First off, nobody takes Marxism by itself. If it’s accepted, it’s always with extra things attached and other parts removed.

Second, my issue in this case is the Lennist part. A vanguard party degrades into cult-like behavior, and this is very consistent with ML groups big and small.

Removed by mod

Then there’s no point in voting for the Socialist party, either.

“As fast as you can turn the crank”. Which isn’t very fast at all because it’s janky as fuck.

There is no implemented nationally. States run their own voting systems. You do this state by state or you don’t.

Democrats have instituted ranked choice voting in some states.

Republicans have also made moves on ranked choice voting. They banned it in Florida.

You fix that by seizing the means of production, generally with unions.

You protect union rights by both voting for candidates that will protect unions, and also fighting to unionize your own workplace.

Toner isn’t that hard to source.

The real issue is precision accuracy. Keeping things to 2D might sound easier than 3D, but 3D printers don’t need the level of accuracy and precision that 2D printers do. 300dpi means dots every 85 microns. A very carefully tuned FDM 3D printer can get around 50 microns, but see below for the gory details:

https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/questions/10349/do-3d-printers-really-reach-50-micron-0-05-mm-accuracy

Either way, 300dpi isn’t particularly impressive for a paper printer. Usable, but there’s going to be some blockiness to text, and graphics won’t be good at all. 600 or 1200dpi is more like it. Which means we take that 85 microns and cut it in half, and maybe cut it in half again.

If we’re talking color, than our difficulty increases 4x (because there’s four cartridges for CMYK). They all have to be aligned properly to mix the colors to get a good image. We’re also definitely headed towards 1200dpi at a minimum for good results.

Now, an open source plotter would be interesting. Not great for text documents, but useful for diagrams.

A lot of places like this don’t want you using your own devices inside. I’d guess that they’ve disabled the cameras, or at least made it difficult to send photos outside of the device?

The Onion wanted to play on hard mode. How do you write satire when that shit head was in the White House?

In the bottom pic, Carrie was definitely thinking about doing it for real.

The term “historyporn” implies I would take some kind of enjoyment from the photo. Not this one.

If it’s enough negative thoughts pile up, they’ll eventually breach a threshold where people avoid the company. I was looking forward to Metroid Prime 4, but I’m thinking of skipping it now.

Any level of tyranny is fine as long as states are doing it, not the federal government. This makes all the difference, for some reason.

I wouldn’t write off EV usage too quickly. The lithium batteries in EVs right now are around 160Wh/kg. The sodium batteries coming out of production lines now are about the same, but are also substantially cheaper, safer, and built out of more abundant materials.

Yes, if you compare them to top of the line lithium batteries coming out of assembly lines now, they don’t look as good, but those batteries aren’t in actual cars yet. It’s very likely that we’ll see cheap EVs running sodium batteries, and they’ll often be good enough. We need more charge stations more than we need better batteries (as far as EVs go).

Yeah, it’s pretty obvious. They really think they’re the first ones to realize this.

Lemmy keeps it real.

I believe so, yes. Every 802.11 frame is effectively ACK’d. Makes a mockery of OSI layering, but so does everything else.

That may end up being correct. The models predicting the most catastrophic effects are often showing that for 2100, which would be nearly 200 years from the publish date.

The FDA bans lead in cookware: https://blogs.edf.org/health/2023/08/15/fda-says-cookware-that-exhibits-any-level-of-leachable-lead-upon-testing-is-prohibited/

Although I’m a little surprised it took until 2023 to make this happen. In any case, stuff bought at retail should be fine. I’d be very surprised if Lodge cookware–what Target usually sells–ever had lead in it.

Amazon stuff, though? That place is a leaky sieve of Chinese goods that wouldn’t normally be allowed.