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or if they are, they get their house firebombed.

For those unfamiliar, this isn't hyperbole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendlyjordies#Firebombing_incidents

There’s literally someone in this thread right now saying you can eat raw pork in America without worry…

The correct response to that is to provide the actual guidelines based on actual data, not to fearmonger while quoting lines referencing wild game.

A huge part of why commercial pork is safe -- that you're consistently leaving out -- were major changes to how livestock are raised. Trichinosis transmission in pigs is primarily caused by the consumption of infected meat; US standards were changed to more strictly control what's fed to pigs, which led to the decreased risk. The risk remains in wild boar because they're omnivores that will scavenge whatever they can find.

145 is still a limit people need to follow, lots of people don’t.

145 isn't a hard limit. It's the recommended holding temperature for one minute.

The USDA and FDA, which both lean conservative in their recommendations, consider whole cuts of pork safe down to 145F (roughly equivalent to cooked to medium):

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2011/05/25/cooking-meat-check-new-recommended-temperatures
https://www.fda.gov/media/107000/download

This has been the case for over a decade. Pork should be cooked but the old 160F recommendations have been gone for a long time now because commercial pork is relatively safe.

Also note that this is the one-minute pasteurization temp; meat can be held at a lower temperature for longer to render it safe.

Worth noting that ATC is unusual in that there is both a maximum age that you can start (30) as well as a mandatory retirement age (56).

Sustainability is a large part of Framework's mission as well. The CEO has explicitly said that one of their goals is that none of their laptops should end up in a landfill.

The transmission in those things is an amazing level of suck, too. It's this bizarre automatic manual thing that's just awful to drive.

The wider international community has largely rejected wars of conquest as legitimate in modern times.

The exact same argument could be applied to Israel and e.g. the Golan Heights, but I don't think you'll find that to be a particularly popular position.

The US has 11 out of 22.

This is only a partial picture.

The US has 11 supercarrier groups that individually rival the power of most nation's entire airforces. These are unrivaled by anything else in the world.

The US additionally has 9 America and Wasp class amphibious assault ships that have an airwing capability that rivals most other nations' carrier groups. The Navy plans for this force to eventually be made up of 11 America class ships.

So the reality is that the US' secondary aircraft carrier capability rivals that of the rest of the world combined. The total power disparity of the combined supercarrier and amphibious assault fleet is mind boggling.

“Canceled” is a term assholes came up with to rebrand “consequences” to make it seem like something that isn’t their own fault.

Not sure I agree with this particular take. My recollection is that this usage of cancelled started in progressive internet spaces and was absolutely used to describe consequences for being an asshole.

It's the exact same trajectory woke took -- it was language used by left-leaning people that got co-opted and intentionally diluted by conservatives.

A 2.4 will be better than an Ender 3, but there are better options out there. The flying gantry is a solution in search of a problem, the gantry is heavy and not particularly rigid, Voron toolheads don't cool particularly well, the rigid bed mounting is a recipe for bed taco, etc.

Which isn't to say that V2s are bad printers -- they can turn out great prints. But if you're starting fresh today, I'd seriously consider any number of printers over it.

If you want to stay within the Voron ecosystem for whatever reason, the Trident's a better design. It still lacks things like kinematic bed mounting that are standard fair on other designs today, though. I'd stay away from Tap on any of them -- I'm still baffled that thing gets promoted as being a good idea.

In terms of bang for your buck, it's incredibly difficult to beat the VzBot kits. It'll be a less expensive and more capable machine than a V2.4. There are panels available to enclose it. I don't love the Z stage on it, but I can overlook it given the value the rest of the printer gets you.

The Annex K3 is an absolutely killer little machine, but is only 180x180 build volume. The small build volume is free rigidity, though, and K3s can be made true high temp capable with less relative effort than a lot of printers. I'm not as big a fan of the larger Annex printers (K1/K2), personally.

The Rat Rig v-Core was probably the best value CoreXY before the VzBot kits came around. Enclosing them is more of a challenge due to all the PETG parts, though. The EVA toolhead provides a ton of flexibility for mixing and matching parts, if that's your thing.

In terms of take it out of the box and print, nothing beats the Bambu X1 and P1P. They're great units. They're a closed ecosystem though, and not modification friendly if that's what you want.

My main workhorse printer's a Railcore II. Great machine, but the design's aging and I generally wouldn't recommend a new build today outside of a few very specific applications. It was cutting edge when the design was released in 2018, but, as with the 2.4, the wider community has learned a lot since then about fundamental printer design and there are better options now.