Trepanning is back, baby! NSFL warning. Dude has his friends help him dremel a hole in his skull so he can like totally open his third eye or release the demon chakras or whatever.

Can’t find it, but there was an interview where someone talked about poking their meninges with a metal rod and having a ‘spiritual experience’ or something. Also, bong rips feeling bubbly in the skull hole.

It’s an old saying, longer version I know is:

“Saddest thing in the world is a cat scratching at the window because it used to be an inside cat.”

Lead shot for waterfowl hunting has been banned in the US for a few decades. It’s still used for upland bird hunting. I think it’s still frequently used illegally for waterfowl.

Not an expert, but have a decent layman’s understanding. Could totally be wrong about the next part:

It’s my understanding that lead contamination of wild animals through hunting primarily occurs due to various sizes of bird shot. The greater surface area allows a much higher level of contamination. It also forms lead dust in the shell from friction and when fired. It’s also easier for animals to eat it. Rifle rounds and slugs are fairly inert as the larger size prevents most consumption and less absorption when it is consumed.

My guess is that migratory waterfowl eat lead shot when ‘grazing’ the bottom of wetlands. This bio-concentrates the lead in eagles when they prey on ducks and such.

It would require Von Neumann machines to do it. Of, course, we could end up being turned into grey goo with that sort of tech.

But, yeah, simply invent self-replicating nanotech. Shoot it at the moon, Mars, Ceres. Viola, data centers in space. Use the same tech to clean up the enviroment and eliminate oil dependence. Might as well rebuld the coral reefs and old growth forests. Also cures cancer and the common cold. And is the fountain of youth. And we all live happily ever after in the computer.

I often code directly on the machine control, including single blocking a running program and adding a line while the program is paused.

Editor on older CNC machines usually doesn’t even do lowercase and often has limited alphabet keys. Think '80s green or amber screen.

A machinist’s coding workflow can be real fucky. I go from CAM which is like a highly complex visual programming IDE to notepad. If I’m being fancy I use notepad++ for syntax highlights and diff’ing.

Got tired of paying high prices on razor blades, using disposables was wasteful, and the exponentially increasing number of blades wouldn’t get under my nose.

Switched to an old school Gillette Tech safety. Switched to Barbasol instead of the thicker stuff. Shaves better, cheaper, just as fast. No stupid rituals required. No shaving soap, mug, bristle brush or horseshit required. (I do recommend starting with one of the combo packs of razors to find the one you like).

I even shave my balls with it.

My son has his own tech, and has never tried any of the goofy ‘modern’ crap.

This was a solved problem nearly 100 years ago. Funny how marketing works.

Fun for the whole family. “Click!”

I mean, twenty gigs was more than anyone would ever be able to use.

Captain!

This sailor probably enjoyed your hospitality back in the day.

Thank you much!

That wasn’t SOAD? What about the Metallica Imperial Stormtrooper march?

Second on Scratch. Then Python or Java.

(Pretty sure windows doesn’t come with any compilers anymore. Even if it did, it lacks an ide.)

I’ve actually drawn once in a defensive situation. Juvenile mountain lion was curious. I was growling and hissing at it but it kept coming so I drew. It finally turned and I didn’t have to try and kill it.

Peak life experience. I was really lucky to get see one and I’m so glad I didn’t have to shoot it.

G Code is basically a geometric scripting languge and isn’t Turing complete in basic implementations. Every manufacturer pretty much also has their own dialect that is Turing complete.

Gcode with control commands and variables is called, no shit, Macro G Code. It’s Turing complete. That form of variable names is normal and is inherited from hardware registers/banks and TTL.

It’s not unusual for a save dialog to be labelled Punch as it has a direct lineage from punch tape.

Kind of like assembly and a graphing calculator had an abortion together.

Trichocereus bridgesii, monstrose form. Called penis cactus or toothpick cactus depending on spines. T. bridgesii contains higher levels of alkaloids, including mescaline, than the more commonly used T. Pachnoi “San Pedro”. The monstrose form is said to be particularly potent, although it is slower growing.

Porque no los dos?

I’ve found that subs really dig it when you’ve machined your own spanky tools…

Also, HAAS are some jank ass machines. Tiny ways, newer controls are glitter covered shit, they fucked up the remote handwheel…

Huh. I’m not sure how far back furries go.

If not, it’s certainly proto furry porn. Pretty sure it predates the formulation of Rule 34.

This was covered back in '93 on usenet. Behold: Smuckfest!

I very much agree. It is held up as this wonderful parable of how you should live. It’s the sort of thing that the powerful use to take advantage and abuse the weak.

This kind of puerile shit is bad for children and is just like a lot of the Jesus crap that gets pounded into kids.

not all beauty is worth pain