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JUST IN: President Biden has said he has deployed Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink satellites, with more going in place, so people can reach their loved ones and have cell service in the South.

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Former President Donald Trump said Monday that he’d spoken directly with Musk, one of his most ardent and high-profile supporters, about deploying Starlink to affected areas.

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Judge unseals new Trump Jan. 6 election interference evidence


Prosecutors provided the most detailed look yet at their election interference case against former President Donald Trump.

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Current project. Making an enclosure for my AMA Lite.
in reply to EvolLove

If you just print shit you download anything will print them.

If you design your own start with PLA+, and get at least three Ender 3 or 5. Install one with 0.6 stainless nozzle, one with 0.4 and another with 0.4 but to print flexible PLA.

Then learn OpenSCAD. It allows layer-by layer control of your models.

in reply to Dennis Stephens

I use FreeCAD and OpenSCAD, and between the two, for engineering designs OpenSCAD is the best. Because I can control the layer height I printed grids and details people cannot believe they came off a 0.4 nozzle.
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@FourOh-LLC
But I gather that I might get something useful at $500 that is good to know.

It is not dirt cheap and it is not way out there.

in reply to EvolLove

I saw the original Ender 3 below 100 a dozen times at Microcenter. I still use one of those every day, and I love to listen to the control board sing. Silent boards have no character :D

If you are serious about this you spend your money on the Enders when they go for a deep discount, and you stock up on some quality nozzles for them, get some extra silicon heat shields and even the PTFE tubes. Replace the plastic filament gears or at least buy some aluminum spare because they will break.

You are not going to need anything "decent" for your first years.

in reply to FourOh-LLC

Here is the OpenSCAD model I am currently working on. Once I model the CMUs (Construction Masonry Unit) I can use them to create all sorts of models that enclose them, insert into them, attach to them.

Instead of working on a hundred model I only need to get one model accurate - the actual COTS.

Then the models attaching to this COTS will automatically be accurate and precise.

in reply to Dennis Stephens

@FourOh-LLC

I use Rhino because that is what I learned in design school and then I just stuck with it.

I understand that there are many intuitive programs now. Probably better ones.

But I have also helped out some friends... over the phone. I tell them how to do with their software that I have never used.

Because they are all based on basic principles. It is just about finding a way.

So I don't even know what software they have but they still understand me 😅

in reply to EvolLove

Most software are an overkill, as nothing is built as one big monolithic model. The art is to minimize your models and learn to assemble composites - use COTS or build around COTS. Like using PVC pipes for hinges, or mosquito screen spline for sealing.

I used from paperclips to 9 inch nails, to concrete blocks everything to print into or print around. OpenSCAD is the best to do this sort of work, you model the COTS and then simply difference()



"A recently released CNN poll indicates that roughly a third of Americans believe diversity is a threat to American culture. While some might say this number isn’t shocking, it shows the impact of Trump. The number in 2019 was 11%, far below last week’s number. Two-thirds of Americans believed that diversity enriched our culture in this poll. In 2019, 82% believed that society was enriched by diversity."

~ Mark Mansour

#Trump #JDVance #PoliticsofHate #immigrants
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mmansour.substack.com/p/a-dist…

in reply to Laloofah

@Laloofah "Curiosity, it seemed, had been replaced by irrational fears (not based on any experiences) and inflexible, unexamined, and unquestioned habits of thought & behavior": such as good sentence. It makes me think of an interview I saw reported recently in some newspaper article, in which a young Ohio man said he intends to vote for Trump because "they" (i.e., immigrants) are getting something for free. How even to reach someone so uninformed and unwilling to think?


You want to see Pierre and Marie Curie with their bicycles. The Curie Museum claims this was their wedding day but that’s hard to believe.

Marie Curie was the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes!

in reply to David Ho

From the biography "Madame Curie" by her daughter Eve Curie:

"Marie loved the idea of her wedding, which was to be, in every detail of the great day, different from all other weddings. [...] There were no lawyers necessary, as the the marriage pair possessed nothing in the world -- nothing but two glittering bicycles, bought the day before with money sent as a present from a cousin, with which they were going to roam the countryside in the coming summer."

archive.org/details/madamecuri…



When did you sign the #TaxTheRich EU petition?

eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/…

  • A while ago (90%, 369 votes)
  • Just now (9%, 40 votes)
409 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago




welcome to the world #climatedenial #climatechange #denial #ignorance gave us

and it's going to get worse

source: #NOAA Joint Polar Satellite System #JPSS, Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day-Night band onboard the GOES-20 #Satellite

facebook.com/JPSS.Program/vide…

#globalwarming #climatecrisis #climateemergency #hurricanehelene #helene #hurricane



Bombshell immunity filing details Trump's alleged 'increasingly desperate' bid to overturn 2020 election (ABC News)

abcnews.go.com/US/bombshell-sp…
memeorandum.com/241002/p71#a24…





Rust in Linux now: Progress, pitfalls, and why devs and maintainers need each other zdnet.com/article/rust-in-linu… by @sjvn

#Rust is advancing in #Linux slower than many would like, but it is moving forward.



I not only develop extensions for #SchuWebExtensions. I as well develop for #Kunena and so here we have another bigger change github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum… #Joomla #opensource #JoomlaExtensions
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A major piece of legislation that used to be considered “must pass” is the Farm Bill. However, as this article shows, the latest iteration - which was scheduled for 2023 - has been a victim of this Congress’s inability to work together, intra- or inter- party.
alabamareflector.com/2024/10/0…
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The Farm Bill is already a year overdue because the Republicans were incapable of passing a new one last year as well.