BirdEnjoyer

I feel the same way, but you say it very nicely.

I don’t know how to express this sentiment without sounding pretentious and judgy AF.

My phone in school. It was a smartphone, back before smartphones were quite the norm, so it was a big deal, and I was in another state as a minor, so I did need a phone. There was some two for one deal, so my parent got theirs and mine, so it wasn’t quite so bad, but it was technically a pricy bit of tech.

Campus was on a hill, so I stumbled and dropped it while walking down the stairs.

I think it would translate to, like, five stories of stairs if it was in a building and not on a hill?

It never went into the grass, just kept bouncing down stairs. 🤦

IMO that was super sudden.

Usually these things come with a lot of wind up, and I say this as a consumer.

Even without the context of this mod drama, I did a double take when I heard about the new stuff because its release date was so soon from the announcement

I find it way more reasonable than, “Dear [random informal business acquaintance].”

I can genuinely say I hope someone is well. I can’t sincerely call them my dear.

But we’re supposed to get weirdly personal in our formal written salutations apparently

Just to let you know, the whole thing where you look back on every little thing you do and cringe won’t magically go away when you’re an adult.

That’s a self-esteem thing, not a teenager thing.

I guess what I’m saying is that this is one of those things that can get better, but won’t just magically get better on its own. It didn’t get better for me until I got some control in my physical health (stuff that would affect my perspective) and took agency in my mental health.

If you’re in the situation to do so, check out what kind of therapy resources are available to you. You can just try a bunch until you find one that really clicks, and a lot offer free brief consultations.
Many employers offer 4-10 free visits for any immediate family members/offspring, too!

I’m sorry you feel so critical of yourself all the time. Its so draining to live like that.

Well, your username checks out, so I’m going to take your word for it

100% with the Gatcha stuff? Wow.

The 90’s mentality of “Everyone on an Internet is a predator out to rob you or worse” left a mark on me-
I always use a fake name and innocuous, random profile pic if possible.

These daus you’re still screwed if someone’s that determined, but at least screw the corporations like this.

We are absolutely addicted to the Internet as a species, and the mental suffering of our youth the obvious consequence. Like, hyperbolic dystopian fiction levels of obvious.

We kinda have a problem.

I admit I have a screen addiction, of course. I think most people probably have a managed addiction, but way too many people will be jonesing for some tech by hour four.
Just the weather. Just Spotify. Just a podcast. Just my texts.

The mockingbirds are so lucky the hummingbirds don’t care, because they are shimmery little warrior badasses.

I started using two so I could more easily remote game with my sibling.

The second one would have their screen stream up, so it was like we were playing split screen co-op back in the day. :)

Basically. Do this, don’t do that.
I think that they thought glaring at people in person would be more effective?

But this was for the early admissions students, so they had to have the appearance of doing things, I guess.
But punishing non-problem students with good grades, acting as normal students seems so ridiculous.

They literally called my mom over this and she laughed at them. I was so proud of her.

I was punished for missing mandatory dorm meetings by washing the same car that multiple other people had already washed.

I missed said meetings because I was doing night classes and workstudy.

All of the content of said dorm meetings could have been taken care of with a paragraph email, hut apparently I was supposed to hunt down the RA whenever they felt like giving me their time, when I was already taking, like, 18-25 hours, doing extracurriculars and workstudy, and also regularly puking my brains out from the uncontrolled migraine disorder.

I stopped caring about their authority after that.

…And of course I just now finally persuasive my mother to start looking into Discord.

She’s a pretty connected Boomer who likes new books, movies and shows and is in desperate need of friends to talk to about her nerdy interests.

But Discord is deciding to inshitify right as she’s starting to warm up to the idea of online communities. She probably wouldn’t care about things like the username stuff, but Ads? Yeah, eww.

I am talking about though is SLA printing though- resin printing, but without the resin, basically.
Which is why I think its more feasible than just extrusion printing on principle. The layers are incredibly thin, with no extrusion involved, and no exposure to air until well after the layers are formed.

Interesting, I was under the impression that clay was inert when ingested.

The transportation and dust would be lessened from the printing process if it were done by the individual, but if what you say is true, then the whole idea is worthless unless there’s an alternative material available.

Well, in this hypothetical I’m proposing, there is no superheating involved- just printing, and being set to dry.

Ceramics get completely rigid, but relatively fragile in this state, which would be sufficient for a single use material, but if they’re soaked for long enough, would dissolve.

The term is “Bone Dry” and specifically how to reclaim bone dry clay- that’d probably give you an idea on how it breaks down/dissolves.

there would be no straightforward way to get it back into print media unless there were recycling centers, but if one cleaned the food matter off well, in theory it could be standard clay people could use.

Imagine collecting food cup clay and making it into bricks for public projects.

I live dangerously- I make yogurt in old jam jars!
…Though you only need to go to 180° and don’t need pressurization for it.

But I absolutely echo you with that, the fact that you can’t use most glass for this is insane.

And I only use the Baba Maman jars, they’re the only ones resilient enough.

Go to a grocery store, bring your metal containers to the grocery, get them autoclaved while shopping, and get em filled up with your rice/cereals/juice/etc.

Also, SLA Printing for ceramics is already possible, just expensive for now. Once we figure out how to do that sustainability and in a foodsafe manner, we could just print our single-use cups and dishes from a slurry.

Yeah, finding the gunk from a bone dry ceramic cup left in random places outside would suck, but nature would be able to reclaim it as easy as any random dirt clod.

One could potentially even just rinse out the clay, stick it in some water, and with some elbow grease and effort, process it into actual, useable ceramics. Depending on the formulation required for the SLA process, of course.

How do you cleanly cut boards? I have some old RAM sticks that are pretty small by today’s standards and I’d kinda like to make earrings with them one day