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Equity chess: everyone is a queen

@AzzyDesignWorks @Sovol3d @partsbuilt3D @KB3D_Online “SpaceX sent me out to get an orbiter but I didn’t see any in the warehouse so I grabbed a starship instead.”

@Sovol3d Totally unexpected, the folks at @partsbuilt3D sent me to order an orbiter 2.5 at @KB3D_Online as they didnt stock them. Much appreciated. Looks like I have some printing ahead of me.

Well, extruder #2 on the @Sovol3d SV-08 lasted a few weeks before it ate another planetary gear. I think I'm done with trying to make more of the stock plastic hardware work here. INDX would be great, but don't want the printer down until it comes out. Whats my best option, especially to use the @MicroSwissLLC hotend and nozzles I have for it? Would preffer something that works with the factory software if possible, and can take printing up to 300C.

@GadSaad At least it’s not Sad Gaad!

Yes! My name is Saad, Gad Saad.

@GadSaad but why does she keep adjusting it upwards?

A beautiful and classy honey badger! Speak your mind. Don't diffuse the responsibility to fight for our freedoms onto others. Activate your inner honey badger!

The Cultural And Economic War On Family Formation Women did not suddenly stop wanting love, marriage, kids, or stability. The old economic and cultural bargain broke down. In the 1950s, the median woman married around 20. A single middle class income could often support a house, a car, children, and a basic American life. That world had real limitations for women, but it also had something younger people today often do not have. A clear path into adulthood. Then everything started changing at once. Birth control gave women far more control over timing. College and professional work became more available. No fault divorce changed the risk calculation of marriage. Second wave feminism challenged real constraints, but over time parts of the culture started treating homemaking, motherhood, and early family formation as small, backward, or oppressive. At the same time, the economy quietly made the old model harder to afford. After the 1970s inflation era and the end of the old dollar gold system, purchasing power kept getting eaten away. Housing, healthcare, education, childcare, and basic middle class life rose faster than many wages. The dual income household stopped being just liberation and became necessity. That is the part people miss. Women entering the workforce was partly empowerment, but it also expanded the taxable labor base, gave corporations a larger labor pool, and allowed the economy to reprice life around two incomes instead of one. Once that happens, the old family model does not disappear because everyone hates it. It disappears because people cannot afford to start it early. Then culture reinforces the economics. Media, schools, advertising, and career culture tell people to find themselves first, maximize independence first, build status first, travel first, consume first, delay everything permanent until later. Some of that is healthy. Nobody should be trapped in a bad marriage or denied opportunity. But the overcorrection is obvious. A society taught people to treat family as a capstone instead of a foundation. Something you do after the degree, after the career, after the house, after the perfect partner, after complete financial security. The problem is life does not wait that long. So the marriage age rises. Fertility falls. Dating gets more transactional. Men and women become more economically independent but more socially isolated. The state gets more workers and taxpayers. Corporations get more labor and consumers. But households get delayed, children become expensive lifestyle choices, and a lot of people realize too late that career achievement and personal freedom do not fully replace durable love, children, and a home. This was not caused by one thing. It was money, law, technology, culture, feminism, inflation, housing, media, and incentives all moving in the same direction. The result is a society with more individual options, but fewer stable families.

Now that’s thinking I can get behind!

@_Stocko_ @grok Are you thinking to have those legs cut the grass?

hey @grok how much does a riding lawnmower cost right now

“Red carpet” We used to be a proper country. x.com/i/grok/share/8…

Coca-Cola commercial from 1976 The past is a foreign country

Boat Explosion 💥 .

@photoncmndr @sendcutsend @jimbelosic @RatioDrones imma still lovin 7075 x.com/i/grok/share/7…

@squirrelthere @sendcutsend @jimbelosic @RatioDrones

⚡️The housing market is sending the cleanest signal in the economy: the old American mobility machine is jammed. A 6.6% mortgage rate here is confirmation that the supposed easing cycle is not reaching the place where ordinary households actually live. Wall Street can price rate cuts. Stocks can celebrate liquidity. But a first-time buyer staring at a monthly payment does not care about the Fed’s narrative. The mortgage rate is the reality. The deeper truth is that housing has become a class-separation mechanism. Existing owners with locked-in 3% mortgages are protected. They sit inside subsidized old money. New buyers are forced to clear at today’s price, today’s rate, today’s insurance cost, today’s property tax, today’s down payment burden, and today’s weaker labor-entry market. That is not a normal cycle. That is a gated economic architecture. The market is not clearing through a crash. It is clearing through exclusion. That is why this is so dangerous politically and socially. A crash would be visible. Paralysis is quieter. Prices can stay elevated because sellers do not have to sell. Inventory can improve without becoming affordable. Mortgage demand can stay weak without triggering a dramatic national panic. The surface looks stable while the entry point keeps disappearing. This connects directly to the new-grad labor problem. The economy is closing its first rungs. First job: harder to get. First home: harder to buy. First family formation: delayed. First asset accumulation: postponed. First move into economic adulthood: blocked by the fixed-cost wall. That is the generational signal. The long end is now the real policy battlefield. If the 10-year and mortgage rates stay elevated, housing remains frozen no matter how many Fed-cut headlines get printed. The Fed can lower the front end, but the economy’s deepest household transmission channel runs through the 30-year mortgage. Right now that channel is hostile. This also means the system is moving toward a future intervention point. Structurally, a society cannot run forever with housing affordability broken, young labor entry weakened, electricity bills rising, insurance costs rising, and asset owners protected by old-rate balance sheets. The pressure compounds until policy finds a way to force relief, distort the market further, or accept a politically toxic generational fracture. The blunt read: Mortgage rates are now a regime test. If they fall cleanly, housing can breathe. If they stay elevated, the American ladder keeps closing. If policymakers panic, the next phase becomes long-end suppression, housing subsidy expansion, credit engineering, or some uglier form of intervention. The market is not just saying “home buyers are screwed.” It is saying the post-2020 economy is hardening into an insider-outsider system, and housing is the clearest place where the door is being locked.

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@Tri_Stanisaurus @Xaraphim We haff a new Bingo winner!

@Xaraphim Distributed nodal multiplicative vertical manufacturing modalities

"multiplicative manufacturing" saying this in the next standup meeting

I bet it’s socking away so much money to put toward down payment on a house.

You know which Gen Z doesn’t brown bag his lunch to work every day? THIS ROBOT ⬇️