How are they supposed to do that, push someone out of an airplane “for scientific purposes” to see what happens?

Naah, was just early in the morning and I didn’t caught the joke.

Except water becomes incredibly hard if being hit with too much speed. If there’s vegetation next to it and you’re at (or close to) terminal velocity you might want to land there instead. There are confirmed cases of people surviving a fall into vegetation after their parachutes didn’t open.

The most important thing about it is it’s perfectly biodegradable in nature. You can throw them on your compost.

It’s not like there isn’t a middleground. I didn’t see those awful sixpack rings in years, in Germany where I live those sixpacks are packed in cardboard (goes around the sixpack once for stability). Works perfectly fine, and given it’s just paper with a little bit of printer colours (which, technically, could also be done environmentally friendly) there are little to no reasons not to do it this way except for greed. …therefore it isn’t surprising plastic sixpack rings are specifically common in the US, lol.

A strong FDP hurts us as badly as the CDU/CSU does. They’re equally corrupt and opportunistic. Without the nazi threat they’d arguably even be worse given the conservatives at least can be convinced into neccessary investments by now, while the FDP would “privatize” their own child. However since both parties are very close to jumping into bed with nazis there really isn’t a worse one right now.

It’s important for all three of those parties to be weak if we want to tackle the big problems.

In a proper democracy shit like this would lead to people voting for a party with the same values as the mayor but without the infighting. Hell, perhaps the mayor would even jump ship themself. This pressure then forces the corrupt party to either fix themselves or vanish.

In Germany we got enough parties so they can completely tank for a while for doing stupid shit, then recover organically. The Greens did that, The Left just recovered, the Libertarians… hopefully never recover. Well, except for the conservatives/right-wing 'cause old as well as pissed off people do not properly think about it anymore (conservatices just lose because old people are dying). An inherent issue with democracy you’re completely at the mercy of.

A 2-Party system simply can’t properly work.

You should educate yourself about how those AI image generators came to be, 'cause you just showed everyone that you have no damn clue.

“What does it matter if the cocoa farmers get extorted, I just bought the chocolate for a fun occassion.”

Perhaps this way it’s more understandable.

They’re concerned about “their” people, because it’s declining only in rich countries and those tend to see themselves as “better” and don"t like “unregulated immigration” (while the regulated one costs shit tons of money). Also those who bring thst up are usually right-wingers.

Or to say it bluntly: Xenophobia and racism.

Perhaps they also fell asleep during the movies. I certainly know I did.

But at least we now have thousands of individual humans who’re as wealthy as whole countries! Truly an achievement. Now keep working, slave.

What’s the third anime’s name?

What the hell is a “Liberty University”? Do I even want to know?

Unless you have conducted all the experiments leading to that theory yourself, which i doubt, because you don’t have particle accelerators readily available, you will have a basis of “scriptures” and “scholars” whose judgement you trust and follow.

That’s nonsense. The difference is that you can conduct all those experiments on your own, and every further experiment is based upon earlier discoveries creating a chain of rationality. Also, if something is proven to be wrong or phenomenally unlikely we adapt our worldview to those facts, not the other way around. What’s trusted is the scientific method, not individuals and what they wrote. Some scientists simply become more trustworthy as their track record for applying the scientific method is immaculate, both by making discoveries as well as happily accepting when their assumptions were wrong. A well educated and critical mind is absolutely capable to read most studies and get a general understanding of its quality (of course those about particle physics require more knowledge than those about homeopathy). Meanwhile with religious texts it’s inherently impossible to come to any sensible conclusion that isn’t derived from yourself and your own opinions and emotions.

tl;dr Science and Religion are inherently incomparable as one derives truth from systemic processes and measurable facts, while the other derives “truth” from everyone’s worldview and emotional state of individuals. There’s no inherent reason to believe the latter (some random thing about some god).

Bad people instead suffer eternal tinnitus I guess.

Your argumentation doesn’t make much sense; indeed your last sentence even reinforces my argument that, hopefully, the process is as clean as possible. Also don’t you think you’re a little bit quick in assessing my priorities based on a single comment? 😉

I think 3D printing, as many things, is a net positive if used responsibly. It’s so easy to repair or upycle stuff with it. I’m also really interested in that pure PHA filament (which is actually compostable, unlike PLA), haven’t gotten around to trying it. Of course also using PETG; got two huge bins for PLA and PETG to collect and send it to Recyclingfabrik (getting cheaper rPLA & rPETG in their shop in return). It’s awesome how easy it is with 3D printing to have a full recyling circle. I think awareness for both environmental impact as well as basic safety concerns are really falling short in the community though. The amount of people sanding their prints without any particle extraction system, printing ABS and stuff without air filtration or even work with resin without proper respirator is concerning. And so many people just clean their sanded pieces under water, unaware of the consequences (it’s impossible for huge filtration plants to fully filter them out). On the other side it isn’t too hard for any 3D printing hobbyist to run their dirtwater through something like a coffee filter.

So yeah, I like 3D printing and the environment and am optimistic we can have a cake and eat it too. 🥧

[…] Polymaker’s HT-PLA-GF, a glass fiber high temp PLA that can be annealed in boiling water without deformation to withstand temps like 150º.

That sounds like a microplastic water risk. I hope Polymaker did at least give a little shit about the environmental aspect and made sure the material doesn’t leak into the water during the process. Probably still advisable to pour the waste water through a filter afterwards, just like after sanding & cleaning.

More rare than an i5-8600 and probably becomes rather rare as time moves on.

If it was this easy we wouldn’t have so many problems. Or, you know, discussions about assisted suicide in cases of untreatable and unavoidable suffering in order to respect human dignity.

Sometimes the pain is here to stay. We all get old, health is a precious privilege and the power doctor’s are wielding is unfortunately limited.