For 3d printing for miniatures and such, you definitely want to get a resin 3D printer. FDM (filament deposition manufacture) just doesn’t have the level of detail and the lack of visible layers that you need for miniatures and such.

I’m pretty sure there must be really good stuff for $300 right now, I remember that some years ago people were amazed at the performance of the Elegoo Mars around that price point, one of the first truly affordable and good resin printers.

AFAIK, the resin is a hazard, but mostly to touch and ingestion, not to breathing, so if you use gloves, goggles, and don’t lick your gloves, I think you’re fine. Edit: ignore strikethrough and listen to the answer below by beloved comrade @JoeByeThen

Resin printers need the wash after the print to remove the leftover liquid resin, and possibly the extra UV cure. It does take up some extra space because you need the washing thing for the prints after they’re out of the printer, and possibly also a UV curing chamber, but it shouldn’t take more than half a normal desk altogether, definitely doable.

If you’re concerned about the quality of the finish of resin 3D prints, I’m sure you can find a local club or business which will gladly accept money in exchange for prints. I’d give it a try and get some finished prints before buying a printer!

Uyghur genocide rethoric be like

Pro tip: Zambia kinda looks like the pokemon Geodude

Seeing as I can build a wooden longbow much more easily than a wooden crossbow, I’ll go with the longbow.

Oh OK violating GPL not as in failing to respect intellectual property, but as failing to publish the shit you do, got it

Violating GPL as in copyright laws? How is that not based?

OK, I’ll definitely try, thanks a lot!!

Ben garrison cum edits <3 the only thing I was missing from Hexbear

Epic username

Also, the hot towel idea sounds good, I have super thick facial hair and I guess making it softer could help the overall process. Also, “let’s steam the towel” sounds sexy af

Oh my fucking god, that’s the most cursed advice I never expected. I’m NOT putting an epilator EVER near ANY body part of mine, I tried once and I swear it’s gotta be more painful than getting tased

That does make sense, conditioner also lubricates a lot (from my experience with long hair) thanks comrade!

That’s exactly the type of resource I was looking for, except possibly for the “manly man” format I’m guessing by the name “gentleman’s gazette”. Thank you very much, I’ll def give it a watch

Wow, how does that work? Softens the hair?

My routine so far has been forgoing razor shaving in favour of electric. Maybe I really should wet my beard for prolonged time before shaving, as the saying says. “Cuando las barbas de tu vecino veas cortar, pon las tuyas a remojar”

I’m white as fuck, but I do have a very thick beard

My sensitive face is screaming from the thought of using a razor to shave… I tried even straight razor, but notjing gets the job done without a week of suffering afterwards… What am I doing wrong comrades :(

rising labor costs

cost of goods go up

I smile when I encounter the Labour Theory of Value

All of those are interesting hypotheticals, and whether they would have brought more plurality within socialism than danger against the institutions and the socialist project, is up for anyone to guess.

What I can tell you is one thing: these hard decisions weren’t made by “power hungry individuals”, or by “authoritarianism”. They were the consequence of the historical and material realities of the time, and carried out by a party composed of people wanting the best for the future of socialism in the RSFSR/Soviet Union. The reality is that the early USSR survived insurmountable odds: decomposed economy after pulling out from WW1 (which happened after a war with Japan), Russian civil war, the massive problems within dekulakization and agricultural collectivisation, and the looming threat and eventually invasion of Nazi Germany that murdered more than 20 million people in the Soviet Union. The fact alone that it was capable of doing so, tells me enough about the necessity of the decisions taken.

That does not mean that everything is perfect. Of course the Great Purge went way beyond too far, of course socialists don’t ideally want to oppress working class revolutionaries like in the Kronstadt rebellion, but what should we attribute those to then? Mustache man bad? Lenin bad? Marxism-Leninism bad? Or to extremely difficult time periods which create extreme necessities?

Moreover: why, if all of this is supposedly embedded in the nature of the Soviet Union or Marxism-Leninism, such things stopped happening after the 1960s for the most part? There was no great purge, there was no rebellion like Kronstadt or Hungary with their subsequent repressions

Please excuse me, which socialist country has a better record of being on the right side of history than the Soviet Union?!

if you can’t see their fuckups

I’ll try and make you a list of the bigger ones IMO later or tomorrow. Again, I don’t expect many people to know more about such issues than Marxist-Leninists, who are famously obsessed with the USSR.

How does that not reek of excel tables smh