Oops. I read the title as “menthol”, not methanol, so this article really confused me at first.

Still, I found a paper on death by menthol that was an interesting read: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4830155/ (Who knew there were hidden dangers in peppermint factories?)

General purpose printing will just be a filler, of sorts, and I can basically do that in my sleep. The only goal of that is to utilize equipment that would otherwise be idle.

The 3D scanning and reverse engineering is going to be the main focus but decent paying jobs will likely be sporadic for a while. The main function of the printers will be to prototype as to allow clients to test fit designs before they are finalized with proper materials.

When it comes to mold making, that is probably going to be part of what I do. However, that is its own science and takes a ton of experience to make viable commercial molds. (Simple molds are probably the only thing I could do at this point.)

Still, those are some good ideas so thanks.

There is a large collection of poorly written articles/blogs on LinkedIn, actually. They are just bad enough to be good enough for Google.

Strangely enough, LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft. If Microsoft actually let Google use it as a data source, it was to sabotage Google’s AI training.

For starters, I have a Prusa printer, Moose 3D scanner and a full license for Fusion 360, a small custom built CNC and a good selection of specialty tools.

If needed, I can revert to photogrammetry for capturing high detail on small parts. (Probably within 15um/.5 thou? I need to test the limits of what I can actually do before I say for certain…)

I can scale printing super fast and am lucky enough to have a Microcenter near me so I can buy more printers and filament in a hurry. (Now that I think about it, I’ll probably order a resin printer this evening. It’ll be useful for my own projects where I need to duplicate some injection molded parts.)

For now, I am going to let the jobs determine the scale of my operation and how I invest in additional equipment. Thankfully, I am decent enough at the mechanical aspects of this stuff to handle issues fairly quick.

But yeah, I already have a few thousand dollars in tools, assorted parts and filaments. It’s the odd tools I have that give me a good starting advantage, me thinks. (Nobody else I know has a full set of pin gauges, as an odd example. My electronic component and fastener selection is also fairly substantial.)

Honestly, it’s time to get an ROI from all of my own, personal projects that I have made substantial investments in over the years.

If there is a major pitfall for me, it’s the numbers bit. While proper accounting could resolve any tax issues before they happen, I’ll play it safe and probably also put back +20% extra for taxes, at least for the first few years. Thanks for the info!

Thanks for the recommendation and I just ordered a copy. (Used/$17 after tax from Amazon if anyone else was curious.)

Many instances have already adopted the lemming as a mascot, like my home instance:

Still though, you do you. I got no complaints about what people want to call things. ;)

*Lemmings. (I was going to use that as an answer to your post, but someone learning something new never gets me even the slightest bit miffed.)

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Most scam products like “power saver” plug-in modules for your home, fake ODB2 gas saver modules for cars or those little stickers for cell phones that are sold as “antenna boosters”. Also, anything that is marketed as a “detox” product will piss me off.

All of those products are actively being sold on Amazon, EBay and at some other major retailers or in malls. They are openly sold because people refuse to learn that magic does not exist.

Please. Stop buying these things.

This was an old feature, before it could be disabled.

So, if my wife was in my contact list first and I was in hers, she would get notified when someone was added to mine.

It was something like, “X has joined Signal on Y’s phone!!” or some bullshit like that.

I was a huge Signal advocate at one time and would try to get everyone to install it and use it. Man, woman or child, I didn’t care who it was. I was worse than a crypto-bro trying to jam BTC down everyone’s throat.

I was chatting with a group of ladies at work and got a few of them to install it. When they did, Signal pushed notifications of them connecting to my wife’s phone.

Needless to say, I got questioned fairly intensely about why there were other girls connecting with me on Signal.

I wasn’t very keen on Signal after that.

It’s a bad article anyway. It’s not wrong in the words it uses, but they purposely left out most of the political dynamics after 2014. Context and full history is important.

The Volkswagen is of actual Nazi origin, but that doesn’t seem to ruffle any feathers these days.

Now, if you really want to hear something confusing, there are Russian citizen units that actually are fully far-right, are open about it, are fighting against Russia and using Ukraine as a staging point for incursions into Russia.

There is plenty of things to complain about in that part of the world, for sure. Considering Ukraine is being invaded, we can put some political gripes on pause for a second. Ukraine needs every person it can get right now as long as they are fighting for similar enough causes. The past can be addressed soon enough but it won’t matter if there is no Ukraine left to resolve those issues.

It’s also worthy of note that this specific messaging has been amplified 10x by Russian media and I am sure plenty of half-truths have been implanted as fact in many articles and stories. Unless I missed something, there wasn’t a listed author for that article. Given that it is essentially a cherry picked blurb out of Wikipedia, makes the actual purpose of it suspect. (However, I have seen many times where author names are left off of controversial articles. It’s likely a safety thing.)

I was more of a compulsive liar when I drank. To be honest, I was always more prone to say what is on my mind when I am sober.

Yeah, I don’t believe that a person is their true self when drunk either. In my case, I was damn near a completely different person.

This is not about agreement. It’s about your history. You are posting crap from right-wing conspiracy theorists. Period.

People can do what they want and read what they want. Totally fine. By that token, if you can post this garbage, I have the same right to call you out on it.

This isn’t a one way street. You are posting your opinions, and I am posting mine, and I ain’t mad about it. I am just calling a spade a spade.

This isn’t Russophobia. This is straight up Kremlin propaganda from a group of people that are known for their misinformation campaigns.

Russians are fine. Generally good people, if I had to guess. However, all you need to do is turn on some Russian state TV to see the commonalities here. I watch more Russian media than I should, to be honest.

Specifically, the subject of nuclear weapons and the threats of Putin and his gang to nuke the world is what I am focused on. If you haven’t noticed, Russia needs the constant threat and fear of nuclear war to help advance their agenda in Ukraine.

You are assuming that I conflate Russian media with the Russian people themselves and that is just a stupid assumption.

This isn’t brigading. You posted on an instance where people don’t tolerate garbage like this.

I am sticking to what this post is about: You are spreading bullshit from bullshit sources. You amplify Kremlin propaganda and QAnon theories. (Hell, even Helga Zepp-LaRouche hasn’t hid her association with Chinese state media.)

Oh, cool! Good to see that I might be wrong on location, but that doesn’t change much. You are still doing the same shit: Spreading Russian, far-right and QAnon garbage. My theory is irrelevant, but your actions are consistent.

Like all trolls that I interact with, I always give them the option of self-awareness. If you believe you are doing what you do for good and you were corrupted by political B.S., there may be hope. If you are on a very specific path to spread misinformation, sow discord and FUD, there isn’t much we can do.

Here. Have a read: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5724570/

Edit: Just calling it now. You should be trying to distract the topic of the thread with insults here in a second. It usually starts at this point… It’s a very distinct commonality with the type of account you have. (Well, there is also the type that will post a copy-pasta wall of links to distract further. Troll accounts are surprisingly formula-based, so there are a couple of more options you have.)

That is actual bullshit. You are in the business of spreading as much misinformation as possible, so why should I give two fucks about your little “story” that you just made up?

You aren’t fooling anyone, bub.

Actually, if I had to wildly speculate, you are part of the .ml propaganda ring that I believe is based out of India. I have no proof of that, of course. Your M.O. is exactly the same though.

News? From Russian sympathisers? Thats not news, it’s misinformation directly from the Kremlin.

All you spew out is conspiracy theories and bullshit and are no better than a QAnon nut job. One of your last posts on .ca was about Ukrainian bioweapons, which is a direct mirror of a QAnon conspiracy.

For not believing in QAnon bullshit, you sure help spread it around.

You are just a misinformation shill. You can tell me what you believe all you want, but your actions speak much louder than your words.

I blocked your QAnon conspiracy account over there, so who knows?

Who wants to listen to that Russian crap from a group of idiots?

The nuclear war narrative is also directly from Putin.

Also, go back to .ml, tankie. Did your .ca account get banned, finally?