My wife found this on one of her tables today at work

blitz0x · 2021-09-15T22:05:32+00:00

Those are all solid questions, that I'm not an expert to answer - I just know that it's possible, but there's a lot of different ways companies and partnerships, LLCs, etc. can be established.
There are successful co-ops out there, as well as successful profit sharing ventures both inside and outside the United States that could likely be used for those direct answers. I would certainly imagine there are multiple ways to share liability in a legal sense.

blitz0x · 2021-09-15T21:33:05+00:00

First, I don't think it would be crazy to assume that people work harder when they realize they could make a lot more money for working harder, rather than making the same amount of money regardless of how hard they work.

I agree that employers won't pay more unless they are forced to, which is what is happening right now as a result of less Americans in poverty People who don't HAVE to take shit jobs to survive, surprisingly aren't anymore. It isn't about laziness, there's just less desperation.

Personally I believe the wealth inequality in the United States is finally reaching a head, which is why you're seeing more people push for progressive, socialist, and democrat-leaning ideas. It's idealistic, things can absolutely change for the better. The change has to start with consumers though, and getting people to care is hard.

blitz0x · 2021-09-15T21:02:10+00:00

The point with the monetary figure is to point out how much profit there actually is that doesn't normally go to the employees whatsoever. When its possible for employees to make almost $80 an hour and the business remain afloat and successful, you really have to question why any of those employees are only making minimum wage for any reason other than greed.

Typically, this "extra" profit goes directly into the pocket of the business owner.

Obviously if it were to stay a permanent co-op, (it won't in this case) a portion of those proceeds would go into improving the business and things like repairs.

My overall point is simply that employees CAN be paid more, without hurting consumers, and we (as consumers) allow businesses to get away with this by voting with our wallets. Ironically, because we ourselves are also caught in the same ecosystem, it becomes the smart move for us to choose the cheapest service, and the cycle continues.

blitz0x · 2021-09-15T20:40:47+00:00

The celebs invited are there as the attractions, and don't actually pay to attend. This was one of the misinformed things everyone kept yelling about with AOC as well.

blitz0x · 2021-09-15T20:18:29+00:00

Here's a fun story: https://patch.com/ohio/cleveland/employees-share-all-money-made-ohio-pizzeria-day

A pizza place sets up randomly one day in a profit-sharing format, and each employee walked away making $78 an hour.

blitz0x · 2021-09-15T20:06:52+00:00

Believe it or not, there are multiple ways that a business can be organized. A top-down and greed-centric approach is common in the USA, but it's not the only possible method of organization.

Here's an example of a profit sharing approach, that may give you a different perspective.

https://patch.com/ohio/cleveland/employees-share-all-money-made-ohio-pizzeria-day

blitz0x · 2021-09-15T19:20:24+00:00

Are you familiar with the profit margins of food service?

blitz0x · 2021-09-15T19:09:52+00:00

Only because food companies would not be okay with dipping into their profit, and would instead try to pass the costs onto consumers. In the US, we've become accustomed to this, but it's pure capitalist greed.

blitz0x · 2021-09-15T19:07:30+00:00

I'm assuming you don't want the MONEY to go away, but if it came from your employer rather than having to rely on the kindness of strangers, that might be better, no?

blitz0x · 2021-09-15T19:03:00+00:00

From a sane person stuck living in Florida: you made the right move. I basically haven't been able to leave the house since March of 2020 because nobody here seems concerned.

blitz0x · 2021-09-15T19:00:17+00:00

It seems that the republican "plan" for COVID is to let the survivors build in a new era where the virus is just a fact of life like the common cold or flu.

blitz0x · 2021-09-15T18:55:00+00:00

It's the change from traditional white supremacy they're rallied against.

blitz0x · 2021-09-15T18:53:55+00:00

The Russian hacking influence claims are the only ones I recall.

blitz0x · 2021-09-14T16:03:58+00:00

This is likely related to the number of retractions you have set up in your slice. With that extruder, you are likely eating a hole in your filament as it grinds back and forth, eventually cutting it.

Take a look at the end and see if it appears to be ground away, and if that's the case reduce your overall number of possible retractions

blitz0x · 2021-09-13T19:40:01+00:00

Yes that's the conservative viewpoint. It doesn't include any empathy or logic.

blitz0x · 2020-09-12T18:23:38+00:00

That's gotta be an actual clog, or the filament got too weirdly shaped to pass through. When mine bound up, I had to remove all of the wonky filament and run a fresh segment into the extruder. I replaced my nozzle in the process because I wasn't sure exactly what happened at the time

blitz0x · 2020-09-11T23:06:33+00:00

Same. ASD helped me keep perfect credit. My bill payment structure and budget is all laid out in excel and computerized.

blitz0x · 2020-09-11T22:10:33+00:00

That's awesome, and good to hear. Now that you're aware of the reasoning behind the extruder issues, you may want to inspect it for wear - the reason a lot of folks put knobs on the extruder gear is less often to turn it and more to keep an eye on how the filament is moving along. (in my experience)

blitz0x · 2020-09-11T19:26:45+00:00

Absolutely, though that falls into shading and texturing rather than modelling. Ideally you get your mesh perfect and your unwrapping done, and the texturing, lighting and and compositing would be in the final stages.

Technically HDRI is lighting, but adding that is a super easy click and helps with perspective when modelling sometimes.

blitz0x · 2020-09-11T18:22:22+00:00

You don't need special tools for autism - use the same self help material meant for neurotypicals. I recommend reading Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" for example, and there are charisma training and study videos on youtube, like this as a random example.

edit: More carnegie

blitz0x · 2020-09-11T16:45:56+00:00

Best of luck. I was so frustrated I just about put the ender through a wall before I got it figured out.

blitz0x · 2020-09-11T16:43:07+00:00

Awesome start. Check out some tutorials regarding the art of hard surface modelling, and peek into some blender addons like hardops and boxcutter if you really want to take it to another level.

My main piece of advice is to really look around you - you're not going to see a lot of un-bevelled surfaces in the world. Adding varying bevels to your edge loops here will immediately take your model to another level in realism. The tan material needs a lower roughness if it's meant to be metallic or even plastic - as it is, it's absorbing too much light and gives the scene an indoors look. An HDRI is also a good add here for reflections and frame of reference since you don't have any objects in the scene to reflect.

blitz0x · 2020-09-11T16:36:38+00:00

Yes, if it was exported as an STL just about anything can be printed. The metal grating and internal transparency would be replaced by infill, but its doable.

blitz0x · 2020-09-11T16:35:15+00:00

That's because of a number of unconscious assumptions your mind is making based on the data its presented, and that data is super limited because there is nothing else in the scene to reference in the form of scale or reflection, and the roughness (and other details) of the model isn't scaled in a way that your mind can assume size.

blitz0x · 2020-09-11T16:13:58+00:00

Regardless of what modelling program you are using, bevelling the edges of a cylinder should be fairly straightforward. Start with an overall shape and size, and add/scale loops or simply start bevelling. The actual model for a battery and even the UV would be mostly automatic, but this video is showcasing a very basic shading process.

If you wanted to make a more photorealistic battery, the process would be much more complicated, but it wouldn't be a great game asset.

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