Absolutely. It’s better with WFH as I have started to just browse the polygon mammal site or do laundry when this happens, but I used to really struggle in the office, feeling like I need to look busy.

Cursed

Prints have a design language to them which allows you to express fully constrained geometric designs on a napkin if you need to. Dimensions, radii, diameters, angles, datums, positions, projections, sections, GD&T. None of this is obvious in a 3D model. You don't know what the driving dimensions are, what can be inferred from other dimensions, if it is a coincidence or a requirement that two features line up, etc.

This is so critical. In architecture and structural engineering, you can add to this that you don't actually know a lot of the real dimensions - you're laying out the important ones from the structural grid or from survey points, and whatever is left doesn't matter.

Even markup, at least in a design environment, can be done in 3D (or at least on a computer), but the communication of constraints, that is, what dimensions are important and which are irrelevant or unknowable has not yet been developed in 3D models, and I suspect it will be some time before any useful language for that purpose stabilizes.

Need a version of the “this is fine” gif but instead of fire it’s a household of enslaved people and instead of a dog it’s a Roman guy and/or Rome Guy

Yeah like all they had to do was wrap “democracy” in scare quotes

I’ll second the volunteering idea. It’s easier to make friends with folks you see often, such as at work or school. That frequent contact really helps get you over the hump. Volunteer somewhere aligned with your interests, and go to every event you can.

• food not bombs
• bike coop
• museum if you dig old nerds (especially labor, industrial, and maritime museums, often full of commies)

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At a restaurant for my friend’s birthday when my partner got the NYT alert. I may have double-fist-pumped and yelled “rest in piss” a bit too loud

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Stick and poke anchor on the inside of my bicep, I usually forget it's there and when I see it I'm always like 'dang that looks fresh' in spite of it truly looking like a child with a sharpie did it.

Being a Luddite is my whole schtick, please tell me I can keep posting pictures of hammers (I have a lot of hammers)

I don’t think this is a fair assessment. from the quote Tachanka posted, Marx is just saying Luddism is bad tactics. Is there other info to say that Luddism is reactionary, or am I misunderstanding what you mean by reactionary?