Yeah I can’t recall using a typewriter seriously, but for sure I’ve used on for fun. Also trying to get a commodore 64 to print my homework in 1992 should aub in nicely.

Unless spending more upfront reduces the debt overall in the medium or longer term.

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Not related. It’s not a zero sum game. Spending on certain things can save money and allow for tax cuts, tax cuts can create business growth or income in other ways and allow more spending. Defering tax cuts to a certain time or spending to a certain time can lead to better results, ect ect ect.

Anyone who thinks it’s linked and must be Tax up=Spending up or Tax down=Spending down should probably not even be in charge of their own homes finances. Even children are taught how to save their allowance over time and then spend it, and I had occasion as a child to “borrow” my allowance to purchase a toy that was on sale.

To what end? I read most of the article but I can’t understand the goals of these fakers?

I tried. Sent what I thought was a pretty sincere message. Though I did say I was from Toronto as a way to connect, but I suppose a good scammer wouldn’t want me close enough to ask for a meetup. Live and learn.

Amen.

Fucking thank you! Why is this so complicated?? Why fight for $15 or whatever if you know by the time your get the fucking laws past your dollar is worth half as much.

It’s so transparently flawed to because tying minimum wage to a formula/basket/col/astrology FFS, Would mean not having to revisit this fight every. Single. Year.

Thanks for the advice. I’ll go back and do some more tower tests, but (and again, this could be a skill/understanding issue) I don’t really understand how to get a print to change temp mid print, without using the touchscreen and staring at it waiting…

Right now I have bunch of settings saved that results in a pretty decent PLA print, but it takes ages. (Layer of .15, print speed 50-100, gyroid infill 15%. Bed 60* nozzle 210). And I tried to print a tube to put coins in and it’s 5 hours. And the threads didn’t come out great.

Overhangs get me usually, but sometime later adhesion if I dare use the ultimate presets like “course”, even if I adjust the temp.

Also I tried updating utlimaker to the latest version, rather than the one it comes with, and then was a disaster that lead me down a rabbit hole to Orca.

Which was another rabbit hole that my partner had to emotionally support me through as the equivalents of “PCLOADLETTER” would trash my prints on a whim. Usually 3/4 of the way through.

I bought this printer to print dust collector fittings and adaptors for power tools (I lead a construction team and I’m pro-safety) and I can usually get a print strong enough for the job, if not pretty.

But I’d like pretty…I’d like to be able to fine tune a print so it’s sexy and strong and also didn’t take 16 hours… Boaty takes 20 minutes and o Looks good every time I print so I just don’t get why something not as complex and the same size takes over an hour and doesn’t come out as clean.

If not bambu, what do you recommend?

Current sovol sv07 plus user and facing this wall where I can’t decide if it’s a skills/knowledge issue or a hardware limit.

But it only supports them if their video is then also good. I don’t like clickbait, because I don’t want to be tricked into my monkey brain looking at something. I do want to see good videos.

Just yesterday the algorithm found some guy doing tech videos. I watched a few of them and then sent a text to a friend who I thought would like it. He asked for a link so I pulled the guys channel up on my phone, and holy smokes, clickbait. If I hadn’t seen the videos already I wouldn’t have given that guy the time of day. But they are well thought out, interesting videos.

I’m not here to correct the world’s poor behaviour. I’m here to watch good videos. De-arrow does a good job of that, it’s quite interesting to see YouTube on a computer without it vs what I’m used to now.

I’ve been choosing gog over steam since idk when, but some games gog didn’t have. And steam is actually fairly painless to use now compared to all the fights I had getting it to run for me 5+ years ago, so I do sometimes choose steam over gog if it’s a game I’m intending to play with family online, since it’s easy to invite them to a game through the chat.

I asked in another thread about the possibility and likelihood of a sort of “digital embargo” where the states would order American companies like steam to halt service.

Forget not being able to get oranges or having to eat frozen veggies part of the year, this is somewhere that I can’t really change my buying habits and move on (my steam library can’t leave steam in this example)

I’m using Lemmy connect and I find it… Not great. It doesn’t tell me when I have responses. I mean at all. I don’t allow push notifications. But my inbox is empty so I look at “read messages” and there’s tons there that I’ve never seen.

Also when user post only a pic in their response, you can’t upvote it without carefully touching their tiny name with your fat thumb to reveal the buttons. And when you touch a longer post you are reading to scroll you often close it? And the tree system/order of responses and what is collapsed vs not and where they uncollapse to is unpredictable and at the very least, very what I expect…

I guess I should not use this one…

Jenny Nickelson does… nerd stuff? Highlights include:

“Church cinimatic universe” where she becomes a sommelier of art and walks you through a decade or so of some church in Canada’s Easter plays, which are delightfully technical and imaginative while also being a beautiful form of cringe.

And a 4+ hour documentary/review/commentary on her visit to the short lived “star wars hotel”

I’m not big into star wars or Disneyworld/land wherever it was, but I watched that whole thing.

Someone has to think things through, that’s for sure.

I redid the bathroom when COVID hit (was walking around home Depot the day before the shut down frantically buying 3 of everything so I had a chance to do this without being able to make the customary mid-project visits)

The toilet we got was not the one I wanted, it was 4 or 5 on our list of "toilets the Internet says are good " and boy howdy the Internet was wrong. This toilet wouldn’t flush piss. I’m not kidding I didn’t notice at first but a couple days into “man this toilet didn’t like to flush our shits, they must be mighty” I had a pee that was dark enough that once I flushed I read like “wtf”. 3 flushes for the water to be “clear” as I could tell.

This isn’t a 2 button eco toilet.

I ended up finding a guy online who had extended the tube inside the tank to be just shy of the rim, thus allowing the tank to fill up more and more water to be sent down with each flush. Whatever eco feature it had in sure it’s now among the worst water waster in town.

And it’s still a terrible toilet. It has some sort of extra funnel port in the front that I guess some of the water flushes through to help direct the shit and water down the pipes. But it gets dirty and is unreachable with every toilet brush I’ve tried, and not visible even if you jam your head down as close to the water as you can and look back. This means that the flush stops working and then I have to go in with disposable chop sticks and chip away and the shit fossils blindly until the port is clear again.

Yes I tried soaking with green goblin and leaving the blue duck to soak, still need to physically mine the area clear…

Ok so my father makes his own wine, at home from kits/concentrate. He makes a lot of wine and drinks a lot of wine (and gives a lot of wine away as gifts)

One day he called me, and he was so excited. Like if he wasn’t a 61 year old man I would have guessed he was going to announce his pregnancy.

“You won’t believe it! The wine place is selling bags now!!! So I can put my wine in bags and put those in boxes!!! Omg why didn’t I think of this?! Think of all the time saved with corks and recorking!”

It was a happy day for him, certainly.

Same. Then I had to hear an endless stream of whining for over a year because my other half likes the old style for reasons. It got so bad I bought them a shit one for Christmas, and now I’m faced with the stupidity of having 2, but the sadness that I’m gonna end up putting the good one in the donation bin because reasons.

OH.

No that is not clear… I mean, I get the structure of the joke, now that you have explained it, but I don’t think that is conveyed in the comic.

Also reality is the joke… I guess…