I started printing small because I didn't want my filament to run out mid-big-print.

But as I realise now - space is length cubed, so a 5x5x5cm model is MUCH more volume than a 2.5x2.5x2.5 model. As such, I'm getting LOTS of prints from the last bit of plastic on this spool.

I've been tweaking settings, and found the print head can cope without any echoing, and do quite sharp turns at tiny resolutions when it's slowed right down to print the outer shell.

195 degrees prevents the pointy bits from melting away from new thin layers, and is 10 degrees hotter than the temperature where the plastic doesn't leave the nozzle well. I noticed more than 205, and the copper color turns more orange and less shiny - I've hard cooked most of my larger models before I found out.

A little test model that changes the temperature of the print as it goes is a GREAT way of assessing a new spool of plastic. I totally recommend it - I saw the color damage of the high temperatures, the stringing, and the poor extrusion at lower temperatures.

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Boz Scaggs had a hit album some decades ago called "Silk Degrees." Does anyone know how it got its name? Usually it's easy to find out how an album got its name by searching online, but in this case I can't find an explanation. There isn't a song on the album called "Silk Degrees." It is cool to know how things got their name.

Hi /r/music. I've been listening to this album obsessively for the last month or two, and couldn't find a decent discussion about it anywhere, so I thought I'd make one.

I was first introduced to this album by my dad who would play it in the car during road trips. At the time, Lido Shuffle was always my favorite song.

Once we made the transition from cds to ipods, somehow Silk Degrees got lost in the mix, and I went many years without listening to it.

During that time, I started listening to MF DOOM, and got acquainted with his Special Herbs beat tape series. One of those beats contained a sample that I loved and felt I weirdly recognized from somewhere.

So I looked it up, and lo and behold, it was sampled from Lowdown, which of course is one of the most incredible songs on Silk Degrees.

This got me back listening to Silk Degrees, which blows me away every time I listen to it. It covers many genres of music while doing all of them very well, in my opinion. The standouts to me are What Can I Say, Georgia, Harbor Lights, Lowdown, and It's Over, but every song is great in its own way. It is some of the smoothest, tightest music ever made, Boz Scaggs has a unique voice, and the lyrics cover a lot of different topics.

After reading about it on wikipedia, I also found out that many of the studio musicians who worked on this album worked with Steely Dan, which explains why the instrumentals are so top notch.

Anybody else still listening to this album in 2016?

If you haven't heard it, take a listen at one of the links below, and tell me what you think!

Streaming Links:

https://open.spotify.com/album/7DysI4j6UqK00RTfETKXqs

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrsbQkjm7ZKDNYYfBP2c7RJcFUN4ViKiS

I can't find much information about it. The one description I could find definitely describes it as some kind of direct dye. I'm interested in the red shade from this line, it seems like it might be a little less bright than the Vivids red, but I'm not sure since I can't find a picture of what it actually looks like on hair. I'm trying to find something that is a direct dye match for Pravana 6.66.

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I bought a Japanese fountain for my home dojo. It's a really cool little fountain that has a spinning ball, a water wheel, an atomizer for fogging, a waterfall, and other cool little animated gadgets powered by the water that's pumped through it. It also has a little fish tank at the bottom. I would estimate front and back, it's about 1 gallon total.

You already know by this point how I messed up. I didn't know better until I fell in love with my Betta I bought for it (my 5-year-old daughter named him "Circle") and ended up on this sub. This... isn't the worst of it. Neither is the fact that I put tap water into the fountain, treated it with Stress Coat+, and purchased and put my Betta in there the same day. It gets worse.

Like 2 days after getting my Betta, I had a party at my house with karate friends. We spent a lot of time drinking and practicing karate in the dojo. I have a garbage can that sits directly in front of the end table the fountain sits on, mostly because the atomizer/fogger makes water particles that get all over the floor so I put the can there to collect all that, and all night we were chucking empty beer cans into the garbage can. There was also random normal garbage in there as well already. The next day, I couldn't find my Betta. The tank is designed where they can go into the back and there are tons of hiding places back there, so didn't think much of it. Stuck some food in there and went about my day.

Following morning, still no Betta. Now I was starting to get slightly worried, because even though there are lots of hiding places, it's not normal to go 24 hours without seeing him at all. I quickly check the area around the fountain and the floor and don't find anything, so I go about my day again, but keep thinking about how weird it is that I haven't seen him in like 36 hours. Finally I decide it's time to determine if he's still in there or not, so I start deeply investigating the fountain. No signs.

By this point I'm thinking "if he jumped out, we've got 2 cats... could be why I didn't find him", so I decide to be super thorough and empty thee fountain to make sure he wasn't somehow stuck somewhere in there. He wasn't there. Now it was time to solve the mystery: either he got eaten by the cats, or he jumped out and landed in the full garbage can. I start taking everything out of the trash can one by one carefully and gently shaking each empty can in case he went into the mouth of one.

Finally, I get to the bottom of the can,

For the sake of argument, he cannot be tired from the fighting and is in peak health and is not negatively affected by any of his own abilities.

Punching Power (Mantis Shrimp): Accelerates over 50 mph and hits with 2500 times more force than a normal human's own weight.

Punching Power Sound and Temperature(Pistol Shrimp): Creates up to 210 decibel sounds with punches with heat generated to be 4800 degrees centigrade.

Lifting Strength (Dung Beetle): Can pull up 1141 time his bodyweight, weight the equivalent of an average man lifting two fully-loaded 18-wheeler trucks.

Super voice (Sperm Whale): Can make clicking noises that are up to 233 decibels. Sounds over 194 decibels are shockwaves.

Flight (Falcon): Can fly at around 69.3 mph.

Ground Speed (Paratarsotomus macropalpis): Roughly 2,100 km per hour when scaled to a human.

Reaction Time (Copepod): 1.5 - 3 Milliseconds

Hard Shell (Abalone): Mollusk shell made almost entirely of solid calcium carbonate. Super difficult to get an actually number stat. Please comment if you know.

Toughest Skin (Crocodile Skin): Flexible yet tough skin capable of withstanding small gunfire with bony structures along the body made of keratin.

Bite force (Nile Crocodile): 5000 PSI maximum.

Venom (Inland Taipan Snake): 1 bite is enough to kill 100 adult humans.

Acidic Glue Spit (Velvet Worm): The worm can spit on other insects to eat, slowing them down; the more the insect moves, the more the glue entangles. Scale to human size.

Electric Shock Touch (Electric Eel): 860 volts.

Durability (Tartigrade): Can survive extreme temperature, pressure, radiation, dehydration, starvation, and space. Can go into a hibernation mode.

Regeneration (Elysia marginata/sea slug regeneration): Capable of its head surviving cut off from it's body and growing it back fully after 20 days. Can subsequently live without every organ except the brain.

Adaptive Camouflage (Mimic Octopus): Can alter body color to blend into natural environments.

Web spinning (Darwin's bark spider): Weaves the strongest known spider silk with a tensile strength of up to 520 MJ/m3 (megajoules per cubic metre)

Wall and Ceiling crawling (any spider): Can climb and stick to walls and ceilings.

Animal Vision (Mantis Shrimp/Chameleon/Eagle/Owl/Shark): Can see 12 channels of color and UV light. Can see 342 degrees around. Has 20/5 (4 times better vision than humans). Has night vision and can see underwater.

Animal Hearing (Greater Wax Moth/Elephant): Can hear freq

I know this is a taboo subject in the natural hair community. We have been taught that heat is horrible for our hair, that it leads to heat damage/breakage and we are taught to avoid it at all cost.

When it comes to my hair type. I’m 4c, medium density, high porosity, with fine strands. No matter what I did or how hard I tried I could not keep moisture in my hair. Not even 24 hours after my wash day and my hair was already bone dry again regardless of what products I used. All my effort sometimes spending 6-7 hours of washing my hair just to feel like it had never even been touched. It was dry and full of single strand knots.

So a little backstory I’ve been natural for 11 years. I thought when I went natural that I would have this huge hair transformation, and that I would finally meet my goal of having “waist length hair”. Fast forward to today my hair is not much longer than where I started 11 years ago. Of course it’s thicker and healthier that it’s no longer relaxed, but my hair is still stuck at an awkward shoulder length, and is still sparse in many places. It is beyond frustrating. I have put blood, sweat and tears into growing my hair. Doing what seemed to me at the time “all the right things”. Keeping my ends trimmed at least twice a year, taking hair supplements, using growth oils, washing my hair on a consistent basis, moisturizing, and avoiding heat.

Fast forward to this year. I’ve decided that I’m going to be a straight hair natural because clearly what I have been doing isn’t working. I know many will say that maybe the way I have been doing things is wrong. Trust me when I say that I have tried everything in my decade of being natural. It’s time for me to try something new, it’s time to try something that works for me. I had come to a point in my journey where I no longer enjoyed having my natural hair in it’s curly state, and it started to become a stressor. It was becoming constant work day in and day out trying to keep my hair moisturized. One failed twist out and braid out after another. The constant time commitment of trying to make my hair “look good”, I was beyond sick of it. For the past few months of 2021 I had resorted to wearing my hair in a bun because I had become so bored and frustrated with my hair.

So when I say “straight natural” I’m not talking about silk press straight either. I’ve been doing light presses on my hair after blow drying keeping the flat iron under 400 degrees, and only using one pass, so by no means

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Right you lot. I will preface all of this and say I LOVE telling a wee story. Or as we say here, I’m a complete and utter gobshite. So grab a snack, pour some tea, hell, rip a bong for all I care. Let’s goooooooooo

The Basics

Age: Late-20’s (totally not a few months off 30, I’ll be in my 20’s FOREVER 😩)

Gender Identity: cishet lady woman person

Location: Land of haggis, men in kilts, and high-functioning alcoholism: Scotland

Occupation & Industry: Postdoc researcher in STEM field

Individual Income: If I was a supermarket, I’d be solidly between a Morrisons and a Tesco. Dreaming to be Waitrose one day (UKers, you'll understand)

Household Income: Enough to afford multiple subscription fees to Netflix, Disney Plus and Prime, but not enough to have a wagoon full of books. So about as average at it comes. DINK as fuck.

The Bags

When did you join RepLadies?

Been here since early 2018 (holy shit, that was 4 years ago?!). Back when there were around 18k subs and we all lost our collective shit over the infamous former-TS Alex's Celine belt bag groupbuy :')

How did you find RepLadies?

Funny story actually. I was watching one of Patricia Bright’s reviews of cheap reps and comparing them to the real thing, and there was (at the time) what I thought was a 1:1 leboy rep (you know, THIS infamous one). And my heart began to pound. “Hold the phone. I can get my absolute dream bag for £40?!” I whispered to myself as I skuttled off to Wish.com. And in my searching for replica Chanel, Google led me straight to the loving arms of Repladies. Realised that the aforementioned rep was a heap of total dogshit and you could do so much better. And the rest is history.

Were you familiar with reps before RL?

Reps in general? Yes. Good quality reps? Absolutely not. I remember when I was 15, I was OBSESSED with the multicoloure LV Speedy and was desperate to live my French vanilla Paris Hilton fantasy. I remember borderline crying to my mum asking if it was okay for me to buy a 50 pound rep that I saw on eBay and after much convincing, few days later, this fucking monstrosity came in the mail. I MEAN, FUCKING LOOK AT IT (not the actual bag, but it was basically like this). Chile, that thing fell to pieces in a few days and smelled of dead

Hi RL! Long time reader, but first time poster. I have spent many happy hours going down the rabbithole of AE, both through your posts and through my own procrastination, so I thought I would share the results of my multi-year shopping problem so that you too may suffer. I have another big order making its very slow journey across the ocean, so I will post a follow-up when all that stuff gets here!

I am only reviewing products that still have active links, but I make no promises that they will remain active! None of this stuff is visibly branded, although some of them are dupes.

Size info: 5'7", ~160lbs, US size 8/10 in pants and usually a S/M in tops, 32G bra.

Accessories

Silk scarves - 8/10 - These are obviously not real silk but they do feel nice and the prints are very bright and vivid. I mostly use them as impromptu hairbands/miniscarves, even though the material is really too slippy for those purposes, but they don't make my hair super staticky unlike most "silk" (polyester). Definitely worth it for the price!

Skinny belt- 6/10 - IDK this is fine. It's really quite skinny, so I basically never wear it because I feel like I'm being violently pinched when I sit down, but I think that's a me problem.

Gentle Monster sunglasses - 9/10 - These are so good (a lot of the GM dupes on AE are, actually). They came with a fancy ass leather case which I now use all the time, they don't pinch my big head, and they're very cute. However I am obligated to deduct a point because these are definitely not polarized.

Floral mesh socks - 7/10 - Cute, but the top bands on some of them look sort of awkward. I bought the ones with the thick top bands but I suspect the thin top band ones would look better. Oh well.

Leather knot belt - 9/10 - This requires an advanced degree to tie properly but it's worth it. Looks expensive and makes me feel like I know things about fashion. I wear this with the shirt dress mentioned below and feel like I really made an effort even though my whole outfit cost like ten american dollars.

Beret - 7/10 - When I bought this it was like 79 cents so I felt very justified in my purchase even though I am not a b

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

This post will be divided into the following sections:

1. Disclaimer
2. Introduction to the “Mandala” Political Model
3. Early Recorded History of Sriwijaya
4. International Centre(s) of Buddhism
5. Sriwijayan Foreign Policy and Trade
6. Decline and Absorption by Singhasari-Majapahit
7. The Legacy of Sriwijaya Today
8. Conclusions
9. References

1. Disclaimer

Today the world is connected more than ever, but ironically, the vast swathe of information has overwhelmed us all. It is difficult to tell which sources of information are trustworthy, and which ones are, to borrow from the great philosopher Donald Trump, “fake news”. Thus, I believe that it is important for me to be transparent and begin this piece of writing with a disclaimer.

First of all, I am not a historian. My qualifications are in pharmaceutical science and I have a Masters’ degree in Biomedical Engineering. That being said, I have had the chance to work for the Indonesian Embassy in Spain for a few years, and I am in regular correspondence with networks from the Indonesian Foreign Service. My day-to-day routine requires me to keep up to date with national and international politics, study foreign languages, as well as to continuously learn about history and culture.

Secondly, I may have a bias when approaching the topic of Sriwijaya, especially on the theme of religion, as I myself am a practicing Buddhist. A lot of my studies about this are motivated by a desire to study the Hindu-Buddhist heritage of my own country and to preserve it. Indonesian Buddhists of various ethnic backgrounds: Chinese, Javanese and Palembang-Malays are particularly proud of Sriwijaya's legacy, as we shall see later in Section 7 of my essay.

Third, I will only be relying on published books and research journals, which I will provide the links for (wherever possible) so that you may check them out for yourself. An exception will be made for a picture of the Borobudur temple, as well as some sources for Section 7 “The Legacy of Sriwijaya Today”, as I will show some photos and videos of people in present-day Sumatra. I shall provide the original sources of those pictures/videos.

The goal of this essay is not to produce a peer-reviewed paper, but simply to provide you with some basic information about Sriwijaya. As such, my essay will be directed for a general audience and will skip some details for the sake of simplicity. I encourage you to give me feedback after you have read it and to point out mistakes

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“You can’t win, you can’t break even, and you can’t get out of the game” - Ginsberg’s Laws of Thermodynamics

“Yeah, but a Smith & Wesson still beats four aces” - anonymous Terran physicist, C+ cannon development project.

"The longer things go your way, the worse it will be when it all comes apart on you." - Dev'Ryenor, Rigellian Kobold philosopher, during the Egg Crusher War

"But if I plan right, you can die with me when it all comes crashing down." - Shelkar DuTrains, Warlord of the Trenshillit Cluster

"Don't call it a grave, call it the future you chose." - The Hamburger King, to Purple Devourer Grimace, just prior to his execution at the end of the Third Burger War.

Legion looked over at Daxin, just raising his brow slightly, tilting his head toward the Detainee. Daxin glanced over and nodded, turning and leaning against the computer console that chuckled and muttered to itself. The Detainee staggered a few steps then went down on her knees. The carrier clunked as she set it down and let go, her hands balling into fists and her arms bending at the elbows to bring her fists tight against her chest.

She gave a low moan of pain, her eyes rolling back. Pinkish fluid welled up in her eyes, spilling over her left eyelid and trickling down her cheek. She leaned forward, clenching her teeth, and put her hands on the floor, clenching her hands on the tile.

Legion moved over and knelt down next to the Detainee, rubbing her back through her blouse.

"Thin..." she whispered. "Too... thin..." Pinkish fluid dripped down her face.

Daxin nodded at her words, turning and looking at the door, uncrossing his arms and letting his hand drop next to his thigh. There was a click and a quiet hiss and the compartment on his leg opened up, the pistol popping out.

"Is she going to be able to hold it together?" Daxin asked.

Legion shrugged, still rubbing the Detainee's back. "Maybe. Not for long, we need to hurry."

Daxin nodded, pulling the pistol from the holster, which slid back into his leg. The compartment closed as he moved up. "Grab the carrier."

Legion nodded, grabbing the handle and standing up.

Daxin leaned down and picked up the Detainee, pulling he

I am a third generation member, which is extremely rare in Korea. My grandfather was the first stake president of a city of 5 - 6 million people in the 60's. My family and I are the history of the Mormon Church in Korea. I personally know some Korean general authorities. I will update you on how the Church is doing there.

The Church there is dwindling in a significant rate. Most quality members were baptized in the 60's / 70's / 80's, including my parents and grandparents. Most of Korean members in their 30's and below now are the second or third generation members born in the church. Even in the 90's and 2000's, I did not see any reliable new members baptized. They all came for English lessons by American elders and sister missionaries. Once they learn English, they leave. Only those converted in the 60's/70's/80's and their 2nd/3rd generation members stay active with callings at the current state.

The problem is that South Korea has such a homogenous society, which means that everyone in Korea is Korean with the same skin color, and culture. You are expected to behave in a certain way.

There is a saying that goes, "모난 돌이 정 맞는다," which roughly translates into, "The stone in a different shape gets chiseled." This shows the core cultural belief of Koreans. They want you to blend in. Don't stand out. If you stand out, We chisel you into shape just like other stones. The Mormon Church constantly makes you behave differently than the rest of the society. And the society is justified in chiseling you, forcing you to be just like others even by some questionable means. Mormon members are constantly caught in between the Church and the Korean society.

Too much uniqueness is frowned upon and shunned. It's just the way it is. Mormons in Korea struggle a lot because this. They are literal "freaks," and "weirdos" because they don't drink/smoke and don't have premarital sex. If you don't drink, you can't socialize at work or anywhere else. According to the culture, it is EXTREMELY EXTREMELTY rude to refuse an alcohol drink when seniors, boss, or older individuals offer to pour you. It is a literal social career suicide. might as well write a resignation letter and quit the job before you get fired, passive-aggressively bullied, or side-lined forever. It's hard for them to keep a good job because of that.

Men are expected to smoke because all men join the military and they are expected to start smoking there. If they don't smoke, they can't socialize when smokers

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat