That makes your warranty expire faster. It’s not in the users favor.

I saw an ad for Amazon telehealth a couple of weeks ago. I’m not digging the times we’re in. I also hope we don’t look back on this time with nostalgia.

In March 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups. This program relies on the AI to scrape people’s social media to revoke visa applications of people who have been protesting Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. As of early April 2025, at least 600 people have apparently had their visas revoked because of this AI monitoring, a massive incursion into people’s right to free speech, freedom of assembly, and the right to protest.

The speed with which social media monitoring is growing is staggering. As of March 2025, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) has been working with web-scraping contractor ShadowDragon to pull data from over 200 different sites, social networks, apps, and services across the web to map out a person’s activity, movements, and relationships.

The other broligarchs looked around Zuck’s bunker and couldn’t understand how it had gotten this bad. The expressions on their faces, one by one, changed to horror realizing that this is what they signed up for.

Project Nimbus: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-google-project-nimbus-israel-idf/

I’d say it’s more like a right that’s been taken away and they’re okay with that.

I was going off the comments in this thread at the time. The right wants wikipedia to go away.

Do not go after Wikipedia because of one or two shitty people. We need it as a country. I would argue that the world needs it. Make it better and support it while calling out the shitty stuff, don’t take it down.

I’ll take a look again, thanks.

The Switzerland part:

There are three problems to be insulated. First of all, by extending the scope to a larger number of companies than was previously regulated for a few telecommunications giants, a massive expansion of Switzerland’s surveillance state is in fact being carried out.

There have been cases where we have seen demands against climate activists in France, we have seen situations where Catalan independence leaders have been unfairly targeted. I have many other examples that are not yet public about inappropriate targeting by the SCPT Service, which does not make any verification.

Switzerland is not a favourable land for tech start-ups? The Swiss start-up ecosystem is now more competitive than Germany, more competitive than the EU, more competitive than the US itself. But with this consultation, we are making it much less attractive by imposing massive obligations and burdens on small businesses that do not have the resources to do so.

I couldn’t find the US is awesome part though.

Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I have no idea what you’re trying to communicate. You seem to know Blender really well and can modify it easily. That is my worst nightmare. I wish there was a way for them to just have an architectural drawing units button, it would be so freaking easy to use. Making drawings would still be a pain, because you can’t print to scale, but building things the right way in 3D would be a start.

Me too. As I said before, it’s just on my wish list. I’ve learned Blender pretty darn well. If it could do CAD in a decent way, it would be perfect. There are too many UI’s in my head as it is.

I can see why for engineering, it allows you to be super precise. I’m not sure the people who developed the CAD side of Blender have ever used it for anything precise or to build details and drawings of any kind. They just seem clueless, there is no other way to put it. AutoSketch used to be so great, maybe the paid version is now. That was different than AutoCAD and Revit, but I loved it.

Bought out by Canva, I also currently love it, but I don’t expect that to last.

I’ll give that a try again. I tried that about 3 or 4 years ago and couldn’t make that switch, but I can’t remember why, lol.

Unless they’ve changed it in the last 2 releases, it’s still that you have to decimal out the inches. So 1" would be .0833333. I don’t have time for that shit. It’s so easy in any other cad program from decades ago. Like I said, it’s obviously not their focus and that’s fine. It’s just on my wish list.

I bought Davinci, so I’m happy with that, but I’ll still check out the Blender version. I can’t really complain about it, it does so much and is free.

As far as CAD goes, they aren’t really usable to be fast in CAD. It’s super cumbersome. You should be able to move things 1" to the right or left, put things at certain heights and move around the space in an easy way. I haven’t found anything that can do that for imperial. Also, the tools for making dimensions is really bad and I don’t think there’s a way to make a blueprint unless you come up with something yourself. That being said, it’s free and it’s not their focus. They concentrate on the 3D portions.

Has it gotten better with editing? I tried a couple of years ago and just couldn’t. It’s amazing for the 3d software. If they could make it easier to measure things, I’d use it for CAD too.

Blender

Lol, the article says skeet, but I like yours better.