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  • There is a caveat, but yes: By definition, 3D printed parts should not be considered food safe.

    Single-use cookie cutters are generally OK if you don’t use them multiple times a day every day.

    There are probably minor chemical risks but it wouldn’t be in high enough quantities to kill you. There isn’t really anything inherently food unsafe with PLA, ABS or PETG.

    Bacteria is a much bigger risk during reuse because you can’t fully clean the prints between the layer lines and other surface defects. The plastic generally won’t survive a proper sanitization process either.

    What your own risk tolerance is for plastic additives is up to you. If you do print a cookie cutter, toss it after you are done.


  • HF tools are not designed for the long term, generally. If you need a tool to work at least once, for one job that you are never going to do again, HF is “good enough”.

    The rule of thumb is to never buy a tool there that could result in a gruesome death if it fails to protect your life, like jack stands. (Invest in quality safety equipment first if you get something like an angle grinder.)



  • And it’s about a mile? Many common rifle bullets will be starting to nope-out of supersonic around that distance, so you would need something really beefy, like a .338 Lapua or even a .50 to be accurate. (A bullet will generally start tumbling when it drops sub-sonic.)

    Don’t mistake me: many bullets can and do travel past a mile regularly, especially depending on the shot angle. Yeah, they can still kill. I am referring to the uncertainty and inaccuracy at those ranges, especially if a bullet has lost a ton of speed.

    My main point is that long range sniper rifles are quite large caliber and generally require long heavy barrels. You aren’t going to swing one of those around without being noticed.

    The shot speed approximation is the easy part, believe it or not. Since the bullet must be a large caliber you can guess at about 200-300 grains for a “smaller” large caliber bullet, or between 650-900 grains for a larger one. (Maybe a few more, but I am sticking with a 338 or a 50.) Muzzle velocity is also going to be on the high end at between 2900fps and +3100fps for most all of them. The math is easy to work out with a common ballistics calculator by estimating the ballistic coefficient of available bullets in the category we are talking about. (Bullet speed at the target is the most important number to calculate.)

    Still, it’s not perfect math. If you look for a camera flash at an estimated time when a bullet was supposedly fired, you are probably going to find one, especially if you have a second or two of footage across multiple cameras.








  • Yeah, the GI issues can run deep. It took a couple years to get my heartburn under control, but that is finally manageable now.

    The shits sucked though and those did resolve fairly quick. You will find that it is a common affliction among professional drunks, actually.

    I only skimmed your profile, but it seems you were an every day, drink till you blackout type, similar to me. (No judgement, at all.) I bring this up because, if you haven’t already, be honest with your doctor about this. Alcohol will wreck your gut and cause all kinds of weird imbalances, especially after you quit. It may help your doctor to take that into account, s’all. (I don’t know your age or gender, but a colonoscopy may be in your future. That is a good thing, and it wouldn’t surprise me if one was recommended.)

    Embrace these wins and remember this feeling you have. (The first few dozen times I quit drinking, I never really embraced how good it felt. I do now and it’s an awesome motivator for me.)


  • Damn. “First comment” theory is out. It’s something though.

    I have had this issue show up on my own comments as well. (Even with using the I function in Connect or not.)

    Also underscores have been italics for years across many platforms. It’s not always, but is generally. (Well, I have been using underscores as a pseudo-emphasis before markdown was even a thing.)

    Edit: From a now deleted post, but you can see it in my history:






  • Even when you completely ignore that bullshit monologue from Altman, something is fishy with this.

    While just speculation, I think they are positioning for a sale as that is going to be the only way to get any value from their shares. (Aside from dividends, if that is a even a thing with pre-IPO equity? They can’t really IPO being a non-profit and it makes sense to sell the company off.)

    Anyone else case to spitball any theories? They can’t be an investor sinkhole forever so there has to be a way for profit to be extracted eventually.