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That's our schtick. There was an American PBY Catalina crew that played a small but significant part in the hunt for the Bismarck, and there were American P-40s fighting for the Chinese against the Japanese, both prior to December 1941. """Training""" """Contractors"""

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I touch type on QWERTY with a few variations from the standard. For example, I use right shift seldom, to type a capital A I shift my left hand over, hold shift with my little finger and strike A with my ring finger. the Y key I type with either hand depending on what else is going on with my hands at the time, and the rules I follow I don't even understand, so most of those ergonomic split keyboards are no good for me. I don't know if I type 6 or B correctly, I use the right hand for both.

I was given typing tutor programs as a child, I took a keyboarding class in 9th grade, in fact I was in that class when the planes hit the towers. My typing proficiency really came from Yahoo! and MSN. Turns out, teens will pick up a skill on their own if it's useful for socializing with other teens.

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Tarheel here: The lottery was illegal in this state until fairly recently. Old North at least once had a thing against gambling.

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Yeah I consider the bridge burned; their install media maker .exe thing doesn't run on Linux so I Just Can't Help You Install Windows Anymore^TM.^

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I think I have to do categories:

Hottest competency porn: Jean-Luc Picard. I love how in Darmok he learns the shit out of this situation. Nobody can figure out how to talk to these aliens, he spends a weekend with one and then he struts onto the bridge and speaks fluently to them.

Manliest conversation: Worf and Data. In Gambit, when Acting Captain Data repremand Acting First Officer Worf for essentially insubordination, Worf accepts the dressing down, and then Data checks in on a personal level with Worf to make sure there are no hard feelings. Worf admits he was at fault and they agree to still be friends. Manliest conversation ever filmed.

Goodest Boi: Porthos.

Hottest Chick: Quark

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I forget which comedian it was, might have been Jerry Seinfeld, but he was talking about the luge, how it's almost not a sport. "He's pointing his toes, what an athlete." Then he got into the involuntary luge. "No! Let me go! I don't wanna do the luge."

There was also Eddie The Eagle, the not quite a ski jumper who was the first to represent Britain in the sport in Calgary in '88.

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Printables belongs to Prusa, so, below average enshittification rate?

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or /dev/urandom?

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Well, my experience with Meshtastic is: Make the shittiest least finished chat app you can think of, and then give it a range most efficiently measured in inches.

Instead of using Meshtastic, just raise your voice a little, then you don't have to spend money on shitty little Chinese-made circuit boards.

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The last TV show I watched was an episode of the New Yankee Workshop, so I'm a celebrity woodworker now. mind you I have been thinking of starting a woodworking youtube channel for awhile now, so I guess that's happening.

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Ticks. Because disease parasites.

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They don't seem to be aware they're delicious with barbecue sauce.

Do NOT buy Creality

I've been struggling with my K1 since Christmas. I bought it on sale for Black Friday and no matter who I contact at Creality, no one can tell me what replacement parts to order. K1 parts don't fit my printer. They want pictures to see what 'buckle' I have, because my serial number isn't enough information, but who wants to tear ...

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Prusas are expensive but they fucking work.

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Taft was appointed to the Supreme Court after serving as president.

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blue is a scam. should have got her a stick. bitches love sticks.

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That is quite a nice finish, may I ask your process?

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It is my understanding that sanding wood beyond 220 grit or so is a burnishing rather than an abrading process, which does smooth the wood but makes it less absorbant, that may have helped the poly build up on the surface rather than soak in.

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No, I tend to reach for anger rather than sadness and I usually find it in the first place I look, since I've got so much of it.

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So, I recently abandoned Trilium, because it's very half-assed.

It stores data in a database on your local file system, and you can export as markdown.

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I found it buggy and unfinished, plus a "That branch is unmaintained, use this fork" situation, so...nope.

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My browser history now includes several Amazon listings for stripper poles.

I have learned that:

  1. The listing ALWAYS calls them "dancing poles" but Amazon knows what you mean,

  2. About half of them are sold as "unisex" even though all of the photos of them in use show women,

  3. Only some require drilling into the ceiling. The few that do ship with screws or lag bolts that are approx. 2 inches in length and come with drywall anchors.

So, if installing any of the poles from Amazon's first page of results, your floor would have to be approximately 1.5 inches thick.

If the downstairs apartment had no ceiling treatment and you looked up at joists and subfloor, you might get here if she decided to attach between the ceiling joists. In a typical residential structure with a drywall ceiling, you'd need lag bolts some 10 or 12 inches long to reach through the plate of the pole, 3/4" of drywall, 8 or 10 inches of floor system depending, 3/4" of subfloor and 1/2" of flooring.

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You should go look at the listings for stripper poles on Amazon, it's hilarious the places they photoshop them into.

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The best kind of true.

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Nyet, is called three-day special military operation.

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I am in the wrong goddamn business, I need to be selling $9,000 kettle cords to music morons.

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Do hot dogs legally qualify as sausages in the EU?

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Might have the bodice ripper genre solved.

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Exactly. If there are books that are simply churned out as fast as possible, it's those.

Look up The Diamond Club by Patricia Hawkins-Bradley to see what I mean.

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I'm one or two hours away from the Devil's Tramping Grounds.

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So he's voted in elections...as an alien?

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I read thay Youtube is doing that with watch history so teens are watching videos about taxes, back pain, retirement benefits and such to appear old.

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"Fuck I missed the apple."

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Not entirely seamless, but if you do a good job jointing the pieces and select boards that look very similar in color and grain, you can get close enough that most people won't notice them.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/ed4ca12b-7257-4ec1-a71c-1568a0ee9f52.jpeg

This tabletop is made of three different boards. No fancy joinery, they're just butt jointed with PVA glue.

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Or if the curve is really significant, glue it into a kind of pixellated version and then smooth the corners. Same concept but it can save you some wood.

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Over-the-horizon radar is a thing.

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330 gallons fits precisely in 6 55 gallon drums.

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Mint is eternal but going and getting enough of it to make the world's supply of Crest is still a big job.

Dr. Oz begs Americans to take the measles vaccine as infections soar ( www.salon.com )

The U.S. is in the grips of a historic measles surge, with more than 3,000 measles cases reported in 45 states across the country since the start of 2025. So far, two unvaccinated children have died from the disease. At least 920 people have been infected in South Carolina, and a similar number in Texas. In both states, nearly ...

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You might have meant wretched. "retched" is a single-syllable word meaning dry heaved. I mean, I will believe you if you told me he makes you gag.

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No need for supernatural evil when his character and behavior can be explained by perfectly ordinary money and fame.

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We are talking about the removal of a silent W which is probably there because someone who wore breeches wanted to make literacy harder for the poor.

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That's okay, you won't have any rights soon.

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Remind me what continent Germany was on in the 1940's? Don't let me catch any of you Europeans saying "it can't happen here."

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It is in fact illegal to walk along or across an interstate highway, for safety's sake. In Germany, would you just casually stroll across the autobahn?

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Prusaslicer can add raised or embossed text on objects now as part of the plating process, I'm sure all of its forks can as well.

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A lot has happened in 5 years; I was working as a maintenance tech for a print farm maintaining Prusa MK3s, that job died of covid, my attention turned elsewhere, I've been occasionally 3D printing stuff I need for my shop on my old reprap until I replaced it about a month ago and I've had a lot of shit to catch up on.

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Yeah I bought a Prusa, and it's clear they got blindsided by Bambu and they're still scrambling to catch up. What Prusa used to do well, they still do well, what they used to do badly they now do even worse and what they used to didn't do they've started a token effort at making it look like they do now.

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Prusa was all in on open source for over a decade. All their machines up through the MK3S+ are GPL hardware, firmware and software. What did that get them as a company? A lot of people selling near identical copies of their hardware for lower prices. Prusa's leaning away from open source hardware because it pretty much meant doing their competitors' R&D for them. Hell, Bambu Labs relies on code developed at Prusa Research. So their ecosystem is closing up somewhat.

You are right, a big strength of Prusa's is their mod ecosystem, their community. They are well aware of this, which is why they've come out with their OCL license. The Core One isn't GPL, it's OCL, source-available. It's illegal for anyone to start making blatant copies, but the CAD files are there for reference when making mods and accessories.

Prusa's MMU3 is in several ways superior to Bambu's AMS: you get 5 spools, not 4. Retract-based tool changes are faster than purge-based ones. Retract-based tool changes are less wasteful than purge-based ones; Prusas don't poop. And yet, Bambu finished the AMS, Prusa merely got the MMU3 working. Installing an MMU3 requires a fairly invasive modification to the Nextruder and a desk full of tubes and nonsense. I think Prusa's going to catch up there with the INDX system with the MMU3 as basically a legacy product.

The market for "kinda polished, easy DIY 3d printing" is small and shrinking. I know because I'm in it, and us kit builders are small potatoes to them. Prusa is trying to position themselves in the professional and industrial sector; they're releasing a "Pro" line of turnkey print farm and industrial solutions, they sell tungsten fill radiation shield filament and certified encrypted USB drives. I believe they are working on a self-hostable version of PrusaConnect, likely aimed at their higher end customers who are more likely to balk at using anyone's cloud service. To that market, "We're not Chinese" is Prusa's biggest selling point.

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ARM platforms have whatever the developer of that system that day came up with, same as literally everything except x86.