You want comfort British wizard comfort characters: read the Rivers of London series.

It’s ok mate, the first printer experience I had was at university trying to coax a bricked Makerbot they had back into working… Not a fun time haha.

If you get into the hobby you won’t stop at just a single printer, especially if you learn how to maintain and repair them. Then you’ll be able to buy a cheap second hand one from a more open source company if that’s something you want to do.

So that’d be the next thing to look into: how to maintain and repair your printer and what consumables, spare parts, and tools you need to do that.

If it’s an open frame printer, have a look at building/buying an enclosure for it, perhaps with an active heating unit and carbon + HEPA filtered ventilation for the more noxious filaments.

Then after that some method of drying your filament. And either combined with or separate from the drying: air-tight storage for your filament.

Some stick glue (pritt-stick) will be useful, as will a bed scraper, an alternative to stick glue would be something like cat’s vomit (a brand of a liquid glue for printer beds, there’s a few alternative suppliers around)

Welcome to the hobby!

Surely one only needs to increase the number of buttered cats attached to the generator axel to increase the torque and therefore the energy generated?

I can only speak from the generator side, is there a mechanical engineer specialising in buttered cats amongst us that can confirm/correct this hypothesis?

🎵"Once the rocket goes up, who cares where it comes down, that’s not my department." Says Wernher Von Braun 🎵

Even asking for unlimited youth is tricky for the monkey paw could just make you forever a baby.

Now that wouldn’t necessarily mean you’d end up being an adult brain in a baby’s body, just straight up a 1 year old that never develops, always reliant on someone else. You’d literally have 1 year before you’d be surrendered to some sort of institution as a medical oddity whilst you comprehend nothing doomed to overwhelming stimulus forever.

Best you could hope for is specifying an age in your life you consider to be what your physical peak was and just deal with the lack of mental development completion if that physical peak was before being roughly 25 years old.

Bitches love cannons.

Now put me on a plane so I can put 'em in a hearse!

Look, as a someone who floats somewhere between anarchist and social democrat (the closest tags that fits my ideals) I’ve got nothing against social housing and I’m massively in favour of projects built when balancing good design with modularity/prefab to keep construction costs and time low. Owning a single home is an aspirational luxury that needs to be achievable for individuals BUT it should not be necessary for a good life and providing a warm roof over people’s heads gives a solid foundation to fix literally every other problem they have. IMO those solutions need to be community based and the systems at work as small as possible to get the outcome required.

But no, these weren’t built to solve homelessness, they were built on mass to shift workers from rural to cities for rapid industrialisation and/or rebuild previously lost housing as a result of mass civilian bombing during WW2.

They didn’t fix homelessness in soviet states they stopped recording the homeless statistics and arrested people who were to be shipped off somewhere to be a worker there.

In capitalistic societies most of the time what you need to rent a place is some money for a deposit, the 1st month’s rent, and either proof of future income like a job acceptance letter OR enough money to cover the rent whilst you find a job. It’s incredibly cutthroat, especially when you don’t have regulations or have weakly enforcement of them, but it’s usually a fairly quick process that takes a couple of months.

Also under the soviet system you had different problems with being able to move. All the buildings and apartments are government owned and with large government organisations you’ll have, by necessity for the large system to work, a lot bureaucracy to navigate. This means a long waiting list, many years or even more than a decade. On top of this you had to have proof of having a job where you’re looking to move to because those government apartments are for workers and you haven’t been accepted to work there yet so back of the queue you go, but you can’t get taken on as a worker there because you don’t live there: a sort-of catch 22.

So what’s the solution? You’ll have to find a private landlord to rent from in the meantime OR wait for a long while for the bureaucracy to finally get around to you.

Are these buildings better than literally being homeless? Yes.

Were they built to specifically solve the issue of homelessness? No.

And as ever no matter what system you run your society under there’s going to be issues that will require hard work to resolve and even then it’s a trade-off for the inherent flaws in the systems that aren’t fixable because they form key parts of the system.

ESA erasure is a crime.

All of you, do yourselves a favour and read the Rivers of London series to get your fix of British Wizards:

1. Actually competent world building
2. They’ve got a lot of humour
3. They’re not written by a bigot

Or give the audiobooks a listen as they’re read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith who’s voice is like butter.

I think I saw this in a hotel lobby once ages ago, but I can’t remember for certain, I still haven’t even found my room yet!

This isn’t for you, it’s for the literal Epstein class who had their Gmail addresses leaked in the files.

Does that mean if they’re married their wives are Titanics?

I think she’s betting long term for when the orange baby dies and the implosion of his cult of personality takes a lot of the GOP with it. If that happens she can point to her new record and position herself as the return to sanity whilst also still being a republican which gives current and then ex-maga supporters an out without having to admit that their shitty morals is what got the petty petulant perpetual pants pooper into power.

Mate you can’t be doxxing Nora like that, poor thing will get worn down by incessant and unsuitable scribe-chancers!

Ow my bones!

Loved the two guys from the foundry in this they’re hilarious and proper working class stock, Tom once again showing up the BBC and outclassing anything they could produce using only a GoPro, an Osmo, and a single camera op.

Yeah and the wild thing is that the importance axis is cut-off, by the time it reaches 10+ screens that’s the single most important employee who if they were runover by a bus tomorrow, the company will just randomly implode one day when something only they know how to maintain just falls over and no contractor can untangle the spaghetti infrastructure.

The thing is, they haven’t had a pay rise since screen 6 but somehow are just unphased even by inflation.

Yeah I feel like when it comes to summer dress for guys it’s basically the shorts & t-shirt outfit accurately depicted in the meme, topless if you’re got the body/don’t-give-a-fuck, or white cotton shirt and trousers that make you look somewhere between wannabe boyband member and British pink-skinned colonist on a gap year.

If people have sensible options outside of that (man-kini does not count) please let us know below.

And to think the truth would have remained buried had Robert not consumed every gas station pill available.