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nah it's natural in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

From when we discovered the ozone hole to banning hairspray and shit was about 10 years.

Also, I didn't say we decided the pacific trash hole was bad. I said we decided it would kill all the life in the ocean, and that was hilariously wrong.

Have you taken a reading comprehension course in the last 10 or 15 years?

TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail. in c/til@lemmy.world

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

You just have to get through during off hours. I worked with a guy in livermore who came up and around from turlock every day. If he left at 430, he would get in to work around 530. But if he left at 5, it would be 630 minimum, typically more like 7 or 730. I can't imagine if he tried to get through during actual peak traffic. Homie would almost always leave early on Fridays and we didn't blame him because it'd take him 3 hours to get home otherwise.

Lindsay Lohan explained why she moved to Dubai in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

nah it's natural in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Idk man remember when that ozone hole was supposed to kill us all but we started fixing it in like 10 years? How about when we decided plastic would choke the oceans to death only to find that microbes are busily learning how to break down all those man made forever polymers? Member those? Meeeember?

nah it's natural in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

don't trust cloud services with creative work in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

I just realized the other day that one of the updates on my Chromebook automatically installed something called "NotebookLM" on my app bar. Never asked for it. Never even looked at apps on my Chromebook before. But it's there now, and it super secret bloodswap pinky swares it won't steal my ideas or writing. What an odd thing to say on first open.

Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst in c/australia@aussie.zone

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Just got rid of my fuel sipping crossover and went full electric and boy is it nice. A week so far and I just passed 69% (nice). Im going to be really pleased if I can get two weeks out of one charge. And the price to recharge? Less than $20 usd. About half of my weekly 10 gallons of 81 unleaded.

Republican candidate for California's governor posted this in c/Mirror@50501.chat

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

Anybody have a mirror of the original? OP got censored

NASA says 20% of workforce to depart space agency in c/science@lemmy.world

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 42 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Had a job interview at their Ames facility back in December. It was an interesting opportunity, and it required a LOT of sacrifices in terms of commute and workload, but I could've made it work. Then they tried to pull the "Could we interest you in a contractor position?" switcheroo at the end of the hiring process and I noped the fuck out. The next week, Trump announced he was cutting all contractor jobs and freezing new hires for the agency.

Lmfaoooo

Guess the burnout is real. I couldn't believe how much of a dump the place was honestly. Shit is being held together with duct tape, zip ties, and free veteran labor.

Food Network star Anne Burrell died by suicide, medical examiner determines in c/news@lemmy.world

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Production welder/machinist stepping up and in a little over my head (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works to c/machinist@sh.itjust.works

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So as the title says, I've been a welder for 15 years, and now I've been hired into a machinist position, but I'm running the machine shop in this business. I've done machining work related to the welding I've done, sometimes even working as a machinist when the welding work slows down. My last job was 90% machinist work with 10% welding repair.

Now I'm expected to be a full machinist and run a whole machine section (2 lathes, 2 mills, and an entire wall of disorganized tooling) by myself. To the point where I'm the only guy in the shop that can figure out how to set a power feed on a lathe or mill. It's a little overwhelming tbh. But I'm struggling through.

Today's challenge: drill and bore a hole through 10.5 inches of 1018.

What I've done:

chucked up the material in the 3 jaw on the lathe

beat around the stock until it was running mostly true (as far as can be read with a dial indicator on mill scale)

Center drilled with 3/8 center drill (only center drill available)

Proceeded to drill through with 9/16 because that's the only drill we had that was long enough

My problem now:

When the drill popped out the other side, I can see through my spindle it's maybe 1/8 off center. Definitely wobble as seen from the back of the spindle.

How can I correct the straightness of my hole? The plan was to step up to 1 inch then 2 inch drills to be able to fit in the big boring bar, but i don't want the bigger drills to follow the pilot off center. Does it matter? Can I just feed the bigger bits slower and the problem will self correct?

Edit: Success! Flipped it around and started a couple inches with a stubby 3/4, then I got an extremely stout 1 3/4 to redrill the hole nice and straight. Once the first couple inches were started it was rigid enough to follow its own hole all the way back through.