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I’ve got 2 3d printers. I have a high resolution resin printer and a regular filament 3d printer.

I’ve never printed something I didn’t design. But, I use them fairly regularly. I used the resin printer to design my wife some custom jewelry, which I printed out to verify sizing and design and then had them made for her.

I’ve printed lots of props for theater stuff, housings for electronics, small plastic car parts, etc.

If you create stuff, they are amazing. Just to print stuff you can already buy, they would be useless.

Usually over 300k. I enjoy working on cars so I don't mind the maintenance or repairs.

My wife had an '04 trailblazer with 225k on it and the transmission went out. I told her "time for a new car". She said "no, I really like my trailblazer".

I put in a new transmission, brand new carpet, new leather seats and replaced everything that might fail in the next 100k miles. I think the cost was $5500 total for all that work.

The vehicle was like brand new and she drove it another 100k miles.

Yes we are...

They want to "matter". They want to make a difference. They want the "status" that goes along with it. Usually, in the past, this was achieved by "mattering" to your family, your church, your bowling league, etc.

These people have none of that. They've turned their back on convention completely. Those things that have normally satisfied this need, they've totally spurned.

Because of this, they are waiting to be outraged by the next "thing". This can be proven by the fact that deportations have occurred in masse for the last 20 years and they never said a word, until their "handlers" decided this was the next "thing" they should be mad at.

There are a few examples of this that all the folks cared deeply about when they were told to. These include, climate change, Gaza, Ukraine and now immigration policy in Minnesota specifically. The list goes on.

Once they have the 'cause de jour' to care about, the next thing they desire is "status". The way to prove "status" are demonstrations of Empathy up to and including violence against the offending party. Passive demonstrations of empathy generally include incessantly posting on Facebook, changing a profile picture to include the latest symbol of outrage, etc. Active demonstrations of empathy include protesting and even direct action against the offending party.

Rinse and Repeat...

There are three drivers in my family with 5 cars and a bus.

So yes.

I wonder if this guy realizes he is a “Useful Idiot”?

These people weren’t the least bit concerned during the Obama years when that administration was deporting WAY more people. Not a care one.

These people are there because it’s easy to manipulate these people into action for whatever reason they want.

Rachel Good died to advance a cause, it just wasn’t the one she had any idea she was advancing. Her death served a purpose, she just had no idea what it was.

My son is in high school and wrote a paper. I saw him write it, I know the work was his. He even asked me my opinion on how to word various things.

When he turned it in his teacher used some AI program to predict if AI was used and it said it was AI generated.

Whatever program was used was 100% wrong. I don’t trust them and believe some of these kids may be getting screwed.

This is what you are experiencing...

I've run Khumo Ecsta tires on a couple of cars and find they have good performance vs. price.

I can tell you not all doctors are equal.

My wife was diagnosed with a terminal illness based on very little information. All "scientific testing" was completely normal. Guy did a physical exam and said, "you have "X" terminal illness", I'm sending you to a specialist in this disease.

No differential diagnosis, nothing to rule anything else out, etc. I've seen people that don't know what they are doing, I know what that looks like, early in my career, that was me sometimes.

We are waiting to see someone else.

I'm unhappy that anyone would die in such a manner.

I know what his political beliefs were and I have to ask this question. I wonder at some point during the attack on he and his wife he thought "I wish I had a gun".

Reminds me of a discussion I had with an anti gun friend of mine. I told her "I hope you are able to live your entire life without ever changing your beliefs, but me, I'm fully aware of what violence people are capable of and see the world differently."

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Bovino confirms a real ID is not sufficient to verify citizenship

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The REAL ID requires documents proving you were born here or have legal status.

Proof of Identity & Date of Birth:
U.S. Birth Certificate (original)
Valid U.S. Passport or Passport Card
Permanent Resident Card (Green Card)

If they gave a REAL ID to anyone that did not have the documents above, they basically negated all the possible benefit for issuing the REAL ID in the first place. Everyone wasted their time by going through the trouble and expense of getting a REAL ID.

It's like putting on a concert and printing actual certified tickets and having someone print free fake ones that are accepted at the gate. Suddenly the real tickets have no value anymore.

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I cannot think of a less qualified one in my lifetime......and I am old.

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Why do you believe Hegseth is unqualified? What did Austin have that Hegseth didn't?

Before you answer, consider that Eisenhower was only one rank higher than Hegseth when WW2 broke out. Hegseth was a major and Eisenhower was a Lieutenant Colonel. Was Eisenhower not qualified to be the supreme allied commander because of his limited rank and resume?

I think the insurance company made good on the truck if I recall correctly.

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They gave me a walker but I have basically been walking around the house without it since Friday.

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You are going to do fine then. My wife had one done a year and a half ago. There isno way she was walking around on it the first day, she was in too much pain for sure.

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Wrong. That Century Farm was not his to let get away from the family. It was his grandparents or great grandparents. He didn't earn it, he inherited it.

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This happened to my wife's family. Her father inherited a farm that his family was on so long the fort his ancestors built to keep from being killed by the Indians is a museum next door to the house my wife grew up in.

He didn't earn the farm, and it was slated legally to go to his kids when he died. He divorced and ended up marrying a woman that didn't even own a car. She was literally penniless.

She convinced him to sell and move out of state and just so happened moved to a state where the surviving spouse gets 100% of the assets. He died and she got everything. She died about a year later and her kids wouldn't even split the proceeds (around 1 mil) with my wife and her brothers.

Those kids, whose mother was penniless 4 years prior, split a million dollars and cut out the kids who were supposed to inherit the value originally.

Everything works out in the end somehow. I still believe that