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Just realized, if you want to hurt American VC, unionize the fuck out of everything, especially Tesla and anything related to musk. Make laws that make extraordinarily strong unions when dealing with any American ownership.

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Don’t break things you only have one of. Neck and back sux

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Got them cause Someone said they work well as a mask for etchant with circuit boards. Someone lied to me.

The principal of first do no harm is still a foundational one. Sure there is nuance, but calling it the Hippocratic oath is still a powerful rhetorical tool that holds useful symbolism. I’ve fallen through the cracks of the atrocious state of medicine in the USA and could even be fixed in Japan with stem cell treatments. I’m well aware of the lack of ethics in US medicine and practice.

100% agree. You might be better off staying a layer higher in the message for effectiveness.

You trust your doctor because the Hippocratic oath starts off “first, do no harm…”. A trans person fundamentally does no harm to anyone else. If any group of citizens is doing no harm to others but can be singled out and harmed by a democratic government, that government is no longer a democracy, and the meaning of citizenship has fundamentally been lost. This is a battle for democracy versus fascism. Regardless of how you feel about transgender issues, if you fail to stand up for citizenship and democracy now, the exception is your undoing and you will have no recourse in the future. Setting precedent in law for singling out a group for harm is not something that can be reversed. It is not one thing to overturn. It leads to avalanches and decades of struggle. This is about freedom, citizenship, and democracy versus the neo dark ages with witch burnings, plagues like the measles, and constant frivolous wars.

You doing alright Rin? Missed ya for a month or so.

Most of the sand went up in Los Angeles county proper. It was diverted near the end of imports. The Newport Beach area has a ton too, but down here in South Orange County the beaches were not as supplemented and have already gone back to their rocky nature.

This area is actually one of the few deep water upwelling regions on the planet. The reason why is the combination of wind direction and shore angle but also because just off of the coast the water is quite deep. Just a few hundred feet offshore the water can easily hit 100+ feet deep in many areas and there are valleys descending underwater. Like there is a dive park on Catalina Island over near the Casino. At around 50 feet from the shore the depth is already at the recreational dive limits, there is a ship at 106 feet down IIRC from two decades ago.

Any sand gets washed down hill and into the valleys. That is why certain beaches were built to massive depths of sand like in Santa Monica and Newport. Eventually it will all wash away. There is no shallow coral reef structure or anything like that around Los Angeles, the water is too deep and cold to support anything like that. During the summer, if it is calm for a few weeks the upper thermocline will be around 20 feet down but it only takes one solid wind event and it will be back up around 8 feet down. On Catalina there were 3 major thermoclines in the middle of summer and at 100 feet it was quite chilly.

But yeah, all that white sand is from Australia and stopped getting imported around 20 years ago IIRC. Natural beaches here are rocky with small spots of sedimentary sand.

Do it, but you’re not really impacting the right group with that one. I live in about as tourist beach of an area as California gets which is basically nill. This area was once intended as such but without Australian sand imports California beaches are rocks and gravel. Around LA, tourism is not really a big deal outside of Disney stuff and that is pretty left leaning last I checked. Now Florida, most of that is another story.

Like usual the problem is actually American venture capital which has no boarders and is far harder to track down and boycott.

Stuff from two decades ago is far higher quality than anything produced now. If the plug is getting hot, you can replace the cord or simply start by using a wire brush to remove any oxide or dirt from the terminals of the plug.

The power is likely 1400 watts and if so, it is typical for a cord to get a little warm with continuous use. You will find the same cord warmness from toasters, portable heaters, window air conditioners, and microwaves.

Now when replacing ink cartridges your handheld bricks too

It is more complicated than just price. It is ultimately an intuitive self awareness and scope thing. People lack depth to understand the details or ask others that do understand before they make a purchase. The majority of people are more oriented towards interpersonal interactions and experiential aspects of life in their fundamental functional thought. They struggle to see detail and nuances or question fixation and biases.

We still live in the early era of human tribal primitivism when it is quite easy to exploit tribal stupidity on multiple fronts. For some it is fixation from initial exposure or emotional brand perception, others it is impulsive availability, for others they are masochistic misers. Abstractive thinking and understanding is rare in humans, and the majority do not understand it or value it in others.

Walmart bikes are targeting misers first, but spontaneous availability and access, along with controlling the perception of what the low bar of the market is are major factors as well. Each of these three factors exploits a specific niche. Walmart is a rogue wholesale distributor selling directly to consumers using massive capital. They are privateers (legal pirates) in the retail market as are most big box stores. Piracy has always been a nice short term business model for gains. It just happens to be true that people of today like being raided raped and pillaged so long as it is done slowly enough without violence, the ship looks pretty and the pirates wear a suit. Even worse is when pirates become entrenched as monarchs and feudal lords. This is the next step in the evolution when piracy is normalized. Welcome to neo feudalism.

It is simply an entry level thing. You will find this in every market.

In a bike shop retail market I can sell you a serviceable bike for $500 that will last, or an $800 road bike you’ll actually ride. Still the majority of bikes sold come from places like Walmart where they are made of unserviceable junk and are mostly nonfunctional. These are rarely ever ridden and often thrown away. In the shop I’ll sell 20:1 on the cheapest model to the next options up the ladder.

It is strange to adapt to this kind of understanding at first, like just how skewed the real market is. I can target selling to clubs and teams but I can’t touch the the garbage bike market where most people reside.

I think we are at a point where the influx of people into 3d printing are not real Makers or have any aspirations to be.

The reality is that people are often simply stupid. They seem to think that saving a few bucks here or there is smart but are not bright enough to see that everyone doing the same thing are buying the junk product over and over. There is nothing more expensive than being a cheap miser.

Ultimately, the only person that can fix stupid is ourselves. One can only inspire others to learn but can never force them. You cannot fix stupid in others. In the USA, stupidity is political currency and we have a long tradition of poor education and standardized exploitation. It is the American dream.

I think LDO and Voron are the only super relevant open source torchbearers.

I’m tall, with broad shoulders, and appear in good shape.

I think alpha nonsense is ridiculous insecure stupidity. I don’t care anything about the dominant role people expect me to play. And I’ve been through a broken neck and back, but show little external signs of the underlying physical disability it caused. Top that off with once upon a time I was 150 pounds heavier. People notice my presence. No one understands this onion based on first assumptions… got some layers

Very cool. Have fun with it. There are probably some fun hack uses for one of these if you look around. If I recall correctly these things have an actual hard drive inside them, at least the early ones did. That was before large flash memory was an affordable thing.

See if it has contact details and try to return it to the person. They will likely tell you to keep it. If you do due diligence to take the moral high ground, in my life experience it will really help define your character for years to come.

Finding something like this seems like a treasure at first. At your young age Rico, you likely do not see the ethics very clearly, at least when I was your age, I certainly did not have a very good moral compass in an area like this.

Over time, if you just keep it, you will experience losses in life where you will remember what actions you took and likely judge yourself accordingly. This is one of those rare circumstances that is likely to stick in your memory for far longer than the noise of daily life in strange ways. In the decades to come, this perspective will take on more meaning. Don’t be too disappointed either way. This advice may be of greater value in the end. Trust me, I’ve gone both ways on the issue and experienced the loss. Doing the right thing for a stranger is ultimately a gift to yourself.