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What if my premier is an idiot?

Where can I learn more about the sugar industry?

Just to add my experience to the mix, I bought a cheap Ender 3 to see if I liked the hobby. Didn't want to go whole hog on kit until I had a sense of it. I've found tinkering with the printer and making improvements and adjustments to be rewarding and a great use of my free time.

I don't know what the conventional wisdom is in the 3d printing community on buying used gear, but I'd bet you could find something used at a pretty good discount that might need just a little bit of love. & not sure about where you live, but here, some public libraries have printers and printing courses, could be a good way to get your feet wet & see what aspects of the tech are important to you.

Interesting stats. I just really hope to one day be able to buy a small home with a little garage and a workshop for tinkering. Maybe the sun has set on that opportunity in this country and I'll be crammed into some sort of post apocalyptic japanese pod hotel in a neighborhood that looks like district 9. Federal political parties plz halp.

I agree with you. Maybe I'm wrong, but people who own even one home are an older demographic that votes in significant numbers. I feel like the fact that no federal party is seriously talking about fixing the housing issue is a reflection of that.

Sadly the situation will get way worse for millennials and gen z, who are already dealing with bad wages, eye watering tuition rates and a depressing job market. My dad was frugal, but earned 2 university degrees, bought a house and two cars while working as a lifeguard and then a teacher. Today, that would not be possible. Right now, students taking education in post secondary (& probably working a job or two to pay for it) are likely to graduate with crippling debt, and aren't even certain to get a job in their field. Sad state of affairs.

I don't know if this helps you at all & I don't know what gear you're using, but Shure has a bluetooth receiver for their line of in ear monitors that plugs directly into the buds. It's called 'true wireless'. I have an old discontinued RMCE-BT2 model that works great and fidelity is indistinguishable from wired, to my ears, at least as far as connecting it to a phone goes. The new model is expensive unfortunately, so I don't know that it really solves your problem, but it's convenient & I can recommend it if it's within your budget and compatible with your gear.

Ahh, the internet blooms with summer children in July.

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by this? What sort of views did you get shit for?

For sure, & I didn't intend to appear as though I was equivocating real medical specialists with chiropractors. Just observing that their popularity might be less about a population filled with woo ideas, and more about a deficit of real doctors & a bogged down & underfunded healthcare system. I agree, those chickens will come home to roost.

Fair point.

Sure, I get that. I hear a story occasionally where, I don't know, someone's ankle is fucked up or something, and they went to a chiropractor, and it got better. Would it have gotten better if that person took no action at all? Maybe, I think probably. I don't really contemplate chiropractics more than that.

There's a deeper story here about the availability of healthcare that's way more concerning to my mind. In any city in this country, you can probably find and walk into a chiropractor office this afternoon and be seen immediately (maybe I'm wrong?). While the waitlists for specialist medical doctors are absolutely insane, and bordering on immoral that people are forced to wait for months or years in pain.

Never been to a chiro, and vaguely understand they're under-regulated quacks. But, I don't know, if someone can comfortably afford it and they perceive some benefit, is it a bad thing? Part of me wonders if things like chiro are popular because people get human touch in that setting and maybe it fills some psychological need? Evangelists of any sort are annoying, any anyone who tells me to go to a chiropractor I kind of, am suspicious of. But science evangelists too can miss the point. Carl Sagan communicated so many powerful ideas so eloquently, and spoke so scathingly of what he saw as pseudoscience. But if someone quietly reads a horoscope or goes for a tarot card reading & it helps them to see something in a different & constructive way, I kind of want to say, y'know, fill your boots.

I'm also a bit of a defeatist when it comes to magical thinking. I'm not sure that people who are prone to that kind of thing can actually be talked out of it by reason and good arguments.