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Manufactured Housing: Further HUD Action is Needed to Increase Available Loan Products | U.S. GAO
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-105615

Manufactured Housing: Further HUD Action is Needed to Increase Available Loan Products
Manufactured housing—prefabricated, factory built homes—can be an affordable option for lower-income homebuyers. But some borrowers may not qualify...

The US launches a probe into possible security risks of Chinese-manufactured vehicles, saying modern cars are like smartphones and could be used for espionage (Jeanne Whalen/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/48AgN2M

U.S. launches investigation of Chinese vehicles, citing security risks
The Biden administration announced a probe into possible security risks of Chinese-manufactured vehicles, citing modern cars’ sensors, cameras and software.

Silicon spikes kill 96% of virus particles: RMIT Uni research team has made a virus-killing surface that could help control disease spread in hospitals etc.
https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2024/mar/silicon-nanospikes

Silicon spikes take out 96% of virus particles
An international research team led by RMIT University has designed and manufactured a virus-killing surface that could help control disease spread.

Depth-Resolved Characterization of Centrifugal Disk Finishing of Additively Manufactured Inconel 718
Kenneth M. Peterson, Mustafa Rifat, Edward C. DeMeter, Saurabh Basu, Darren C. Pagan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19084 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19084
arXiv:2404.19084v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Surface characteristics are a major contributor to the in-service performance, particularly fatigue life, of additively manufactured (AM) components. Centrifugal disk finishing (CDF) is one of many rigid media, abrasive machining processes employed to smooth the surfaces and edges of AM components. Within the general family of abrasive machining processes currently applied to AM, CDF is moderate in terms of material removal rate and the inertial forces exerted. How CDF alters the underlying microstructure of the processed surface is currently unknown. Here we employ profilometry and high-energy X-ray diffraction to characterize surface finish, crystallographic texture, and anisotropic distributions of residual microscale strain as a function of depth in CDF-finished Inconel 718 manufactured with laser powder bed fusion. Surfaces are finished using both unimodal and bimodal finishing media size distributions. We find that CDF will remove surface textures from AM components, but generally not alter the bulk texture. CDF is also found to impart significant amounts of residual microscale strain into the first 100 $\mu$m from the sample surface.

I went to the automatic carwash for a "splash and dash" yesterday and there was a label on the automatic pay machine that said: "Not for use with aluminum manufactured vehicles" and my first thought was. Oh darn, guess my Cybertruck is out.😂

This is a fantastic article documenting the progression of covid propaganda. Excellent work.
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent

How the press manufactured consent for never-ending COVID reinfections
Continual reinfection was not the "new normal" Biden advertised. How did we get here?

From the vault...
The Hertella Auto Kaffeemachine was the first and only known* dashboard-mounted coffee maker. Manufactured in 1959 specifically for the Volkswagen Beetle, it came with porcelain cups which could stick to the machine magnetically.

The Hertella Coffee Machine Mounted on a Volkswagen Dashboard (1959): The Most European Car Accessory Ever Made
Current auto-industry wisdom holds that no car without cup holders will sell in America. Though this also seems to have become increasingly true across the rest of the world, I like to imagine there still exists a country or two whose driving public holds fast against that particular design vulgarism.

I went to the automatic carwash for a "splash and dash" yesterday and there was a label on the automatic pay machine that said: "Not for use with aluminum manufactured vehicles" and my first thought was. Oh darn, guess my Cybertruck is out.😂

i should finally seek out #ADHD treatment (and diagnosis), but somehow people saying "there'll be a 3 year waiting time" really doesn't help me get motivated 😑…
gotta love manufactured medical scarcity 🙄…

i should finally seek out #ADHD treatment (and diagnosis), but somehow people saying "there'll be a 3 year waiting time" really doesn't help me get motivated 😑…
gotta love manufactured medical scarcity 🙄…