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I had issues with mine, nothing was sticking to it causing 100% failures. I forgot where I read it but I ended up scrubbing it good with one of those slightly abrasive green pads in warm dawn dish soap, drying it with a clean microfiber cloth and putting it on the bed with the heat set to 60c for a few minutes. It now works extremely well with pla or petg, I just wipe it down with a bit of 90% alcohol between prints. Never had any issues with the smooth and satin sheets.

Same type of people that would have a real doll. There is a mental health crisis unfolding before us but instead of spending money to address it and help, the wrong people are exploiting it to further enrich themselves.

The majority of the farms around me are cash crops, not providing food for survival. I’m in central California and all I see here is almonds, pistachios, tomatoes and cows. We need to get rid of these since it’s just wasted space that’s doomed to fail as it’s using up valuable resources to profit the few that own them.

We have one acre and we grow a variety of different veggies, trying to grow with sustainable methods like regenerative farming practices. We trade with other like minded people and my wife donates excess to the local church to help feed the poor. We need more people doing this and less of the big corporate farmers lining their pockets while everyone else suffers.

Screw these bailouts

No debt but still have pile of unopened letters. It’s a huge relief when I finally tackle them and realize it’s mostly just junk mail. Only to find it was pile from last year and this year’s pile was on the other side of the desk to be anxiously avoided until I have the willpower to do it again in a few months. Then I remember that’s how I got badly in debt in the first place.

It gets easier. Then harder! Then I find sonething new to dive into and forget all about it again

Needs more Brawndo cuz it’s what the plants crave!

I think it was Robin Williams that said something like that politicians should wear Nascar like suits so we can see who owns them. But ya, screw the corporate interests

Can’t he just release the files himself? Enough with the theatrics, this is going to be one hell of a cover up

I’ll chime in as someone who was on BBS scene back in the early 90s. Back then, the internet was a godsend for a nerd (unaware of being on the spectrum) like me since I was able to connect with like minded people around the globe, reading and sharing conversations that would not exist in real life since I was stuck in a small town. It was a place of learning and acceptance since in real life I couldn’t connect with my peers in school and my awkward social gatherings. The majority of online interactions were positive and I was able to learn from those experiences, which looking back helped me grow as an individual.

Fast forward to today, the majority of internet is garbage. The bane of it is unhinged social media and it’s AI moderated crap coupled with corporate interests to profit off of everything. Advertising is toxically being forced fed everywhere, as are unrealistic expectations for every aspect of life for young people to consume. There are very few places to go that offer those experiences like I had in those days past. Watching what today’s kids and teens are subjected to break my heart as the majority are being exposed to the worst of humanity.

I think without some sort of internet revolution and regulation of the crap, it’s only getting worse… Especially when reports like this have been more prominent lately. Sad to see the (d)evolution of something like the internet experience go on how it’s been going. I really hope something changes or stories like this are going to be more mainstream and the situation will be taken out of context for the profiteering corporate class. Unfortunately the clowns running this country (USA) have no concept of what is really going on and only see profit in corrupt bribery. I’m thankful for communities like Lemmy but it’s only a matter of time before this goes to shit like everything else before it.

I remember reading articles about the people ending up with bad pneumonia from those black market weed vapes because they were vaping actual oil, which coating your lungs is deadly. I don’t think anyone actually got popcorn lung, which was from the diacetyl in the custard flavored vapes. The history of that was from using that chemical in the fake butter popcorn factories, hence popcorn lung. It was a buzzword they loved throwing around to try and get people off the deadly vapes. Those days are behind me now, they helped me and countless friends off the real smokes.

There has always been horrible reporting by the media when it comes to the vape industry. I’m interpreting that caption written like that to subconsciously influence perception of anything ‘pod’ to be bad. Years ago when I still vaped, I can’t remember how many people would tell me about how I was messing up my lungs and going to get popcorn lung when all media was reporting about those illegal weed vapes filled with vitamin e oil. I blame big tobacco for all these hit pieces…

Now talking about these cheap disposable vapes, I for one think they should be banned as they are all super wasteful with all that plastic and lithium batteries while who knows what is in them.

I remember them raiding the smaller farms back in the 80s. The owners struggle to continue to make any type of profit and sell out to the bigger corps. Then in a few years they are back to employing these so call immigrants. I believe this is all just class warfare.

We usually order 50 day old chicks every year to raise on our small farm. They come via USPS and they usually take a day to travel 120 miles to our local post office where we get a call when they arrive. They look happy and healthy when we pick them up and never lost any due to the travel.

This year we lost 9 out of 40 ordered in just one day. They seemed tired and not their normal chipper self. We took care of them and didn’t lose any past those first 24 hours of arrival. Checked the tracking details and they traveled up and down the state for 2 days before we got the call. Not sure what changed at the post office but glad to see attention placed on it via an article like this.

Well I admit not going on as many dates as my peers did. Also had a crazy friend convince me to not pay my taxes for a few years. BUT I’m currently married with kids and paid all my (back and current) taxes, probably more than these idiots have in this administration.

I’m sorry RFK, but please don’t talk about autism anymore, not sure what makes us autistic but that brain worm definitely decreased your grey matter and filled it with shit lies.

Hold the home button down and that usually wakes up my switch with both my pro controllers

When you have the public busy dealing with an avoidable crisis, you have less people focused and criticizing on all the real bullshit the rest of the administration is doing.

My Ring doorbell like this does connect to my existing power supply for a ‘dumb’ doorbell. This version shown is a wireless model aimed more at apartments which don’t have existing wiring or for a tenant who wants a removable version to take when they move.

I am not not associated with Ring, just a customer.

What this government is showing me is that there already a third party and they’re in control. They gave us the two party system so we can point fingers at each other and get tired trying to bring about change.

There is only one rule to follow these days and that’s FOLLOW THE MONEY.

Gen 'Xer here too. Most, if not all of my social circle are voting for Trump too. I am mirroring you in saying that I also shared the same life experience as them. What I’m noticing with all social media which is a major part of all our lives is that its a giant echo camber for both sides. Here on lemmy and reddit (yes I know, but I still check in there) we are all leaning left and denouncing him. Meanwhile on the Meta and Twitter I see everyone clamoring about him bring their savior and how evil and wretched Harris and the libs are. Both sides are surprised how close this race is. I see the media profiting on all this chaos and nonsense. We need to fight to get the media out of the control of all these oligarchs, be-it US or foreign interference centers. I think and hope that more and more people are realizing this and this is going to be the start of class warfare. Sad thing is they got all us have-nots battling each other instead of them. So hard to talk with the cultists and veer them away from the Kool aid going around. It’s sad and it’s going to get dark one way or another.

Anyway preach on and don’t give up.

:cries in California:

I had this album when it came out, got into all that trendy chant type of mysic. Delirium being another big one.

What I associate this song with is one of my college professors saying how this album was his go to sex soundtrack with his wife. I stopped listening to the album thereafter.

Without seeing it, the best solution I can think of is to try cleaning it up real good with something like Simple Green(works amazing on rubber). After it’s nice and dry, use some Eternabond RoofSeal tape making sure to have at least two inches overlap. That stuff will stick well to clean rubber and hold good for a few more years. Nothing will ever be a permanent solution until you can replace the whole piece of rubber roofing unfortunately .