Great, then, now we have another kind of hand bag.

Setting aside whatever morals about this, it seems rather unwise to just up and publicly declare. Like, “Ayo, yo, cartels! We’ll be coming to get you! Eventually! But definitely! So you better be ready for us!”

I like you, too. Cheers, mate! 🍻

Why, however gateful do you need to be? Tis a tease, a tease! Be as gateful as you please! Meander round it 'nd walk about, or walk right through it, in and out!

What’s a teacher to do when the lock to the gate is in the student’s mind?

I don’t think kids give a lick about any of that. The songs are catchy, the animation is goofy but endearing, the girls are charming and relatable despite their “stardom,” the fantastical elements still play into universal themes (feeling like one must hide the dark side of one’s self versus breaking free,) the story is quickly paced and succinct with little-to-no drag. Politics is definitely not a part of it.

A head monk asks his disciples to describe a pitcher of water without calling it a pitcher of water. Some monks say what it isn’t. Some monks describe what it can do at length. One monk says nothing, instead, he simply kicks the pitcher over with his foot; he is declared the winner.

And then there’s the book of Job, the entirety of which is a story where God and Satan make a bet over a guy named Job. Satan says Job is only faithful because of the wealth God has granted him. God says Job is genuinely faithful, and tells Satan he can put Job to the test. So Satan has the entire guy’s family killed by bandits, he loses all his material possessions, and winds up plagued and homeless. Job mostly keeps his faith, yet he is persecuted by his friends (just verbally) who believe his sudden punishments are happening because he must have done something wrong and his faith must be false. Still, he holds out, mostly. Then, when Job finally starts to actually crack, God shows up as a fucking whirlwind and goes on a long-ass ramble about how great he (God) is, to which Job humbles himself. God’s response to this is to praise Job. He then chews out Job’s friends who persecuted him and demands they sacrifice 7 bulls and 7 rams and have Job pray for them because God is only gonna listen to Job, nevermind it was all a bet between God and Satan that led to this misunderstanding. Then Job is gifted twice what he had, 14000 sheep, 6000 camels, 1000 yoke of oxen, and 1000 female donkeys. A new family, with seven sons and three daughters, and of course the daughters are just the most beautiful daughters in the whole land. Then Job lived another 140 years. And this definitely makes up for the first family slaughtered, because the Bible says so.

Something something reading the Bible is the greatest proof you can ever need that it’s bullocks.

Can it, dude, I’m not on that side of the political aisle. I’m not in Australia and the knowledge it had to do with that was not known to me nor posted here at that time. But you bet the right would still call it woke, there’s a reason they’re hiding the epstein files. This isn’t some gotcha, you’re just a wanna-be hater.

Well as far as I’m concerned we’re going to wait and see what happens because I’m not part of any committee that has a say in the matter, I’m not about to put in the work to form one to do so, and in all likeliehood neither are you. But hey, if you are, by all means, salt the ice on the slope. I buy resin minis and paint them, and I wouldn’t exactly appreciate more hurdles in doing that.

It’s being over the top in the way it’s saying “sexualizing childeren = bad,” but at the same time, yes, it is bad. So, eh. It does give the article a sort of strongly PC coded vibe. I’m sure it was written by a leftist the right would call woke. Take what you will from it, despite the language used, the article is still sound.

I got where you’re going with that, but presently, 3D printers were, to my knowledge, in the business of printing hard objects. So I double checked and looked it up. Turns out silicon printing does exist, but it’s currently pretty small-scale stuff. Gaskets and the like. But in the process I bumped into a different idea. 3D print the molds used to shape the silicon, then just fill them.

So yeah, you’re probably right.

Oh boy, I am already clinically depressed, what’s there to lose?! Jokes aside, reading through the article and how these companies get away with selling the product piece meal or relabeling it reminds me of how gas stations used to sell crack pipes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/07/12/a-rose-in-a-glass-by-any-other-name-is-a-crack-pipe/

No matter the era and no matter the addiction, someone is trying to make a legal buck off it if they can.

The idea is great on paper, but execution is everything.