I own a Prusa, a MK4S. They could stand to get their shit together a bit. I’m currently running two firmware versions behind because the last two years worth has been fucktrash.

That’s an exceptionally adorable picture. You can just hear the tiny little purr.

I’d like to see them pair a bluetooth headset to a phone.

And none of them are missed.

Dial up had an excuse, it was legitimately slow. A theoretical maximum of 56,000 bits per second, and you never really got that, that theoretical maximum involved on the fly compression and stuff like that. You were lucky to get 32k.

Now that we’re measuring connections in gigabits and can stream 4k video, a website that loads slowly is just badly designed.

Further reason to never do business with anywhere where nationality equals race. Criticize their government, they play the race card.

As much as saying “Hey probably stop genociding Palestinians” is antisemitic.

Honestly? No. Nintendo is entirely too litigant, VW cheated on their emissions, and Samsung appliances are utterly shit.

I’ll trust them when no one alive remembers when they were a single-party state.

Oh give them a minute.

“Oh look at these wonderful Chinese 3D printers, they’re legitimately ahead of the Western competition and so much cheaper.”

They DDOS the competition, steal intellectual property, violate software licenses, and catch fire.

“Oh look at these wonderful Chinese electric cars, they’re legitimately ahead of the Western competition and so much cheaper.”

Something something extinguish

She says “mrow?”

I concur with your diagnosis.

When JD had character traits beyond “He’s straight we promise?”

the lid of the Apple II popped off toolless. They included fucking schematics.

And also that weird wrist nub cats have.

Either of his parents American citizens when he was born?

Almost all of my memory of the original Avatar:

I went to see it with my girlfriend at the time, and she kept reaching into our bag of popcorn, getting engrossed in the movie and just leaving her hand in there, so if I wanted popcorn I’d scritch at her wrist with my fingertips.

There’s a point in the movie where it does this big heavy fade to black. It’s near or beyond the midpoint of the film, and someone in the theater said “Act two.” and half the audience cracked up.

Jake Sooolly.

People talk about the spectacular CG effects, I really only remember one scene, Native Chick takes Jake Sooolly for a walk in the woods at night and everything’s glowing. That scene was striking. Most of the rest of the movie is stored in my brain as visual sludge.

I also remember the news talking about people being upset that they couldn’t be tall sexy blue cat people.

Yes by judicial precedent. Quoting Wikipedia’s article on federal pardons in the United States: According to Associate Justice Joseph McKenna, writing the majority opinion in the U.S. Supreme Court case Burdick v. United States, a pardon is “an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it.”

A pardon issued and accepted (United States v. Wilson set the precedent that a pardon may be rejected by the intended recipient) does not erase an indictment or conviction. Pardoning a convict ends any prison sentence, fine or other punishment but does not erase felon status. For that you need an expungement.

Note: One does not need to be convicted for the president to issue a pardon. A pardon can end a trial before it begins.

Accepting a pardon does permanently satisfy one’s fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. In that way it’s kind of like pleading guilty and being sentenced to reading this piece of paper from the White House. You can’t be tried and punished for this same crime, which means you CAN be compelled to testify about it.