I used to print on smooth PEI and had on and off problems with PTEG.  I read on Prusa’s website (might have been in the forums) to use Windex.  It fixed all the problems.  (I use textured PEI now because my smooth PEI isn’t smooth anymore and I didn’t want to buy a new one when I had a textured one on hand.  The key…

I don’t see MRA types coming to shit on Yuko simply for being a woman who has the audacity to exist, nor any unbalanced screeds in her history here - just a lot of incredibly bad advice.

I do have a chunk of land and had to mow all seven acres this weekend, it was already out of control with thistle popping up everywhere. If I don’t keep that down, I get a nice fine from the county.

They were often referred to as segregation academies. One of the major local private schools in my area was founded as one although these days they seem to bend over backwards to recruit minority students. I’ve just worked there a lot so I couldn’t speak on those students’ experiences.

You don’t even need to be in an HOA to be fined. There are plenty of municipalities that have regulations about the maximum height of grass and weeds. In Baltimore, at least, it has a lot to do with the rodent problems....

Not only that but when you finally do mow it, it will burn up and die. Oh yeah, and your HOA will fine you.

I grew up in Texas, and didn’t realize this existed til moving to Missouri. Apparently this is widespread not only throughout the south but the Midwest and east coast.

A lot of these “Christian” schools started up after the supreme court ordered school desegregation. They set up private academies that if they were honest would have been called “Private School For Budding Young White Supremacists”, instead of hiding behind some religious veil. Virginia is full of private religious…

I have worked in various levels of IT and customer support, from frontline IT (“sure, I can reset your password”) to Lead roles (including training and corrective-training) for more than a decade and have almost never said “you’re welcome” in communications at work. I end every written communication with “Thanks!” or…

incorrect. “we need to be proactive about this” = “we need to address this problem right fucking now before a smoldering ember becomes a fucking inferno.”

Sounds like some kind of birth control.

She’s not a bloodsucker, but Yuko is the single most worthless contributor to this sad incarnation of Lifehacker.

Did a tick write this?

After No Mow May comes Pay HOA Fines June...

Yeah, if I let my lawn grow for a month, it’s still going to be a monoculture, just an overgrown monoculture. Not exactly prime territory for bees to pollinate anything. So all we will have achieved would be to annoy the neighbors with our janky lawn. Plus, if any “flowers” do pop up in my lawn, they’re going to be…

Did you confirm there is a shred of evidence that this actually helps pollinators?

If I were to do that, my lawn would be so overgrown that I would need professional services to get it back under control, which would likely be even more destructive to the biome that would grow in the lawn for a singular month. This is not good advice for most people without moderate to heavy duty riding mowers at…

I can just imagine being a parent trying to tell this young lady, at 14, why she needed to help with the chores around the house, and receiving quite the doctoral thesis in return about why she could do it later.

Also, if you are from certain countries (I’m thinking Aussies, and I work with a lot) “No worries” seems to be their default “you’re welcome”. Defining it as indicative of “immature” strikes me as vaguely culturally insensitive - as others have said, just know your audience and more importantly, as someone on the…

I’ll have to proactively plan for that change.