It’s also pretty much a technical impossibility if you know anything about 3D printers.

3D printers can’t read CAD. They aren’t fed STLs or any other kind of 3D model. They’re fed G-Code, which contains no geometrical details. It’s a list of instructions saying “turn these 4 motors this speed this for this amount of time while heating that part to this temperature and turning this other motor this speed, then heat this part while tunlrning that motor that fast…” with hundreds or thousands of instructions, and then new instructions for the next layer.

In order to print a model, you first have to run it through a program called a slicer that generates that G-code by slicing it into layers with instructions for how to move, heat and cool the nozzle, build plate, and chamber, feed the filament, etc.

The printers just follow those instructions with minimal on-board processing and zero information regarding the final model’s structure.

At what point does it become a hangar?

That’s really not fair.

Every day, campus resource officers bravely send kids through the criminal justice system and fuck up their entire lives for minor infractions.

I’m very smug about how the people who chose not to vote are the reason for this administration.

When questioned in hearings today, they super promised it was dead without being under oath and outright refused to put it in writing.

I literally watched that right before opening Lemmy.

Baader-Meinhof hitting hard today.

The park, the birds, and the freedom to walk somewhere aren’t a given for many people.

I do have a 2-ended USB drive with A and C and it’s glorious.

Because it’s oak-wilt season, right?

Xbox and Playstation developed the platforms the games are on and sold the consoles at a loss.

Retailers have physical overhead that gar exceeds Steam’s cost per sale.

Steam doesn’t have those reasons. They just wanted a bigger cut without incurring the expenses.

Steam was the first major online games distribution platform. Who else would have set the standard?

It’s the industry standard for online PC game sales because of them. They established that number when they were the first major player to the market. They don’t get to blame the industry for a pricing scheme they invented.

This is the company that didn’t offer refunds until they had to. They’re the company that used to make indie developers get permission to launch games through them with exclusivity agreements (Steam Greenlight program). They cry foul when devs put in loot boxes, gacha mechanics, and other live service bullshit when they don’t get a 30% cut.

They’ve been exactly as shitty as they can get away with. The only things that have allowed them to be less shitty are that they were first to the game and that they’re privately-owned l, meaning they do what’s in Gabe’s long-term interest instead of having to drive the stock price up every quarter until they collapse or allergens with someone else.

When Steam launched, gamers were very upset because they didn’t want to have to log into an online marketplace to play Half-Life 2. And now people get pissy when the games they want dont require you to give data and money to a billionaire who long ago stopped giving a fuck about gamers as anything other than a means to buy more yachts.

What is their fault is using their monopoly status to charge 30% of sales for an online storefront. For many games, Steam’s cut is the single largest expense.

If you’re a developer of a game being sold on Steam, Gabe Newell’s personal cut on the game that wasn’t produced, published, or marketed by him or any company he owns is more than yours because he charges an unconscionable toll for the storefront.

If Steam charged 5% instead of 30% they’d still be making a killing, but since they have an an effective monopoly it doesn’t matter.

I drive through Austin regularly and see Tesla and Waymo automated taxis all the time.

The Waymos are just about the best, most-predictable drivers on the road. The Teslas are like toddlers pretending they can drive by randomly spinning a steering wheel.

I get it. I am barely past living paycheck-to-paycheck having changed nothing about my lifestyle since I made half as much (using the same same rental, car, laptop, and everything), so making 30k today would be worse than making minimum wage was just a few years ago, when it was already shamefully low.

I do have a new job that pays way more, but my commute is absolute dogshit because the place I work is SUPER expensive. I work for a city where literally 100% of the households are multi-millionaires, and we have a few 11 and 12-figure residents.

I went to Subway last night. You know, the 5-dollar footlong place.

A footlong sub was $12 (not the meal - just the sandwich).

McDonalds is charging 8 dollars for a breakfast muffin.

My rent has gone from 800 to 2000 since Covid.

I have to fill my tank 3 times a weeks, and right now that costs 50 bucks.

On top of that, I have to help my parents out because their pension didn’t account for real-world inflation and their extremely comfy retirement turned out not to be nearly enough when the grocery bill doubled.

That 73k I make does less than the 30k I made back in 2016.

Depending on the jurisdiction and the specifics, a strong case could be made for depraved heart murder, felony murder, or manslaughter (not all jurisdictions have depraved heart or felony murder rules).

Oh - and the Schlitterbahn executives got off.

Upgraded to box wine?

Note that the “Before” picture is after Trump paved over the Rose Garden, so it’s even worse than that.

Generally speaking, second degree doesn’t involve premeditation. You get in a bar fight and kill someone or walk in on your wife with another man and shoot in a blind rage.

Manslaughter is generally when you kill someone criminally without intent. That would be something like running a stoplight, which is a crime, and t-boning a car killing a passenger. You were committing a non-violent crime with no intent to hurt anyone, but you still killed someone.

Felony Murder in many states is when you commit a felony that leads to someone’s death. For instance, you commit arson for insurance money (a felony), and someone gets killed trying to put it out. It’s also been used on robbery accomplices when their partner kills someone.

Depraved Heart Murder is when you knowingly do something so incredibly reckless someone is likely to get killed and choose to move forward. The depraved indifference in that case is considered malice aforethought (essentially intent). An example would be knowingly selling tainted medicine for profit. A great real-life example was the Schlitterbahn executive that paid off injury victims for a dangerous waterside to keep them quiet because the slide was really profitable until a kid was decapitated by the ride. The executive was charged with murder for covering up the dangerous ride instead of shutting down and fixing it.