[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 points 17 hours ago

I cannot believe the downvoting coming your way for this.

On one - how the abuse of this cannot be foreseen by the most clueless person is beyond me.

On two - are people under the impression that the current child welfare system is adequate for the children that are currently in it? What about that system makes them think it would be suitable to increase the number of children in care.

Fucking mental.

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 points 17 hours ago

I was just wondering how they get away with writing homemade in the label.

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 points 17 hours ago

Dude, I heard this story once about a kid that got separated from his family at the airport, they went to Miami and he ended up in NYC.

Omg more Gordan Freemont!

Which is frankly ridiculous for the price of a switch. I can feel a switch 2 in my future because someone gave my kids a switch lite and there's a few games they'll get more out of on a big screen, but I will resent it.

I was too damn patient and missed the end of the steam sale this week FFS.

It almost certainly will be, but so is everything else.

You have clearly never read a BBC Have Your Say on F1 lol. But also his first world championship was handed to him.

The problem isn't that people aren't buying the fakes because they don't offer a warranty, the problem is if you buy a fake one by accident you won't be able to warranty it.

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

That's illegal by EU law. German citizens who move from abroad to Germany must be treated the same way as other EU citizens when it comes to social security.

Must or are?

It would have been trivial to abolish them, from a legal and administrative perspective.

And yet from a practical standpoint it was not.

That's incorrect on both counts. Again, you don't have to take my word for it, you are free to read about it yourself.

I did and that's what I found.

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

A residency requirement is not a citizenship requirement. A practical example, of some relevance to my personal situation. In the Netherlands, part of the retirement system is a basic income for the elderly. The requirement for receiving this basic income is having been a resident as an adult. So a Dutch citizen who lived part of their adult life outside of the Netherlands and moves back when retiring will only receive some part of the basic income. However, a Belgian citizen (for example) who spent their adult life in the Netherlands will receive the full amount.

I never said it was, German citizens get access to the benefit without the residency requirement.

What an odd argument. Was it not desirable and trivial to abolish antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany?

No, clearly it wasn't, it took a world war to abolish them.

Instead of guessing what origin citizenship might have, why not simply look up its actual history? I can sympathize with the plight of someone who has been inundated with a bukkake of nationalist propaganda throughout their lifetime, so let me give the synopsis. Citizenship gradually emerged in the modern period in Europe and during that time replaced the previous system, which included four castes (estates): the nobility, the clergy, the burghers (from which the word "citizen" derives - citizen, city, get it?) and the peasants/serfs. Some remnants of these castes remain, but for the most part the modern citizen grew from what used to be the burgher class. Indeed, in many proto-democracies, voting rights were initially restricted to the landowning class (i.e. burghers), while peasants remained formally discriminated against. The distinction, at least formally and legally, faded away roughly around the time of WW1 (around which time many European governments also abolished the nobility, or reduced them to ceremonial roles only), and from this point we can say there is something resembling modern citizenship, and a system with just two castes: citizens and non-citizens. (Next step: a system with just one caste: people.)

I did, it's generally accepted to have it's origins in ancient Greece.

Yes, tribalism is as old as mankind. Yet, while you can seemingly recognize there is something wrong with Ug and his gang being bigoted against the next tribe, the nobility and clergy being bigoted against the peasantry, and Adolf and his gang being bigoted against Jews, you can't quite seem to grasp how citizenship-based discrimination is equally problematic and equally rooted in bigotry.

No, I expressly said it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with bigotry.

Some day, even someone as enlightened as myself (by today's rather unimpressive standards) will likely be viewed as backward and narrow-minded. Will we live to see it? Unlikely. The brown winds are gathering; fascism is now the most popular ideology in the West by far, and the last time this was the case things did not end well. Even so, I have some optimism that the aftermath of WW3 will induce some self-reflection on the side of humanity, and a reassessment of citizenship as a concept.

Aaaaaad we're back to conceit.

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

EU citizens have the same rights to welfare as citizens do in EU countries.

As far as I know in Germany at least you need 5 years residence before fully qualifying for welfare if you're not a German citizen.

They also have partial voting rights. EU citizens can be expelled only under exceptional circumstances.

So they can't vote in national elections as I said. You can be expelled or denied residence on health grounds or public policy grounds. Regardless, you can be expelled, as I said. Some government jobs are also not available to non-citizens.

It would be trivial - and desirable - to eliminate these restrictions.

You just state stuff as if it's true and must be accepted. This is just an opinion. Presumably if it were both desirable and trivial it would already be the case, no?

So, of which nation state was said peasant a "citizen"?

You can probably trace citizenship back to the ancient Greeks in one form or another, but you'll likely try and change the definition to have to be about nation states or some other narrow definition to suit your point again, so there's not really much point in trying to discuss it.

Because, in this specific example, antisemitism was the reason immigration laws were created in the first place. In other cases, other types of bigotry and xenophobia might have played a role.

This specific example was chosen by you, presumably because it was an example of antisemitism. I was thinking more like Ug and his gang in the stone age, but it doesn't really matter. Tribes\social groupings have existed as far back as we have history, who, how and when people are excluded is varied and nuanced but not everything is a racist or bigoted action.

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More me being nosy than anything, I was thinking I've not seen much from GreatAlbatross or Emperor in a while and noticed Emperor hasn't posted in 6 months or so and Albatross is no longer listed as an admin. (If you've departed folks, thank you for everything - you resurrected feddit.uk when all hope was lost!)

Does that mean flamingos is the only active admin? Is there a backup plan if (heavens forbid) flamingos gets hit by a bus?

Also just generally curious if there's any instance news or plans going forward.

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First one done, everything seemed to work, assembly was relatively straightforward and the instructions were great.

Changes - buffer tubes were printed separately with variable layer height in Orca, I've read this helps feeding filament, settings:

Adaptive height 0.08, radius 4.

Triangle Lab kit only seems to come with long springs for the buffer tube, so you'll be building the long stroke version. I wasn't aware there were multiple versions so no loss. They are on the BoM though, so hopefully it saves someone else having to scour the instructions to see if the "missing springs" are needed.

I think I'll try printing the housings for the next one with support, some of the overhangs are a bit misshapen and had to be cleared out with a drill bit. This may still bite me further down the line when I need to fit the module to the base.

It seems like it shouldn't be too difficult to take apart if necessary.

I'd think about bending the solder tabs on the motors before soldering as well, it's a bit of a squeeze inside the housing and it's harder to bend them after.

Hopefully I'll get a second housing printed this week and at least another module assembled at the weekend.

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I've just taken a quick look, I've not checked off the BOM yet, but motors, boards, PTFE tube and a collection of parts have arrived. There's a bit of a description/warning sheet and a link to a Google drive with it too. Will check out some more over the next couple of days.

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I've seen the BMCU mentioned a few times as an alternative for the Bambu Lab AMS, given the price I'd like to give it a go with my P1S but, I've seen comments elsewhere that it should work, but YouTube is surprisingly light on BMCU content and I was wondering if anyone in the community has one before I take the plunge?

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IM Levy Rozman defeats GM Pia Cramling in Battle of Generations.

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