I am not as familiar with cura, but prusa slicer / super slicer have a tool cut any model along a plane into 2 pieces. That seems to be what you want.
If it takes unethical practices to provide for an animal, it’s unethical to have the animal.
That being said, supervised outside team seems like a reasonable choice.
The Roth IRA is great advice. I think a 401k is good as long as you are maxing your company’s contribution. Any higher than that would be better invested in another account so you could use it for an emergency before retirement
If there are culture problems with Arizona, I’m sure Germany will be more difficult. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/tsmc-arizona-struggles-to-overcome-vast-differences-between-taiwanese-and-us-work-culture
Buttermilk always seems to have like a one week expiration, but always seems to be fine up to maybe 2 months surprisingly