Things that make a promethea happy:
- Productive capital in the form of a sewing machine.
- And not just any sewing machine, but an old one from before planned obsolescence was invented. A heavy noisy indestructible machine from the early 70′s with exactly 3 plastic parts.
- I was informed that the machine has been working excellently for four decades, but once those parts break it’ll be gone.
- I informed the person about the existence of a phenomenon known as 3d-printing.
- It’s fascinating how sufficiently new technology gives new life to sufficiently old technology.
- Old-time values were crap but they did know how to make some material things properly.
- It has no fancy electronic operating systems or insecure Internet of Shit features. Just mechanical goodness.
- If I’m going to have it controlled by a computer, it’ll be running a custom set of servos and shit anyway.
- And because it has maintenance hatches revealing access to all the parts, and easy aparttakeability and repairability and con- and outfigureability alike, I’m probably going to have a braingasm when I figure out what exact kind of a Babbagean engine it has outputting the fancy sewing patterns. Because it has them.
- This is a perfect hacker sewing machine. One might say it’s the Thinkpad of sewing machines.
- (Another thing it has in common with Thinkpads: lugging around four of these will hurt your back, and is not recommended.)
- These particular things are pretty much impossible to find on the market; they are known to be so excellent that nobody is willing to give them up.
- I pre-inherited one, which is the best form of inheriting because nobody has to die. Nepotism yay!
- (This is a good sewing machine, but I’m not convinced it’s quite worth anyone dying over. It does get closer than most things, but nah.
- (Or, when I think about it, if someone were to try to expropriate my sewing machine as a piece of productive capital owned by a corporation, it would be worth that someone dying over.))
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socialjusticemunchkin reblogged this from collapsedsquid and added:FUCKNOW I’M GOING TO BE THINKING ALL NIGHT ABOUT THE SPECIFIC SETUP OF CAMS AND GEARS AND SHIT THAT WOULD TOTALLY MAKE...
collapsedsquid reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:Gotta see if you can get it to work with punchcards tho (I know that’s not a sewing machine, but close enough)
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freacktheincrediblyhardtopoison said: What brand is it? I saw an old machine for sal at a thrift store recently and was considering getting it.
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