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I imagine the UAW has some lawyers.

People are still fighting and winning a number of cases against the president. People were just released from CECOT, where no one was ever supposed to leave alive.

Do you feel being unionized makes their situation any worse? They seem to feel strongly this will be of numerous advantages, as it was not even a close vote.

We can act pessimistically and do nothing, or we can organize and protect things we care about as hard as we can. These guys are doing something. Everyone online is complaining people aren’t doing anything, but show them a group of people doing something about it, and now those same complainers still find something to complain about.

One more line of protection can’t hurt. I’m surprised there hasn’t been more momentum for workers to band together.

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The Discussion portion of the paper was pretty interesting. It doesn’t jump to any conclusions, emphasizing not confusing correlation and causation. It discusses some limitations to what they were able to learn and that the severity of the impact is relative to the severity of both the depression and the dementia.

Being on escitalopram has still been one of the best things in my life. I don’t know if I want to experiment with that. If I’m going to be getting dementia, I’m not sure if getting it slightly sooner or later is going to make much of a difference to me. It’s working for what I definitely do have now though.

With the administration discussing getting rid of access to SSRIs, I’ve been trying to build up a few months backup supply, so I don’t want to experiment with finding something new that works as well and potentially be caught with nothing at some point. Life right now is already maxxing out how much depression it can help me deal with. 😱

Looks nice! I sent a link to the gf who’s on iPhone. She’s always complaining about ads, and I never know what’s out there for her as I’m on android. I installed it too so I can give it a look.

After not looking at Reddit’s front page in a year, it’s a bit of a shock seeing an unfiltered feed! 😮

Going by my own car that I bought new in 2008 and still drive, the chemical residue on my inner windshield has been rather consistent throughout the time I’ve had it, so it is still off-gassing after all this time.

There are many unhealthy chemicals in just about every part of the car, and heat cycles keep releasing more of them. The source for the above infographic say many studies have been done, but many sounded like they conflict with each other and many seemed to focus on short term health effects.

I think many may now be too young to remember, but in the 70s and 80s, this was a big issue.

NY Times, 11 June, 1983 - DEMAND INCREASES FOR FIRE-SAFE CLOTHING

Clothing that can erupt into flames is coming under increasing scrutiny of consumer and fire safety organizations. They say Federal regulations governing the safety of fabrics used in clothing are too weak to protect the people who are most vulnerable: the elderly.

Those who most often suffer serious injury or death from clothing fires, safety experts say, are retired people who spend many hours of the day in such loose-fitting garments as bathrobes or housecoats. With the exception of children’s sleepwear, for which special regulations were decreed in the 1970’s, Federal standards allow clothing manufacturers to use all but the most extremely flammable fabrics.

Plastic fibers can melt to your skin, which isn’t great considering you’re in contact with the seats and carpets of the car. In an emergency, you’re not prepared to deal with additional complications like that.

The article I linked here is pretty good, so I recommend reading it if you aren’t familiar with this issue from back then. It will really help give you the other side of the issue to see why these chemicals are there to begin with.

Not sure exactly why you’re getting downvoted as that was essentially the point of the article:

Flame retardant chemicals off-gas or leach from the seat and interior fabrics into the air, — especially in hot weather, when car interiors can reach 150 degrees Fahrenheit.

Advocates argue that the risks of these chemicals outweigh the benefits.

But health researchers have found that the average U.S. child has lost up to 5 IQ points from exposure to flame retardants in cars and furniture. And adults with the highest levels of flame retardants in their blood face a risk of death by cancer that is four times greater than those with the lowest levels, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Thanks for sharing this. I always get excited when I see the coelacanth pop up in the news.

It was amazing to get to see one at the Smithsonian. It felt like seeing something that I shouldn’t be able to see, like something of this world, but not, at the same time. I can’t imagine how thrilling it would be to see them in person and to learn about them directly.

Lol he is loud I guess. I’m surrounded by louder people, so I don’t notice. 😁

You can always skip to the results chart at the end. I do that for things I’m kinda interested in but will probably never buy.

It’s frustrating there are so many bad reviews when it’s not like basic material testing is that complicated. If a few of these media conglomerates just ripped off the things Project Farm does to branch out what products are tested, that would be immensely helpful. As a bonus, much of his testing is actually interesting to watch, so you’d actually be generating double the content, the review and the test itself.

I do enjoy Project Farm is testing more household items these days. The trashbag torture tests this week were good. He tests enough catagories that with whatever item he’s testing, you can see what is the best value for daily use or what to get when you really need something to work no matter what you throw at it.

Seeing the story play out over the span of a few decades really hit home about how long we’ve let this stuff go on already and how long it can take for people to change views and seek justice. We just need to do all we can and keep trying to set the example.

Being the main contributor of !superbowl@lemmy.world, my feeds get full of environmental destruction and habitat and species loss, and it’s tough to filter through all that every day looking for positive stories.

It wasn’t a great show and I didn’t binge watch it, but I’m glad I ignored all the hate about it I read eventually. I really liked the drone defection plotline and the whale episode I feel is up there with some of the best Black Mirror stuff.

There was very much morale ambiguity of the “good” characters as well, it wasn’t all pro-environmentalist guys are all heroes, there was definitely eco-terrorism.

This was my favorite episode of Extrapolations!

EP 2: 2046 - Whale Fall staring Meryl Streep

Thank you so much for the awesome response! You were able to confirm a few of my guesses how done things were done and also given me a few new things I can read more about.

The leg hairs are a result of the nozzle leaving the print to go somewhere else, leaving behind extra material that stretches thin as the print head moves away.

After seeing the spiders and reading that mask thread, the print head retraction had me interested since I could apply some experience I did have, cake decorating, which thinking about it now, is fairly similar to 3D printing. You’ve got semi-solid but sticky ingredients, and the icing coming out doesn’t just stop and cut off cleanly when you pull back from what you’re working on. That’s immediately what I thought of with your spider legs and how I thought you used it to your advantage.

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I find it so encouraging whenever I see this. It’s always easy to see someone’s end result and think that was just whipped out perfect on the first try. Most computer projects I do work this way, and I see lots of programming humor jokes that essentially say the same thing. “I’m not a good X, I’m a good Googler!”

Meatloaf looked yum, wanted a finger 👍

Hah, I’m glad you have that a look! The fingers were my favorite part due to the higher ratio of crispy bits!

Thanks again for the great reply!

That’s a great reminder to check again to see if there’s a makerspace near me yet. It would be nice to get have other people with experience to learn from.

Thanks for being so welcoming!

Yeah, it still feels like a bit too much material science knowledge is required for your average person. That’s what keeps me just watching you guys every time I get tempted to try it myself.

I do like learning about the different filaments and such though. I still find it very cool.

Haha, I love it!

I have zero experience with 3d printing, but I look at creative uses like this from time to time. After reading this mask printing post yesterday, are there any special considerations needed to be taken before printing tiny structures like those spider legs?

I see little spider “leg hairs” on some of them, and I think that really adds to realism of the spider, but would that be an issue in other prints?

If this is a really complicated answer, feel free to say so or if you can give me some technical terms for some of the potential issues, I have no problem googling them myself, I just wouldn’t know where to start on my own.

Edit: If you are into harmlessly creeping people out at Halloween, you may have interest in my Meat Hand Meatloaf I posted the other day. It’s a zombie hand meatloaf, which is great looking in a terrible way also, like the spiders!