Money is time, so if you can save a 20 dollar hamper with 2 cents of plastic that's a win imo. Especially if the repair means a common failure point is addressed and something you might need to buy again and again lasts a lifetime.
I always enjoy prints that just become part of our lives (and especially ones that let us keep using something that's going to the landfill otherwise)
The hamper has handles that break. For most people I think that'd be time to replace it. I didn't want to do that, so I designed a new handle based on the handle on the short end. This ended up being a mistake later, I'll explain then.
I printed 2 handles (the connection between the two is just to make the printing work better since it can print the two pieces as one piece, then I just snap the two apart and clean up the spot they were connected)
I used my rotary tool to remove the remnants of the original handles. I should have used the cutting tool but I had the diamond grinder so I used that. It worked fine, I was able to fully remove the old material. A quick test fit confirmed that the handle design was pretty good (I just used a tape measure for the measurements so this was a real potential problem)
I went to the long side, but realized that the design of the hamper was different lengthwise than widthwise. I removed a couple tabs that were going to block the new handle, and instead of putting it in as designed, I just put it sideways, which fit.
I put the two in and added gorilla glue. Gorilla glue requires water to foam up, so I wet all the parts. Now everything is fitted, the glue is in, and it's just drying now. I'd consider this repair a success, and I expect the strong PLA part to give the whole hamper a lot more stiffness at those parts, and there's significantly more material in these spots that break. If the other two handles break, I'll just print two more, and at that point I can't help but think that the hamper will be bulletproof.
The hamper has handles that break. For most people I think that'd be time to replace it. I didn't want to do that, so I designed a new handle based on the handle on the short end. This ended up being a mistake later, I'll explain then.
I printed 2 handles (the connection between the two is just to make the printing work better since it can print the two pieces as one piece, then I just snap the two apart and clean up the spot they were connected)
I used my rotary tool to remove the remnants of the original handles. I should have used the cutting tool but I had the diamond grinder so I used that. It worked fine, I was able to fully remove the old material. A quick test fit confirmed that the handle design was pretty good (I just used a tape measure for the measurements so this was a real potential problem)
I went to the long side, but realized that the design of the hamper was different lengthwise than widthwise. I removed a couple tabs that were going to block the new handle, and instead of putting it in as designed, I just put it sideways, which fit.
I put the two in and added gorilla glue. Gorilla glue requires water to foam up, so I wet all the parts. Now everything is fitted, the glue is in, and it's just drying now. I'd consider this repair a success, and I expect the strong PLA part to give the whole hamper a lot more stiffness at those parts, and there's significantly more material in these spots that break. If the other two handles break, I'll just print two more, and at that point I can't help but think that the hamper will be bulletproof.
I just saw a post (I won't link to it as a courtesy) where once again some complete galaxy brain was like "I don't like being around old white men because they're ageist, racist, and sexist"
I find it hard to imagine the levels of self-awareness required to say such a thing unironically.
I find it hard to imagine the levels of self-awareness required to say such a thing unironically.
Look, this is serious business. The police need to be able to operate any time anywhere. They are an essential service.
Why, right now someone could be robbing a liquor store who is being misgendered, we need to make sure that person is protected!
Why, right now someone could be robbing a liquor store who is being misgendered, we need to make sure that person is protected!
https://youtu.be/XoDMOTGX6BY
Lol this has some serious "high school kids playing with a camcorder for the first time" energy.
Lol this has some serious "high school kids playing with a camcorder for the first time" energy.
Women are high maintenance, but nothing compared to my early self-assembled chinesium delta kossel printer.
As a security rule, once someone has physical access to a device, it should be considered compromised.
I've reviewed many supreme Court cases and you have to be careful not to assume good or bad showings will result in a certain outcome. Sometimes the winner of the case gets hit hard by justices.
That being said, it's a really bad idea for this case to go any other way. People hate Trump but this standard would apply to any other presidential candidate. One arbitrary judge in some states could call anything an insurrection and suddenly elections could immediately be changed arbitrarily.
How many Democrats supported CHAZ, which was an insurrection? Insurrection is by definition an organized and usually violent act of revolt or rebellion against an established government or governing authority of a nation-state or other political entity by a group of its citizens or subjects; also, any act of engaging in such a revolt. I don't see how you could support CHAZ under such a standard and not be immediately kicked out of office.
That being said, it's a really bad idea for this case to go any other way. People hate Trump but this standard would apply to any other presidential candidate. One arbitrary judge in some states could call anything an insurrection and suddenly elections could immediately be changed arbitrarily.
How many Democrats supported CHAZ, which was an insurrection? Insurrection is by definition an organized and usually violent act of revolt or rebellion against an established government or governing authority of a nation-state or other political entity by a group of its citizens or subjects; also, any act of engaging in such a revolt. I don't see how you could support CHAZ under such a standard and not be immediately kicked out of office.
Spec Ops: The Line is apparently removed from all game stores, you can't buy it anymore.
It sorta seems like games as art peaked way back then, and there's been a lot more games as political propaganda since then.
Of course, Spec Ops: The Line is inherently political, being a brown military shooter set in dubai after a sand storm destroyed everything, and a core part of the message is about the nature of war. On the other hand, something can be political or have political messaging without only being political propaganda. The difference is that the core is about telling a story and experimenting with the art form rather than just slamming a message down your throat. It's subtle mind you but most people know what they're eating.
It sorta seems like games as art peaked way back then, and there's been a lot more games as political propaganda since then.
Of course, Spec Ops: The Line is inherently political, being a brown military shooter set in dubai after a sand storm destroyed everything, and a core part of the message is about the nature of war. On the other hand, something can be political or have political messaging without only being political propaganda. The difference is that the core is about telling a story and experimenting with the art form rather than just slamming a message down your throat. It's subtle mind you but most people know what they're eating.
Central planning is easy. As the decision maker you just go "Figure it out".
The problem is that many people end up having to "figure it out" by dying horribly.
The problem is that many people end up having to "figure it out" by dying horribly.
Problem is that we have a society that thinks they're planting trees when they're actually burning them down.
Really, the key is competent government providing proper common goods.
It reminds me of the US vs. Canada's healthcare. The latter is not perfect, but provides healthcare to everyone (and often life changing treatment that many Americans would never be able to get) whereas the former actually pays as much public money per capita on healthcare but fails not because the money isn't there but because they're willfully incompetent due to corruption. In Canada, public healthcare is generally considered a "third rail", something non-negotiable. Even the PPC, a fringe party with extreme views on reducing the size of federal government, claims it will improve healthcare funding to the provinces.
I think we could find some serious common ground on things like lobbying -- money shouldn't be able to buy unlimited speech to push the interests of the super-rich.
Neoliberalism ends up another thing twisted into something useful for the powerful -- There's a good argument that we don't live in anything like neoliberalism since our great grandparents often didn't pay an income tax but today blue collar workers can be in the 50% tax bracket, and we live in one of the most bureaucratic and tightly controlled times in world history. However, we have lots of cut-outs made in the name of neoliberalism when it comes time to similarly regulate the powerful. There certainly is two sets of rules. They cry for regulations when it'll shut down competition, but cry for neoliberalism when regulations might actually affect their business.
One thing I've seen in Canada with the carbon tax is it ended up being a mop to clean up a mess of incompetent government. The Ontario government caused a bunch of "green projects" to be pushed through, in particular solar and wind, by giving them incredible sweetheart deals. At the beginning, up to 80 cents per kilowatt hour, which has had massive ramifications including driving up electricity costs. This means that homes that were once affordable to heat using carbon neutral electricity get power bills that look like mortgage payments. This disproportionately affects the poor or working class (my little sister lives in such a house since she works in a grocery store and her power bills look like my mortgage payments), since people with just a bit more money can afford to switch to fossil fuels (one guy I knew installed a propane heater in his house that was previously heated with hydroelectricity and it saved him 600 bucks a month in the cold months), then they drive up the cost of fossil fuels as well. That's the opposite
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-to-cut-rates-paid-for-wind-solar-power-1.1157717
In 8 years we've seen the carbon tax be implemented and continually drive up the cost of fossil fuel energy (including energy required to heat our homes which despite claims by our Prime Minister is not a luxury in Canada), but we're still wasting effort on ineffective green energy that make lobbyists happy and make celebrities down in Southern California happy instead of hydroelectric that'll actually make people's lives better.
Nuclear is a compromise, but I'd prefer not using it as well -- Anyone who knows what it takes to mine an ounce of specialized metal and refine it knows it's an ugly process that often puts you in the middle of nowhere. We can build dams that can last centuries and hydroelectric infrastructure on such dams could similarly provide power for centuries. On timeframes that long, the reservoir can become a new healthy ecosystem itself.
It reminds me of the US vs. Canada's healthcare. The latter is not perfect, but provides healthcare to everyone (and often life changing treatment that many Americans would never be able to get) whereas the former actually pays as much public money per capita on healthcare but fails not because the money isn't there but because they're willfully incompetent due to corruption. In Canada, public healthcare is generally considered a "third rail", something non-negotiable. Even the PPC, a fringe party with extreme views on reducing the size of federal government, claims it will improve healthcare funding to the provinces.
I think we could find some serious common ground on things like lobbying -- money shouldn't be able to buy unlimited speech to push the interests of the super-rich.
Neoliberalism ends up another thing twisted into something useful for the powerful -- There's a good argument that we don't live in anything like neoliberalism since our great grandparents often didn't pay an income tax but today blue collar workers can be in the 50% tax bracket, and we live in one of the most bureaucratic and tightly controlled times in world history. However, we have lots of cut-outs made in the name of neoliberalism when it comes time to similarly regulate the powerful. There certainly is two sets of rules. They cry for regulations when it'll shut down competition, but cry for neoliberalism when regulations might actually affect their business.
One thing I've seen in Canada with the carbon tax is it ended up being a mop to clean up a mess of incompetent government. The Ontario government caused a bunch of "green projects" to be pushed through, in particular solar and wind, by giving them incredible sweetheart deals. At the beginning, up to 80 cents per kilowatt hour, which has had massive ramifications including driving up electricity costs. This means that homes that were once affordable to heat using carbon neutral electricity get power bills that look like mortgage payments. This disproportionately affects the poor or working class (my little sister lives in such a house since she works in a grocery store and her power bills look like my mortgage payments), since people with just a bit more money can afford to switch to fossil fuels (one guy I knew installed a propane heater in his house that was previously heated with hydroelectricity and it saved him 600 bucks a month in the cold months), then they drive up the cost of fossil fuels as well. That's the opposite
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-to-cut-rates-paid-for-wind-solar-power-1.1157717
In 8 years we've seen the carbon tax be implemented and continually drive up the cost of fossil fuel energy (including energy required to heat our homes which despite claims by our Prime Minister is not a luxury in Canada), but we're still wasting effort on ineffective green energy that make lobbyists happy and make celebrities down in Southern California happy instead of hydroelectric that'll actually make people's lives better.
Nuclear is a compromise, but I'd prefer not using it as well -- Anyone who knows what it takes to mine an ounce of specialized metal and refine it knows it's an ugly process that often puts you in the middle of nowhere. We can build dams that can last centuries and hydroelectric infrastructure on such dams could similarly provide power for centuries. On timeframes that long, the reservoir can become a new healthy ecosystem itself.
Man I sure am glad everything is fine according to the government. It'd be really awkward if everything wasn't fine.