I can’t control other people. Other people can choose to not be my friend, to not invite me anywhere, to not talk to me, to leave whenever I show up.

No, having friends is something beyond my control.

Another reason to avoid Bambu is that they use their own proprietary printer code file type (.bgcode instead of .gcode). Blatant attempt at userlocking/walled garden ecosystem.

I have an Anycubic and I never connected it to the internet. It calibrates offline and prints fine from a USB.

I don’t use their official apps, just OrcaSlicer which is open source (and “stealth mode” disables telemetry). The printer works great though.

The only functionality that seems to require internet (besides printing from the app or networking with the slicer) is the camera which is supposed to detect misprints and pause/cancel a project to avoid waste or skip an object so the spaghetti doesn’t ruin the rest.

But I don’t use that feature and it’s fine, just watch your first few prints so you know what tends to fail and what needs extra support, and watch any projects that might be iffy until you get a good idea of what doesn’t adhere well. But keeping your print plate clean goes a long way for good adhesion (avoid touching the center where projects print, and use dish soap to wash it when projects stop sticking).

That would require friends, which is a factor beyond my control…

Infrasound isn’t some fringe conspiracy theory, it’s well-understood, and infrasound weapons are banned by the laws of warfare because they literally torture people to death and can cause internal bleeding.

The infrasound in this article is obviously less intense than a deliberately designed weapon, but it can still cause extreme discomfort, pain, illness, and stress.

This is why I love her.

By the way, there’s only one pedal.

You’re right it must have been the simultaneous years of heavy drinking that wrecked my stomach

Well the context from the post makes it seem pre-exclusive because “talking to” is the name of a phase before exclusivity.

Because “dating” is confusingly starting to take on the same meaning as “in a relationship with,” which makes no sense but vernacular language doesn’t care about contradictions

Sometimes I wonder if these guys like being angry. Because they seem to be looking for stuff to be angry about all the time.

They won’t have to look for it, they’re being manipulated by social media algorithms.

Doesn’t excuse their hate, but it makes more sense when you think of them like old men with dementia who can’t keep their racism to themselves because they think this is still 1950…

Legislatures should not be allowed to cancel primaries (or any election!)

As much as elections are and forever should be in the purview of the states, some things like anti-gerrymandering laws should be standardized at the federal level.

Breaking it up by state only disadvantages the ones who put redistricting in the hands of independent commissions while allowing the one’s with highly asymmetrical legislatures in charge of redrawing maps to continue blatant gerrymandering (coincidentally it tends to be republican states that do this, hmm I wonder why…)

In the 4-3 decision, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the April referendum violated the state Constitution because amendments must be passed twice by the legislature, with an election in between. The first time they passed it was after early voting started, so it doesn’t count.

What in the ever-loving mental gymnastics?

They should have made the fences with a critical weak point that they leak to resistance groups.

No fence just means the gestapo will look for another contractor.

Ah, but you’re forgetting that any media depiction of misogyny is assumed to be an endorsement of it, even though failing to depict misogyny is seen as obscuring it and therefore also endorsing it.

I don’t understand all these mental hoops we’re supposed to jump through these days just to avoid every faux pas. Some of these hoops are even in opposite directions…

Does that apply both ways? Cause everything I’ve read about modern dating culture is that women can talk to as many men at a time as they want to as long as they’re not exclusives, and if a man doesn’t like that then he’s an insecure chauvinist loser. At least that’s what I’ve been told.

But it’s still not okay for men to talk to multiple women at a time? I’m tired of these double standards.

Why does Europe keep americanizing?

401k, tipping schemes, and I swear these aren’t the only things I’ve heard.

Stop trying to be like the US! The US is not better! That should be obvious at this point.

Funny, this is the same cloudflare that harasses me every time I open a new tab on certain websites to check that I’m not a bot…

How ironic…

It typically doesn’t set on until you’ve been smoking like that for years.

But smoking like that is like driving a tractor-trailer down a steep hill. It’s hard to stop.

You think those women are there for free?

Fuck that. One of the biggest offenders of web scraping and bot traffic wants to force us all to install their spyware just to verify that we’re human when there have already been much simpler ways to do this without that bullshit captcha for years…