The bootstrap paradox (in which an event triggers a sequence of events that cause the original event) is *not* a paradox. It may be counterintuitive, but if you've already accepted that backwards time travel is possible, then there's nothing illogical about an event causing itself.

Assuming Trump eventually gets ousted, all of his pardons should be nullified. #USPol

Does everything remind me of Star Trek? No, only about 80 or 85%.

So, apparently, a British prison intake and release is done approximately like what was depicted in Idiocracy and accidentally released two inmates who were supposed to be on their way into prison instead of out. 🤦

BBC News

Algerian sex offender mistakenly released from Wandsworth prison arrested

Brahim Kaddour-Cherif was spotted by a member of the public in north London today after being freed in error on 29 October.

Dangit. Looks like the 3D printer probe that doesn't officially support delta printers but I mostly got working anyway (it would cause the MCU to time out about half the time) just got an update that hard-codes rectangular beds. This makes it completely impossible for me to get it working without writing a bunch of python, a language I've barely used, into a project In not at all familiar with (meaning I'd poetically need to read the whole codebase to understand). 😫 #3DPrinting