I can't wait to see more of Nandor De Laurentiis!! He's my favorite character!

Imagine hiking/camping somewhere nearby, immersing yourself in nature, when a fucking military jet falls out of the sky and crashes near you...

As someone who does R&D testing on plastics that are used in medical devices, I have some insight. Of course the type of plastic matters, but all plastics use carcinogenic chemicals during the manufacturing/extrusion process.

To make most plastic, a polymer resin is mixed with additives such as solvents, plasticizers, and stabilizers at high temperatures. Ideally, you want the additives to evaporate out during production so that you're left with just the newly formed plastic.

But some of these additives get trapped in tiny air pockets between polymer chains. When they're reheated, the polymer chains relax and release the volatile, carcinogenic additives into the air.

This is likely where the toxicity is coming from, not the polymer chain itself. So regardless of the type of plastic used, reheating the polymer during 3D printing will release some volatile additives.

Enshitification Intensification®

The fact that the remote/rural bus stops aren't being used is not a fault of public transportation itself. But rather, it's the fault of route design/planning.

Military industrial complex goes brrrrrr.

They also like his "Christian values"... AKA banning abortion

Killing them for fuel is too humane a punishment. We should put them in a hamster wheel instead.

Netflix, sports, and fear of homelessness/poverty.

And making comparison between something necessary for the country to function (income tax) to something that is a waste of resources (the MIC) is ridiculous.

I don't think it's that ridiculous. In order for any country state to exist and maintain power, they need some sort of military force to defend what they claim is their border.

Also, the state of Israel has been attacking and terrorizing Palestinians since it's introduction post WW2. And just like the USA, it only exists because it had/has a powerful military.

That and genocide of course.

There were so many gorgeous bonsais at that museum. It's a pretty small museum, but I highly recommend it if you're ever in the Seattle area.

Yeah, but the assistants are editing in them out Photoshop.

I mean .. It's not shrinking though. It's still increasing, just at a slower rate.

So the cancer would still be growing, just not as fast. It's certainly not a remission, as you mentioned.

I should've specified that I meant in the Lemmy comments. But yeah, I've seen 'corporate games' mentioned in a few threads already.

I thought we were calling AAA games 'Corporate Games' now. Is that trend over already?

Not blind hate. AI will be devastating to the environment for to it's power and water consumption. We need to ask ourselves if the future water wars will be worth the corporate profits.

Gold Rush = high demand = invest in (aka buy) shovels

Same thing, no?

• During/after natural disaster, buy cheap land. Probably works during an economic crash too.

• Protests & Riots happening? Invest in glass companies

• Cloudy & rainy every day? Sell coffee (looking at you PNW)

• War happening? Just sell bombs! (see USA) This one is particular good cause you can always start another war. It's just smart business!

At least they're working on the wall part lol

Tbf, so did the Israel Palatine conflict, if not earlier.