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I'm not much of a musician, but I do like to fool around a bit from time to time. I have a small space crammed with instruments, passed through a loop station.

For keys right now I have an old Yamaha PSR-262, but honestly it's pretty bulky for the space. I'm looking to replace it with something a bit more compact.

Again, not much of a musician, so I don't feel the need to get something high quality or packed with features. I just want something that fits in a ~36" space and doesn't outright suck. And cheap, I'm not really serious about learning and I can't justify spending hundreds of dollars on what's essentially just a toy to play with when I'm bored.

What compact keyboards provide that kind of value? So far I'm looking at the Casiotone CT-S200, which is still at the high end of my budget. I'm sure there are other decent budget keyboards cheaper than that, but in that range it's hard to tell what's cheap because it's just very basic, and what's cheap because it's useless crap.

I've been thinking about print-in-place joints, and playing with my new multi-head printer.

Has anyone been playing around with making one half of a joint from PLA and the other from PETG to get snugger PIP joints? Seems like that would be a good way to get real right tolerances without bonding.

I did a casual search and I couldn't find anyone talking about it.

Personally, I'd like to abolish the stock market altogether. But this is an attractive, actionable policy

I think it's finally time to upgrade from my Ender 3, and the market has... grown substantially. I'm a bit out of my depth.

Definitely looking at a coreXY, and definitely prefer a multi-color system (multi-material really). My budget is around $600, but that's a bit flexible.

The Elegoo Centurion Carbon 2 looks attractive, and it's on sale. But I've heard good things about multi-head systems, particularly when it comes to waste from purging. Granted, that stretches my budget a bit.

What's the move? It seems like so many of the options (coughcoughBambu) have pretty gross anti-consumer practices. Are there any good options out there?

Update: Alright, I pulled the trigger on a Snapmaker U1. It seems like it's going to be the Ender 3 of tool changers: the open source darling that becomes the de facto standard for the mod community.

You can snap your fingers tomorrow, and it's the day after the revolution, time to sign the Constitution. How does it work?

Assume total creative control, but once it's written it's in the hands of the general population. They will eventually twist and distort it any way they can.

ETA: I should have been more specific. I'm looking more for basic structure, not policy. Monarchy, direct democracy, democratic republic, that angle. Should everything be a pure democracy referendum? Should we delegate to representatives? How much power do we give them? How do we delineate governmental strata (nation, state, county, city, neighborhood, etc.)? How do we allocate authority to those strata? How do we divide powers, and how do those powers check one another?

There's an approximately 24"×24"×32" space in the corner of my kitchen between the actual cabinet and the range.

I'm at a loss. The house is fairly small, and I'm an efficiency nut, so 10ft³ of totally useless space bugs me. The proximity to the oven would make extending the cabinet back that way and using some kind of blind-corner storage solution impractical.

We've been thinking about getting a new water heater, the current one is ancient and lives in a little enclosure outside, about 12' away. Can we get one of those short ones and tuck it in there or is that likely to overheat?

We've also been talking about a whole-house water fountain system, but I'm worried that changing filters would be incredibly annoying.

I don't want this to just be a place for rants and memes. I do want this to be a place for rants and memes, but not just that. We need serious, respectful, cooperative discussion to figure out the path forward. Actual dialectics, where opposing views are analyzed and synthesized. Not the stubborn factionalism we're all so familiar with.

If we're going to accomplish anything, we need organization and a plan. Effective organization is gonna have to be grassroots. An effective plan cannot be. 10,000 independent coalitions pulling in different directions don't get us anywhere.

So let's make a plan.

I'd like to ask anyone willing to contribute to post their proposed timeline of action for discussion. Please, be respectful. Criticize ideas, not people. Focus on achievable actions. "Everyone takes up arms against their oppressors next Thursday" is not an achievable action.

If you disagree with an approach, suggest an alternative. We're not getting anywhere by telling each other we're wrong. We need to agree on what right looks like, and a good solution that you can actually implement is better than a perfect one that will never see the light of day.

I'll start in the comments.

A stateless, classless, moneyless society based on mutual aid and fulfillment, obviously.

But even Marx knew that was gonna take a while. What do we do in the meantime?

Now I'm no political prodigy, this is a place for discussion and my views are nothing but prototypes. But I am a systems guy. I understand the importance of considering implementation when devising a system. Administration, operations, logistics, supply chain, maintenance, etc. I can't even count the number of cool ideas I've seen that totally fell apart in the boring details of implementation.

People need a government. Anarchism is a great guiding principle, but we all know what happens in total power vacuums. We grant the state a monopoly on force so that we can democratically regulate that force. Ending the state doesn't end oppression through force, it just removes the regulations.

Also modern civilization requires a great deal of coordination. If you've ever tried to get a dozen friends together without any sort of decision-making hierarchy, coordinating the resources of 300M people is even harder than that. You need some kind of administration.

By that principle, the most important function of the state is to concentrate power in an institution with democratic oversight and obstacles to autocracy; checks and balances.

Honestly, I think the bones of the US system aren't all that bad. Most of the problems we have come from voters not being informed citizens, but that would be an issue in any system. And those problems can be fixed. The US system provides the tools to change just about anything you want, with the mandate of the voters, but it's so resilient to corruption that it took decades of concentrated, coordinated effort to get where we are today.

Obviously it's still susceptible to corruption, but so is any system. If you create a position of power, sociopaths will flock to it like a [redacted] to a flame. Humans are crafty creatures, we will figure out a way to exploit any game you put in front of us. Even if it's a Kobayashi Maru, someone will find a way to cheat. You can't create a system immune to tyranny, all you can do is build an adaptive immune system within it.

So I'm a reformist. I think if we don't have the numbers and coordination to dominate the political landscape through voting, we don't have the numbers or coordination to do it by force.

And I think we don't. We could, in like a decade, if we really hustled on raising class consciousness. There are a lot of elections between now and then.

To me, the obvious answer is lesser evil. It's just how FPTP voting works, and greater evil is going full fascist. Now, we can also hit lesser evil from the inside to make it even lesser. Primaries work if everyone actually shows up.

Don't neglect local elections. I'm sure at least one person reading this could run for School Board or City Council or something. We're seeing more and more young leftists running successful local campaigns on peanuts thanks to social media. It's never been cheaper or easier.

You can even do it in podunk red towns if you've got some tact. It's not very hard to make socialism sound damn good to rednecks, you just have to learn to find synonyms for all the scary commie words.

If you can't run yourself, encourage others. If you're active in your local leftist community, you probably know someone who would make a good candidate. Encourage them to run, help with their campaign. The more leftists in positions of power, even minor ones, the more the working class is exposed to their ideas.

No matter what the future looks like, we're going to need more leftists with government experience, and a more class-conscious working class.

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I was gonna wait until I had some potential mods to start promoting, but fuck it.

If you're on Lemmy, I probably don't have to convince you to be a leftist. If you're on TankieJerk, I probably don't have to convince you that a large portion of the most vocal leftists are... very dumb.

But they are vocal. Which means when left leaning individuals are coming out into the world and looking to refine their political ideology and inform their praxis, the most consistent and passionate voices are advocating spontaneous, stochastic, totally counterproductive individual action.

I think the Left deserves better. I think the Left deserves a place to have reasonable discussions about practical, scalable actions in achievable time-frames. I think it's possible to keep more than one thing in mind at a time. I think political discussion has room for nuance and respectful disagreement.

Marxism is based on material-dialectics.

"Material" means based on factual conditions and effective actions, not ideological posturing.

"Dialectic" means understanding those who disagree with you, so you can both reach a new, more informed conclusion.

Let's be honest, we're all Trekkies, or Trekkers as my mom says. We all want fully automated luxury gay space communism. But we're tired of being brigaded for suggesting it might take time and effort to promote some degree of class-consciousness in the proletariat. We're tired of being called liberal scum for calling out performative idealism. Some of us know what a SMART goal is, and its value.

Do you think the Left should be more strategic? Do you understand Duverger's Law? Do you want to figure out an actual plan, that might actually work?

Come on over to !PLT@sh.itjust.works and help puzzle out Practical Leftist Theory, because there's a promised land between liberal and tankie.

I wanna do a minor kitchen remodel (mostly just shuffling appliances and cabinets) which seemed like a good opportunity to finally upgrade to induction.

Ideally I'm looking for a slide-in range, but I'm open to doing cooktop and oven separately given a reasonable way to make that fit in the footprint of a slide-in.

Obviously normal BIFL stuff. I don't care about or want Smart Connectivity of any kind; knobs are great, the fewer touchpads the better, screens are off-putting; the fewer electronic components, the better; I don't care about aesthetics at all, I like the simple, easy to clean commercial style.

Bridge elements would be nice, but not that important. Convection is preferred, a split oven would be nice, I don't really need the storage drawer at the bottom.

Edit: I wound up going with this model from LG. Looked like the best option in my price range.

https://lemmy.world/post/33270073