For the record, you can just adjust voltage and trash your steppers.

any one have the gcode?

We should start sending it to these printers,

i use privacy badger from the EFF peeps, along side ublock origin. it works well enough for me.

Switch to Firefox!

Not only did it spawn multiple spin-offs, sg1 was the longest running sci-fi series

Like… we switched to meeting on discord and I scribbled out updates to the ‘table’ in paint. none of the VTT’s were flexible enough for the homebrews I was cooking up, though.

macgyver always carried a few slices… in case he needed an industrial sealant…

didn’t we already know this, though?

He didn’t start out smart. The only thing that changed is he fired his PR team.

The thing about it, though… all the pride merch, lattes, beers were not because the corpos care if your lgbtq and being disenfranchised and harassed and all that.

They just wanted to sell more merch and lattes and beers. “Slap a rainbow on it- they will eat it up!” Was literally their thought process.

Ooo. Got a new one.
Homeless individuals, specifically, will sometimes go around to exterior ashtrays collecting buts to scavenge tobacco.

They reroll them to either smoke them themselves or sell off for a buck.

Now, I find smoking nasty to begin with, but smoking some one’s leftovers leaves me gagging

I wonder if the FBI would be interested in a list of Us Representatives that are receiving bribes from foreign powers.

I got a list!

Disbarred and maybe get all their previous rulings looked at. maybe retried.

it’s texas, though. Chances are they’re gonna give that guy a medal. or something.

Okay. This is freaking hilarious.

Hopefully the people are okay, but like… ya know?

• it’s a reuben, with pastrami, swiss and pickled red onion (in place of sauerkraut) on rye.

So like. It’s probably only a matter of time. But yeah. If he were dead… they wouldn’t be silent about it

they’ve never pretended to care, though.

anybody else wondering how much they paid him to get on threads?

orion’s arm project

has a basic, but easily understood explanation. basically, if both relativity and causality hold, true FTL travel is impossible, no matter how it is you acheive it. (in the OA universe, wormholes are accepted because the ship itself is not actually going FTL, and therefore not breaking causality)

my understanding of why an alcuibierre drive wouldn’t work is that space time itself has some energy(and therefore some mass,) all you’re really doing in that system is replacing the reaction mass from being matter to being… uh… space. But my understanding is that of a highly unscientific mind trying to understand…uh… sciencey shit.

In any case, some things to point out? the fastest man-made object is currently the Parker Solar Probe which is planned to reach a top speed of about 190 km/s at it’s fastest. (it’s basically falling into the sun, using Venus to loop around and gain speed.) That’s about .0006 c. At that speed, it would take about seven thousand years to reach proxima centauri (the nearest star at 4.2 light years.)

the energy necessary to accelerate even a few kilograms to a speed that could arrive at earth from another star (any other star), in a reasonable time frame is… appropriately described as astronomical. Any species technologically advanced to do so would be advanced enough to recognize that the only thing that’s really unique about our system is… well, us, and all the other life that evolved to be here. So there goes economic incentive. Cultural curiosity? sure maybe. but they’d be technologically advanced enough to understand that we nuked the shit out of our selves, and that we’re fucking psychotic. Which removes that.

Religious mandate? Oh. Great. Space-Mormons. (of course there’s space-mormons,) This is dubious as then, said proselytizers would definitely defy the world government to preach. (kind of like that idiot that got dead trying to proselytize the Sentinelese people.) Religious mandate to wipe us out of existence? we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

Curiosity? is tempered by the whole ‘oh, they nuked themselves,’ thing. Any technology used to get here could be reverse engineered and used to get there- and we’re psychotic enough to nuke ourselves… there’s absolutely no telling how we’d actually respond to aliens. probably not how Star Trek portrays our First Contact… (well. except in the mirror universe. That might be more accurate.)

c) In the mathematically improbable situation where intelligent life did manage to get here, why would they be tiptoeing around in the background for seemingly 80 or so years when they are clearly technologically superior to us and nothing humanity has available to itself could remotely stop them? It seems silly to imagine these incredible lifeforms getting here and then having an “oops we crash landed” event.

alien abduction stories replaced vampiric…er… visitation?.. stories. it’s just pop culture intruding onto people’s imaginations.
But yeah. Any society capable of getting here has no need to tiptoe around- they can do what they want. The shinnanigans are… more likely us either misunderstanding things (ie military prototypes, whatever.) or straight up fraud (because, you know, that’s happened.)

The name comes from mountain difficulty classifications. 5 being the tallest, 10 being the most difficult.

It was because they were hard wearing and had … pockets…. That cops picked them up, and then, all the tactilool wannabes came.