To be honest, I don’t think it’s enough reason for me to stop playing with the thermal printers anyway. A printer that never needs ink, what an invention.

damn I’ve been playing with thermal printers and custom cutting sheets from larger sheets. Not the thing I wanted to see.

A lot less money than I would have thought tbh.

the first THUG game felt old during the 360’s time, that shit is hard retro by now.

I just remembered the second part of this story.

Originally I had just 1 top one removed, I wanted to do top and bottom separately.

By the time I got around to the bottom one, it righted itself and was no longer dangerous to rip out. I cant even remember which ones I got out at this point, I know I only pulled 3/4. That’s how unproblematic the fourth was. I only got the other pulled because they were getting cavities from their bastard positioning.

The dental surgeons looked at me with disdain when I didn’t fund their car payment on unneeded work. Simply waiting made it go from “very risky” to non-issue and not a single dentist/surgeon thought of it as a possibility for me.

I had a dental surgeon tell me with a straight face that a non-problematic wisdom tooth with nerves wrapped around it should be taken out, and there was a very real possibility I’d lose feeling in my jaw for an indeterminate amount of time.

I told him leave it there and he was full

I tried to buy candy yesterday and the candy canes had already replaced the halloween candy. Awful.

Don’t forget taking some of the worst photographs known to man.

I said theoretically.

But also what’s worse, a colonizer or calling the cops on a colonizer?

If I go to Vietnam and get one of these guys bothering me, can I call the cops and have them taken away?

Like theoretically

I assumed it was the original subreddit where the post hog was actually telling fash to post a dick pic, rather than ppb

It’s weird stuff but I don’t think it’s any kinda mass market solution.

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This raw milk stuff is so weird to me.

I have a friend who is overall completely lactose intolerant. Her parents live out in the boonies and used to have a deal with a small dairy farmer where the farmer would bring his cows by their field to graze and in return they’d get some free milk.

This was raw milk, and my friend would have zero intolerance symptoms when she drank it. Weirdest thing. Eventually the farmer retired, but since they live so close to other farms, they’ll buy raw milk when they want to do a dairy based thing so my friend can participate.

So like, raw milk is weird, I saw my friend chug an entire glass and not be rootin’ tootin’ all day, no stomach pain or anything. But they’re in a very unique situation where there’s exactly two steps in the supply chain and most people are not in that situation. It’s not their standard milk, just treat now and then.

Yeah that last bit was referring to a platonic ideal of politicians in the States, not necessarily Kamala.

It’s like that example of news papers reporting on their advertisers from manufacturing consent.

The politician is effectively handcuffed to the policies of the supporters. I get frustrated when I see posts that are like “oh you like Kamala? Well she did xyz villainous act”. All I can think is "yeah and? We’re in the states and she’s one of the two candidates for president in 2024. We’re lucky she’s not somehow worse.

The US in it’s current configuration requires an enemy. An enemy is like food, without one it will starve. So much of what makes the country run requires war. It’s a common talking point, the MIC, deeply entrenched into the political system.

Politically the US is incapable of pivoting it’s defense industry towards non defense use. It theoretically could with a fearless political movement, shift defense research into energy, materials, etc but it won’t because a large aspect of the industry is the veteran to contractor pipeline and the military attitude carries over. Everything is a mission, a fight, good guys, bad guys, allies, and enemies. It’s the backbone of the industry, the GI bill for make-work.

In order to pivot that deep culture of make-work to civilian use cases, the book would need to be rewritten. The US would suddenly need to be okay with social uses for research, development, and manufacturing. This would mean the gov would be in direct competition with greater industry, which would be a massive contradiction for the political classes and their intermingling with business.

Currently, the only customer for the massive defense industry is the the military. They’re the only ones allowed to buy the product, and their wallets are deep.

Tl;Dr they can’t stop this train. The only way forward for them is war, and war requires an enemy. The train could be stopped, but it no longer has brakes of its own. The ensuing derailment would be catastrophic and politically untenable. To any politician, if they want to make any changes period, they need allies. Without allies they can’t make any changes.

Even the best politicians must operate within their political system and need to make tradeoffs in order to prioritize their goals. Kamala must suck up to the military if she has any hope in implementing the most minor incremental changes.

I can not understate the level of indoctrination that exists in all facets of the public works government work sector. There is a real chilling effect and group think mentality where the rules of the game exist for the game. Introspection is frowned upon, and deviation is punished. The higher up you are, the more effective the propaganda is until you reach a point where you write the policies.

At that point the propaganda is both a core belief and a tool you deploy in order to justify anything and everything. To say “war bad” or “what defines a terrorist” will have your career ripped from under you by an endless hoard of people going after the bread.

I cant emphasize enough that this is an extremely normal belief among so much of the gov dependent population. There is a real belief war is inevitable with zero consideration over what role the US plays in bringing on that war. Once an entity is labeled an enemy, you cannot use words or reason to understand why they’re an enemy.

To the people this quote was meant for, it’s a normal Tuesday. Weapons are an undeniable good. Being able to start and end a Holocaust in a days time is considered a virtue.

Yes I am depressed this week, why do you ask?

It might only cook long enough so the outside is cooked and the inside is nice and cool

I love contraptions. the more levers and purpose, the better. I love bizzarre old cars and bikes that require 5x more rider intervention. Give me a start up sequence please.

No I think that honestly is extrapolated from people saying NYers are “assholes”, as in direct and speak their mind. The other side of that coin is they’re also willing to speak their mind positively or help someone out.