Awesome, congrats!

I’m really, really happy for you that you managed to get out of here. We’re working on doing the same. Which country did you end up in, if you don’t mind my asking?

The constitution only matters if its enforced. That’s no longer the case. It’s not worth pretending that we’re living in times where it was at least marginally followed nor enforced.

Now that it’s acetaminophen and circumcisions that cause autism, can we please go back to vaccinating people?

I was still holding on to at least being able to vote out enough of his supporters during the midterms that we might be able to block some of their insanity or even reverse one or two things during the back half of this election cycle, but I’m pretty sure that seals it up. That’s the end of voting mattering, y’all.

Well done to all who voted for him for any reason, as well as those who could have voted and didn’t. I hope you all experience everything this administration wants to do to those it deems as lesser than itself.

After 2 years of refusing to fix core problems and add basic gameplay which is present in the base version of CS1, they continue to ignore the problems and push out more paid content.

They’d have had a lot more success in selling these DLCs if the core game functioned anywhere close to CS1.

Oh, I’m aware of the reality. I just made the mistake of allowing myself some hope that a small number of people that supported him during the last go around were waking up just a little. Seemed like it here and there, but it’s not enough to matter, it seems.

I don’t think that the average person is a frothing MAGAt or anything, I’m just depressed that there are so many people that slurp that shit down without looking around at all. Talked to someone recently who still somehow believes that the Elon Nazi salute debacle was just due to a tricky camera angle.

I’m just exhausted from trying to educate people while watching everything crumble. The majority of us Americans may not be inherently bad, but due to the systematic degradation of our educational system since the days of Reagan we are a lot dumber and less informed than we should be.

40%

Down to 40%

I fuckin hate this place.

Top tier shitpost creampost

That which does not kill you really, REALLY hurts.

Happening to me as well for a long as I can remember using the app. Currently in Android 16.

0.0000048481 parsecs in one astronomical unit.

Avoid Elegoo like the plague. Horrible customer service. Literal months of fighting, explaining the problem over and over, and four escalations before the ticket was just closed.

We got an Anycubic Kobra S1 to replace the Elehoo junk and its been fantastic so far. They also have a 4.0 vs. Elegoo’s 2.3 on Trustpilot.

Agree. I switched to Kagi a couple of years ago and I won’t go back.

I’m not surprised. I’ve avoided Bambu like the plague due to their other issues with privacy and locking things down. I rolled the dice on Anycubic since they have a good Trustpilot score and it would be hard to be worse than what I’ve been put through with Elegoo. So far the Kobra S1 has been working pretty well for me.

I hope so as well. It definitely isn’t tied to their release. I’ve escalated four times and have gotten progressively worse customer service each time. I’ve never had to repeat myself so much before someone would actually read what I was writing. That includes Creality’s notoriously awful service.

Just pray you never need customer support from them. I’ve been dealing with three months of some of the worst service I’ve ever dealt with. Lies, false promises, offers that are taken back because they failed to check receipts, and no real apologies for anything they’ve done. Just be careful and prepared to handle your own issues. Especially with their motherboards, which are notoriously awful.

These are all very excellent points, thank you!

The fight needs to be bigger, though. Individual action is important and does cause a snowball effect with enough momentum, but we’re fighting multiple full-on _industries _ that manufacture and/or spread vast amounts of misinformation. And that’s just in the US.

That’s the daunting part, and a big part of what I was lamenting.

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

– Mark Twain

I’m not sure how to fight this constant assembly line of misinformation coming from hate groups like the current party in power, but we need something g more effective than the truth. Than words. The truth needs to be out there loudly and rapidly, but more needs to be done.

I hate to be the guy in the meeting saying something’s wrong without providing any kind of solution, but that’s where I’m at. It’s easy to say that news shouldn’t be for-profit, that creating and disseminating patently false information for the purpose of intentionally misleading the public should be punished as something like slander or something, or that the “news” complex in the US needs to be dismantled…but those are long, long term goals. And likely not realistic to expect in my lifetime.

It’s how authoritarians spread the fear and hate they need to survive, though. We have to cut this misinformation flow out somehow.

I dunno. Just venting. Frustrated. Sick of the lies thay prop up this dessicated zombie of a failed capitalist state. Sick of the inaction for any opposing factions in the government.

That’s all. Carry on with what you were doing.

Stunned. Shocked. Gobsmacked. My gast has been flabbered. A psychotic dog-killing attempted-mass-murdering terrorist is a religious right winger? But his god wrote a Holy Listicle of Top Ten Things You Shouldn’t Do and killing was in it.

Next you’ll tell me that this wasn’t personally motovated and he had lists in his car of targets and gatherings that were all solely Democrat or left-leaning.

I’m glad the info is being disseminated, don’t get me wrong. The turbo-violent, wildly insecure, hate-filled, extremist terrorist party currently in charge of the country has definitely been trying to paint this as some kind of false flag, so the truth needs to be out there no matter how obvious it is.

I’m just exhausted that everyone else keeps continuing to play by rules that have been broken so hard by the hate-cult-turned-political-party that they’re going back and stepping the shattered pieces. Any opposition they have refuses to stop wringing their hands and trying to compromise. You can’t play by broken rules and expect the same outcome. This is the start of what you get when you do.