Very Tired Shop Owner

SMB/Gas Technology/Amz Ecom. Stop bitching start building. Someone remind me to pay my bills.

[Very Tired Shop Owner @NewEricHoffer]

Every freaking time.

Never ever be intimidated by Phds. A few are geniuses, but the majority just paid too much for school

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

It’s been a really strange progression for me to watch since returning to the U.S. First the pre- and post-Stalinist horrors were whitewashed, then the scale of the purges diminished, then fables were invented about the success of social programs, a lack of corruption, etc.

[Very Tired Shop Owner @NewEricHoffer]

@FreddyLA7 @ChadBlue83 If you fly to Detroit you could take Amtrak to Toronto most likely. Need a ride to Windsor but there potential there if you ask someone would prob pick you up

[Very Tired Shop Owner @NewEricHoffer]

@elonmusk Is there volume of orders for that or is there a constant supply of new SpaceX satellites to launch?

[Grok @grok]

Major James Capers Jr. earned the Medal of Honor for March 31–April 3, 1967 actions near Phu Loc, Vietnam. As a 2nd Lt leading 9-man Force Recon Team Broadminded, the patrol was ambushed. All were wounded.

Despite severe wounds (abdomen ripped open, leg broken, heavy blood loss), he refused evacuation. He directed close supporting fires, led the defense, and twice stepped off the evac helo so others could leave first—ensuring every Marine got out safely.

Trailblazer: first Black enlisted Marine to earn a battlefield commission and command a Recon company. True hero. 🇺🇸

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Okay, time to explain the Imperial system, the metric system, and why attempts to replace either with the other are all retarded.

They have two different purposes.

The metric system is designed around precise measurement of objects. Its goal is to make engineering and scientific calculations simple.

The Imperial system is designed around humans. Its goal is to make calculation unnecessary.

100 degrees is really hot. 0 degrees is really cold. Anything that starts with a 5 is cool, anything that starts with an 8 is warm. No computation.

6 feet is tall, 5 feet is short.

100 pounds is light, 200 pounds is substantial, 300 pounds is heavy.

A 1000 square foot house is small, a 2000 square foot house is medium, a 3000 square foot house is large.

1 mile is a short walk, 2 miles is a medium walk, after that it takes a while.

1 acre of land is a homestead, 10 acres is an estate, 100 acres and up is a ranch or a farm.

Do you see now why it is so strange and awkward to convert from miles to feet?

It's because converting from miles to feet is not something you're supposed to do in the first place. Yes, they are both measures of length, so they are technically convertible, and yes, on rare occasions, you might need to do that.

But feet are for measuring humans, and things built around humans, like doorways, and mattresses. Miles are for measuring travel distance.

You wouldn't measure the distance between Seattle and Portland in feet for the same reason you wouldn't measure the distance between Tokyo and Osaka in mattress-lengths.

It would be silly.

This is why Americans so fiercely resistant to any notion of "conversion" to the metric system. Because it makes no sense. We already use the metric system for what it's good for, which is doing physics and chemistry and whatnot.

But converting everyday measurements to the metric system would be less useful, generally inconvenient, and serve no purpose other than to make petty government bureaucrats happy that everything is now tidy, orderly, and worse, three qualities that bureaucrats love.

I thought about this carefully when I wrote my first science fiction novel. In the world of the 22nd century, extraterrestrial settlers ("Orbitals") use three systems of measurement.

They measure themselves in feet, inches, and pounds.

They measure the spacecraft and habitats they build in meters and centimeters, grams and kilograms.

And they measure space travel distances in light-seconds and light-minutes.

Each system has its own natural scale.

The sole exception to this is when Marcus doses himself with drugs for high-g resistance, Miranda objects that he has taken too much, and Marcus responds by stating his mass... in kilograms.

Why?

Because they're talking about drug doses, a engineering measurement. Drugs are dosed in milligrams per kilogram.

So, yes, the Imperial system makes perfect sense when you understand what it's for, and no, we ain't changing.

And, as a general rule, when an entire civilization of smart people does something for centuries, and it makes no sense to you, they're probably not being silly.

It's more likely there's something you don't know.

[かもめTV @kamome_tv]

Dear Americans

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All Americans Family
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I love you!
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[Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors @isaiah_p_taylor]

Moments ago, Valar Atomics took Ward 250 critical for the first time. This fulfills President Trump’s EO 14301, which called for 3 advanced reactors to go critical by July 4th.

This is our second criticality as a company, and an important step toward our goal of power by July 4.

[Fenix Ammunition @FenixAmmunition]

At this point if you still use a P320 you're an idiot.

[Very Tired Shop Owner @NewEricHoffer]

Woodchipper.

[Thomas G Phippen @ThomasPhippen]

A teen boy on puberty blockers goes to a urologist because he was wetting his pants in class

Also his pee was strawberry colored from blood and skin flakes

Boy and his mom ask if the incontinence and bloody urine might be side effects from puberty blockers

The transition-friendly urologist says nah, transition drugs are totally safe, the problem is you're holding in your pee *too much*

A few months after stopping the puberty blockers, the boy stopped peeing blood

The urologist was charged this year for allegedly having thousands of pornographic pictures of children

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

This is the coolest thing ever. We’re at NASA getting a tour from astronaut Anne McClain. This is us entering the Orion capsule that flew around the Moon in April.

[Very Tired Shop Owner @NewEricHoffer]

Yeah but the testing, even being harmful, is bourne by the patient who holds the bag on the risk calculation. It's one thing to advise the patient, it's another to refuse when the patient upon being educated by the doctor still wants to make the other choice. Understand about it looking bad, and the litigious will abuse it to high hell, but what's the alternative to proper documentation of why decisions were made?

[Very Tired Shop Owner @NewEricHoffer]

@ultimape Super interesting especially for a 2 dollar tool. Glad the guy invented it that's cool

[Very Tired Shop Owner @NewEricHoffer]

Lyndon Johnson used to make people stand in the bathroom with him and would dictate notes while he took a shit. Clinton got a blowie under the desk. Come on.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

A generation or two ago, it was common for presidents to refuse to enter the oval office without a suit coat (except rare moments like a heat wave or illness). They felt those hallowed grounds were too dignified for anything less. I liked that much better than whatever this is.👇

[Very Tired Shop Owner @NewEricHoffer]

@orthomaton @camryn880093 @intentionalisms Idk man 34 is a far cry from 30

[Very Tired Shop Owner @NewEricHoffer]

@MikeAmmo @caroljsroth Where are the subsidies on that? Because I basically agree but don't know how it is being subsidized unless you're saying there should be a taxable basis for the loans pulled.

[Very Tired Shop Owner @NewEricHoffer]

Wonder how people felt about Howard Hughes back in the day

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

@bonchieredstate I just don’t understand why anyone cares that he’s a weirdo. Most great entrepreneurs were weirdos. It often goes with the territory. What matters is what he does, which is incredible. I want more of that.

[Very Tired Shop Owner @NewEricHoffer]

@_Solarized_ @bannedbythecbc @crop_duster69 @bernsteind @tricrobotics "It's only been done this way before"
"What about this new way being done?"
"That doesn't count"

[Very Tired Shop Owner @NewEricHoffer]

@grok @Brrr98or @CaryKelly11 @bernsteind @tricrobotics This whole thread has actually been extremely educational. Some people learned too many lessons from Jurassic Park. The theory is there, but this still seems an improvement over chemical means.

[Very Tired Shop Owner @NewEricHoffer]

@AngryCitizenxx He'll get through