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Comment Re: Pinball machines are still made (Score 1) 39

"All the time? Low overhang speeds + fan with overhang. Not tricky."

If you have printed parts with horizontal holes which were not relieved on top, and you printed them in PETG, then you either had sag, or poor layer adhesion due to insufficient temperature. That's a huge percentage of why people still print in PLA. (Another big part is that it's so much cheaper than PHA.)

Comment Re:Pinball machines are still made (Score 0) 39

I've never experienced any sort of "sagging" with PETG, and honestly don't even know what you mean by that

You've never printed anything with a horizontal hole?

To get PLA to be "tough" (impact resistant) on the order of PETG you have to load it up with PU microplastics, which makes it worse for the environment than PETG so you lose that advantage.

So what? Your average colored PLA has additives in it anyway.

And it gets rid of its stiffness

It reduces it, it doesn't eliminate it. Try actually printing some PLA+.

Comment Re:Thanks to Trump (Score 1) 103

I'm no highly respected scholar on the middle east like you clearly are but a nuclear-armed terrorist-state doesn't tickle my happy places.

OK, but enough about the US and Israel. Iran is not and never has been a nuclear power. The US nuked Japan twice just because it would be a shame not to use both bombs.

Comment Re:Iran internet shutdown to quiet their own peopl (Score 1) 103

Hmmm, why did the people who died not post their videos when there wasn't Internet access? I guess we'll never know.

We know about Israel sniping journalists despite their sniping journalists. You think there's a good reason for us not to know about people in Iran being killed?

Comment Re:Pinball machines are still made (Score 0) 39

PLA blends like PLA+es can be just as tough as PETG but without the sagging. (You can get the sag out of PETG, but that commonly means reducing layer adhesion by reducing temperature.) PLA+ parts can handle a lot of abuse, e.g. the gun printing community overwhelmingly uses it.

Comment Re:The Profit Effect. (Score 0) 92

I doubt many young people can define what an actual âoeracistâ is now that the term is some kind of acceptable retort in casual debate.

It's acceptable where it's applicable, and there's a shitload of racists out there. Defining "racist" is now a politically complex process. The word used to mean someone who believes that race is real and who further believes that some races are inherently genetically superior to others. The only useful distinction is that "a racist" (as opposed to someone who "is racist") should only be applied to people who are willfully perpetuating racism, not to suggest that only privileged people can be "racist" which is the current academic status quo — because the idea of internalized racism contradicts that idea directly, and ideas which are internally contradictory must be at least partly false. It might be hard to see that from atop an ivory tower, though.

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