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Captainant

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  1. There's about to be a LOT of food waste and spoiled crops from arresting and deporting everyone who was working the fields
  2. Captainant

    3D Printing

    I just realized I never got back to you, I would focus on the dimensions that "bound" the geometry you care about. So like for the ladle, I would get the diameter and length of the straight section and then the length, width, and depth of the spoon section. If you use tracing techniques with your design, you basically just drop in a picture of the thing, trace/sketch it, and then add your critical dimensions back as constraints to your sketch to ensure it's correct where it matters, and good enough everywhere else. I haven't tried any food safe resins, but it's an available product that's used for sealing counters and food service uses. If you FDM print something, you can make it "food safe" with a thin resin coat to fill in the gaps and nooks and crannies. What sort of printer/materials do you use?
  3. congrats, you've built a Generative Adversarial Network! The architecture is already pretty effectively for building extremely narrow subject matter expertise, but it's hideously expensive for even a toy-size model
  4. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-aware-reported-death-american-after-beating-by-israeli-settlers-2025-07-12/ RAMALLAH, West Bank, July 11 (Reuters) - A Palestinian American man was beaten to death by settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and a second man was shot dead, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement, in a confrontation overnight. U.S. citizen Sayafollah Musallet, 20, also known as Saif, was severely beaten in the incident on Friday evening in Sinjil, north of Ramallah, the ministry said. Hussein Al-Shalabi, 23 was shot in the chest. Musallet's family, from Tampa Florida, said in a statement that medics tried to reach him for three hours before his brother managed to carry him to an ambulance, but that he died before reaching the hospital. "This is an unimaginable nightmare and injustice that no family should ever have to face. We demand the U.S. State Department lead an immediate investigation and hold the Israeli settlers who killed Saif accountable for their crimes," the family statement said.
  5. It's literally a Republican platform position now. There's a reason Johnny Sack has been so ecstatic
  6. Trumps July 4th post literally said he wanted use "REMIGRATION" to maga. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration Remigration is a far-right European concept of ethnic cleansing[1] via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, usually including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
  7. https://newrepublic.com/article/190623/trump-mass-deportations-prison-labor
  8. you seem to be forgetting that no warning whatsoever seems to have reached the camp or town until at least 5AM on July 4th. Fuck talking about voting records, I would like to know if the ball was dropped or if everything went to plan. Because that's a pretty important distinction and thing to know.
  9. Ok yeah, the county approving the additional cabins to be built IN THE FLOODWAY in the 2019 expansion is a problem. Mystic and their insurers are going to have a bad time in litigation with that fact
  10. Thank you for posting a good source on this - I've read it in commentary but hadn't had a good visual from a trustworthy source to show it. That's going to be a big problem for Mystic that they had camper cabins in the floodway of the most dangerous flooding alley in America. I do think the ultimate failure is in no warnings or word (seemingly) reaching the camp, since nobody else got a warning until it was too late too. I really hope that different decisions will be made this time around to prioritize safety.
  11. Strong stuff from this writer, makes a very good case for Roberts being a worse Chief Justice than even Taney or Fuller https://www.publicnotice.co/p/john-roberts-worst-chief-justice-of-all-time closing paragraphs are basically the thesis
  12. From everything we've seen so far, the county wasn't even sending out weather alerts to just their local residents until 5AM through their codeRED alerting system (per NYT reporting and ABC reporting), and many resident didn't actually recieve the flood alert until 10AM on July 4. I really do fear that the campers, counselors, and camp are victims of the state and local leadership's negligence.
  13. "land owner wants cheap labor to do his hard work for his farm, news at 11" I'll bet he's first in line requesting slave prisoner workers
  14. Yeah yeah yeah delays to getting notices and resources out there. BUT BAW GAWD THERES A BLUE ALERT 200 MILES AWAY!!! Really really wonderful reminder of the states priorities
  15. It really has had more than it's fair share of gremlins https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/boeing-investigates-quality-problem-undelivered-787s-sources-say-rcna157034 This is just one of the more recent quality control issues with the airframe production
  16. On that note, at least suppressors may finally come off the NFA. It would make range trips and hunting much more pleasant
  17. You are doing the exact same schtick as the mayor of Kerrville is by shaking your finger and say "SHAME ON YOU" to shout down anyone you see as opposition and smaller than you. But its your board, so ultimately you're right and I'm wrong and we're gonna do it your way.
  18. And if the rules are "facts are for the Cloak Room" then ok cool, let's just be fucking honest and not lie to ourselves.
  19. This is exactly why I disagree with imma's assertion that he doesn't "control the message, [he] doesn't shape the threads". He absofuckinglutely does. He rolled out the red carpet for Pronghorn to blast racist disinformation and known foreign agitprop as a news source, and then the mods swung their dicks around on anyone who points that out. Because "nobody cares if it's lies, it's not against the rules to be an idiot". Yeah, TOTALLY not shaping the narrative or controlling the message to say that they are above reproach and their dogshit and frequently recanted sourcing doesn't smell like shit. It's very literally creating a safe space for disinformation and those who want to disseminate it. And look, I understand that it would just be easier if we like all got along man. But that requires a common set of facts and a single reality. And the way DT is ran, you can simply cry "CR!!!" to paper over any factual vacancies you might have pointed out to you.
  20. Now imagine this happening at the executive level at pretty much every big enterprise. Hey, at least it means more job security for me when everything breaks and they need someone to untangle their mess that they lack the comprehension to even describe, much less optimize
  21. And it remains to be fully explained what exactly Kerr County did in response to the flash flood watch and warning alerts sent out by NWS, you're absolutely right that the camp itself may be victim of the county's negligence in all of this. But Mystic was also the folks operating a camp in the most flood prone area of the country during flash flood conditions, with nobody standing watch for hundreds of souls. Who knows if their emergency planning even had a watch stander, or if one is even required by the State? More questions to be ignored and shouted down with accusations of politicizing things, I guess.
  22. I've talked to folks at a bar who have said shit like "I didn't like my doctors opinion, so I fed my x-ray to grok and it diagnosed me" and thought that was a totally normal and smart thing to do. There's millions of people just signing over their executive function to a large language model because critical thinking is hard. They are so incredibly vulnerable to the sort of mental tuning that musk and zuck excel at with their algorithmically driven platforms and LLM-driven assistants
  23. The issue I have here is that the State kept no records as copy of the evac plan. They were all on-site and likely destroyed in the flood. So there isn't really an authoritative record of their plan that was approved aside from "trust me, bro" I have a hard time believing that the plan was acceptable, given the empirical outcome of its execution. And yet, expressing that opinion is somehow political in the eyes of the overlords.
  24. The imma crash out last night was legendary. Facts are political on Surly now. Or at least, facts that make conservatives no longer comfortable with keeping their heads happily in the sand are political. He claims to not dictate conversation, and here he is again building a fucking safe space so they can avoid the ugly truth of how badly their history of (R) votes failed hundreds of Texans on July 4th weekend in Kerrville. Fucking ridiculous that facts and investigative reporting are considered CR by the aggy in chief. It's giving cover to "it could have been worse" and preemptively justifying doing nothing to prevent future deaths. But goddamnit, they can post as much racist hate filled immigrants ragebait as they want in DT!
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