wonderingwanderer

I can’t control other people. Other people can choose to not be my friend, to not invite me anywhere, to not talk to me, to leave whenever I show up.

No, having friends is something beyond my control.

Another reason to avoid Bambu is that they use their own proprietary printer code file type (.bgcode instead of .gcode). Blatant attempt at userlocking/walled garden ecosystem.

I have an Anycubic and I never connected it to the internet. It calibrates offline and prints fine from a USB.

I don’t use their official apps, just OrcaSlicer which is open source (and “stealth mode” disables telemetry). The printer works great though.

The only functionality that seems to require internet (besides printing from the app or networking with the slicer) is the camera which is supposed to detect misprints and pause/cancel a project to avoid waste or skip an object so the spaghetti doesn’t ruin the rest.

But I don’t use that feature and it’s fine, just watch your first few prints so you know what tends to fail and what needs extra support, and watch any projects that might be iffy until you get a good idea of what doesn’t adhere well. But keeping your print plate clean goes a long way for good adhesion (avoid touching the center where projects print, and use dish soap to wash it when projects stop sticking).

That would require friends, which is a factor beyond my control…

Infrasound isn’t some fringe conspiracy theory, it’s well-understood, and infrasound weapons are banned by the laws of warfare because they literally torture people to death and can cause internal bleeding.

The infrasound in this article is obviously less intense than a deliberately designed weapon, but it can still cause extreme discomfort, pain, illness, and stress.

This is why I love her.

Sometimes I wonder if these guys like being angry. Because they seem to be looking for stuff to be angry about all the time.

They won’t have to look for it, they’re being manipulated by social media algorithms.

Doesn’t excuse their hate, but it makes more sense when you think of them like old men with dementia who can’t keep their racism to themselves because they think this is still 1950…

Legislatures should not be allowed to cancel primaries (or any election!)

As much as elections are and forever should be in the purview of the states, some things like anti-gerrymandering laws should be standardized at the federal level.

Breaking it up by state only disadvantages the ones who put redistricting in the hands of independent commissions while allowing the one’s with highly asymmetrical legislatures in charge of redrawing maps to continue blatant gerrymandering (coincidentally it tends to be republican states that do this, hmm I wonder why…)

In the 4-3 decision, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the April referendum violated the state Constitution because amendments must be passed twice by the legislature, with an election in between. The first time they passed it was after early voting started, so it doesn’t count.

What in the ever-loving mental gymnastics?

Yeah, there’s definitely still some bullshit and editorialized clickbaity headlines to sift through, but it’s not nearly as much and overall the content here feels much more human.

There’s just not much incentive to generate engagement for the sake of it (unless you’re funhole), and far fewer bots and bad-faith trolls in general. Not to say there’s none though.

They should have made the fences with a critical weak point that they leak to resistance groups.

No fence just means the gestapo will look for another contractor.

Why does Europe keep americanizing?

401k, tipping schemes, and I swear these aren’t the only things I’ve heard.

Stop trying to be like the US! The US is not better! That should be obvious at this point.

Funny, this is the same cloudflare that harasses me every time I open a new tab on certain websites to check that I’m not a bot…

How ironic…

You think those women are there for free?

Fuck that. One of the biggest offenders of web scraping and bot traffic wants to force us all to install their spyware just to verify that we’re human when there have already been much simpler ways to do this without that bullshit captcha for years…

I’ll be hanging out in the underworld guarded by Anubis

This you?

Rich guys don’t give women money. They just lure them in with illusions of comfort & security. People don’t get rich by giving away money.

Let’s go back to what you said:

Then clearly I’ve been playing my cards all wrong because I have a history of wealthy men luring me in, using me, and giving me nothing in return.

Why is it that you only fall in love with men who are wealthy and manipulative, who expect everything and offer nothing in return?

You were literally complaining that the wealthy men you fucked didn’t give you money, and now you act all shocked when someone indicates what that says about you?

Why are you playing the victim when clearly you have agency in who you decide to fuck? You have a history of fucking wealthy men only to find out that they don’t really care about you? Did you think anyone other than a sociopathic nepo baby could climb that high on the corporate ladder?

For as much as you say men lure you in pretending to love you, I bet you won’t appreciate it when one tells you harsh truths while they’re not trying to get into your pants.

Keep looking for Prince Charming, I’m sure he’s not just a fairy tale, and when you finally meet someone who seems perfect, I’m sure he’s everything he appears to be on the surface! There, I ended on a kinder note since I know the truth will hurt to hear.

Either get contractual details down in writing or collect payment before providing services, or find a better pimp.

Or learn to appreciate men for something other than their wallets and find one with better redeeming qualities?

I know, I know, that makes me a “nice guy,” and that’s so much worse than being a rich and manipulative. Whatever.