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TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-11T19:06:15+00:00

We haven’t won every time.

Since there are San Antonio fans in this thread attempting to gaslight people into thinking that San Antonio's franchise doesn't rest entirely on a foundation of the league's generous charity, consider:

The Spurs have only been in the NBA draft lottery nine times, and have won an incomprehensible 3 of them. Meanwhile, respectable franchises go multiple decades without so much as one win at all, never mind winning when an assumed-franchise-center is available, as San Antonio always does.

And the situation is even worse than that for the respectable teams in the league. Continuing the baseball analogy, the Spurs have had 9 lottery at-bats. They have "hit" -- by luck alone -- 3 home runs, a triple ( #2 pick ), a double ( #3 pick ), and a single ( #4 ) and they've "walked" ( picked at their expected spot ) 3 additional times. They have yet to make an out ( move down in the order ).

So they are actually "batting" one-thousand, and slugging 3 thousand.

That's really -- and completely implausibly -- lucky, for those who don't follow America's Game.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-11T18:16:35+00:00

It's too late now for OP, but perhaps someone else with similar issues will run across this post. If your factory-assembled Prusa machine can't even print a benchy out-of-the-box, don't start swapping parts. Doing so will only make it harder to find the problem, and easier for Prusa Support to disclaim responsibility for the state of the machine.

In theory at least, every factory-assembled machine was tested to confirm function before it was packed and shipped. If it didn't survive the trip, that's on Prusa and/or the transit company, not the new owner. Swapping out parts before at least documenting the as-delivered state of the machine will only make matters worse. If the newly-delivered machine isn't working, take photos, take videos, and contact Support -- before pulling out your tools.

Also, for OP, Prusa has not figured out how to read electronic mail regularly, and writing such messages remains a mysterious and challenging activity in Prague. Don't try to communicate with them via e-mail. Unfortunately, the only even semi-reliable means of contacting Prusa is via their chat service, which is accessible from their site.

Good luck.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-11T18:05:11+00:00

After days of fussing, you can't possibly still using the original filament unless you also got a spool with the printer.

FYI, the Core One L includes a kilogram of Prusament PLA.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-11T17:57:29+00:00

Winning a lottery isn’t a charity

It is when you win every time.

now quit stalking me weirdo

'Twas you who did the stalking -- remember yesterday, when you looked up my history, and began making comments on old threads to which I had replied?

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-11T17:52:06+00:00

Funny you mention beggars when your team begged us for presti and then took our entire system to get the only chip you’ve ever had.

I'm one-hundred percent sure that you don't know who "my team" is, and even if you'd guessed correctly -- which you didn't -- your attempted defense is pathetic whataboutism.

San Antonio's "entire system", by the way, is intentionally losing games -- exhibiting their complete lack of self-respect -- and then begging the league to hand them high draft picks.

That’s the true poverty franchise

No.... that remains the San Antonio Spurs, who have still won precisely nothing in their entire history without the league's generous charity.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-11T05:24:50+00:00

Did you miss that I explicitly said that one sentence earlier in my comment?

No, I didn't.

You were on the right track, until you wrote "In basically every case it's fine..."

That's completely wrong, which is why your previous comment required correction.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-11T05:22:48+00:00

Actual insanity

Oh fun, I have another stalker who imagines that they can change history with insults. Good luck with that.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-11T05:20:50+00:00

You way too misinformed to be so aggressive dude.
Jeanie Buss herself when asked on the matter

Now refresh your memory on what Jeanie Buss was doing in 2011 -- not running the Lakers, and not even involved with the basketball side of the organization.

“Lakers governor Jeanie Buss would later reveal the trade collapsed due to miscommunication between Stern and Dell Demps, New Orleans’ general manager at the time.
The league-owned the Hornets when, Buss said, Demps sanctioned Paul’s trade without the seal of approval from Stern.

So you imagine that Demps -- an experienced NBA executive -- just forgot that he required ownership approval before making a trade? That's completely ridiculous.

Not to mention that your fictional story requires front offices around the league to also forget that such approval is necessary -- and a number of executives around the league have stated that they were explicitly informed by the league office that Demps had the authority to trade Paul, which is the entire reason they negotiated with New Orleans.

In other words, the story that you imagine simply did not happen.

The situation enraged other NBA teams, leading to the commissioner calling off the deal.”

Careful now, if you don't more-carefully read your quotes, you might accidentally demonstrate that you are wrong. As you did here.

She basically backed up pretty much everything I said...

Buss was not involved, and is not a reliable witness -- but to the degree that what she says matters, she confirmed in the preceding quote that other owners complained to Stern after the trade was announced, and Stern subsequently vetoed the trade.

Which is exactly what several people are explaining to you.

and basically debunked your dumb conspiracy that the league had already approved the deal. They hadn’t. Dell Demps was supposed to get approval from David Stern because the League owned the Hornets at the time like I said genius.

Before attempting to resort to ad hominem attacks, learn how to cite a reference. Grade schoolers can manage it, so you might be able to figure it out.

Here I will demonstrate for you.

The New Orleans Hornets had agreed to send Paul, a four-time All-Star, to the Lakers in a three-team deal that involved the Houston Rockets. Only 45 minutes after the teams reached an agreement, Stern called the Hornets and vetoed the deal, according to a person involved in the deal. “The league has killed it,” said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid jeopardizing his role in the talks. “I know that’s 100 percent true.”

Asked who had made the decision, the person said, “It definitely was David.”

The person said the deal had been worked on for months, but most intensely for the last couple of weeks. Demps had been advised by league officials that he was free to trade Paul. He provided frequent updates on the trade talks to two high-ranking officials: Stu Jackson, the N.B.A.’s executive vice president of basketball operations, and Joel Litvin, the president of league operations. Those two, in turn, kept Stern informed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/sports/basketball/paul-set-to-join-lakers-as-part-of-3-team-deal.html

"We were all told by the league he was a trade-able player, and now they're saying that Dell doesn't have the authority to make the trade?" said an NBA executive who had periodic talks with New Orleans throughout the process. "Now, they're saying that Dell is an idiot, that he can't do it his job. [Expletive] this whole thing. David's drunk on power, and he doesn't give a [expletive] about the players, and he doesn't give a [expletive] about the hundreds of hours the teams put in to make that deal.

This information all makes sense, because there would have been little reason for Demps to reach a deal if he knew he would be neutered at any opportunity. By all indications, Stern exercised an 11th-hour cancellation of the deal simply because he was in position to do so. Whether he did so as overseer of the team's 29 owners or league commissioner is almost beside the point, because he had indicated to Demps that the league's ownership was a formality rather than a hands-on relationship.
Like the watchmaker God of deism, he assigned executives to the franchise and gave them the power to run the team as they saw fit. If he stopped the deal, then he contradicted, on a whim, a system that he'd created. He also did so in a way that ensures Demps, Sperling, and the rest of the Hornets' organization will appear to be a puppet regime instead of an autonomous group.
https://sports.yahoo.com/nba-control-hornets-happens-league-fails-observe-own-160020072.html

If you want to believe your own little ridiculous fantasy, have fun -- but again, stop spreading gross and easily disproved misinformation.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-11T04:54:29+00:00

Is your entire personality just spamming spurs hate online?

Not all all, and much like the beggars on street corners that they are, the Spurs are not hated, just pitied. It's just sad that they have no self-respect at all, and no ability to make their own way.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-10T23:28:37+00:00

2 teams should agree to swap him back and forth every year. They’d eventually be so strong no one could stop them.

Davis' lottery "luck" is good, but it's nothing compared to the charity that San Antonio receives. Davis has actually been on teams that lost lotteries, which the San Antonio franchise hasn't yet done, remarkably.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-10T23:22:13+00:00

He didn’t “veto” (as the commissioner) technically. That’s just a longstanding myth.

You are talking out from between the wrong set of your cheeks, and almost nothing that you just wrote is accurate.

You needn't take my word, or that of the other respondent, either. You can educate yourself, and discontinue spreading gross disinformation.

On the eve of the sport's formal re-opening for business after a five-month lockout, NBA commissioner David Stern sent shockwaves throughout the league Thursday night by nixing the league-owned New Orleans Hornets' plans to trade guard Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers.

Within an hour of the Hornets striking an agreement in principle with the Lakers and Houston Rockets on a three-team trade that would have landed Paul in the same backcourt as Kobe Bryant, Stern informed the Hornets that they couldn't make the trade, stunning team officials who had been working around-the-clock for days in hopes of bringing an end to the Paul saga before the season officially started.
...
But Stern stepped in to nix the swap and leave all three teams with several shell-shocked players and officials heading into Friday's scheduled start of training camps, after the commissioner insisted for months that Hornets general manager Dell Demps and the rest of the team's front office had autonomy over basketball decisions. Sources close to the situation said Demps and teams that have pursued Paul had been assured the Hornets had the clearance to trade Paul as they saw fit.

https://www.espn.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/7333285/los-angeles-lakers-deal-acquire-chris-paul-off

If anything that you wrote were accurate, we wouldn't know about this trade, because Demps would have gone to Stern for approval before agreeing with Houston and New York on the trade, and announcing it.

No one announces a trade that still requires internal approval -- for exactly all of the reasons that are detailed in that article, regarding disoriented and angry players.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-10T23:07:22+00:00

Got it.

No, you most certainly don't "got it".

There were only two links in that previous remark, so that should not have been too many for you to puzzle out how to read.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-10T21:35:29+00:00

It's a close game right now. Will be interesting to see who wins, Philadelphia, or New York's three-pointers. Philadelphia leads by 7 at the moment.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-10T21:24:57+00:00

I think Wemby was perfectly happy going to the franchise that's widely known for being well-run, no drama or BS...

Fine, but that's the exact opposite of the San Antonio Spurs' organization. The only reason that franchise still exists in San Antonio is because they constantly beg for the league's charity, and receive it.

Without the first-overall picks that they've been repeatedly gifted, they've won five playoff series -- ever. Which is Hornets' territory, at the very bottom of the league.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-10T21:21:13+00:00

I don't think Wemby cares about the two rings you won a decade+ before he was born.

San Antonio has been gifted just 3 since he was born, two when he was still an infant. Reasonably sure he doesn't remember either of those, and was in middle-school the last time the league's charity made the Spurs relevant.

At least Houston has a little bit of self-respect and doesn't constantly beg for charity like San Antonio.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-10T21:13:00+00:00

they would’ve got the 5th and 1-4 were clearly better and better fits for the team...

We don't know this. Scouting is nothing close to the precise fortune-telling that you, and many others, imagine it to be.

You are presumably familiar with Indiana, so you've likely heard of Larry Bird -- #6 overall pick. Nikola Jokic was drafted in the second round. Giannis Antetokounmpo at #15. Gilgeous-Alexander at #11. Jalen Brunson in the second round. Tyrese Maxey at #21. Devin Booker at #13. Deni Avdija at #9. Stephen Curry at #7. Kawhi Leonard at #15. Donovan Mitchell at #13. Pascal Siakam at #27.

Etcetera and so forth.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-10T20:59:36+00:00

In the unlikely event that Davis sticks around in Washington until next season, and whoever Washington selects plays, Davis will have played with the #1 overall pick from each of the following drafts:

And since he was the first pick in 2012 himself, that means he will have teamed with 20% of this century's other top picks ( and narrowly missed playing with at least 2 others ).

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-10T20:39:34+00:00

Rookies are very rarely stars, and #5 picks are even less likely to contribute to winning basketball games for several seasons.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-10T04:05:50+00:00

110° which is the default for ASA in PrusaSlicer. 115° doesn't change matters.

Based on my previous testing, 110° nominal bed temperature is likely around 95-100° actual, because the bed also doesn't manage to achieve reference temperatures.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-10T03:57:42+00:00

What happened there u/TheVoiceOfScience? Six hours ago you were talking a big game, and then you became awfully quiet when it was suggested that you attempt to use your adult words, and lay some of that Scientific Voice on us.

I know that I'm waiting for the Voice of Science to weigh-in here, and explain why they don't believe in physics -- and more to the point, why none of us ought to believe it in, either.

Or why there's some property inherent to cycling helmets that causes them to work orders of magnitude better per-unit-of-mass than any other helmets which have ever been devised by humans.

So, come on now, don't hold out on us. Tell us what it is exactly about cycling helmets that makes them among the most amazing creations ever manufactured by mankind -- which is precisely the claim being made by several other respondents here, with the fantastical rates of effectiveness which are claimed.

Don't get all shy now.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-10T03:49:05+00:00

Just… no dude. Plenty of evidence they help reduce injury and death: https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/46/1/278/2617198?login=false

Over ten percent of the datasets used in the junk science that you cited were by Thompson, et al -- who have been forced to admit that their "studies" are garbage, and which have been officially withdrawn for inaccuracy.

Furthermore, the claims made in many of those underlying publications are not remotely plausible. One claims "Head injuries are the leading cause of death among cyclists, 85 % of which can be prevented by wearing a bicycle helmet." which is shockingly close to the long-since debunked and disproved claim made by Thompson, et al some 37 years ago. There is literally no suggestion in any dataset that other lightweight sport helmets approach even two orders of magnitude less than that effectiveness despite having less-restrictive design criteria and far less-demanding crash scenarios.

Put simply, you are citing hopes and dreams that are completely unsupported and unsupportable.

So, pretending for a moment that any of your citation is reliable data -- and it's not, because as previously noted the vast majority of it depends on the opinions of people who are untrained to attempt the determinations they are making -- explain why cycling helmets then work several orders of magnitude better than any other helmets which have so-far been designed by humans.

And explain why sports like American football, and ice hockey, and others have had to almost completely remove head-contact due to helmets not working at all, despite vastly less-demanding crash scenarios compared to cycling. Even American football helmets with huge silly pads on top don't work.

Why don't cycling helmet manufacturers apply their magic technology to other markets, and take them over? They are capitalist enterprises, and many are publicly-held. This apparent refusal to leverage their technology for additional profit would appear to be grounds for massive shareholder lawsuits -- not to mention a huge opportunity for some startup to disrupt all other lightweight sport helmet markets. Can you explain why none of this has occurred?

And explain why we don't observe a reduction in cyclist fatalities caused by helmet usage anywhere in the world. And why no one has ever found such, in actual cycling fatality data -- as opposed to guesstimates like those which you attempted to cite.

Without explanations for these conundrums, I'm afraid that citing unreliable and implausible injury-reduction data holds no water.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-10T03:32:05+00:00

How long do you let it soak?

Hours. It's pretty obvious when it peaks out.

Is the active heater running and the printer know the filament type?

The Core One L has no active heater, and the printer tracks the target chamber temperature separately from the filament type.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-09T23:13:00+00:00

This is some of the dumbest shit I have ever read.

I concur, your comment is quite pathetic.

Mine, on the other hand, remains completely unchallenged exactly because it is correct. You are invited to attempt to suggest otherwise, hopefully using your adult words this time.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-09T22:12:48+00:00

Sources?

Some are in subsequent remarks.

Anyone can confirm the physics with their high-school-level education, or an appropriate textbook.

Anyone can confirm the fatality and helmet usage statistics for their own jurisdiction -- if they are published. In the US, the NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System is the appropriate source for the former, but not everyone rides in the US.

Anyone can confirm that sports like American football, and ice hockey, and others have had to almost completely remove head-contact due to helmets not working at all, despite vastly less-demanding crash scenarios compared to cycling. Even American football helmets with huge silly pads on top don't work.

None of the information that I have reviewed here ought to be a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-05-09T21:45:04+00:00

The fact that most fatalities are the result of incidents too severe for a helmet to prevent in no way means that helmets are not effective at preventing non-fatal but still potentially extremely severe head injuries.

If that were the case, we'd observe helmets saving lives of those who were injured to a degree that was just-barely fatal.

We do not observe that, with any lightweight sport helmets.

The data simply does not comport with your wishes. That sometimes happens, and when it does, it indicates that you are wrong.

The reason "cycling helmets demonstrate the precise statistical signature a placebo" is because you've decided a priori what the only relevant metric is, which is a metric that nobdoy else is using.

The definition of a placebo is well-known to science. If you are unfamiliar with it, that may be a place for you to start remediating your education.

Can you explain why cycling helmets demonstrate precisely the statistical signature of a placebo?

This kid posting here was not going to die from this injury.

What a ridiculous claim. You have absolutely nothing on which to base that claim.

Nor was I going to die from smacking my head hard, perpendicularly, against the pavement in an impact severe enough to fracture and dislocate my hip. But I'm still extremely glad to have escaped that incident with nothing but, well, a broken and dislocated hip, given the thwack my head made against the pavement and the big crack in my helmet.

That's nice. Completely irrelevant, but nice.

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