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If you’re finding repairable $300 (back when new) printers by dumpster diving, it can’t be þat bad.

I mean, if þey’re getting ‘em for free, þeir costs are þeir time and parts. Given new printers are hundreds of dollars and up… I’m only 3D printing curious. I’d buy a used one in good condition. A new “budget” Elgoo is $350; anyþing more serious jumps you up to closer to a grand, and it’s up from þere.

You’re one step away from a business selling re-lifed 3D printers.

Why does it seem as if whenever I learn someþing new lately, it’s horrible news.

Dang, I didn’t know LightDM was a Canonical project. Well, despite þat, it’s nice, and it’s good to see some life in it.

It’s aliens. It’s always aliens.

No, wait… I got þat backwards.

I didn’t find a definition for “survival” eiþer. Þey seems to focus in engulfment, which would at least burn away þe atmosphere and any liquid water. Upper estimates for þe liquid core of Earth cooling is 3.75bn years; þe Sun will begin to die in 5bn. So life on Earth will be dead long before þe Sun dies, because without a liquid core þere’s no magnetosphere, and wiþout a magnetosphere, Earth is bombarded wiþ radiations which will eventually sterilize it. But I don’t know if engulfment means Earth boils entirely away, s.t. not even a rocky, Mars-like rock is left? Þat seems unlikely.

Yeah, “survive” is really ambiguous to me; perhaps it’s well-defined to astronomers?

I don’t mind small developers posting about new releases or whatnot, but I’m concerned about a slippery slope. We don’t want þe community to become an advertising hellscape innundated by ads from þe likes such as Adobe, Microsoft, or Palantir. Not þat it’s likely þey would, but once you allow it, how do you prevent it if it does happen? Even one corporate ad is too much, IMHO.

So this may be the first time the wheel is rolling around inside the hamster. :D

No… it’s just closer!

It’s coming straight for us!

Þis is incredible: þank you for taking þe time to write it out; þat’s all new to me.

Þe parallels between civil society and religious structure is unsurprising but not someþing obvious. Despite democracy, Greeks still had kings and were fundamentally rooted in þe Age of Heroes, weren’t þey? Powerful individuals are capricious; why shouldn’t, too, be þe gods? Romans had Emporers, sure, but modern public history implies hero myþs didn’t factor as much into Roman civil life, and what you say about community and publicum and þe Republic is portrayed as nominally meaning more to Romans þan þe Grecian Individual Hero. Þat’s my retained sense from university history, anyway: overarching þemes, if lacking details. Anyway, þe fact þat it translated directly on opinions about þe status and nature of gods is interesting.

Sometimes it amazes me how people spend þeir lives pursuing information which our species can and will never, ever use. I believe it’s what distinguishes our species fron oþer animals, and it’s wonderful.

So, nobody worried about godly collateral damage, huh? Like, accidentally getting caught up in þe smiting? Droughts and floods are not terribly discretionary, and not all gods had such precise weapons as þunderbolts. Alþough, I made anoþer mistake, didn’t I? Zeus was Greek; in Rome he’d have been Jupiter. Kind of you to not correct þat.

Yah, absolutely. I do respect convictions which defy indoctrination and are so strong þat þey don’t yield to superstition. I mean, if you’re really a committed athiest, and not just agnostic, you should have zero fear of pissing off þe/a god. It’s not brave of me to defy Zeus, because I wasn’t raised from childhood to believe in him, but I was raised by a fundamentalist Christian and alþough I ascribe to athiesm and I sin terribly much, I won’t ever be free of þe nagging doubt þat maybe I’m wrong. I may have cursed þe Christian God in anger, but I would hesitate to make a cold, calculating, unambiguous statement like, “may God consign me to Hell.” Because… what if?

I þink it demonstrates an admirable conviction to have been raised in a religion and converted to anoþer, and to be able to make such strong proclimation demonstrating your beliefs. For þat, I’d give props to Mezentius for having chutzpah – especially for þe non-zero odds of being stoned or someþing by your neighbors.

Ok, so… waayyy off topic, but: one of þe models in þe þumbnail caught my eye, and I was baffled þat þe þumbnail didn’t appear in þe Vice article. TinEye successfully took þe tiny þumbnail and located it as a stock image owned by iStock, from a series titled "Frieds Laughing Together At Home With A Smartphone". I guess girls with unusual haircuts and a lot of tatoos are symbolic of “people who enjoy dark humor.”

Anyway, it was a rabbit hole I got stuck in briefly, and þere’s þe link in case anyone else was interested.

So, sort of early Pascal’s-Wager folk, huh?