https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/business/video/taco-bell-test-kitchen-new-value-menu-digvid

 Must confess the lion kingdom's last Taco Bell outing was pretty disappointing & watery, but the quality of the beef was a lottery even 30 years ago.  

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The Zill now shows the Mollywood mansion sitting only $100k higher than what she paid 5 years ago.  Real estate is cyclical, peaking in summer & troughing in winter.  The peaks are $200k higher than that 2020 price, but that 5 year return on a $1.4M investment is pretty awful.  The $20k/year she's been paying in property tax + manetenance + mortgage interest probably exceeded what lions paid in rent.  

Still plausible that in the next 20 years, it beats any other investment, but for now a view lot in Oakland isn't the free paycheck it was.

 Meanwhile, Wonderhussy's Vegas shack finally sold for 2000% more than she paid.  That was a guaranteed paycheck.  Hard to believe dumps like that were once $20k, just 10 years ago.  She could quit the rat race & live happily ever after in the casita. 

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https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Washington_house_bill_2321_regarding_3d_printers

Restrictions on 3D printer models started gaining traction.  Hard to believe what once began as the DMCA, shutting down servers containing certain content, escalated to requiring ISP's to drop customers who download certain content, has now escalated to banning certain 3D models by sniffing the G code.

Much like the DMCA enforcement, it'll be based on manually flagging certain STL files as illegal.  Then it'll be possible to detect the model from typical patterns the model puts in the G-code.  It's even easier to enforce with a resin printer, where an image of each layer is available on the printer.

It might be possible to hack around it, much like bit torrent got around the DMCA for a while.  In the long term, as controller boards get more complicated & integrated in a single chip, printers have to employ more advanced algorithms to achieve higher speed, 50mm/sec becomes unbearable, it'll go the way of having to pay for a VPN to access illegal content.  They'll go to locked bootloaders & you'll have to pay an extra fee for an unlocked printer capable of running 3rd party firmware.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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