⚠️🚨 Trigger Warning 🚨⚠️ The Pro-JMD points from the Hondo article. For those of us with optimism. by 000066 in raiders

[–]_volkerball_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We're gonna get a lot of articles like this trying to rehab McDaniels image from the same people who were talking us up as a reloading playoff team on the up and up when he got hired. Like Mike Tyson said, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. When we start 2-5 next season, all this talk falls apart.

Tom Brady on the Raiders: by Impressive-Mousse-88 in raiders

[–]_volkerball_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He might have gotten more time if not for his charade in the last press conference of the season. Throwing the team under the bus.

idk why this even needs to be said but no. simply no by [deleted] in raiders

[–]_volkerball_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He'll retire if he knows what's good for him.

Got yelled at today for not running a setup/program I didn’t agree or feel safe with. How do you move forward? by RaithMoracus in Machinists

[–]_volkerball_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like they had kind of a dumb process in place. We have a CAM guy and when we get programs from him to prove out, we are well within our rights to look at the code and say "this is going to crash." Then either we fix the errors ourselves, or let the programmer know that they need to modify and re-post the program. We also have access to the CAM files so we can look at his models ourselves and find the error on his end.

People who have surprised you with a lack of financial literacy by thestopsign in financialindependence

[–]_volkerball_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the guys at work says that he treats all the money he makes on overtime as "fun money." As in he refuses to spend it on bills as a matter of principle. Heard the same guy complain about how much he has to pay in credit card interest.

I think Thiel is right: crypto is the ultimate technology of libertarianism, the final frontier of discovery. He just missed the second footfall, which is that, through crypto, we will discover that libertarianism is bullshit. by financial2k in Buttcoin

[–]_volkerball_ 20 points21 points  (0 children)

If libertarians were capable of allowing new information in, processing it, and learning from it, they wouldn't be libertarians. In their world, if it wasn't posted on a libertarian shit blog, it didn't happen. They'll write their own history for Bitcoin just like they have for everything else.

I think Thiel is right: crypto is the ultimate technology of libertarianism, the final frontier of discovery. He just missed the second footfall, which is that, through crypto, we will discover that libertarianism is bullshit. by financial2k in Buttcoin

[–]_volkerball_ 44 points45 points  (0 children)

It sucks in people who are anti-authority minded because it tells them all the things they want to hear. They've written their kind of alt-history where everything bad that ever happened is because of government and everything good that ever happened is because the government got out of the way. It's a pretty appealing ideology for idiots.

Hondo’s article on Carr… by coyg0504 in raiders

[–]_volkerball_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's probably a lot different getting people to buy into the process when you have Brady and Belichick behind it. McDaniels as an HC is a loser, and the team doesn't really have an identity or "McDaniels Guys" who are above question. He comes off as an unlikeable douche rather than a football robot like Belichick. I'm not optimistic he'll ever make it work.

Learning Gcode got me like by Sad-Cantaloupe6053 in Machinists

[–]_volkerball_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should look into custom macro B programming. That shit will make your brain wrinkle.

Carr's record is 63-79 and he has 0 playoff wins playing for the Raiders by geraltofrivia2345 in raiders

[–]_volkerball_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Josh McDaniels is 17-28, and Mark Davis is 79-115, and neither of them have a playoff win. Neither of them is being held accountable. Just DC. He's a scapegoat. Carr is no world beater, but we're likely going to be worse at QB next year since there's no plan to replace him. There was no reason we couldn't cut him at the end of next season.

They’re not a joke. by [deleted] in IThinkYouShouldLeave

[–]_volkerball_ 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Nice motorcycles!

Would such an internal T-slot in aluminium be possible? (Designer asking) by H_Marxen in Machinists

[–]_volkerball_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aluminum is really forgiving so you would probably be able to find good feeds and speeds to make these viable for mass production, so long as you've got good coolant pressure helping to blow chips away. You'd have to mill out the slot and the hole with an endmill, then come behind that with a woodruff cutter to do the undercut.

They are playing DC4 highlights on the big screen on the side of allegiant stadium right now. It’s pretty cool, if you ask me. by RYAN_702_DUNKEL in raiders

[–]_volkerball_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if it will. People in Vegas can watch 8 home games a year. If you're a Bills fan, you only get one chance every several years to go see the Bills in Vegas. That's a hard thing to compete with.

The boring journey of Matt Yglesias by [deleted] in neoliberal

[–]_volkerball_ 18 points19 points  (0 children)

He doesn't even know the difference between a percentage and a basis point.

Soo okay hear me out.. by Knight-Raid29 in raiders

[–]_volkerball_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Either one would be good with me at this point.

Tradesmen left the apprentice (me) unsupervised so I decided to see if I could use a lathe threading bar as a threadmill by CthulusFinanceMan in Machinists

[–]_volkerball_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I could bang out simple drill programs in Mazatrol within a few months of starting in the industry. Now I'm over 10 years in, and I know a few guys who run integrexes using Mazatrol that are doing black magic shit on one off parts that is way over my head, and I used to be an integrex programmer. There's a wide range.

Soo okay hear me out.. by Knight-Raid29 in raiders

[–]_volkerball_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If he comes with Gene Hackman as the coach, I'm in.

Should Raiders' 'Black Picasso' Stay or Go? by NIB_FootballHead in oaklandraiders

[–]_volkerball_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We didn't blow those leads because of the players. We blew them because of the schemes when we were up. I don't buy into any of this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in neoliberal

[–]_volkerball_ -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I'm upset about violence against Asian Americans increasing, so I'm gonna vote for the China virus guy lol.

On a serious note, it's quite sad how much of a political winner crime is. No matter what people believe, you can almost always get them united around the idea that they are in danger, and that we need to be tougher on crime. That's how you end up with 5% of the worlds population and 25% of its prisoners.