I mean, it’s obviously the flanged mace. It’s the only one that purely serves its purpose as a weapon and not simply a meat tenderizer or hammer.

I just wish that kid wouldn’t have missed.

It sounds like you’re not in love with your wife to me.

I’m okay with seeing it from time to time - but when my /all would get flooded with PAGES, and PAGES of the stuff with no normal articles in between, I started muting those users.

Why? It’s too much bandwidth, too much upkeep, I already modded/ran communities larger than lemmy; I DON’T want to do it again, especially if I’m paying out of pocket for it. Having to deal with whiny cry-bitches when you DON’T ban something that they don’t like it almost as bad as having the stuff banned in the first place.

Hell naw, I’d try to incorporate their fantasy if I could. If incorporating it would bother me, or her, then I’d let her just keep having fun on her own when she wanted.

Nope. They’re federated, so no reason they wouldn’t show unless you turn all NSFW stuff off.

Nah fuck that. Mods are power hungry fat morons who exert the editorial discretion of a wet noodle. Almost every community in the fediverse is full of this crap. Things aren’t removed because they’re harmful, they’re removed because some mod disagrees.

There’s also the problem with every instance admin having access to deeper internals; I’m waiting for the day people start getting banned for upvoting the wrong thing.

I found that a total of like 5 people post basically all of the lemmynsfw stuff. Once I blocked them, it almost all went away. Pretty sure the internet is nothing but bots now.

Also, if you’re on the internet expecting all sunshine and rainbows – leave now. The internet is not a place for that. Everything now is rage-bait designed to get more clicks, and the internet has always been the wild west with major hostilities all the time. It’s not a good place to spend your time if you’re looking to relax.

It actually IS possible to print on the plain glass on the other side. Many early machines only had glass as a build plate, so that’s valid - especially with various other materials.

The black surface does wear out over time, when you need to replace it, a magnetic sheet + PEI build surface is probably what you want to move to. The biggest problem with the black glass plates is that the surface acts like sandpaper; and it can easily destroy a nozzle with just a short swipe across it.

I said backwards, not upside down. You have the logo facing the back of the machine. It’s supposed to be readable from the front.

I think we should be investigating these private schools, Trump was obviously taught that Nazis were loving, caring people and that they cared for the jews – as an example.

I hope to fucking hell the world snaps back to the left and we can get enough of a majority to start passing constitutional amendments to disallow this kind of shit.

An Ender 3 v2 with the plate on backwards.

Just be aware that the plastic shroud tends to disintegrate over time. The MrIscoc firmware for that machine is a huge step up from what comes with it; if that’s your kinda thing. If modding machines isn’t though, don’t ever touch the firmware.

This is a gun control article disguised as a big-oil article.

The lack of liability in terms of gun control makes sense. Guns are designed to kill people. Literally what they are designed for. It doesn’t make sense to hold gun manufacturers liable for someone using their guns to kill someone innocent, as that was not its intended purpose. When used correctly, they’re safe and effective at power equalization.

I read the article hoping they’d … give SOMETHING about how this is supposed to apply to oil companies, but…there’s nothing.

How in hell COULD you apply this to big oil? It doesn’t many any sense at all. The article doesn’t explain it either. The WHOLE article is just about guns.

You may simply have aphantasia. The inability to picture things clearly in your “mind’s eye”. This ranges from being able to VR your imagination into the real world like it’s something that’s really there, to only ‘seeing’ a faint idea of what it is you’re thinking of, all the way to not seeing anything at all.

My mother was blessed with hyperphantasia, and art came easier for her than most - but it was always better with practice.

I most definitely have aphantasia (trauma based), but I’ve been able to practice ‘seeing’ things in my minds eye by taking pictures, practicing remembering the picture, drawing it from memory, and then comparing it afterwards. I’m no photocopier like you seem to be, I mostly deal with engineering drawings all day so I think my mind has simply adapted to putting together sets of rules like a puzzle.

Does anyone have good recommendations for someone who seems unable to gain any proficiency at drawing?

Practice. Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice.

You’re going to suck. It’s okay to suck. You only get better through failure. Drawing and art is a skill that you develop over time like training a muscle. Don’t throw away your old stuff. Keep it. Look at it, decide on something you don’t like - then focus on doing that better the next time. Repeat. Draw. Like…draw a LOT. Like a LOT A LOT. Draw anything. Try different styles.

The biggest thing to remember is you’re going to suck. Everyone sucks. The people who don’t suck, are people who kept at something long enough to not suck. Remember also – you are going to be far more critical of your art and the mistakes you made vs others. Don’t get discouraged - especially if you post that shit on the internet. Someone will tell you it’s terrible and you’ll get discouraged. Surround yourself with people who will lift you up and encourage you.

Procreate on an old iPad 6 + Apple Pencil is what I did for my daughters and they both are so much better at drawing now than they ever were - so you just have to keep doing it.

The biggest misconception that people have is that you’re just born with this talent - those people weren’t born with the ability to make great art, they were born with the ENTHUSIASM to do it every day, constantly, as an obsession. And then they developed a SKILL, based on that enthusiasm.

Something is awfully weird here, because Linux literally runs the worlds infrastructure for the internet. It is not unstable by any stretch of the imagination. Something you’re doing between all distros has got to be the culprit - something you do differently than other people.

This is that shit where your enemy has to be both the biggest moron in the world, and also some divine master mind of 4D chess.

No. He’s not that fucking smart. Markets were TANKING and his handlers said “you had better fucking do something”. He chickened the fuck out at the last minute.

I (wrongly) assumed that if he was hilarious to have made that graphic, that he’d maybe be more reasonable, hopefully funny. I was disappoint.

It did kick off me spending about 2 hours comparing Signal to SimpleX, and Briar, and a bunch of others, and I can only conclude Signal is the best out of them. The security community seems to be REALLY paranoid about every, single, tiny little thing - but I understand that they must be.

SimpleX doesn’t do any kind of IP address masking or have quantum resistant double ratchet encryption.

Briar doesn’t account for rogue-tor nodes, etc.

There’s just always some big glaring flaw in one of them.

I like this idea even better. China pirates them, plays them in theatres, takes the money generated from them anyways, lol