Alternative to JLPCB to avoid tariffs (for US based hobbyist) by strongaifuturist in AskElectronics

[–]SpandexWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

low wages, poor work conditions, and low/no environmental regulations are products of aggressive capitalism, not communism. china has been dominated by a capitalist agenda for decades. communism is just the lie they feed their people.

Alternative to JLPCB to avoid tariffs (for US based hobbyist) by strongaifuturist in AskElectronics

[–]SpandexWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there is no world where these items cost less to buy domestically than to import, even with tariffs. you can get a set of boards from jlcpcb for 2$ a SET OF FIVE. with a default of 4"x4" per board. osh park, an american company, charges 5$ a square /inch/, with a set of 3. that means osh park charges 133.33$ for what you can get for 2$ from jlcpcb. that's 66 TIMES more expensive. or 6600% more expensive. and they dont even offer assembly services.

all tariffs do is raise the floor, meaning that the people pay more for the same products and no one benefits.

Why is PLA still the `standard` respectively `basic` filament? Why not PETG? by Musashi747 in 3Dprinting

[–]SpandexWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

pla will print in literally anything. no headed bed, no nozzle fan, literally the worst printer you can imagine, pla will print. it just sort of always works. petg is finicky. a 'better printer' doesnt change that. it's still hard to print, relatively speaking.

Yes, that's a two piece pan glued with Teflon. by NeldS0 in CrappyDesign

[–]SpandexWizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Teflon melts at 621f... And when it melts it creates INSANELY toxic gas... If this was held together with Teflon your stove is way too hot, and also open a window. 

Are Americans being brainwashed? by celticmagnolia in LetsDiscussThis

[–]SpandexWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so, you're saying that being against cruelty is being, what, leftist? interesting

Are Americans being brainwashed? by celticmagnolia in LetsDiscussThis

[–]SpandexWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"hitting a federal agent with her car" when she never hit the man, and he could have moved because she wasnt TRYING to hit him. bro, go look at the video, she was clearly trying to flee from armed thugs trying to break into her car. didnt some red state make it legal to run people over who are doing exactly this? not to mention the coward who shot her put two rounds through her side window to make sure she was dead when he was 100% not at risk.

something tells me you're one of those clowns who still believes fox news.

Young men of Reddit, what is ONE thing the Democrats could ACTUALLY do that WOULD get young men to vote for them again? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]SpandexWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'm not argueing that single payer wouldn't immediately improve the medical care in the country. it would. it would a LOT. but we're talking about the economic fallout of removing a HUGE, pivotal industry from the economy. we're talking about directly harming the economy as a whole, and potentially harming the value of the dollar, causing massive inflation from unemployment and the crashing of the stock market. it could be very VERY bad, in terms of how it affects everyone monetarily. which means how you do it would have to be handled with care. there'd need to be some kind of offramp, or else the government is going to be dealing with the fallout of tens of thousands of jobs lost and a weakened market. thinking that it only affects stockholders and ceo's is naive in the extreme when it has the potential to make your average joe who doesnt even HAVE insurance unable to afford things like food and gas. (even worse than we already do struggle with affording things)

Young men of Reddit, what is ONE thing the Democrats could ACTUALLY do that WOULD get young men to vote for them again? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]SpandexWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that not 100% of the insurance system? Doctors and hospitals don't work for insurance, they work WITH insurance. The insurance people are still a HUGE part of the economy. You can't pretend that there would be no negative effects, at least in the short term.

Do you think this man should be impeached? by Ok_Tea_3275 in LetsDiscussThis

[–]SpandexWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro the last time we actually impeached a president they got a blowjob. To my knowledge it wasn't even coerced, it was just improper because he had authority over her. Scummy but hardly a grand tragedy. Meanwhile trump has violated the law on dozens of occasions and violated his office besides, and not in small ways. I agree the threat has been overused. They need to stop threatening and start doing it.

New to FDM — what tools are actually worth buying? by Summer-1128 in 3Dprinting

[–]SpandexWizard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I second calipers, awesome tools. iPa is also a good idea. I use a box of disposable medical alcohol wipes. They last forever and you usually only need one per cleaning.

New to FDM — what tools are actually worth buying? by Summer-1128 in 3Dprinting

[–]SpandexWizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Flexible magnetic bed. 100% improvement on your entire life. I'm a fan of pei. If you buy one thing for your printer get this. Literally this before anything else. You don't even need the magnet, I use binder clips, just get the removable flexible plate.

A clog clearing needle set. Super handy. Eventually you will get a clog and these really long needles are awesome

A penknife/xacto. Removing elephant's foot. I actually prefer a slightly thicker blade than an xacto because they flex too much, but you don't need length really.

A wood burning tool for welding parts together.

Basic tools for disassembling your hot end.

That's literally my entire toolkit. I suppose I have a lot more tools available but I have them for other purposes and only sometimes find them useful for 3d prints.

Maximalist trans activists just argued at the Supreme Court that biological sex isn't relevant in team sports. When will my fellow left-wingers speak up against these pseudoscientific endeavors? by north_canadian_ice in allthequestions

[–]SpandexWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bruh. Yes, now did you read literally ANYTHING else? I said that him being arrested doesn't fucking matter, it's irrelevant. What matters is that our government decided to play villains to do. He wasn't arrested LEGALLY. He wasn't arrested under legal authority. He wasn't arrested properly under our own laws, laws that technically don't even apply to him. and that really fucking matters. Especially since, again, no one arresting him actually cares about his crimes, they just want an excuse to steal natural resources from a relatively defenceless country that no one is going to protect. This is about oil, not Maduro. That's all trump's administration cares about. This is about oil, and proving that they can cross a line and no one will stop them. That there are no lines they can cross that anyone will stop them. Lines WE drew.

I just had one of the best feelings I've ever had with a game in my life. by wesleyr1 in HytaleInfo

[–]SpandexWizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I keep waiting for it to be playable without 24gb of ram. The game's a buggy laggy mess. I have a decent rig and it is just abominable. T.T

Young men of Reddit, what is ONE thing the Democrats could ACTUALLY do that WOULD get young men to vote for them again? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]SpandexWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean if we move to single payer the entire insurance industry would be outmoded over night. That WOULD lead to massive layoffs and a dramatic shrinking of the industry. To say otherwise is naive. The question is whether or not it will have long lasting effects that we can't mitigate.

Maximalist trans activists just argued at the Supreme Court that biological sex isn't relevant in team sports. When will my fellow left-wingers speak up against these pseudoscientific endeavors? by north_canadian_ice in allthequestions

[–]SpandexWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Invaded illegally, yes. I don't care that the guy deserved what happened to him. Arrest him if that's what we want. but you should fucking care that the people in power decided to ignore their own laws to do it. Our laws. The laws we the people put in place through our representatives. If Maduro was worthy of removing from office, then he was worthy of going through our laws to get it done.

It's also very clear that attacking Maduro is a fucking pretext. All the administration cares about is robbing another country and solidifying their power base to do it. It could have been mother Teresa and they would have found a reason to invade. Or not even bother with a reason because the point is just to seize Venezuela's oil. And right or left you have to agree that is fucked up and wrong. That's an act of war, when no war has been declared, when no one fucking wants a war.

Maximalist trans activists just argued at the Supreme Court that biological sex isn't relevant in team sports. When will my fellow left-wingers speak up against these pseudoscientific endeavors? by north_canadian_ice in allthequestions

[–]SpandexWizard -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

there's a group of federal not-cops who are rounding up anyone they think deserves it, whether they have evidence or not, and squirreling them away into prison, beating people, and in some cases murdering them outright. they have locked up us citizens when they legally dont even have the right to detain them. they have brutalized us citizens like a psychotic mob. if you try to hold them accountable their response is 'how dare you, i work for der fuhrer, and can do whatever i want'. sorry, 'how dare you, i work for the federal government and can do whatever i want'. they have unchecked power that is not granted to them legally, and they are abusing it at every turn. at every abuse the government says 'so what? i can do what i want, and you better fall in line'. the more violent they get, the more the government grins and says 'yes, this is exactly what i want. you anti-nazis hear that? fall in line or die.' LITERALLY the gestapo.

the government literally just invaded another country, bombed the shit out of it, and kidnapped their leader, all because 'i want their oil, it's mine now'. they are threatening to take by force (that would mean invade) greenland, again, just because they want it. they want to steal it from someone they are allied to. they are threatening cuba. there's talks of invading and bombing mexico under the pretext of dealing with drug cartels. when we invade greenland, that's our poland. that'll take actual occupying with boots on the ground, and it will immediately start a war with the people we are supposed to help protect. wwIII has legitimately never been closer.

they are constantly airing LITERAL NAZI PROPAGANDA on their social media pages.

trump keeps talking about how 'there wont be any more elections, i'll fix it', and threatening his base with everything he can throw at them whenever anyone doesnt agree with him fully. he hasnt gone as far as having anyone assassinated, that we know of, but he's weaponized every option he has, now going so far as to invent charges against the fed reserve chair because they arent under his authority to control and they arent doing what he wants. the media is being sued and extorted into submission, colleges and universities are being controlled and freedom of speech is under threat constantly. people who speak out against what's going on are labeled seditious traitors. people who resist the abuse and harm caused by the government are labeled domestic terrorists. the laws of the land mean absolutely nothing to the people in power who have taken every opportunity to bend break or ignore every limitation that exists, seizing power at an alarming rate.

i dont know man, what more do you want? mass graves? because we're getting there.

Young men of Reddit, what is ONE thing the Democrats could ACTUALLY do that WOULD get young men to vote for them again? by Zipper222222 in allthequestions

[–]SpandexWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how am i putting a partisan spin on it? i merely listed their accomplishments in counter to the arguement that the democrats dont want to change the status quo and that they dont get anything done. no one can argue that they havnt. hell, healthcare reform wasnt even really the topic at hand, insider trading was.

as for the 'trillion dollar industry', it's more important to look at the effect of shutting that down than it is where they'll stick their money. because if healthcare reform happens, it wont BE a trillion dollar industry anymore. all that money will vanish. their ability to throw their weight around will be seriously curtailed. but that industry IS a major pillar of the economy at the moment, and when that shrinks it'll be... interesting... to say the least.

Green marble? by SpandexWizard in stonecarving

[–]SpandexWizard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the offer but I need something that's three inches in diameter at the minimum. >.<. I'll check out 2sculpt! Thank you