Doug the MetalMaster

Industrialist- I make metal things with machinery & fire, fitness & nutrition guy (carnivore WOL), skier, Jesus, family, country. Catholic. ANTI-COMMUNIST

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

The next generation coming up, especially at Reindustrialize, is more than OK. We just have to keep the system from falling down. Not easy but if we can stop this communism stuff, a golden age for factory workers and skill trades is upon us.

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

I’m 6 years carnivore in October.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Joe Rogan says you don’t need Ozempic to kill your appetite and lose weight.

Just go high-protein or full carnivore. Eggs and meat for breakfast, and your body adjusts, no more mid-day crashes, clearer head, more energy, and you feel satisfied way easier.

He’s seen it work for a lot of people, including comics at his gym who did a full month.

High-protein diets increase satiety hormones (GLP-1, PYY) and reduce ghrelin (hunger hormone), leading to natural appetite suppression and better weight management, similar mechanisms to Ozempic but without the drug.

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

It's coming. Either embrace it and use it, or, well...

[Stephen Stone - PhD Tricknologist @Stephen19718352]

I used to work with a guy who spent every free hour working on his 5.0 Mustang for drag racing (sanctioned stuff on actual tracks) and had become kind of the king of his little sphere. Anyways, one day they were messing around at the track and someone brought their model S. This was before even car guys were really aware of what these cars could do. After some ribbing, they lined up with the Model S. The guy put it in insane mode and smoked my coworker in his Mustang.

They laughed about it and he didnt think much of it. But as months passed, it really bothered him that someone could just go buy an electric car that was faster than he could reasonably make his car go. He didn't quit all at once, but it kind of just stopped being fun for him over time and looking back he can now trace it to that moment.

I think that same thing is happening to developers as they see non-tech people using AI to make decent stuff

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

That's where the bulk of mine go. My kids are almost 40, so they're not in school. Nor do they get a voucher. Yet I still pay. And when they WERE young, we yanked them from the government school and paid for private education. We still paid for the public one. I strongly favor vouchers.

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

@Ross_Berry

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

@JoeSweeneyNH @Osborne4NH

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

Got a free book last night at the event in Laconia😂

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

I love this!

[American Fabrication Academy @AmFabAcademy]

Our night students working hard on their various projects
#welding #metalfabrication #aerospace #machining #offroad

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

This is so ridiculous. Can we even share a country anymore?

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

This is why we can’t have fun anymore. Our 250th Birthday in 2 weeks and Democrats have forced DC to close the Reflecting Pool. They’ve stationed a solar-powered mobile surveillance unit next to pool.

Hope you’re happy, @TheDemocrats. Anti-American freaks.
H/T @FreedomNTV

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

This right here. Times 100!!

[Chris @Mopar]

And this is why NH can't really get rid of the property tax.
To do so would require replacing it with a broad-based income or sales tax.
IMNHO, the property tax is the better option because it retains the highest level of local control. The people in NH towns have the chance to vote on virtually every dollar of the town and school budgets, which is what drives the property taxes. The fact that so many lazy people do NOT take advantage of this to bring down their taxes is not a good argument for letting the state government decide what's best for you and your town.

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

We can all learn a lot from the current captains of industry here in the US

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Marc Andreessen went on Chris Williamson's podcast and broke down exactly how Elon Musk runs multiple companies at once

No other CEO on Earth does this:

1. Every week, Musk shows up at each of his companies, identifies the single biggest problem that company is having that week, and fixes it. Then he does that for 52 weeks in a row. At the end of the year, each company has solved its 52 biggest problems. Meanwhile, most large companies are still having the planning meeting for the pre-planning meeting for the board presentation with the compliance review and the legal review attached.

2. This is not a new operating method. It is actually how the great industrialists of the late 1800s and early 1900s ran their companies. Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Watson, who built IBM. Total devotion from the leader to fully and deeply understand what the company does, be in the trenches, talk directly to the people doing the work, and be the lead problem solver in the organization. Andreessen says he is not aware of another current CEO who operates this way.

3. The framework Musk uses is the bottleneck. In any manufacturing chain, there is always one thing holding everything up. Sometimes it is raw materials at the start. Sometimes it is warehousing at the end. Sometimes it is in the middle. The job is to find it and remove it. Musk has universalized this concept across every company he runs. In any given week, there is one main bottleneck. He micromanages the solution to that one thing and delegates almost everything else.

4. Musk delegates almost everything. Andreessen is clear about this. He is not involved in most of what his companies are doing. He is involved in the one thing that is the biggest problem right now. Once that is fixed, he moves to the next biggest problem. Everything else by definition, is running better than the bottleneck, so it does not need him.

5. When Musk identifies the bottleneck, he goes directly to the engineer who actually understands it. not the VP of engineering, not the director, not the manager. The individual contributor who has the actual technical knowledge. He sits in the room with that person and fixes the problem alongside them. He does not ask for a report to be reviewed in three weeks. he shows up at the keyboard or on the manufacturing line and works through it overnight if necessary.

6. This is why technical people who work for Musk say it was the best experience of their lives. Andreessen's framing: if you are stuck on a problem you cannot solve, Elon Musk is going to show up in his Gulfstream, sit with you in front of the keyboard, and help you figure it out. For an engineer who genuinely cares about the work, that is an almost incomprehensible level of support from the CEO of the company.

7. Business school teaches the opposite of this: management as a generic skill applicable to any industry. Soup company or a rocket company, the management principles are the same. process, balance sheet, meeting schedules, compliance, executive motivation, interpersonal conflict resolution. Andreessen says those skills are useful in many contexts. They just give you nothing; you need to do what Musk does. And Musk pushes as far as he can away from all of that so he can spend all of his time doing the things only he can do.

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

@BuzzPatterson

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

@Silence03062 @RDKLInc Amazing vehicles lost in time from another era

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

@jimbelosic Hire for attitude. Train for skill.

[Howard Luks MD @hjluks]

Six Things I See in My ‘Strongest’ 80-Year-Old Patients

I am 63 now, and after three decades as an orthopedic surgeon, I have examined thousands of people in their eighties. Some arrive frail and afraid, others walk in straighter and more confident than patients half their age.
They’re still skiing, still gardening, still picking up grandchildren without a second thought. The gap between those two groups is not luck, and it is rarely genetics alone. The same patterns keep showing up in those who are thriving.
Here is what they have in common. The most important reasons are lower down in the list…

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

@myWinnipesaukee Why? So the old, fat aged boomer hags and hippies can stomp on it while they protest? Wolfeboro should clear them out and the result will look like America in and of itself

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

@historyrock_

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

@travis4nh Gaslighting to the nth degree

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

@davec_NH Next we'll see her canoeing in a puddle

[Doug the MetalMaster @DGFDoug]

Sounds very interesting

[REO Industries @reoindustries]

Full text of our letter below:

A letter from REO - The Case for a Simple Truck

The vehicle we deserve.

There is a vehicle missing from the American market. It is small enough for a real garage, big enough for a family or a day's work, cheap enough to skip the seven-year loan, and built well enough to outlast it.

What is REO?

In 1901, Ransom Eli Olds built America's first mass-produced car, and it sold for $650 — about $25,000 today. After being pushed out of Oldsmobile, he founded a new company on his initials in 1905, and for seventy years REO built some of the most respected trucks in America, including the 1915 Speed Wagon, the ancestor of the modern pickup. We're bringing REO back to do the same job in a different era.

What Broke?

The average new vehicle now costs over $50,000, and the cheapest new pickup opens above $28,000 before anyone touches the options sheet. None of this happened by accident. Fuel-economy rules rewarded bigger footprints, a 25% tariff walled off small imported trucks (and still does), dealers bury the sticker under fees, and the manufacturers walked away from the bottom of the market because the loaded trim pays better than the honest one. Toyota still builds exactly this kind of truck, brand new, on three continents — but you can't buy one here.The buyers didn't leave. The products did.

What We're Building

The Runabout carries the name of Olds' first car. It is a family of small, body-on-frame, mechanical-4WD utility vehicles powered by a combustion engine — built in Texas and sold direct, with no dealers, no markup, and a website price with no hidden fees. First comes the T4X, a two-seat work truck targeted at $21,500, with the T4C crew cab truck and the S4C compact family SUV to follow on the same frame. We call this class of vehicles the Ameri-Kei, as they're heavily inspired by the simplicity and utility of the Japanese kei trucks.Initial design work is underway, and you'll know a REO when you see one: steel, authentic, honest, all business.

Why Gas?

Every new car startup in America is electric, while 90% of American buyers are not. Those companies raised record money chasing a fraction of the market, and every American EV maker except Tesla now sits billions in the hole. We exist because of those failures, and we build for the everyday American who simply wants a vehicle that works.Gas refuels in five minutes in every town in America, and every mechanic in the country already knows how to fix these powertrains. When the law and the supply chain change, we'll add other powertrains — but we'll do it late and on purpose, because delayed adoption buys proven parts at falling prices. The same goes for autonomy. We'll never bolt beta software onto your truck. The Runabout is engineered to be modular and forward-thinking, with a roof and wiring ready to accept sensors without cutting metal — so when self-driving is boring and proven, an REO can take it. Tried and true is the strategy, whatever it happens to be bolted to.

Built Open

The Runabout is designed to be repaired and modified by the person who owns it. Every control is a physical switch or lever, and the only screen in the cabin is a small display for diagnostics and Apple CarPlay. There is no parts-pairing, which means no component is ever software-locked to your VIN, and the diagnostics read out in plain English on a $30 scanner. The parts catalog is public, fairly priced, and backed for twenty years, and the bumpers, door cards, headliner, and trim all come off in under five minutes with common tools. There are no subscriptions and no feature locks.And then we go somewhere no automaker has gone: the truck itself is fully open source. Anyone can build a part for it, because nothing on the vehicle checks where a part came from. On top of that, we run an authorized maker program. Makers who pass our quality verification get the factory mounting patterns and a spot on our online marketplace, where they sell directly to owners at fees lower than eBay, RockAuto, and Amazon. Verified makers competing on the same shelf means the customer wins twice — prices come down and quality goes up. And our owners' community will live in the same app as the marketplace, run by the factory in the open: no more Facebook groups to dig through, no more forums to chase. Other companies fight their aftermarket. We're building the Runabout around the customer, and we want the customer to talk to us — on a forum sponsored and monitored by us, the OEM, in the most transparent way possible.

What We're Asking For Today

We're opening reservations now, before the renderings are finished and before the configurator is live — and we're doing it on purpose, because REO gets built in the open. A reservation is $25, fully refundable, and we hold that money separate from the company and never spend it to operate, so it is always there to come back to you the moment you ask. You are not buying a finished truck. You are putting your name down early and watching it take shape, and we'll keep you posted as the design, the specs, and the configurator come online. There is no fixed delivery date and no final price yet, and we won't pretend otherwise. Cancel any time before you buy and the $25 goes back, no questions asked. Every reservation tells us — and every supplier, engineer, and partner this truck needs — that it should exist.

We're REO. Let's build cars like they used to be.

Sincerely,

Zach De Bernardi
Founder & CEO, REO Industries, Inc.