What is with these people here?

 Yet another delivery drama.  

Got another truck booked for Tuesday to do the shipment that the first guy was fired from.

First he gets STUCK in my driveway.  Doin dumbass things for 2 hours.  It is dark, I'm payin OT and this dufus took 2 hours to free himself.

Then I get his load forked on the truck, but he dont have cargo straps, or load bars.  He gets a bunch of big bags of bubble wrap as cargo padding.  But he screws that one up, drives reckless and of course 11 grand in machinery damaged. 

Now dealing with shipping it back to my shop, checking damage, and filing cargo claim.

Sexytary lost her temper again, and refuses to deal with it.  

So I created a GrokBot agent to deal with the cargo claim.  I fed it the details, pics, email addresses etc, and it wrote emailed a formal cargo claim.

Wednesday back on the plastic pellet mill project.  Mods almost work.  I just need a way to keep the shafting from moving upwards.  Thrust bearing was designed to push down, not pull up on the shaft to push the roller down.  So prob the simplest thing is maybe a locking collar or if possible a thread a nut on the shaft to lock bottom bearing with the top bearing.

More tuning the Grokbot today.  META really hates Grok.  So the only way I can get it to work is posting from Grok to a third party to Meta.  Clunky workaround.  It is also running YT, Tiktok, Rumble, Blog, Linked in, and X.  

Long Holiday Weekend Here

 I wasted essentially 3 full days, not doin much except resting my knee.

Good news, I can walk down steps not looking like a elderly person.

Hopefully tomorrow or Wednesday, I can try my pellet mill mods.

Friday, yet another shipment of plastic arrives along with a ton of free MDF board.  

If my little mod works, im gonna buy another cheap pellet mill, but slightly bigger, mod that and start selling them.

How Zombies Are Made By Devon Eriksen

 Working at Oculus would have been an utter waste of my time except for one thing. 

While I was there, I realized what's wrong with leftists. 

Not that they have been programmed, that's obvious. Not why they have been programmed. For power, that's obvious, too. 

But how they have been programmed.

The exact method that their moral compass has been destroyed works like this: 

Target a bunch of people with very few deeds and accomplishments, such as young people or incompetent people, or incompetent young people. 

Create for them an environment where they are rewarded with moral approval, not for what they do, but for believing certain ideas. 

The ideas don't have to be outrageous, or absurd, or have anything to do with what you actually need them to believe. In fact, it's better to start with something innocuous. 

Why? Because the goal isn't to install those beliefs at all. The goal is to repeat this process until you create a person who measures his moral worth by what he believes, not what he does. 

Keep at this until you have created a mass of people who not only reward themselves with a feeling of moral superiority for believing the right things, but who will reward each other for believing orthodox things, and who will compete with each other, not to do the most good, but to have the most orthodox beliefs. 

Now, change one of the propositions you have programmed them with to a slightly more radical version of itself, and hold this up as a more correct version of the old belief, which has been newly discovered by scholarly investigations into culture and moral philosophy. 

Sit back, watch, and give them a few weeks to compete with each other to adopt the new belief, and to condemn the "evil" of anyone who believes the old belief, the very thing they believed last month. 

Repeat this process until they are used to rapidly changing their entire belief system in response to an external cue. 

Congratulations, you have a population of entirely programmable people whose moral compass is not just broken, but entirely non-existent. 

They don't care what any person in front of them actually does. Only that he believe the orthodox thing, which they just learned about in last week's memo. 

They are willing to do anything, so long as it is done in support of their current belief system, which can be replaced whenever it's convenient to do so. 

They are willing to burn down an entire city with no qualms whatsoever if they are doing it in support of the idea that black lives matter.

They are willing to murder a man in front of his children, and it doesn't matter if his actions were entirely peaceful and good, because all that matters to them is whether he believes the correct things or not. 

And a man who builds cheap spaceflight for the human race, develops viable electric cars to save the environment, restores voices to the voiceless, and plans, for his next trick, to heal the blind... well, all those are deeds, so none of them matter. The only thing that matters is that he told people to vote republican once, which is wrongthink. 

So what you have a horde of communist zombies, who can be steered to shuffle in any direction and attack the living, eat their brains, and turn them into more zombies. 

Once someone becomes one of the zombies, you can't cure him, because a moral compass can only be repaired by understanding the consequences of actions in a new way... and they don't care about actions or consequences. They only care about beliefs, and not about consequences at all. 

Their moral compasses aren't just broken. They are absent. There's nothing to repair. 

You have to understand that the zombies are zombies now.

Plastic Pellet Saga

It is such a stupid quest. Taking shit plastic that people are now literally PAYING ME to take, and they PAY the trucking. Then somehow I have to shove all these tons of material through a hole 2x3 inches.

I got a sponsor of sorts for this quest now. Someone who will fund a pellet mill in exchange for making their plastic go away and pay me on top of that per kilo. With the caveat that I commit to making their plastic go away for 2 years.

However, the income for this side quest is enough to pay everyone’s salary, rent, and electric every month.

So now a pellet mill has been purchased and is somewhere in China making its way to me.

Then I see this video:

https://youtube.com/shorts/-5yECy3MmW8?si=Fl5rf-YuS4uLWGNh

It is the same mechanism as the plastic pellet mill.

Below is the feed mill I got:

https://youtube.com/shorts/d-xcrp09muk?si=wkqlhvHHS1zqV-IV

You can see the mechanism is different.

But...

I remembered I am a guy who knows how to make things.

So Friday, I had my guy pull my feed mill apart. This time he pulled the shafting.

Aaaand, now I feel really dumb.

I could have pulled the shaft, had a new one made, and modded the roller holder on my machine a long time ago.

This lack of info has literally cost me thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars. Just the waste hauling of plastic I could not pelletize in the old shop was a thousand bucks 2 weeks ago.

So I guess this week, a new shaft and mods will be back from the machinist.

Re: Philippines peso crash

 Yesterday, I was at the gas station, filling my little gas can, to refuel the forklift.  I handed the attendant a 1000 peso note.  Which in the past was essentially a 20usd bill   

Which also got me to remembering my time in 2009, stuck in California.  Guy I know bought sonething, and he said "Shit, i just smoked another hundred"  Other times, he spent a 20 and said the same about that 

6 months ago, I filled my little car on 1700-1800 pesos   

22 years ago, I went here with a inch thick stack of 1000 peso notes, and could not spend it in 2 weeks.

I could smoke that stack in a day now.

BUT

I learned some things.

I built my life so that, not having some magic paper coupon called money, is not a immediate crisis.

I have no rent for my home, I offset my power bill with solar, no car payment. I have knowlage. I have resources and skills to build and make things. When I have a few extra pesos, I buy extra food. So my pantry is pretty well stocked.

I obsess about learning, and building.  Despite every day it is some random bullshit, and my true meaaure of success is to earn enough to get away from dumbass people.