Now I'm crying, thanks.

I have beaten GTAV Twice and can't remember it being in there. Maybe I should beat it again before 6 comes out.

My point was mostly about how the attacks on 9/11 allowed for all of the worst of America to take charge. How we sold our liberty for security and now have neither.

UBL didn't make us refuse to spend money on infrastructure, but he gave every bloodthirsty republican an excuse to spend the entirety of the national budget of my childhood and adolescence on the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Is there a book or three I could read to better understand your point regarding credible militaries?

Excluding china from the roster seems short sighted given that they are actively building hardware to take Taiwan.

Is there a book or three I could read to better understand your point regarding credible militaries?

Excluding china from the roster seems short sighted given that they are actively building hardware to take Taiwan.

Gen Z has rediscovered The Highwaymen. I remember being a teenager and hearing this for the first time too.

Does any of this materialize/coalesce into anything that makes a tangible difference?

Because I am pretty sure all the vile idiots are still going to be cheering the evil on, no matter how many 'conservative thought leaders' say otherwise. Personality cult being a personality cult and all, and not a reasoned supporting of a reasonable political leader who follows the law, and all.

Trump has openly defied every court in the land including the Supreme Court. What level, what agency would be the ones to enforce a change, or court appearance? On whose authority? If not a constitutional crisis why constitutional crisis shaped?

I'm not that good at painting yet.

Time to make 'Who Would Jesus Deport' signs just in time for Easter.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Where's the village idiot to defend trumps right to deport whoever he sees fit so long as Democrats keep being mean to straight white men?

There's a finance bro crying in the sauna here at the gym and he threw his phone at the rocks. What does this mean?

I have a winix air purifier in my home office. When the printers are running I have it set to full blast. Never seen the purity status light change from the printers.

If I or one of the cats passes gas, green to red in a heartbeat.

This is true.

Source: I am a dipshit who managed to fix his wiring harness in his car and saved like $300 on a new one with 10 min of work and some heat shrink.

Any errors I have ever had with my printers or individual prints not sticking I have been able to resolve with sufficient tinker time so I always just assumed the problem was something I did.

If I can run a mini fleet of ender 3's, make useful stuff and not burn my house down, I'm confident you're capable of learning to run a 3d printer.

Yes to everything kb and veen said.

Anecdotally I buy my PLA and PETG in bulk for approx $10-11 per roll from a guy near me who bulk imports and resells the stuff. ( I don't actually know if he's still in business anymore with the whole once in a century trade war thing) No matter the brand I chuck it in a dry box full of dessicant beads for a while before I use it, no issues. Heated filament dryers are nice, I've never found I needed one since I got 4 Ikea samla boxes and filled them with dessicant beads and rolls of filament.

I'm actually going to an additive manufacturing conference here in Metro Detroit in a few days, I'll report back with anything cool.

PLA and PETG filament recycling is becoming a bigger and bigger deal as people come to terms with how much waste is involved with fdm printers. I save all my waste, segregated by plastic type with the long term end goal of grinding and re extruding it, eventually.

Last night I checked my bank and my social security disability payment that I depend on to pay for the basic essentials of life was pending.

When I checked today it had deposited. Relief, and then immediate worry again, because this is no longer a certain thing.

I have a private long term disability policy from my former employer that still pays for my health insurance, and a bare percentage towards a retirement account I likely won't live to cash out. As part of the terms of accepting this private LTD policy, I had to apply for SSDI. In theory, this plan is responsible for paying me 60% of my paycheck when I was taken off work, less the contributions from SSDI. IN THEORY, this means that if SSDI no longer exists, the private LTD company has to pick up the slack.

In theory.

If SSDI gets cut as is being promised/threatened, I don't expect to keep my home. If I don't keep my home, my likelihood of ever qualifying for a transplant (Assuming we are still capable of doing them in the future, and our necessary medical personnel survive the coming preventable plagues, resurgence of polio, measles, mumps, rubella, etc) is near zero. People get disqualified for all kinds of reasons only tangentially related to their biological fitness for the transplant procedure itself.

I will go dark if this happens, and no one I currently know will ever see me again. The thing I will have to become to survive is incompatible with how I exist now. Assuming I continue to be convinced that long term survival is preferable to the alternatives.

I recently qualified for participation in a research study into a new drug that actually has a snowballs chance in hell in helping me. This drug is not produced in the United States and I don't expect us to be able to produce it in the near future, given that the patents et al are the fruits of collaborative international research. I am going to have to decline to participate because I am deeply afraid of starting an investigational drug with cardiac remodeling effects when it's supply is at best, tenuous.

I am glad that Elon was rebuffed from purchasing one judge in one state. We won't be that fortunate going forward I expect. Once you own the Presidency what's one more rigged / purchased election? They already probably quietly killed two Biden appointees, what's a few more dead libs when people are heartbroken over vandalized cars but not the illegal detention and international deportation of actual US citizens?

We survived last time, some of us anyway. What will be left in 2028? When the very idea of coequal branches of government is derided as 'woke nonsense?'

Edit for clarity of tone*

I am not defeated, at least not mostly. I am wrathful to a degree I didn't know I was capable of. If my time here is limited, and extra limited because of the actions of the billionaire class, I will not go quietly into that long night.