tl;dr: Creating false scarcity to enrich yourself is bad, and people doing it should feel bad.
Long live "superfakes".
https://www.metafilter.com/209544/The-rise-of-the-Superfakes
#metafilter
Kadin
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@FritzAdalis Well played. 😆
Started to go down the rabbithole of 3D-printable dollhouse furniture for my kid's impending birthday, and there is some charmingly unhinged stuff out there.
https://www.printables.com/model/592380-burial-casket-112-scale-dollhouse-size
#3dprinting #hobbies
@MidniteMikeWrites Metastable is the correct way to view it; there's no configuration that will just self-regulate indefinitely. IMO this is not a reasonable goal, since the definition of a good vs. perverse outcome of the system might well change over time anyway.
Rather, the goal is for the system to be stable *enough* that it doesn't outpace the ability for people to keep it functioning and producing desirable outcomes with regulatory inputs.
Accelerating feedback loops, for instance, are bad. Sudden changes, faster than the regulatory mechanisms can thoughtfully respond, are bad.
We need systems that respond to human-scale inputs on human-scale timelines.
And people say 3D printers are just for making tchotchkes…
https://www.printables.com/model/1338891-testicooler-under-desk-or-floor-mount
Josh Sutphin
One of my coworkers, prior-service Army and veteran of multiple tours in AFG, brought up an interesting point regarding #ICE wearing masks:
The reason real militaries tend to frown on that shit, and wear lots of name/unit/nationality identifiers, is because *not* wearing them makes it *very* easy for someone you don't know to get close to you and start shooting, or blow themselves up.
The Afghan National Army had a significant problem with this sort of thing, and AQ was good at exploiting it.
ICE's use of Amazon-grade tacticool gear—and the likely lack of meaningful training given their hiring pace—just makes it easier.
Eventually, someone is going to put on their own 5.11 pants and plate carrier, and start putting rounds into their guys' (unarmored) kidneys and pelvises. And then they will learn the hard way that they are not a real military, with a QRF and medevac on hot standby, but just a bunch of thugs, as they bleed out in a parking lot.
Zack LabeI'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (https://zacklabe.com/united-states-climate-indicators/).
I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.
With luck, we can have the entire Republican Party focused on the werewolf menace by the midterms.
