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In terms of prints, I've made a few functional prints to replace broken bits and greeblies around the house, recently printed and painted a mini from HeroForge (the .2mm nozzle is pretty pretty good) for a D&D game I'm in, and just started printing some stuff in 95A TPU. My sister (no pics) was in town for me and my wife's baby shower last weekend and I'm sending her home with a couple of mini airless basketballs printed in TPU.
Turns out they don't bounce much because the TPU more absorbs than reflects bounces, but they're still fun super durable toys for her kiddos.
I'm super excited to have my printer handy for all the little bits and bobs that you find yourself needing when you're expecting a little one in the house. Been trying to find some good childproofing latches for cabinets and whatnot, the markup on those is INSANE and I can print each one at like $0.50 of material each lol
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55 minutes ago, 52-80 said:
Also found a product/company I want to support. Prusa Research started by 1 young guy out of Prague, grew enough to verticalize the whole supply chain, makes everything in house, all products are modular, scaleable, open-source, etc. Can get a Mini+ kit for around 500.
Prusa is the OG and definitely a company worth supporting, but at $500 you get a ton more features and functionality and SPEED with the Bambu A1 mini compared the Prusa Mini.
But if you're looking to have and tinker the 3D printer as the hobby, rather than just printing a bunch, the Prusa units are the best in class. You'll learn a ton and the completely open platform means you can upgrade stuff pretty easily along the way.
But you'll also probably be spending as much time getting the printer happy and ready for prints, as you are actually printing
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7 hours ago, immamac said:
So the iPhone issue is due to the new rendering in safari. Apple devs are incompetent I’ve had it happen on a bunch of sites. Especially text heavy ones.
Tfw all the iOS browsers are just webkit with a different skin
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28 minutes ago, immamac said:
The kotaku thing is so weird. Not sure what to think of it tbh I feel like it’s going the right way vs the wrong way with focusing on game guides instead of clickbait bullshit culture.
Kotaku for all it's warts actually does some decent reporting every now and then. But I think the bigger thing is realizing that much of that industry doesn't exist in it's current "normal" without extremely low interest rates. It's hard to have a big staff of writers and editors and SMEs when there's no advertising dollars for their content anymore
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30 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:
The thesis is simple idiocy deep fried in conspiracy. People speculate in the derivatives and stock market. No way! I don’t know why you’re trying to gleam kernels of truth from conspiracy theories.
It's moreso that stock values are driven by the speculation, and not the stock driving the speculation. It's the tail wagging the dog, driven largely by institutions doing insane shit like shorting well over 100% of the shares that even exist for a company for extended periods of time to influence market pricing.
It's not a conspiracy theory, it's empirical observation.
We don't play the same game as they do. Were the chips on the table
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5th circuit says the Environmental Protection Agency lacks the authority to regulate toxic chemicals being released by products
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FTC is finally taking a look at the price coordination that has been happening via the pricing services that have become ubiquitous
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fixing-algorithm-still-price-fixing
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38 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:
I'm sorry, how does a stake in a company that lost $49 million and only took in $3.4 million equate to $3.5 billion?
Our """free market""" doesn't believe in punishing failure if you're charismatic and powerful enough.
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48 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:
I'm still on Podcast Addict (Android) which works for me.
Lately:
The Jeff Gerstmann Show, Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod, & Nextlander: I'm not a huge video game guy, but I really enjoy listening to these three podcasts as they're full of old school video game journalists who are in their mid to late 40s now and have similar opinions on life that I do which makes for a good time. Jeff is also a hilarious person in general in that he fills 3hours a week talking to himself about video games. Jeff is also ranking every single NES game on Twitch/Youtube on Friday nights which is fun.
Pod Save America - It is election season after all and I like these dudes.
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era - Trade podcast for the Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. It deals a lot in pop history so anyone can listen, but it does get in the weeds sometimes.
Check out adding Remap Radio if you're into longtime videogame industry folks. It's where Patrick Klepek and the ex Vice Waypoint gang went. And if you're a Star Wars nerd, definitely check out A More Civilized Age
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10 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:
I imagine many clerk type jobs just expired as IT got better but that’s still a pretty astounding number while tracking population growth. A lot of U.S. public sector is remarkably efficient and functioning especially when compared to even developed nation counterparts but people aren’t ready to have that discussion.
Well duh then they wouldn't have as many talking points about how the gubmint is bad and inefficient as a way to pitch you on buying their crypto
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22 minutes ago, hornbri said:
Yeah and that's part of the equation - apple also actively prevents users from using any other client but iMessage for handling texts, by virtue of their walled garden app store. Text messaging is just one facet of the lawsuit and antitrust action being brought
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8 minutes ago, hornbri said:
Are you saying you cannot have those apps on a iPhone? All of those app’s are in the App Store. I use WhatsApp frequently on my iPhone.
Oh good I can sign up and go give my data and message history to facebook so that I can send a video better than potato quality! TBH my wife and I use signal for that usecase, but the various family texts are always needlessly made worse by Apple's policy decisions around iMessage.
It's very much a significant barrier to anyone who is completely uninclined to technology. There is a real impact of green bubble vs blue bubble because the experience is actively made worse for apple users to talk to non apple users. That's an anticompetitive tactic.
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5 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:
I don't think it at all, and it's the website I spend the most time on outside of here.
For one, it's only $7B market cap. But more importantly, it just isn't mainstream enough.They also have been taking tens of millions in losses despite significant revenue growth (according to their filings)
Their operating loss is greater than what it cost them to get that business in the first place for goodness sakes lol
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Just now, Biff Tannen said:
And y'all took it and made some pretty bad ass music. I'm looking around at Gen Z right now and...not seeing that.
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32 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
Theoretically, yes, but the vast majority of private-sector employees don't work in some competitive thunderdome. A whole hell of a lot of em just get by.
This is true not just for the IC's but the management and executives too. Just because someone is paid a shit ton doesn't mean that they've done anything to earn it. Hell look at pretty much any silicon valley unicorn startup founder, like Adam Neumann for example. Dude created a massive ponzi scheme with WeWork and sold it off to SoftBank which nearly tanked them. Their entire product was the stock symbol and FOMO.
Now Neumann is getting into the rent to own apartment business and has already raised $300,000,000 after causing over $15,000,000,000 in losses. There's objectively no consequences for failure at the tippy top of the pyramid, as long as you are rich and charismatic enough
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1 minute ago, SaucyJack said:
So you believe she is not only stupid, but also corrupt?
Member when that would get you labeled as hysterical? I member.
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1 hour ago, kingkoopa6 said:
You must be on season 1 with the kwon episodes
I do like how they finally paid off all of her mysticism stuff, it's a neat and spooky thing to have a connection to ancient ancestors that are within
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8 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:
I have another perspective. After Trump destroys the Republican party, maybe he should destroy the Church?
Honestly he already has destroyed "the church". There's been so many schisms in the last few years over trumpian culture war grievances, not to mention the outright campaigning that happens regularly from the pulpit.
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4 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
If she just flat fucks the jury instructions and that results in an acquittal, we will all be holding our dicks.
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re: muh kids are overly politicized!
Maybe it's that a bunch of adults are just acting like shit heel bullies and throwing around slurs like "retard" and "schizo", and the kids are just calling out bullshit amirite @52-80
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What a fucking finale. THIS is some mothafuckin HALO
Edit: lol surly is the best
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20 minutes ago, elfenix said:
apparently china is demanding all 5G devices use RCS
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/20/apple-rcs-message-compliance-china-law/
And the thing is - Apple can still use iMessage with RCS. Nothing wrong with that at all. But they're kneecapping every experience that is not from another iMessage user, and ensuring that no solution can be integrated and enforcing a 300KB max data size transfer with anyone outside of the iOS ecosystem.
That's a pretty clearcut antitrust issue, in my opinion. And seriously, read the previous findings of fact in the Microsoft case from 2002. There's quite a bit that rhymes with what Apple is doing today.
3 minutes ago, Fastbreak said:Great. SMS is a 30 year old standard that is not very good and not secure. Should Apple be forced to support fax or dial up?
Yeah I agree. Apple should stop slavishly holding onto SMS and adopt RCS like the rest of the world. They are the ones making it be a problem.
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18 minutes ago, Fastbreak said:
I guess people have never heard of WhatsApp, messenger, Skype, WeChat, blah blah blah. Every major messaging platform is on iOS. Sure you use a shitty android chat but who want to use that shit?
And if you want to make a messaging platform, Apple provides FREE developer tools.
I’ve made over 30 apps/games and my revenues are 100000/1 on the App Store vs google play.
Just because other platforms are shitty, it doesn’t mean the best is bad…The issue is SMS messaging, which is specifically NOT any of the data based messaging services you mentioned. On android I could have signal or messenger or WhatsApp or Textra whatever the fuck else handle my texts. On iPhone I can only use iMessage and nothing else - and nobody but iPhone users can use iMessage.
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17 minutes ago, 52-80 said:
well, the thing is, fatty was right. maybe not in the percentages, but the fact that the cost of eating out (black) matched wages (dashed red)-- specifically wages for individual, non-supervisory employees in mostly very blue collar jobs. the other lines are cost of food at home, and blended total food spend.
you didnt specify a timeframe but mentioned "previous twenty years" so i rounded up to a nice 2000 start date.
switching gears to talks of the "middle class stagnation/shrinking", these might rile people up a bit:
this is from the Congressional Budget Office's late 2023 publication of Distribution of Household Income, pages 26 and 28
and then this one...if you consider 20-80th income as middle class, its size has been constant.
in fact if you segregate the middle three quintiles as working class (20-40), middle class (40-60), and upper middle (60-80), itll show the "middle" did shrink because they promoted upwards into the upper middle!
Lol a FRED graph showing averages, which we know are extremely top heavy thanks to median data, and then a couple of percentage increase graphs which really nicely conceal the truth of how fucking far apart those pay numbers are
Truly, you are a master of graph based communication.
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
in Daily Texan
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IMO you're missing the bigger picture if your end course of action is to demonize a particular type of website. The bigger problem that enabled and fuels and allows the micro targeting and doomscrolling, is that it's open season on buying and selling user data. My wife bought some pregnancy books on Amazon, and all of a sudden Instagram was pushing all sorts of horrific pregnancy stories to her feed. It was like as soon as one entity knew, they all knew, and they all wanted to put the most upsetting thing in front of her that would keep her scrolling.
Yes, social media was the mechanism that actually expressed the negativity - but it would not be so all encompassing and overwhelming if people had any sort of right to privacy on the internet. THAT is the larger and more common denominator, moreso than any one type of website