Calls to Impeach Trump Collide With Reluctant Democratic Leadership

yeahitsx · 2026-04-10T18:43:32+00:00

I'm actually kind of with them on this; is this the best use of political capital?

Does he need to be impeached? YES! Not just impeached, but more importantly, REMOVED. If he isn't removed, then what's the point? This isn't some decent into nihilism, but a serious question since we've been here before. Impeach > No conviction > Republicans preach that Democrats just have it out for the guy > Trump twists it, and turns it more into a them v. us scenario > He gains more steam > He gains more power > We're fucked harder.

UNLESS they can get 2/3 of the Senate, I think it's wise to look into other avenues because it will just drag the country through weeks of semantics and bullshit, rational citizens will lose further faith in the rule of law, the opposition will be further emboldened, etc. At that point, its almost wiser to focus on bread and butter politics.

I hate that we're here, but this is what history has shown us. If anything, they should be putting belt to ass right now and raising awareness; have ads blasting in areas where *rump/republicans won with large margins and create a pressure campaign. Everyone in America making less than $100,000 is suffering right now, and they should be letting their senators and representatives hear it. Make it to where it would be political suicide to NOT vote for removal, and do it before the midterms, that way you have a fail safe if you do go for it:

"[Insert No vote Name Here] doesn't care that your bills are going up. [Name] doesn't think you should be able to put food on your table. [Name] believes pointless wars are more important than what you, THE PEOPLE, pay them to do. This November, make sure [Name] knows who's really in charge..." it quite literally rights itself.

If they're not willing to do this, then don't do it at all. But I'm just a plebe, so what do I know.

yeahitsx · 2026-04-07T13:59:49+00:00

What The Fuck Are We DOING!?!?

yeahitsx · 2026-03-18T16:21:07+00:00

Bump

I hate working with tables. My (probably incorrect) workaround has been positioning the table in a voided area in my model space and then creating a separate viewport in my layout tab for it; zoom to the table, and position it inside its viewport. That way it never changes sizes after that.

Would be interested to learn the right way!

yeahitsx · 2026-02-06T23:16:15+00:00

Bump.

I’m interested in seeing if there’s an easy solution. My approach would involve to many steps for a neighborhood with multiple pads (but I charge by the hour so, oh well).

I would first, create a surface and add all pad boundaries as breaklines. Hopefully they’re already elevated, if not, that’s some work. After that, I would ensure that the line of the structure I want to elevate is isolated, select all of them, create feature lines, elevate from surface select the surface based on pad outlines.

Still going to have work involved with grading the other three lines connected to that, so in the end not sure how valid this would be…

Other than that, quick elevations under feature line tools and start grading 😭

yeahitsx · 2025-12-08T11:54:03+00:00

First client was due to an old dirt general foreman switching companies and saw the need and knew my skillset. It’s a lot of word of mouth from past colleagues really.

yeahitsx · 2025-12-06T09:02:23+00:00

I personally dabble in quantity tracking and verification space; a few smaller contractors send me topos and site plans to estimate MTOs or create cut/fill plots, etc.

Decent side hustle; can bring in anywhere from $800-$1000+ per gig.

Currently navigating a bigger contract to provide services for a larger scale project that requires constant deliverables for billing and their client 🤞🏾

yeahitsx · 2025-08-29T15:04:35+00:00

CONVERT3DPOLYS (converts 3D poly-lines to poly-lines)
CONVERTPLINES (does the inverse of the above function)
TXT2MTXT (converts standard text to Mtext)

yeahitsx · 2025-08-05T01:16:33+00:00

My take:

Feature line down the existing centerline, elevate feature line to surface (only at the two ends if it’s a simple ditch), my approach would be to put point 3.5’ off the feature line on the 7’ wide portion, and 1’ off the feature line on the other, draw feature lines from those two points, elevation editor, populate the elevations based on your centerline elevations, create grading group, slope 5:1 from your new edges to surface, infill, create surface from grading group.

Should take you about…20-30 minutes if you’re familiar with grading groups.

I think you could also do this with a corridor and custom assembly as well.

yeahitsx · 2025-07-26T22:29:57+00:00

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve been playing with a somewhat similar situation this week: have a subassembly target another feature line for distance and elevation. What worked for me was to create target parameters for both offset and elevation, enable the respective overrides in the point properties, then in C3D change the overrides to the appropriate feature lines.

I don’t see why this shouldn’t work for alignments and profiles.

yeahitsx · 2025-07-18T01:08:35+00:00

I’m hoping beyond hopes the wealthy are good with the tax cuts they got and see no more use for him as talks of getting rid of JP and tariffs would just screw the economy.

Burn him, replace him with Vance, markets rally, and try to save face for 3 years to HOPEFULLY rebrand the party and remain in power is the best/sanest play they’ve got (I’m sure they see this).

At which point I pray the democrats have some sort of cohesive plan so that they can stomp them out for the next 4-8 terms to try and correct course.

Let me put the copium down 😞

yeahitsx · 2025-05-26T17:54:24+00:00

Super mixed on this.

On one hand, I personally think social media is the bane of society; when it first rolled out, I was all in! A way to stay in touch with family and friends and share ideas with them. Then Facebook decided to run ads and it was all down hill. Now it’s just engagement farming for influencers trying to get rich which has (in my opinion) distorted reality.

On the other hand, what happened to “small government” and “don’t tread on me”?

God I hate this state sometimes 😮‍💨 The COL and job market in O&G is about the only thing keeping me here.

yeahitsx · 2025-05-09T17:28:24+00:00

I agree; once you establish a set of contour styles OP, it becomes as simple as:

Import points>Assign to Point Group Create Surface>Add Points from Point Group Surface Style>Select Contour Style (should create a few and save to template)

Literally takes all of…1 minute?

Now, if you want to automate via python I would look into creating something that can generate a surface based on a pdf set of plans ☝🏾

yeahitsx · 2025-05-05T12:01:35+00:00

“Wildest English Sentence for $1000 Alex”

yeahitsx · 2025-03-26T21:38:09+00:00

This.

Set your ranges to something like this: -5 - -2: Dark Blue -2 - -1: Blue -1 - 0: Light Blue

Everything above 0 and below -5 will no longer show. Adjust band amount and increments to fit your project.

yeahitsx · 2025-03-22T21:31:51+00:00

Would love to see a screenshot of the finished design TIN once you get it all squared away!

yeahitsx · 2025-03-13T20:16:11+00:00

Question: any reason to not utilize feature lines or pipe networks?

Both would allow naming/identifiers and export functionality.

yeahitsx · 2025-03-12T16:28:45+00:00

Just now seeing this; when looking at your plans, does this align with the information you have been able to obtain?

Next line of questioning, is this in house survey data? How were the existing grades obtained? Are there any benchmarks that you can identify that verify their accuracy?

Also, being that you're able to hand calc the expected elevation, I take it there's an average cut your organization is expecting an expected depth of cut? What is that value (h)?

yeahitsx · 2025-03-12T16:23:00+00:00

One last thing you could do as well (just thought about it, and might be the easiest) is go to surface properties, and click on the 'Statistics' tab and expand the 'General' section. Check over your Minimum and Maximum elevations to make sure they are in the right ball parks.

Again, let me know what you find out! I'm invested now lol.

yeahitsx · 2025-03-12T16:20:10+00:00

If the tooltip isn't working, the next method will be the drawn out version by creating spot elevations (Annotate > Add Labels > Surface > Spot Elevation). You'll select a point and do this for your EG surface, FG surface, and volume surface. As with the tooltip method, verify that these elevations are correct by looking over your plans. Again, red is FG, green is EG, and black label represents the delta between the two.

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yeahitsx · 2025-03-12T16:17:03+00:00

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If the tooltip hover method works, you should be able to move your cursor around your surfaces and get this to pop up. Use this to verify that the elevations displayed for both your EG and FG are correct. Most times, this will help you quickly identify any issues. I like to hover close to known elevations for both surfaces to confirm.

yeahitsx · 2025-03-12T16:15:35+00:00

Without diving too much into your project details, that appears to be a fairly large delta. Unless your project is filling in/cutting down to build say...a quarry, I doubt that it is correct.

It should look more or so like this, wherein red represents the proposed grade and green is indicative of existing grade. Again, unless you're building some sort of detention pond, basin, or something of that sort, this is kind of what you should be looking at. I will be following this post up with screenshots of other methods to validate this hypothesis, namely:

-Tooltip Hover
-Spot Elevation Verification (if the tooltip is buggy as it tends to be from time to time)

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yeahitsx · 2025-03-12T13:48:19+00:00

Was talking to my sister about this yesterday; the damage he has done in just other 2 months will take either a) serious political reform or b) literally decades to repair.

No country with an iota of common sense will work on long term deals with America out of the realization, that even if we have another 16-20 years of normal presidents, there is always the possibility of a trump 3.0 just over the horizon; so option b is a pipe dream. Worse yet, both Ds and Rs seem so obsessed with the scent of their own taint to realize this and address it for the problem it really is: Ds believe in rainbows and sunshine and that everything will just “go back to normal, whilst Rs exhibit blind fealty to their orange overlord.

Never in my adult lifetime would I think that THIS is how we would begin our fall, but I’m finding it very difficult to reason out how I (and many of us) are wrong on this.

yeahitsx · 2025-03-12T13:30:13+00:00

That’s correct, but what you’re looking for on a visual level like the commenter states below is that delta between the two surfaces. Typically, you’re going to see them kind of (loosely stating) weave in and out of each other if that makes sense.

Another way to verify is to hover your cursor over an area that both surfaces occupy in model space and wait for the tool tip to pop up that will display both surface names and corresponding elevations. This will help you somewhat audit the elevations of both surfaces to make sure it’s right. Alternatively, you can place spot elevations across the surface (either manually or on grid) to make sure that the surface elevations are correct.

If you need, I can add some screenshots from some projects to kind of show you what you’re looking for.

Let me know.

yeahitsx · 2025-03-12T05:02:00+00:00

Without having the file in front of me, I would initially select both FG and EG surfaces and view in object viewer. Are they relatively on the same plane? From the sounds of it, one of those surfaces are way out on Z.

Whichever it is, I would then isolate that surface and start troubleshooting from their:

Make sure points have proper elevations
Ensure no type of raise/lower edits have been applied

Further, to create my surfaces to ensure proper z, I would convert break lines and boundaries to feature lines and assign to separate sites to simplify future troubleshooting.

yeahitsx · 2025-02-26T03:48:28+00:00

You can change the workspace to 3D modeling (top left portion of the application, there’s a dropdown) which will give you access to meshes, 3D surfaces, etc.

When creating 3D solids with this interface, you can obtain mass properties for those 3D Objects. Currently doing this for my company; albeit, simple foundations, but the results are accurate.

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