#cost cutter

[ballpitbee]

Watch out Cosmo that office is full of fumensmoken

#cosmo costalott #cost cutter #nick toxide #critical leveller #mort corpson #paralegal #zombie company #oc #ocs #toontown corporate clash #toontown #franky foreman #franky wiseguy

[sunfloraas]

Sketches, some good. Some questionable. Also cog oc designs I’m working at!

Feat @ballpitbee ‘s cog ocs

#sunfloraas #art #oc #original character #character design #toontown corporate clash #toontown #toonblr #ballpitbee #cost cutter #straw man #prethinker #duck shuffler #bellringer #pacesetter #not tagging undertale don’t look at me #killer bee #smoking gun #cosmo costalot #my art #buck ruffler #brian #Benjamin Biggs #graham ness payser #dave brubot #major player #corporate clash #cog oc #cog ocs

[zorosramblingabouthisinterests]

Day 17

I have a practice NAPLAN today.

#bandori #before u guys freak im in year 9 #so its the last year i do this #also #i ordered a paper cutter (not scissors) from bunnings #it cost 3 of my australia dollars #and the shipping cost 10 dollars #scam tbh

[arolesbianism]

Was looking through some doodles from the past month and remembered this exists. Anyways dupe hcs upon yee

#keese draws #oxygen not included #not gonna tag the dupes since they were drawn from memory but they’re supposed to be ashkan and nikola #but yeah I generally imagine dupes as looking like very underbaked humans #basically as a means of cutter corners to cut power costs while powering the pods was the primary problem #as such their senses are all around worse than your average human #I do imagine they’re also generally more dense but also more durable #anyways I need to shower now

[avaantares]

Freaking proprietary cable freaking flat rate ground shipping freaking racket.

#i am so mad about this whole stupid thing #this breakdown is costing me so much money and putting me behind schedule on my orders #which wouldn't be so bad on its own if I weren't facing out of stock parts and obscene shipping rates #glowforge is the apple of the laser cutter world #my next machine will be something with standard non-proprietary parts #ugh #ava rants about stuff #personal

[nulfaga]

Ngl i would be righteous in dropping out of uni this instant. I have given 2 years of my life + a good chunk of my sanity to this poorly managed institute full of assclowns and received nothing but stress and delays

#SUNK COST and FETCH THE BOLT CUTTERS are duking it out in my mind

[jingbang1]

1、 Cutting method

Cutting method is currently one of the most widely used thread machining methods. This method can use cutting tools such as turning tools, cutting cutters, and milling cutters for machining. The cutting method is simple to operate, but requires precise machining equipment and low machining efficiency. In addition, due to the slow relative movement speed of the cutting tool, it may cause the problem of rough machining surface.

2、 Etching method

Etching method is a chemical processing method, which has the advantage of being able to process very small and complex thread shapes. The etching method requires the use of chemicals such as acids and bases for processing, and requires hazardous material management and strict operating procedures. In addition, the etching method also requires the processing of molds, so the cost is relatively high.

3、 Rolling method

Rolling method is a processing method that uses rollers to press the workpiece and convert its shape. Rolling can process the surface of a workpiece into parallel and continuous external and internal threads. Compared to the cutting method, the rolling method has the advantages of high machining efficiency, good surface quality, and high material utilization of workpieces, especially suitable for large-scale thread processing.

4、 Line cutting method

The wire cutting method is a method of using high current discharge to process the spiral shape on the electrode along the workpiece. This processing method can produce very small spiral lines, with high processing accuracy and good surface quality. However, the processing speed of wire cutting method is relatively slow, and it also requires periodic maintenance and upkeep of the processing equipment.

#1、 Cutting method #Cutting method is currently one of the most widely used thread machining methods. This method can use cutting tools such as turning tools #cutting cutters #and milling cutters for machining. The cutting method is simple to operate #but requires precise machining equipment and low machining efficiency. In addition #due to the slow relative movement speed of the cutting tool #it may cause the problem of rough machining surface. #2、 Etching method #Etching method is a chemical processing method #which has the advantage of being able to process very small and complex thread shapes. The etching method requires the use of chemicals suc #and requires hazardous material management and strict operating procedures. In addition #the etching method also requires the processing of molds #so the cost is relatively high. #3、 Rolling method #Rolling method is a processing method that uses rollers to press the workpiece and convert its shape. Rolling can process the surface of a #the rolling method has the advantages of high machining efficiency #good surface quality #and high material utilization of workpieces #especially suitable for large-scale thread processing. #4、 Line cutting method #The wire cutting method is a method of using high current discharge to process the spiral shape on the electrode along the workpiece. This #with high processing accuracy and good surface quality. However #the processing speed of wire cutting method is relatively slow #and it also requires periodic maintenance and upkeep of the processing equipment.

[calamitys-child]

Every time I see companies selling """punk""" jewellery or clothing I become apoplectic with rage. Just saw a £65 padlock necklace advertised to me bitch Fuck you go to your nearest weird little shop that sells everything in the world including fake Rolexes and bongs the size of a toddler. Buy a thing of chain and a padlock. Borrow some bolt cutters someone you know will probably own some and if not get some cheap ones or borrow from a local tool library. Slap em together. Maximum cost £30 and that's MAXIMUM that's assuming you bought over a metre of expensive heavy chain AND bought the bolt cutters. You can do it for under a fiver with a wallet chain and pliers. I still wear a necklace I made when I was 15 out of a wallet chain and pliers and a padlock I got in a set of 3 from poundland. If the issue is dexterity or otherwise disability related then find a friend and swap a favour with them it'll still be cheaper than these scamming poser companies and will help you build community and share resources. Something which is actually punk. Fuckin. Capitalist posers

#ive made skirts in exchange for jewellery and ive done manual lifting in exchange for some clothing repairs and ill help with any project #in exchange for a snack and a pint #never give money to corporations for something you can ask your nearest butch faggot to do for swapsies

[ballpitbee]

My display cabinet of Cog OCs

#toontown corporate clash #toontown #oc #ocs #bobby corkensy #whistleblower #nick toxide #critical leveller #cosmo costalott #cost cutter #chester chessie mcnally #head of transport operation #strawman #mort corpson #zombie company

[srinibasgowdablog]

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#what are laser cut designs #why is laser cutting important #which laser is best for cutting #how much does a laser cutter cost #Bangalore

[chimerical-creations]

Fuck yes finally done fixing this thing. Only thing it needs now is sand. And a proper dust extractor/cyclone thing, but it can function fine without one for a while — just gonna be very hard to see shit inside while using it — because the good ones aren't cheap.

Also I need access to a good vinyl cutter again. I'm sure the little desktop Silhouette cutter does an acceptable job for most tasks, but saving as DXF mangles my files and I'm not paying 250kr just to be able to import SVGs or PDFs. Glass studio's vinyl cutter is acceptable but uuughhhghgg what do you mean I have to input every setting manually every time I wanna cut something?

Also also my regular vinyl supplier is not currently taking new orders because of some intra-company issues, so I can't afford to mis-cut my stuff on unfamiliar machines. Two steps forward, one step back.

I WANNA OPEN SANDBLASTING COMMISSIONS DAMMIT

#*deep breaths* #calm #I am calm #anybody have $7000 lying around that they don't need? #would love to get my hands on a Summa T160 tangential cutter #though I would be equally thrilled with the D75 drag-knife cutter #at a comparatively meagre $3000 #hey whoever got the D60 when the makerspace shut down #I swear I just wanna talk #god modifying those glove mounts took FOR FUCKING EVER #but now we can use any regular gloves #instead of stupid proprietary triangle shapes #that cost like 1200kr a pop #sandblaster #sandblasting is love #sandblasting is life #there I fixed it

[incarnatedevotion]

Clayton tolerates the most hurtful, vile shit that Luke says to him with a wince at most before repressing it, dealing with it gracefully, and not taking it out on anyone else. Luke hears Clayton say that he doesn’t need a veterinarian in a high-class scientific research facility and Luke immediately makes it everyone else’s problem.

#babygirl get a GRIP!! #I’m slowly continuing my reread and i’m just like… Lucas u motherfucker #i love him but at what cost #chatting. #deepposting #the deep (nick cutter)

[skullamity]

PSA for trans men and trans mascs on T who are afraid of/concerned about or experiencing male pattern baldness: Talk to your endocrinologist who monitors your T about hair loss before you talk to anyone else, you have options!

When the hair in the top of my head started to thin, I talked to my regular GP. She told me it should be fine to use Rogaine topically. There were no other options, either because she was somehow not aware OR was under the impression that alternatives might interfere with HRT. If this was the case, she did not relay this info to me, and if she had, I would have made an early appointment with my endocrinologist, who specialises in HRT for trans people specifically, and asked her about my options.

But, since I only have appointments once a year with my endo now because my levels are generally super consistent, I decided to try Rogaine. I lasted about a month, because it basically meant I had to wear a lined hat at all times to make sure I wasn't getting any on my pillow/cats/child. You need to apply it two to three times a day and leave it on your scalp for a couple of hours for the best results, every day, forever, and if you stop using it, your hair goes back to whatever it was up to before that made you concerned in the first place. I quit after a month and resigned myself to eventually going bald.

I finally had a phone appointment with my endo last week (was supposed to be in person but she had an emergency and was working remotely for the day), and when I brought this up and that I had tried Rogaine but couldn't deal with all of the above + my scalp was not reacting well to the alcohol in the foam so I quit, she was like ????? what? why didn't your GP just prescribe you finasteride???

I am now on finasteride! It is a dirt cheap, tiny ass pill. I only need to take a quarter of a pill once a day (my endo also helpfully explained to me that pill cutters exist and are also dirt cheap, so perfectly cutting a pill into quarters takes about 5 seconds and I got it for a whopping $8). Just like Rogaine, I WILL need to take it every day, forever, but it's not going to get all over my pillow and make my cats sick or cause my kid to grow a beard or whatever. It isn't going to dry my scalp out, and it also the cost comparison is a joke. I take it every morning at the same time I take my adhd meds, so it's easy to remember.

I have seen so, so many trans men and mascs online lately worried about this, probably because I've seen so many conservatives and the kind of detrans people that conservatives like to parade around put a lot of emphasis about how T will make you UGLY and make all of your hair fall out. I do feel sorry for any detrans women who are dealing with wonky hairlines or male pattern baldness, but also it sure is convenient that none of them see fit to mention that if you are experiencing those things, you can literally just talk to your endocrinologist about what your options are and then take a quarter of a pill every day to fix it. Almost like making you aware of that might move you away from their end goal, which is getting you to detransition.

#trans man #trans guy #transmasc #hair loss #transmasculine #endocrinology #finasteride

[alittleworldlywise]

“It literally costs nothing to [X]” is such a bizarre idea to me. Everything has a cost, be it time or money or energy or effort or patience. The cost can be so slim you don’t notice it in the moment, but it’s still there, and if you keep doing X for an extended period of time, you will notice.

The cost of X is also something that varies from person to person. It costs nothing (sans the phone minutes) to call your bank to verify a scammy text, but doing so can require an enormous amount of mental energy to psych yourself into doing something. Visiting my relatives cost my parents nothing sans time and travel, which was just enough to mean that we needed to stay there several hours to make the trip “worth it”; to me, it cost a lot more, because their pets could trigger my asthma and I had to make nice with a younger cousin who was not under the impression they needed to make nice with me.

#i know it's just a way of saying ''X is worth all costs involved'' #but hooo boy do people sometimes not understand the cost #spoiler: it costs Something to be nice to kids #when you're dealing with a dozen of them by yourself #and one of them has acquired a box cutter #or when you're on day 5 of a VBS week #that will net you a volunteer hours letter simply listing your hours as ''40+'' #and it costs a whole lot less to see your new nibling #when you're not the one who's spent three hours crawling on hands and knees to make sure they can't find anything to stuff into their mouth #that ought not to go there

[netherworldpost]

With the various rumors and releases of Tumblr possibly changing how they do things... (gestures to the vague rumor mill)...

Zines.

I really think we as Folks Who Make Things and Folks Who Like Art Writing Poetry Music Comics Other Things need to explore zines. And I mean ZINES. Nothing glossy. Nothing fancy.

Very. Cheap. Zines.

I've been threatening mentioning I was going to create a guide on how I'm going to approach this -- and I'm going to -- but I am also realizing in the writing I Do Things Highfalutin because I am who I am + had a career in graphic design.

Let's talk about how you can make a zine very cheaply and very pretty.

STEP ONE: SUPPLIES

Very bright paper. I like "Astrobrights" because they are absurdly bright. Here is a link in a store I like. I buy a lot of paper and envelopes from them. You can generally find Astrobrights in big box office stores. It prints on laser printers and ink jet and photocopiers.

Very bright envelopes. What's that? Astrobrights has envelopes?! AM I SOLVING PROBLEMS let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Letter paper is 8.5" x 11" and is the most common size in the united states (overseas folk will have to use this advice with a grain o'sea salt and search yer own waters).

A9 envelopes are a letter sheet folded in half.

A2 envelopes are a letter sheet folded in half, then folded in half.

#10 envelopes are your common long envelopes, letter paper folded in thirds.

Pick the size you like.

If you want to get big and fancy, Tabloid is 17" x 11" -- so double a letter sheet. This gets tricky to work with but is neat in sizing.

STEP TWO: ZINE CONTENT

Do you know how to use InDesign or similar program? Use that.

No? Use Google Docs or Word or whatever other program and ramble.

Want something special? Write out some or part with a sharpee or pen.

Mix and match both.

If you are feeling fancy, design it like a booklet -- mock up a sheet of blank paper as if it were a brochure. If not, just design it straight up and down like a letter. There are no zine laws.

STEP THREE: ZINE PRINTING

Print at home on your home printer.

Don't have a printer at home? Print it at work (don't get fired)

Can't? Your local library may be able to help.

You need 1 copy on white paper.

FedEx Office has photocopiers. Your local library may too. Or your job.

Print 1 copy of your zine on white paper and then photocopy the rest onto colorful paper (or white paper, it be yer zine seadog).

Or print everything on the color paper if you have access to free printing, that's fine too.

The photocopy setup is purely "printing tends to cost more than photocopying."

If you want to slash prices, print 2 per sheet and have FedEx office cut them for you, this will cost $1 - $5 depending on how many sheets you are dealing with. This is for when you're doing a LOT of zines at once.

Or use their manual paper cutter yourself for free.

STEP FOUR: ZINE STAPLING

"Long reach stapler" is what I recommend. There are a few varieties. They tend to be $20 - $30.

Or just use 1 sheet!

STEP FOUR: ZINE POSTAGE

A single first class stamp for 1-2 pages. If you get up to 3+, go to the post office and ask them to weigh a comp you have assembled.

This is a guideline.

It's a really good idea to check at least once how much your zine weighs just in general. Post offices have scales. And are pretty. And have stamps.

OKAY ENOUGH LUSTING FOR THE POST OFFICE FROM THE GHOTS POST OFFICE BLOG BACK TO WORK

STEP FIVE: ZINE MAILING

This is actually the most difficult part. Label printers exist with various costs -- if you're starting out? Go with printable labels.

Your office supply shop will have them and they'll have templates you can drop in the customer addresses.

Save yourself time by using this label as the thing that seals the envelope -- don't lick envelopes.

A key tenet to staying in business is constantly reviewing physical (and mental) labor and stressors and reducing them as much as possible.

Return address labels are intensely cheap in literally every online printer, google "return address labels." Make sure you have this because at least a few of your shipments will come back to you.

STEP SIX: ZINE PRICING

Okay here is where we get uncomfortable because we're talkin' coins.

Prices are based on above links. You can get whatever paper you want, so this is guidelines. All numbers rounded up.

Payment processing ($0.30) + $0.05 sheet + $0.15 envelope + $0.66 first class postage = $1.16 base cost

$1.16 + 2.9% of $1.16 payment processing = $1.20

Plus taxes. I'm not getting into tax figures YOU DO THAT (just say 30% for easy math, this is not saying "your taxes are 30% or that mine are" I am saying "I am going to factor 30% for this equation to complete this guide".)

I did not include the mailing label (it will be $0.01 - $0.05 depending on how fancy and how many you buy) because you have the option to just write things and also it fits into the rounding of the above.

If you use Patreon, include your fees. Probably replace the above processing fees with your patreon processing... fees? I don't use patreon I don't know how it works.

Retail option 01: $1.50 - 1.20 = $0.80 gross - 30% = $0.09 / net / zine.

Retail option 02: $2 - 1.20 = $0.80 gross - 30% = $0.56 / net / zine.

Retail option 03: $3 - 1.20 = $1.80 gross - 30% = $1.26 / net / zine.

Should it be $1.50? Should it be $3.00? MORE? LESS?! That is for you to decide. Base it on what your zine contains, how long it takes you to write/draw/etc. it and how you want your flow to be.

STEP SEVEN: ZINE FREQUENCY

When my shop launches, it'll have a zine once a month. We are going to offer a subscription option + a "I just want 1" option.

You can do a zine monthly, or every few months, or whatever.

Keep in mind that the purpose of doing this is to break the dependency on social media marketing.

KEEP IN MIND AS AN AUDIENCE MEMBER TO A CREATOR YOU LIKE THAT THEY ARE DOING THIS TO BREAK THEIR DEPENDENCY ON SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING.

If you have a lot of energy and an audience that comes to your shop a lot? Consider doing a zine monthly.

If you do not have a lot of energy and/or your audience is tapped for cash frequently? Considering doing 1 zine per season.

Consider 2 zines a year if that works better for you!

NO RULES ONLY JOY

Not sure? Experiment! Be upfront! "This is new. I'm figuring this out. Billionaires are tinkering with these things and we gotta figure something else out."

BONUS STEP: NETHERWORLDPOST.COM

so hi I'm atty and I'm your loud long rambler today

Netherworld Post Office used to be @evilsupplyco and now we are rebranding in prep of relaunching. Same person behind the rambles and comics, new name with a more focus (mail instead of mail + seemingly everything else in experiment)

if you enjoyed this ramble and/or like ghosts, monsters, witches, mermaids, and fun stories and projects focused on cozy Halloween, you may like us when we finish the rebranding and relaunching in autumn 2023.

email sign up (the zine will come when we are open)

WHETHER YOU JOIN MY LIST OR NOT

I really, really, really hope you consider doing a regular, or irregular, zine. Something outside of email, something outside of social media, something that connects I MADE A WEIRD THING and the people who say I LOVE THIS WEIRD THING YOU MADE.

The walls are closing in on free social media as a platform for people who make weird things to build audiences for free or very cheap.

And with that...

netherworldpost.com as one final hat pass

good luck folks

thanks for listenin' to the ol' ghost

#small business #small business marketing #small business fun #zines #zine #making zines

[runawaymun]

I need to let you guys in on some knowledge ok.

if you want donuts. Buy yourself a tube of biscuit dough and separate it out and use a cookie cutter to cut out the centers (or just tear a hole with your thumb. become ungovernable). Get yourself a good sized pot with about an inch or two of your favorite flavorless oil. Make sure it has a lid (let's not start grease fires).

Heat it up on medium or medium low, depending on how hot your stove is. Then fry yourself some donuts. they are so fluffy it feels like it should be illegal. then roll them in powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar or make yourself a glaze with a bit of milk + powdered sugar + flavoring. you can be responsible and let them cool down or you can do what i did and hoover them straight into my mouth sizzling hot. way too many. im so full of fried bread.

it's like a couple bucks and the cost of feeling like you've seen god. it's so good. you get so many donuts and u can fry the donut holes too. You're unstoppable.

#help i ate way too many donuts #ough #but im passing it on to you with love <3 <3 <3 #i'll be back on blorboposting when im not in a donut coma #it only took me a couple of minutes to fry up almost a dozen donuts