There are what? About a dozen different plastic types Lego uses? There might be a batch of plastic that was used that is slowly shrinking over time from off-gassing. (Typical bricks are ABS which don't have that particular problem.)
There might be a defect that someone else is aware of, but you might need to replace the connectors or glue them. Heck, you just need to fix the friction fit so creative use of PTFE thread tape might work.
(Not a Lego expert, but I do my research into plastics and such for other reasons. I want to guess that it might be the PMO (Delrin) that is causing the issue which is absolutely not approved for use in spacecraft.)
Edit: Clarification on the PTFE thread tape use. For those who are unfamiliar with it, it's not sticky and does not have any glue on it. If anything, it's going to be a bit more slippery than other plastics. If you had two bricks and put a layer of PTFE tape between them, it's would be thin enough to act as a wedge between the bricks to fix a friction fit but you should still be able to pull the bricks apart easily. You would need to experiment though.
Don't confuse me with facts.
AI can't recognize a pattern it's wasn't trained on? Imagine that....
I can't find a source personally but there seems to be a bit of internet controversy on the subject.
A clip from TikTok said it was a secret signal for having syphilis. We can discount that just because of the source.
It could be from Rome or Europe, for reasons ranging from cleanliness to small hot cups.
Eesh. The Internet is useless these days.
It's worse. They completely believe their religions and it's their god that commands them to kill the sinners. It's a rationalization feedback loop: They are just doing what they are told to be proper religious folk.
Coolness. By the time I started the edit on this comment, I had forgotten the particulars of your username spelling to tag you.
Thanks for the quick note. :)
Please tell me it's healthcare. They could probably afford top notch medical services at super affordable prices and still make a hell of a profit.
It was kind of a stretch for it being an instance issue anyway, but thanks for the response. (These issues started after the last instance update, which does point the finger at the client in many cases. Not all, but many.)
Unfortunately, my manipulation skills are top tier. Unless you happen to have the memory span of a carrot, this issue report is now planted in your head as something to associate with any possible future issues that you might encounter. (I know how engineers think, bud.)
Ok, maybe I just have a little too much time on my hands at the moment to type out extended comments. ;)
That's odd. The number of reported drones downed decreased. First it was 12, then it was 10. (Usually, it an exponential increase between reports: 12 morphs into 144, or something like that.)
A few hours later, I just discovered how long this cheesy noodle trend has been going on for.
Also, this idea was already taken by a previous poster who likely started this trend quite a few days ago, I see.
My mistake!
Strange. I don't see this as a pinned post on that community, but yet, there it is. Did an admin pin a post from another instance on .ca somehow or is this a bug with Connect? (Strange things are happening like this since the last Lemmy update. I can't tell if it's a Connect issue, or a Lemmy issue.)
That feed is not /c/cat on lemmy.world, it seems.
I just logged out and logged back in with no change. I'll clear my cache to see if that helps and will update this post if successful.
Edit: Clearing the cache did not help. Must be a Lemmy API issue?
Edit 2: NSFW communities are not hidden in the faux community feed either. Thankfully, they are blurred, but not hidden. Posting a comment with a picture from what was supposed to be lemmy.world/c/world. (Did I use "faux" correctly? I rarely use that word, so hopefully the intent shows.)
Edit 3: Ok, weird. cat on lemmy.world is broken from my account on .ca, but other communities are not, like business on lemmy.world. lemmy on lemmy.ml is also broken. The issue is more random than I thought.
Fenn and Sudo. (Yes. I am nerd and Sudo is "my" kitty.)
Ok, I misinterpreted "disintegrating" in your original post. It's unusual for parts to just crumble, so I took that to mean that parts were just falling off the build. My mistake.
Yeah, it would likely be a factory defect in the plastic. (Too much plasticizer, too little or even an incompatible dye, maybe.) Lego would probably be receptive to sending you replacements in that case as they are probably fully aware of any bad batches of plastic they had by now.
Most home windows filter out a majority of UV light from sunlight but not enough to completely prevent plastics from degrading slightly faster. Even if it got just a couple of hours of direct, filtered sunlight per day, that may have caused an issue over 4 years. (I have had plastics sag and crumble because of this over a similar time span, actually.) Just something to be aware of.
(Ozone loves to munch on plastic as well. If you have an ozone generator next to your model, that would be an issue. Some home air purifiers generate ozone, btw.)