It's very unique in the CAD space. It's almost more akin to a hardware definition language like VHDL than it is a traditional CAD solution.
You don't ever do any direct manipulation of your model through visual tools. There is a visualizer so that you can see your model, but all changes are done via plaintext editing of the model's definition file.
This has a lot of advantages, not the least of which is being able to version control your 3D models.
It has some disadvantages as well, in that some transforms that are easy in a traditional CAD software are a little more manual in OpenSCAD. I've definitely had to dust off my highschool trigonometry once or twice to get something the way I wanted it.
Specifically with regards to FreeCAD. I found FreeCAD to be a little inaccessible. It's unintuitive at best, and I found it unpleasant to work with, as it was exceptionally fiddly. OpenSCAD feels far more intuitive to me, but I also have a software engineering background. I think OpenSCAD may be trickier for someone without that, but it's hard to say.
My wife is an administrator at a public school, and as such I know a lot of teachers.
I've yet to meet any that say the limiting factor on their decisions is government interference.
I'd say the thing I hear most with regards to limiting their ability to teach/choose curriculum is how litigious American society is. The schools are so afraid of being sued they bend over backwards to every whim of the parents.
Little Timmy is stabbing the other kids? Better have it documented over a 18 month span with 57 different ways you politely asked him not to. Then maybe we'll consider moving him to a tougher placement.
Oh, you want to teach the Odyssey? Susie's mom thinks Zeus is actually Satan in disguise, so you have to pick something else or we'll be sued for promoting devil worship.
And then you have EdTech corps pushing snake oil so hard that admins are buying it up left and right and forcing it into the classroom against teachers' wills.
All that to say, it's a big, multifaceted problem, but the core of it isn't money. The US spends more per student than almost any country in the EU. It has some of the highest per student spending worldwide. It's not helping, and it's not because the government is interfering.
Listening to a Harry Potter audiobook? Exact same as reading. No difference.
But with something like War and Peace, I feel like it's too easy to just zone out throughout.
Though I think that the reason I feel that way might be less about the density of the material, and more about the implied motivations.
If you listen to a Harry Potter audiobook, I assume it's because you want to hear the story. But even in the question as posed, it feels like you're reading War and Peace just so you can claim to be the kind of person who read War and Peace. It's clout chasing, not reading the book for it's own sake.
Which, to be clear, isn't a bad thing. I've read books just to say I did. But, it makes doing it as an audiobook a bit more sus, as it means you could just basically fall asleep while it's playing and still "get the clout," if you wanted to.
But, as you say, if you actively engaged with it, I certainly don't see a problem.
Sure, and while I realize that I posted this as a top comment, it was after reading a dozen other comments on this post, so it was more in response to the general sentiment I was seeing.
I didn't feel the need to respond individually to 20 people when it seemed like the overwhelming majority opinion, so I just made a top level comment.
Sure, but it seems like people here might have a selective problem with one of them too, just in the opposite direction. Not sure if you've read some of the other comments.
I'm just saying we should probably not have a problem with either. Neither is doing anything wrong or bad.
We should absolutely call out when the media freaks out about a Muslim worship service. But that's not a good reason to freak out about a Christian worship service.
The lack of self awareness in this post is staggering.
"Just because I don't have any reason to believe this is true doesn't mean I'm wrong, and obviously that means the simplest possible explanation is a grand coverup by hundreds of people for no discernable reason."
Then the Doobie Brothers quote? Chefs kiss. Genuinely beginning to think this is performance art.
ETA - And then blocked so that you don't have to look in the mirror anymore. Perfection. No notes, lol.
Dude, you're motte and bailey-ing so hard. You listed out half a dozen things that were demonstrably false, I posted a link refuting them, and then you're like "but your link says they can't prove it hasn't been altered at all because it's too low quality."
Yeah man, it notionally could have been altered. But literally every specific you listed in your first post was dead wrong. Let's not pretend like 90% of that snopes link wasn't a direct refutation of all the conspiracy theory nonsense you were peddling in your initial post.
And they're not trotting him out in front of all the right wing news media because no one on the right believes that he's a vegetable. This is just left wing conspiracy nonsense. Why didn't MSNBC run constant live feeds of Obama's birth certificate? Because no reasonable person believed he didn't have one. It's the same thing here.
So, your argument is that the Republicans think the wrong Republican will win? Massie doesn't like Trump, but he's a pretty staunch conservative. He would still vote with them 90% of the time.
But all this dismisses the fact that Massie has said repeatedly he's not interested at all in running for Mitch's seat. So that's not even on the table.
This has some real "if Obama was an actual citizen with nothing to hide, he would just share his long form birth certificate already," energy.
People were saying he was dead. He posted a photo. People screamed "that evidence isn't good enough, we need more evidence!” If he posted a video, people would say it's just AI. If he had someone come see him, people would just say they're a paid actor.
This is how conspiracy theories work. No amount of evidence is ever enough to convince you that the thing you want to believe isn't true. Feeding evidence into that machine is an exercise in futility, which is probably why he isn't engaging with the conspiracy theorists.
Why? Like, to what end?
It doesn't make sense on its face.
It only hurts the Republicans to hide this information.
The far more likely explanation is that he's too sick to go into work because he's old and fell. But he's not any more actually incapable of fulfilling the role than he was 6mo ago.
He's ancient and was barely holding it together before he fell. I'm sure he's pretty battered. I'm sure it'll take him some time to heal at all because, again, he's pushing 90.
But this idea that he's secretly a vegetable and the Republicans are covering it up makes absolutely no sense. It's just Newsmax style pandering but for the left.
He should post his long form birth certificate.
Probably awesome for people without full use of their arms.
It's very unique in the CAD space. It's almost more akin to a hardware definition language like VHDL than it is a traditional CAD solution.
You don't ever do any direct manipulation of your model through visual tools. There is a visualizer so that you can see your model, but all changes are done via plaintext editing of the model's definition file.
This has a lot of advantages, not the least of which is being able to version control your 3D models.
It has some disadvantages as well, in that some transforms that are easy in a traditional CAD software are a little more manual in OpenSCAD. I've definitely had to dust off my highschool trigonometry once or twice to get something the way I wanted it.
Specifically with regards to FreeCAD. I found FreeCAD to be a little inaccessible. It's unintuitive at best, and I found it unpleasant to work with, as it was exceptionally fiddly. OpenSCAD feels far more intuitive to me, but I also have a software engineering background. I think OpenSCAD may be trickier for someone without that, but it's hard to say.
No, the seat would remain vacant starting tomorrow. It was the deadline for a runoff, but the seat just won't be filled if he were to die tomorrow.
My wife is an administrator at a public school, and as such I know a lot of teachers.
I've yet to meet any that say the limiting factor on their decisions is government interference.
I'd say the thing I hear most with regards to limiting their ability to teach/choose curriculum is how litigious American society is. The schools are so afraid of being sued they bend over backwards to every whim of the parents.
Little Timmy is stabbing the other kids? Better have it documented over a 18 month span with 57 different ways you politely asked him not to. Then maybe we'll consider moving him to a tougher placement.
Oh, you want to teach the Odyssey? Susie's mom thinks Zeus is actually Satan in disguise, so you have to pick something else or we'll be sued for promoting devil worship.
And then you have EdTech corps pushing snake oil so hard that admins are buying it up left and right and forcing it into the classroom against teachers' wills.
All that to say, it's a big, multifaceted problem, but the core of it isn't money. The US spends more per student than almost any country in the EU. It has some of the highest per student spending worldwide. It's not helping, and it's not because the government is interfering.
I will say, spending on public education doesn't actually seems terribly proportional to outcomes.
The major city near me is pumping well over the national average into their schools/teachers, and still show some of the worst numbers in the nation.
I think the problem may be a bit more complex than "just throw more money at it."
OpenSCAD. 3D modeling as code.
I've gotten a lot out of it, and their tutorial is excellent.
Yeah, this was my thought.
Listening to a Harry Potter audiobook? Exact same as reading. No difference.
But with something like War and Peace, I feel like it's too easy to just zone out throughout.
Though I think that the reason I feel that way might be less about the density of the material, and more about the implied motivations.
If you listen to a Harry Potter audiobook, I assume it's because you want to hear the story. But even in the question as posed, it feels like you're reading War and Peace just so you can claim to be the kind of person who read War and Peace. It's clout chasing, not reading the book for it's own sake.
Which, to be clear, isn't a bad thing. I've read books just to say I did. But, it makes doing it as an audiobook a bit more sus, as it means you could just basically fall asleep while it's playing and still "get the clout," if you wanted to.
But, as you say, if you actively engaged with it, I certainly don't see a problem.
I agree with regards to the image in the post. But the title is "Religious Extremism," which carries a judgemental vibe of the people represented.
But really, I actually was posting more in response to all the comments on here than the post itself.
I'm getting a real "eff those guys," vibe that, yeah, isn't in the original post, but is very real in the comments section.
So, as opposed to responding to literally every other comment in the thread, I just made a top level comment.
Sure, and while I realize that I posted this as a top comment, it was after reading a dozen other comments on this post, so it was more in response to the general sentiment I was seeing.
I didn't feel the need to respond individually to 20 people when it seemed like the overwhelming majority opinion, so I just made a top level comment.
I can see how that could be confusing though.
Sure, but it seems like people here might have a selective problem with one of them too, just in the opposite direction. Not sure if you've read some of the other comments.
I'm just saying we should probably not have a problem with either. Neither is doing anything wrong or bad.
We should absolutely call out when the media freaks out about a Muslim worship service. But that's not a good reason to freak out about a Christian worship service.
I don't think I have a problem with a bunch of soldiers going to a voluntary worship service, regardless of the religion it is for.
I certainly wouldn't have a problem if this was a bunch of Muslim soldiers worshipping Allah, so I don't know why I should have a problem with this?
The lack of self awareness in this post is staggering.
"Just because I don't have any reason to believe this is true doesn't mean I'm wrong, and obviously that means the simplest possible explanation is a grand coverup by hundreds of people for no discernable reason."
Then the Doobie Brothers quote? Chefs kiss. Genuinely beginning to think this is performance art.
ETA - And then blocked so that you don't have to look in the mirror anymore. Perfection. No notes, lol.
Dude, you're motte and bailey-ing so hard. You listed out half a dozen things that were demonstrably false, I posted a link refuting them, and then you're like "but your link says they can't prove it hasn't been altered at all because it's too low quality."
Yeah man, it notionally could have been altered. But literally every specific you listed in your first post was dead wrong. Let's not pretend like 90% of that snopes link wasn't a direct refutation of all the conspiracy theory nonsense you were peddling in your initial post.
And they're not trotting him out in front of all the right wing news media because no one on the right believes that he's a vegetable. This is just left wing conspiracy nonsense. Why didn't MSNBC run constant live feeds of Obama's birth certificate? Because no reasonable person believed he didn't have one. It's the same thing here.
So, your argument is that the Republicans think the wrong Republican will win? Massie doesn't like Trump, but he's a pretty staunch conservative. He would still vote with them 90% of the time.
But all this dismisses the fact that Massie has said repeatedly he's not interested at all in running for Mitch's seat. So that's not even on the table.
https://queerkentucky.com/thomas-massie-mcconnell-senate-seat/
So, with that explanation DoA, what other explanation is there?
Do you actually fact check the things you're parroting? Because they're all false.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/07/13/mitch-mcconnell-photo/
ETA: I responded to the Massie post separately. But in brief, he has repeatedly said he has no interest in running for the position.
This has some real "if Obama was an actual citizen with nothing to hide, he would just share his long form birth certificate already," energy.
People were saying he was dead. He posted a photo. People screamed "that evidence isn't good enough, we need more evidence!” If he posted a video, people would say it's just AI. If he had someone come see him, people would just say they're a paid actor.
This is how conspiracy theories work. No amount of evidence is ever enough to convince you that the thing you want to believe isn't true. Feeding evidence into that machine is an exercise in futility, which is probably why he isn't engaging with the conspiracy theorists.
Why? Why would anyone cover it up? It only hurts the Republicans to do so.
Why? Like, to what end? It doesn't make sense on its face. It only hurts the Republicans to hide this information.
The far more likely explanation is that he's too sick to go into work because he's old and fell. But he's not any more actually incapable of fulfilling the role than he was 6mo ago.
He's ancient and was barely holding it together before he fell. I'm sure he's pretty battered. I'm sure it'll take him some time to heal at all because, again, he's pushing 90.
But this idea that he's secretly a vegetable and the Republicans are covering it up makes absolutely no sense. It's just Newsmax style pandering but for the left.
There's not one. This is all conspiracy nonsense.
All the answers are "because they're afraid to lose the seat to a democrat." In rural Kentucky? Get out of here with that nonsense.
The Occam's Razor answer is that he's just not dead. I'd bet the farm on it.