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Remember not a lot of the world speaks English. When I talked to some of my Japanese friends and language exchange partners prior to this election they weren’t sure about trump but typically described him as someone who was a powerful leader

Also keep in mind that they generally are super polite and in that “if you can’t say anything nice don’t say anything at all” space. Except for a small handful I’m very close with even now they won’t say much bad, will just ask “how are things in America”, “what’s the perception of him in America”, etc and will artfully dodge the question of “what’s the perception of him in Japan. Except for my one friend who’s more outspoken and we are a bit closer, who is like “end the trade alliance and force all the military bases to close!”

But to my original point much of his crass and idiotic behavior doesn’t necessarily translate well and usually doesn’t make the news on NHK. It’s kind of similar to how American news headlines do him so many favors. If you only know trump through Washington post, NYT, etc headlines he sounds so much more competent than he is. But if watch him speak you realize he is just so goddamn stupid

No shit it was. He wants to run for president and he knows that stunt will make headlines but this will be buried in comments where the headline is “16 democrats vote for trump nominee” (aka exactly what is happening here)

Booker is classic neoliberal, no ethics or morals, guided by money and power. 10-15 years ago he was deeply in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry because they are huge in NJ. Then his aspirations went higher and he realized that association was harmful, at that point he had connections that made him no longer reliant on their cash, so he shed them. It’s not growth, it’s a calculated move

I’ve never done a cutter but I mounted a pen to my printer to make into an plotter

You pretty much just have to make a carriage that can hold whatever the thing is and then dial in z depth. I would imagine the hard part for a cutter is getting enough force to cut but not so much that you mangle shit, but that’s probably just experimenting a bit. You’ll need some kind of cutting mat to put on the bed I would think

I knew someone that had a cricut and that was just a xy cutter that used a few different tool heads. It had one that looked like an exacto knife and one that looked like a pizza cutter but I don’t know what their functions were, I think vinyl vs fabric?

Good fucking luck

Service manuals often aren’t even made anymore let alone wiring diagrams. This is a bigger discussion of things being made to be repairable. It’s one thing if you’re discussing a car (which are increasingly being built like hostile tech, thanks tesla), but your phone/console/laptop/appliance/etc?

Best case scenario it’s made with a few sub assemblies that are designed to be swapped out instead of fixing them. why diagnose the 1 cent capacitor that’s shorting on your phone motherboard and swap it out? That would create skilled labor, save your data, create opportunities for local small businesses, and prevent e waste. Instead let’s just swap the motherboard, or more likely just junk the phone altogether and make it a parts phone so it can be used for someone who needs a new lcd/battery/casing down the line. As a result apple will buy it off of you for $100 (only if you buy a new phone too though, store credit) as a result even though you paid 800 2 years ago and the remaining parts are worth $400 second hand easily

That’s why even when you can get these docs they’re largely worthless. Apple shares their support docs with their self repair program (though you need a current model serial number to access, not freely available). But it’s what’s described above. If you want to change the lcd? Helpful. If you want to fix a boot loop and persevere your flash? Go fuck yourself unless you have backups

https://openpathcollective.org/

A collective of American therapists that charge $30-70 per session plus a one time membership fee of $65 to support the organization

full disclosure: I am a counselor in their directory

reminiscent of one of the greatest I think you should leave sketches

also garfeild

wait is that the odie recliner to the left?? Is this a shot from the cleanup of that sketch?? Is this the couch

If you did this when you came back it would be the objectively better half. More filling density at the expense of being harder to store

aww that’s cute. Back to your dank cage

Sure thing

FWIW I am in America, if that helps. And for America I found it helps immensely to be in a city. Which is obvious, probably. But since I moved to a less urban area I’m a few hours from the nearest recycler and the closest one never has anything good; whereas the one by me in the city was a 20m drive and always had great shit from various offices shutting down throughout the city and places from basically a 1-2hr drive radius. They would make the drive to clear out a building of gear

Sometimes you can find them on ebay but usually the thing that wrecks ebay deals is shipping. A switch for $40 isn’t as much of a deal if it costs $60 to ship to you because it’s gigantic and weighs 30lbs

If you use ebay sort by distance instead price and look for deals.

The best thing though is to find actual recyclers in your area. Look on ebay sorted by distance, look on Craigslist, etc. I don’t fuck with meta shit but fb marketplace is maybe somewhere to look? If you can find a recycler near you that sells direct to consumers (not all do) then hit them up.

Especially if they’re a small business (that’s one of the things corporate overlords haven’t overtaken in my experience), you might find being a repeat customer is helpful to you. I bought most of my networking stack from them but I also got a bunch of stuff to refurbish and resell. They also refurbish and resell but they didn’t do board repairs, just simple shit like lcd and battery swaps. Anything more wasn’t worth their time to diagnose and repair. So I would come and buy their pile of consoles and phones and weird industrial equipment that needed board work, water damage, etc. I could usually fix 6/10 and resell which is probably good for the world and certainly helped my wallet.

But it also meant they threw me mad deals. I have a tape drive for backing up my nas. It’s like a $3,000 LTO8 drive (new) that wasn’t working and they sold it to me for $200 with a bunch of other stuff I was buying. I fixed it by cleaning it and now I have a practical way to back up hundreds of terabytes

Even if you’re not buying up tons of shit like that though just being a repeat customer can be helpful. Of course this assumes you find a good vendor. Some I went to prices were firm even though it was some busted old switch from 10 years ago I could get cheaper online with shipping and they wouldn’t budge. And this was a while ago (like 4 years), I’ve since moved and don’t do business with them anymore. Who knows what the market is like now. I feel like the used market may be surging a bit with tariff nonsense

The oldest existing democracy is Iceland depending on how you define democracy. But that was around 930 ad and had free men participating in making laws

come to my house, i look like shit