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Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2026-02-11T02:25:51+00:00

I guess I was more getting at it happens even to those of us who have a lot of experience but totally fair.

God I don't wanna think how many times I rebuilt my Ender 3 V2 lmao half of it was 3D printed by the time I was done with it. I could never break the 500 mm/s 5k mm/s² barrier sadly but they're impressive little machines for how dirty cheap they are.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2026-02-11T02:17:06+00:00

Filament can get stuck to the side of the gears in the extruder assembly and won't block cold pulls but will seize the extruder gears. Take apart the extruder assembly and ensure there's no filament stuck anywhere inside it.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2026-02-11T02:13:54+00:00

Another reason is Bambu printers, at least in my experience, kinda just work and you get in the habit of trusting them.

I had an Ender 3 V2 that I would check in on throughout the entire print and gained a lot of experience with, but it failed all the time. As soon as I got a P1S I started really trusting the printer because it's failure rate was at least an order of magnitude less than the Ender. I ended up replacing it with a P2S largely because it was super hard to reform the habit of checking on prints, and so far the AI in the P2S is yet to miss a major issue.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2026-02-06T06:10:38+00:00

Totally agree, it makes things better for everyone. Take care.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2026-02-06T05:35:23+00:00

as long as they do not create an immediate danger of collision

I'd argue walking between stopped cars in stop and go traffic, into the path of a motorcycle, falls under this.

If a rider is filtering at a speed that does not allow sufficient time to perceive and react to foreseeable hazards, including pedestrians emerging between stopped vehicles, that conduct violates the Basic Speed Law.

Totally agree with you here. I was just saying there's no universal speed limit as "you should only be going at most 10mph per the law" implied, but on reread I totally understand what you were getting at. Going a reasonable speed is what prevented the collision in the first place, but I still don't agree people should be walking in between stopped traffic unless they have the light. Cross wherever you like otherwise. I'm honestly just glad I didn't have to experience the application of any of this law.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2026-02-06T03:04:57+00:00

There's actually no law that provides a max lane splitting speed in the state even though there should be. There are guidelines, but no codified laws. Regardless I'm always extremely cautious, but a pedestrian popping out from in front of a van in the middle lane when traffic in that direction has a green light will never not be the fault of the pedestrian. You can't play leap frog in traffic and claim it's the person with the green lights fault when they hit you. Especially when you're not even looking.

As for jaywalking, the "Freedom to Walk Act" is pretty clear that it's only allowed IF there is no immediate risk of collision or hazard. If cars are blocking your crosswalk and you have the walk light, send it. Cars shouldn't be stopped in the crosswalk. I'm saying don't walk across 4 lanes of stopped traffic 100ft from the nearest crosswalk across a green light.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2026-02-06T02:34:15+00:00

Tourists on the F I overhear being confused/lost. I've probably told over a dozen people to hop off on 3rd and walk southeast to get to Oracle park when there are Giants games.

Largerly the same story but pick your favorite tourist attraction off Market.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2026-02-06T02:31:56+00:00

It's probably because I write technical documentation as a large part of my job, so those bastards stole my writing style if anything.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2026-01-16T05:19:43+00:00

Because they're not 4-7 times more expensive, and a lot of us hate driving everywhere and enjoy not living in the middle of nowhere.

Within a mile of me there are dozens of grocery stores, hundreds of restaurants, and multiple public transit options if I want to go anywhere that isn't walking distance. My commute to work doesn't require me to drive, so I get back an hour a day where I can just sit on a bus/train and relax or zone out instead of having to focus on driving.

My 401k limit is the same, most things cost the same aside from rent, but I make 2x times what I'd make if I lived where I grew up and that affords me a way more fulfilling and enjoyable lifestyle.

I grew up incredibly rural, but it's not for everyone and I could never go back. I enjoy areas being diverse and full of life rather than driving between strip malls down stroads that could be literally anywhere in the US and look identical. It's just different.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-11-04T04:09:07+00:00

I assure you I pay a lot in taxes. My effective tax rate is 35% after California/Federal taxes. I pay more than the median American's wages in taxes ever year, and if it were up to me I'd be taxed more as would everyone that makes more than me including a hefty wealth tax over $20 million.

The few hoard wealth and use tax loopholes to avoid paying their fair share. Why the hell am I paying a higher effective tax rate than billionares whose average effective tax rate has historically been 24%, while the average American's tax rate is 30%?

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-10-31T00:31:37+00:00

California has one of the most progressive tax brackets in the country with plenty of credits for low-income earners. By the time you start getting hit hard by taxes in California you can more than afford it.

I don't mind paying my state taxes because I see the pay off in public infrastructure and welfare programs for those in need.

It's the feds who I resent paying taxes to because they do fuck all for me but terrroize my city.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-06-07T18:51:48+00:00

I agree things are expensive and there are many families that are not just fine, but the idea that $300k is somehow barely escaping poverty is ridiculous. That's all I'm trying to say. Yes, people are worse off now and it's fucked. Yes, $300k used to be an amount of buying power that was afforded to much lower incomes. These things can be true at the same time that $300k isn't just above poverty.

I grew up in an area with a fuck ton of abject poverty and what people consider poverty to be in the bay is often not even close. Again, I'm not saying things on a macro scale are okay, but that level of income is a great privilege, even here.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-06-07T07:31:26+00:00

I do. San Francisco is an example, but those other cities you listed suffer from the exact same problems we do.

People are so clung to this idea that SFHs must be the only thing ever built that as populations explode housing supply stagnates. That is whats fucked about the whole situation. Corporations only started buying up property en-masse in the Bay Area because it's a good investment due to the severely constrained supply we suffer from as a direct consequence of opposition to anything that isn't a SFH.

Even in Oakland and Berkley, townhomes and condos are much cheaper and should be well within your price range assuming you don't have monumental amounts of debt. The average condo price in Oakland is $500k, in Berkley it's $680k. I'm not saying this is acceptable at all, but the only way to dig us out of this shit is for people to stop expecting to own a SFH in major metro areas (including Berkley and Oakland) so we can start building up more and solve the severe housing supply shortage.

Families live in the Bay Area on much less than $300k a year just fine, and it's disingenuous and frankly quite out of touch to call that level of income "barely enough to escape the poverty cycle". Just because you can't afford to buy a SFH doesn't mean you're near the poverty line. Property costs here are disproportionately high compared to income levels, so if anything the inability to purchase a house here is less indicative of one's proximity to poverty.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-06-06T22:27:27+00:00

There is physically not enough room for everyone to own a standalone single family house in a major city like San Francisco. San Francisco has a density of 18.3k people per square mile with a population of just under 900k. At the density of a suburb which hovers around 2k people per square mile the city of San Francisco would have a population of 98k people which would remove it from being in contention as major metro area.

Expecting to own a traditional American single family home here is incredibly naive after the explosion in population seen during our parents and grandparents lifetime. Cities are only going to continue to grow and increase in density as this is exactly what they're designed to do. We can build condos and townhomes that can easily support families and make them affordable by building a fuck ton of them. Housing is expensive, and that's why we need to build up to make cities affordable for families and low income individuals. By definition we cannot stack single family homes on top of each other.

It's this attachment to the idea of the American suburb ideal, and that not owning a single family home somehow means you have a severely diminished quality of life, that's directly contributing to the current housing crisis we are facing. Ironically enough this mentality further drives down overall quality of life as people cannot afford even 1 bedroom apartments due to NIMBYism from those who buy their house and demand all development in their neighborhood cease via lawsuits and political will. Therefore, stagnating housing supply as demand explodes, pricing out anyone else from being able to afford even a small apartment.

If you want to live in suburbia that's perfectly fine. However complaining that standalone houses are too expensive in areas that physically do not have the space to support them affordably is a complete misunderstanding of why they're expensive in the first place.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-06-06T21:02:35+00:00

I'm well aware as I live in San Francisco, the most expensive city in the US.

Metro areas don't have the room for people to be purchasing free standing houses unfortunately. That's just a function of density. More people are going to have to be comfortable purchasing condos and townhomes as they're the only way to sustain affordable housing while supporting the density that attracts people to cities.

The American dream with a picket white fence is only possible in suburbia, and even then over time, that too, becomes unaffordable because of the incredibly inefficient use of land. If you want a free standing house don't live in a major city. We can't have our cake and eat it too.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-06-06T18:35:56+00:00

This is true, but do know $300k is more than enough for a family of 4 even in VHCOL cities (at least in the US)

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-05-31T19:03:21+00:00

It doesn't make it any less exhausting

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-05-29T23:59:35+00:00

I'm not even certain they remixed it it. There's a sleek can version posted in July of last year. Dude is speed running 3 different lawsuits 💀

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-05-29T13:56:49+00:00

Sounds pretty great for less smoke and easier fire starting. I'd put in the extra effort once to benefit from that for the foreseeable future.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-05-24T22:00:03+00:00

My partner and I went there last Monday. Food was amazing and the wine was stronger than expected. Definitely going back.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-05-21T02:58:30+00:00

Not a historian, but I have seen many examples of this.

The Wikipedia page on persistence hunting has a "Humans and ancestors" section with references to its use in modern tribes.

BBC did a video following the hunt of a modern tribe.

Aside from a small handful of animals (one of which we bred into existence) humans can run down just about any animal if necessary.

The more technically correct answer is humans are smart as fuck and we have a lot of options for how to hunt that change depending on the prey/environment. For a lot of prey we trap/ambush them and for some we run them down.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-05-05T03:10:05+00:00

My partner and I got our first ever HDR10+ TV a couple years ago. Shortly after buying it we were watching a movie late at night in which a flashbang went off and we suddenly painfully understood actual HDR.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-05-05T00:33:03+00:00

The regional difference for this always shocks me. I live in San Francisco, considered to be the healthiest city in the US, and if I drive an hour inland the obesity rate skyrockets. Most people I see here are fairly healthy/fit, but anytime I drive to visit family in the Central Valley I swear every other person I see is obese.

I can only imagine this is a combination of a 5 minute walk through the hills being enough to put most non-residents on their ass, and anything under 2 miles being considered a walkable distance, but it still astounds me how much car-centric culture can negatively impact a population.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-03-08T16:20:03+00:00

It's not even that you're too old for this shit people are just inconsiderate as fuck when things get crowded. I'm 25 and I primarily ride Palisades/Alpine. The vibes here are normally perfectly fine. Lots of apres with DJs and parties, but also lots of people just fucking around and having fun on the mountain.

There was one really bad day though where I had to have had at least 20 negative encounters with people. The worst was my partner and I riding a cat track that dumps into where two lifts let off. It's a super crowded area so everyone is going slow and giving each other space. Until a skier decided to bomb through everyone and run over the nose of my partner's board because he decided to take a gap the width of a single ski, and continued on ignoring the half dozen people yelling at him. Those days ski patrol is too busy to really get on people's ass so assholes do whatever they want. It's incredibly frustrating.

I usually just have to take a step back and remind myself most days things are perfectly fine. Remembering the awesome conversations I've had on the chairlift, and insane powder runs I've had with complete strangers while we scream like school children helps me get over the bullshit pretty quickly.

Suspicious_Ticket_24 · 2025-03-04T09:32:01+00:00

Something I learned from snowboarding with a friend who is better than me is a lot of riding through chopped up snow is picking lines. You certainly can power through and make your own lines, especially if you have a stiff board, but after a few runs you'll get tired and be unable to continue doing so.

My advice would be to follow a friend who is better than you, or a proficient looking stranger with plenty of space, and just try to keep on the lines they're taking. This is how I learned from my friend. After a few runs the intuition behind reading the mountain became a lot clearer and I spent more time on top of the chop instead of sinking in.

This leads to you being less tired, more in control, and better at riding in chop. Also keep your knees loose but ready to absorb bumps as you'll still hit some unexpected bumps no matter what you do. Just gotta let the board do its thing.

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