• Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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    11 hours ago

    The sewing machine. Like we got 3d printers than can give me whatever I want in 20 hrs but I still got to fight with a sewing machine to stitch an outfit. Like why no polyester clothes printer?

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      5 hours ago

      We have knitting machines, and automated looms (weaving machines,) we even have sergers for fancy sewing. Its just plain easier to make the finished product as a custom job since humans aren’t uniform in size, and it’s way easier to weave a rectangular piece of cloth than any other shape.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      For one, polyester fabric and clothes are just terrible

      Two, technically you can 3d print a chainmail shirt, but it’d suck to wear normally