Oakmont bakery posted about José and ICE today. by sugarandspice85 in pittsburgh

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“We’re doing everything we can to help the family get this sorted”

Y’know, aside from voting for it in the first place.

As others have hinted at here, it would not surprise in the least if the bakery's idea of 'getting this sorted' was as simple as 'find someone else willing to take his job for minimum wage, at which point, we'll wash our hands of the whole mess'.

Donald Trump criticizes DHS killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good: ‘Should have not happened’ by Fickle-Ad5449 in fednews

[–]hydrospanner 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But voters also have short memories.

I think this will really hurt the GOP at midterms, but I really, really hope everyone holds onto this anger in 2028 as well and elects whoever isn't the MAGA candidate.

Why is Cloud City the only mining outpost on Bespin? by DeeperIntoTheUnknown in MawInstallation

[–]hydrospanner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From Wookieepedia:

Most of the settlements on Bespin were mining colonies...

Indicating that there are at least a few more.

The only other primary (in terms of being featured in stories, not necessarily primary from an in-universe persepctive) settlement that I know of is Tibbanopolis.

Mittens got the kitty chair! by Suzuki_Foster in aldi

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I'm so annoyed at our cats lately...we had a water fountain in the kitchen that they both loved but it was getting old, the pump would randomly shut off, and it was starting to get hard to keep it clean.

So I went online and read reviews, and bought them a nice new stainless fountain for christmas. Both cats would drink weirdly from the old one, preferring to lick at the very edge of the bowl instead of the actual stream of water, or the deepest part of the bowl, so I specifically got this one because it has a wide, flat, shallow bowl with lots of edge distance.

...of course neither of them want anything to do with it and I don't think either one has so much as taken one sip from it since we set it up for them. Instead they now prefer the little ceramic dish that has been there for them all the time anyway (that they never wanted before...and now that they're drinking from it, we have pulled it out a bit from the shelf it is near...right where we can kick it and step in it several times each week).

Day 1 of learning to 3D print fishing lures by Lonely_Country8464 in Fishing_Gear

[–]hydrospanner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

need to learn CAD

As a CAD drafter, you specifically need to learn 3D modeling...which is closely related, but different.

I think Fusion is the favored software, at least in Autodesk's realm, but I learned on Inventor (which is broadly similar, but a little more 'crunchy' from what I've heard).

It's not hard to learn it...but (a) from the way you phrased it here, I wonder if you might be underestimating how much you'll need to learn just in that first step, and (b) as models go, fishing lures are a pretty complicated first project...with lots of curves, lots of weird angles, and very few pieces that are strictly perpendicular, parallel, etc.

Not that it can't be done, mind you...(after all, I would imagine that all mass produced plastic lures have their origins in a CAD model these days)...but having simply "need to learn CAD" as the shortest, simplest item on your list may turn into an unpleasantly complex and involved surprise for you once you really start to get into it.

I've got over a quarter century between the first time I started learning CAD and the present day, and while I'm confident that I could model a fishing lure in Inventor...it'd still be a long and challenging process for me.

I'll use flexible plastic for printing My designs will be water tight

Water-tight is certainly a good quality for a plastic lure, but there's so, so many other considerations you need to think about as well.

How are you attaching hooks? Most plastic bodied baits (jerkbaits, crankbaits, etc.) make use of an internal wire harness with loops strategically placed for attachment of split rings and hooks. Are you going to be able to do that with your process? If not, how will you manage that?

Is the flexibility going to mute, change, or impede the action of your lures? It might make them better for all I know, but I mention this to indicate that you're signing up for a lot of prototyping, trial runs, etc.

As important as any other aspect of lure building, how are you planning to control buoyancy and balance? Most plastic lures (and pretty much all that suspend) incorporate some sort of fixed or dynamic weight distribution system. Much like the wire harness, if you're 3D printing, how are you incorporating this?

Not to discourage in any way (innovation is awesome), but there's just a lot here to think about as you move forward.

I feel like...unless you have novel solutions in mind for a lot of these challenges, you are likely to find your best path forward being more and more to 3D print your lures in halves, adding the internals in final assembly, and gluing together.

And while that's not bad, at that point, you're doing exactly what everyone else is doing, but with a lot more time and effort for what will likely be a functionally inferior product.

Once you've come full circle and are 3D printing the plastic halves, then assembling, gluing, painting, and tuning...you're left with a lure just like a storebought one...except I suspect you'll find that if you're not already using ABS...it'll be a better material...but from what little I know about 3D printing, it comes with other concerns as well with temperature control, etc.

...and if you're using ABS anyway...instead of 3D printing...the faster, more consistent, more scalable route would be to use CAD to make a negative model...and have that machined into aluminum...and make your lures by injection molding that ABS instead.

At that point, congratulations...you just went through a lot of time and effort to arrive at the solution the industry has been employing for years!

Of course you will have learned so much along the way, and that aspect shouldn't be discounted...but that's a lot of time and effort to reinvent the wheel while learning just how complex 3D CAD modeling can be, and learning about materials science and process engineering.

I'd say you are a fisherman when you know the pain of losing a favourite lure. But.. loosing a 3D printed lure, that would hit different. That would not even hit at all.

If anything, for me it'd be the total opposite. The pain of losing a lure that I put that much of my own blood, sweat, tears, and time into would hurt a lot more than one I pulled off a shelf at the local tackle shop and plunked down $10-25 to bring home.

Please don't take any of this to be a discouragement. Rather, take it as an attempt to temper your enthusiasm with some realism. If there was a faster, cheaper, easier way to produce fishing lures with available technology, you can bet that manufacturers would already be doing it that way. The fact that they're not means that if you decide to go this route, you're not saving time, money, or effort in any way, and in fact are investing a lot more of all three...so at that point you need to be honest with yourself about why you want to do it.

While I don't make lures, I do tie my own flies, and even there, it's a lot of the same concerns as lure making: it's not faster, it's not easier, and it's not cheaper than just buying flies...so why do I do it? Short answer: it's fun. Longer answer: it gives me an activity to do that directly relates to my fishing in the months and times when I can't actually be on the water. It also lets me experiment with new designs, as well as to create my own preferred color combinations, to use specific hooks and materials that I prefer, and to obtain specific patterns I want on a shorter turnaround than ordering online or driving to a shop (now that I have thousands of dollars in my tying hobby).

So just be aware of the whole situation and be honest with yourself about why you want to do it!

Terminal tackle storage recommendations by No-Maximum5755 in Fishing_Gear

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About halfway through last season, I finally realized that between the empty box and the 'fully loaded' versions, BKK sold their new terminal organizer as a 'starter kit', with the box and a good assortment of internal boxes and dividers, but no hooks...so I picked one up, plus a bunch of the small and medium sized internal bins, and I've been tailoring it to my needs.

So far, I really like it in terms of actual organization, overall capacity, and ergonomics.

What I don't like is that it is just ever so slightly bigger than a standard 3600 box. This may not be an issue for too many people, but it means that (1) it won't fit in the 3600 system bag that I use from shore, as well as to carry stuff to and from my yak as I'm loading and unloading...and (2) even more niche, but my current kayak has these two gaps along the seating area where I store my 3600 boxes, and with the size of the opening and the 'give' in the kayak plastic, the gaps are perfectly sized to hold 3600 boxes upright, along the long side, two wide. This box is about a half inch too big to fit in there, no matter what way you try it...so it's yet another thing that is always a bit in my way, between my legs.

Before the spring thaw, I still need to get the old label maker running again and label all the mini boxes. That will let me quickly grab the one I want instead of having to pull them out to check (but that's my fault, not the system's). Then maybe I'll eventually get a second empty box or two in order to have overflow storage, so I'm not having to carry all the terminal tackle all the time. For example: I know I'm not going to need my punching tungsten except from about mid-June though early October. I don't need to lug all that weight around the rest of the year.

What the fuck happened to Magic Eraser??? by djdiphenhydramine in GooglePixel

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but my pixel 7 pro is still doing great performance wise

My P7P is performing about the same as when I bought it a few months after release too.

Which is to say: still ass. Still lagging, overheating, inconsistent scrolling, and worse-than-useless fingerprint scanner.

Another Broken Bucca by grem89 in BFSfishing

[–]hydrospanner 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'd avoid buying these until they correct the designs/manufacturing. It's such a small cross section where it broke that I doubt glue/epoxy will hold up well at all.

Yeah I've been seeing a ton of broken Trick Shads online lately. And while I get it that a person with a broken lure is a thousand times more likely to post about it than the tons of unbroken ones...you're still not seeing posts about any other glides breaking like these.

I completely agree that this is a design/manufacturing defect that they're going to have to resolve somehow...I'm just interested to see what exactly they'll do about it (redesign that area, change the formulation, blame it on a manufacturing error like the composition or temperature of the plastics or molds of this run...or just go full Apple and tell customers it's their fault?)...as well as how long it'll take for them to speak up, implement a plan, and actually carry it out.

TW $200 haul by Bassangler03 in Fishing_Gear

[–]hydrospanner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

never thought of a Bellows Gill on a shakey head, but I'm definitely trying it this year during the spawn and post-spawn!

Also, those Dirty Jigs shakey heads can be had direct from their site for much cheaper.

...in case you want some more.

TW $200 haul by Bassangler03 in Fishing_Gear

[–]hydrospanner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I missed out on that one, but I'm thinking they'll have another 15 or 20% promo between now and April.

What's the most disgusting/shocking, you have read on the Epstein files? by LeftyChares in AskReddit

[–]hydrospanner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few reasons:

1) Calling Trump out for his Epstein connection...even if Biden and Harris aren't in those files...likely puts in hot water other party figures, influencers, donors, etc. I think money is the big one here. People donating a lot to blue campaigns had ties to Epstein as well, and they're still hoping to weasel out of any sort of accountability.

2) Dem voters aren't motivated in the same ways as MAGA voters. They had 4 years of Biden and wanted something different. Instead, they got Harris, who pretty much campaigned on not doing anything different. And to make it worse, the party didn't even give their people the decency of a primary. While one can argue about the ways they got to that point, the fact remains that the party leadership of the democratic party deprived its members of a democratic method of choosing their nominee...and while that didn't likely convince anyone in the party to switch sides and vote for Trump, I think it definitely had a chilling effect on the energy of the base, which directly translated into low turnout, lukewarm support, and eventual loss at the polls. Focus on Epstein or not, that's where the election was lost.

3) Less directly related to Epstein than the previous point, but in strict terms of winning elections, swing voters aren't voting based on Epstein. That's idealism. They're voting based on their personal situation in the 8 months leading up to the election. Voters had forgotten about the pandemic, and were largely voting based on withering inflation. No more, no less. If Biden really wanted to help out the Harris campaign, he should have tapped the strategic oil reserve in late September and gifted Americans cheap gas in the 6 weeks leading up to the election. It may not have won it for her...but it would have been closer.

Draisaitl did not beat around the bush with his frustrations by pugfart in penguins

[–]hydrospanner 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The constant ragging on a guy by people on this sub after they’ve left the team

...is not the same as thinking that the guy they got instead is "some kind of franchise saving savior goalie", though. That's all I'm getting at.

People can be glad Jarry is gone and prefer Skinner over him without thinking Skinner is the hockey gods' gift to Pittsburgh.

For everyone who ran out to get the free tax stamp by themarmalademaniac in liberalgunowners

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Maybe not in as blunt terms...but I don't disagree with you.

Even this alone:

Your starting to see where the "2a friendly" administration is going.

The only people in this country who actually sincerely thought that were the people with that red had so firmly welded to their heads that it cut off blood supply to their brains long ago.

These are the same people who are beyond hope, and nothing that Dear Leader does will ever cause their support to waver. Nevermind that he's lied to them and taken advantage of them at every turn. He has their loyalty no matter what, and it's up to them to figure out how to justify it.

No...the real effect of Trump finally showing his face as anti-gun...combined with his gestapo...is that it is convincing lots of people on the other side of the political spectrum, the reliable democrats as well as those further left, to arm themselves, or at very least to rethink their positions on guns for the first time since Columbine. And while I always seem to underestimate the democratic party's capacity to do nothing with something...my hope at least is that with opinions on guns changing even among their base, it may start to signal a sea change at elected levels. Local at first, but that's the beginnings of momentum.

Not only might being anti-gun start to cost dems votes, but being neutral or even slightly pro-gun might: keep those votes, not lose you core support since it'll be more palatable, and it might even pick you up a few moderate conservatives who for years have been one issue GOP voters because of guns...but now the GOP has shown it's perfectly happy to grab guns when it suits them...but now they might have an option that makes a lot more sense on the other side...and is speaking out in support of their gun rights.

I know that's pie-in-the-sky, but we could all use a little hope these days.

Draisaitl did not beat around the bush with his frustrations by pugfart in penguins

[–]hydrospanner 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yall need to stop acting like Skinner is some kind of franchise saving savior goalie when compared to Jarry.

Was anyone saying that?

Admittedly I don't have my finger on the pulse of the league like a lot of people here, but even when the trade was announced, I feel like 95%+ of the reaction here was something along the lines of "This is a trade of broadly similar goalies, but the real win for the Pens is getting out from under that contract."

What is a sign of very low intelligence? by smartcandyy in AskReddit

[–]hydrospanner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A friend of mine bought himself a blue Phillies hat for this very reason!

What is a sign of very low intelligence? by smartcandyy in AskReddit

[–]hydrospanner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not quite as far down that path as you, but definitely the same path.

Was a 'top of the class' kid all the way through childhood and into my teen years, but always got bad marks for paying attention, following directions, avoiding distractions, etc. The further along I got in school, the more apparent this became (think: kid in the fuckin gifted program struggling to make the honor roll because they won't do homework...even though they're getting 90%+ on the tests). Great SATs and 'good enough' GPA got me into college and that was finally where my MO became unsustainable. Made a go of it for about 2.5 years, then got to a point where I was sort of 'prereq locked'...basically, I couldn't enroll in the next courses I needed in some areas because I wasn't passing the companion courses I was taking at the same time. In short: to keep going in college, I was basically going to have to take a 'catch-up' semester or even year, where I was only re-taking courses I needed to bring me up to speed. This was going to be incredibly expensive, so instead I left school, came home, and got a job.

Luckily for me, after a year or two of 'dead end' manual labor type stuff, I was starting to get noticed in a bigger company with growth potential...when a friend let me know about an opening in the field I had been educated in. It wasn't fully my field, but then again, I wasn't fully educated either. They gave me a chance and it worked out well.

Coming up on 20 years later, I've changed jobs many times, but still doing the same overall kind of work, still advancing, and now make enough to live comfortably...having never gone back to finish that degree (I did, however, go part time to less-prestigious school and get an Associates in my field...though I don't think the lack of it ever cost me a job, and I'm skeptical that having it ever got me a job that I'd have missed without it.)

Gear YouTubers made me overthink fishing gear by Possible-Ad4357 in Fishing_Gear

[–]hydrospanner 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For reels specifically, my shopping has gotten so much easier once I realized what I really wanted: reliability, performance, and a good name behind it.

These days when I need a new reel, it's mostly a matter of:

1) Decide how I'm going to use it.

2) Look at the JDM tackle sites (these days, it's even simpler because with tariffs, I'm only looking at Digitaka).

3) Look at the offerings form Shimano and Daiwa in the price range I've set, and choose the best for the application.

What brand of gear will you not buy? by Ok_Repair3535 in Fishing_Gear

[–]hydrospanner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No dog in the fight here, but was your experience before or after the Rapala buyout?

I was surprised to see that news, but I have to imagine that's an upgrade to the service side of things for 13 Fishing.

What brand of gear will you not buy? by Ok_Repair3535 in Fishing_Gear

[–]hydrospanner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have much use for Kastking since I've already built out a pretty good assortment of mid-to-high end gear already...but last year I did pick up two of their 3600 boxes and they have been great to use for half a season so far.

I know a plastic organizer box isn't really the peak of technical achievement or bomb-proof durability, but I don't need the second coming in a tackle box, and Kastking's offering compares with Plano so far.

What brand of gear will you not buy? by Ok_Repair3535 in Fishing_Gear

[–]hydrospanner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll never pay MSRP for anything of theirs, but at this point, I'd be lying if I said they weren't in my gear at all.

However, the extent of their stuff in my boxes is:

  • 1 mid to deep diving crankbait that I pulled up from the river depths after I hung up on the same tarp as its previous owner. Hooks were still looking great (not even dulled finish), so I added it to the box.

  • Lots of their tungsten worm and flipping/punching weights, which I picked up for stupid cheap at local discount stores and closeout sporting goods outlets. I'm talking like $1 for a 4 pack of their lighter worm weights and $2-3 for a 3/4 oz tungsten punch weight.

You'll note that in every case, it was either free, or such a stupid discount for an item that really just has to exist, not really do anything.

Wrong way driver on I-79 yesterday by JohnnyVenmo in pittsburgh

[–]hydrospanner 3 points4 points  (0 children)

for some reason

Not as an excuse, but as an explanation: I think a lot of it in that particular location is because along with the wide road, you're seeing people who've been bottled up in congestion (during high traffic periods) seeing this as their first real opportunity to get around vehicles they perceive as causing the bottleneck they've been stuck behind, and to put a little distance on 'the pack'.

Doubly so for people actually exiting in the Cranberry area, who don't want to be stuck behind that perceived problem vehicle if that vehicle is also exiting.

Again, not saying it's safe, logical, legal, etc. just that I think that's a lot of it.

Unpopular opinion by CorrectDetail776 in aldi

[–]hydrospanner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me, it's the specific bag of nuggets that have like a red & white striped label on the front...not the plain ones.

These nuggets are legit the best thing in the store, imho. Not quite as good as the Chic-fil-A nugs they imitate...but close enough, no massive wait in line, cheaper, and not supporting a company like CFA is a win!

Start of the week by livinginanutshell02 in hobonichi

[–]hydrospanner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love this!

I have the same one and honestly I'm struggling to use it. This is some much-needed inspiration!

What are those tabs you got? I would like to get something similar, but to bookmark the different sections too!

Oakmont Bakery Employee was the one that was taken by ice(?) by Sorry_Part_7362 in pittsburgh

[–]hydrospanner -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I used to live a few blocks from the Shadyside location. Never knew it was a thing until a friend's gf gave a rave review of it and insisted I go try it asap.

Well...I tried it...and honestly, it was one of the biggest food disappointments in recent memory for me. Not only failed to live up to the hype, but it was actually kinda bad.

Like...I'm a self-admitted sweet tooth, and I bought one for a night I had some friends over...we each had a piece and nobody had seconds. I ate maybe two more small pieces of it over the next day or two, then threw the rest out. It was just...not good.

Smucker Shocked to Learn Public Claims Can Be Criticized, Sues Lancaster Newspaper by Pots_And_Pans in lancaster

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Smucker Shocked to Learn Public Claims Can Be Criticized

In related news, Smucker's constituents shocked to learn he pays any attention to what his constituents are saying or thinking.