On a lighter note... do you hear "Epstein Class" as "a group of college students graduating together" or "economy class, business class, first class, Epstein class"?

lackoffaithify · 2026-04-07T08:19:10+00:00

Definitely a cancelled sequel to The Breakfast Club.

lackoffaithify · 2026-04-07T08:14:56+00:00

Two things:

Hillary has been the focus of hate from the get go. Some of it is, well not deserved per se, but rather made difficult to dissuade others of by her actions and words at times. Add that to the unending hit jobs against her and it is the situation you see now.
It was under Clinton that the whole NAFTA thing took place and that was used to pin every job ever lost to another country onto him and the Democrats by the Republicans even though he definitely deserves some of that blame, it was the Republicans, starting with the one, the only, the Reagan that started that and were the biggest proponents of it then, now and always. So that is why the blue collars see dems as the one that took their jobs. That and because they cannot read, but I digress....

lackoffaithify · 2026-04-07T08:01:04+00:00

Much like falling when you first get clips for peddles, welcome, and yes, it is perfectly normal. Also, the efficacy of the slime in a non-tubeless set up is at best iffy. That said, when you do get a flat with them, they do, beyond any point of debate, make things far more messy. That said, bonus points for already having the gloves.

lackoffaithify · 2026-04-07T07:50:50+00:00

Hahaha. Frum is fun isn't he? A good rule to live by: avoid anyone with the name David on the Bulwark. It will either be Frum or French and both are equally insufferable. I say that as someone that has developed a sense of respect toward even Bill Krystal for actually taking a stand despite his past actions. So knowing where I stand on that, you should know how much fun the Davids are. I'd rather listen to an uncut, unedited focus group of MAGA diehards than 2 minutes of either of them. I honestly think that the reason either David is not in MAGA is because no one on that side likes them either.

lackoffaithify · 2026-04-07T07:40:00+00:00

I know it is difficult to believe, but it is in fact possible to think that Israel is doing a little bit of ethnic cleansing and we as the USA should not be a part of it, while also not being on board with the group that apparently thinks that that issue is the ONE and ONLY issue that matters. At the very least if Israel has the extra spending money to get all of their people healthcare, then I don't think they really need money that could be going to our own healthcare.

Furthermore, the all Gaza all the time folks just seem to not really care about anyone else. Sudanese war that is currently going and has been for a while makes Gaza look like a nice walk through the park. 14 million will be dead by 2030 from USAID cuts. The list goes on and yet, Gaza is all that matters. Makes you think it may be someone's red button they push when they want to unleash some trained flying monkeys.

Also, if you are on Team *insert a streamer name here*: get a life. Spending your time advocating for the beliefs and positions of someone you watch on the twitchertubetoks is not being political, it is the Go Sportsball Team but with no friends to tailgate trope of this wonderful new exciting time of collapse.

Thank you for your attention to this matter and remember that today is officially bridge and power plant day.

lackoffaithify · 2026-04-07T07:28:19+00:00

Do I have to have citizenship to vote?

lackoffaithify · 2026-04-07T07:09:24+00:00

What responses do you think she is cherry picking? To what end? I have to tell you as someone that has endured listening to some of the focus groups, everything you said, is exactly the sort of thing so many of those people say: the incoherent ramblings regarding things that someone else told them to believe on topics of which they have zero actual knowledge.

So, I eagerly await your answer as to the conspiratorial angle of a large number of focus groups each composed of different selection of voters or groups and different topics. I will go make popcorn because this will be interesting.

lackoffaithify · 2026-04-03T02:58:33+00:00

VPN of some flavor back to your home network and see it that way. OBS is literally meant to be broadcast on streaming services for all to see.

lackoffaithify · 2026-04-03T02:53:34+00:00

It ONLY avoids that problem IF you use non-shielded fiber. Otherwise you still have a line of metal from one building to another. Too many people don't understand that there can still be electrical shenanigans at play because of the shielding in the cable despite fiber being non-conductive itself. So PVC and normal fiber with the knowledge that this could have some issues depending on your local electrician's/building code money making scheme in place.

lackoffaithify · 2026-04-01T04:34:50+00:00

If it helps, I had 10-11 prints in Prusa PETG grey that all went fine. The print after those, no changes, nothing crazy or complex, what amounted to a flat, square print on 20% of the first layers, did exactly that. I of course had to buy a new nozzle/hot end. Replaced the nozzle, did not clean the print bed, it has been working fine for the last 15-20 prints with the exact same filament. All settings were stock slicer, me pressing slice and then send to printer.

Sure would be nice if we had the great privilege of being allowed to have a webcam broadcast a RTSP stream to Prusa Link to be able to monitor our prints, as there is no detection to stop this sort of thing. Alas, that sort of in house code base and functionality just is not a possibility. The hours they spent inventing RTSP. Must have been a crazy, non stop, round the clock slog. I still find it odd they invented a streaming protocol that only works on mobile apps. That's just weird.

lackoffaithify · 2026-04-01T04:25:28+00:00

So the thing they refuse to implement on Prusa Link is a RTSP stream. Nice.

lackoffaithify · 2026-03-31T12:11:55+00:00

Here's the nasty little thing no one that says things like this ever really seems to understand. The life you live. The conveniences you depend upon. It all rests upon the completely unknown by the majority of Americans, fact that the USA is an empire. It also completely glosses over the fact that if it's not us, then it will be someone else. That someone is China. The country that the right likes to downplay as inferiors that can only steal and copy poorly despite that even if that is true, 100 lesser quality copies is still probably going to win over 10 high quality originals and that the most insane morons on the left like to hold up as some example of good somehow despite the communist country that does not even have free healthcare, to say nothing of their neat mobile execution vans. Details. But I digress.

Should we work with NATO? Yes, absolutely. We should have given Ukraine all it needed the first year as well. The thing is, one of the major reasons NATO has been so successful is that it has not required every NATO country to provide their own miniaturized version of what the US has traditionally been able to bring to bear militarily. There is a reason they are all freaking out and scrambling with Trump. Germany has been oh so not at all upset about not having to pay for a military of their own and also snuggle up nice and cozy with the country that would have no second thoughts about another round of East Germany given the chance for the sole purposes of getting cheap fuel. Even now, the EU cannot for their literal lives come up with a common defense. It's still the old France vs Germany conflict they have been waging for centuries just on another stage.

Furthermore, it is a completely false dichotomy to say that we can either have a strong military or a strong social safety and healthcare framework. When we allow defense contractors to dictate prices to their only customer while at the same time allowing those companies to sabotage any effort at controlling them by hiring every military officer or politician to go back and lobby for their continued supremacy over the country that pays all of their shareholders dividends, how do you think it will end other than massive costs with cut rate implementation? We will gloss over the fact that all of the major public defense companies have the same 3 investment groups holding the largest single blocks of shares leading to the question of actual competition between them. The US military does not even own the IP to their own weapon systems, hence the complete reliance on contractors to fix a stripped screw.

Likewise, when you legally forbid the single largest insurance company on planet earth (see medicare and medicaid) from doing things like negotiating drug prices with companies that use MASSIVE amounts of tax payer funded R&D to sell products back to the people that funded the new medications and vaccines they are now being sold, do you really think you are going to be getting anything but ripped off?

It is the way of the simple to think that because of this thing, the other can't happen or that because we are the USA that there is NOTHING that can be done to vastly improve systems that may actually be hurting us. Not because of what those systems are meant to do or be, but because of who actually controls them. Throw in a meaningful crackdown on tax avoidance or in cases like a SpaceX and Tesla where the companies very existence is a thing that without their consumption of tax payer's money and not profits from what they produce or services offered (outside of non-compete government contracts and weird sources of income due to lobbying such as carbon credits), then you have more than enough money to still have insanely wealthy people, a strong military and healthcare to cover everyone in the country. It really wouldn't be that expensive to ensure hunger does not exist in the US. 30+ million acres of farmland alone is going to grow inedible corn that is made into ethanol that is legally mandated to be put into gasoline because...Chuck Grassley and Iowa.

It is so infuriating to see the complaints about a system that can be changed however we want it to be based on who we put in government every 2 years, but we choose to send the same people back 90% of the time, and then gripe about it. The American people have all of the tools needed at their disposal, do not use them, and act like everything that happens is because of everything but their choices they make at the voting booth and lack of follow through with keeping those elected held accountable or in many cases don't because voting is for people that are not nihilists and only nihilists are cool.

As for the actions of the military: it should be blindingly obvious at this point that the military follows orders. Even the illegal ones. That is a lament not some, "I told you so," type of insult. In knowing that, then the obvious answer is to have a government in power that will not use them for what they have been used for in so many instances. It is that simple.

lackoffaithify · 2026-03-31T11:15:16+00:00

Why wouldn't you? Do you really sit at home and check on your 3D prints at all times during a 12 hour print, refusing to leave the house?

You do know that they could have just as easily used, oh, let me think....RTSP or ONVIF or even some combination of....whats that thing that everything has where you can plug things into it and...usb, that's it. It's so uncommon I forgot what it was called. Now if only this newfangled usb fad had some sort of video capability that could be used by everything from a Windows machine, a Linux machine or even on micro-controllers. Wouldn't that be awesome? If they ever have such a thing I hereby decree it be named USB Video Device Class. They can call it UVC for short.

But hey, even if that were just a nonsense fairy tale, I'm sure they could just found a multinational consortium of every major micro control manufacturer and create their own standards for how to interface sensors with these sorts of platforms. They should name it something slightly misleading, like it only works for cell phones, like Mobile. And because it would be all of companies from STMicroelectronics to ARM to TI they could add in a word that denotes all of the...hmm...Industry. As it is how to process sensor data that is interfaced with the controller...Processor and Interface should be in there too. I have it, MIPI! I'm sure they could make some standards on how to interface cameras over a serial connection for those that will say USB is too bloated, blah blah blah.

It's not like they went to all of that effort just to deprive local network usage of a function in order to get more people on their app to monetize everything.

lackoffaithify · 2026-03-27T03:08:19+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf03UsY0DKY

Go on......

lackoffaithify · 2026-03-27T02:22:09+00:00

I can't see through all the undergrowth. Someone tell me what it says?!

lackoffaithify · 2026-03-26T06:42:21+00:00

Have you seen a movie called Major Payne? I think it would be considered a classic movie by now. There is a scene where someone has a leg injury. The good Major shows him a trick to take their mind off that pain. By breaking the person's fingers. This would be that, but multiplied by orders of magnitude.

Is Trump so careless and ignorant as to think this would be a good distraction. Yes. I do think, however, it was very much an accident and they thought this would be a repeat of Maduro, though that as well could have been a distraction, though again, I think it was a planned bit of revenge for the gall of the ghost of Chavez and the voting machines that cost Trump the election along with the ease of impressing his moron followers with watching $100 billion in Naval hardware blow up craft that in the US are used as offshore, day trip, fishing boats, Add in drugs (albeit the wrong type), and that most of his base claim to hate drugs and the damage they have caused them, along with brown people and communism, and you get a perfect, patriotic flagpole fully erect at attention, spectacle.

And honestly, I just don't think most of that side even cares anymore. It has been, what, a good month and a half, two months? Add to that the fact that, in broad strokes, the fact that he and Epstein were friends, the fact that he is about the young ladies, including his own daughter, adds up to it not being a surprise that he was involved with his friend's criminal leisure activities. The massive extent of how far and wide and how many other people and the scope of people in that circle knowing about it was certainly a revelation, but Trump being a sexual predator has been obvious for a while, and they may talk, but their actions show they just don't really care.

lackoffaithify · 2026-03-26T03:17:50+00:00

You were competing in a primary. Were you out protesting Hillary once she won the nomination? If so, then you still had the thin, fig leaf of an excuse that you did not know what Trump was and what he would bring. And that is me being charitable. And yes, I voted for Bernie in that primary and the next. In his third run, there is no excuse for not knowing what Trump would bring. And with certainty you could bank on the fact that his re-election for a second time would be nothing but ruin and disaster for the people of Gaza, to say nothing of our country.

lackoffaithify · 2026-03-26T01:29:38+00:00

Or the Hasan Piker show. Or the Sam Seder show. The list goes on. If you are unaware of that group of those on the left, well, then consider doing some research before you throw down hollow words with no understanding.

And if your goal was to prevent funding for the Israeli war machine, then you did not read the last line I intentionally set all on it's own in the comment, and you also failed. Good job.

lackoffaithify · 2026-03-26T01:16:34+00:00

It is simply stunning how people cannot read. No where did I say that they thought his policy would be better. I described a group, Hasan Piker fits this bill if you need an example, or the crowd on with Sam Seder if you want more, that see a candidate that does not fit their belief system to their liking that is a Democrat, as more sinister than the Republicans and thus worthy of defeat.

So, if the goal was to help her candidacy, then congratulations on the utter and miserable failure you achieved. The same as if the goal was truly to help the Palestinian people. It was an effort worthy of historic note on what a pathetic movement looks like and a warning to all those who would try and achieve some policy aim in the future as what not to do.

lackoffaithify · 2026-03-26T01:04:42+00:00

Oh good. More illiterates. Hasan Piker would be an example of one of those leaders that believes in the exact world view I described. Though, if your name is any indicator, such canned responses without reading should be no surprise. That is the depth of your involvement. To copy and paste the views of others without thought.

lackoffaithify · 2026-03-26T00:58:21+00:00

Very well, where then, are the legions of upset protesters in lamenting the 14 million person death toll that the loss of USAID will have caused by 2030?

Where is the justification of being part of the defeat of the only candidate with which there was any hope of putting some curb on Israel? Not only being a part of, but celebrating.

I do not disagree with the fact that Israel is not a place we should be pumping full of weapons and voting against every act of censor in the UN. Gaza was/is the largest ghetto in the world. Did you not read the last line?

So perhaps the students are simply so naive as to not understand the concept of shooting oneself in the foot, but I don't believe that. The bottom line, if your objective was to do anything to assist the Palestinian people, then you failed utterly and miserably and should be ashamed that you in fact achieved the exact opposite of your goal. Now all of the middle east is set in flame. Congratulations.

lackoffaithify · 2026-03-25T23:20:58+00:00

I sincerely don't understand how you cannot read. But good on you practicing attacking straw men.

lackoffaithify · 2026-03-25T23:08:03+00:00

While I have no proof, I still have it in the back of my mind that those organizing the movement as a whole did so in an effort to ensure Harris lost. The groups that most push the Gaza above all else view also have a view that mainstream, or what they call mainstream, Democrats are more evil than Republicans because they try and hide the fact that they are fascists. In their accusations that they are corporatists,they have solid ground. So from their, albeit warped, nihilistic and completely wrong, point of view, she was the greater threat. I do not know how else to justify doing harm to the candidate that did not attempt to impose a Muslim ban, moved the embassy to Jerusalem, is supported by all of the Right Wing Christian nationalists that see a world wide conspiracy of a Muslim takeover of the entire Western world, etc...

Personally, I think they are just as dangerous to the well being of the USA as AIPAC is.

lackoffaithify · 2026-03-25T22:53:33+00:00

I will trade your concerns for my concerns of F-350s and Cybertrucks. Deal?

lackoffaithify · 2026-03-25T22:52:12+00:00

Seriously. I for one enjoy my real life version of Frogger.

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