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I imagine you can, but a dehydrator is surely cheaper and will also have the tangible benefit of already coming with shelves in it designed for the express purpose of dehydrating food. You can't just plop stuff on the floor of the machine and expect passable results; airflow around the entire surface of the food item is required and thus dehydrators come with mesh shelving.

This is one of those deals were you ought to instruct your scientists to think about whether they should, not whether they could.

I tend to stand there like a chump and feed the new roll in behind the tail end of the last little bit of the old roll, pressing against it until the extruder gears take up the slack so as to fool the filament sensor...

It's tedious, but it works.

I am really much more interested in why all the food trucks seem to be taco trucks. It's like it's some kind of national conspiracy.

Where is the pasta truck, the stir fry wok truck, the BLT truck, the foie gras truck, etc.?

Sycophants were probably just salty because they knew you were right.

Nah. If it's here it's here. You're literally looking at it right here right now, so obviously this thread has not been deleted or blocked in any way.

If you're signed in your visible feed is influenced by your community subscriptions and default sorting preferences. Lemmy does not hide content based on any "algorithm" other than communities you have outright blocked under your account. Signing in might have prompted your client/UI to sort this off of your front page, but it's not being nefariously hidden from you.

The difference is all the gun totin' Trump voters genuinely believed, either via self delusion or with the assistance of right wing media, that Trump wouldn't take their guns. They made up any number of excuses to rationalize what was said in order to maintain support for their man. "He didn't actually mean it." "He was just speaking figuratively." "It was taken out of context." Etc., etc.

That will last only right up until he actually does this. Never mind that it's already too late in that they voted for him. I am predicting that exact moment is when the realization will finally set in. I'm sure many will probably also try to cope by trying to find someone else to blame. That won't change the fact that in the moment, regardless of the rationale, showing up in a uniform and trying to kick in a paranoid nut's door and tell him you're here for his guns is a monumentally stupid idea. The element of surprise will surely work in the feds' favor only until it comes out that the first gun owner has been killed as a result of a mass confiscation incident.

Both sides will ultimately and inevitably decide that "shoot first, ask questions second" will be the only viable strategy. Except it isn't, when both sides are doing it. The only winning move is not to play.

There are basically only two lines that this administration can cross after which it will be, to employ the vernacular, on.

• Cancelling retirees' social security and/or retirement benefits
• Trying to take everyone's guns

  The major difference is that one those groups is preeminently equipped to make that process very difficult. I'll bet you can guess which one it is.

The one thing that every paranoid loon agrees on -- left or right -- is that the US government actually attempting to blanket confiscate guns is the 100% unquestionable and unambiguous indicator of everything going absolutely sideways. This is why gun bans have always been incremental; those in politics absolutely know that the end result of trying to do it all at once is only a guarantee that a lot of people get shot.

Watching all the rednecks try to reconcile that it is in fact Trump's gubmint that is comin' to a'take their gunz is going to be quite the spectacle, I'm sure.

Especially since in the height of my pirating years during teenagerdom, no amount of cajoling or coercion could get me to pay for whatever it was because I didn't have any money. Which not at all coincidentally was why I was pirating it in the first place.

These dweebs always operate from the frankly invalid preconception that if the pirate had not pirated the media they would have paid for it and therefore they're "owed" a sale, but that's not how it works. I imagine that if the vast majority of people were unable to pirate their thing, they simply would not watch/listen/read/play/consume the thing at all.

Hell, I run a ghost community. I did indeed port it over from reddit, just out of spite. But to be fair, it was pretty ghosty over there, too.

I'm not too worried about it. I just don't have much to post about just now. It's not hurting anything.

He literally warned you he was going to do this. He warned you in the debate with Kamala, on national television. Did people not believe him?

Where are all those "Genocide Joe and Kamala" people now, hmm? Just disappeared back into the woodwork?

Ah, yes. I made a slight edit; we're largely making the same point.

And in reality, the number of restaraunts which track tips and actually make up the $7.25 difference is functionally zero.

The management is explicitly operating under the assumption that they'll weasel out of it anyhow with the expectation that you'll pay it yourself on top of their already profitable menu price.

That's because the UK has stronger wage protections than the US. Here the Federal minimum wage for "tipped positions," which are their own special category, is only $2.13 per hour. The management literally expects you, the customer, to make up for their payroll shortfall.

Related fun fact: The reason the US (still) has such a tipping culture at all is, as usual, the result of post-slavery racism when business owners flat out refused to actually pay any of their newly freed black employees, and instead demanded their customers to do it for them. For those positions, tips were the only way those people got paid.

So yes, US business owners would absolutely force their employees to work for no pay if they could get away with it.

Turnout is always low in these because the state only gives people like a 2 week heads up before the election and nobody bothers to advertise. No one knows who the candidates are or where they're supposed to be going.

That's not how you spell Delaware...

(Related: Another attempt.)

...Brought to you by Carl's Jr.

That, and the inevitable avalanche of community recreations of the basic shape that followed threatened to doom the original to irrelevance anyway.

Trying to tell 3D printing and CAD nerds you can't make [object] is a fool's errand, because enough people with time on their hands will just reverse engineer your [object], possibly improve upon it in the process, and post it everywhere to be given away.

You've never paid for WinRAR because you're cheap. I've never paid for WinRAR because I know 7-Zip exists.

We are not the same.

Idiots will absolutely drop a dollar chasing a nickel, but still believe they were so clever that they came out ahead. I wouldn't put any amount of stupidity past them at this point.