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Huh. I thought there were fewer romcoms than usual on this list. Then I went back and checked, and discovered that that's because there are fewer romcoms than usual airing this season.

All technically true, but how many man-hours would it take to calculate the set of holes necessary to print each layer of a non-trivial object (say, a Benchy) without electronic assistance? I'm sure it could be done, but most people couldn't do it in a practical timeframe. Taking presliced gcode and translating it via an automatic or even a manual system should be doable, but you still need a computer to slice the model into gcode.

Jacquard looms are a whole other crottle of greeps. Each warp position gets either raised or lowered, so it's in essence a binary model rather than full analog—conceptually much simpler than this printer, whose punch language is going to have to include slots for longer motor moves. I'd guess that, in the old days, Jacquard patterns were set up for manual punching by drawing up a diagram (which would look like a piece of black-and-white pixel art) and transferring the information one row at a time to the punch. That doesn't seem like it would work for this printer.

Maybe part of the job of these specific officers is outreach, and they think staging a silly photo contributes to that. Or they could be waiting for something/someone else, and thought this was more interesting than just standing around talking about the weather. Or maybe they were indeed doing this after or before work, or while not on the clock for other reasons. Truth is, you don't know any more than I do. And to be honest? Even if they had no excuse, how much pay do you really think they would have collected in the five minutes it took them to stage the shot?

(Sorry, but it annoys me when people expect perfect efficiency from others. Hardly anyone is actually doing work every single second when they're at work, and if you are, I'd advise you to ease off before you burn out. That applies to cops as well as everyone else.)

Since the total cost would be under $20 (for the snacks—everything else they would have had already or picked out of the trash), even at current ridiculously high grocery prices, I'm not overly concerned about that aspect.

Interesting, but not terribly useful unless you have a separate, likely electronics-driven, machine to punch plastic sheets for it (or have a pre-existing sheet defining something you want to replicate a bazillion of). It's an ingenious but very niche machine.

Hopefully everyone will be too busy with the creepiness here to notice that D has all but blown his cover . . .

We don't know how long it's been since Beryl and his father last fought. My bet is that the old man started refusing challenges at least a decade ago, if not more.

It's Complicated? It's possible that if a teen commits an offence heinous enough to be tried as an adult, they'd also be sent to an adult prison. There won't be under-twelves in a prison of any sort, since they can't be held criminally responsible for their actions under Canadian law. Teens guilty of sex crimes certainly do get thrown in with other teen criminals (and often aren't adequately monitored and reoffend while they're on the inside).

But in this case, I think whatever idiot posted the message meant "there might be kids in houses next door to the prison". Which begs the question: how many prisons and jails are actually in residential areas? I'd bet it's uncommon, but not unknown.

What % of its GDP does the Netherlands have to put into international aid to make seventh place?!

Did PP's wife (who is present in way too high a percentage of his publicity material) know about this in advance? 🤣

Not quite. 16% are in the government . . . or are lobbyists . . . or are among the wealthy whose interests are represented by lobbyists . . . or have spent their entire lives living in a cave.

Maybe not. Maybe every attempt to tamper with the timeline brought in unforeseen complications that made everything worse, and that's how we ended up where we are.