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Every material is plastic, on a scale from 0 to 100, where Zero is not plastic at all and 100 means it is plastic all the way, almost like a liquid, one example being the Modelling Clay that if properly moisturised is nice an...plastic, if not enough moisturised it becomes brittle, and if over-moisturised it becomes… mud.
States of solid matter are a trade off between its Plasticity, Elasticity and Brittleness.
Glass for instance if slightly elastic, zero plastic and highly brittle, while Nylon is highly elastic, slightly plastic and almost zero brittle.
So what is Plastic than, well… pretty much everything, except for highly brittle materials such as glass, ceramics, stone, and similar.
Saying plastic does not refer to polymers, widely known as plastic materials, but really… some of them are extremely brittle while some are highly elastic and zero brittle almost zero plasticity, and some are really supra-elastic.
Saying plastic is like saying metal… really? What metal? Iron? Aluminium? Copper? Led? Gold? Titanium? Uranium? Lithium? Sodium? Any alloy of some of them? Like Steel, Brass, Zamac, Antimonium, Stainless (don’t get me started here on how many stainless steel alloys are there)
So it is generally and really dumbly accepted in the public opinion that Plastic is… any polymer, even those that are anything but plastic in their behaviour, like the elastics elastomers…
So: Plastic actually means something that can be permanently deformed without causing it to break apart in two or more parts. And it has degrees, like in Iron, highly plastic material, but only after you take it over the elasticity point, and only up to it’s brittleness point. In other words if you try to deform it with little force, it behaves like a stone, results is zero deformation. Increase the force and it deforms a bit, but if you stop the force from acting it will return to the original form: elasticity. Put even more force into it and it will deform permanently and stay so for ever: plasticity. To bring it back to the original form you need to apply force again, a lot, in the opposite direction. If you do too much plastic deformation back and forth on the same place it will divide in two parts sooner or latter: brittleness point. Unlike the glass that if you pass it’s elasticity range (extremely small I might say, the elasticity zone) it will shatter in many pieces, extremely brittle material.
What the world understands wrongly as Plastics is in reality a poly composition of a chain of monomers forever tied to each other in an infinite repetition of self, hence a polymer. A monomer it mainly look like a liquid or a gel, because the mono molecules are not tied to eachother by any strong forces. Like water where you have H2O molecules crammed into eachother in a container (the ocean) just rubbing shoulders.
However some monomers, unlike water, in given conditions of pressure, temperature and in the presence of a catalyst (that is a reactive element that starts and maintains a reaction until the exhaustion of the reactive compound, but without becoming part of the newly created product, in the end you start with 100% monomer liquid, 100% of catalyst, and end up with 100% polymer and 100% catalyst, zero combination of the two), snap one of their monomer connection of some atom, and tie to the neighbour molecule, forming an infinite chain of married monomers, like a rope. Polymerisation occurred.
It is true that you can convince dissimilar monomers to polymerise together, one string of this monomers polymer and next to it another string of the other monomer polymer, and also holding hands or being twisted around each-other for life, a poly polymer.
Example of Polymer, you take a monomer called Amide, stick the catalyst into ti, raise the temperature to the proper one, increase the pressure or decrease the pressure even to vacuum levels and it nicely ties into Polyamide polymer also known to you as Nylon (And yes there is more than just one type of Polyamide out there) In reality I have no ideas of the thermic and pressure conditions to make Nylons but I tried to render the idea for you.
However if you make a Poly Etone Etone Ketone… that is a poly polymer known as PEEK and is expensive like hell. And sturdy, elastic, resistant to chemicals and so on, airplane structural components are made of it, also on spaceships.
So when I get a phone call to ask me to 3D print them something and I ask what materials, they say … Plastic… it drives me nuts. For now a simple question has become a black hole that sucks me in, what is it used for, what is the thermic environment it will sit or function in, does it have any mechanical stress like permanent push, permanent pull, bends and twists, what chemical liquids or vapours are around it, are they constant or they change periodically? So I can pick the right material.
Than is the price… some Chinese injection moulded mouthpiece for vapes costs 1USD at the end-user online, but if I 3D print it with the same material will cost 30 USD to the same end user and they are like… why?
Well the Chinese manufacturer spent one million on a large industrial injection machine and another million on the facilities to operate it, you know; warehouse, power supply, forklifts etc, than another 100 thousand USD on the moulds that can spit out each injection 100 mouth pieces, and do that once a minute, hence 6000 of them per hour times 20 hours a day120000 a day for 10 years, hence the price of each on production line comes down to costs, plus profit margin divided 120000 mouth pieces a day until that machine and mould go bust. So maybe 10 cents a piece, and they sell it to you at 100 cents a piece, it is called economy at scale.
When I 3d print it instead I have to take that polymer filament roll from the shelf where it sucked in moisture from the ambient for weeks, place it in a dryer for a day or two (mouthpieces cannot be made out of PLA, you need at least Nylons if not PPS), than prepare the printer, replace the nozzle with an adequate one (maybe hardened steel, or even diamond tip) to can take the abuse of said polymer passing through, replace the printing plate with an adequate one or the first layer will either not stick to it, so print failed, or stick to it for ever, let me see how you put in your mouth a mouth piece with a metal plate the size of your head permanently attached to it.
Than I slice the STL file and send it to the machine, wait for 5 minutes or 10 and is done, but meanwhile I started on it 2 days ago preparing the filament and wasted today another hour or two to prepare the machine. I am not working for free, nor are you I guess.
The funniest part is when the wannabe client does not even have a STL file and is wondering why am I charging a few hundreds of USD for CAD design to reverse engineer it in the computer so I can create the STL file needed, just because they broke some hinge that would cost them 3 USD to buy but they hope by giving me the broken one I can 3D print them one for less because 3D printing is cheap…
Conclusion (much too early one, I mean I have so many other funny stories to tell you about working with absolutely unprepared people that all they want is cheaper than impossibly cheap…), educating people that don’t care about having any education (just want cheap), is useless, let them lose if you love them, if they come back it means nobody else loves them, so let them lose again and hope they get stuck somewhere else, not in my backyard please.
"Your Excellency, I saluted you with Heil Hitler. I assume that the people of your country belong to the Nordic race?"
The ambassador replied, "No, we are of Mongolian origin."
The banker was curious and continued. "So I think your country should be located in Asia?"
"No, Hungary is part of Central Europe."
"I know there is a war in Central Europe. Is Hungary involved in this?"
"Yes, indeed. We are fighting against the Soviet Union."
"And do you have any territorial claims against the Soviet Union?"
"No, we have no territorial claims against the Soviets. However, we do have claims against Romania and Slovakia."
"So Romania and Slovakia must be your enemies, then?"
"No, they are our allies."
The banker was slightly confused by the ambassador's answers, but finally he saw a royal insignia on his uniform and continued: "I consider Hungary a kingdom. What does your King do?"
"We don't have a king. We are ruled by an admiral."
"Oh, by an admiral? So Hungary must have access to the sea."
"No. We are a landlocked country."
The banker was even more puzzled. "Anyway, what about your admiral?"
"He was captured by the Germans."
"Are they also your enemies?"
"No, the Germans are our greatest allies and friends."
The banker was completely lost. "Damn it! I really don't understand. You live in a landlocked kingdom in the heart of Europe, ruled by an admiral who was captured by his best friends. You are at war with a country from which you don't want a single hectare of land. On the other hand, you have territorial claims against your allies. This is a truly bizarre situation!"
" No sir, it's the new European order!. "
Why open source is good? You mean where lots of people put their talent and time into something and then a Chinese company uses their work to make lots of money and the people who created it get nothing? Yeah open source is awesome. Instead of illegal IP theft the Chinese companies get to use legal IP theft. Funny watching those same Chinese companies lock down everything they create and then laugh at the open source community.
@ me in reply to him:
Open source is good because it allows us, the open source creators, to give you, the users, programs, machines, concepts and systems that in the proprietary world cost millions that you never ever in your life time will have, neither will we have so we can mass produce it for you, so we both lose in that business model; and we do that for pennies or for free most of times.
That is how you can now have a 3D printer for less than 1% of the same machine was sold by Stratasys and their proprietary type of business.
I know the Chinese are making a steal using our work without direct compensation to us, but we do have indirect compensation, we live to see our design and development mass produced by them for cheap for you; despite Stratsys.
reply @mykethevet:
to @f1hotrod527; Lmao you just got destroyed
My conclusions on the theme:
• I used to patent jut to realise that patenting does not protect the inventor but the corporations stealing from the inventors, in the end it was my work bought for pennies that made them billions and I was awarded nothing or mere peanuts. Patenting is expensive and if you do not have a big budget behind you to manufacture at scale you soon lose money.
• Open source is like patenting, it establishes a prior art on my work so nobody else can patent it ever, so that is like Patenting (where if you do not pay the annual fee becomes public domain but nobody can patent it any-more because is prior art) just without spending the time and money to patent it.
• same level of protection, nobody can patent it any more, but anybody can replicate it at will, is prior art, unprotected from replication but protected from intellectual theft by patenting my work by corporations that live out of stealing my work legally, unlike the Chinese that live out or stealing my works without also threatening me with jail-time if I dare protesting up.
Indeed, I found out the gpl v3 can somehow do this work up to a point.
But for poor people is better than spending money on patents that do not protect them from lawyers with big pay-check anyway. And a corporation would rather spend 10 millions on lawyers to destroy you and steal your work to make billions than awarding you 2 millions to sell them your work.
I'm not kidding, it's completely exhausted while it's bragging it has won, won what?.
Trump managed to deflate it faster than they negotiated with China and Russia to surrender to them.
They thought they were fooling them and now they don't know where to run and hide their shame.
Iran has proven to be a much too big a nut to crack, they thought they could pull another Venezuela-Maduro exercise, well it has proven to be more than just an exercise, it is their final exam, and they failed it miserably on our dime.
And now it hurts, it hurts badly, it hurts us soon too, in the economy, in the living standard, in the bills.
So badly that even those whom the USA accuses of conspiracy - Russia and China - are starting to worry, and for good reason. Russia is worried militarily (just imagine a US transformed into a Yemen or Somalia like country overnight), China economically (most of their exports income is coming from US and this is about to collapse suddenly without replacement).
The conflict in Iran has put everyone in front of a scenario they didn't expect or even ever considered possible. The USA is collapsing much too quickly, and Europe is tied in the bundles, tight.
Don't curse at me, I'm just showing you how things look and the future is bleek and dark and with no resolution in sight for maybe a decade or two.
Indeed, it's a sign of great stupidity to go to battle with no reason to start with, let alone without ammunition, but isn't the fact that stupidity is so high up a sign of the definitive bankruptcy of the Empire? Rome has fallen the same way, bragging it's might all the way down do becoming dust.
I'm very curious how long the Americans will keep bombing Iran? Soon they will be without Tomahawks. They are already asking Ukraine some of them back in desperation. And Zelinsky said Niet, but thank you for giving them to us.
But what claims can you have when you, as a country with the largest military budget, have stocks of only 5-10 pieces of GPU-57 MOP (the famous anti-bunker bomb) or 10-12 pieces of GBU-43/B MOAB (the famous "mother of all bombs"). Just to give you a broad image of how much money were stolen in the name of building a strong military; by the US generals, congress folks and other politicians and presidents, the present one included.
Tough times educate and give birth to tough people and makes them strong (the don't really have a choice , don't they?), tough people fight to make a change in better, a change in better brings good times and good times create and educate lazy dumb woke people that in exchange make stupid choices that bring tough times.
We are now at the beginning of tough times since we have let too many lazy dumb woke people, and for too long, in charge, as we were too weak of brains and lazy thinkers.
We yielded to all of them stupid demands, allowing them to climb in positions of power and control they cling to like leeches now, helping their friends into other key positions to keep them in power, globally, and they do toddlerish thinking at wargame level.
On our expenses, we the people are the victims of our own lazyness and lack of determination, instead of puting them in jail we voted them to rule over us.
Might be the moment to reverse the situaton before we have WW3 on our hands.
Speaking of the wolf:
The entire interwar civilization agreed that Nazi Germany represented the pinnacle of civilization and that it was not only natural, but also an obligation for governments and nations to draw inspiration from the "German miracle" in order to come to light. Americans loved them, the Nazi movement in USA was mighty, and same in Britain and other civilized countries.
In their press and in culture, those who signaled that something was not okay in Hitler's civilization were absolutely a minority, dissidents, and if they would of published on Facebook today they would be, if not banned, then downgraded, marginalized, and cursed, just as those who signal that Western civilization is detaching itself from the universal values of humanism at an accelerated pace are cursed today by the left wingers, by the right wingers, by governments, by oppozitions, all in the name of making money, through waging war included.
For example, in the interwar period, those who were against the love for the German miracle were labeled as retrograde, bigots, uneducated, idiots, just like today whosoever disagrees with NATo, USA or the plandemic deconspirators are blamed on all platforms, press, and social networks.
Just like today, they were categorized as "pro-Soviet" and "Stalinist". Or "Jews", due to the fact that the pinnacle of interwar European civilization, Nazi Germany, had decreed that Jewry and communists were the cause of evil in the world (and they were, and still are, and so are the Nazi, what do you think, once Germny defeated the Nazi vanished, nope... they have corporations, industries, banks, in USA, in Japan, in every European country, in Israel too, in fact Netaniahu is one of them).
Now that Israel is an integral part of Western civilization (civilization my arse, there is nothing civil in the way western world conducts business, not that China or India or any other government does any better), it is bizarre to say such a thing, although this predicate, existing in the public consciousness and expressed more or less veiledly by today's dissidents, is starting to appear more and more frequently in official discourses, being classified, erroneously I say, as "anti-Semitism" (Palestins are semites to, so are Iraqi, and Iranias, so Israel is waging an antisemite war against them).
For example, not long ago, the Israeli press accused China of slipping into anti-Semitism, because of some editorials and opinions from the two official Chinese that indicated Israel as the source of today's geopolitical instability (and they saw it right, but limited, it is not only Israel).
The attraction for "civilization", in total disregard for human values, is state policy in our country (ad any other country), and this is best seen in the European and US (flanked by UK, Canada, Australia, New Zeelean and some other satelites) mass media, which, like the mass media in interwar European countries, has become the state propaganda apparatus.
Lightning does not strike the same place twice, but history repeats itself to the millimeter and comma, at least in terms of the conformism of the media and the bosses, of the workers and the media hangers-on, with stars and all, they will always pubblish as told from where their money come, in any given country.
The press from the interwar era and the memoirs of the time depict a society that unanimously adored the German, just as today's society adores the American, at least until 1941, when the Germans began to take it up their arses in Soviet Russia, after they "preemptively" attacked Russia, just like today the US and it's proxies are taking it hard from Russia in Ukraine and by many Arab militias because of Iran, not to mention how much Iran itlself is damagin their reputation as global self appointed police... not that the Iranians or the Russians are any better themselves.
In short, if you are in politics or the media, it would be wiser not to throw yourself heads in into unconditional support of "civilization" (regardless which one pays you better to uphold their views), because the simple fact that tomorrow's civilizations will be completely different from today's civilizations (according to history, and more than once or twice that we recall) should put a small brake on your glorifying enthusiasm fed by abhorrent servilism.
If not, you're an uneducated, idiot, lost soul who gambles his life for three cents and an ounce of questionable reputation, or all of them together.
So, go online, lay our life for the civilisation (figuratevelly speaking), and your grave will be crowned with shit by the next generations.
1. He spent 18 years in administrative law and said citizens panic because they think every letter is an order. He wrote down one sentence: “Please provide the legal basis for this request, including the specific statute and clause that obligates my response.” That single line turns compliance into hesitation, because the burden flips back to them.
2. Offices survive on procedure, not speed. When asked for the statute and clause, the whole process halts until legality is verified. Most letters rely on habit, not law, so internal teams scramble through archives before answering, exposing how much of bureaucracy runs on assumption with no legal basys.
3. A family once got a “submit in 5 days” notice. They sent that sentence. The reply came 46 days later, and the demand vanished. Time pressure dissolved when legality had to be proven. The lawyer said it’s not rebellion, it’s precision — and systems freeze under it.
4. A small business faced a fine for missing “updated records.” Same method, same outcome. The agency paused penalties because no clause backed the demand. Inside offices, people fear signing off without a statute number; that fear is your shield.
5. His closing line stayed with me: bureaucracy eats those who rush, but it stalls before those who request proof. What slows the machine isn’t emotion, it’s paperwork logic you can trigger with one calm question.
Most citizens fear government letters — but the system collapses the moment you ask it to justify itself.
There is an inextricable mixture of indifference of the Parents in education of their own children.
First of all, they do not educate their children, neither for society, nor for survival outside of society (which would be essential for any being) nor for culture, neither for science, technically they do not care for their babies even as much as a cat, a badger or a dog cares for its own cubs until they become adults (unlike any other animal for what it matters).
Delegate it to the state. Trust in the authorities, in the school, in the teachers, many of them pedophiles, many of them without educational talent whom got there by chance because someone in the family is somewhere high up in this or that party, the ministries of education, health, interior, foreign affairs, defense, etc., and all their subordinate structures are nothing more than parking lots for useless and incoherent idiots, but well connected with the higher ups.
Let them make a buck too, and go out to protest when they are told to, or go online to create the impression of public opinion according to the instructions of the party, the NGO, the scoundrel in that high position who defends his income, his seat, his position, his ass.
The autopsy of Formal Education is bullshit, the autopsy is done on corpses, not skeletons, our education had its 7-year funeral rememberance celebrated almost 3 decades ago, it is no longer an autopsy, it is an archaeology quest.
We need a new social system, the old one based on communism versus capitalism, right versus left, etc., has proven in 300 years its futility, corruptibility, and capacity for self-destruction with everything that surrounds it, countless times in countless corners of the world, the cyclical revival of this system leads nowhere, it is a modern form of feudalism repeated endlessly, at this time without structure, without form, just a pile of patches upon patches upon other patches.
We need the families to educate their children against; state, government and corporate policies, so we can not only survive their demise, so we can live an thrive without them.
