All the things you can critique him for, as well as the church in general, and you choose the thing that children were basically forced to participate in under a fascist regime? The dude clearly wasn’t a Nazi and he was a kid.

Where did you read I was criticizing B16 for being a Hitler youth? All I said was that his - definitely forced - stint there gave him the experience to deal with fascist authoritarian figures.

B16 should be at the receiving end of many criticisms - not least of which choosing to be part of, and ultimately lead a disgusting religious cult. But being forced to join the Hitler Youth is not one of them.

They should unmothball Benedict XVI: he’s uniquely qualified to deal with Donald Trump, being a former Hitler Youth.

As a hardcore anticlerical atheist, I’m cracking a beer open to celebrate!

Okay so I’ve readjusted the belts’ tension this morning. The X belt was a bit loose and the Y belt was a bit too tight, strangely enough. Both in the green though. So I set them to the middle of the range. Good thing I checked anyway because all the screws on the X motor mount were so loose they were on the verge of letting go completely.

And since I was at it, I cleaned the entire enclosure and re-lubed the rails and the linear bearings.

However, I don’t think the printer faulted because of any of this: I checked where the hard limit was in X and Y and found that the nozzle came right at the edge of the previous prints that failed on the left and on the top:

At this point, I’m convinced the printer got lucky twice when it printed that print right, and when it didn’t, it was the result of the carriage hitting the limits when the motor(s) overshot the extreme positions a bit. I re-sliced that print to leave some margin with what PrusaSlicer believes are the limits of the printing area and I came to a perfectly printed set of parts today. And the new set I started 2 hours ago seems fine too.

So I think the lesson here is that PrusaSlicer is a bit too optimistic with how large you can print, both in X and Y. It pays not to believe it too much.

Grid infill is crossing, get a decent blob or buildup and you could have nozzle collision, I personally like gyroid but it is slower.

I’ve had the extruder collide into blob on solid infills (or perimeters) when the filament was too hot - usually TPU or TPE - but never infill. I’ll give gyroid a spin though.

prusa has an article for troubleshooting layer shifting

That’s a great article. Thanks!

I’ll go check everything tomorrow. The thing is, it’s the first time this happens (well, second time now). The only unusual thing I did compared to previous prints was fill the bed to the brim, right up to the edges as allowed by PrusaSlicer. I’ve corrected that to make sure this isn’t the issue. Other than that, it’s a printer that’s been printing all day every day for a good year and a half. So yeah, it probably needs some TLC at some point…

Interesting. I’ll have to try the reverse experiment: I have a roll of TPE that’s been drying in the dryer for at least 3 weeks. I’ll take it out and see how fast it’ll reabsorbs water.

How much weight difference do you see? Do you simply wait for the weight to stop changing?
Good thinking. I didn’t think about that.

I am not sure where to draw the line for free-will or even if it exists.

You know a moron who shouldn’t vote when you see one. It doesn’t matter if they’re victims of bad genes or bad upbringing: some people just aren’t fit to decide important things. In fact, I’d argue a majority of the population isn’t.

But you hit the nail on the head: where do you draw the line?

In this case, where is that hypothetical line that decides those who are “good enough” to votes and those who aren’t?

Of course, it’s impossible to make the distinction because the decision is almost completely arbitrary. There is no well-established, proven set of scientific criteria to decide whether a human being is worthy of the right to vote.

So we do the next best thing: we let everyone vote. That’s democracy. We let everyone vote because not letting everyone vote is always worse. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t make me retch when I see a cretin in a MAGA hat who doesn’t even know basic history, geography or civics proudly tell you on TV that he voted Trump because Trump’ll fix it.

My company is flexible, but ultimately this is not my printer and I want to ask permission to undertake maintenance. For all I know, whoever ordered it in the first place is in fact in charge of it, or maybe they want a 3rd party to do it. It’s just a matter of talking to the boss and making sure what I’m about to do is approved 🙂

Turn this (ramping lift) Off/On or tweak the settings

Before doing any of that, I’ll run several prints of the new parts layout that aren’t quite so close to the edges of the bed. The one currently printing is going well so far.

I really have a strong hunch that it’s just a matter of not using quite as much of the bed surface as PrusaSlicer thinks is usable safely.

Oh and i wouldnt use grid as infill

Why is that?

Yes, it’s obvious. But maybe it’s useful to those who didn’t think about it? Sometimes the most obvious things are the easiest to miss.

I’m sorry you feel so negative about it.

This is the company’s printer. I’ll have to get the expense approved first.

Assuming it needs servicing of course: I have to keep cranking out these adapter plates as fast as possible right now, and something tells me not going so close to the edges of the bed will help. It wouldn’t be the first firmware bug I hit in this printer…

Thanks for the tip!

John Wick is awesome

To each his own. I find it unwatchable. It’s unrelenting high-speed sameness from beginning to end. Very tiring to watch and very boring at the same time.

Trump’s loss in support among Hispanic and young adults has been especially steep.

I have no respect for Trump voters, and I especially have no respect for hispanic Trump voters, who should have known better.

Ms-13, Isis, Blm and that was fox news

E-xactly.

Trump ignores the Supreme Court. Fat lot of good this will do: the Supreme Court justices had better get used to being frustrated.

No surprise. All revolutions that start with noble ends for freedom and equality invariably end up becoming dictatorships themselves. Sometimes it takes 249 years, but they all go sour eventually.

Your logic has one critical flaw: you’re assuming the dollar will have any value in the future.

You also assume there will be electricity and an internet reliable enough to keep a Bitcoin network functional. If Trump triggers WW3 and you have to barter for food, your pretend electronic money will not be worth a damn if you can’t spend it and nobody can accept it.

All it says is that his physician is afraid to lose his job. Or be send to a Salvadorian concentration camp perhaps.

Americans should be concerned about Trump and his goons first and foremost - the “homegrown” criminal gang.

Seriously, had you heard about MS-13 before Trump?