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Captainant

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  1. May get a season two thanks to russia's ongoing invasion TL:DR - russia's drone and missile strikes have seriously damaged and perforated the recently finished (in 2016) New Safe Confinement that encapuslated the old decaying sarcophagus and holds in literal TONS of radioactive dust.
  2. Don't you love it when there's easy to source receipts? Must be the narrative shift that @Incredulity is talking about I guess
  3. lulz its funny in the markets thread Incredulity is seriously arguing that tariffs aren't what's put us into this position
  4. He's literally just doing what he said he would do, and you have continued to deny was available knowledge prior to 2025 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/22/trump-trade-tariffs/ (August 2023) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/trump-favors-huge-new-tariffs-how-do-they-work (Sept 2024) He's actually currently got tariff rates below what he previously promised in the above links (a flat 20% universal import tariff), so my money is on things getting a whole lot more tariff-ic than less I don't know how you could pin Q1's precipitous decline on anything BUT the induced instability from the tariff rollout as well as the anticipated worsening financial climate due to tariffs under the """business friendly""" president.
  5. So if Q1 is inflated relative to the trendline that will likely be established in Q2, what caused the trendline to drop so precipitously? And if Q1 is inflated in a current view, why is it coming in so much lower than projections from 2024? I could have sworn you were quite certain that tariffs wouldn't happen, so what else could have been causing it?
  6. Must be nice to be the only automaker getting tariff relief and exemptions
  7. And now you understand why trump has been attacking the media and threatening them so much. He wants them scared and thinking twice before they ask an actual question or seriously challenge their talking points. The more absurd and outrageous the talking point, the better. It's an bully expression of power to make people repeat things they know aren't true. Check out Orwell's 1984 for further ideas on the concept.
  8. What caused it? If only there was some way to disambiguate a triggering action for the GDP contraction. Because as we all know tariffs would NEVER hurt consumers or an economy. The business news channel with the angry hosts told me so!
  9. Maybe it's one of slorch's socks
  10. I said it a month or two ago - most fascist takeovers require a broken economy. Trump, ever the innovator, is making his own economic meltdown and riding on the amygdala of his base
  11. It doesn't matter if 2020 is reproducible while 2016 and 2024 are more likely models for recreation. And like others have pointed out, you're assuming there will be actual open elections which is not really take-to-the-bank solid anymore. Remember, were at the "arresting judges for not following illegal orders" phase. Historically speaking it's still the early 1930's in our Weimar Republic
  12. Captainant

    3D Printing

    I know this is a more serious answer than you meant, but if you can get a good side-on profile picture and provide a few critical dimensions it's not too hard to recreate something in CAD. Print-wise you should never use FDM prints with food. The surface texture is inherently going to have all sorts of nooks and crannies that bacteria will grow in, not to mention that printers aren't food safe rated and use lubricants that aren't safe to eat. To recreate it, you could model it and then send that 3d model or CAD off to PCBway or some other print service to actually make the thing in metal or food-safe resin
  13. Captainant

    3D Printing

    What printer are you using? You'll probably want an enclosed and heated chamber to avoid any warping, on top of hardening your hot end and extruder gears
  14. Slight upgrade from a 3080 12GB - my wife wanted to upgrade her 1070 so she could play Inzoi, so she gets the hand-me-down 3080
  15. I upgraded to a 5070ti and it fuckin rips. It can play everything at at least 4k60 on high, and if I turn on the DLSS and framegen it hits 4k120 on most games on ultra. My desktop monitor is 1440p so its ultra across the board. It's a TON of GPU acceleration for compute too which is nice
  16. Fun trivia bit I just learned - Gilroy's son was one of the nascent Maya Pai leaders, and his nephew was the other
  17. Lulz putting taxes on the receipt as a line-item is a hostile and political act. """IF""" they have tariffs amirite Incredulity?
  18. Man, Admiral Adama is just about the farthest character away from Donald Trump I could think of. BSG got real weird in the back half but it holds up pretty well
  19. Can't wait for the surly business leader community to twist themselves into a pretzel trying to find a way to justify the government directly telling a business what to say and how to run it's business
  20. You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities. - Winston Churchill
  21. unfortunately, these kinds of trucks aren't legal to make anymore due to emissions regulations. Not to beat a dead horse, but the regs had a loophole that just made trucks bigger instead of more efficient
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