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Ryan McDermott

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Dad of at least 3. Medicore: python/go/js/C, machinist, circuit designer, welder, fabricator, Catholic, and sailor. Previously: fire-effects carny.

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Ryan McDermott
2 months
Here is how to use fusion360:
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Ryan McDermott
57 minutes
You absolutely cannot get rid of the desire to monitor the situation no matter how hard you try.
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One very insane thing I learned when my wife and I stayed with the Amish last winter was this:. I was reading an Amish mail order catalog; when I saw toys, I knelt down to show the kids. They were fascinated by them, but when the "toy trucks" page came up, the boys went nuts.
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Ryan McDermott
23 hours
I’ve lived at both ends of this spectrum. The actual money coming in has almost nothing to do with the way you live your life. The money is just a resource you use to live it. If you’re not living the life you want at $30k/yr, you’re not going to do it at $300k/yr either.
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Nick Huber
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How much money do you need coming in every month to do exactly what you want to do, when you want to do it?. I think my number is $30,000. Beyond that, life wouldn't change much at all.
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Ryan McDermott
23 hours
Vegas in its current form could only exist for a single generation. Seeing hundreds of elderly sitting, alone, feeding money into slot machines, is one of the most depressing things I’ve ever seen. Nobody could see that, and then go on to live it themselves.
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Brian Allen
2 days
🚨 BREAKING: Las Vegas just reported an 11% drop in tourism revenue; a stunning signal that a recession is knocking. Vegas is the canary in the coal mine. When people stop spending there, it means they’re cutting back everywhere.
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Ryan McDermott
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The locks in Sault Sainte Marie were built in 2 years in the mid 1800s. Another lock, proposed in 1986, and finally began construction in 2009, *might* come online by 2030. What are we doing?.
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Ryan McDermott
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These are the locks in Sault Sainte Marie, MI. The ore coming from Northern Minnesota’s iron range comes through here in massive (1000ft) bulk carriers, as it moves towards the steel mills on the southern parts of the Great Lakes. Absolutely essential to industrialized America
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Ryan McDermott
3 days
We already have a term for these things. They’re called toasters.
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Ruben Gallego
3 days
Sick of yelling “REPRESENTATIVE” into the phone 10 times just to talk to a human being? . My new bill makes sure you don’t have to talk to a clanker if you don’t want to.
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Ryan McDermott
3 days
How could you not be hopeful?.
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Helion
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We've started construction on the site of the world's first fusion power plant, Orion. Located in Malaga, WA, Orion will begin delivering electricity from fusion to Microsoft by 2028. Read more:
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Ryan McDermott
5 days
This is the ore docks in Two Harbors, MN - about 45 minutes north of Duluth.
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Ryan McDermott
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This is Duluth, MN. Your iron ore comes here via train car, gets loaded into a bulk carrier that sails east to Sault Sainte Marie, where it access Lake Michigan and south to steel mills. Duluth/Superior (sister towns which straddle the MN/WI border) are absolutely vital to the
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Ryan McDermott
5 days
What if we made more steel in the US what then?.
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Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈
6 days
the pitch to carmakers right now seems to be “build in the US and you’ll have to pay a 50% tariff on your steel and a 25% tariff on your car parts. Or build in EU/Japan and you’ll only have to pay a 15% tariff”. What are we even doing here.
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Ryan McDermott
5 days
“I’m tired, boss.”. These old bulk carriers have been keeping the Steel Industry in the US alive for 70 years. This one cracked her hull last summer and is getting fixed up at Fraser Shipyards in Superior, WI.
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Ryan McDermott
7 days
This is the Hull Rust Mahoning mine in Hibbing MN. If you want steel that’s made in America, it will almost always come from here or somewhere nearby.
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Ryan McDermott
7 days
This is taconite. If you want to make steel products in the US with steel made in the US, this is what you start with. Over the next week I’m going to follow this as it makes its way from here in the iron range, down to Gary, Indiana where it becomes steel.
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Ryan McDermott
8 days
My wife and I have celebrated the “Curtis Means Line”, that is; the youngest baby ever born to survive, when we cross it for all of our kids. I guess we’re updating the name. Also: this is an appropriate thing to cry about.
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New York Post
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Iowa boy born at just 21 weeks becomes Guinness World Records ‘most premature baby’ ever
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Ryan McDermott
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We have arrived in the Iron Range in northern Minnesota. This is where around 80% of the iron ore used in the US Steel industry originates. Iron here is so abundant that the rocks leave rust on your hands. Reindustrialization begins here.
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Ryan McDermott
8 days
This is my quant.
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8 days
this guy has been buying and returning 110lb anvils on Amazon for 8 months now
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Ryan McDermott
10 days
RT @dekirtley: To scale fusion electricity in the U.S., we need more than science. We need factories, supply chains, and smart regulation.….
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Ryan McDermott
10 days
Reindustrializng means buidling more steel mills, building more bulk carriers, and moving more iron ore out of Northern Minnesota. It's going to take hundreds of billions of dollars, and will be a national-scale infrastructure project. It's not going to happen in California.
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Ryan McDermott
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In 2016, my friends and I built this crazy space tank and took it all over the country shooting fire. Her unofficial rollout song was "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath. Seemed appropriate. Obv thinking of Ozzy Osbourne today. This thing was almost 30 feet wide, had 8 liquid fueled
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Ryan McDermott
12 days
Jubilee "surrounded" is the rhetorical equivalent of the old "bum fights" movies. Watching this stuff feels exploitive (and it's hard to look away).
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