I also don’t think it’s ever been confirmed that it was an employee

Oh yeah that’s another thing: would you rat out the guy who killed a disgusting CEO if you flipped burgers for a living? Whatever you think of murder, you might well look the other way in this instance.

I don’t buy the conspiracy theories and “the Man sees everything and needed a plausible excuse” theories (although I’ll admit the Man does see a lot more than he should…)

But I will say this: I find it extremely odd that a random McD employee in Fucktown, Nowhere, 275 miles from NYC, recognized a hooded dude wanted for murder in NYC, for the following reasons:

• McD employees don’t look at patrons. They’re bored shitless and they’re not paid well enough to care. You could show up at any McD joint disguised as Elton John with a feather up your ass and the employee behind the counter would still tell you “Would you like fries with that” while looking right through you.

• Do you follow the local news in a city 275 miles from where you live? I don’t. And even assuming it’s NYC and it’s a big enough city that people in Altoona pay attention, there’s a murder every 12 hours in NYC. Why would that one in particular enter the consciousness of a bored employee in a burger joint in Altoona.

• Can you recognize a hooded guy you saw on a still photograph? I can’t. I might have suspicions, but I’m almost certain I wouldn’t be positive enough to call the cops. And again, I work at McD and all I really want is go home after my shift. So I might just forget I saw someone I might have vaguely recognized.

Apparently Biden’s been running on like one cylinder for the last 3 years

All eight cylinders fired just fine when it came to pardoning his crackhead son.

Luigi Mangione is a random person who attacked corporate America. Therefore, he is utterly fucked. Whatever anyone does to help him, ultimately his fate is already sealed.

“I know how to make piles of money while sitting on my ass” (without being a psychopathic CEO, a crypto bro or a “fintech” con artist, for the sake of not hating myself)

Then I can use my money to buy the services of anybody who has the other abilities I need while still sitting on my ass, and feel good providing employment at the same time.

It’s not a movie, it’s an old avertisement, and I guarantee you if it doesn’t stir something in you, you’re not human:

https://youtu.be/OrvHe3xh6bM

Believe me, I sympathize 🙂

You do realize saying “I use a new phone every year lol” automatically marks you as poor right?

You know why? Because real rich people don’t even know how many phones they own, how long they last or how often they change them. And real rich people don’t say “lol”'.

You’re poor too. You just think you’re richer than me 🙂

You’ll feel wealthier longer if you avoid charging your batteries to 100%:

Limiting the maximum charge gives a substantial increase to the overall life of a battery. If we measure the life of a battery not in cycles, but in the number of electrons it can deliver to your phone over its lifetime, then we’re looking at a possible increase of 400%. That is, your battery could deliver 4X the number of electrons. And yes, that means it could last up to four times as long, according to some simple testing

If a mobile device offer charge limiting, I always set it to 80%. Examples of those include my FairPhone4 running CalyxOS or my Flipper Zero running the Momentum firmware. If it’s a cellphone and it doesn’t have charge limiting, I’ll use a Chargie. Any other device, I try to be careful if possible.

Is this in relation to the monetary value of cryptocurrency or the anonymity of cryptocurrency?

Cryptocurrencies are just fiat currencies, like the dollar. They’re worth what people think they’re worth.

My beef with them is that they’re either pushed by scammer to empty honest but gullible people’s bank accounts, or they’re used to pay for illegal activities because they’re totally opaque and unregulated. My other beef is that they’re really securities and they’re not subject to the rules on securities for a reason that totally escapes me.

I don’t do cryptocurrencies both out of financial self-preservation, and also because I refuse to participate - and thus promote - stuff that’s generally bad for society as a whole.

And if you’re not convinced cryptocurrencies in all their forms are rotten to the core, consider this: Trump loves em. That alone is a red flag big enough to hang on a pole in North Korea.

MySudo is a proprietary aliasing software

Hard no.

Privacy.com is a proprietary financial transaction masking and aliasing tool.

Hard no.

Google Pixel phones

Hard no.

Yes, I know Pixel phones are the best option to run the best deGoogled OS out there (Graphene) but paying Google to escape the Google surveillance is just too rich for me. I’ll never get over that one. Fuck Google, even if it means running a slightly less secure OS (CalyxOS from the fine Calyx Institute, which you rightfully list).

Cryptocurrency

Hard no. I don’t partake in scams, even for the sake of privacy.

Other than that, great list. Thanks!

Tell me about it… I have all the seasons on DVD, and all Brittas Empire seasons too. They just don’t make good comedy like that no more.

Hehe yes, they do look a bit like that.

Now you make me want to watch a few episodes tonight… 😃

Rather than print it flat, is there an angle you could print it at that would allow for eliminating most/all of the interior supports? E.g. toe angled down, heel angled up.

Ooh that’s a GREAT idea! I plain didn’t think about that but it totally makes sense. Thanks! I’ll goof around with that tonight in the slicer to see what’s the minimal resource utilization I can achieve. Hell, I might even be able to squeeze both shoes in there.

I’ve never printed TPU for such a long duration. Do you have it printing directly from the filament dryer?

Yes. My plan is to load the brand-new roll in the dryer on Thursday and set it to dry at 70C overnight, print a bunch of test parts on Friday, then if they pass muster, start the big print on Saturday morning.

That’s the plan: get used to the material before wasting 80 yards of the stuff on a print.

All valid concerns, thank you for raising them: this hadn’t crossed my mind.

But I’m not too concerned for the following reasons:

• My current pair of pool shoes are commercial models I thermo-reformed with hot air (if you’re interested in that process, I can post a video if you’d like). Pool shoes are made of vinyl: let me tell you, reforming vinyl at close to decomposing temperature is a nasty toxic fumes affair. Whatever drawbacks TPU may have can’t be any worse for my health.

• They’ll be used mostly underwater in chlorinated water for a couple of hours per week tops.

• My feet don’t sweat much anymore.

First order of business is making sure it fits, before I spend 2 hours punching holes in the model 🙂 There’s another thing I need to add: sole patterns, to prevent slippage. Right now the soles are totally bald, which isn’t ideal. But this is just a test print.

Yeah but… I didn’t define the M600 sequence. It’s whatever came in the stock firmware. Also, I assumed that was the same sequence the printer executes when changing the filament through the menu.

If it’s possible to redefine the M600 sequence, I didn’t see where. Also, I don’t want to do that. So I think it’s time to open an issue in the Prusa firmware github.

did you also check “Single Extruder Multi Material?”

Yes it’s checked.