I got gas from Sheetz today and it put up a silent and stilla ad on the display while the pump was running.

Conrail?

I don’t think light modes were as glaring in the past, first of all monitors were smaller, second I don’t think they were as bright.

The tweenagers hosing on Axe in coastal cities will take care of that I think.

That was my first thought, a tide pod also rapidly dissolves in sea water, we shouldn’t be dumping those in the ocean though.

Basically the only thing that help my headaches is caffeine. But that’s probably a me problem.

I used a Dbrand skin for awhile.

I’m not convinced OTC pain meds do anything, especially Tylenol.

Oh I should mention: each state has its own government as well, the exact shape of that government varies state to state but many states also have a two-house legislature and the upper house is usually called the senate. For example, the North Carolina General Assembly has a senate and a house of representatives. “My father is a senator” could also mean that, though “US Senator” would imply the federal government.

Many European nations, and I believe the EU itself, has a parliament. A legislative body made up of representatives of a group of people. In the EU parliament, maybe each nation sends a representative.

For reasons that I think have to do with getting rid of royalty/nobility, the US legislative body is called the Congress. Much like the British parliament has a House of Commons and a House of Lords, which have different functions, serve different interests and serve as a check on each other, the US has a House of Representative and a Senate.

The House of Representatives is the lower house, it has more members, over 400. Each state gets a number of representatives based on population; small states like Rhode Island or states where nobody lives like Montana may have as few as one, big states with lots of people like California, Texas and New York might have 30 or 40. The idea here is equal representation of the POPULATION, though a cap on the number of members has kind of ruined that.

The Senate is the upper house. Each state sends exactly two senators. With 50 states in the union, there are 100 senators. Early on, senators were appointed by the governments of each state, but by amendment to the constitution senators are now elected directly by the people. Both senators are supposed to represent the state as a whole. Weird thing about our senate: The Vice President is nominally a member of the Executive branch, but the only job the constitution lays out for the VP is to preside over the senate and cast a tie breaking vote (because each state gets 2 senators, no matter what we do there’s an even number of senators, so ties aren’t uncommon). Otherwise the VP has no powers other than to be the hot spare for the president.

For a bill to become law, it must be deliberated and voted on in both houses. If both houses pass the bill, it goes to the President’s desk to be signed into law.

There are details like which house what kind of legislation is to come from, etc. There are some powers that ONLY the House of Representatives have, and some that ONLY the Senate has.

There are certain appointed positions, such as cabinet members, supreme court justices etc. that the President appoints, but the Senate must approve. If I understand it right, the President/executive branch makes treaties but the Senate must ratify it for the treaty to go into effect. The House of Representatives has the power to impeach federal officials (impeachment is kind of like indictment) but the trial takes place in the Senate.

Being a senator is seen as more prestigious than being a representative; senators are considered senior and there are fewer of them. It’s a position of significant political influence and massive corruption. Your friend’s father is definitely in the position to have protestors killed if a big business asks him to.

The cologne I used to wear had leading notes of lavendar and cracked pepper. A good rule of thumb is masculine scents tend to incorporate wood or spice notes, where feminine scents are straight floral or fruit notes.

Caring isn’t a thing people do.

I doubt that.

Nobody cares about me, why should I care about anyone else? I’m disposable, so are the rest of you.

Empathy is a really stupid idea when all you’ll ever be is what people can extract from you.

Yeah I’m more or less with the Republicans on this one. Either you’re suffering from gender dysphoria, and you should seek treatment from qualified mental health personnel, or you went on Tumblr as a tweenager and instead of being a greaser or punk or goth you’re “trans.” Either way, this is not your employer or coworker’s problem.

Things I am likely to say to my team at work:

“I emailed you an STL. Please print two of them, and be ready to print 18 more if the customer approves.”

“Put on your safety glasses.”

“The lathe’s coolant pump is not working, I think it may be the contactor. Take a look at it when you first clock in tomorrow and let me know what parts we need if any; I’m going to need it up and running by Thursday.”

“Safety glasses go on the front of your head, not the top.”

“SomeCo has our steel order ready, take the company truck and pick it up. Make sure to get a copy of the P.O.”

“Put. On. Your safety glasses.”

“How’s it coming on those base plates? Can we get started on the brackets yet or are we still waiting?”

“If you get vitreous humor on my drill press, you’re the one that’s gonna clean it up.”

If you can’t handle being spoken to in this manner, you are not going to last long on my team.

Call me whatever you want at this point, but if it comes down to “A [type of person] has shown up at my job, what topics should I avoid?” it’s time to start updating the resume.

Hahaha okay so let me bring you up to speed on the modern dating scene:

More than half of young men aren’t even trying to get laid anymore because of how fucking preposterous the dating scene is. Let that sink in.

Your prospective date heard one of her friends say “Oh! You should go out with my divorced dad!” and she’s actually entertaining this possibility. Why didn’t she find a man closer to her own age? What’s wrong with her?

What does success even look like here? For her or you?

Some of this I think still goes for hobbyists if they plan to buy the printer as a kit. The first (of like, eight) Prusas I built I had a hell of a time assembling the extruder mech because it’s not designed to be easy or sane to assemble, I still pinched wires, not bad enough to break anything but still. And I had built several 3D printers and a couple laser engravers prior to this.

And that PINDA probe mount is still hilariously delicate.

As a hobbyist machine that will spend most of its time powered off, they’re fine. For their gantry mechanism and the 8-bit control board, they’re surprisingly high quality if slightly slow printers.

Oh there’s another thing: The Prusa community is in the bad habit of sharing G-Code rather than STLs, because everyone everywhere has the same printer, right?

My personal printer is still my first manually leveled Folger 2020 i3 with some customization of mine, and I don’t need another.