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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • Thorry84@feddit.nltoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Button fly's
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    3 hours ago

    I have both kinds and I don’t really care. I just buy the pants because I like how they look, don’t even check what kind of fly they have. I have the ones with a regular zipper and 1 button, zipper with 2 buttons, no zipper just buttons, a little hook thingy button and fly combination. There are more important aspects of pants for me, like the fit, feeling, price and how they look.

  • Thorry84@feddit.nltoComics@lemmy.ml•Unemployment
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    8 hours ago

    I was recently talking to a buddy of mine who is in charge of production of some parts for a large hardware brand in Shenzen. We were laughing about how the US wants to do manufacturing again and how they think it will create jobs. He says in one of the factories he uses, they just have 1 dude working most of the time. They work in shifts, so it isn’t like the same dude and they always have a second dude which hops around and helps where needed. But for most of the things they do, it’s just one dude monitoring all the machines. If there is an issue, he shuts down that line and calls a dedicated repair team to get it up and running asap. It seems the US still has the idea of factories from WW2 in mind, where everything is dirty and there’s people everywhere. The reality of most high end modern day factories, like those used to create computer parts, is everything is ultra clean, highly automated and run by very few people. China hasn’t been sitting still these past 50+ years since everything was outsourced there, they are masters of efficiency and automation. Sometimes you’ll see a small manual line doing a single step, which is tricky to automate. But it’ll be maybe 15 women (usually women because they generally have better dexterity), doing only the one thing.

  • Thorry84@feddit.nltoDullsters@dullsters.net•I melted my glasses in the dry sauna
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    1 day ago

    Is that really true? I see free frames advertised all the time, but we all know how “free” those kinds of deals actually are. But if I think about it, the frame is just a piece of plastic/metal and can be mass produced. The lenses themselves need to be specifically ground and fitted for that exact person, often with a difference for each eye. From what I understand this is still partly manual work, even though the machine does the grinding, an operator needs to set it all up and check the result. With often a couple of passes needed to get it just right. And those special coatings they apply aren’t cheap either. So I wonder where the actual cost is.

  • Thorry84@feddit.nltoRecipes@feddit.uk•I've been a bit quiet lately, that's not going to change for a bit!English
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    2 days ago

    I have a couple of friends who are die hard thrifters. They check things like Facebook Marketplace and the local Craigslist for all sorts of shit. The kind of person who gets excited when they see like a pile of sand outside or a dumpster, they go check out what the project is and if there is some old shit they can get for free. In my eyes it’s usually a lot of crap and not worth the effort, but I respect the game, respect the recycling/re-use aspect and sometimes it’s really cool old stuff which is worth restoring.

    In my dealings with these friends I have not once, but twice taken apart some random kitchen somewhere with the purpose of putting it back together again. It feels really weird to just show up at someones home, who wants their kitchen demolished. But we offer to do it for them, so we can know how shit went together and prevent any damage from taking it apart. One time we took the kitchen apart and put it back together more or less as it was, but in the garage of my friend. Very useful to have a bunch of storage space and a good working surface. The other time it was a vintage kitchen which was falling apart, it was trash. I spent so much time sanding, cutting out old pieces of bad wood, matching new pieces of the right kind of wood, painting, varnishing etc. But in the end it turned out as a beautiful “new” kitchen, they still use that kitchen every day for the past 8 years.