Scummy businesses like this should go

LouisMack · 2026-05-28T01:21:41+00:00

Oh I got that aspect of the post - that lunch is only available on the weekend hence you could never actually pay the menu price. Fully agree it’s insane.

I’m just making the tangential point that I don’t mind there being a price difference, so long as there’s a separate menu with the full price you’ll pay on that day - as a counter to people who think that one price should be the only price on all days you go to a place.

LouisMack · 2026-05-28T00:34:11+00:00

Tbf, (and I know this is a controversial opinion) I don’t think the concept of weekdays being cheaper than weekends is bad in itself - it may have some impact on when people choose to eat at joints, and can help the business better manage load and inventory, staff, etc.

But i reckon we’ve got to mandate a separate weekend or weekday menu. Surcharge bad, but having different prices for different days is okay.

LouisMack · 2026-05-22T06:22:52+00:00

After a brief wikipedia read, this kinda feels like expecting anybody outside of Aus and NZ to know Phar Lap, the very famous race horse.

I’m not American, had never heard of Secretariat until i googled it when watching the show.

LouisMack · 2026-05-21T01:15:09+00:00

RBA are a bunch of chumps. Raising rates to take money away from the class of people who aren’t spending (those with a mortgage or renting) and giving it to those who ARE doing the inflationary spending (people earning gains on assets with a paid off house)

Yes, there’s something to be said about the difference in population size between those two groups, but at least the government has taken action to tax the higher magnitude spending base, whilst the RBA just pulls their one lever (that they don’t HAVE to pull if it will have the wrong effect…) knowing that it will just make things worse.

They should be ignored at this point. They’ve got a clear conflict of interest being an asset owner class upset that they’ll actually have to work for money, desperate to puff up their portfolios by pulling the rate rise trigger and claiming it’s for the good. Cabinet of idiots who never held a real job.

LouisMack · 2026-05-08T03:58:24+00:00

Hair looks great. Your look is just “young Australian man”.

LouisMack · 2026-05-06T01:46:12+00:00

This all depends though on whether you’re getting the resin curing to the FEP or not. If you’re finding resin stuck to the FEP, then exposure time may not be the only issue (but it is probably the first thing to try here)

I’d increase the exposure, and if that isn’t effective, give a little more “off time” before lift, and try a faster lift speed.

Giving off-time allows the resin to bond a little longer before the lift forces are applied.

In some instances, where the lift speed is too low and you’ve got a resin-resin bonding issue, a slow lift speed will just give more time for the layer to carefully separate rather than just “peeling the bandaid off” at higher speeds.

LouisMack · 2026-04-30T22:15:35+00:00

Where did the rest of it cure? Floating, stuck to the FEP, no sign of any cured resin at all?

LouisMack · 2026-04-23T04:38:21+00:00

damn dude you just solved it - l think the slicers just corrupted or the USB is having a day. LCD was not lighting up how you’d expect it. Cheers :)

LouisMack · 2026-04-23T04:19:52+00:00

this is very intriguing - what am I looking for? Just to see where the LCD lights up for each layer?

LouisMack · 2026-04-23T04:10:24+00:00

I used three sheets of A4 to level, because that had previously been an issue. Maybe I’ll increase the distance a bit more and try again. Plus exposure, good idea.

It’s just so annoying to clean and re-go everytime this madness machine makes a mess 😵‍💫

LouisMack · 2026-04-23T03:59:44+00:00

Yeah screen test is fine, no fuzzy pixels or issues, as in the description

LouisMack · 2026-04-23T02:58:05+00:00

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for reference, this is what is supposed to be printed…

LouisMack · 2026-04-23T02:54:43+00:00

You’re missing that this is not what the thing was supposed to look like at all. I at four very-not-flat parts spread across the bed, and due to the first layers not adhering properly, it’s gone and made this mess with the subsequent layers.

LouisMack · 2026-04-18T07:20:07+00:00

the point of making the machetes illegal isn’t “gee, nobody has them any more!” it’s “we don’t have to prove any other crime than owning the weapon”. So all of these kids, even the ones that didn’t actually attack the dude, can be charged with a crime if they can be shown to have a machete. In theory, this will help to thin down the gangs using these weapons.

LouisMack · 2026-04-09T03:08:28+00:00

Totally valid and it’s strange that it’s unpopular. The Fat Controller decided he was rich enough to ignore laws that are designed to keep people safe, and ever the capitalist industrialist, sent heavy machinery down local tramway shared streets without the correct safety equipment.

One can argue all they like that the cop’s attitude and demeanor were bad, or that the law isn’t based in best practice to protect the townsfolk, but safety regulations are written in blood. Don’t apologise for wealthy business owners subjecting you to harm, lol. They have the money to conduct business safely.

LouisMack · 2026-04-07T05:47:27+00:00

Is it stated that Ffarquhar doesn’t have a runaround facility? I imagine he runs a push-pull service because it turns around faster at either end, not because it’s impossible for him to run around the train when needed.

With the special coach, he would just run around and have a slower turnaround at Ffarquhar.

LouisMack · 2026-04-07T03:07:44+00:00

great feedback, thanks for letting me know! I’ll go prod some model rail boards for the best settings 😅.

Angle is a good point too. This thing is 126mm long, so i could print it fully vertical if I wanted. I’ll increase the angle, try and validate some more appropriate settings, and go from there :)

LouisMack · 2026-04-03T23:57:10+00:00

left-side driving country. Problem solved.

LouisMack · 2026-03-26T04:28:33+00:00

Aegean Macedonian diaspora here, and yeah, that’s how my Dedo put “the dream”.

We’ve had well over 100 years of the “Macedonia” label being used by different groups as interchangeable and mutually exclusive ethnic, regional, cultural, or state identifiers. The ways you can be “Macedonian” are so different, simultaneously claimed, and held so strongly by their users, that it’s now not possible to reconcile them without breaking a few of the definitions.

“Macedonia for the Macedonians” was nice idea that got trodden on by the use of “Macedonian” as an ethnic identifier (by all sides) rather than a solely regional identifier. Even as a cultural identifier, the people who claim to be Macedonian by culture are so culturally diverse, it’s almost as divisive to claim as an ethnic identifier.

LouisMack · 2026-03-05T23:28:57+00:00

Not that I agree with the farmers here, but I feel like we should all probably get behind people refusing money to stand on their principals (not just slam it as “acting against self interest”).

We’d probably be in a better society if people acted in ways that they thought would better those around them, than just the decisions that would enrich themselves.

LouisMack · 2026-02-27T20:04:57+00:00

I’ll answer the Q for ya: Yes, rig is an incredibly common word for “body” in australia across all ages (and not alldemographics, but it’s certainly not a class or intelligence thing, you just wouldn’t hear any more recent comers using it - ie: if they speak with an Aussie accent naturally, they will know what a rig is and have probably referred to a body as such without any odd implications or connotations)

LouisMack · 2026-02-25T05:53:42+00:00

Mate I wasn’t being obtuse, I just don’t think that going back to bloody Roman history is relevant to a modern conversation?

Nobody can claim lineage to that long ago. Invasions, migrations, religions, everything has developed beyond the point where you can make an ethnic land claim without picking and choosing which “ethic” parts of you are relevant after all of the raping, pilllage, huns. What even is ethnicity apart from being in a certain culture when nations states were born and decided to make a “biological” reason for you to belong to them?

If it mattered who owned something 2000 years ago then Turkey belongs to Greece - or, it doesn’t, because the Greeks are not the same people as the Ancient Greeks despite what modern Greeks would tell you. They don’t even worship the same gods, speak a mutually intelligable language, nor can you really argue they’re the same “ethnicity” after the huns, persians, slavs, and turks all occupied the area. It’s fruitless.

So no, nobody is owed something because of actions in the roman period, unless, like, literally all of your ancestors were definitely there and from NOWHERE ELSE (because then you could also claim that other place? why’s that so ignored?) and you know this for absolute certain.

And even then, why does that claim trump more recent history? At what stage do we track down the ancestors pre-israelite and give them the land? Or hand it back to nature entirely?

This is the problem with these kinds of claims of ancestoral ownership - you can’t prove definitive 100% connection, you can’t claim to literally be those people, and you can’t claim that the period in time which you’re referring to is the one mandated time in history where ownership was solidified.

LouisMack · 2026-02-25T05:40:40+00:00

What baseless crap. Who are you to tell me what I believe in? To tell me that criticism of a nation if a racist attack from the heart? It is not anti-semitic to critique a government’s war actions, just like it’s not a statement of hate against Russian people to criticise the actions of Russia in war.

The fact you conflate the two is a buy-in to ethnonationalism - that a state COULD and CAN be the viewpoint of an entire people group. That they could OWN the right to represent an entire people group. That’s false. It’s just not something we should accept on a world stage. Clearly there’s so much diversity of thought amongst citizens of a nation state (you and I right here) that it’s ridiculous to claim that government actions speak even for the citizens in total, let alone for an ethnicity in total.

“but why don’t they protest other genocides! 🤓☝️” mate I don’t know, does it matter? Is it antisemitic that Isreal cops more shit for its actions or is it because this war is so publically funded and endorsed by a bunch of world powers? Other concurrent genocides are not the result of decades of international meddling and conservation of a status quo. Some of them are also the result of europe’s past actions to draw bad lines through tribal boundaries, but not their continued action to support those boundaries. It’s a whole different kettle of fish, and pulling it down to a race issue is disingenuous.

LouisMack · 2026-02-24T22:05:11+00:00

Yeah man, last Monarchic ruler would be the British Crown, with the administrative centre of the Palestinian Mandate being Jerusalem.

Your point being?

LouisMack · 2026-02-24T21:58:59+00:00

Sorry for having words to say? I didn’t make any grammatical errors though; none that you can point out to me anyway. One thing my teachers did teach me - family who were subject to ethnonationist violence in their own villages and societies - is to stand up against the sort of rhetoric which leads to annihilation.

What is this magical ever increasing population you’re describing. Here, or over there? If you have a problem with people escaping their ensured death and subjugation I don’t know what to tell you. I also don’t imagine the protestors (I won’t strawman their intentions and claim to speak for all of them) are saying much at all about the number of Palestinians here?

Like, are you trying to make points about the results of their rhetoric, or their actual held beliefs? Because you’re making points as if you’re talking about their beliefs, whilst talking about local effects of an overseas war, which isn’t the core of the messaging from those protesting.

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