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Cake day: March 4th, 2024

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  • Its weird,

    Because I have a developing conspiracy theory,

    It was clear to everyone, Iran, Russia and China have been developing a kind of trinity semi-alliance. And India is/was kinda on the verge of joining it, and if I was some kind of US long term tactical guru sitting around all day around 2010, I would formulating a plan on how to break them up.

    Maybe bait Russia into Ukraine… maybe bait Iran into Israel… maybe bait China into Taiwan?

    Watch them drain their military resources and economies into the fight. Offload all of the US’s old equipment, maybe sell some new ones. Test detection capabilities, see how things have developed since the Gulf War, see how two modernized militaries clash.

    Is this article right? Maybe. Is this article is just projecting? Perhaps.

    Don’t know, but Russia wasting its time/resources and playing it’s hand in Ukraine has been net-positive for the US And I feel if Iran did the same, and Israel starting hitting back hard (with them already saying they wont’ be directly involved), then it’s a win again for the US.

    But that could be playing with fire. The world is fucked if Israel lets off a nuclear device in Iran. Netanyahu is crazy enough to do it, if the people around him let him.


  • bots are fucking atrocious for generating just miles and miles of trash content on Reddit.

    As a mod for many years, the real moding work was finding ways to keep the bots at bay.

    It got real bad since around 2020ish…

    They can train their AI’s all they want on Reddit, it’s a complete waste of time.

    That data is corrupt as shit. It’s already littered with garbage old AI posts and comments, and it’s gonna poison their models real bad.






  • The earth generally has an overall fixed rate at which it can radiate heat into space.

    We dig up millions of years of stored solar energy and release it as heat.

    I really don’t understand why people are surprised. Sure, it can get really complicated as you factor in varying cloud cover, solar output, greenhouse effect.

    But long-term trend, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that every joule of energy we pull out of stored carbon, or even mass->energy via nuclear. We are generating more heat now than the earth is used to radiating out.

    So obviously the average temperature is going to increase.

    Even if we find ways to store the energy back, it takes energy to do so, and therefore more waste heat in the end.

    If we want to cool the planet, we have to increase the rate that we radiate heat out into space.




  • Yeah… I’ve been printing now for 11 years…

    I’ve submerged PLA in water overnight and then printed it to prove humidity has no effect on PLA.

    PLA doesn’t give a shit about humidity and never has. All the early days of 3D Printing that used Nylon needed drying out.

    Even early days PLA getting brittle was about strain fatigue on the filament and nothing to do with humidity. But modern day PLA these days doesn’t suffer from those old school issues anymore.

    Dust will cause more issues than humidity.