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Last I checked (circa 2017), bioplastics like PLA had poor heat resistance. This made them unsuitable for certain applications like bushings or gasket seals. IIRC "heat resistant" varieties of PLA are rated up to 120 Celsius, which is good for many applications but not all e.g. automotive seals, washers, and bearings.

Footnote: I was going to compare the properties of heat-resistant PLA to those of PTFE aka Teflon, since the latter is commonly used in heat-resistant applications, but after some Googling I've learned PTFE is not petroleum-based.

In many U.S. states to include California, employment is legally considered “at-will.” This means the employer can terminate the employment agreement at any time and for nearly any reason.

You cannot fire someone for membership in a protected class (race, religion, sexual orientation, etc) or participation in protected activities like reporting an employer’s violations of the law, but it’s difficult to prove intent in such cases.

There are exceptions for unionized workplaces with collective bargaining agreements. Employers in those situations cannot fire employees without “just cause.” Google R&D is not unionized, however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment

Concept reminds me of the hacking minigame from ‘Enter the Matrix’ on PlayStation 2. The game presented you with a DOS prompt and a few simple commands; you had to unlock new commands and uncover hidden information by exploring the file structure and inferring from the output of commands available to you.

Made a very positive impression on a much younger me. The DOS prompt on my parents’ PC had always been a bit scary, since I didn’t really know what I was doing and was worried I might mess something up. The game was a (very limited) sandbox in which I could mess around without consequences:

https://www.ign.com/wikis/enter-the-matrix/Hacking

Any news articles or third-party reports to confirm that figure of 250M strikers? The only sources I've found on it so far are far-left political websites.

I hesitate to trust e.g. Fox News when reporting on the size of Trump's inauguration; likewise, I am skeptical to trust far-left websites reporting on the size of a far-left rally (as pics of hammer-and-sickle flags seem to indicate). An independent report on the size of these strikes would be helpful.

The effect of an EMP on a hardened i.e. Faraday cage-shielded target is quite limited. Even modern automobiles are only momentarily disrupted, if at all, by significant pulses produced in a controlled test setting. As I understand it, common measures taken to protect vehicle electronics against electro-static discharge (ESD) also provide some level of protection against EMP attack. Your mileage may vary with commercial off-the-shelf drones, of course, but it’s not an expensive or difficult technology to retrofit.

My understanding derives chiefly from a U.S. government-commissioned study on the effects of an EMP weapon or natural disaster on things like cars, trucks, airplanes and computers. The results were made public, and are overall fairly reassuring:

http://www.empcommission.org/reports.php

A new term I've seen used is "black & indigenous people of color" (BIPOC), which conspicuously leaves out Asians and is fuzzy on Hispanics.

Does Lenovo still sell laptops with malware in the firmware?

Not a "gotcha" question, I am seriously asking. Considering a Thinkpad for my next laptop, but memories of Superfish give me pause.

https://www.theregister.com/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nasty... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...

Whoops! Thanks for the correction. It seems unicorns aren't so rare after all.

The Unicorn Tapestries were also featured in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, currently on Netflix:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iR4g9cDS4Tc/VJOqRvkbCNI/AAAAAAAAAk...

Perhaps due to the tapestries’ association with the Rockefellers? Gundam writers have long played with themes of powerful families who direct world events in secret, such as through Gundam Wing’s fictional “Romefeller Foundation”:

https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Romefeller_Foundation

> Thankfully the government is also printing money so real asset prices will only rise. Will be able to make up for lost rent quickly as prices rise

Could you elaborate on this? I don’t follow

I’ve had terrible reactions to statins. The best way to describe it was that it felt, mentally, like my consciousness was fading and that I was dying. Closest sensations I’ve experienced to it would be fainting or moments of low blood pressure. Sort of like getting dizzy after standing up too fast, but for hours and hours. Not pleasant.

My doctors have no idea what caused these symptoms, but in both cases going off the statin (first Crestor, then Lipitor) got me back to normal.

Historically, UC Berkeley was home to the Free Speech Movement. Today, UC Berkeley Professor of English Grace Lavery had this to say about the book in question:

>Since some ppl have misunderstood my tone, and censorship is an important matter and as a public educator I have a duty to be precise, let me clarify:

>I do NOT advocate defacing library books.

>I DO encourage followers to steal Abigail Shrier’s book and burn it on a pyre.

https://twitter.com/graceelavery/status/1327743400553172997

As to the burning of books generally:

>Remember: all you’re doing is removing a commodity from circulation—much as one might destroy a contaminated crop, or take action if a distributor failed to do so.

https://twitter.com/graceelavery/status/1327746546851524608

Not a view I would have ever expected to hear from a public institution of learning.

For context, here is author Abigail Shrier’s synopsis of the book in her own words. Judge for yourself whether it constitutes hate speech:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6MYb0rBDYvs

Here is a protestor describing in vivid detail the killing of Antonio Mays Jr. by CHOP security, minutes after it happened while his blood is still wet on the ground. Clipped from Omari Salisbury’s stream (warning - disturbing):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=q5bA-iUPvqI&t=1m27s

Lorenzo Anderson was shot inside CHOP (though not by the “security team”), and died after amateur CHOP medics and confused city EMS flubbed his medevac. EMS couldn’t get to him quickly since the shooting scene wasn’t able to be secured.

https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-police-and-fire-confusi...

> Once again, I'm sure you actually know all of this.

This kind of talk is quite small.

Here is a protestor describing in vivid detail the killing of Antonio Mays Jr. by CHOP security, minutes after it happened while his blood is still wet on the street. The video was clipped from a stream recorded by Omari Salisbury, an independent reporter who lives and works on Capitol Hill. His coverage was some of the most immediately on-the-scene (warning - disturbing):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=q5bA-iUPvqI&t=1m27s

You’re right that witnesses aren’t talking. This is part and parcel with the “didn’t see shit, don’t know shit” mantra of BLM/antifa protestors. As another user linked, there is video of protestors intentionally destroying the crime scene. Due to this lack of cooperation, Antonio Mays’ family may never receive justice.

In my personal experience, the U.S. military - Army in particular - firmly drills “loyalty to the Constitution, not the President” into every soldier. The top U.S. general gave a speech to that effect earlier this week. You can draw your own conclusions as to the timing of his remarks:

>” We are unique among militaries. We do not take an oath to a king or a queen, a tyrant or a dictator. We do not take an oath to an individual. No, we do not take an oath to a country, a tribe or religion. We take an oath to the Constitution. And every soldier that is represented in this museum, every sailor, airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman, each of us will protect and defend that document, regardless of personal price," Milley said during remarks at the opening of the US Army's museum.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/mark-milley-pentagon...

Regarding pills, I read he had Percocet addiction problems and that drugs were found in the car:

>The charges say Kelete told jail officials that he was withdrawing from the narcotic Percocet and that he struggled with an “untreated addiction.” Washington State Patrol accident investigators found “several implements commonly used to smoke illegal substances” and a substance “that appears similar to crystal methamphetamine” in the car, according to the charges.

I hadn’t read about the field sobriety test (so thank you for providing that information!), only the drugs in the car and his opioid addiction. I don’t know whether a field sobriety test would detect that type of intoxication.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/seattle-man-...

There’s a lot to unpack in your post, but I’d just like to focus on “car attacks” here. You mention a “car attack” in Seattle. In actual fact, the incident I assume you mean was by all outward indicators a tragic accident, not a planned attack such as Charlottesville in 2017.

Driver Dawit Kelete (who is black, and not politically affiliated) was high on pills when he plowed through BLM protestors occupying a section of the freeway in the middle of the night. Tragically, one protestor died and another was seriously injured.

Most “car attacks” this summer have turned out to be simply reckless or confused drivers caught in the middle of unplanned, unannounced, often heavily-armed and aggressive street protests. Armed protestors have shot or shot at several such drivers, such as in Provo, UT and Aurora, CO.

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/6/30/21308526/gunman-shot-...

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/08/03/man-charged-murder-sho...

By my reckoning, the actual count of “car attacks” this summer where a politically-motivated driver rammed a BLM/antifa protest can be counted on one hand. There has been a greater number of unprovoked attacks on drivers by protestors. This is the product of extreme paranoia among armed protestors, amplified by social media.

You are probably referring to a separate shooting death in CHOP, that of Lorenzo Anderson. I am referring to the murder of Antonio Mays Jr. by antifa security. This murder was filmed from multiple angles and recordings are widely available.

Short clips from several of the vantage points (skip to roughly 1:40 - warning, disturbing):

https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=_K0tXOBPMHA

The armed occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge was also “mostly peaceful.” Much more peaceful than CHAZ/CHOP, in fact.

I am friends with people who lived close by and visited the CHAZ/CHOP, and I watched live-streams from the CHAZ nearly 24/7 for the entire span of its existence. It was a lawless area patrolled by gun wielding far-left activists who routinely harassed journalists, ripped phones out of streamers’ hands to delete footage of the “security team’s” deadly mistakes, assaulted visitors of the wrong political stripe, and ultimately were responsible for the shooting deaths of several people. While the atmosphere was more “street festival” during the day, at least for a while, at night and as the occupation wore on it swiftly devolved into violent anarchy.

Remember Raz Simone, the local rapper who showed up on the first night with an AK-47? Remember how he handed out rifles to seemingly random untrained people from the trunk of a car? Remember how his crew assaulted and pistol-whipped a graffiti tagger on the very first night of CHAZ/CHOP, on a Facebook Live stream, saying “we are the police now?” Many similar incidents.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-autonomous-zone-leaders-w...

Don’t forget Aaron Danielson, Lee Keltner, David Dorn, and Antonio Mays Jr., if for not other reason than to understand anger on the right (and from moderates) at their deaths.

edit: Downvoted for relevant, if uncomfortable factual statements on HN? I thought we were better than this.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/08/aaron-jay-daniel...

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/10/16/lee-keltner-wife-want...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_David_Dorn

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/everybody-down-wha...

How quickly we forget the heavily-armed antifa militia that occupied 3 city blocks in downtown Seattle, whose assault rifle-wielding “security team” assaulted journalists, intimidated residents, and murdered an unarmed black teenager.

Residents and businesses owners are currently suing the city for abandoning the neighborhood’s police station, providing porta-potties to the armed occupiers, and ceding control of this area to the violent mob for roughly a month.

edit: Downvoted for relevant, if uncomfortable factual statements on HN? I thought we were better than this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Autonomous_Zone

https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2020/07/seattle-times-rep...

This is the reason I needed to switch to a Linux laptop. I cannot be beholden to Apple’s - or anyone’s - servers when it comes to running applications on my own machine.

Any recommendations? I’ve heard good things about System76.

>Across the country, Tekin found that "[m]edian home prices have increased at four times the rate of household incomes since 1960," meaning homeownership is increasingly out of reach for many Americans. Rents, meanwhile, have grown roughly twice as fast as adjusted wages between 1960 and 2017.

https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2019/07/25/gap-between-inc...

You can resell the device (at a loss), but you will never recover the money spent on games and apps in the Oculus Store. In my case, hundreds of dollars spent in the years since the launch of the Rift CV1.

As someone else in the OP’s position (locked out of the Facebook account linked to my Quest), it is supremely frustrating to see your comment dismissing this situation out of hand.

Scientifically, you were also right the first time.

Other countries take different approaches. China’s Communist Party requires leaders to retire at 68 (unless you are Xi Jinping):

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/world/asia/xi-jinping-chi...

>The existence of an organization like NATO means that (a) none of the member nations are going to fight each other

Not necessarily. Greece and Turkey have been an intra-NATO flashpoint for decades, and tensions there have recently flared up again.

https://www.cato.org/blog/old-nato-nightmare-returns-possibl...

> race and gender differences are proven facts

This sounds like a much more conservative opinion than perhaps you intended.

> And then came Trump, telling us that we don't spend enough on Nato

Trump said it loudly and in plain terms, but this is a popular bipartisan view in the US. It is a fact that many wealthy NATO members do not meet the defense spending commitments that membership entails. Obama pressured NATO members to meet their obligations, and Biden will likely do so as well.

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/obama-nato-pay-fair-s...