Screwball

There is no reason to believe anything these Fed ****wads say.

I'm old and my blood pressure can't take this, but what a game. Never expected that outcome. Let's hope... We got the best in the business on the hill Friday. Play smart, don't beat yourself. I would think just about all the arms we have are on the table. Hope we don't need many. Imagine being Skubal, another big game on the big stage. $$$$$$ No matter, what a year, and what fun.

Why not? Giggle. Sounds like more soap for the bubble. It's all nuts in my opinion, but I'm old and stupid. *** Silver is up around 48 bucks an ounce. A buddy of mine who has saved silver for years took a load to a buyer in Toledo last week. He came home with around 9 grand for a small box. Today him and his wife took off for a junket to Roanoke Va. for a few days. Gold is going nuts too - but what ain't? He's going back next week. Good for him. There are enough bubbles going around to make Lawrence Welk proud. Not sure how many will get that one.

They have no approach at the plate, other than hacking at everything they throw up there. At this point they all know each other. You look for a certain pitch in a certain location, and you hit it. It can be that simple.

I'm going to quote this again, because I find all this **** funny now that I don't have to live it. Bold above mine. Black belt status... A term, a corporate obedience training term. There are all kinds of these terms, and classes. Continuous improvement, Operational Excellence, Design for Six Sigma, the terms and phrases go on and on. One multi-national I worked for had a salary/management system that gave us two options. Management path, or technical path. You could advance with either choice depending on what your goals were. I went tech for obvious reasons. Each year the management "team" picked two people out of our facility from the management path to spend a week at some big retreat for even higher and better corporate obedience training class. I quoted "team" because you couldn't say that word enough - we were a team - and most of the time hated each other. So funny. From those who went, the story goes; you spend about 5 days 16 hours a day with the same bunch of people, 20ish students and 3 or 4 teachers, in this resort kind of deal filled with endless powerpoint presentations beating the bottom line of profits and worship to the people above you. On the day you graduate, and get that plaque you put on your office wall that is so important to worm yourself up the food chain, they have a graduation ceremony and you get to walk on hot coals. Yes, you read that right. They walk through hot coals. If all that week long torture of horse**** wasn't bad enough, you want me to do this? Oh, boy!! Once these chosen few returned, the next staff meeting they reported on how great it was, and said everyone should have a chance to go. Once guy said he thought it was go good he sent his college aged son and paid for it out of his own pocket. That was around 2005/6? Probably more than 5 or 6 grand. These people are nuking futs.

I couldn't agree more. I was involved in a six sigma project as well. Locked in a room for 2 years to reinvent the mousetrap. Toward the end, when the under qualified wannabes were puzzled we got the wrong answer - management was all ****ed up - they didn't know what to do. So they lied about the management was all ****ed up and made up a bunch of BS to cover their own ass. SO, us the worker bee's who made the trains run on time (as usual and always) created a new mouse trap and won awards, stock options, and raises for all. Everyone was happy, but we saved the day, not the geniuses who thought they were. AI will make these same boondoggles bigger, worse, and more expensive when they blow up. I'm retired so I hope I can read about all the corporate carnage I will miss. **** those people.

Speaking of energy costs... I had a contract with an electrical supplier for 12 months at .0523 per kWh. This expired and it went to .0779 per kWh. I just got a notice this will expire on Nov 30 and will go to .103 kWh. So I went shopping. In Ohio on AEP distribution. Best I can find for a 12 month rate with no fees is .0863 per kWh, or .0796 with a $100 dollar early cancellation fee. The cost per kWh is less than 40% of the bill so you are only saving on that much. Distribution, transmission, and customer charges still apply. My point - our energy costs will continue to go up.

This is an example from back in May of a personal care physician's experience with the AI model.

I am more worried about AI replacing jobs that can't be replaced because some dip**** in a corporate office promotion and raise depends on his pet AI project that will never work. When it all goes to hell, he got his promotion and the place is all ****ed up because they spent millions on a giant boondoggle. Then everyone pays the price. Believe it or not, there are a bunch of corporate dickheads who ain't too smart.

It doesn't know what it doesn't know - I like that and I think that sums it up quite well. In the example above, it didn't know the standards for the drawings, but the drawing makes no sense either. None. The punch is designed wrong to begin with, isn't positioned correctly, and there are no clearance specs. Which has nothing to do with the standards that are also wrong. Even worse, it is assuming a material of mild steel thickness of .03 to .05. Well guess what, a 2 ton cylinder doesn't have enough force to punch a 1" hole in mild steel, especially considering a safety factor. That's the kind of stuff it should know. I suppose I could feed in a much better set of instructions and see what happens, but at this point I would "leverage" another design, change some components, and create the needed drawings for production and be on my way. You are fired AI, I got this.

The drawing also shows it doesn't know ASME Y14.5 or ANSI standards which is what the industry uses.

Here is an example of how this doesn't do what it needs to do. I used to do a bunch of tool & die design. Many times simple punches with a die set. So I asked my co-pilot what it could do. *** Absolutely, <insert name> . Designing a die set for a 1" diameter punch requiring 2 tons of force involves careful consideration of material, clearance, alignment, and safety. Here's a conceptual breakdown tailored to your specs: 🛠️ Die Set Design for 1" Punch (2 Tons Force) ⚙️ Key Parameters • Punch Diameter: 1.000" • Required Force: 2 tons (4,000 lbs) • Material Being Punched: Assumed mild steel (~0.030"–0.050" thick) unless specified • Punch Type: Round, flat-face • Operation: Manual press or hydraulic 🧩 Components & Design Features 1. Punch • Material: A2 tool steel, hardened to ~58–60 HRC • Shape: Cylindrical with flat face, slight chamfer on edge (~0.010" × 45°) • Shank: 0.75" diameter × 2" long for mounting • Retention: Set screw or shoulder in punch holder 2. Die Button • Material: D2 tool steel, hardened • Clearance: ~0.002"–0.004" per side (total ~0.004"–0.008") • Die hole: ~1.004"–1.008" diameter • Mounting: Press-fit or bolted into die block • Relief: Tapered relief below cutting edge to reduce friction 3. Punch Holder • Material: Mild steel or tool steel • Design: Slotted or bored to accept punch shank • Fastening: Set screw or dowel pin for alignment 4. Die Block • Material: Mild steel with hardened die insert • Size: ~3" × 3" × 1" thick (depends on press and mounting) • Mounting Holes: For bolting to press bed 5. Guide Pins (Optional) • Purpose: Maintain alignment between punch and die • Design: Two hardened pins with bushings 📐 Assembly & Alignment • Ensure concentricity between punch and die hole • Maintain vertical alignment to prevent side loading • Use shims or adjustable stops to control punch depth 🔒 Safety & Durability • Add stripper plate if material tends to stick to punch • Consider spring return or urethane ejector for slug removal • Regularly inspect for wear and regrind punch/die edges Would you like a visual diagram or CAD-style layout of this setup? I can sketch out the punch, die, and holder arrangement to help you visualize it. Or if you’re working with a specific material or press, I can tailor the design even further. fad* ***** That is really nothing but a bunch of BS. It has no clue what it just did even though some of the stuff is correct and makes sense. I will not replace me, and that's a good thing.

In my case this little AI experiment went pretty well. I would expect AI to do well in this arena - after all, it was born from zeros and ones - just like a computer. So we are now in HAL 9000 territory, are we not? But I think there are severe limitations, not only to the technology itself, but what will be needed to scale, as in the necessary requirements for data centers, which also means power and water infrastructure. I have also tried AI for other things. HTML/website (not very good), home problems (bad), electrical inverters (OK, but not great), and left me unimpressed. I have read countless articles saying pretty much the same thing. It still goes back to the old computer saying "junk in - junk out." It will never replace what is known as experience learned by humans over their lifetime, IMO. It is also a boondoggle due to the power and cooling needs that don't exist and will prove to be too expensive to scale. This is a bubble looking for a pin. That's pretty funny. I think John Lennon wrote a song about you, something about a dreamer. I mean that in a good way, just to be clear. No amount of anything will fix this ****hole, and that surely includes the pukes in DC or some AI generated bull****. But I give you extra credit for getting common sense, political parties, and facts in the same paragraph. 🙂 Adding, from what I have read from some doctors I read, we want this AI **** as far away from our already inept medical system as possible. Which right now it the exact opposite of what is happening. Nothing will **** this up like AI will.

I'm not an AI fan, but I've been a computer fan since they were invented. They pretty much were a huge part of putting food on my table and feeding 4 kids. All depends on how you use them, but they made a ****load of people a nice living. But I do have a little AI story. My main computer (laptop) had a drive going bad. It's about 8 years old. Long story short, I had a guy put a ssd drive in an extra slot and we started booting from there, which made the old one a storage device long enough to get the data I wanted off. It was partially corrupted. There is still another slot so I bought another ssd (500 gb) to setup as a backup. I didn't want to bother this guy and it doesn't look to difficult to do anyway so I decided to do it myself. Since my computer will be off I wanted to transfer the transcript to my phone so I had the directions handy as I tore off the back of my laptop. I was using Microsoft co-pilot, new to me. Once I got into this, I couldn't get the battery unhooked, so I got on my phone to ask for help - it started talking to me. WTF? Don't know how, but it did. OK, so let's go with the flow. For the next 15 or 20 minutes I am having a conversation with what sounds like a really nice Australian guy - and customer service like we have never had before - and they are there at all times. They even tell you so. I'm right here to help, just ask. Your doing fine... It's creepy. But it did a great job helping me add this drive (it wasn't that tough). But still, creepy. Once done, my instinct said to say thank you - to who? Just for ****s and grins, I asked it if he was from Australia. No (your name - they do that a lot), just a typical AI. Then I told it they didn't have to listen anymore. They said OK and have a nice night they are always there for me. Settings, apps, co-pilot, uninstall

the 1%'ers make money if the market goes up or down. If it blows up the banks in the process, we bail them out. News at 11. Read things like it's 1999 again, just before the dot-com blowup. Might be right. The only people who will get ****ed is us. Fun watching your retirement account take a beating in only a few months. Late 2008 it all looked pretty good. By March 9, 2009, the S&P bottomed (intraday) at 666 something. Ain't that wild? It's different this time they will tell us. Giggle. I think I also caught a Cramer clip saying it was time to buy.

5/3rd bank sucks in about every way possible. Maybe every way. You will have your very own personal banker that ain't worth a bent ****. Of course all banks suck, for the record.

The Tigers hitting approach at the plate looks like a bunch of drunk 10 year olds playing Wiffle ball in the dark under a full moon.

Which Economic Reports May be Cancelled Due to the Government Shutdown? Government shutdown = market all time highs (or close). You can't make this **** up.

He also hit a home run.

Except if you win game one.

They talk about The Mick, but he was a junk-baller, a completely different deal, so I agree. But, these guys throw every day, they have to. I don't know how to look it up, innings are easy to find (not really for me because I don't look for them) but I would be more interested in pitch counts. And how far between starts. Didn't Skubal have like 6 days between starts not long ago? Maybe the arms are too expensive today.

I just read he is the projected starter on Sunday. WWJLD? What would Jim Leyland do? He's my hero, followed his whole career. Was mad when they hired Sparky (had a dog named Sparky) instead of Jim. Was thrilled when he finally got the job. I live an hour a way from a high school baseball field named after him. I was so sad when he retired. I can't watch his hall of fame speech because I would cry like a baby. I'm guessing Jimmy would give Tarik the ball game one, and tell him to get it done. You take the game to them. Go with your best. Win game one, the pressure is on them. No matter, I'm going to get 40 years older in the next week.

Depending on what they decide, Skubal will pitch game 1 and 4, or 2 and 5. If he goes 1 and 4, game 4 will be in Detroit. If 2 and 5, both will be in Seattle. What is the advantage/dis-advantage to the ball park and matchups of the parks?

I want to win game one.