Roberts's 2003 dissertation is about cultural shifts in enslaved populations in Louisiana. Even the abstract mentions 1808 and the end of the Constitution's protections of the transatlantic slave trade. repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/c838a5...

but to offer a concluding thought, the real problem with "we need a new renaissance" is that a "renaissance" is created not by doing fundamentally new/ better things but rather by demonizing people in the PRESENT as "backwards" and hence enemies to be vanquished

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"pretend a right-wing activist is just a Concerned Citizen" is the go-to move for crypto-reactionary NYT people.

Jeremy Peters did this for a militia member at Charlottesville,

I pointed the error out to him on Twitter and he blocked me."

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No one ever says “Taliban warfighters” or even “French warfighters.”

It is useful, but I suspect that they chose “warfighter” because they exhausted some less silly terms (fighter, combatant) by using them exclusively to refer to our enemies. Which is to say that the language embodies the GWOT idea that our military is the only legitimate one.

I don’t, but I suppose that’s an incentive for me to write it up. I was able to get lower cost SLS and DMLS prints from overseas before the tariffs went into effect. Pretty expensive proposition now.

Beyond FDM 3D printing, I’ve also had relatively poor luck with SLA printing designs with fine features. But I’ve had pretty decent results with powder bed fusion metal printing as long as I did some post processing.

Laser cutting is a great way to make cuts with thin lines that FDM 3D printing definitely isn’t the best at! But I’ve actually gotten good results 3D printing thicker areas that then transfer the texture of the top layer.