TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on A 21-23-year-old dating or sleeping with an older person doesn't automatically make the 21-23-year-old a "victim". 1 day ago:
Be honest. Is this some fetish of yours?
- Comment on I just lost the game and so did you 2 days ago:
I’m still mulling whether this really qualified as a shower thought, but I gave you an upvote.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 days ago:
Charles Eisenstin’s book “Sacred Economics” (which you can read here) has a nice, simple parable in chapter 6 about that.
Once upon a time, in a small village in the Outback, people used barter for all their transactions. On every market day, people walked around with chickens, eggs, hams, and breads, and engaged in prolonged negotiations among themselves to exchange what they needed. At key periods of the year, like harvests or whenever someone’s barn needed big repairs after a storm, people recalled the tradition of helping each other out that they had brought from the old country. They knew that if they had a problem someday, others would aid them in return. One market day, a stranger with shiny black shoes and an elegant white hat came by and observed the whole process with a sardonic smile. When he saw one farmer running around to corral the six chickens he wanted to exchange for a big ham, he could not refrain from laughing. “Poor people,” he said, “so primitive.” The farmer’s wife overheard him and challenged the stranger, “Do you think you can do a better job handling chickens?” “Chickens, no,” responded the stranger, “But there is a much better way to eliminate all that hassle.” “Oh yes, how so?” asked the woman. “See that tree there?” the stranger replied. “Well, I will go wait there for one of you to bring me one large cowhide. Then have every family visit me. I’ll explain the better way.” And so it happened. He took the cowhide, and cut perfect leather rounds in it, and put an elaborate and graceful little stamp on each round. Then he gave to each family 10 rounds, and explained that each represented the value of one chicken. “Now you can trade and bargain with the rounds instead of the unwieldy chickens,” he explained. It made sense. Everybody was impressed with the man with the shiny shoes and inspiring hat. “Oh, by the way,” he added after every family had received their 10 rounds, “in a year’s time, I will come back and sit under that same tree. I want you to each bring me back 11 rounds. That 11th round is a token of appreciation for the technological improvement I just made possible in your lives.” “But where will the 11th round come from?” asked the farmer with the six chickens. “You’ll see,” said the man with a reassuring smile. Assuming that the population and its annual production remain exactly the same during that next year, what do you think had to happen? Remember, that 11th round was never created. Therefore, bottom line, one of each 11 families will have to lose all its rounds, even if everybody managed their affairs well, in order to provide the 11th round to 10 others. So when a storm threatened the crop of one of the families, people became less generous with their time to help bring it in before disaster struck. While it was much more convenient to exchange the rounds instead of the chickens on market days, the new game also had the unintended side effect of actively discouraging the spontaneous cooperation that was traditional in the village. Instead, the new money game was generating a systemic undertow of competition among all the participants.
The development of currency results in loans. The practice of loaning starts the practice of charging interest. Interest requires constant growth.
Individual companies have to grow to keep up with the necessary constant growth of the economy as a whole. Any company that doesn’t keep up dies.
- Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 4 days ago:
You’re a ginger, Harry.
- Comment on Anal loving girl here 1 week ago:
Mark NSFW posts NSFW, please.
- Comment on I asked ChatGPT to summarize Voyager and this is what it made 1 week ago:
No way ChatGPT did this without at least a shit-ton of selection or a really huge prompt or something.
- Comment on Should my character be 21-23? 1 week ago:
This is the wrong community for this post.
- Comment on We just need to label every port 1 week ago:
Definitely a coal roller.
- Comment on Who cares what it looks like? It works. 1 week ago:
Who cares what it looks like? It works.
This but unironically.
- Comment on Is my stepper motor failing? 1 week ago:
You sure you didn’t get an agitated cicada stuck in there?
Seriously, though. It could be the stepper or even just a cooling fan.
- Comment on how can I train myself not to burst out laughing when I do something really silly? 1 week ago:
Make laughter the ridiculous thing you do. Maybe start off with laughing at his intrusive questions as if he’s making a combination joke/rhetorical question. As he keeps pushing, laugh more and more. At first it can be like you’re laughing at a mildly-funny pun. The next time, consider it a funny joke. Maybe the next time, it’s the funniest joke you’ve ever heard. Keep escalating until you’re laughing maniacally every time he pries. Don’t quit when he finally walks away. Follow him and laugh more and more annoyingly. Until he quits prying.
- Comment on Donald Trump and Peter Thiel are using AI to supercharge the surveillance state 1 week ago:
Oh boy. Minority Report, but with hallucinations.
- Comment on This is because of a filthy print sheet, right? (more pictures inside) 1 week ago:
Measuring the mesh cold is a waste ot time.
You say that, but it’s a hell of a lot better than nothing. I remember the days of not having no Z-probe on my other printer and not being able to use more than (generously) a 3"x3" square of my 8"x8" bed without really bad bed adhesion issues and no amount of manual leveling would help. Even on the aforementioned Ender 3 V2 Neo, I almost never have bed adhesion issues. My estimation of my experience is that leveling a cold bed is about 97.5% as helpful as leveling the bed hot.
- Comment on How could I order a package without my parents finding it? 1 week ago:
Came here to mention the business pickup option. That’s a thing in the U.S., at least. No idea about Ireland, but I think when you order something, you can tell Amazon you want to pick it up at a CVS or a Staples or whatever. And then when it’s ready, you just go there in person and pick it up.
- Comment on Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg unveils new smart glasses powered by AI 2 weeks ago:
Glasses usually make a person look smarter, but Zuck just invented glasses that make you look (and act) dumber!
- Comment on This is because of a filthy print sheet, right? (more pictures inside) 2 weeks ago:
Not OP, but I have a printer (Ender 3 v2 Neo) with a z-probe that when you tell it to autolevel, it sets the bed and nozzle target temperatures to 0°. (As in, turns both heating elements off.) That’s on the manufacturer’s stock firmware. Even if you preheat before autoleveling, by the time it’s done leveling, it’s much cooler. So autoleveling hot is sometimes not an option.
All that said, I’ve never had anything like the issues OP has on my Ender 3 v2 Neo. But maybe OP has a bigger bed and that might make a difference as to whether autoleveling on a cold bed could cause OP’s issue.
- Comment on This is because of a filthy print sheet, right? (more pictures inside) 2 weeks ago:
Two theories: first layer expansion and overextrusion.
If it’s first layer expansion, what’s happening is that your nozzle is too close to the bed when printing the first layer (so, less than 0.2mm if you’re printing at 0.2mm layer height) causing a line of filament to “spread out” more than it should. Over long lines of filament like those on your first layer, that effect can compound. Ultimately it’s trying to put more plastic down between those outer layers than can fit, causing it to “ripple”/wrinkle up. The fix would be adjust your z-probe-offset to make sure your nozzle has just a little bit more space above the bed on the first layer and then autolevel. Or on a machine with no z-probe (with just a z-endstop), to manually level the bed but leave a little more room between the nozzle and bed. If you go too far, you’ll end up with first layer adhesion problems. Like, the first layer will curl up on the corners or will pop entirely off the bed mid-print.
If overextrusion, what’s happening is roughly the same as I explained above. More filament than will fit is being laid down between those outer layers, causing it to wrinkle. The fix is to turn down your extrusion rate.
I don’t think I’ve ever had issues with overextrusion myself. But I’m pretty familiar with that first-layer-expansion issue. And to be honest, when I have that issue, the wrinkling I have always happens parallel to the lines of filament on that first layer, while the wrinkles in your picture seem to go perpendicular. I still think those are the first things I’d try, though. So YMMV, but hopefully what I said above helps.
Also, I’d be skeptical that flotsam or scunge from previous prints could be the problem here specifically. Especially after soap and water didn’t solve it.
Anyway, my 2¢. Good luck! Definitely worth reporting back if you find a solution!
- Comment on *slurp* 2 weeks ago:
Google “Zalgo Text.” You’ll get various converters. It’s not a font. It’s unicode shenanigans.
- Comment on *slurp* 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 2 weeks ago:
I had to use Google Translate creatively to get this joke, but I’m delighted none the less.
- Comment on Covid Conscious - A support community for those still trying to prevent the spread 3 weeks ago:
That’s… a good point. When I make communities, I usually try to err on the side of more general rather than more specific (just because Lemmy doesn’t have quite the userbase of… that other site we never speak the name of), so in this case, I probably should have thought to name it in a way that limited it to just COVID.
But now, I’ve up and named the community. I’d be fine with making it clear in the sidebar that consciousness about the spread of other diseases is entirely welcome, but I don’t think I can change the name (like, the URL) of the community.
But, honestly, I’m also down with just making a whole new community and deleting this one. And, to be fair, I haven’t looked to see if a community like that already exists.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 3 weeks ago:
Lucky.
- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 3 weeks ago:
Back when I took trigonometry, they taught me positive was counterclockwise.
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- Comment on People are utterly insane 3 weeks ago:
Followup question.
“As opposed to what?”
If everyone is “insane”, what would a “not insane” person look like if one hypothetically did exist?
- Comment on People are utterly insane 3 weeks ago:
All but you?
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 40 comments
- Comment on Goals 4 weeks ago:
Just think how many pounds he’d have gained if he hadn’t been on Ozempic.
- Comment on My reaction when there's a new Star Trek show for pre-schoolers 4 weeks ago:
Source? Like is there seriously a Star Trek series aimed at young kids coming?
