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He smoked for nearly 70 years straight, and had emphysema so bad he couldn't leave his house, and had to be on constant oxygen.

He's been on death's door for a few years now.

Home made guns are legal (for the most part) as long as you are making them for yourself.

Until very recently, making a decent gun took a lot of skill, and was pretty dangerous if something wasn't done correctly.

Part of the issue with gun laws is that gun parts, by themselves, are fairly unregulated. You can buy a gun barrel off the Internet with zero paperwork. You can buy optics, grips, springs, pins, etc without any regulations.

So you can print a gun frame, then buy everything else online, and it's all perfectly legal... In most states... If you don't resell, or do anything illegal with it.

The main catch is, if you can legally buy a gun, you can legally make that same gun.

If that gun would be illegal to buy, it's also illegal to make (full auto, suppressed, high capacity, etc.) but the biggest problem is, with the rise of CNC machines, and high quality 3d printing, how would anyone know?

I went the Local RSS Reader -> Google Reader -> Feedly -> Self-hosted FreshRSS myself. Kinda went full circle on this.

The content creators should be shouting about RSS from the rooftops. The only people that lose out are social networks, and startups. It would be more difficult for a new person to get a foothold, but at least we decide what we want to read on our own.

I would be surprised if he vetoed this bill.

Pritzker has been a pleasant surprise to me. I would drop support for him in a second if he starts pushing back on worker protection, but so far he's been a breath of fresh air for Illinois.

Some context for those of you who are confused as to why this picture is impressive.

https://www.universetoday.com/170146/astronaut-don-pettit-is-serious-he-rigged-up-astrophotography-gear-on-the-iss/

The ISS rotates around the earth every 90 minutes, so before Don Pettit brought a custom built astrophotography rig up there this picture would have been impossible to take.

It's weird that Eric Burger neglected to put this picture into perspective for people who aren't 100% up to date on their space news.

The article is confusing. It says everything was destroyed, but the originals are in Vienna.

It talks about photos and memorabilia, which make sense, cause not all of it is going to be digitized and archived online, but then it says the scores are used by many people and are gone.

How are things used by many people around the world, and the originals are in another country, but are also destroyed.

I have no idea what is actually lost.

Sure, but that just pushes back the timeline some. Even with immortality, invulnerability, and teleportation, you're still going to live forever floating in the void of space. There just isn't going to be anywhere to teleport TO after a few trillion years.

It's like anything else. There are super high quality mass produced printers for like $200, so if you want to make some prints for the lowest cost possible, that's the way to go.

If you want a hobby about learning and tweaking the printer itself, then yup, the open source printers are really good and fun to work with.

If you want to make super strong, high quality prints for prototyping, or industrial applications, then you're probably going to need to get a serious, real manufactured printer.

The nice thing about 3d printing, is that there's options for anyone's interest level.

There are several designs for (partially) 3d printed printers.

The original RepRap was one, and Prusa printers have quite a few 3d printed components. Aside from the electronics, hot end, motors, screws, and aluminum frame, that's entirely possible.

Obviously that's still a lot you need to buy, but probably over half the actual parts are printable.

Immortality is fine, until you end up stuck somewhere forever.

It's inevitable, it might be 10 years from now you'll get stuck under a mudslide and buried forever, but conscious.

In a billion years, you'll get stuck inside the expanding sun forever.

In a few trillion years you'll get stuck floating in the void of space forever as the universe expanded into nothingness.

Immortality needs some sort of way out, or else you'll eventually end up suffering forever (what's a trillion years to someone who will live for eternity?)

It's not the pay that's driving them away, it's the understaffing.

The pay (most places) is fine, if they just added 30% more staff. The fact that they need to work 12 hour shifts with zero breaks, and the only time they can sit is when they need to get on a computer to file paperwork is awful.

They have plenty of money to hire admins and CEOs, but no money to properly staff the nurses, techs, and doctors.

Hire enough nurses to COMFORTABLY work the shifts, then you won't have them quitting constantly, then you won't have understanding.