goddamn I want one like right now. why can't mcdonald's serve hotdogs

lol yeah there was once that I took a drawing down to the machine shop and it had specified a .04" inch hole drilled down to like an inch and a half, and they laughed me outta there. The general rule is you don't drill deeper than 10x the diameter, for every scale, but especially very small bits.

Also, isn't it weird that our brains really seem to tolerate 3D CAD where the view is zoomed in, but the perspective is still like that from infinity? I hope that makes sense. Like always using binoculars, y'know?

So maybe I missed this, but is this all for watchmaking? Or general application? Or moreso just for the journey? Looks like so much fun.

A great example of conspiracy theories being disqualifying for dems is how nobody took Marianne Williamson seriously once all the "healing crystals" stuff hit the fan. And afaik, that was the only conspiracy-adjacent thing she espoused.

For the republican party, believing in conspiracy is a requirement. The crazier, the better. I had to look up RFK's policies, because he never talks about them. They're relatively democrat-centrist, from what I can find. Some even sound progressive. But all he talks about are conspiracies. THAT is republican. And so is being "anti-war" while also advocating to bomb and/or invade Mexico. I'd love to hear RFK Jr. be asked that question.

I can add legit source links to this thread all day. We can't just watch the candidates lie to us in debates or interviews and trust everyone on the basis of how charismatic they are.

Hey, he's disclosing things now, after being thoroughly shamed into it. Great!

That's semi-fair, the key differences being: 1) Kennedy's positions aren't remotely aligned with the democratic party vs. the ultra MAGA chuds being GOP-aligned candidates, just extreme versions, and 2) The 3rd party presidential candidates draw more democratic votes than those from the GOP.

Here, I'm just (very over agressively) calling someone out for falling for it. I'm sorry, this is like, super obvious to me what's going on. RFK Jr. is a spoiler candidate promoted by fascists.

Is Biden a gifted orator? At this stage of his life, nah. And his policies draw mixed reviews from me. But not being able to see through RFK is fucking weird, I'm sorry. Techbro shit.

edit: many of Kennedy's stated policies are relatively democratic, but I had no idea, since he never talks about them

You've got a water bottle with a man's name on it who told Joe Rogan, "straight from the source", that WiFi can open the blood-brain barrier and cause cancer.

I mean do I really feel like I need to spend more time talking to you?

Nope.

We don't have a media environment capable of relegating Trump into irrelevance.

I do take some pleasure in his prosecutions, while also acknowledging that it could very well propel him into the presidency once again.

Not that it really matters. Trumpism is the GOP, now. We're gonna invade Mexico, eradicate transexualism, and do whatever Putin wants. I mean... this is literally an anti-American platform.

And I'm with spencerflem, yeah I'm voting for Biden b/c pragmatism, and it'll be with a very, VERY slight amount of enthusiasm, mostly based in the fact that I'm staving off fascism for one more general election cycle.

The GOP needs to reinvent itself. It won't.

Sure but omg, describing Trump as "not smug" is hilarious.

You are right about some combination of the media and political system failing the country, that much is clear.

Because he's funded by Steve Bannon?

Because he's a non-sensical anti-vaxxer?

You can go read Forbes. And btw, I don't exactly adore Forbes.

Where are you getting your information sources these days?

PS - Kennedy is the Jill Stein (2016) spoiler candidate of 2024.

edit: or?

Why do you think Kennedy is a democrat? Because he says so?

It's also becoming obvious that we will all eventually develop pretty serious health problems associated with long covid, provided we don't die from the initial phase of infection anytime soon. And there's basically nothing we can do besides masking, demanding better air filtration, and avoiding crowded indoor spaces. Not that we'll do those things, either, at least not in the near future. But eventually, I think the realization that things are now forever different, public health-wise, becomes a mass disillusionment event. Not sure what happens then, because the wealthy are systematically insulated from the worst of it all, and, I dunno, people might start to get upset about that.

I've been very, very disappointed with the Biden admin, the CDC, and yes, of course, the Chinese government. At this point, it's stupidly obvious that Capital/wealth wants Labor to shut the fuck up and get back to work. The way we have structured our society needs to fundamentally change if we're going to solve some of the most pressing problems. We won't change. Not fast enough or without some cataclysmic event(s). I know you love doomerism, b_b, that's why you read all of this

I think that's generally correct, but "white-adjacent" just isn't enough these days. And you know that Trump bristles even thinking about the phrase "Trump-Ramaswamy 2024". I also suspect he has enough political instinct to choose a woman for VP. Nikki Haley can pull the race card when needed, but is also granted whiteness because of her appearance and (changed) name. But it's still hella stupid that she claimed in her first campaign ad that racism is no longer a problem in America. Which was a few mass-shooting racist manifestos ago.

Meanwhile, meatball Ron is using a hurricane to get off the campaign trail for a respite. The only folks stupider than all of this are the insufferable tankies on twitter trying to get people to vote Cornell West or Marianne Williamson. I think I hate them more than the MAGAts.