I’ve been going strong with printing for a year now. So much so that I bought a second printer because I have projects I’d like to do but each print takes hours which often means only one print a day because it runs over night.
Then there’s all the printing to making printing better like wall organizers, new print head designs, etc.
62% of Americans hold stock.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-owns-stock.aspx
That the rich own more isn’t relevant. That they have 401k’s instead of a pension isn’t relevant. 401k’s give more personal control than a pension. With a pension, the corporation buys stocks for the workers and the workers have no control. Their laziness in stock ownership and then blaming who they gave money too is a reflection of their laziness in who they vote for and then blame the government.
It’s literally 1/500 of his current net worth. Are you saying my net worth is $10k?
I used a low number to make it in your favor. He gave even more proportionally than you giving $20 to a homeless person. With your logic you should be admonished even harder. How dare you distort the aid work of the government! You should have paid that $20 on your income tax instead of giving it to the homeless person!
( In reality $20 is still a good example because when you have $100B, giving $200B, despite being 1/5th of your total assets doesn’t cause any noticeable material change in your living conditions.)
He’s a former president. I don’t worship him or even really know much about whatever he’s done.
He was wealthy but spent his free time building homes for the poor.
Yes, The OP claimed that horses for transport is what saved them from extinction. But everything he said was wrong. Horses outcompeted the native fauna of Central Asia to become established before domestication AND didn’t occupy the same habitat as cows.
It seems unnecessary duplication of effort to repeat everything on different platforms. I’d rather get people to use Lemmy by not having Lemmy seem dead.
It’s not that it’s slower than ext4 but that btrfs itself has gotten slower.
I don’t understand how people have time for multiple social media. How do you read/reply to everything on Lemmy and do something else?
I literally don’t even know what this means and absolutely didn’t use these words so I doubt that it accurately represents any of my points.
I don’t know what it means either but that’s the OP you are defending.
The ultra rich cannot accumulate their wealth without exploiting countless other people.
While there is definitely exploitation, the wealthy who got it from stock have in effect been voted to be rich. The masses buy Microsoft Stock, vote Republican to lower the taxes on billionaires, then get upset that Gates is ultra wealthy.
Despite that, some of the ultra rich feel they are best qualified to decide
The government did nothing for 50 years. Gates/Buffet throwing $200million to eradicate malaria is income-wise like you giving a homeless person $20 and me admonishing you for thinking you know better than the government.
These projects, even without an ulterior motive, are often biased
Then the people should have done something! See the above example.
designing rockets, and building museums so billionaires did it instead(?)
I’m saying curing malaria is a better use of money than rockets and museums like other billionaires.
Rich people fund things that maybe I think are good, so checkmate?
Yes. Attack people for the bad they do, not the good.
Jimmy Carter (who I never brought up) was a millionaire, again checkmate(?)
I brought him up as an example of someone very rich who did good. And again, after specifically calling out how you won’t defend him you still won’t.
outcompeted by cows
I’m going to need a source because there are many herbavores in central asia where the modern horse originated (after crossing the Bering straight) which means horses outcompeted the local fauna to establish a population. Meanwhile cows were in southern Asia. So there was limited overlap in habitat.
" I would not draw any more attention to the fact that my husband, who has his own well-documented scandals, figures so prominently in the Epstein files."
Wrong. The Clintons are sacrificing their own legacy to help Epstein’s victims.
Dude, you are the one trying to weasel out of your own statements.
And don’t think I didn’t notice your refusal to defend Jimmy Carter. You have the disposition of a .ml user.
This is not an answer.
This was your claim:
"Gates bought himself a large part of aid for development and made it a private thing. "
Gates didn’t buy it. The people elected government officials who wouldn’t tax billionaires. Instead of spending it all on rockets and monuments, he got Buffet onboard with curing malaria.
Are you also angry with Jimmy Carter for being a multimillionaire and building houses?
I use fake toner in my brother.
It’s not inkjet but you can get passible color on laser. You need to go into settings and tell it it’s a photo and you want max quality. I have a Brother color laser.
Do you believe that they are the best qualified person to decide how to use that wealth?
This was already answered by Buffet when he said his taxation level was unfair. This is a situation where the people have elected a government which won’t tax billionaires so some billionaires used their money to cure malaria because the government wouldn’t tax them and do it.
Other billionaires build rockets and museums. Is that better?
no gambling to children
“protect the children” is used to justify all sorts of bad laws but there is absolutely no conflict between stopping something for children and allowing adults.
You: “The US is so stupid, it doesn’t allow marketing cigarettes to children.”
consequently their brain becomes dull and fried
Many famous artists had day jobs with zero thought. Furniture movers, janitors, busboys, waitresses.
R2 is an astromech for navigation. R2 should be the GPS for your car. The GNK droid was for mobile power delivery.
It’s on the webpage.
$300 for the keyboard, no switches or key caps.
But the wrist rest is $5.
I have no idea what the admins are doing with lemmy.world but every day the ai_reddit community posts are near the top despite only 1 upvote on posts and I’m not subscribed to that community.
I do mostly functional but the consumerism is also fun because there’s a magnitude less Amazon and sludge oil powered shipping from China. The filament is biodegradable and made from corn.
For example I printed an Affe mit Schädel for my desk and it makes me very happy. I know it’s stupid but I’ve wanted one on my desk for over 30 years for reasons.