# ![@MNJ_CNC Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1515541438095937538.png) @MNJ_CNC MNJ CNC

MNJ CNC posts on X about money, this is, if you, china the most. They currently have [---] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  [countries](/list/countries)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  [currencies](/list/currencies)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [social networks](/list/social-networks)  [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) 

**Social topic influence**
[money](/topic/money), [this is](/topic/this-is), [if you](/topic/if-you), [china](/topic/china), [in the](/topic/in-the), [has been](/topic/has-been), [shop](/topic/shop), [the first](/topic/the-first), [at least](/topic/at-least), [pmc](/topic/pmc)

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@idisyndicalist](/creator/undefined) [@muhasabaneeder](/creator/undefined) [@omarnksa](/creator/undefined) [@tetradugenikid](/creator/undefined) [@griffraff97](/creator/undefined) [@covenantwatch](/creator/undefined) [@drummcolin](/creator/undefined) [@synergyfab](/creator/undefined) [@theredsulphur](/creator/undefined) [@steelanth](/creator/undefined) [@cimaronh](/creator/undefined) [@noearthquake](/creator/undefined) [@thehagueicc](/creator/undefined) [@zanehengsperger](/creator/undefined) [@the_hague_icc](/creator/undefined) [@blackfingers63](/creator/undefined) [@foamingpig](/creator/undefined) [@jasonpremomfg](/creator/undefined) [@neuromaliki](/creator/undefined) [@turbofucker](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[SPINDLE (SPD)](/topic/spindle) [Telos (TLOS)](/topic/telos)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@theredsulphur It's really getting crazy I wonder if buyers are so used to component inflation that everyone's just grabbing margin down the chain now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1672728641497595917)  2023-06-24T22:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"doing some tiny gucci fittings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1703176287534170460)  2023-09-16T22:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@leilamechoui A yr or so ago on RSR you said the state transcended the market and could carry on for a long time. @wbmosler makes a persuasive case that rate hikes at large debt/gdp are inflationary due to large federal outlays to debt holders whose propensity to spend is now higher"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1705206606248521912)  2023-09-22T13:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@leilamechoui @wbmosler In my view most likely outcome is temporary housing correction to pre COVID trend followed by institutions gobbling up more real estate chunks of middle class hived off into have-nots in informal economy sectoral recession in PMC transferiate and rotation into manufacturing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1705207099947450430)  2023-09-22T13:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@leilamechoui @wbmosler Not sure about serfdom- some tfw arrangements seem worse. I think we agree labour power in particular sectors will grow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1705320541274415491)  2023-09-22T20:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Blackfingers63 @DrDeath1776 i love star Bs so much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1712584490336280833)  2023-10-12T21:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Tetradugenikid seriously tho industrial tool production isn't really contingent on cheap fossil fuels we're not going back to hand manufacture as long as some jurisdiction has nuclear and enough biomass to extract uranium. completely impossible to compete with machine tools"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1715216962668675352)  2023-10-20T04:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Tetradugenikid I don't have them on hand but Ive read a few studies that measured machine tool power consumption and like 75% is basically idle power- control cabinet fans and chip conveyor other accessories not spindle/cutting power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1715220888004555015)  2023-10-20T04:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@ArmchairW 100m CEP and they just happened to smoke the superstructure amd deck amidships"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1748591484348080581)  2024-01-20T06:21Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@rustbeltkid1 Do you need a PEng to sign off on the dwg or sth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1772413864165966301)  2024-03-26T00:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"new Sandvik Plura 6fl finisher these things are by far my favourite mills rn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1773126940691472738)  2024-03-27T23:16Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"6082 finishes much worse than [----] under identical conditions weird"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1776387113170219236)  2024-04-05T23:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"900 sfm .0005 ipr feed. [----] will be like a mirror this cloudy garbage looks like i ran it dry with an old steel insert. Dwg requires .1 um/4 uinch Ra. Thank God for chrome polish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1776401709985567060)  2024-04-06T00:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@IDI_Syndicalist This is objectively true of the early war and they remained a threat as long as they were operating so it shouldn't be controversial imo. Naval av just gets all the attention"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1776770175674519674)  2024-04-07T00:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@NaokiQYamamoto It's an industry that has a primary market amongst anxious mostly-PMC diaspora. This explains "self discovery" focus and some of these other features. Once attended a retreat where a Sh. was asked how to maintain the mindset of the retreat once it ends- he said "more retreats""  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1780719276946755721)  2024-04-17T22:05Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@qin_duke This is at least part of the picture but what remains of North American manufacturing is high margin and low barrier to entry. I'm declasse PMC making 2-3x what I would have as eg tenured faculty I expect this to become common as the lucre available to imperial fantasy declines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1783126348052963461)  2024-04-24T13:30Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Tetradugenikid @simpatico771 I agree which is surprising to me it's a completely different perspective than the one that I grew up with (AirLand Battle will save the day). Didn't they used to say no Abrams was lost to enemy action in Iraq even tandem RPGs Now they're getting waxed by drone hits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1784834487517335706)  2024-04-29T06:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Jonathan_Blow MMT just says there's no fiscal constraint on currency emission in fiat regimes. Warren Mosler in particular has explained in detail how high interest rates are inflationary with large govt debt issuance by constrast to the post-2008 low interest/high deficit regime"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1786609945711911374)  2024-05-04T04:12Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@Jonathan_Blow The expansion of the monetary base is obviously inflationary if the physical economy isn't growing not aware of any MMTers who deny this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1786612798249669024)  2024-05-04T04:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Jonathan_Blow On the other hand MMTers have been successfully predicting that interest rate hikes would not affect inflation in the context of large USG debt obligations unlike most other schools so it's not the case that they don't have an account of inflation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1786613801980142025)  2024-05-04T04:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Gyromite34 @Jonathan_Blow Not familiar with her specific point but it sounds like a reiteration of no-fiscal-limit. Fiat is emitted by the state even in the case of tsy sales they aren't borrowing exogenous money to fund expenses which is the point of OP interview https://twitter.com/wbmosler/status/1786366980225704230 @robert19pearson To answer the question Jared could not- The Fed 'prints money' by crediting reserve account balances and the sale of Treasury securities (borrowing) then 'shifts' those balances to securities accounts also at the Fed. (debit reserve accounts/credit securities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1786619855493271685)  2024-05-04T04:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Agi1eTab1et C Fred Alford has an entire book about "trauma" being in effect a political claim to the validity of suffering https://www.amazon.ca/Trauma-Culture-PTSD-Fred-Alford/dp/1137575999 https://www.amazon.ca/Trauma-Culture-PTSD-Fred-Alford/dp/1137575999"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1791473206945079672)  2024-05-17T14:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Tetradugenikid @KeroNFTs This would be really hard rodent eyesight is terrible and he goes while it's still spinning pretty fast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1791712663317201347)  2024-05-18T06:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Blackfingers63 Good info thanks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1795241811574673564)  2024-05-27T23:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@bog_beef I didn't play enough 3E to remember clearly did this carry over much from 2E I feel like 2E was the only system I played where this was a strong dynamic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1797479962225836215)  2024-06-03T04:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Spagh3ttiJoe Can u just run water for coolant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1800240637783990540)  2024-06-10T18:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"I get them to ship bar stock like this to amaze and confound the LTL guy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1800598973474037915)  2024-06-11T18:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@W_T_Han Why do you figure this tendency exists So many have studied in USA or have family who have they must know about the hodgepodge nature of things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MNJ_CNC/status/1802553833161179530)  2024-06-17T04:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Made it through the 3k holes without noticeable wear. Nachis marketing test with coolant stops after 10k holes with no break I wouldn't be surprised if I could get something in that vicinity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1804745576891764842)  2024-06-23T05:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Chip control is very good and the DLC coating is really slick. Carbide would run faster but I break them a lot more on deep holes I think maybe runout"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1804747066402295930)  2024-06-23T05:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Starting to do a decent amount of rush mold work for a factory customer. Could get used to it long cycle times at good rate. They're bringing idled machines back up because they can respond to new product requests in weeks instead of months now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1805098368068182302)  2024-06-24T04:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Put a couple rounds of Aguila Colibri thru the S&W Model [--] with my 3&8 y/os today. I should have bought more of these when ammo was cheap super useful training round. I just had em to take squirrels after The Discontinuity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1805103113352688113)  2024-06-24T04:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@W_T_Han I can't find the vessels' text searching "Bronze code" do you know a more specific name"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1805134457063481654)  2024-06-24T07:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I recently read van Gulik's translation of "Parallel Cases Under the Pear Tree" a collection of criminal cases 13th century and older. Wanted to look for more casebooks- never occurred to me they might be on bronzes @muhasaba_needer Can you read Chinese The proper name of the vessel is Zhen Yi . Here's the Baidu entry about it: https://t.co/kwyEGh1cqd @muhasaba_needer Can you read Chinese The proper name of the vessel is Zhen Yi . Here's the Baidu entry about it: https://t.co/kwyEGh1cqd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1805139377959424204)  2024-06-24T07:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@IDI_Syndicalist Im wondering if it might still be sth heat related though. Possibly when I'm single blocking through the pattern tool is cooler but when its on auto and rapids it doesn't have enough time btw holes or sth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1806187088422834594)  2024-06-27T04:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Design for measure is about as rare as design for manufacture but it's needed for consistent accept/reject. If the Tier [--] (or whoever is doing final inspection) isn't using a Keyence or scanning CMM GD&T is pointless So true. I can guarantee your .005 surface profile tolerances have never once been inspected. So true. I can guarantee your .005 surface profile tolerances have never once been inspected"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1806446226210234620)  2024-06-27T21:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Margare71531078 Planting tanks substantially decreases maintenance requirements just start with easy stuff like amazon swords java moss etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1806784572102713429)  2024-06-28T20:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"We really need to start teaching aristotlean causality again. Not being able to distinguish statements about telos from statements about the merely actual is catastrophic "the purpose of a system is what it does" just boils down to the statement "purpose is actuality" which is moronic as anyone who's ever had something or someone not fulfill their purpose knows "the purpose of a system is what it does" just boils down to the statement "purpose is actuality" which is moronic as anyone who's ever had something or someone not fulfill their purpose knows"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1807087822525858303)  2024-06-29T16:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Monod did this tbh. He wanted cybernetics without telos; now people literally can't differentiate between state and function the merely actual and the final cause https://t.co/8Z06cCPaEt https://t.co/8Z06cCPaEt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1808511878596800533)  2024-07-03T14:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Zorba1618 #1 is not correct. This is only true of Copenhagen theorists. Bohmian mechanics are fully deterministic and explain more quantum phenomena than Copenhagen so "irreducible randomness" is a model choice and not requirement to explain those phenomena"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1808610734332596714)  2024-07-03T21:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The only meaningful definition of randomness is sequence compressibility (implied by invocation of Kolmogorov complexity here) but this can't "animate" anything. Copenhagen makes the probability distro over outcomes the ontological cause A modern cosmological argument for the existence of God: [--]. According to quantum physics the universe is animated by irreducible (true) randomness at its core. [--]. According to Turings uncomputability and Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity computation of irreducible randomness A modern cosmological argument for the existence of God: [--]. According to quantum physics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1808614915055497293)  2024-07-03T21:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Spagh3ttiJoe Yeah that makes sense it looks a little more involved than buying a tile saw at harbor freight and making some extra cuts lol. Theres a good amount of Victorian working class housing here and the amount of labour they spent just to make those look nice is unreal. $$$ today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1809373455068066071)  2024-07-05T23:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AleMartnezR1 @NeuroMaliki All models reflect beliefs about metaphysics. A model has as its background an ontology that supports the parameters of the model and whatever form its output takes. No Bayesian thinks that model evidence given observations is a measure on the assumed ontological existents"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1809591178863473058)  2024-07-06T14:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@NeuroMaliki "Randomness" pertains to informational content and not to causal structure. Mechanistic modelling poses no particular challenge to a theist. Most of this stuff goes away when you correctly segregate epistemological features of scientific models from ontology"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1811556984661123224)  2024-07-12T00:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"I have come across one (1) industrial process controlled by a mechanistic biological model. 99.999% of money in biopharmaceuticals is made utterly without reference to anything other than pH and dissolved oxygen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1811781684666200117)  2024-07-12T15:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@pinkddle I don't know anything about NNs but ellipsoidal sampling and particle diffusion (GMC) are both reasonably good ways of sampling a posterior within an isolikelihood contour. IME GMC is less efficient than ellipsoids at low dimensionality but ellipsoids break down higher up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1811927623712280619)  2024-07-13T00:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@CDMorlock Pretty much any range is chockablock with guys who can ring an [--] inch plate at 100y with a [----] long rifle from supported prone position and a [--] or 1.5x optic. You normally zero at something like 100y"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1812345754884747381)  2024-07-14T04:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@x_snowfield Even just adjusting cutting parameters I find things I'm not sure how to explain- sometimes I can reduce mill chatter in a long overhang workpiece by increasing spindle speed but is that a harmonics thing or is it chipload or. but I'm not getting paid to explain 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1812387139595767999)  2024-07-14T07:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Agi1eTab1et lmao they could sense it in ur aura"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1813263914286604536)  2024-07-16T17:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Another one for the gucci [----] hydraulics collection. Love doin these guys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1814523229878288718)  2024-07-20T04:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Japanese are slaying in the tooling market rn. Mitsubishi carbide bars are literally half the price of Seco/Sandvik etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1818116887219151265)  2024-07-30T02:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@theredsulphur Could be I don't know how it affects their cost structure but it feels like it must be part of it. other than stock-in-Japan delays Mitsubishi Nachi OSG all seem to be offering really good tools cheaply. Shops that are grandfathered into a direct sales acct are laughing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1818120794213323203)  2024-07-30T03:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@theredsulphur "dump sulfur dioxide out of a fragile purpose built constantly rotating fleet of tankers" "aww you're sweet" "dump sulfur dioxide out of the stacks of merchant traffic that would be doing this anyway" "hello human resources""  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1818804377257226589)  2024-08-01T00:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Tetradugenikid I was a very late smartphone adopter it's been bad for me and I'm glad most of my 20s and a chunk of my 30s was without one. At this point I need it to run the shop from the machines so I'm stuck"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1820339408437924178)  2024-08-05T06:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@rustbeltkid1 What do you use it for It looks convenient for in-process inspection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1820900210307965081)  2024-08-06T19:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@griffraff97 I told him he should get it. $6k CAD is [----] USD for 12+6 tools that seems like a bargain even without C axis or live tools"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1820986999584530868)  2024-08-07T00:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Margare71531078 she squeezed the dang water out of you miss"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1821575205908513210)  2024-08-08T15:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@IDI_Syndicalist it's all about repeated interaction get dialed in on one job then similar jobs etc. my hourly was similar on a good number of jobs. i stopped looking at my labour hours lol. it doesn't matter if you deliver guy will think of you again and you'll be faster next time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1821604835344662714)  2024-08-08T17:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@scotian82 I'm in Toronto (originally NS as well) everyone here is dying for machinists welders anyone who can make or do anything. A lot of these people can't/won't do the work that's there. You can make 100k welding in Orillia tomorrow if you can do nickel alloys nobody does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1822331960942842356)  2024-08-10T17:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Straight outta Neuromancer @muhasaba_needer The story https://t.co/zmYnI3xTRT @muhasaba_needer The story https://t.co/zmYnI3xTRT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1823856820374659358)  2024-08-14T22:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@drumm_colin @khalidbinyaqub Claims are usually attributed to the scholars/schools making them the domain of consensus/ijma is small and mostly pertains to worship. Hence the observation that Muslims have historically been concerned primarily with orthopraxy and not orthodoxy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1823944789458329912)  2024-08-15T04:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@drumm_colin @khalidbinyaqub Right of course. It makes sense to say Islam makes claims about the relatively small domain of consensus. The claims that are ascribed to "Islam" in academia are very frequently well outside this set"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1823946066519073238)  2024-08-15T04:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@HuntClancy Would you connect these families to the post-WW2 organized crime/intelligence fusion or is this only a similarity of modus operandi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1824464088962895982)  2024-08-16T15:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I'm revamping an old CANDU process in the shop. I knocked [--] min off a deburring cycle programmed by a monkey in mastercam but I was noticing a strange mark. Turns out fusion decided to link with a drunk toolpath that stumbles into the part before moving on 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1825430164483854597)  2024-08-19T07:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@MikaelKrauze For one chapter of my PhD I took such a just-so "stochastic differentiation" model and stripped out the "decision" RV added variability on decision schedule instead. Deterministic decision model performed better. Nobody does model comparison"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1826269822906138670)  2024-08-21T14:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@MikaelKrauze (I agree cells aren't automata but the problem starts with ascribing model properties to cells imo)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1826270159977488591)  2024-08-21T14:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Very impressive one (1) F35 package. Now let's see a USS Constellation sortie [--] years ago USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) equipped with F-35C and F/A-18 Block III fighters entered the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) area of responsibility. The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) the flagship of Carrier Strike Group [--] is accompanied by Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) [--] and https://t.co/RKoJQshigR USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) equipped with F-35C and F/A-18 Block III fighters entered the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) area of responsibility. The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) the flagship of Carrier Strike"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1826377645787152765)  2024-08-21T21:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@IDI_Syndicalist Id prob get the mercedes even if its harder to work on and then regret it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1826707844135354540)  2024-08-22T19:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@NeuroMaliki This is completely normal it's one of Feyerabend's main points. The thing is for actually good models (that permit substantial prediction and control of system behaviour) it doesn't matter if there's substantial countervailing evidence unless accounting for it improves things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1827226079729217846)  2024-08-24T06:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@gnocchiwizard This was a pretty amazing sales coup for Merck. Pfizer just straight up buying TV news during COVID put them to shame though nobody's done it better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1827368798606721265)  2024-08-24T15:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The Irvings and the Risleys and the Metleges are doing great tho so nobody will put a CANDU in Sydney and convert the mill to arc furnaces. They'll probably give tax breaks to an AI multinational for a mechanical turk farm and they'll fire all the Students and leave a year later @JohnBer02386296 Halifax real estate is wild these days 😳 The provincial & federal governments have a long history of screwing over the little guy in NS & sending them Down The Road I remember when they gutted industry in places like Sydney & New Glasgow back in the 80/90s & people flocked @JohnBer02386296 Halifax"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1827549996503224754)  2024-08-25T03:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The net effect of a lot of "reindustrialize" activity is just going to be market share shifting from legacy boomer shops to VC-backed growth monsters. This is ultimately going to be terrible for supply chain robustness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1829958387380945285)  2024-08-31T19:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"This is mostly electronics stuff but there's going to be a lot of associated metalwork instrumentation etc. If interest rates stay hi rich ppls bond income + "reindustrialize" will prevent recession while completely bifurcating economy and fragilizing industry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1829963222360998170)  2024-08-31T19:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Response: Jindal steel dropping this fire edit out of nowhere. US Steel has [--] hours to respond. https://t.co/aL9vL7Scpc Jindal steel dropping this fire edit out of nowhere. US Steel has [--] hours to respond. https://t.co/aL9vL7Scpc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1830033862174310697)  2024-09-01T00:04Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@drumm_colin It's plausible to me that machine capital became noticeably more private in the recent past. Obviously this is accompanied by an expansion in types of machine capital and the value of "precapitalist" machines (waterwheels windmills looms etc) is probably hard to assess"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1831076992248148071)  2024-09-03T21:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@drumm_colin If "public" machine capital is what is operated by the sovereign its agents and nonstate orgs with public beneficiaries (awqaf etc) "private" is owned by personal or corporate title why would you not expect % private to increase over industrial rev"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1831078836550639883)  2024-09-03T21:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@drumm_colin Irrigation works wells mills of various sorts (typical ox driven mill is a machine) looms etc. Antikythera mechanism imo strongly suggests that there were significant other kinds of machine capital we are unaware of but I won't speculate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1831080299410727383)  2024-09-03T21:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@drumm_colin This is an interesting question. I think the Japanese case is the most tractable one as far as data goes. God willing I will have some time to look at papers about Meiji developmentalism again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1831083483026084098)  2024-09-03T21:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Blackfingers63 I always loved that Star would heat the small parts to different straw/blue shades. Wish there were more Stars and Astras kicking around Spain makes nice handguns"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1831352079425654796)  2024-09-04T15:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Blackfingers63 Ah I didn't realize the german police pieces were refinished We got a lot more of the Super Bs up here I think mostly 70s Spanish LEO surplus. By far my favourite 9"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1831353271820435759)  2024-09-04T15:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@IDI_Syndicalist That's crazy. The only flux I've ever used is for solder I had no idea they varied so widely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1832282070074224895)  2024-09-07T04:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@IDI_Syndicalist Possibly powdered borosilicate could even be a vehicle for something else if you dried down a salt solution on the glass powder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1832283702916694437)  2024-09-07T05:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@IDI_Syndicalist Airbrush full of sand I got it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1832286752448430550)  2024-09-07T05:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I can finally pay off my kvass tab at Quark's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1832634099363655995)  2024-09-08T04:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@zanehengsperger @Truths Don't underestimate yourself it's nothing to do with me I'm an idiot. The industry is a mess right now if you care at all about your parts you're in the top 15% of shops. If you can do it in a low risk way (machine in a barn) you're sitting pretty most guys in debt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1833201946150199454)  2024-09-09T17:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Keyence getting market share on Mitutoyo's turf. Impressive.  https://t.co/764syUF0h7  https://t.co/764syUF0h7"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1833621305410646483)  2024-09-10T21:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@FeserEdward Biological theory's aversion to teleology is not irrational its a particular consequence of Monod's research program which was directed at explaining cellular function as the outcomes of cybernetic feedback loops. This research program failed but it had a regime of sense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1833987803836805255)  2024-09-11T21:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@FeserEdward In my view Monod and Waddington should be viewed together. Both propose a cybernetic/statistical mechanical view of the cell informed by wartime experience with electromech and chem eng controls. Monod's hostility to telos is informed by the apparent success of this discourse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1833990542394298393)  2024-09-11T22:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@IDI_Syndicalist Pretty much only makes sense to speak of unions on a case by case basis. Some of them are actually PMC lobby groups some of them are industry trade associations to manage labour. Some of the trade oriented unions still care about wages at least"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1834621922681794667)  2024-09-13T15:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BlnsPlbs I dont know anything about this but I imagine the brass must automatically be more dialed into Beijing just because of the nuclear component so you must be right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1835015602056167466)  2024-09-14T17:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MajesticPLion @leilamechoui Initially to curtail the power of the domestic PMC by importing foreign professionals and subsequently to jack the housing network by tying real estate into pacrim money laundering. The recent policies are very different both in terms of rate and who's coming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1835021456163385537)  2024-09-14T18:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MajesticPLion @leilamechoui *housing market. The diploma mill stuff in particular is a significant departure but it also happened in the UK after COVID (Chinese students stopped coming). Particular markets are being supported"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1835022311759454586)  2024-09-14T18:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I need a set of manual/hammer broaches for common hex and torx sockets or sth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1835122523496747407)  2024-09-15T01:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ElegantiaeArbit SILENCE I am literally in Mamluk Fustat rn and will brook no vibe distortion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1836405443414909237)  2024-09-18T14:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ElegantiaeArbit I prefer historical romanticism to whatever the Saudis did to Mecca but presumably there's another option one where a painting of the idealised contemporary Muslim settlement isn't a Modern Design suburb with Porsche SUVs in the drives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1836406127715569762)  2024-09-18T14:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"I replaced this entire assembly at $5000 cost and it's leaking again. I need to draw one that uses easily replaced commodity seals after I'm released on bail for the brutal murder of an Italian hydraulic engineer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1836853427395031550)  2024-09-19T19:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@steel_anth This is why I started gave me the shivers to realize I could get to within a tenth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1839347192240468121)  2024-09-26T16:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"The problem with my shop is that I had to run it in order to realize I wanted a different shop. Wouldn't have got any of that at trade school either. I feel like the yeoman sweetspot is a 2.5" spindle bore NakaTome w/ subspindle + a palletized Matsuura with a 4th axis in a shack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1839483259400421859)  2024-09-27T01:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The toolchange macro moves the table all the way to +X limit at full rapids which caused the belt snap but it also kept most of the fixturing out of the way of the still-running spindle. I will grudgingly admit this is a good idea and DMG did a thing correctly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1839704326819733578)  2024-09-27T16:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@zanehengsperger Dock is reserved for chainsmoking and staring at the sky on Fridays"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1839712178732925331)  2024-09-27T17:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@zanehengsperger The other day I was by a subcontractor's dock on a Friday night alley between two industrial malls it was completely packed with old guys drinking and chatting. Felt like walking into a night market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1839720970883330423)  2024-09-27T17:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@steel_anth @zanehengsperger Yeah theres a lot of variability within those franchises too. Metal Supermarkets in Hamilton will find stuff they dont have Etobicoke will often noquote anything thats not in stock then the online portal is a whole separate biz they don't like to deal with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1839746691022368955)  2024-09-27T19:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@IDI_Syndicalist I think they were having trouble both with training and weld rod consistency I can't remember. Crazy how hard it is to mantain a group of competent welders"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1839763851505492318)  2024-09-27T20:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@atlanticesque To this day I can't figure out Edwardian construction. Worker tenements built in Cabbagetown have interior courtyards amazing and completely superfluous architectural and decorative detail. Astonishing brickwork facades I could go on. Huge labour went into everything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1840099729683677663)  2024-09-28T18:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"While I get the turret rebuilt on the little lathe I gotta run production on the big one. She looks a little ridiculous doing some of the dainty stuff but I've even automated chopping up 1/8 rod on it. Coolant driven barpuller handles any dia stock"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1840157378043363384)  2024-09-28T22:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"I bet I could plink out the back of the dock with a lever action Henry and aguila colibri rounds without arousing the ire of the constabulary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1845291989291413820)  2024-10-13T02:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Turbo_Fucker Joules is real wealth no question about it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1848233859873157523)  2024-10-21T05:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I'm going insane trying to ship this to North Carolina still just trying to get set up with a customs brokerage. I just thought I could fill out forms for the carrier but nobody will tell me if so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1848831272376012985)  2024-10-22T20:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Blackfingers63 Sounds like a plan. They were super mushy to start with but now they straight up dont work which is "okay" for unloading trucks but I'm gonna need to use it to get the turret back on the lathe and I can't risk it lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1848907849088278700)  2024-10-23T02:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Turbo_Fucker Yeah I like the arrangement in old Chinese houses where the central cooking fire exhausts to a bedstove platform. Not super practical to convert to that but if I was building a cabin or sth I'd try that out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1850421872460026069)  2024-10-27T06:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Turbo_Fucker Perfect to roost some pigeons and quadcopters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1851123295459897677)  2024-10-29T04:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Last of these rework parts off my dock today feels like a fever breaking. Started the order in JULY. Now they fly to Italy for welding and then France for installation 🫡"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1851712047589073239)  2024-10-30T19:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@RizomaSchool Starship does not appear to be large enough to maintain centrifugal gravity so this will probably become especially apparent once the first passengers arrive so osteoporotic that reentry breaks all their bones"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1853476362075402330)  2024-11-04T16:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@NeuroMaliki Surgery is probably the actual practical biological frontier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1854184298196173198)  2024-11-06T15:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@steel_anth @zanehengsperger "The lathe is too busy I'll just do it as a seperate setup on the mill". From what I can tell just cope I don't think he knew how to program XZC cuts. The benefits of miling on the same datum not having a second setup and chucking etc. are so great it makes no sense otherwise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1854654831312462173)  2024-11-07T22:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@steel_anth @zanehengsperger I still do secondary ops on lathe parts on the [--] and (rarely) [--] axis but it's to be avoided in every case where it's possible. If you need yo mill a hex or drill radial holes theres no way it's more efficient to dump that process time to a mill setup imo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1854656456915558428)  2024-11-07T22:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"This is correct nobody even knows how many machines are in dealer inventory. Forgiveable loans for machine tools would put thousands of tinkerers in biz Spicy take. Commodity manufacturing startups need low cost of capital not VC funding. Spicy take. Commodity manufacturing startups need low cost of capital not VC funding"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1855366807101583426)  2024-11-09T21:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


""whoah dude i have to learn to design machining processes to run a machining firm I thought i could simply employ one of you filthy blue collar types to teach my robot" actual aerospace and auto firms were placing orders with this guy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1855398522608099350)  2024-11-09T23:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"imagine having millions of dollars in venture capital and nobody can figure out how to RTFM for the mill or ask the tooling guy for speeds and feeds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1855399180522405994)  2024-11-09T23:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"People talk about Chinese capital misallocation but we do it so much worse here. The best you can say about this is the increasing desperation of the PMC and their VC backers to capture parts of the phyeical economy will put a lot of lightly used machines on the secondary market @muhasaba_needer I like the implications of this video that they have guys sitting in cafes doing remote CAM programming or something. https://t.co/smUu0PwZy3 @muhasaba_needer I like the implications of this video that they have guys sitting in cafes doing remote CAM programming or something. https://t.co/smUu0PwZy3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1855700130281976042)  2024-11-10T19:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"This seems trivial or obvious in retrospect but quality systems organize a substrate of human emotion. It doesn't matter how good the system is if people don't feel pride and shame fear and guilt duty and obligation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1856710679870251345)  2024-11-13T14:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@steel_anth It's still not clear to me how Starship is supposed to deliver astronauts with sufficient bone density to reenter and be ambulatory He might need to scale just to get centrifugal gravity. Starship is too small have to rely on vibratory osteoblast stimulation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1856831824183361911)  2024-11-13T22:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@DWOTCasualty @steel_anth Right I remember something about this. When I saw the interior layout I was confused because it's designed like an atomic rocket would be (floor is toward propulsion) so it seemed like there was no provision for this but you could tether two nose-to-nose I guess"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1856836237371273621)  2024-11-13T23:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@steel_anth @DWOTCasualty Looks like about [---] days. They'll definitely need to try the tether or something similar I think. 🫡 to whoever is willing to try lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1856839615337959628)  2024-11-13T23:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"💰 IMO the cleverest and most productive people in our society are setup guys and production managers mostly making 100k. People still believe they'll make more and work less in the PMC and for now they're mostly right how do we make manufacturing cool again not on twitter but more so new grads and talented people want to work on important problems in the space. thanks @ChadGriffiths for the hard question today. pod soon how do we make manufacturing cool again not on twitter but more so new grads and talented people want to work on important problems in the space. thanks @ChadGriffiths for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1857505934655860840)  2024-11-15T19:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"This is sort of correcting now that the labour shortage is so bad but a lot of guys get stuck at wages they would have blown by years ago as a teacher or engineer. Grants or loans for machines would let these guys own their tools and get paid what they're worth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1857506718726386028)  2024-11-15T19:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Omarnksa It's worth considering why eg Confucian scholars would patronize courtesans as a separate class of entertainers when concubinage and polygamy were both available tbh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1858063568383492234)  2024-11-17T08:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"These already exist there are tons of supermarket job shops they occupy a completely different niche from the panoply of specialist [--] man shops the worst thing about this is there's no good way to consolidate them or upgrade them all to the 21st century - hence why they will be replaced by mass-scale AWS style CNC farms the worst thing about this is there's no good way to consolidate them or upgrade them all to the 21st century - hence why they will be replaced by mass-scale AWS style CNC farms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1858064822627172453)  2024-11-17T08:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Omarnksa Ah I'm basically unfamiliar with the Japanese case other than the attempts to clean up the image of geisha. The courtesan in China occupies something like a Public Femininity role for the upper class I think- high status women were generally sequestered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1858070315160555868)  2024-11-17T08:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Omarnksa I sometimes wonder if things are better or worse now with "modelling agencies" and the like. I'd support a ban on public theatre and music due to the link to prostitution alone lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1858074165904851217)  2024-11-17T09:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"If you want actual materially effective Reindustrialize advice you're looking for the guys who run profitable shops and are paid exclusively in dividends not the guys drawing salaries from VC backed startups. HTH"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1859735680223674793)  2024-11-21T23:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Most of the naysayers very obviously have no experience. To make money doing this you need to to start with enough money to buy an existing collection of capital with enough work to pay rent. 90% of the guys getting rocked are trying to find a customer for a single Tormach didn't realize how many people would disagree with this. responses are pretty pessimistic towards low pay and declining industry. which is a shame. 1) machining isn't dying it's moving overseas for cheaper and there is a domestic replacement problem 2) demand for didn't realize how many people would disagree with this."  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1860179648040304916)  2024-11-23T04:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Don't go into debt. Nothing is real until it's invoiced. One of my customers lost a sub because he took out 600k in debt for new machines on the basis of the customer's happy talk about order flow. Sub no longer talks to customer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1860188165086282222)  2024-11-23T05:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@EverestBrady @zanehengsperger China being the world's workshop is a return to historical norm there is no way for western polities to outcompete a Chinese state with a unified coherent industrial policy when they have no policy and no technological edge comparable to Imperial brits over the Qing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1860505385984999749)  2024-11-24T02:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Omarnksa The NATO Gladio stay behind networks include a number Le Cercle P2 etc. you can find examples all over the place depending on criteria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1860583713500766498)  2024-11-24T07:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Yglesias has basically been writing the same stuff he was in [----] at constantly for two decades. There's no need to read it just imagine what a [----] Harvard undergrad who already knows everything would believe. He has direct access to the fed chairman. http://yglesias.blogspot.com it was also publicly reported that Yellen called @mattyglesias to talk about the finer points of supply side liberalism http://yglesias.blogspot.com it was also publicly reported that Yellen called @mattyglesias to talk about the finer points of supply side liberalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1861226219154420201)  2024-11-26T01:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@griffraff97 I just hook an Allen key in my belt and lean on it. Safety First"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1861546909866860634)  2024-11-26T23:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Speaking of Royal/Curran products they now have the ultimate slantbed chuck a combination collet/3 jaw and it. starts at 30k USD 🤢 just realized a Royal combo barpuller w/ right hand/M3 cutoff can be run as a M4 BP only by flipping the jaw assembly on the holder #turretlayout #dontbuynewholders https://t.co/EZS34xq3Wx just realized a Royal combo barpuller w/ right hand/M3 cutoff can be run as a M4 BP only by flipping the jaw assembly on the holder #turretlayout #dontbuynewholders https://t.co/EZS34xq3Wx"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1861557067489624268)  2024-11-26T23:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@shpetim I have QG-65s on both lathes one of them required a custom spindle header plate both chucks together were I think 12K USD or thereabouts I hate changing to a 12" chuck enough to turn nubs to hold chucking stock in the biggest collet. but probably not $30-40k hate lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1861565487785574909)  2024-11-27T00:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@CimaronH Oh I'm not running a bar loader I just use a loop to run x parts/bar. if the bar is a little short it can come out on the last part. Now I run x-1 and attend the last part to be sure 😂 With the coolant one I dont care worst case a bit of coolant thru the empty spindle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1861627257489416279)  2024-11-27T04:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"A lot of engineers think this stuff is too local and prosaic they want to work on "important problems" but they would be happier doing sth like this than lizardpeople project management Good reminder that there are niches everywhere - The best way to find them is to start doing something and the gaps in the market will show themselves https://t.co/dHdDFyZGRp Good reminder that there are niches everywhere - The best way to find them is to start doing something and the gaps in the market will show themselves https://t.co/dHdDFyZGRp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1861907039632408710)  2024-11-27T22:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Give me an R2D2 that rolls around vacuuming the shop cleaning sumps calibrating the instruments doing inspections and filling out QMS paperwork and hook him into the CRM and the MRP so I can yell at him to get quotes and set up manufacturing orders. Id pay 30k for that anyway I want an AI robot for this stuff not on the shop floor. Just let us make parts 😭 I want an AI robot for this stuff not on the shop floor. Just let us make parts 😭"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1861966197874360828)  2024-11-28T02:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@suzukitekko1949 Do you want to do back chamfering It's not a lollipop cutter but I found Mitsubishi MS4XLB ball ends are good for deburring SUS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1862241888138309777)  2024-11-28T21:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@IDI_Syndicalist zoning laws are oppression against machinists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1862745491697520646)  2024-11-30T06:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Robotbeat Brother I guarantee you you can get a better price from your local distributor $300 USD is too much for that piece"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1862748244846985604)  2024-11-30T06:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Robotbeat "I need an online price"- bureaucratic req If you can't email people yea you might be stuck with Crackmaster but no job shop makes money going that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1862749379032961324)  2024-11-30T06:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@griffraff97 "Compete with China" maybe lets start with "Dont have a severe anxiety attack asking Joe for [----] pricing""  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1862971558811037722)  2024-11-30T21:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@DWOTCasualty Lab surplus should absolutely have a pricelist no real reason for spot pricing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1862977721153822762)  2024-11-30T21:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


""NA manufacturers need to be more competitive" is PMC speak for "my income depends on access to Chinese capacity and immigrant labour" and is an effort to impose the costs of Imperial decline on the 10% of the materially productive domestic population Want to help American manufacturing Make more money You can't That's the market telling you your biz isn't going to survive deglobalization. Sorry Want to help American manufacturing Make more money You can't That's the market telling you your biz isn't going to survive deglobalization. Sorry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1863025624652100053)  2024-12-01T01:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Some of the most loyal accomodating and lucrative customers are zaibatsu who can't load your website because they're browsing with IE6 on XP. Industrial competitiveness does not depend on retail sales channels access of customers with no money to cheap Chinese shop rates does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1863189274578829739)  2024-12-01T11:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@TheReal6Liter It's not a retail business. No production customer wants to pay extra for a nice retail experience. If that's what you're looking for McMaster Carr already exists. That's just not the price any of us who do this for a living are paying"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1863363281789833278)  2024-12-01T23:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@shinobu_books I remember studying nicotine pharmacology and being surprised to discover a small literature about Japanese smokers indicating that they seem to target a much higher blood nicotine level than westerners"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1863873976822300744)  2024-12-03T09:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Listening to internal grinding deep drilling spindle bearings etc. is God's consolation prize to me for never getting to operate a sonar set"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1864541174951792697)  2024-12-05T05:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Cyclical_invest @RizomaSchool It would be great if the PMC and rentier classes could learn from this rather than bunker down and intensify their violence but its not looking likely to me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1864634414891700451)  2024-12-05T11:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"During COVID I took care of my mother as she disintegrated in dementia for two years until she was totally disabled before I was able to get her an LTC position. The govt then decided to prevent me from seeing her for a full year because of my vax status with no justification"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1864681536970203281)  2024-12-05T14:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"This was the use of the state apparatus to hold my mother hostage on behalf of Pfizer and Moderna. It stopped when the truckers scared the shit out of our government and they rolled back all the illegal pandemic measures. Extralegal action gets results"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1864681538455024116)  2024-12-05T14:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Covenant_watch @Simurgh987 I'm interested in what he's doing but I really don't understand why he isnt evaluating AIC or something at least on his models. He talks about how he easily mastered ecological modelling but the entire substance of the discipline is comparison of relative explanatory value 🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1864993440297086985)  2024-12-06T11:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Simurgh987 @Covenant_watch Oh definitely. Cliometrics could only ever tell you whether some model is better than another at explaining a formal data series"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1864998382093185070)  2024-12-06T11:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Simurgh987 @Covenant_watch Like astrophysics is no good for explaining the cosmos as such. It's for asking whether physical model x y or z is a better account of data abc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1864998709169123519)  2024-12-06T11:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"John Q. was a movie about a guy who has to take an emergency room hostage to get his son a heart transplant because his insurance denied it. It was released in [----] and was popular with moviegoers despite critical pans. The ingenues wondering where this all came from are 12"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1865241048265404688)  2024-12-07T03:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Surprise It's a Les Wexner/Epstein/MEGA scam. The state is totally illegitimate I wonder why didnt mention the second company in its press release for a $240 million investment How many times does that make Les Wexner a big winner in s boutique investments over the past few years https://t.co/XmcahiKMgm I wonder why didnt mention the second company in its press release for a $240 million investment How many times does that make Les Wexner a big winner in s boutique investments over the past few years https://t.co/XmcahiKMgm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1865251818101494056)  2024-12-07T04:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"I get the point but "we brought you tasty food" is actually much less insulting to the host population than the usual crowing about diaspora overrepresentation in PMC positions This is a fair critique tbh. You love to move to the West only to replicate the worst of the 3rd world and then have the gall to engage in worst kind of cope: oh but we gave you chicken tikka masala hehe 😎✌🏼 This is a fair critique tbh. You love to move to the West only to replicate the worst of the 3rd world and then have the gall to engage in worst kind of cope: oh but we gave you chicken tikka masala hehe 😎✌🏼"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1865557049259487675)  2024-12-08T00:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@444rcher @Covenant_watch It does- cybernetic systems are governed by setpoints or attractors. The purpose of the system is to maintain some parameters of the system within some bounds. This is why Monod liked cybernetics it's a way to pretend you have an ateleological description of agential systems"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1866584817841869187)  2024-12-10T20:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Covenant_watch @444rcher Control theory/cybernetics might have some useful discursive resources my general experience is that practically it's well suited only for pretty coarsely parameterised industrial applications and sometimes not even that. Lotta guys out there tuning PID loops on hunches 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1866591663071825943)  2024-12-10T21:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"They want us to serve capital not own it which is why Reindustrialize money will go get torched in cashflow negative Thiel ops staffed by idiots who took on debt to get Advanced Manufacturing diplomas rather than this (fundamentally American and Jeffersonian) idea If the federal government will write me [-----] dollars in students loans in the blink of an eye then they should also do subsidized loans on machinery and tooling. If the federal government will write me [-----] dollars in students loans in the blink of an eye then they should also do subsidized loans on machinery and tooling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1867053442943840378)  2024-12-12T03:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"You can't look at this sort of thing soberly without realizing a competing project here would be a frenzy of oligarch+ PMC looting with little material effect. The DOGE stuff is saying "it's time to free up social surplus by reducing the size of the. https://x.com/ChinaScience/status/1867373880480084377t=LO-Qd65vcl09U5AUvAgWKg&s=19 China's largest dual-membrane (ultrafiltration+reverse osmosis) seawater #desalination facility has begun operations in north China's Tianjin aiming to supply industrial water for multiple projects and save [--] million tonnes of surface water annually by producing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1867570860896514325)  2024-12-13T14:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"protected class" out loud the UHC assassination may ultimately serve to manage another aspect of this process"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1867571434685419754)  2024-12-13T14:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"You definitely need these ceramic triangles to do this properly in [---]. Only vendor I could find for these was Caswell strangely I think dry tumbling is the way to go in this thing not energetic enough for a slurry. If I can get an edge break out of this Im happy https://t.co/dqeKxAUzX1 I think dry tumbling is the way to go in this thing not energetic enough for a slurry. If I can get an edge break out of this Im happy https://t.co/dqeKxAUzX1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1867746796648464539)  2024-12-14T01:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"ITS AFTER [--] AM MONDAY ANON. WHY ISNT THAT SPINDLE UP. TAKE YOUR MEDS AND CYCLE START. ITS TIME TO PULL BAR. ITS TIME TO COMPETE WITH CHINA. YOU WANTED TO COMPETE WITH CHINA. RIGHT ANON"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1868570447589363906)  2024-12-16T08:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@rustbeltkid1 At some point I stopped seeing CATs here and everything went Kubota orange. No idea what happened"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1868792516205744605)  2024-12-16T22:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I think this would be my atomic rocket lathe. 6x5x4 through spindle tiny fanuclike integrated control. omit signal light and put under a flatish mill perhaps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1869421357236404438)  2024-12-18T16:35Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@vanillaEQraider I remember reading a thread on PM or something about lathe levelling and alignment which was disrupted by a US army machinist busting in with "none of this shit matters if machine is rigid and immobile and you can't hit tolerance its a skill issue not a levelling one" 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1869478323153461679)  2024-12-18T20:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@blastronimus @griffraff97 railgun ammo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1869506799730319611)  2024-12-18T22:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"it me im in ur (industrial) base killin ur dudes (making unaccountably expensive bolts) @theredsulphur I just got an order for [--] $40 m15x1 bolts which is how you know Im competitive as hell @theredsulphur I just got an order for [--] $40 m15x1 bolts which is how you know Im competitive as hell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1869520609925079272)  2024-12-18T23:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@IDI_Syndicalist It's tapped M8x0.75 so it's the most exotic window weight of all time 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1869581656140705817)  2024-12-19T03:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Plant managers suddenly realizing they need a bunch of random small qty parts rush during holiday shutdowns causes a 50-100% inflation transient in spot capacity prices"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1870215646253887681)  2024-12-20T21:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@CimaronH This is a strong argument for retiring in Pakistan tbh 🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1871206095496348057)  2024-12-23T14:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TziporShmimit No this is correct. The class base of neotraditional Sufism is the Western PMC diaspora and convert alike. You can attend the retreats and conferences and realize very quickly 60-70% share this bkgd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1871584258151866796)  2024-12-24T15:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@theholistic786 @Omarnksa Imo its mooncol. #1- moon is rightful clay of God Most High should be like the haramayn #2- insurmountable orbital advantage for naval construction bombardment of terrestrial opponents etc (Heinlein Was Right)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1871588339452961184)  2024-12-24T16:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Compare with this. Offending triple [--] geometry is instantiated by circles (heaven) and squares (earth) and the dajjalic axes are warded with through holes piercing them below the OD. Easy to make. Part has manifest baraka. Trustworthy high value. DFM people its not hard Decadent part completely contrary to Sibghatullah Thought not really fit work for a Guildsman. Dajjalic Triple Six(ty) "Isosceles" (yeah RIGHT Pythagoras I see you) geometry caused trouble throughout likely counterinitiatic to mill this shape https://t.co/s7n835gmmr Decadent part completely contrary to Sibghatullah Thought not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1871611237676769788)  2024-12-24T17:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Omarnksa seawater concentration could work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1871655535801684199)  2024-12-24T20:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Omarnksa Basically a proposed method of obtaining uranium someplace with no economical geologic deposit is to colocate a desalination + uranium concentration facility with the nuclear plant. Uranium would be adsorbed to some column media. Not economical yet but it's possible it might be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1871658788488687750)  2024-12-24T20:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@IDI_Syndicalist Maybe you would end up I think with a separate Z offset for each of [--] faces as well as the problem of rotational indexing. Mill fixturing really has to be kept simple for this to be remotely economical at qty 10"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1871733131147116739)  2024-12-25T01:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@griffraff97 Unsure but possibly one of these successors will have bought service part stocks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1872509681580790123)  2024-12-27T05:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"There is total continuity between the GWOT order the laundering of DARPA and intel projects through the paypal mafia COVID and current genocides and mass migrations. Agamben saw it all coming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1872671199052091656)  2024-12-27T15:49Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"I have observed this in numerous scientific and technical workplaces now and it's basically why I'm skeptical of the notion of commoditizing technical labour What do the rest do Certainly not nothing. They mash stuff together that they don't understand based on tribal knowledge work rules cribbing from coworkers or whatever. It does work eventually and it is economical if iteration costs are low or defective product is tolerated. What do the rest do Certainly not nothing. They mash stuff together that they don't understand based on tribal knowledge work rules cribbing from coworkers or"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1872797382460821653)  2024-12-28T00:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"This is a related observation. If your guys are mostly iterating over some parameter space you actually dont want neurotic PMC perfectionists you want high agency farm kids who grew up f***ing around with stuff on the real world https://x.com/rustbeltkid1/status/1872702862641512629t=iDfn7Uue3CBf2DAS7hdHpg&s=19 Jocks and farm kids do in fact make better engineers than those who played piano [--] hours a day. I thought this was widely known. https://x.com/rustbeltkid1/status/1872702862641512629t=iDfn7Uue3CBf2DAS7hdHpg&s=19 Jocks and farm kids do in fact make better engineers than those who played"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1872798762617454916)  2024-12-28T00:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"I always used to tell myself that I was a thoughtful strategist rather than a high APM spammer but thats just inhibition cope. You gotta spam actions to get remotely enough samples to form an idea of the parameter space This is a related observation. If your guys are mostly iterating over some parameter space you actually dont want neurotic PMC perfectionists you want high agency farm kids who grew up f***ing around with stuff on the real world https://t.co/funCZ3J1EX This is a related observation. If your guys are mostly iterating over some parameter space you actually dont want neurotic PMC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1872800124331802847)  2024-12-28T00:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Consistent APM has always been a problem for Celts btw. We just don't do it. It's been sprint and drift for [----] years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1872800810914234763)  2024-12-28T00:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Omarnksa @AlboranNomad @TziporShmimit Games have the advantage of being potentially much higher margin. Anime was supported by the Japanese state throughout the postwar period and still has terrible margins no one with sense would support it on a patronage basis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1872862446815461424)  2024-12-28T04:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Omarnksa @AlboranNomad @TziporShmimit IMO there's potential in iterating rulesets quickly to find designs that are both popular and either benign or prosocial. Like historical RPGs could be fun flavoured with remembrance and also get people to think outside narrow modern frames. Hasnt been done yet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1872879018955178054)  2024-12-28T05:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@The_JoeBob @gak_pdx [----] is pretty good. What's the spindle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1873086831920808239)  2024-12-28T19:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"I just noticed the Tang code article prohibiting sorcery and demon summoning appears to reference vamachara/left hand path techniques- "ways of the left""  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1873557703005704674)  2024-12-30T02:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Cameco is uniquely positioned to be the fulcrum on which the fate of the Republic is raised over that of Empire but the basic problem is you need Canadian warlordism before you can get there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1873777612717515017)  2024-12-30T17:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Simurgh987 This can't possibly work mechanistic explanation (which is formal description or modelling) can't ever be reduced to mathematical entities alone because hermeneutic activity is required to obtain its effects"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1873819361062129956)  2024-12-30T19:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Simurgh987 Like the equations which put parameters in relation with one another imply a metaphysics which has to transform the subjective view of the practitioner to have material effect. Euro mysticism got thermoeconomically turbocharged and won so thoroughly its just Orthodox Science now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1873820645223805028)  2024-12-30T19:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"The one week I kept the spindles up for [--] hours I was in a fugue state and made $35k on rush shaft work. I would never consider doing that for less and neither should you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1873833581677862985)  2024-12-30T20:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@gak_pdx @zanehengsperger "They are about to go through the Find Out phase of the COVID Fuck Around (they have been but it's about to get bad)." Can you elaborate on this I've been hearing auto shops complain for years but I dont know what's changing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1873900236118385132)  2024-12-31T01:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@drumm_colin @MimbresSchool @jvdelisle @Zongzi55 Very good. All under heaven is in order. If God wills perhaps I may be of assistance at an appropriate time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1875329329854607383)  2025-01-03T23:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@steel_anth I actually have full machine simulation for my [--] axis on there. If they added a few ERP features I know guys that could basically operate their shop from a fusion seat. I've had my share of problems with it but at the price you can't complain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/muhasaba_needer/status/1875339261299585161)  2025-01-04T00:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

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