Can we make the Snarky T’pol meme format a permanent thing?

“Could you BE any more leet?”

Is this syndrome similar to pierogi paralysis? I am missing large parts of my 20s due to my wife introducing me to them.

Awesome! Any thoughts for ‘intercrural’?

Maybe you can help me find better words that rhyme with ‘frottage’? I’m writing an epic song cycle that details as many ways to get off that don’t involve intromission.

Oh and it’s the 10th already, you can just slip the rent under the door…

I keyed right in on the fact you are in Idaho. I am cis male homo, Idaho raised and spent the first part of my career there and it was rough to be authentic there for me, even with my advantages related to how I am perceived by strangers. So I can only imagine how your situation multiplies the challenges. Being poor in Idaho is hard, it is not really a low cost of living place anymore.

Good luck to you. There are more supportive places, even in the US, but I will not pretend that picking up and moving to a new city is easy in any way. It also entails risks, no matter how promising the new world may be.

I have also moved a lot, partly because it gave me the opportunity to continually re-invent myself and find the identity I need to feel good in myself after an abusive upbringing.

So, none of this is advice or a recommendation for what you should do. Just expressing support. Keep reaching out to people, online and in real life. That would be my only advice, I guess.

You are 100% a human being and you have a right to exist.

‘They’ do want it to happen. Ordinary USians are gettng uppity and need to be taken down a peg.

The global elite don’t really need anything specific from the US anymore. For a brief moment, the world needed our higher education system, which is why anyone under 60 who went to grad school had lots of non-US folks in their cohorts. Those folks have gone back home in large part so there are plenty of skilled experts in critical fields internationally.

The US has no remaining unique resources, be they skilled people or natural resources. So we need to be dealt with since many of us still hold on to quaint notions like ‘freedom’, ‘autonomy’ and ‘living wage’.

I think we need to give kids more credit for being able to handle nuance, too. I clearly remember being amused as a tyke at the efforts of adults to ‘protect’ me from things I already knew quite a lot about.

I never needed anyone to explain to me just how risible Mickey Rooney’s character in Breakfast at Tiffany’s was. I had only met a few folks of asian background by that point in real life and it was hard to even tell what he was parodying. It had no relation to even my limited exposure to non-white cultures and people.

“Ancient Chinese secret, huh?” IYKYK

Frenemy != Friend

At best a frenemy is a useful distraction to keep them tied down.

The bots sound like you, not the other way around. They can get their own style, buncha clanker wannabes

Stop them? Or drop subtle hints as to how to do it correctly and teach some basic physics at the same time?

Yeah, I am as ‘out’ as I can be and still have mega-bitch tendencies in spite of my best efforts. Pile a lifetime of self-deception and the platform of a Senator on top of that?

A Megazord of bitches, that’s what you get.

They really do better in groves with lots of root systems entangled, providing each other mutual support. Quick-growing them plantation style reveals the weakness of the root systems.

Similarly, when the naturally grown redwoods were logged in the us west, the ones that were intentionally left to serve as seed stock for reforestation often fell down without their tree-bros.

Modern practices dictate leaving small groves intact rather than isolated individual trees.

Some sort of network. In the sky.

A SkyNet, maybe?

3D printing can be cost effective for small production runs too. There are large format printers both FDM and SLA with print quality, large bed size and speed more than sufficient.

Injection molding is only cheap when print runs are huge. In a rapidly developing space like drone warfare, a lot of plastic parts get changed frequently enough that injection molding becomes cost prohibitive, due to small production runs between design changes.

Take the example of a propeller vs a custom bracket to hold a new type of clip for ammo.

Propellers can be standardized according to motor, frame geometry, and power source parameters, so they can be mass produced with injection molding by the ton.

A bracket needed to test out a new configuration may only be made in runs of a few hundred before some other update changes things again.

All this is to say that drone warfare is logistically an insanely complex supply chain to manage.

3D printing will have a role in drones that see combat until the day the designs are completely perfect and never need to be changed again. Then the economy of scales can overcome the high setup costs of building an injection mold.

And the Pentagon will stockpile them by the billions to give SkyNet something to work with later. yay.

Reminds of something my dear old grandpa said to me growing up: “If a hot girl DMs you about crypto, block him!”

But, but KPI’s are how we know line go up.

Checkmate, artists!

Jfc, it never was effective. Anyone who has ever taken this formula seriously is an emotional moron.

Ahh, so he went to the Henry Kissinger School of Becoming the Very Thing that Damged You Initially.

There is a whole suite of special Hells for that type.

Large construction equipment has less security usually than a mid-priced sedan. A complete setup for welding iron and steel can be had for under $250USD. Many older farms have scrap metal laying around.

We need to revive the entrepreneurial spirit in order to make these dreams come true.