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Captainant

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  1. It doesn't matter if 2020 is reproducible while 2016 and 2024 are more likely models for recreation. And like others have pointed out, you're assuming there will be actual open elections which is not really take-to-the-bank solid anymore. Remember, were at the "arresting judges for not following illegal orders" phase. Historically speaking it's still the early 1930's in our Weimar Republic
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    3D Printing

    I know this is a more serious answer than you meant, but if you can get a good side-on profile picture and provide a few critical dimensions it's not too hard to recreate something in CAD. Print-wise you should never use FDM prints with food. The surface texture is inherently going to have all sorts of nooks and crannies that bacteria will grow in, not to mention that printers aren't food safe rated and use lubricants that aren't safe to eat. To recreate it, you could model it and then send that 3d model or CAD off to PCBway or some other print service to actually make the thing in metal or food-safe resin
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    3D Printing

    What printer are you using? You'll probably want an enclosed and heated chamber to avoid any warping, on top of hardening your hot end and extruder gears
  4. Slight upgrade from a 3080 12GB - my wife wanted to upgrade her 1070 so she could play Inzoi, so she gets the hand-me-down 3080
  5. I upgraded to a 5070ti and it fuckin rips. It can play everything at at least 4k60 on high, and if I turn on the DLSS and framegen it hits 4k120 on most games on ultra. My desktop monitor is 1440p so its ultra across the board. It's a TON of GPU acceleration for compute too which is nice
  6. Fun trivia bit I just learned - Gilroy's son was one of the nascent Maya Pai leaders, and his nephew was the other
  7. Lulz putting taxes on the receipt as a line-item is a hostile and political act. """IF""" they have tariffs amirite Incredulity?
  8. Man, Admiral Adama is just about the farthest character away from Donald Trump I could think of. BSG got real weird in the back half but it holds up pretty well
  9. Can't wait for the surly business leader community to twist themselves into a pretzel trying to find a way to justify the government directly telling a business what to say and how to run it's business
  10. You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities. - Winston Churchill
  11. unfortunately, these kinds of trucks aren't legal to make anymore due to emissions regulations. Not to beat a dead horse, but the regs had a loophole that just made trucks bigger instead of more efficient
  12. Firefly has a launch in about 25 minutes - launching a tech demo satellite payload to demonstrate their rocket's suitability for commercial launches. Interesting tech with electrically powered pumps for the fuel, rather than chemically powered through combustion gasses with typical fuel turbopumps
  13. This is a propagandists dream - a map to every voter's amygdala
  14. Your shareholders will be pleased with your conversion of SG&A into depreciable capex
  15. USA Today with some great reporting: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/trump-venezuelan-gang-deportations-alien-enemies-act/83253074007/ Trump administration officials directed law enforcement nationwide to pursue suspected gang members into their homes, in some cases without any sort of warrant, according to a copy of the directive exclusively obtained by USA TODAY. ... The memo was provided to USA TODAY by the open government group, Property of the People, which they obtained through a records request. Legal experts examined the document that reveals the following: It provides directives to front-line officers apprehending suspected Tren de Aragua members, suggesting officers obtain a warrant of apprehension and removal “as much as practicable.” Those administrative warrants are signed by immigration officers, not judges like criminal warrants. Due to a “dynamic nature of law enforcement procedures” officers are free to "apprehend aliens" based on their “reasonable belief” they meet the definitions, the memo states. It purports to grant authority for police to enter a suspected "Alien Enemy’s residence" if “circumstances render it impracticable” to first obtain a warrant.
  16. Well, there's a bunch of threads missing the context with broken Twitter links, but that's more on them breaking their APIs before you had surlyx set up
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    3D Printing

    Just to temper your expectations a little - printing can be a little finicky and has a little bit of a learning curve. Once you have the models you load them into a program called a "slicer" and define settings like type of infil, % of infil, number and thickness of the walls on the model, supports, etc etc etc. Once you have all that set along with your filament and layer height settings, your Slicer turns the model into a gcode file that your printer uses to actually make the thing. While you're thinking about what printer to get I'd strongly recommend you to download and get familiar with a slicer program like PrusaSlicer (the OG), or OrcaSlicer or BambuStudio (customized forks of PrusaSlicer). I've found that I spend more time setting up and slicing my models than I do printing sometimes when it's a small and detail-rich model. Supports are tricky, and for the type of stuff you're doing I'd recommend "tree" style supports, which branch out and up and work really well with organic and complex forms
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    3D Printing

    Your timing is unfortunate, I just checked and everything is $100-200 more expensive than it used to be. I really like the Bambu printers but they're not the be-all-end-all, but they're pretty much push-and-go to the point where it's basically an appliance and not a tool The other brands like Creality and Elegoo make cheap and decent printers but their software support isn't as good, and you spend a bunch of time tinkering and tuning instead of printing. Prusa is a really nice and open source printer, but they're not cheap. They write most of the open source software for slicers and printer firmware, and are deeply committed to repairability. If you're primarily just doing model printing I would recommend Bambu's A1 ($500, 10 inchÂł print volume) or an A1 mini ($350, 7 inchÂł print volume) since they're a cheap and self-level and self-calibrate and they're CRAZY fuckin fast. If you want to do multi-filamant you can buy the AMS separately later, or buy it as a bundle and save like $50
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    3D Printing

    Do you have the files or models you'd like in your diorama? Websites like cults3D have some really talented modelers and sculptors and you can get some great models there. At an inch tall you can get some excellent detail with an FDM printer using a .2mm nozzle - I've printed D&D minis at that scale that once painted you can't see the layer lines. You can (could I guess due to tariffs) get a great FDM printer like an a1 mini for $250-300 that'll do one filament, or add another Benjamin for the filament switcher AMS unit to do up to 4 filaments. If you've got files I'm happy to print em and mail em to ya from Houston if you cover the postage. Otherwise, there's some great print services with very reasonable prices to get your model printed in resin which ends up looking like a factory-made part. Alternatively, check out a local hobby or model making store. They may have some correct timeframe and scale sets that you can buy off the shelf for more kitbashing parts
  20. Lol remember when this was a big deal? Ahhhh, better times. Better times. Sure we might have been still getting over COVID but at least we weren't being led by a dude selling scams to his army of useful idiots
  21. Bullshit, it let some feds go arrest a judge in their own courtroom. It doesn't matter if it's bullshit, all they need is the sniff of legitimacy and an okeydoke or two. The warrant that was "toothless" has left damage nonetheless. Strange how the fascists keep finding ways to use the shield of justice as a sword, huh?
  22. Absolutely trumpian in his degree of cuntitude
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