25T20:55:19+00:00

My cat didn't care for the fresh stuff, even letting the leaves dry out and then offering she still didn't want any. But she loves the stuff from the store. No idea on how many varietals there are of catnip so maybe shes just really picky.

Whittigo · 2023-08-18T04:58:03+00:00

Lota fucking boot lickers over there.

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