I think the subject of the news article already baked it plenty

Whoever operates user benchmark these days is not mentally stable. Like legitimately off the deep end. The amount of defensive projection and “my tribe is better than your tribe” bullshit they vomit out these days is so ridiculous that not even a paid shill would post 90% of it. It’s a basement dweller with no life trying to find something to be a part of.

There’s also a lot of porn

Interest rates are up. The free money tap got turned off so now every normal citizen is gonna get the broomstick up the ass to make funny big number go up.

I pulled out all the stops and grabbed a Bambu X1C with AMS combo when they were on sale back in July. It’s probably overkill, and aim not a huge fan of their closed ecosystem, but I did have the money, and I also need to do true engineering materials that are difficult at best on lower end non-enclosed printers.
The main thing that sold me was my experience using P1S printers at college. Theyre super fast and rarely have issues.

I’ve really had zero problems with it. Every single print failure to date has been filament wet out of the box from Bambu, so I’m designing up a custom drying box right now to fix that problem. If you’re having problems with petg, definitely re-dry any filament you have lying around.

Man who has never experienced joy claims joy does not exist; more at 11

I’d argue even that being irresponsible. yeah high rates suck but you’re still paying on an asset, not a black hole.

Also, mortgages can be refinanced if/when rates drop later.

Motorcycles and mopeds are amazing in urban areas that haven’t built up public transit, honestly. They can be crazy efficient, have a ton of electric options now, and give people the range and speed to use existing infrastructure and not need dedicated lanes/shallow grades like bicycles.

I’ve not owned one since I grew up in a rural area and I’m not suicidal enough to ride one on a 65mph highway. but am planning to move to an urban area in a few months, I’ll probably get one for going downtown.

Me dropping $1350 on an impulse purchase of a 3D printer was probably “irresponsible” when I got my first engineering job paycheck.

That said, I’ve had a bunch of hours of fun with it, and am now starting to design possibly marketable items with it that I could make income with later, so it hopefully won’t be too stupid. Could be worse, I could spend $1300 on alcohol a year and have nothing for it but liver damage.

that’s like the least irresponsible purchase. even at a high interest rate, you are still paying on a principle that creates an asset with equity that increases your stable wealth. When you rent, all that money you pay just evaporates and you never see it again. A mortgage payment is almost always the better financial choice, unless you need to move frequently for work.

So can they stream live footage of tortured children from the anti-gay conversion camps they help fund? Maybe make people think twice about buying food there?

Build out, cash out, blow out!

Translated grifterspeak: “fanatical mentally ill people give me more money when I attach Trumps name”

I’ve personally been using a Teamgroup 1tb from Amazon and a few KingSpec (from Aliexpress) 500gb SATA and PCIe M.2 drives for about a year and a half now without much problem or reported health loss. They are not performance winners of course but they still beat the pants off spinning rust.

YMMV of course, always keeps backups or don’t keep anything you’d be super sad to lose on them.

Hey I recognize this one right here!

You did make the right choice, they simply spam Russian propaganda every day.

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By this logic, everyone named Mickey should be paying Disney a royalty…

Wait shit retract delete delete DISNEY I DID JOT SAY ANYTHING DONT GET ANY FUCKING IDEAS NOW.

That’s because they did. They stole it, 100%.

Could the Wii even play audio cd’s???