Was it “The News”?

Trump is old and feeble and will die before he faces any consequences.

This bitch we can put on trial.

You only say that because he can pick the committee members, they dont have to share who gets the money, the agreement bars the Justice Departmentfrom investigatng Trump and company for financial crimes, and (unlike what’s in the headlines regarding 1.8 billion dollars) the “settlement agreement” doesn’t actually have a limit on how much money can be used.

It’s just a fund for secretly giving limitless public money to anyone that’s under the control of convicted frausters that can’t be investigated for further financial crimes. I don’t see what the big deal is.

Was looking for any kind of context that would somehow make it even slightly less-outrageous than the headline indicated.

It was worse.

Cable was a shitty service. It was expensive, you had to subscribe to a bunch of shit you didn’t want for just a few programs you did, and was full of ads. People dropped cable for streaming because it was cheaper, centralized, and didn’t have ads.

Now that cable is essentially dead, streaming is bringing back the high prices and the ads, and now you have to sign up for a bunch of shit you don’t want for the few programs you do.

In that case, for a random person I’d still recommend Bambu unless you’re boycotting on ethical grounds.

Their printers run just fine without a network. Just export the g-code to a microSD card, put the card in the printer, and select the model from the card. It also allows you to use whatever slicer you want that way.

It’s really only cloud printing that’s locked behind Bambu Studio.

The thing is unless you need the slightly bigger bed size, the A1 mininfrom Bambu is simply a better product. It’s faster, easier, and often cheaper (I got mine for like 150-ish). And the full-size A1 is also bigger.

That’s the thing with Bambu. What’s made them such a disruptor and given them the opportunity to be shitty is that they make a really good product with excellent software at less than half the price of a comparable Prusa.

And with the new SnapMaker U1 slapping back, they dropped their prices again. The new X2D is half the cost of the last-gen X1 and has an extra nozzle.

Exactly. And I think we need to be honest about our criticism of Bambu. A lot of it is legitimate complaints. They stepped into a community that built itself around sharing ideas and group effort. They benefited from the work of the community and made some great innovations, but refused to share those innovations with the community that had shared so much with them. That’s a dick move.

But there’s also an uncomfortable element of the Bambu hatred coming from people who have been part of the community for a long time. They tinkered and toiled using weed-eater line through modified hot glue guns and spent years buulding up shitty machines into something serviceable. They did awesome things, and they should be proud if it. But they can also be gatekeepers who are hostile to those who just want to print something without needing to understand g-code or what pressure advance is.

They don’t want new users who haven’t made the tinkering and fiddling the hobby. They see the confusion and technical knowledge required as a rite of passage all users need to experience. They were a huge part of making 3D printing what it is today, but (just like Bambu) hey don’t want the next guys to benefit from it.

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The problem with Bambu is they are not trash at all. Their printers are high-quality, and the way they integrate with their proprietary slicer (that they totally stole from the community before locking it down) and MakerWorld is genuinely excellent.

I have 3 Bambu printers. I don’t buy their products anymore (my newest printer is an SV-08 max), but I still use the ones I have and they’re excellent, easy machines. And if someone new comes to me wanting a starter “just click print and it works” solution, I’m still likely to point them towards an A1 mini. They’re cheap and work great out of the box with zero handholding from me required.

And that’s why I kinda hate them. They don’t have to be dickheads, but choose to be. Their products are fantastic, and I’d honestly be using Bambu Studio for them instead of Orca anyway.

Yes, but if each district has an executive that can also fire judges it still removes any independence from the judicial branch - completely negating its purpose.

The judicial branhlch’s primary function at a national scale is to protect against the tyranny of the majority, and they can only achieve that if they are not subject to the wrath of elected officials who are upset with rulings they make after appointment.

That changes judges into representatives and completely defeats the entire purpose of the judicial branch and removes judicial independence.

It also changes the country into a confederation. We tried that in 1776 and it didn’t work AT ALL, and then part of the country tried it again in the 1860s, and it lead to a war that resulted in more US deaths than all other US wars combined.

“I’m homeless right now, so future affordable housing is worth nothing to me.”

If became effective immediately, by the end of his term Trump would have installed 8 of the 9 justices on the Court, as Sotamayor and Kagan were both first-term Obama appointees.

The last time this was discussed, the idea was to cycle them out every 2 years, starting with the longest-serving (Thomas) through the newest (Jackson).

That would result in no change to the current partisan makeup during Trump’s term. If it were to take effect on January 1, he would get to change out Thomas and Roberts, with the next President getting Alito and Sotamayor in their first term, and Kagan and Gorsuch in their second.

It would actually be ideal to wait until the next President (hopefully a Dem) if the goal was to restore balance, since the first 3 replacements seats were all Republican-appointed.

Though what would actually happen is the Thomas, Alito, and Roberts would all resign and be replaced by new Republicans right before the law took effect so that the longest-remaining terms were all Republican-appointed when the law takes effect.

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18 years is the correct length. It’ the shortest term that prevents a single 2-term President from being able to replace the majority of the Court.

But if Harris had won, Israel would have continued committing genocide!

They traded their independence from the feds in exchange for free used equipment.

I loved my S10. It was the best vehicle I ever had.

I bought it in 2005 for $3,000 with 42k miles on it because the previous owner’s dad was a drunk and kept rubbing the side of it pulling in and out of the driveway. I didn’t care that the paint looked bad, and I drove that truck for 11 years. I sopd it when the engine gave up the ghost, but kinda wished I’d just paid for the repair instead of buying the Colorado, which I was never really pleased with.

I’ve loved the NV200 though. I teach scuba as a side gig and it makes a great dive gear hauler.

Correct. I meant the Colorado, which they took off the market for the 2013 and 2014 models to redesign as a larger truck. Ford did the same thing.

That was a particularly dumb error on my part, BTW. I owned a 2001 S10 and 2012 Colorado. Now I own a 2020 NV200.

If I buy a car, it apparently gets discontinued soon afterwards.