Wow. Can you imagine what would happen if an American car company's fully automated driving were responsible for the death of three teenagers in a fiery crash in Nevada?
I can only assume there'd be a full recall, the CEO would go on TV to apologize and resign.
But not everyone can be a beacon of freedom.
I did print myself a herome mount and everything awhile back. Added dual fans and whatnot, I was having a terrible time with petg surface quality, the dual fans helped a lot. I also had to reassemble my hotend to reprint something I messed up lol.
I'm at the point now where I've replaced so much on my ender that it doesn't really look like the machine I bought, except that it's still i3.
I'll check out the orbiter, thanks!
The lack of banding and wobble is excellent, especially compared to where you came from. You've got me thinking about a new extruder. I've got some no name aluminum extruder setup right now, but I've put enough abrasive filament through that it's made all my filament paths oblong.
Nice work!
It's like when you look at a piece of wood on your deck and you think: "do I need to replace that whole plank, or is it just fine?" So you stick a knife in to see how solid the wood is, does the knife immediately stop or does it plunge right through.
So we shall see just how rotten things are.
Operation Sea Spray
COINTELPRO
MK Ultra
Good thing it's terrible and will eat the resources of any business foolish enough to attempt to actually replace workers with it.
As an addendum to 4 - state level power is also required to protect aspiring communist societies (socialists) from antagonistic forces with state level resources. If your state is not strong enough, you will be undermined into destruction by external forces, colonial powers that will use this "failure" as both propaganda and a method of appropriating your resources to further colonial projects.
Also, as someone who lives in and was raised in the heart of empire, the amount of propaganda that we have ingested is unfathomable.
It is good practice when you find yourself asking about any topic that may be deemed antithetical to a settler colonial project to thoroughly examine the sources of the information you're basing your opinion on, and perhaps consider that while you may be a very intelligent and thoughtful individual, expertly crafted and ubiquitous propaganda can shape your opinion as well.
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That seems like far too little rain to do much farming without totally draining local aquifers.
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Rewild it with native flora, do yurts and whatever to attract people to live in a sustainable way with community gardening. Activities can initially revolve around returning the land to a more natural state. As things mature people will invest in the community themselves, creating their own activities etc.
Yeah... The spectrum of options arrayed before us appear to be heavily weighted towards enforcing arbitrary hierarchies which is... Not ideal.
"hey ho we love Joe!"
"Stop! Being! Mean! To! Us!"
"Our donors are mad!"
I think whether we like it or not economic systems have forced their way into our political systems.
And anyone with any existing power is strongly incentivized to kill any "new ideas" in the womb. As they would most likely represent a departure from the current system that they benefit from.
Any dramatic restructuring is going to be a very "significant" event. We may currently be on the precipice of one such event in the United States, this remains to be seen. The existing power structures have been significantly destabilized and pre-existing norms and rules are being outright ignored.
Power will shift, it remains to be seen how much and to where.
In any case, we may have the opportunity for you to see some new interesting governmental concepts, or perhaps a return to some classics, or a mix of the two (a little overtly capitalist fuedalism perhaps?).
We sure do live in interesting times.
Now that's some class solidarity.
One important thing for people to think about right now is "what happens when other countries don't accept deportees?"
They start to stack up. Housing, feeding, and guarding "dangerous undesirables" is expensive.
Surely, it would be patriotic to save your country money...
It might be too late. It might not, who's to say. Videos from this weekend have a very familiar ring to them though.
Common mistake. They based the movie on my life.
I learned magic then the cult followed. I meant to learn sleight of hand magic, but accidentally ended up with blood magic instead. The demons won't let me sleep, but I haven't missed a white rhino payment yet. (I wanted to go with a regular think cause who the hell wants to pay the premium, but to be honest the blood just contrasts so much better with the white rhino, it was a no brainer)
It's not all theHill's fault, there's plenty of blame to go around.
They didn't even push back against the reactionary talking points from the looks of it. The primary argument mentioned is "states' rights."
It's the same thing they've been doing with immigration, conceding every single point, until they eventually are running on "bipartisan legislation to address the issues!" That consists of all the Republican talking points from eight years ago.
The wrt54g was a workhorse, but the cooling....
Democrats hated "the gays" too until like 15 years ago.
It's the same as rainbow corporatism. It's all a facade used for political expediency. It's never actually about human rights. Both parties deserve the fates they get. Unfortunately they'll do everything they can to take us down with them.

My Best Ever Tolerance Test


As the title says, this is the best tolerance test I've been able to produce since I first started printing a few years ago. There's stringing, but that would be solved if I dried it, yes I dry pla too. This print is the Sci3d Clearance Test as downloaded in January 2023, from 0.5mm to 0.15mm clearances.
Every spinner is loose and easily moves, I actually had a bit of trouble with the center spindle due to a bit of over extrusion on the top layers.
My machine is a modified ender 3 pro with Klipper. Currently have a 0.4mm hardened steel nozzle mounted with 0.2mm layer heights.
Sliced with the latest release prusaslicer, custom printer, filament, and print profiles.
The filament is one of my favorite PLAs, Voxel PLA, this one is red, but they all print the same for me.
Sorry for the boring post, but this was a huge achievement for me and basically everyone I know wouldn't understand the magnitude of this kind of repeatable precision on such a low cost machine.
Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish


Heard what sounded like a massive flushing sound from the sky, turns out I was right.

<p>Some Tiny Hats!</p>


Just wanted to share a little success, after some wrangling I've finally got an M600 macro working on Klipper. I've been trying to print some ornaments for my holiday tree (a Christmas tree that I'm never taking down). These turned out pretty great!
(Ignore the wago connectors, they're "temporary")
ETA:
I used all Voxel PLA and found the model on printables. Sliced with Prusaslicer and just added the color changes at the appropriate layers.
Updated Guidelines for Groundwater contaminants take effect in 5 Days
36 contaminants have been added or updated on the "Human Health Based Water Guidance Table"
It's a list of chemicals that could be in your water and the health effects that the state department of health has determined are possible based on different exposure levels.
The actual usage of these guidelines only appear to be for state legislation, but if you're a well water user or a concerned city water user, this data might be of interest to you.
17 are new, 19 have updated guidelines
A Million Minnesota Q's
Hello Minnesotans,
In about a month I'll be joining your ranks. I'm buying a house just outside of St Cloud. It's not my first pick in terms of politics from what I've read, but the state laws are far better for my family than where we live now.
Aside from the fact that we're moving in November, which is one of my more brilliant strokes, to be sure, I'm very excited for this change.
I'm looking for any and all of your Minnesota advice.
I've got a pretty big family, gaggle of kids (from 2nd grade to sophomore in high school), a few dogs, and ambitions on some waterfowl next year maybe.
I'm not afraid of driving in snow, I grew up in MO, we got our share of snow, so I know that often judicious throttle control is better than frantic braking. However, I've never dealt with snow on that scale that sticks for that long. I think we're going from an average annual snowfall of 12ish inches to 40-something annual inches of snow.
Will a self-propelled two stage snowblower kill me on a coup