That’s guilt by association. Their viewpoint is awful.

I also wished there was no security at the gate of concerts, but I happily accept it if that means actual security (if done reasonably of course). And quite frankly, cute anime girl doing some math is so, so much better than those god damn freaking captchas. Or the service literally dying due to AI DDoS.

Edit: Forgot to mention, proof of work wasn’t invented by or for crypto currency or blockchain. The concept exists since the 90’s (as an idea for Email Spam prevention), making their argument completely nonsensical.

The magnetic plate indeed warps, not due to heat though but the material on it warping. I saw that on both the i3 Mega as well as a Prusa MK4S with PETG and ABS. Printing big solid objects close to a corner would cause the corner to be lifted up, as the warping of the object is often times stronger than the magnetic plates. Probably gives you an idea of how much force a glass plate has to withstand, especially with badly warping materials like ABS. You can counter this issue with some strong clamps. Doesn’t happen on most prints anyway, only on really large and solid ones. The magnetic adhesion in the center is strong enough for anything.

Never before has anyone accomplished to make me want to throw a whole library in its entirety at them, including the building. Good job.

…but why?

Wrong. You are the product anyway, believing the majority of companies would not monetarize you because they made you pay first is very naive.

I did exactly that to my i3 Mega to attach the magnetic plate directly to the heat plate. I indeed bend the whole thing in the process, fortunately though I was able to fix it (Z-Probe reports a maximum difference of 0.37 now). Don’t recommend though.

The industrial-grade glue they used is an absolute nightmare. If you choose to go that route definitely get yourself a proper heatgun as well as acetone, a spatula and some safety mask (for the acetone fumes). If you got an oven for tinkering perhaps heating the whole thing up to weaken the glue.

Leaving the glass plate where it is and putting something new on top definitely is way easier. Not sure I’d do this a second time myself (probably not).

Would be interested as well. /e/OS doesn’t report any tracker activity to me from it.

I asked my teacher why we were so christianity-centric in the class, we literally never talked about things like Shintoism, Islam and more. She then loudly proclaimed to the class that I “wanted to have an extra (!) block about FOREIGN religions” (of course causing 90% of the class to scream at me - bullying was rampant there anyway). She then smiled at me in the most fucking dense way possible to basically say “see, nobody wants that” and from then on ignored all my protests and just left, ignorantly smiling like the idiot she was.

We proceeded to not learn anything about them, therefore the only influence we had (since it was the countryside) were the news talking about islamic terrorists.

Also same about MLK of course. He existed and he had a dream, end of history.

Western history classes gracefully ignore things like the chinese empires, the golden ages in the arabic world (which oh so happened to be to be during the “dark ages” of Europe and saw science flourish there) and anything that happened on the american continent prior to colonialization (not like we know too much about it given the colonizers’ rampages and targeted cultural destruction). Let alone African history, Indian, South-East Asia, Australia…

Same of course with religions. But watching that Martin Luther movie three times was definitely important I guess, cause it “changed the whole (!) world”. I fucking hate all of this bullshit.

Sorry for the rant.

What does this relate to? Only had limited dial-up back then (it’s probably some US stuff?).

To my knowledge there is no hard evidence for sexuality being primarily genetical?

Just… take them out of it first? Don’t really see the problems here. A little bit of rain during shipping is no problem for the material.

How are they supposed to do that, push someone out of an airplane “for scientific purposes” to see what happens?

Naah, was just early in the morning and I didn’t caught the joke.

Except water becomes incredibly hard if being hit with too much speed. If there’s vegetation next to it and you’re at (or close to) terminal velocity you might want to land there instead. There are confirmed cases of people surviving a fall into vegetation after their parachutes didn’t open.

The most important thing about it is it’s perfectly biodegradable in nature. You can throw them on your compost.

It’s not like there isn’t a middleground. I didn’t see those awful sixpack rings in years, in Germany where I live those sixpacks are packed in cardboard (goes around the sixpack once for stability). Works perfectly fine, and given it’s just paper with a little bit of printer colours (which, technically, could also be done environmentally friendly) there are little to no reasons not to do it this way except for greed. …therefore it isn’t surprising plastic sixpack rings are specifically common in the US, lol.

A strong FDP hurts us as badly as the CDU/CSU does. They’re equally corrupt and opportunistic. Without the nazi threat they’d arguably even be worse given the conservatives at least can be convinced into neccessary investments by now, while the FDP would “privatize” their own child. However since both parties are very close to jumping into bed with nazis there really isn’t a worse one right now.

It’s important for all three of those parties to be weak if we want to tackle the big problems.

In a proper democracy shit like this would lead to people voting for a party with the same values as the mayor but without the infighting. Hell, perhaps the mayor would even jump ship themself. This pressure then forces the corrupt party to either fix themselves or vanish.

In Germany we got enough parties so they can completely tank for a while for doing stupid shit, then recover organically. The Greens did that, The Left just recovered, the Libertarians… hopefully never recover. Well, except for the conservatives/right-wing 'cause old as well as pissed off people do not properly think about it anymore (conservatices just lose because old people are dying). An inherent issue with democracy you’re completely at the mercy of.

A 2-Party system simply can’t properly work.

That’s what pacman -Syyu is for. The occasional life support failure and forced bug hunting is part of the experience.