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Kind of a shitty choice. Like, I'm very much sex positive, but not everyone wants to see porn.

And you might say, "Not everyone wants to see ads!" And totally agree! But like, the people who have to look at this eyesore now have to deal with a different eyesore.

Why not, "This garbage ad remived from your view by hacking group X, you're welcome" and show some pet photos or something? Or like, get clever with it? Run onion or infowars style satire.

No, that's demonstrably false. You might believe you have common sense, but this is another sign your judgement is, in fact, rather poor.

Conservative not the political party, ya dingus. Conservative in the "prefers tradition and dislikes new things" sense.

Right? Conservative voice going to yell about younger generations playing their music too loud.

Only to academics. In common language they are synonyms. In studies and academic texts they mean different things.

> When you look at all of its peer nations which have committed far more war crimes and crimes against humanity and conclude America is evil.

Any nation that commits war crimes is evil. What is this nonsense like, some amount of war crimes is fine actually as long as we're not in the top 10 war crimes last?

Also, even still, I think the US would make that top ten list. Let's take some examples from your list.

North Korea -- a brutal dictatorship that has killed countless people in North Korea, and inflicted significant suffering on South Korea. Disgusting and reprehensible regime. Truly evil.

The United States -- imperialist nation that has caused incalculable damage to Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Congo, Chile, East Timor, Angola, El Salvador, Grenada, and Nicaragua.

Wait I'm not done.

Libya, Iran, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama, Haiti, Somalia, Yemen, and Pakistan.

And you'd think that's it but let's keep going.

They've also hurt Ukraine, Palestine, Hawai'i, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Mexico.

Then, you know, there's The United States, where the indigenous people were killed. 95% of their population eradicated in the run up to the Declaration of Independence, and 50% of the remaining population in the 1800s.

Woof.

Need me to continue with more? These are all places where the US military ...

Oh shit, wait. I haven't even started on nuclear warfare and testing. Or testing on minority troops.

Ok. I think I got it out of my system. American Samoa. Sorry had one more. Whew.

Now you see why I don't play the moral relativism game, and simply say any war crimes is an unacceptable number of war crimes. Because if you hold up American military history against any single nation, the sheer quantities just don't stack up. Tens of millions of innocents dead, either through direct or indirect action. And it's continuing. North Korea is evil AND the US military has uncountable war crimes. Both are bad. Trying to compare two countries like this forces you to juxtapose a small but intense evil against a staggeringly large sustained but maybe less acute evil.

So no, you are probably right, I probably am over simplifying. I'm sure Pinochet's victims would love to hear how it was actually ok because the US soldiers who installed him were professional and had good structure.

Read more history. Understand the US place in the world. I'm sure there are many upstanding, kind, loving, wonderful soldiers in the US military. The institution, however... the institution has hundreds of years of imperialist violence.

Nothing about having to suit up in gloves, eye protection, and a respirator as you toothbrush off resin in a bucket of 99% IPA is ever going to feel as convenient as warping the build plate and walking away with your print.

It's fine to prefer resin. Go enjoy it. But the idea that it's comparable to fdm printing in convenience is just not true.

SLA printing takes WAY more space. You need ventilation, alcohol washing station, uv curing spots, a means to dispose of toxic waste, gallons of IPA, and a place to work on the products that's isolated from food or daily work. You need gloves, eye protection, and a respirator.

It's also way more expensive. My advice stands for nearly every case. I'm sure there's a handful of people out there who have a small apt and they want to dedicate a lot of space to their resin setup. I just don't think there are very many at all.

The third option is the us military is and will remain an imperialist war machine. So trying to carry water for a fantasy version of it is just carrying water for the imperialist version.

It sure does. One's quality of life is different if you are a prisoner or a pauper or a king. Even if your accommodations are the same.

Is that the bar? Who looks at medieval kings and goes "their standard of living should be our baseline"? Living in a cold stone building with no medical care questionable food, etc?

But also, no they don't. Standard of living includes one's agency over their environment. An medieval king could say things and the kingdom would bend to their will. No one making $18,000 is having hundreds or thousands of people bending over to serve them.

Utter nonsense.

Safer resins. Like "less lethal" ammunition. It's still a nightmare to deal with.

There's a difference between the polite use and the impolite use. If someone makes a point to always introduce and discuss their husband, some anti LGBTQ folks will make a point to never say husband. Like, "you don't get to have that word." It's a way of suggesting people aren't married.

The difficulty is that partner is also acceptable and polite, especially when gender or marital status is unknown.

It's subtle, which is exactly the sort of thing this thread is about -- ways to subtly exclude someone while appearing polite to outsiders.

Biden was a center-right candidate who largely continued trump's policies.

That's a lot of words to have written on a tangent that wholly misses the thesis of my post.

I'm saying the idea of a US military that exists in only a defensive capability is as realistic a possibility as no military and trusting the world to be chill.

They are both zero percent likely to happen. So why hypothesize and carry water for either idea? Like, "the US military should have peace beans that rainbow blast everyone into loving each other" is as cromulent a position as "if the US military were defense only, they'd be really good actually".

I never said that. I said a force that exists solely for defense doesn't exist.

The problem is that it is defense + war crimes. And there is no credible just defense option.

You are defending that. Because the US military does those awful things and has done forever.

There is no US military that's a defensive force. It is a war crimes machine.

You might think you are defending the idea of a peaceful defense force in the US but that's never existed and probably will never exist. So we all read your posts as if they were talking about the US military that exists.

Are you racist? Or a bot yourself? I genuinely cannot tell.

It doesn't all hinge on this November. It hinges on all the moments where people do work to avoid fascism. Some of that happens at the polls. Some of that happens at home. Some of that happens online.

Feed people. Engage in mutual aid. Build communities. Prepare candidates. Grow networks. Then vote. Voting is the last and easiest part.

The democrats participate in this export strongly too. Biden shut down a really important union strike. They are less overt about it, but go watch Malcolm X talk about foxes and wolves.

Unlikely. Plenty of anti LGBTQ rhetoric is permissible here by mods, for example.

However, it often uses queer lingo - words that folks might think aren't notable, but queer folks will instantly recognize as an attack.

Refusing to call a gay man's husband a husband, but subsisting in friend or partner. Calling someone biologically male. Etc.

These get deployed quite subtly here, and because none of the words are slurs, they don't get moderated. (Though HN also permits overt slur usage -- search for the r-slur and you'll find plenty of cases.)

FDM printing is also extremely rewarding. And cheaper. And cleaner. PLA can be composted in some municipalities.

Max out your 3D printing with FDM, and only if you can't achieve your goals, get a resin printer.

You don't want a resin printer. They are nasty, chemically, they require you to set up a "hot zone", you need ppe, venting is really important. When your print works good, you still have to wash it and then cure it. Changing colors ids like a whole event.

FDM printers are amazing now. Strongly recommend an FDM printer.