It depends on your crack pot circle I suppose. Yes, there is a circle of elite billionaires paying politicians to enact laws that help them gain more power. No, vaccines aren’t trying to speed the great replacement theory. No, global warming isn’t Chinese propaganda. No, contrails aren’t turning you gay.

https://archive.is/kmSlD

Paywall free link.

TLDR: Basically, when kids get free preschool, the kids are happier and the parents make more money.

When kids are stuffed in a warehouse and kept alive, the parents make more money but the kids suffer.

I finished Netflix during night feeds for the first 6 months of my son’s life.

Mostly this

As I understand it, they’re usually running from authoritarianism, which comes in all flavors.

Just like people fleeing Pinochet in Chile, or Sadam in Iraq. No one has ever accused them of being socialist, but people still flee.

It pops up in my head randomly like once a month and it always makes me chuckle.

What’s the matter compressor?

Nothing’s the matter, now that I fixed the matter compressor.

Oh no! I love Pepe but he’s no Rizzo. That’s heartbreaking.

Great painting, and it gets featured in this guys funny narrations:

https://youtube.com/shorts/fRV29uMYpuU

You son of a bitch! It’s genius!

This is all head canon and I don’t feel like looking it up, but they didn’t invent racism, they just invented whiteness.

That’s why Irish people were discriminated (and genocided) against until someone in the 20th century. Now Irish are white. People made a huge deal about JFK being a Catholic president because he wasn’t “one of them.” Now Catholics are indistinguishable from other white crowds. They speak with one voice (in their minds, not a real generalization).

Jews were on their way to whiteness and then Trump happened in 2016 and the old conspiracy theories became relevant again, and now they’re back to being separate.

Damn straight! Countries should be able to invade and annex other countries without fear of reprisal! What’s this world coming to?

So legit, racism is the reason we don’t have as many slurs.

There used to be so many because you could be racist against anything! Italians have big noses, greeks are sweaty, Catholics are cultists, etc.

The racists realized they were too divided, so they invented whiteness. That guy isn’t German, he’s white. Now he is on our team and he can help us hate Brown people. That guy isn’t French, he’s white! Here fellow white friend, hold this noose.

It isn’t as optimistic as that. If I understood it right, it’s just a couple used car private equities that did some shady banking in order to not have to use their own money to pay for the cars they were selling, then going bankrupt because the customers couldn’t keep up with the over inflated monthly payments.

So the only people that were screwed were the customers. The “companies” that declared bankruptcy were likely just shells playing with other people’s money. Used car prices are unaffected.

My grandfather was a mechanic and I didn’t know it was jury rig until I was an adult.

Lol I was gonna say, the dramatic music would really ruin the punchline

Like Electro Gonarhea: the Noisy Killer.

Yeah like someone else mentioned, printing in color AND detail is tough. Resin prints have the best detail, but you would have to paint it after the fact.

I think binder jet printing is what you’re looking for, after you get the scan.

Like with all the dents and scrapes? Because a scan is the best tool in that case.

If it’s just a motorcycle helmet, you’d likely have an easier time finding a model that’s close enough and using that.

But yes, you can 3D scan and print a miniature of it. Maybe post in a local sub to see if anyone can meet you somewhere. Or else you’ll have to ship it. I don’t have a scanner unfortunately or else I’d love to help.

I’m glad your friend survived and I wish him a quick recovery!