#Skill Set

[littlejadecrystal]

Ayla Wanhua - Ice Amplifier (1/2) Source

#punishing gray raven #ayla #pgr #pgr ayla #ayla wanhua #艾拉·万华 #Kuro Games #punishing gray raven ayla #gifset #my gifset #pgr gifset #Skill Preview #skill set #戰雙帕彌什 #战双帕弥什

[bard-owl]

I think everyone has heard the term “supply chain crisis” at this point. Manufacturing centers were first hit in late 2019 and most to the global lockdowns were in effect by the second quarter of 2020. It is now third quarter of 2022 and we are into year three of this “interruption”, it is time to discard this outdated and frankly wrong from the start system of manufacturing and distribution. Americans in particular were already caught in a state of duality in which much of the public laments that nothing is made domestically, while also discarding anything made by local shops as “overpriced hipster gear”. I have previously stated that for true domestic production to return to America there would need to be enough demand for the products to cause more competition and drive the prices down as domestic supply increased.

That is the current situation as I see it, so now what do we do about it? In the last decade one particular technology has taken off, once a novelty and hyper expensive tool for industrial prototyping, 3D printers have become affordable, commonplace, and surprisingly capable. While still used by many to produce novelty items and in industrial roles, this technology is akin to the movable-type printing press of the mid-1400s in that it represents an upset to the established order if utilized effectively. Now before this is dismissed I am aware of the limitations of what can be printed at home. More exotic and expensive versions are used to produce high strength items. But this is where it gets interesting, because it isn’t about everyone having a printer. It’s about everyone using home printers to get a head start on skills, hobbies, and trades they couldn’t afford to break into otherwise and then using those skills to work with each other.

Lathes or milling machines are both often said to be machines that make machines. 3D printers should be included in that list. Now there is nothing made on this machine that can’t be done with other tools and methods, but few that allow the low cost of entry and ease within a home settings. Open source software and thousands of free files allow anyone and everyone to make tons of tools, dies, forms, jigs, stencils, etc. as needed. I've seen sheet steel stamped on dies made from common PLA on a cheap press from Harbor Freight, or even just stuck with hammers. My cousin makes brackets for electronics with an entry level printer while his wife makes custom cookie cutters for various events on the same machine.

And that’s the thing about this, the broad range of applications combined with people’s varied and personal interests. With the addition of a chop saw and drill for extruded or tubular metal you can make strong supports for printed pieces to form a much larger machine. If you can make a drill press or milling machine, you can make a lathe, manually operated or CNC. I’ve seen people make large format CNC router tables that can quickly and efficiently cut and trim an entire sheet of plywood for assembly. If within a community most people have the ability to make their own simple plastic or resin tools and utensils, while someone has a garage metal shop, another a carpentry shop, a couple down the road a leather shop and sewing studio, someone else a pottery studio, even a small foundry for smelting and casting, you would have a far more self-reliant community than anything seen in a hundred years in much of the western world.

I was originally going to link a bunch of videos showing the possibilities and I still might add some later on about specific applications. But I really want everyone to give this some serious thought on their own. Is there a hobby or trade you are interested in but you’re concerned about the investment? Look at what the essential components are. Can the more complex ones be found used? The cheaper ones made at home? We, as in all of us, are in a massive web of unsustainable distribution and centralized manufacturing. I don’t believe the key is to change where that center is, but to replace it with local and regional decentralized networks of skilled individuals whom own their own tools and shops.

#self reliance #sustainability #decentralisation #3d printer #trades #hobbies #skill set #new skills #casting #welding #machining #carpentry #pottery

[www-avengersassemble]

#superior shield #avengers assemble #superior black widow #skill set #gamma flight #Youtube

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

why aren't there more mysteries that take place in nursing homes & retirement communities. i want to watch a group of deranged retirees-cum-amateur-detectives combine their powers of:

decades of life experience

boredom-fueled busybody shamelessness

access to the most gossipy next-door-neighbors in existence

"I am too old to be arrested and/or give a shit" attitude

and solve crimes. this should be an enormous subgenre.

#their sidekick/Watson/pet hacker is a 15 year old grandkid who hangs out with gram gram on the weekends #her only power is that she has above average search engine skills and flexible knees #which is completely sufficient to round out the group's skill set #they involve her in heist style operations #on the rare occasion she gets caught housebreaking she explains her grandma locked herself out of the condo and asked for help getting in #then this sweet slightly addled old lady shows up and explains she got the address mixed up #it's so confusing when you're old & all the houses look alike and oh she's so sorry to have caused so much trouble #and meanwhile the teenager is rolling her eyes bc she's aware gram gram was a career criminal & con artist for 50 years #anyway gimme a 80-year-old con artist turned amateur sleuth who loves getting older because people are less suspicious of little old ladies #this all takes place in florida naturally

[constructionsafetynetwork]

What Alternative Career Paths Have You Considered or Are Interested In? Exploring Beyond Construction Safety

What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in? The question, “What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in?” resonates deeply with countless professionals, regardless of their field. At some juncture in our professional journey, introspection leads us to weigh the myriad of possibilities outside our current domain. For those ingrained in the…

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#Adaptability #alternative careers #career paths #challenges #communication #Construction Safety #dailyprompt #dailyprompt-2101 #evolution #experiences #industry insights #innovation #knowledge #opportunities #problem-solving #professional growth #skill set #unique perspectives #versatility #well-being

[thedaveandkimmershow]

I won't lie. Chemistry's a wicked fun thing.

Chemistry?

Yeah. You know. Like with your date. Like with your girlfriend. Your fiancee. Your wife.

It's no kind of guarantee, mind you. It's not the single thing that makes long term relationships sustainable. Those relationships, after all, require a handle on multiple disciplines, a certain level of maturity, and I'm gonna go with a personality type. Because the idea isn't to just be married or just be in a long term relationship. The idea's to create a life together that's larger in scale than is otherwise possible. Love writ large on an infinite canvas (if you're into that kinda thing). Sooooo...

Chemistry.

We've always had that. Even before we were "we"... we had that.

It wasn't a romantic thing before we were a thing, of course. But we bugged each other. We gave each other a hard time. We indulged random drive-by banter, if you will, across the many years we traveled in overlapping social circles.

Now yesterday I toyed with the idea of a particle accelerator as a way of describing the motion of our lives in proximity to each other, the design of a particle accelerator being to seriously power up our individual velocities. Which is what happened.

We were full throttle pursuing our careers, you see. Powering up the adult chapters of our lives. Continuing the transition away from lives defined by the motions of our families across nearly two decades.

It's a timing thing, I'm forced to say. We knew each other for plenty of years before and... nothing. We simply continued around and around the particle accelerator as independent streams of energy until...

Yeah.

Chemistry.

I won't lie. That's some pretty sweet stuff. 😉

It wasn't only chemistry, though, which is another thing I'm forced to say because we were both particular kinds of people, definitely mature-er than our late teen versions, with particular passions, abilities, and skill sets. Seemingly we both hit some kind of character sweet spot at around the same time and at just the moment that our circular paths could become one circular path. Not that they would. Not that they were destined to. But that they could.

And then they did.

And it worked. We could do her life and my life not in tandem but together. We could make it one life and make it stick.

So...

Did we win the Lotto?

Yup. Kind of. It was a combination of timing and being the right fit for each other at that moment in our lives and also being the kind of people who could and did roll with everything that came after I said "I do" and she said "I do" and then we were pronounced.

You know?

Whew.

Glad that worked out.

☺️

#chemistry #relationships #long term relationships #dating #personality #character #maturity #ability #skill set #interests #passions #timing #time of life #marriage #friendship #thinging #speed of life #velocity

[joncronshawauthor]

The Ultimate Fantasy Assassin's Skill Set: 10 Abilities to Master

Fantasy assassins are skilled killers that add danger, intrigue, and excitement to a story. They are often depicted as having extraordinary abilities, making them formidable opponents and exciting characters to read. Here are ten essential skills that are required by fantasy assassins: 1. Stealth. Assassins are experts at moving unseen and unheard. They infiltrate places undetected and carry…

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#bladesmanship #disguise #escape and evasion #essential skills #fantasy assassin #hand-to-hand combat #lock picking #marksmanship #poison use #skill set #stealth #survival skills

[nerdpoe]

Danny wakes up, strapped into a rollercoaster train car with a bunch of other civilians, in a dilapidated amusement park, with an insane clown laughing through the speakers.

He can see that the track is entirely broken, and that it will send them straight to the ground.

Danny knows he won't die.

Danny knows the civilians in the train car with him will.

So he slowly freezes the wheels until the car stops, a mere four feet from the edge, allowing the icy tendrils to snake down the support struts and reinforce them. His eyes are letting out a faint blue glow, his hands frosted over, and he isn't so much focusing on keeping the ice stable as he is focusing on getting it into the gears and ensuring that the train car can't be knocked off the track.

Now the civilians are feverishly whispering words of encouragement to him, to keep it up, while the local vigilante family fights the Joker.

Why, oh why, did he think that going on vacation in Gotham was a good idea?

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #story prompt #phanfic #first thing danny does when they're all rescued to is ask the civilians to not blab that it was him with the ice #that he's not ready to tell his parents yet #gothamites are just like #“awww poor baby isn't out of the closet of course we can lie to the police don't you worry” #Batman is just impressed because he knows the kid has definitely got Mechanical Engineering skills #from how the ice was targeting certain areas #quietly making plans to the side on his phone for Wayne Enterprises to have a scholarship set aside for this kid #lmfao danny u ain't escaping gotham that easy

[sabrinaboglund]

5 Ways Your Mindset Equals Your Skill Set.

Our mindset is extremely important since it’s from your mindset your world begins. Every thought, every feeling, every action step… everything starts with your mindset.  The consequence is you are always 100% responsible for the outcome of your actions, your life and the reality you experience.  The power is that you have the full power and ability to change your mindset, and thereby all the…

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#depression #guides #happiness #manifestation #mindset #skill set #skillset #success #the power of the subconscious mind

[tenth-sentence]

Now let's assume that teaching someone else to fish is tricky and only succeeds half the time.

"Humankind: A Hopeful History" - Rutger Bregman

#book quote #humankind #rutger bregman #nonfiction #fishing #teaching #skill set #sharing skills #analogy

[jotbeat]

#business #leadership #supervisor #skillup #skill set

[littlejadecrystal]

꧁ 𝒮𝑒𝓁𝑒𝓃𝒶 𝒫𝒽𝒶𝓃𝓉𝑜𝓂 ꧂

#punishing gray raven #selena #pgr #pgr selena #selena phantom #赛琳娜·幻奏 #pgr taiwan #pgr tw #kuro games #punishing gray raven selena #gifset #pgr gifset #skill preview #skill set #戰雙帕彌什 #战双帕弥什

[radiatorchains]

#.mp666 #skill set #Spotify

[timothy-kang]

The takeaways of Grant Cardon's Unbreakable Challenge (2)

This is my second short takeaway from Gran Cardon's recent conference, "Unbreakable Challenge—session 1."

This is my second short takeaway from Gran Cardon’s recent conference, “Unbreakable Challenge—session 1.” The system is critical to success; a decent money mindset is also necessary, which can track where money is and does it goes. The winners of the money game never utilize conventional wisdom like saving money, diversifying investments, etc. Additionally, making a quick decision and speeding…

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#10x #accumulating money #Grant Cardon #Monetizing #quick decision #skill set #speed #system

[spacebetweenthespaces]

#society6 #learn #grow #skills #knowledge #learning #skillset #skill set

[thedaveandkimmershow]

We weren't completely taken by surprise by recent events although we were...

Taken by surprise.

What I mean is that Kimmer's the medical point person for her aunt and uncle. So even on the day, in the moment, that Kimmer's uncle was on the phone telling us he was in medical distress...

Kimmer was already part of his medical decision-making process and has been part of that process for her uncle and aunt. She is the person doctors, nurses, social workers, hospice coordinators, insurance companies, hospital and facility admins, even mortuary personnel...

Talk to.

She's on point. She's the one they call.

And they've been calling since the day her uncle was taken to the ER. They've been texting ever since. They've been emailing ever since. And, because Kimmer couldn't use her laptop until Wednesday night due to an unwelcome technical snafu, forty-four emails requiring her response and/or action were waiting patiently for her once she got into her email account again.

Forty-four.

Now, none of these communications have been or are reasonably spaced out in time. More often than not, two communications, two requests or more, are overlapping. Which, inevitably, they overlap with physical and logistical tasks she's already doing. So relentless multitasking has been her way. On the phone coordinating in the car between locations. Texting a reply while we're out shopping. Emailing while she's at any number of other places she's gotta be, hospital, mortuary, laundromat, for example, doing something else.

It all landed on her for real the moment her uncle called her.

Not everything, of course, is hers to bear. But the medical side of this is a huge piece of the pie. And, right now, it's front and center and won't let go. It's a full court press of experience that hijacked the entirety of her attention and focus.

And yes.

It's exhausting.

Which is sad because what should come first but is inevitably getting pushed to dead last is...

...processing the death of her uncle.

Processing.

The death.

Of her uncle.

She's not in this alone, of course. She's got huge amounts of support from her cousin and myself whether that's logistical support, troubleshooting, emotional support, or as straight up distractions.

Whatever it takes.

And that network of support is only growing as word of this passing ripples through friends and community.

You see, the demands that kick in when someone dies, well, the demands are an eclectic bunch, a head-scratching To Do list, drawing from a skill set and against a timeline that's impossible. At least, impossible for each of us.

None one us, by the way, not a single one, comes equipped with a wheelhouse that would allow us to successfully go solo within this circumstance in which we find ourselves.

So teamwork it is.

In fact, this entire experience has been a coordinated scavenger hunt/race/challenge relying on all of our efforts, each one of us focusing on our different areas of strength.

Fortunately, between the three of us, we have all the bases covered so that no one's head exploded like BAM. Billowing black smoke and flames.

It was a close thing, though. A very close thing. Because there's never time for any of us to focus on whatever we're working on in any given moment. There just isn't. Which is its own kind of relentless, mind-boggling stress. In fact, we've been doing a mental juggling act from the moment we got the call. From that 3am moment when we decided to hustle ourselves down on an 1130 flight the same morning.

It's the fastest we've ever pulled the trigger on simply leaving... and our heads are still spinning from that decision.

We're definitely running at the ragged edges of our abilities, no question.

Doing it together, though, overlapping what each of us is capable of, well...

That's what makes it all doable in the best way.

🙂

#death #arrangements #coordination #teamwork #skill set #ability #executive function #critical thinking #rest #re-energizing