DarkWinterNights @ DarkWinterNights @lemmy.world

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Good thing they reinstated rapattack they defunded... Right?

Curious what material you used.

I made some similar items, and given the aggregation of exposure to the elements, constant daylight, and strength/the potential to shatter, I veered away from PLA and ABS into PETG (with TPU sleeves on sensitive bits), which I've found worked really well, but my parts don't move as much as yours probably do.

How have you found the results in these regards?

Absolutely love being able to quickly mock up fit for purpose parts and deploy them immediately; great work!

I am shocked, I say shocked. Who could have predicted this sequence of events that has been totally uncharacteristic certainly in the last 3 years and beyond in the last 11.

Trump should try to figure out who the commander in chief is and FIRE him - clearly that dude is not all there.

The only objectionable thing said was "beginning to", so probably relatively safe from controversy

I literally just had this conversation before the election ha ha.

You say "yes, but" - your literal statement was:

92% of votes cast in Alberta this past federal election went to conservatives.

Votes cast ≠ ridings won.

Reality is FPTP is cancer.

FPTP ultimately is anti-hope; it's built functionally so that, pragmatically, you're generally not voting for the people you like the best, you're voting against the person you like the least. And it ultimately renders MPs/MLAs useless and performative frequently.

The whole thing is pretty messy when you get into it. Thankfully here we aren't Electoral College awful (where a single vote can potentially move ~50 seats one way or the other in a comparable situation), but that implies the bar is on the floor.

We can do better, even incrementally.

Probably the FDA being gutted.

Nearly 20 years ago, I was in a computer programming class surrounded by clunky towers and desktops.

Suddenly, a loud popping, then one of the machines starts belching smoke like a budget fog machine. The kid using it is calmly moved to another station while the prof investigates.

Fifteen minutes later - pop. Smoke again.

Turns out the kid was jamming a paperclip into the power supply like he was playing Operation: Arson Edition.

That was his last day.

On the bright side, computers are a lot cheaper now - and kids are still dumb. So, maybe progress?

My half-brother is American and former Republican voter.

Your take sounds a lot like his; what eventually pivoted him away from the party was an increasing awareness that it's always someone else's fault and an inability to look inwards.

I hope things improve in the future - the American people deserve better, but that starts with becoming aware of what the real problems are.

Only the bots have rights

Even if there were a lineup of these ready to go at the airport, I'd still wait 10 minutes and pay $20 more for literally anything else.

Sorry, I was being a bit cheeky. I hear your points and they are valid.

Literally every single thing Danielle Smith and the UCP espouse to care about is made worse by Alberta becoming a sovereign nation:

• Taxes
• Coastal access
• Pipelines and transfer taxes
• Tanker access and global markets
• Trade sanctions as a function of per capita CO2 emissions
• Infrastructure access
• Energy markets
• Codified projects and say in what they detail
• Comprehensive national strategy cost averaged down against 40 million instead of 4 million (aka costs 10x).

Think about what happens to Albertan property values on separation - literally no one is moving here, and many will leave. The "Alberta Edge" becomes even less tenable, and quality of life rapidly erodes.

But maybe they can empty everyone's pensions before they fuck off into the sunset, once the last drop of blood is squeezed out.

They're really talking about becoming the most taxed 51st state, or an erosion of living standards so sharp they'll get whiplash. Ghoulish politics.

Trouble with measuring crossings is it picks up an aggregate of things; Canadians crossing for leisure, for business, Americans crossing for leisure and work, medical tourism (Americans coming for insulin, my uncle driving to Mexico for dental care, etc.), foreigners on a road trip, people driving between Canada and Mexico, etc. Most of these are round trips too; you're going to be measured coming in and then out (so you're part of both statistics).

This sets aside people who already had non-refundable bookings from a year ago; Disney essentially let us cancel our Florida trip once they confirmed our French reservation at Disney there; sure, it's still money going to Disney, but at least a lot of that money is being divested into the French market instead.

My friends who weren't able to cancel made a point of limiting their spending while they were there still. And then there were a couple who just didn't care as well.

Ultimately, the metrics (and their sustained impacts) will be an aggregate of many things, and eventually Canadian fatigue as well.

Updoot for the sorted list archival.

A) American Republican owned Chatham shouldn't own essentially all of our domestic news (I'd say this if it were the Democrats too, although I don't see anything even remotely this magnitude from them).

B) These companies should have to super impose PostMedia on all their logos in double the size. And don't stop there - do it to all structured ownership in every industry.

Only if their base actually cares (and on the aggregate over time).

An even better answer frankly