Matt Weber

@Mojee3d @Prusa3D U1 does this and fully supported open source as well. They heard the community.

I have receieved a LOT of DM's about this. Some in agreement, some in disagreement, and then everything in between. My point for the OG post and the poll is this...what IF? Right? What IF, you lived in Wyoming, Florida, or some place in Europe and you could purchase a @Prusa3D Core One+ fully assembled, with a built in camera and filtration, for $899 + a moderate shipping fee? Would an amazing printer like this, with those features, at that price, cause you to pick this over a @BambulabGlobal P2S or X2D? The current trending dicussion in 3DP is how BAD Bambu is, and rightfully so, they make thier own bed. But, the alternatives are more of the same, or a more open source friendly alternative that is significanly more expensive. But, what IF, that open source friendly, ethical company, Prusa, was at a price that most people found obtainable? #Hope

@OCpatriot_ @DonShar12885553 @everettmjr 800 for their license to install the part so if something failed and your house burned down, your insurance doesnt look at it and tell you that a non licensed install just invalidated your claim.

@DonShar12885553 @everettmjr Sure, but $800 for 45 minutes labor? Insane.

Water heater died last night. 5 yrs old, still under warranty. Called Manufacturer, they said they'd send parts, but that'd be 4-6 days. Couldn't leave my family without hot water that long. So I called local repair company, they'd been there 5 minutes when they quoted me $1,100 to fix it. Wouldn't break it down to parts and labor until I leaned on them hard. - $300 parts - $800 labor For 30-40 minutes of work. For a water heater that cost me $700 with sales tax. I called the manufacturer back and told them the situation and that I planned on buying a new unit at The Home Depot and install it myself (I'd installed my current one). Rheem said no problem, take your old one with you and we'll give you full credit towards your new one. With the military discount from my buddy that was helping me, I was out of pocket a whole $65 when it was all said and done, and even traded up a model with a longer warranty. Thank you Rheem, thank you Home Depot. Fuck off predatory appliance repair companies.

@ForagingForever @Michaelfiore This assumes he had a yard. All of that stuff is needed if you dont have the #1 most important part... somewhere to put the plant that will let it survive.

@Michaelfiore I get that…but no one ever gave him or a family member a potted plant? He never needed to fill a bare spot in the yard with some dirt?

The $100 tomato plant. An older gentleman came in and said he wanted everything to be able to grow a tomato plant. Me: Do you already have a pot? What about soil? Him: Nope. I need everything. Me: Alright, you’ll also need a tomato cage and fertilizer. Him: Ok, is that EVERYTHING that I’ll need? Me: I’ve got this organic insecticide in case you get bugs on the plant. Him: I’ll take that too. Tomato Plant- $3 Pot- $33 Potting soil- $29 Tomato cage- $6 Fertilizer- $14 Insecticide- $15 Total- $100 He left happy as a clam. I hope he gets lots of tomatoes.

@DarcKni68649817 @GunloverClub1 Yea come try that... it doesnt work that way. We have paperwork for everything and at minimum a NICS background check unless you have a concealed carry permit which already tells them you have proven you can legally own.. and even then most time it gets checked in case.

@GunloverClub1 Not much different from the yanks, you walk in the shop and buy it like a toy or sweet. To normal, safe, kids and even the mental

Here is the transcript of their exchange: Seller (Outside): You want it? Look here. Driver: Is it real (Haqiqi)? Seller: It’s real! Look, do you want to chamber it? (Ta’shiq—referring to racking the slide). Driver: (Taking the gun) Is it actually real? Show me. Seller: I’m telling you, it’s the real deal. Check the action yourself. Driver: And how much is this one? What’s the final price? Seller: Fifty thousand (50,000). Driver: Fifty? For this one? Seller: Yes. It’s functional, everything works perfectly. Do you want to rack the slide again? Seller: Look at this one too. Try the slide on this. It’s smooth. Driver: Is this one also functional (Ta’shiq)? Seller: Yes, try it! Everything I have here is real. Pull it back and see. Driver: (To his passenger) Check this out. He’s selling them right here at the light.

@Dante_lmao @Fat_Electrician You know that actually in many, many states, hunting and fishing for food survival voids the need for such licenses under a handful of specifics. Especially small game where either can be killed, cleaned and eaten same day.

@Fat_Electrician Bro is ignoring that all of those things come with a price tag that usually requires generational wealth. Nobody can afford hunting permits and ammo and gas and gear. Permits to cut down trees and build on your own land. Yeah. People built homes in a season. Before.

Yeah, before we invented capitalism, you could just go frolic in the woods! Berries would pick themselves. Deer would stroll right up, look you in the eye and say “You look hungry,” then politely off themselves at your feet. The birds would fly up and cook the deer for you. Trees would topple over and conveniently assemble themselves into perfect little log cabins. It was paradise.

@bushido_hk @davidpattersonx Their "billions" is also not what they make, its what their combined value of themselves and all their businesses are. They literally could be worth billions, have a bad year and lose money. Still billionaire but have no profitable taxable income. Assets value =/= taxable income.

@davidpattersonx The millionaire uses 10x more infrastructure to generate that income. Their business needs roads, courts, patents, educated workers. Fair means paying for what you consume.

If taxes were fair: You earn $100,000 per year and pay $30,000 in tax. Your neighbor earns $1,000,000 and pays $300,000 in tax. Your neighbor is paying 10X more than you. If taxes were fair, you should both pay $30,000, since you both receive the same government services.

@bushido_hk @davidpattersonx Their business also pays taxes on top of what they pay. There is a separation. Go register an s Corp and run a business if you dont think so, while taking all the same deductions those business get for operating expenses.

@RottiesandPits @F530Josh Oh we have went on the legal push. Matters not when the courts just set the cases aside and decide not to hear them for literal decades at times. Their litigation process for 2a stuff is about kicking the can.

@F530Josh For my entire life, our response to gun control has been defensive, fighting off assaults on our God-given rights. When do we go on legal assault? When do we start flooding the courts with challenges? Why do we only sit in foxholes, waiting to be shot at?

When do we hit the point in the gun control debate where we just say: "Nah, we won't be doing that. I have a gun." Asking for me and 81 million gun owners with 530 million privately owned firearms.

@F530Josh There is, but we dont talk about it because that's the exact thing they will focus on more to call us radicals. Enforcement is everything, they can't enforce what they dont know we are ignoring the rule of.

@HackForumsNet @heynavtoor If a content site is providing quality content, they should have an alternative way than ads to make income... even if its just affiliate links for products. They already are dependant on ad clicks anyways so spend the time to properly curate the links to what your content is.

@heynavtoor Ad blockers prevent website owners from earning through Google Ads. Ad blockers are the reason why nearly every content site is now paywalled.

Google has a pirate enemy. He's one guy. His name is Raymond Hill. He built uBlock Origin. The world's best ad blocker. 63K stars. GPL-3.0. He literally refuses every dollar you try to send him. Then Google did the unthinkable. July 24, 2025. Manifest V2 disabled everywhere. The full uBlock Origin stopped working on Chrome. The world's biggest ad company nuked the world's biggest ad blocker on its own browser. They called it "security." Coincidence. Here's the wildest part: Raymond didn't fold. Latest release: March 11, 2026. Still alive on Firefox. Still alive on Edge. Still alive on Brave. Still GPL-3.0. Still refusing every dollar. One developer vs. the trillion-dollar ad empire. But DO NOT install it. We should all keep Google richer. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)

@Hobgobliinn @dirtcheapbanks The difference between millionaire and billionaire mentality showing. Millionaires run out of money quick once they think they have enough to play with. Billionaire mentality is live off the interest and dividends only. Only play with what the extra money that the money made.

@dirtcheapbanks What’s the point of having a $127 million portfolio if you live like a retired mechanic? Unless you’re raising this money for a cause or to give to your children - not like you’re gonna live it up in your 80s. Guess it’s just for the love of the game?

I know a guy who drives a 2008 Honda Civic with 247,000 miles and a rear bumper held on with zip ties. Parks it every morning at 7:15 AM behind the Lions Club in a town where the Dairy Queen closed in 2019. Wears the same pair of New Balance 623s to every meeting. White tube socks pulled up to mid-calf. Khakis with a permanent crease down the front that his wife irons every Sunday. Has this tic where he clicks his Bic pen three times before writing anything down. Always orders the same thing at the diner: coffee, black, and whatever pie they made yesterday. Keeps his bank statements in a shoebox in his bedroom closet. Never owned a smartphone until 2021, and still calls it "the computer phone." Asked the Geek Squad kid to show him email twice. Portfolio worth $127 million. Owns pieces of fourteen different community banks across three states. Bought his first bank stock in 1987 with money from selling his grandfather's farm. Never sold a share. Just kept buying every time the stock dropped below book value. Last month a fancy stockbroker from Nashville drove down to pitch him on "monetizing his regional banking exposure." Forty-seven slide deck. "Unlock value through strategic repositioning." My friend listened for twelve minutes, clicked his pen three times, and said no thanks. The broker got back in his Audi and drove north. My friend finished his coffee and went home to watch Wheel of Fortune. Same thing he does every Tuesday.

@PoopFromDaButt Except the part where the primary target audience of these are hikers, farmers and other than need space conservative but higher power weapons for when out in the wilds. You know.. places they also may take a backpack. Foldable rifles are far from new.

probably the least smart thing you can do is advertise a shotgun that can fit into a BACKPACK

@mcg_ny @GrantMercer512 Big pharmacy didnt invent indoor plumbing, that is what doubled lifespans. Big pharm only aims to extend lifespans of the suffering to profit off it.

@GrantMercer512 Big pharma doubled lifespans. This shit didnt. Thanks for sharing though.

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@decentralizedX1 @Truth_is_King_ @GrantMercer512 In the time its taken you to complain and reply you could have googled and found plenty of studies and the data you are demanding...

@Truth_is_King_ @GrantMercer512 that's not empirical data, that's just an anecdote.

@CBKimbrell @republicanfarm1 26M wouldn't even start to replace what that farm would take to rebuild in todays economy. Your not replacing just the land. Your replacing the sustainable ecosystem that has been built on it and infrastructure that maintained it.

@republicanfarm1 Because you could buy a much nicer place and have enough money left over to provide generational wealth.

Unpopular opinion. They’re financially illiterate.

@lecternleader @TheStatesManQ76 @MostlyPeaceful That density is already covered since the population density of 30 single family homes untaxed taking up way more space than vs 30 taxed multi family units is where the property tax difference kicks in. The density issue handles its self for those services costs.

@TheStatesManQ76 @MostlyPeaceful All taxes are theft yes. I do believe that some taxation to support essential services such as police EMS and fireman along with Disaster Relief are required and necessary given population density

Florida became a magnet for new residents over the past few years. Overdeveloping and an open door policy has consequences in our elections. We saw this yesterday. I'm going to say something very controversial that will get push back. If we vote to end property taxes, the magnet will grow in intensity and draw millions more to my state. We should really be considering adding a legacy clause to ending property taxes that only extends to Residents who have been here for 20 years and with Florida being their primary residence. We obviously need relief, but we need to consider the consequences and talk about real long-term solutions, not just quick fixes.

@B3nL1pman @1Nicdar Its not mutually exclusive. Land grabbers for the developers were not exactly slow to react when a farm got hit with the greening blight. Instead of helping those farmers weather a storm all the counties did was streamline the developers processes to buy up the land.

@1Nicdar Because of citrus greening, it decimated orange production in Florida. Why did you make this sound like some urban blight thing, it was an insect from China that killed orange production. Is this post dishonest or ignorant?

🍊 😢 Thirty years ago, 225 million boxes of oranges were picked in Florida groves. This year, the forecast from the U.S. Agriculture Department is 12 million boxes, a drop of 95% in one generation. I’ve seen this with my own eyes. Orange groves have been replaced with vast expanses of tract house communities, built for the constant stream of new Florida transplants.

@mindofachaser @Bay2WallCRE Company i worked for used similar, first couple items the company paid for. If lost or consumed faster than an expected speed, the employee foot the bill to prevent abuse of access and waste, or theft of items. If you legit needed something sooner, you asked your supervisor.

@Bay2WallCRE The company pays. But each employee has their own ID (for tracking). It’s a 2 zillion IQ business model.

I love capitalism. I just did a quote for a massive construction company. As I walked through their offices, I found a huge room of blue Fastenal vending machines. They were filled with tools, drill bits, blades, hardhats, etc. Each one had a price on the window. Intrigued, I asked the owner what is the story on these. He mentioned to me that Fastenal comes in and stocks up all the different types of tools and PPE this specific construction company needs. Everything is priced way above Home Depot or Lowe’s prices. The construction company only pays for the tools or items whenever somebody actually “buys” them vs stocking 200 hard hats at once or keeping inventory of miscellaneous tools. This saves the company countless hours of labor since the employee doesn’t have to go to Home Depot or Lowe’s aka travel time, walking around the store, and scrolling on Instagram in the parking lot. Less time shopping for tools = more time working and charging the customer. Owner said no matter how much they spend on the parts in these machines, they save ten fold on labor. Of course the machine also automatically tracks when inventory is low and a guy comes out to fill it back up. Fucking genius. Only in America! 🇺🇸🏃🏻‍♂️💨🏁

@SamaHoole Your forgot to account that the manure was in fact not 100% dry, returning some of that rainfall to the field as well.

Let's check in on Gerald's water consumption. Gerald woke up this morning and did the following: 6am - drank from his trough. Approximately 30 litres. In British beef cattle, this is 100% of Gerald's actual blue water use for the day. 6:15am - it rained on him. This has been counted in the statistics as Gerald consuming water. Gerald did not decide it would rain. Gerald did not apply for the rainfall. Gerald has not been asked whether he endorses the accounting methodology. 8am - Gerald ate grass. The grass required rainfall to grow. This rainfall has also been attributed to Gerald. The rain fell on the field in 1742 as well, when there was no spreadsheet. 10am - Gerald produced manure. The manure will go into the soil. The soil will grow more grass. The grass will need more rain. The rain will fall regardless of Gerald's continued employment on this farm. Gerald's daily blue water use: about 30 litres. The same as a moderately long shower. The headline figure: 15,000 litres per kilogram. The gap between those two numbers is rain. Gerald is not a drought. Gerald is what happens when you point rain at a field and give it a biological purpose. This is, broadly, what farming is.

@nguyenhdi The US simply calls this program "an H1B visa".. as those workers have almost no recourse if they are taken advantage of in any way, or risk deporting.

Don't know about Dubai, but I can tell you about Saudi Arabia. I have spoken to multiple Vietnamese people who went to work as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia under the Vietnamese state-run labour export programme. One woman for example was exploited—every time she wanted to leave & go home, the recruiter sent her to a new employer, & every time she contacted the embassy or the Ministry of Labour for help, she was ignored. In 2 years, she was cycled through 6 different employers; she was exploited, beaten up, starved, even raped. Now in Vietnam, she is still not recognised as a victim of human trafficking; her complaints are all ignored. Another woman was beaten up so badly she lost sight in one eye, & she was stuck for ages in Saudi Arabia before she could return home. Westerners have no idea what modern slavery is.