This is your own personal card but your employer reimburses back travel funds for you once you’ve got a receipt?

I’d check for alternative redemption options on the card first. ‘Cover my purchase’ or similar. Maybe you could use it for online shopping until it eventually runs out.

You could also buy gift cards and sell them online, but that’s a lot more work.

Using your own company as the conversion from points to cash is risky because that’s also your main form of income.

Those are super neat. I saw a video about how that was sidelined when they made the insulation regulations in the 1900s, which was a real bummer.

One of the things to consider, beyond the dry climate requirements mentioned already, is that you can’t use it as a drop in replacement for fiberglass insulation. You have to plan the building around it because it requires a lot more space, relatively speaking.

*edit In the USA. Can’t speak for australia, which is what you linked to.

From the top since you seem to have forgot;

This is a really cool project and really speaks to the changing nature of warfare. And, once again, highlights the real reason so much money has gone into FDM processes.

If warfare is not “the real reason so much money has gone into fdm” why did you say it was?

You’ve missed my point. Obviously governments fund manufacturing stuff, including 3d printing. Obviously governments also fund research into better war technology, like with boing and everyone else. You’ve proved the point of that several times over.

What I’m asking for is evidence that 3d printing was funded specifically with war in mind, especially from 20 years ago (as compared to five years ago with the advent of the ukraine/russia war).

When I first asked about this, I didn’t think it would be such a hassle, and I had actually hoped to see a neat article about the history of 3d printing and how it’s been specifically developed as a way to make better weapons for over twenty years. What I got was scorn, mocking, and questioning of my basic mental capacity because I … Couldn’t do the research myself?

Correlation is not causation. The government funds boatloads of shit that doesn’t work out, in the hopes that it becomes eventually useful. The covid19 vaccine was under development since the early 2000s because of swine flu. Is it right for me to say that government expected the swine flu to be used for war purposes because they funded research into it, or would you ask for more details about how the swine flu vaccine was specifically war-related research before beleiving my wild claims?

I’ve noticed that a large chunk of furry content that I come across (I don’t look for it) tends to be about common life situations, but that would only apply to furries. There’s not usually a point to them, beyond being an example of what life as a furry might be like in the mundane sense.

In this case, the fox guy is being a creep and stealing a scale from the lizard guy. A comparitive situation might be a random dude stealing a girls hair for a keepsake.

Or just plug your ears because… I don’t even know why. You do you.

If you ever received any pushback on this theory, this is why. Asking for evidence is not “plugging my ears”. Incredible claims require incredible evidence, and you have provided nothing beyond a single link to the NSF, which is literally a government agency made for funding research into making literally everything. That’s not funding additive manufacturing for war purposes. That’s funding for all of the manufacturing methods because it’s just good fucking sense as a government to keep your technological edge.

You also included all (or many) of the wofld governments, not just the USA in your claim. Your half ass source doesn’t even include any government other than the USA.

Forgive me for not immediately trusting that the world governments are all funding additive manufactueing specifically to make war more efficient when you can’t even try to source anything beyond just the USA nsf.

Additive manufacturing (of which FDM is one of the most accessible techniques) has been a MASSIVE funding source amongst world governments over the past 20+ years.

I’d love your sources for this.

I guess? I’d just assume they work like real hair/scales that can be grabbed completely unnoticed if it’s about to fall off, but if it’s healthy might actually hurt when pulled.

Considering fox guy grabbed it on purpose, it likely was sticking out / about to fall off anyways.

highlights the real reason so much money has gone into FDM processes.

That’s really a stretch. Fdm printing was held back for decades because of patents. If militaries/governments actually knew what it was worth they would’ve worked to fix that a lot quicker.

More likely is that fdm printing became so popular because of how easy it is to make a cheap printer and how useful a tool it is for, frankly, most anything. Weapons are only a small slice of what a good printer can actually do.

Of note, the reaction to having 3d printers capable of making weapon parts has resulted in legislation to limit 3d printer access, not to expand it.

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/new-bill-seeks-to-limit-3d-printed-firearms-faces-legal-and-practical-hurdles-248275/

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/05/ghost_gun_legislation_3d_printing/

It’s actually closer to hair than nails. https://www.nathab.com/blog/feathers-hair-or-scales-not-much-difference

The major content websites deprioritise Australian and UK content outside of their respective countries.

So the truck nuts can be installed properly. Can’t transition your car without a proper expert around to keep things going right.

That’s rough. Signal is the only app that can actually be trusted to resist state monitoring because it has a successful history of it.

I guess another option to throw into the pool is https://docs.cwtch.im/ then. It’s new though, and not as easy to use.

And just FYI, use case is simply texting with friends and family, while avoiding state monitoring.

Signal. There’s nothing better for security, ease of use, and features. It’s a drop in replacement for texts and imessage and facetime.

They’ve got xep-0503 on the roadmap, so it’s not there yet, but is for sure something worth keeping an eye on.

Xmpp already survived Google divesting from it, so I’m more inclined to believe it has real staying power compared to all these new apps partially written by ai or with problematic security policies.

I imagine sitting on coach, searching for show. Then you want to watch some, and then you have to wait half an hour for full episode (or even season?) to download.

This is a fair take on how a locally hosted video server would go. It’s the same as someone who has a collection of disk media instead as well. Finding new media to watch is not instant, even with the best setups.

I actually consider this to be a feature, instead of a bug. The algorithms that Netflix (and YouTube and everybody else that serves content) have a lot of issues. The ability to find content, the act of discovery, is something I think is actually very valuable, and has been lost since we switched to online streaming.

I run a jellyfin server for my immediate family, and one of the benefits of not running an auto-download tool is that we all have a groupchat specifically for requesting new series/movies. I didn’t expect it at first, but it has been a great way to connect with my family over varied media we watch, as well as a way of sharing what’s new and interesting to them.

Of course, I switched from Spotify to a physical mp3 player with my own personal library, so maybe my perspective is a bit skewed. For sure there is a place for a lack of barriers (including skipping out on analytical thought) for consuming content. I just don’t think it should be the default.

This is so cool. Thank you for sharing how to do that.

At this angle it’s hard for me to do that, since I usually use the edges of the face to estimate it

This is a screenshot of a photo, but you can still see the left side offset if you zoom in. The original photo likely has much better quality to see it with.

My reading of it following the ethans point of view first. People are different. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the movie kind of has the opposite story.

I’m not so sure about that one. It has been misconstrued by people as Scott being a model to look up to, but the movie literally showed him and his ‘evil twin’ being cool together, marking the original Scott as the actualy evil one. It also had him growing from his mistakes of cheating on his GFs, but it definitely started with him being a cheating asshole.

“In brief, the plaintiffs argue that lootbox mechanics in the Valve games above are gambling because you’re spending real money by means of a manipulative, casino-style interface (think, spinny wheels) for a chance of unlocking something that has ‘real’ value. In this case, not just because the digital item has subjective importance to the owner, but because you can flog it for actual cash either over Steam Community Market, or on third-party marketplaces using a “trade URL”.”

I mean, yeah. Lootboxes are gambling. The fact that it’s taken this long and is primarily aimed at valve, rather than literally any other game publisher, has me suspicious, especially considering all the recent online ID bullshit, but it really should be more regulated. Bare minimum it should be required to follow some sort of fairness and transparency laws.