Trump losing would be an epic troll then. Holding out for almost 3 years only to see your only hope crumbling away.

I mean they’ll add a few days of extra buffer to the personnel shortage.

There goes another “red line” without any meaningful response from russia.

I guess that could be explained with the giant ego. Due to being so smart, he understands the situation better than the mainstream media. The easiest opposing view to latch onto would then be Russian propaganda.

EDIT: I have several friends who are also smart, and as such must question all msm news. As a result their worldview is left with a void that is usually filled with more fringe opinions.

I’d guess that if he was an agent, he isn’t acting voluntarily. Instead he’s probably influenced by chinese and saudi money.

Another simpler, but just as plausible explanation could be that he’s basically a human with a giant ego that bounces from one incident to another. None of this seems very planned. Instead he seems to be acting on a whim.

Their government has been trying to keep the issue of aid in the public interest for a reason. Sometimes they might go too far, but I think people underestimate the fear a country would experience if they were highly dependent on outside help. Especially if it wasn’t guaranteed to continue due to changes in the political leadership in the other countries.

As always the headline is somewhat misleading.

This was well put and a good summary of the situation!

In a less resilient democracy attempts of interference in the election process might not cause the same uproar it has in the US.

This also works the other way. The prosecution of Trump seems to be handled with care to ensure that the charges are justifiable. In non democratic countries a political opponent would first go to jail and then the prosecutors would try to invent some kind of corruption charge.

It would be hard to argue that this was unjustified escalation by NATO. At the same time it would signal that Russian escalation would be met with a proportional response from NATO.

Congress members and senators still showed up to work, and the decisions they took still mattered, even if some of the Republicans were constantly violating precedents and norms. The judicial system still kept churning and mostly following the laws and precedents, even if Trump appointed a lot of unqualified partisan judges.

From an outside perspective this is a good demonstration that while your system is somewhat flawed, it’s still resilient. By flawed I mean mainly the two party system and stuff like judges being appointed by politicians. However if your system didn’t have some builtin failsafes, it would have been much more vulnerable to influence from unwanted sources.

Even if most trump voters wanted to turn the US into a proper aristocracy, (some right wingers actually do*), the process would have been much more complicated in comparison to countries that have become dictatorships in the past decades.

*I’m referring to a somewhat new trend, where influential people are claiming that the US is suffering from a dumb population, and that experts should be given more power.

Since 2014, Crimea has been problematic to Russia for various reasons, in particular due to needing an outside source of fresh water

The only issue that during the escalation Russia has blown up the dam that provides said drinking water to crimea. I think you already kinda implied this already in your comment.

This is what 3d printing really shines in. Churning out prototypes for minimum cost.

If you’re already familiar with blender, you would only need to learn how to use a slicer, which is not that hard in comparison. Just import the model and fiddle around with print settings if needed.

I came into 3d printing as a complete noob, and most of my time has been spent learning to do modeling in blender/cad. Slicing and printing itself is simple in comparison. Resin might be more involved.

This.

Even if some AI or algorithm could tell you that a certain area was less likely to be heavily mined, then what would prevent the opposing force from using similar tools to also identify the weak points?

This! Britain, Germany etc. didn’t have a reasonable exit strategy for avoiding the bombing. There is a potential exit for russia.

Russian population has to understand at some level, that these events are a result of actions russia has taken in a foreign country. They didn’t happen before russian leadership dragged the country into this mess. The west has also given clear signals that the sanctions and military support are a direct result of russian actions. Their magnitude is driven by russian actions and escalation.

This is a form of backlash instead of oppression. Backlash is for signaling that what you’re doing is a bad idea. The other is completely different.

Yes.

Seems like the ones that find it necessary to print color references are either using fancier materials or use a ton of different colors.

Because what can I do?

I try to focus on being happy and living my own life. These things are civilization level issues, and last 50 years have shown the civilization’s fundamental incapability to face the issue, let alone attempt to solve it at any meaningful scale.

IMO there is nothing wrong with attempting to minimize one’s own carbon footprint, but the futile attempt to push for more significant changes will just lead to disappointment

If civilizez countries were to cut majority of their military spending, it wouldn’t result in a win-win for all. Eg. Ukraine.

Over 200h now. I rack up hours printing parts with 100% infill as they get annealed in the oven. Time will tell when I get issues. So far I’ve had to retighten the x axis belt once, but no other issues.

I get that the original plastic tension arms break after a while, but I hope that the metal arm on the neo will last longer. Can the softer extrusion gears be replaced with steel or some other stronger material?

It’s already too late to avert the consequences of climate change. The amount of dedicated resources necessary would be orders of magnitude larger than what is being used in Ukraine.

I’ve been printing with my ender 3 for >200h now, and I’ve been happy with it. If possible get the Neo version. It has most of the features that people add to their printers later on, like auto bed leveling.

The tinkering part that people talk about in regards to the ender 3 seems to be an artifact from non Neo versions, as those are missing auto bed leveling and as such require more fiddling to get printing well. Also the non neo printers had plastic tension arms that would break over time.

So far my ender 3 neo has failed 2 prints, one when I originally configured the z-offset to be too high and the initial layer wouldn’t stick. Other time was some layer shifts due to me leaving the x axis belt too loose. In total I’ve spent maybe 3 hours fiddling with my printer and mostly it’s left alone, doing it’s thing.