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  • [GER/EU] Buying custom die cut templates

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  • I feel like 3d printing would probably be slower than just cutting them out by hand with an xacto knife, you can get a pretty good rhythm going and depending on what material you make it out of you can probably cut a few of them out at a time.

    Also feels like a bit of a waste to make them out of plastic since it's something most people would probably only use a couple of times then throw away, and even if you make it out of a recyclable plastic they probably couldn't be recycled with paint residue (not even gonna touch on the plastic recycling debate right now)

    I'd probably try calling around to a couple more print shops and such, maybe some art studios and maker spaces. May also be worth thinking outside the box, the maintenance department of some businesses might have a stencil cutter to stencil things onto their equipment, schools might have them (my mom worked in an elementary school, it wasn't exactly a stencil maker, but they had a tool for cutting letters out of paper for art projects and such that might work for your purposes)

    Short of a dedicated stencil maker (which is pretty pricey) a cricut or similar machine is probably your best bet. They're not too pricey if you wanted to get one yourself, and don't know what the arts and crafts scene is like in the EU but I feel like every artsy person in the US went nuts for them a couple years ago and most of the bigger arts and crafts stores around here have a whole aisle dedicated to them (much to my chagrin because they got rid of some other stuff I occasionally need to make room for them) so if you ask around you might be able to find someone who will let you use theirs.

    It may also help to rephrase what you're looking for, especially if you've been asking for die-cut templates. You might have better luck asking for stencils, or maybe asking if they have a cricut or vinyl cutter, or maybe even a laser cutter and just providing the file for them to cut out. There's a chance the employees just aren't really thinking about what their equipment can do and just know that they don't have a specific stencil making machine.

  • [GER/EU] Buying custom die cut templates

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  • A better term for what you're looking for might be "stencil"

    I don't have any specific recommendations for companies, especially in the EU, I feel like a lot of print shops and sign companies could probably do it for you. If you want to DIY it, you could probably pick up some generic letter stencils from almost any hardware store to trace onto something and cut out yourself. Depending on what material you want it made out of you could probably get anyone with a cricut or similar machine to make one for you if your ok with something like paper or vinyl, or if you for some reason wanted it made out of metal or something else sturdier that a cricut could manage you could try asking around to local machine shops.

  • Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns

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  • I really hate the term gun show loophole

    Maybe the situation and laws are different in other parts of the country, but at every gun show I've ever been to all of those people with stands set up selling guns are dealers, so to buy a gun through them you have to go through all the legal hoops as if you were buying from a regular gun store.

    I suppose there's a lot of randos wandering around there who own guns who might be convinced to do a private sale, but that doesn't really have anything to do with them being at a gun show except it's a convenient networking opportunity. You could just as easily hang around outside of a shooting range trying to find a private seller.

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    TIL american public support for requiring vaccines against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year

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  • Although if we want a more pessimistic view

    If we assume that "eligible voters" is a roughly representative sample of the country in general, well over 51 percent of the country either voted for this (directly by voting for trump, or indirectly by voting 3rd party) or didn't care enough to even show up and vote.

    Because that's what happened. Something like 3/4 of eligible voters decided that this was an acceptable outcome.

  • What are the most upbeat songs with kind of depressing lyrics?

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  • In my opinion, the lyrics tell a pretty straightforward story, no real need for metaphor

    Someone releases a bunch of balloons into the sky, they get mistaken for enemy aircraft/missiles, and set off a war.

    If you get more out of it with your interpretation, more power to you, but it feels like a bit of an unnecessary stretch though.

  • It's art.

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  • A sound question.

  • What is a good reusable bottle that isn't a mould farm?

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  • I am very bad at remembering to clean my water bottles regularly, I have about 4 nalgene bottles and a CamelBak in fairly regular rotation, they get left in the car, sometimes with water in them, sometimes empty but rarely totally dry, often for days, weeks, or even moths at a time. I don't drink water that's been sitting in my bottles for that long, but I've never noticed any weird smells, scum, cloudiness, mold, etc when I go to empty them.

    And I can't say I've ever had an issue with mold or any other funkiness in any of my bottles.

    And I think a lot of it is that I only put water in my bottles, no flavorings or anything else (except maybe occasionally iodine or other water purification products when I'm camping, which of course is just going to kill anything that would start growing in there otherwise)

    I also usually (but not always) fill them with purified water to begin with.

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  • To be fair, at the time, there was no ISS for the shuttle to dock to, the shuttle pretty much was all they had. It was designed for missions of about 10 days, and could be expanded to about 17 days if needed. If they needed to stretch it up to a month to go beyond that for her to have a second period, I suspect that would rather have used that cargo capacity for some extra food and such and dealt with her free-bleeding, and much beyond that they'd need to come down one way or another or just die in space.

  • Alabama gubernatorial hopeful Tommy Tuberville piles on in backlash against Cracker Barrel rebrand

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  • Care to elaborate a little on the racism angle a bit?

    Not that I doubt it, but with the amount of research I'm willing to put into it (basically skimming the character barrel Wikipedia article, and a couple quick Google searches) I couldn't turn up a whole lot of details.

    I did find one class action lawsuit accusing them of racial discrimination, but without diving too deep into the court records, a lot of it kind of looked like more of a "some restaurants had shitty, racist managers" than a top-down "this whole company is racist" kind of thing. Not that it excuses the company for that, they're responsible for hiring decent managers, but unless you're going to have someone from corporate monitoring operations at every restaurant all day every day looking out for that, I could definitely see a lot of it flying under the radar.

    If we want to talk LBGTQ discrimination though, yeah, there's some outright shitty stuff at the corporate level in their past. Although (again, from just some very brief and not-at-all in-depth research) it does look like they've straightened that out pretty well over the last decade or two (and also, let's not take for granted how fast a lot of people have come around on a lot of LGBTQ issues, at the time that stuff was happening, a lot of the country still hadn't come around to the idea of accepting gay marriage, for example. It doesn't make those policies right, but it was more in-line with the country as a whole at the time)

  • Modern lunch break

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  • I work in 911 dispatch, so my job kind of falls into some weird exceptions as an essential public safety thing.

    Technically I'm considered salaried somehow, but in practice my pay is hourly.

    I work 12 hour shifts, and my paycheck reflects how many hours I worked (and however much PTO I used) during that pay period.

    Technically, if shit really hits the fan my supervisor could come running into the lunch room and say they need all hands on deck, no more breaks today, and they've eased up on it a bit but for a long time we weren't even supposed to leave campus at all on our breaks so that we'd be available if we were needed, so I guess that's at least part of the reason my breaks are paid.

  • Americans who live near state borders,how do you notice you've crossed the border?

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  • The roads get better, the drivers get worse, there's jughandles everywhere, they won't let me pump my own gas, and there's liquor stores that aren't owned by the state.

    Also I have to cross a river, and pretty much everything gets flatter.

    For the other borders, mostly the same. One direction you start seeing more places serving crab, another has no sales tax, one is just boring and depressing, and the other unless you cross at some very specific places is mostly just woods and farms and shit that kind of blend into our own but with better roads.

  • Modern lunch break

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  • Generally I agree, but I do carve out a narrow exemption for that particular hourly job, it was in a warehouse so pretty physical, I was on my feet all day, carrying around heavy boxes and such, and with the specific job I had I was often the first one there in the morning and basically always the last to leave, so I really wanted that nap in the middle of the day

  • Modern lunch break

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  • I didn't like my old job, but the one thing I really miss was having a full hour for lunch and being located directly next door to a park

    I'd go hang my hammock up between a couple trees and set an alarm on my phone to take a nap, it was pretty damn great.

  • Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’

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  • No Nazi would ever collaborate with Jews no matter what.

    I feel like that's painting with a little too broad of a brush. You can find more than a few instances of Nazis working with Jews to some extent, there's certain instances with the Jewish councils and police that oversaw the ghettos that come to mind for example.

    If it helped them further the goals, some Nazis weren't totally opposed to working with jews, doesn't mean they weren't planning on sending them to the camps eventually, but if they could find a use for them, they would sometimes keep them around, maybe even throw them a bone here or there to keep them compliant.

  • What's the worst change made in a movie adaptation of a book?

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  • Imagine the book as almost a Ken Burns style documentary made after the zombie war, going back and interviewing the people who were there and lived through it collecting their stories.

    It's been a while since I read it, but each chapter is a different person being interviewed telling their story, more or less in chronological order. The stories don't really overlap directly with each other, but together they paint a great overall picture of the war from start to finish.

    And it's a good cross section of different people, soldiers, scientists, ordinary people, an astronaut who was stranded on the ISS for the duration of the war, etc.

    I think everyone who read the book really wants it to be picked up as a mockumentary miniseries in that sort of style with "archival" footage with people being interviewed giving voiceovers and all the other usual documentary trappings.

    And the Zombie Survival Guide is also a fantastic companion to it that is basically done as a, well, survival guide, that was distributed during the war, and is referenced once or twice throughout WWZ

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  • My sister is the hermit crab expert in my family, I mostly only have second-hand knowledge through her

    But for starters it is really damn hard to breed hermit crabs in captivity, so basically every one you've ever seen in the pet trade is probably wild-caught.

    They also have really specific habitat needs, high humidity, warm temperatures, access to fresh and salt water, deep substrate that they can dig and burrow in, vertical areas they can climb on, I think you should ideally have like 10 gallons of space per crab, and basically no hermit crab kit out there actually meets these needs.

    And while a lot of people think of them as sort of throwaway pets that will only live a few months, with proper care they can actually live years, even decades.

  • whats the cheapest legal way to dispose of my dead body so i can stick it to the funeral industry?

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  • Only half-jokingly, my suggestion te my wife is to have me cremated, then mix my ashes in with some concrete to make a life-sized statue of me.

    Stick me on the front lawn and dress me up for holidays, put a pointy hat on me and make a giant lawn gnome, stick a bowl on my head to use as a bird bath, or dump me at a cemetery and let me be my own headstone, doesn't really matter to me, I'll be dead, I won't care, but I figure she might as well be able to get a chuckle out of it, and maybe ruffle the feathers of some HOA Karen while she's at it.

    She actually really likes the idea. She wants to have my statue posed like Buddy Christ from Dogma.

    And maybe go ahead and do the same with the ashes of any dogs I've had and stick them right next to me. Better than having them take up space on the mantle forever, and they're more deserving of a monument than I'll ever be.

  • whats the cheapest legal way to dispose of my dead body so i can stick it to the funeral industry?

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  • My family has some experience with this

    My mom's cousin was a wonderful person, her husband, however, was an enormous piece of shit in just about every way you could imagine.

    She got sick and died, he never had a funeral for her.

    Then he up and died maybe a year or so later.

    My mom was still listed as the executrix of their wills, so it fell on her to decide what to do with him.

    And she decided on nothing. Let the coroner haul his body away and never claimed it.

    After a while they cremate the remains, they hold onto them for a while to see if any other next of kin wants to claim them, then after a while they bury or scatter them somewhere if no one does.

    I'm sure the exact specifics of how that all works varies a bit from place to place, but in general that's gonna be an option. They can't exactly force you to pay for a funeral you don't want, and the local government has some plan on dealing with bodies no one wants to pony up for a funeral for (otherwise there'd be a lot of corpses of homeless people and such piling up in a freezer somewhere)

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  • The town I grew up in has a longish name, most people in the area shorten it to just the first syllable with a y at the end, similar to how Philadelphia gets shortened to Philly

    But there's a slight difference between how the people who are from town pronounce it and how everyone else does and you can pretty reliably pick out the townies based on that.