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Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

They are created by the state because without the state saying it shall be so, there is no corporation. For most of history there was no such thing as a corporation, even though there were wealthy individuals or people running what we'd recognize as businesses.

The specific legal construct of the corporations provide special rights and privileges human beings don't have, such as immortality and limitation of liability for stockholders. There's nothing natural about such a situation which is why it didn't exist for most of history. Completely a creation of the state.

It's obvious that corporations thus endowed with special privileges compared to human beings would of course be less inclined to obey the laws of the land, because the human beings that might be concerned are insulated from the effects of violating the law.

I think it's always important to remember that corporations are legal fictions created by the state, so the state vs. the corporation is in reality just different parts of the state butting up against each other like a kid playing with action figures.

girl are you an antimatter atom because you will never be chemically compatible with anyone in this universe and will destroy anything you touch

Is the dub any good?

The only reason you'd want to be part of a larger government in my view is if you think that larger government can control people to your own will. That's why the original US government was barely a government at all.

Solo levelling was fire today. At first it bugged me that the art style wasn't exactly the same as the manhwa, but they're doing the webcomic justice for sure.

Dying and being killed are two different things.

If something was going to basically die anyway then you can let it die, but if it was wildly popular then it'll continue on because someone will fork it despite your efforts. Look at libreoffice as an example.

How does one kill a thing that's open source unless it isn't that open source?

Hey, looks like it's still best before ww3 starts so that's a nice thing.

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.

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.

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!

https://youtu.be/XoDMOTGX6BY

Lol this has some serious "high school kids playing with a camcorder for the first time" energy.

Imagine being this brutal to your boss.

Good thing he won't remember.

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.

Especially given their stance on Israel.

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