I’m not a football fan, but I have to hand it to the Super Bowl for its forthcoming role in educating millions of Americans about the fact that Puerto Ricans are, actually, US citizens.
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I’m not a football fan, but I have to hand it to the Super Bowl for its forthcoming role in educating millions of Americans about the fact that Puerto Ricans are, actually, US citizens.
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I’m not a football fan, but I have to hand it to the Super Bowl for its forthcoming role in educating millions of Americans about the fact that Puerto Ricans are, actually, US citizens.
For the record: People born in Puerto Rico are US citizens by birthright, just like people born in, say, Indiana. They can hold US passports. They're Americans.
*Residents* of Puerto Rico, which is not a US state, have no representation in the House or Senate (just like residents of the District of Columbia), and do not vote in presidential elections. But because they are US citizens, they are free to establish residency in any state they wish, and vote in elections there, whenever they wish.
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I’m not a football fan, but I have to hand it to the Super Bowl for its forthcoming role in educating millions of Americans about the fact that Puerto Ricans are, actually, US citizens.
@mattblaze I suppose that my objection was that even though you say that "Puerto Ricans are, actually, US citizens," they're actually treated as less than that. That's self-explanatory, I think.
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@mattblaze I suppose that my objection was that even though you say that "Puerto Ricans are, actually, US citizens," they're actually treated as less than that. That's self-explanatory, I think.
@nihongomaamaa Citizenship is a specific, precise legal concept. It its distinct from residence and nationality.
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@nihongomaamaa Citizenship is a specific, precise legal concept. It its distinct from residence and nationality.
@mattblaze I don't want to know about your specific, precise legal conception. I want to know about actual discrimination and how to counter it.
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@mattblaze I don't want to know about your specific, precise legal conception. I want to know about actual discrimination and how to counter it.
@nihongomaamaa I'm sorry if I'm not posting about topics of interest to you personally. Perhaps you can find other sources for posts to read that are more aligned with your interests.
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@nihongomaamaa I'm sorry if I'm not posting about topics of interest to you personally. Perhaps you can find other sources for posts to read that are more aligned with your interests.
@mattblaze are you saying that I shouldn't be interested in Puerto Rican rights?
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@mattblaze are you saying that I shouldn't be interested in Puerto Rican rights?
@mattblaze you were the one that brought them up.
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@mattblaze you were the one that brought them up.
@nihongomaamaa Yes, that's how this thing works. People post about topics that are of interest to them. No guarantees are provided to readers.
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I hope it works out! 🤞🏼
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So, I booked a train trip from Seattle to Vancouver. I figure the all-Canadian leg of my trip will be less chaotic. I'll ride to Vancouver on Saturday and then fly to Montreal Saturday night.
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So, that doesn't cover my flight out, but my flight home might be affected. And I'd be competing with thousands of other people to get on a flight, bus, or train home.
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Then, the Secretary of Transportation said that they were going to start shutting down 10% of air travel through us airports starting Friday.
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So, I am flying from Montreal to Seattle for #seagl2025. I leave on Nov 6 and return on Nov 8. I fly from Montreal to Vancouver to Seattle, and then back. All good.
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@evan You might need to thee an thenthift.
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Better 3D-Printed Bridges Are Possible, With the Right Settings
The header image above shows a completely unsupported 3D-printed bridge, believe it or not. You’re looking at the bottom of the print. [Make Wonderful Things] wondered whether unsightly unsupported bridges could be improved, and has been busy nailing down remarkably high-quality results by exhaustive testing of different settings.
It all started when they thought that unsupported bridges looked a lot as though they were made from ropes stretched between two points. Unlike normal layers, these stretched extrusions didn’t adhere to their neighbors. They are too far apart from one another, and there’s no “squish” to them. But could this be overcome?
His experiments centered mainly around bridge printing speed, temperature, and bridge flow. That last setting affects how much the extrusion from the hot end is adjusted when printing a bridge. He accidentally increased it past 1.0 and thought the results were interesting enough to follow up on; it seemed that a higher flow rate when printing a bridge gave the nudge that was needed to get better inter-line adhesion. What followed was a lot of testing, finally settling on something that provided markedly better results than the stock slicer settings. Markedly better on his test pieces, anyway.
BF = Bridge flow, BS = Bridge printing speed (in mm/sec)
The best results seem to come from tweaking the Bridge Flow rate high enough that extrusions attach to their neighbors, printing slowly (he used 10 mm/sec), and ensuring the bridged area is as consistent as possible. There are still open questions, like some residual sagging at corners he hasn’t been able to eliminate, but the results otherwise look great. And it doesn’t even require laying one’s printer on its side!All the latest is on the project page where you can download his test models, so if you’re of a mind to give it a try be sure to check it out and share your results. Watch a short video demonstrating everything, embedded just under the page break.
Thanks to [Hari] for the tip!
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