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Today, I’m CNC milling copper bow ties from recycled bus bar that supplied power to a Granite City steel mill arc furnace for decades. I’m hoping the homeless b
by ehvatum 7y ago
Today, I’m CNC milling copper bow ties from recycled bus bar that supplied power to a Granite City steel mill arc furnace for decades. I’m hoping the homeless black lady I’ve been slowly easing into doing finishing and shipping shows up. People fetishize this Americana industrial stuff and pay good money for positive emotional coloring. You know, the exact opposite of what you get from the NYT.
- RickJWagner 7y agoYes, exactly! The NYT is deeply in a funk, obviously. But some of us (who hold more conservative values) are pretty much the opposite. It's wrong of the NYT to try to speak for everyone.
- ehvatum 7y agoIt's as easy as prioritizing reporting on the world that exist as it is, rather than reporting a world that doesn't exist in order to create the world that they want. At the same time, we have a tradition of grandiloquent socialist exaggeration leading to long overdue reform of our largely conservative society. So we're fucked and you have to be pretty aware and insightful in order to get any real sense of what the hell is going on, both good and bad. It's the joy and the horror of democracy, markets, and people.