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Because it can be enforced selectively, and if everyone is guilty of something, anyone in particular can be harassed under the cover of a legal justification.

Cool, so let's see his lard ass run a mile.

If it appeared to turn on just by opening it, it wasn't off in the first place. It was in sleep.

Your system integrator may have disabled it for some damn fool reason by default, probably to make it appear that the machine "boots" faster if the user is bamboozled into never truly turning it off. But if you have administrator access you can always turn the option back on.

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You totally can, on every computer I've ever owned running Windows since NT (and most running some variant of Linux). The only reason it would not be there is if some turkey disabled it in Group Policy for some reason. The power button offers you power off, restart, suspend, and hibernate if you have hibernation enabled.

The thing that I find insane is having to pay for Nitro to have an animated .gif as your profile pic.

...The animation is played client-side, so literally costs Discord nothing to do this, and as a matter of fact it's actually more effort for them to intentionally block animations from playing until you pony up than just letting the browser container the app runs in natively do its thing. Given that the Discord app itself is basically just a glorified webview container with some stuff bolted onto it.

It's a moot point anyway, though, because the ruling post-Civil war (Texas v. White, specifically) determined that unilateral secession was not allowed. In order for California to leave they would either have to come to an agreement with the Federal government to do so (or a majority of all other state legislatures, or something... there's no precedent) or fight a war against the rest of the union and win, forcing capitulation and a concession.

Both possibilities seem extremely remote.

This is only posturing, and even if it passes it is not designed to result in California actually leaving the union.

I made a fuel pump gasket for a Kawasaki Vulcan about three years ago and that bike is still on the road and leak free, so there's an endorsement for you.

Yes, TPU is impervious to gasoline. It's not impervious to heat, though, so it's no good for valve cover gaskets, head side intake gaskets, or various other engine-adjacent applications.

Lots of reasons. In residential settings, wall mounted clocks and lighting are the usual reason.

You see a lot of these in commercial buildings here, also. Often they're even in the ceiling, not even high on the wall. It provides guaranteed access to an outlet that's not blocked by furniture for use with cleaning and maintenance equipment. Vacuums, floor polishers, floor drying blowers, that sort of thing. Having the cord come from a high point also makes it easier to keep it running over top of furniture and obstructions when it will only be used temporarily rather than snaking around the legs of desks and chairs and so on. And it also discourages passers by from fucking with them if they haven't brought a short stepladder or a foot stool or something.

And it's not like we didn't fuckin' see it coming, either. Washington, with one foot out the door: "Don't deify me, don't form political parties."

So, guess what else nobody listed to him about?

The ones that could walk up sheer cliff faces?

Acktshully, for what it's worth, Daggerfall (1996) also had horses. From what I recall they were considerably less janky than Oblivion ones, and definitely less so than the Skyrim ones. It probably helped that there were in fact no hills in Daggerfall; the land was mathematically flat.

Well, it took me 2 page load attempts and 60 solid seconds to get as far as being able to leave this comment, so... Yeah, sometimes it is slow as dirt.

Prusa has tree (organic) supports, support blocking, and ironing. It does not have the combing option or anything that is quite exactly equivalent which is the only thing from Cura I really miss.

I think it would be much more effective not to shut any of those services off. Rather, ensure very thoroughly that they're all present and accounted for, but just not existing in any of the places they're expecting them to be.

Yeah, I imagine if you had like a stair step in it that might give your extruder gears some trouble.

And here's the thing with the Marauders, too. They were just in the wrong game.

If having to play silly distance and timing games with solitary enemies were Doom's jam -- If this were ever Doom's jam -- it would be one thing. But it's not, and it never has been. The fuckers would fit right in the Dark Souls universe and nobody would even notice. But that's just not how the rest of the game is structured.

The telltale heart thumping under the floorboard here is that the game feels the need to literally give you a popup that pauses the action the first time you encounter one for the explicit purpose of teaching you how to work the fight. If your mechanics are so non-discoverable that this is necessary, maybe that's a clue that a stop and rethink is in order.

Doom Eternal was actually really bad at that across the board. You will recall that almost every new mechanic was preceded by an action stopping popup and in some cases an incongruous teleportation to a tutorial room to force-feed you the correct course of action (and the only correct course of action, which is my other gripe) for that monster or situation. Very few of its mechanics beyond stick-shotgun-down-monster's-throat-pull-trigger are organically discoverable, and even the ones that could have been aren't because of the tutorial popups.

I guess at least you can turn them off... If you know about them in advance.

Most printers won't care much about diameter on feeding, although if you run your filament through a Bowden tube that's cruising really close to the specified diameter that may cause you some problems. The real effect will be that your extruder assumes the filament diameter is consistent, so if you're over or under you'll get an over- or underextrusion. I don't think there's enough length of off-spec filament created by this process for it to noticeably matter, though.

And most importantly, your paper probably requires significantly less nasty chemicals used and disposed of in its production than PTFE.

PFTE, a.k.a. Teflon, is a forever pollutant in and of itself (despite the finished product being mostly inert), but the ingredients used in its production are seriously nasty stuff. Just using little chunks of it and throwing them away to merely stick bits of filament together is a monumentally stupid idea, and Sunlu ought to be ashamed of themselves for even proposing it. I'd rather freehand splices together with a lighter than do that.

Your same source also includes charts of reports versus clearance rates (i.e. arrests and prosecution) of all types of crime categories.

https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend

Compare how high the grey line (prosecutions) is compared to the reports (blue line) for:

• Drugs
• Shoplifting
• Bribery
• Prostitution

Versus, say,

• Motor vehicle theft (just to name an example for no reason at all)
• Burglary
• Destruction of Property/Vandalism
• Credit Card Fraud
• Theft From Motor Vehicle
• Larceny
• Rape

The clearance rate for shoplifting is higher than rape.

More shoplifters. Get prosecuted. Than rapists. What does that tell you about priorities? Think about it.

It is always Friday.

basing this on not much more than your particular set of prejudice.

Wow, just like the police! What a coincidence.