Yes I do use arachne. I did try to change it to classic when I was messing with my 3D-printed lens experiment, and while arachne wasn't perfect, it left fewer artifacts inside the "lens" than classic.
I'll try to revisit classic for this one print.
doing an ironing pass on your top layer may help conceal this from an aesthetic standpoint but won’t do anything for you structurally
I'll try ironing, This one is purely an esthetic problem. The part is just a cover for a case that holds electronic bits inside.
Measured the real filament diameter before printing and corrected the slicer settings to the measured diameter?Are the extruder steps calibrated?
No and I don't even know how to do that 🙂 The printer is the company's Prusa XL and we're using it as it came out of the box. I'm normally very happy with what it churns out, it's just that small esthetic issue on a part that bears the company logo, that we intend to sell to customers.
The church warned priests that they'd be punished if they denouce pedophiles to the police.
Who threatens anybody for denouncing pedos to the police? Other pedos, and pedo-friendly organizations, that's who. And the Vatican is known for having been a safe haven for pedos for decades, if not centuries.
So yeah, the Catholic church would love to make you think they're not pedo enablers no more. But you can't make a racehorse with a donkey. They just can't help themselves.
Well well, what a surprise... Just when you thought the Catholic church might be turning into a halfway decent organization with some principles, they go right back to their old ways.
I mean the whole Nazi holocaust scheme was basically made legal by denying the jews were fully human. Laws that apply to humans don't apply to subhumans, right?
Similarly, Dubya claimed the Gitmo concentration camp wasn't a violation of the Geneva Convention because the detainees were "enemy combattants" and not prisoners of war.
It's fascism 101, and the US has been practicing it for decades now.
The 3rd Reich lasted 12 years and had been 10 years in the making when Hitler took power.
The US had been a crypto-fascist state since 2001, since Dubya started the nazification of America with the USA Patriot Act and Gitmo. That's 24 years ago - 24 years that I've stayed clear away from that dangerous place. So it took 2.4 time longer to turn actively fascist than Germany.
Now it's a fully fledged fascist state. If history is any indication, it might take 30 years to be defeated. Even if it took only 15, I'm old enough that I might not be around to enjoy a return trip to a democratic USA.
Indeed, it's generally true. And the nice thing of being more difficult to pay a visit to is, my less favorite family members always find an excuse not to come so I don't even have to find an excuse not to receive them 🙂
I haven't been back. I never want to set foot in that godforsaken country ever again. And even if I wanted to, I have no intention of surrendering my electronic devices, disclosing my online activities or being frisked by the GestapoDHS.
My family comes here to visit - which they're glad to do anyway because the place in live in is much nicer and much more peaceful than their depressing corner or American suburbia.
You’ve said that twice now. I was under the impression that if your US tax liability is $X but you already paid >$X in foreign taxes, you file a form saying so and your US tax liability drops to $0. Is my understanding incorrect?
That may be the case today. But when I left a quarter century ago, it wasn't like that. I don't remember the specifics, but I would have ended up paying some thousands of dollars every year.
That’s an excellent argument for not living within US jurisdiction, but how is it an argument for not keeping US citizenship as an ex-pat?
A country that's gone rogue can't strongarm another to deport their enemy citizens living there back home if they're not citizens no more.
I fully expect the Trump regime - or whichever new Trumpesque dictator replaces the orange buffoon when he kicks the bucket - to come after expats it deems treacherous or enemies of the state or something. I'd rather the US can't legally demand my repatriation.
The fewer ties you have to the US, the better. It was true before, and it's especially true now.
The other reason is, a lot of foreigners - like, a LOT - don't particularly like Americans, even the friendliest ones. It's easier not to be an American than having to prove you're one of the nice ones all the time.
problematic to open foreign bank accounts as a US citizen…?
I never had any problem. But remember, it was a long time ago. Things were still pretty chill in the early 2000's. You could literally walk into a bank and open an account in 10 minutes with any ID that looked legit 🙂 There was no KYC or anything like that, and banks mostly cared about whether you had money to deposit. I mean not quite 80's like, but nothing like the stringent dystopia of today.
Also, I had citizenship from a EU country, so that helped.
I did the practicum before the theory. It helped.