Generally, if software was affordable and their business model is ethical, I wouldn’t pirate it.
If a company is charging a subscription for something that has no business being a subscription, I’ll pirate it. If a business is stealing data or willingly collaborating with evil people/governments/regimes/etc, I’ll pirate it.
Right wingers threw a temper tantrum when a trans woman competed in a chess tournament. Their opinions and outrage are invalid.
For your safety, please don’t travel to the US. There is a very real possibility of you being kidnapped and sent to a slave labor camp without due process.
I am ashamed and afraid of my country.
Crash the economy and make people desperate to put food on the table.
Betray the American people who hold top secret information.
Mass fire everyone without warning and without consideration of their well-being.
People with top secret information sell it to foreign governments to put food on the table.
Government has shocked picachu face.
That sounds too crazy and complicated. The most reasonable answer is that the Democrats are simply impotent and indolent.
Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They believe that they need money from rich billionares to win elections, but these billionare donors want things in return.
The Democrats also need votes to win elections, yet the demands of the donors are in direct conflict with the demands of the voters.
The Democrats cannot obey both the voters and the rich donors, so Democrats obey their donors and make micro changes toward appeasement of the voters. They make tiny improvements that are severely limited in scope & time, and are easily overturned. Donors are happy, and voters can barely tolerate Democrats.
America can no longer get by on micro changes, as Republicans are making rapid & large sweeping changes that hurt a lot of people. Democrats are now expected to make rapid & large sweeping changes that fix what Republicans broke.
Democrats don’t want to do that, partially because they’re grossly incompetent, and partially because it would go against their rich donors.
I shop at Aldi and Lidl, so I’m buying the raw ingredients for meals rather than the preprepped meals themselves.
I’ll spend my sunday afternoon cooking and meal prepping for the work week.
Maybe they just didnt know what electricity was. Maybe it was lumped in with air and/or fire.
The “prophet & pah wraiths” stuff does get better in later seasons, and it plays a major role in the final season.
You’re only on season 1, and first seasons can be rough. But it does get better, it makes more sense, and it’s integral to the DS9 story.
If you get kicked out of the military for being trans, run for political office. Any political office, high and low. Primary Republicans and Democrats alike. They’re both a parasite on America.
I hate modern “news” sites. They can’t call a thing what it is. It’s a Nazi salute, plain as day.
Maybe instead of blaming Google, Reddit should stop pandering to Nazis and condoning zionists committing genocide.
If the US owns Tiktok, then any bans or censorship would be a violation of the first amendment, right?
They made up an email address, claimed it was OPM, then spent an afternoon pretending to be official between that and the fork in the road email.
Isn’t that a crime? Pretending to be a federal agency when you’re not?
How can there be checks and balances if the executive branch of government can now override the judicial branch?
Short answer: There can’t be any checks and balances, and that’s the point. The supreme court basically gave Trump cover to do anything and everything he wants so long as he claims it’s a part of his official duties.
It doesn’t have to he true, he only has to claim it so. We’re seeing the end of America.
We were hearing stuff that some Americans socially divide people by their ethnicity. I just wanted to ask online whether this is true and if there could be any concerns
Unfortunately it is true, but it’s not everywhere. Generally speaking, the larger the population of an area, the less likely you’ll experience hostility. Coastal cities with large populations are highly unlikely to give you trouble. Rural aeas with lower populations have a higher chance of giving you trouble.
We even heard things like that in some places they divide people by “skin color” and base different cultures on that (we noticed that people from America even speak and behave differently based on whether they identify as “black” or “white”) and even have schools for primarily people with dark skin or so.
Yes, segregation was a dark chapter in America’s history. Officially, segregation was outlawed, but unofficially it still happens in some areas. Some of the conservative regions are trying to go back to the days of segregation and slavery. They create laws that aren’t specifically racist, but still have that effect.
As to different cultures, we have a lot of them. Most of the country speaks English, but we have a lot of different accents that seem like a different language entirely.
I dont know German, but I would draw a parallel to various English accents in the UK. Irish, Scottish, Cockney, Geordie, and so on.
As to the way white and black people talk, I suspect it has more to do with wealth and social class rather than race. Poor white people and poor black people tend to socially isolate from one another, creating distinct accents. But it’s not uncommon for intermingling.
I have a coworker who grew up in a poor black neighborhood and he has a “black accent” (for lack of a better term). If your only interaction with him is on the phone, it would be easy to assume he’s black.
This is the correct answer.
When it comes to fascism, the rule of law only matters to them when it works in their favor. The rest of the time it’s simply ignored.
Do I need UV glasses?
No. Gloves are a good idea, probably a respiratory too and open air circulation like opening a few windows. But a face shield and UV glasses are overkill.
Just… don’t be sloppy and careless.
ordered soy based resin and a wash/cure station
I didn’t know “soy based resin” was a thing. The wash/cure station is definitely a winner. Highly recommended.
installed and found chitubox slicer isn’t great
Never used it before. I’m stuck using Anycubic’s proprietary slicing software which is ok’ish. It gets the job done and prints ok.
don’t understand plug drilling and hollowing
Yeah so this is a unique thing for resin printers to deal with, especially with larger prints. It is entirely possible to print an object and have liquid resin sealed up inside a hollow print. Curing can’t penetrative deep enough to cure the trapped resin inside. It becomes a “time bomb” for eventual breaks and leakage.
Some slicing software recognizes this issue and allows you to place a hole somewhere on the print to allow trapped resin to drain out.
But since you’re printing minis, it’s not really something you have to be concerned about. Minis are…well… mini and thus not hollow.
A bit of advice for a new resin user: No matter how well prepared you think you are to contain messes, spills, droplets, etc, you will make a mess. It’s inevitable so plan accordingly and keep tons of paper towers at the ready.
As to painting, I’m not quite there yet. I just print them, cure them, and play with them as is.
I got perma-banned for condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Several mods accused me of being an alt-right neo Nazi MAGA cultist. 🙄
Bro, genocide is bad no matter who is doing it.
Male stereotypes have to be culturally broken first. Men are being taught that showing any emotions other than anger and hate is effeminate. They’re being taught that empathy is weakness, that education is stupidity, that freedom is slavery.
Everything that makes men human is being stripped away, leaving a husk of burning hate awaiting marching orders. They need to reconnect to humanity.