Huh, interesting. I had no idea. Though for the most part I’ve generally come to enjoy the default of generally having no icons on the desktop anymore. All that sort of stuff relegated to a dodging panel.

But that’s also part of why I love KDE and plasma. And use it as my preferred desktop over gnome. The configurability.

That’s a specious claim during the best of times. Considering we have a history of often deporting American citizens to Country they’ve never been to. As well as immigrants. And the fact that the Trump Administration orphaned thousands of children by doing the exact opposite. Though thankfully at Greek extra expense we were able to reunite many families. Though there are still many hundreds whose families haven’t been located and may never see their parents again. That doesn’t imply that that’s the way it is. Though it absolutely should be that way yes.

Ideally the US Government would simply put a stake in the ground and grant amnesty for anyone already here and then tighten things up in the future.

That’s a common lament of conservatives. It sounds great till you realize that there’s actually no way to do that. Otherwise we would have. Even if we spent every dollar of federal funding on useless walls they’re already circumventing. It wouldn’t fix it. Stationing the military across tens of thousands of miles would only succeed in spreading them thin and wasting money. If people want to be here. They will find a way.

Ellis is how my Grandparents got here and as a system it mostly worked.

Honestly, it wasn’t much better. It was weaponized against the Irish, Italians, Greeks and Jews. Much of my family predates Ellis and the pilgrims. We aren’t as fond of it.

I do too. Having to force downgrades for the last month because of mesa issues. It’s a double edged sword.

We had a Chinese restaurant here years ago that ran into issues with that. The manager of the location would bus his kitchen staff in every morning. And they would close it and he would bus them home at night. None of them could speak a lick of English apart from the manager. Who was Korean. The kitchen staff was Venezuelan and all undocumented. This went on for years with kitchen staff all living out of a motel on an outer road near the river.

I have. And I know plenty of others who have. Undocumented people are not the problem. The problem is the system that forces them to be undocumented. We should make it easy to be documented and provide benefits for being documented. As well as making immigration easier. If we did all that. There would be hardly any undocumented people. And the problem with those people wouldn’t be so much that they were undocumented. But their reasons for being undocumented. We are forcing a lot of otherwise good honest people to be lumped in with a few criminals. In order to justify and fuel National xenophobia. That’s the sad honest truth. Because there’s no way we will ever document anyone and everyone that comes in across our thousands and thousands of miles of borders. It just human or technologically possible.

It’s standard fascist procedure. Always attack the weakest perceived out group first. Before going for the larger ones.

Overabundant even!

I can never up vote this song enough. Or the band. They released a new album in October. And the interactions I’ve had with zombina and the group have always been great.

Unfortunately now I have this song stuck in my head again. But I’m used to it being stuck more than not.

So far that’s been my experience. I’ve done a number of very simple models in blender even. Sliced and printed them no problem. Every model I’ve downloaded has been just point and click for the most part. I was looking at getting an Ender myself at one point. But I’ve dealt with SLA printing in the past. And know how much the tinkering put me off of it. I still need to get my Mars printer functioning again. I’m having issues with anything sticking to the build plate. I just haven’t had the time to really dick around with it

The Ender and creality are good systems. But as you said they do require a lot of tinkering. My very technically inclined brother-in-law got an Ender last year. And had a very bad time with it because of all the faffing about you had to do. Conversely this year I got an a1. And it’s more or less been point and click. There’s plenty of other technical stuff to get into with it. Such as filament types feeds and speeds and heats. Supports and infills. Which it also helps out quite a bit with. But there’s more than enough to learn just picking it up

Bambu has their printer software available for all major platform. For Linux I think it was in the Arch extras or aur. I have used it from Linux and it has generally been a good experience.

If someone is an fdm newbie. The A1 series is hard to go wrong. Creality is great too. But it takes a lot more tweaking to get it where the bambu is out of the box. BIL got an ender last year and not had a good experience. I got an A1 this year and it’s been a blast from the start. These are all anecdotes. But personal experience to consider.

While we shouldn’t denigrate formal education like conservatives and fascists. We also shouldn’t discount those educated outside it’s walls. Being against the man is a fine start. Everyone should be. The trap is being so ideologically against the man. One can’t engage with the man when circumstances make it necessary.

Unfortunately many will never have the time to develop critical thinking skills. Or want to. Many are content to be good sheep. And there’s nothing we can do to change that. What we might be able to do is remove the wolves shepherding them.

One of the first steps to doing that is to abolish the notion that it’s wrong or impolite to talk politics in polite company. If we cannot talk about it amongst friends, family, and acquaintances. Who can we? Are they then to be left to go home, indoctrinated by the reanimated corpse of the 4th estate. Completely unopposed? Because that’s how we got here.

We need to learn to talk to each other again. About politics and all manner of things forbidden by the ownership class. Radio, TV, Papers and social media especially. Are complete tools for propaganda at large. And they have easy marks while we continue to hold our tongues. Whether or not you agree with Mangioni, it’s clear to see their terror when we actually talk about it. Not just repeating their narrative.

We would be better served by engaging in areas where we agree. Engaging less in the wedge issue culture culture wars being manufactured. (Not abandoning the minorities being targeted) Pushing back collectively against the propaganda. They aren’t prisoners being held against their will in some cave. They’re the ones keeping themselves there. But there’s nothing from stopping Society at large from storming in their self-imposed isolation with torches. Casting their own Shadows on the wall. The dim Shadows they chase are only allowed to persist. Because we are told not to disturb them.

I would hesitate to call many of them poorly educated. While there are plenty of those people in there. Your socialist friend was likely decently educated. But still manipulated and taken advantage of. It’s can happen to any of us despite how much we would protest and deny it.

One of the biggest problems left or right. Is people putting ideals over reals. It was rampant here for instance. All the people screaming about Biden and Gaza but quiet on everything else. Whose own ideological Purity was more important than everything else. They were fine that more children would starve die and be murdered so long as they could maintain their ideological purity.

Ideology short circuits intellect. And makes you easy to manipulate. Providing simple but wrong Solutions to complex problems of life. Much like cults. We all want to have Solutions or at least appear knowledgeable. Too many people are afraid to say that they don’t know. And defer to people who actually might.

Well maybe not as hard as Inigo Montoya.

As a resident I agree 100%. There’s just too much lead poisoning state for things to get better any time soon. 🤐

On the one hand I am absolutely for the abolishment of many felonies. And reintegration and Felons into society. But on the other hand f*** Donald Trump why can’t Missouri do anything actually clearly good and not name s*** after unrepentant fascists.

Yes. That was the point of what they posted. None of those groups are what they claim to be beyond nominally.

While this is true. Anything less than an objectively bad framing on Trump will be just more fluffing of him. He doesn’t care if coverage is slightly negative as long as he’s being covered. If they don’t outright call him a grifter liar and a monster. They will have failed still.

Poverty is up uP UP! Economic liberalism working as intended.

Never has, never will.