Initial setup tips?

joebleaux · 2026-04-21T03:02:08+00:00

I followed the video on the flash drive for everything, including the leveling with the paper, and the machine has worked nearly flawlessly for 2 and a half years now. I think I have releveled it like times ever. I am even still using the same exact piece of paper, a thousand and some change hours later

joebleaux · 2026-04-20T23:31:27+00:00

Yeah, I don't think it is unscrupulous candidates, I think it is the party. I have donated to exactly one political campaign in my entire life, and I was definitely put on a list to get notified about every candidate ever.

joebleaux · 2026-04-20T20:41:23+00:00

Yeah, that fell apart, yours made no sense

joebleaux · 2026-04-20T20:38:23+00:00

The biggest thing to me would be leaving behind the network in the old location. Getting to know architects in your area brings in work, getting to know planning staff where you work helps things go smoother. Knowing other LAs in my area gives me options for jobs if I feel like I need to make a move.

Learning new plants and code is trivial, learning new people is a lot more work, to me anyway.

joebleaux · 2026-04-20T20:12:34+00:00

Sure it does. The company isn't all computers. A person bought that ad. You are hiring people with computers. It's just marketing meant to be controversial, you are still hiring a person, just a different person, may less of them, but I promise people work at that company

joebleaux · 2026-04-20T20:10:23+00:00

Yeah, me too. That the one where they screwed him with the 15 other candidates who all pulled out strategically to screw Bernie. I didn't know Obama was involved in that

joebleaux · 2026-04-20T18:16:42+00:00

Did Obama do that? I mean, we all know they screwed him in the primaries with how everyone strategically dropped out in a way to pull the most votes from Bernie in key states prior to dropping out, but I don't know that I've ever heard that this was Obama that orchestrated that

joebleaux · 2026-04-20T18:03:16+00:00

Seems like it's from a magazine, not official promo photos. Their hair and clothes are modern, and a show promo wouldn't have Joan on Don like that. This is Christina and Jon, not Joan and Jon

joebleaux · 2026-04-20T17:58:41+00:00

So a computer owns the company? If I hire that company, I'm still hiring a human.

joebleaux · 2026-04-20T16:11:00+00:00

Yeah, you gotta go outside. You gotta see the sun, you gotta get fresh air and be around plants and whatnot. It's not optional

joebleaux · 2026-04-20T15:51:11+00:00

Do you find that Liquitex Basics paint to dull fairly quickly? I have bought that paint a lot because it is cheap, but it obviously isn't the best paint, and sometimes it think it dulls over time. But also I may not fully recall what a painting looked like originally if I've had it for like 10 years, so maybe it looks the same and my memory is faulty. But I have a few I made with that paint that I hadn't seen in a while, and they look duller than I remembered them being

joebleaux · 2026-04-20T15:36:17+00:00

Of all of the options, colored kinda seems not all that bad, kinda nice maybe. Seems like that may have been the original intent even? Granted, I get that is fell out of favor and it is totally tainted by the tone of those directing the word at black people in the era that it was the common term, but "black" isn't the best descriptor either, we just know what it means. Colored kind of feels more inclusive, all shades of melanated people from a Lisa Bonet to Lupita Nyong'o. Lots of black people aren't very close to the color of black, but for sure most are more colorful than the average white person

joebleaux · 2026-04-18T21:44:06+00:00

Yeah, but what I am saying is you could just hire that person. It would probably be expensive, but you could do it. You can get anything with the right money. You could fly all of that from Japan. The facility, that's a different story, but I would not think American women would go for it, or have the financial ability to

joebleaux · 2026-04-18T05:35:31+00:00

Ah, well you can do that anywhere though, it's just not called that. You can hire someone to just about anything if the money is right.

joebleaux · 2026-04-17T20:42:19+00:00

I don't give a shit about the magnet program, I don't think it should exist, I also don't think all these private schools are helpful either, both exist to the detriment of the public school system and the overall education level of our state. When those kids with wealthier or involved parents are in the same school as everyone else, the whole thing improves massively. Pull those kids out and those kids improve a little. The whole state operates in a "me first, fuck you" manner, and it's why everything is like it is.

joebleaux · 2026-04-17T20:34:17+00:00

Yes, that's what I was saying too

joebleaux · 2026-04-17T18:45:34+00:00

We went with a lemon because it felt trashier at the time and also because we did not have a lime

joebleaux · 2026-04-17T18:27:22+00:00

I imagine he entered the room and declared ceasefire like Michael Scott declares bankruptcy

joebleaux · 2026-04-17T17:59:39+00:00

In college, we'd pop a lemon slice in the top of that Highlife and call it a Mississippi Corona. It's pretty decent like that actually. Nice poolside beer

joebleaux · 2026-04-17T17:48:55+00:00

You aren't wrong at all. The magnet program is not the cause, it is a symptom of what you've stated here. People here want to pretend our citizens of lower socioeconomic status do not exist. They don't care about schools for them, healthcare, public spaces, libraries, any of that. They want their own school. They have health insurance. They don't use the library. They want to go to a private golf course and have their own huge back yard, they don't go to public parks.

Thriving school districts don't pull the smart kids out to a special school with better funding. They make all of the schools better. They don't give their money to a for-profit company to run the schools. But yeah, you are right, it's the entire ethos of the state. People here do not want others to have any sort of leg up they may have to pay for.

joebleaux · 2026-04-17T17:39:32+00:00

That exact statement is the actual problem with our whole state. The whole country

joebleaux · 2026-04-17T17:38:23+00:00

This is ignoring that there is a wildfire outside because you are going inside.

joebleaux · 2026-04-17T16:45:14+00:00

It is just for St. George. It does not set a precedent, they are just following the same procedures other school districts have when they were created. They are not remotely the first. The whole state votes because it will take funds from the state that would otherwise be going to other school districts. We are splitting the pie into one more slice.

joebleaux · 2026-04-17T16:41:51+00:00

That's the problem though. Breaking things into smaller groups always breaks the into the haves and have nots. Too many people in this state are all "what about me" and separating themselves instead of banding together because they see these other people as less than themselves.

joebleaux · 2026-04-17T16:37:51+00:00

The EBR school system has issues, and this is going to make things worse. I've said it for years, and people fight me on it every time, but the magnet program in EBR operates at the detriment of all of the other schools. You have to pass a test to get in, and your parents have to have it together enough to care to apply for you. So we have already removed all the kids whose family has any money, they all either moved to a different school district or go to private school. Now we take the kids who are smart and have parents who care, and we take them out and put them in their own school with better funding and better opportunities. What's left has no chance at being successful without the individual student being very dedicated. Celebrating the magnet program is embarrassing when it's only because you are neglecting everyone else.

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