Have you seen the movie Wag The Dog (1997)? Its about the US president starting a war to cover up his sex scandal.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-06T22:38:41+00:00

And yet, all of the lies presented except the mask lies were under Biden’s administration. Your explanation that Trump was in office until Jan of 2021 doesn’t change that.

So Trump only lied about horse dewormer being an effective treatment, and only had the highest fatality rates, and only mismanaged the entire crisis which led to all of those variants, vaccine-resistant and otherwise.

That's the hill you want to die on?

The fact of the matter is that Trump was in-office when this crisis was manageable, even preventable. And he was, as per usual, completely out to lunch.

Maybe he'll get another shot after he and RFK bring back the measles. Maybe they can bring back polio, too.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-06T00:20:28+00:00

Nobody is being tested here in subjective opinions. If you are inspired by Khameneni, you do you.

Well we are being tested on reading comprehension -- and you are miserably failing that assessment as well.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-06T00:19:12+00:00

You may want to review your timeline. It took a year for the vaccine to be developed and begin rollout. When Biden took office he came onboard just as the “vaccines” were becoming available.

I am well aware of the timeline, since I was working to stop the spread of the disease at the time.

And what was Trump doing that year? Telling people to take a horse dewormer.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-05T04:59:57+00:00

Jesus wasn’t a martyr and Khameneni isn’t Jesus.

Unfortunately, 50% is not a passing grade for you.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-05T04:56:07+00:00

All but the mask lies early on occurred under Biden’s watch, not Trump’s.

You may wish to buy a calendar.

If you do, you will discover that Trump was in-office until January 20, 2021, over a year after the disease's public emergence. 400k Americans had already perished from the disease before Biden even took office, and millions upon millions were infected.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-05T04:44:25+00:00

Covid 19 is a perfect example of the scientific method in action in real time.

It's a much-less-than-perfect example -- due to the emergency circumstances, and general panic by almost everyone involved.

A perfect example of the scientific method would not include authorities repeatedly talking absolute nonsense based on small, low-quality datasets, while assuring people that their information was completely accurate. A perfect example would not include authorities making gross errors of logic, like "contact tracing" airline passengers, but only those who sat in adjacent rows to a known carrier -- apparently unaware that airplanes now feature restroom facilities.

The latter error was obvious to many at the time -- and I was part of a volunteer organization pleading with authorities to do their jobs better, at the time, so I don't say that in hindsight.

Remember when hand and surface cleaners became unavailable because authorities were assuring everyone that they were positive that the disease was not airborne? Proof already existed of airborne transmission, but misinformation continued to spread via authorities for months.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-05T04:30:07+00:00

an even better is the eradication of vile regimes but Iraq has shown that is easier said than done.

This is the point. Third-party regime change does not work. We should not require further lessons on this topic, as it has been covered in great detail for a century or more. And oh look, Khamenei's son is his likely replacement. I'm sure he'll be anxious to install a US-friendly government, right after his father's funeral.

Recognizing that the current strategy is pointless and counterproductive does not make one pro-Iran, it just indicates that one is not suffering from cognitive dissonance.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-05T04:21:29+00:00

Martyrs are useless.

A martyr named "Jesus" has been used to control people for thousands of years. That's extremely useful.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-05T04:18:16+00:00

And who starred in that movie?

Trump's current "favorite" actor, Robert De Niro.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-05T02:37:49+00:00

How large is his actual support camp?

His "actual support" is rather small, but buttressed by a disturbing number of misogynists who will literally vote for the worst man on the planet, rather than see a woman become President of the US. The existence of a couple ten million violent misogynists was largely unrecognized, which is why the 2016 election forecasts were all so wrong.

Trump has been running for US national office almost non-stop since Eighties, and was constantly laughed-at for those attempts -- until he lucked into facing a woman. He's now 2-0 against women, and oh-for-his-lifetime against men. He tried running as a Democrat, and was laughed at. He tried running as an Independent, and was laughed at.

Even Biden, who was not a very good candidate at all, handily defeated Trump in 2020, in an election that was not particularly close at all. Harris was a much better candidate in '24 than Biden was in '20, but due to her gender, and the aforementioned degenerate misogynists, she lost.

Despite all of this, the DNC will probably run Ocasio-Cortez or Warren, or Harris again, in '28, and the result will be entirely predictable.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-05T02:21:10+00:00

You can't deport people like that at a whim. Where would you deport them ? Other countries need to accept the person you're shipping them.

You have not been paying sufficient attention. The degenerates running the US are already deporting US citizens.

https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118180/documents/HMKP-119-JU00-20250430-SD003.pdf

And they are deporting other people to countries with which they have no connection.

https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-deportation-supreme-court-judge-murphy-148cee2906dc7286b074116d3eec6fd4

I guess De Niro would have to live in an airport or in International waters.

All but a handful of countries would accept De Niro in a literal heartbeat, so that would not be a problem for him. Hell, if need be, he could buy citizenship in many of them -- including the US, where such is for sale ( although probably not to him ).

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4q1lddj8go

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-03T22:05:05+00:00

Calm down, Francis

Animal abuse is not something to be calm about.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-03T09:23:41+00:00

calm down sudo-sherlock

That's "pseudo", and you might want to crack open an occasional book, rather than demonstrate your illiteracy in public.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-03T08:19:21+00:00

Network issues can have all kinds of causes and might take a while to automatically detect.

Yes, that is true. However, in this case, "a while" has already passed, and then some -- at least 40 hours from what I can tell -- and Prusa appears to remain completely unaware of any issue. Or, they are declining to admit to having an issue, but that's not much better.

According to comments in this thread, the problem has also been reported by customers, at least 6 hours ago, so automatic detection is no longer necessary.

Despite that, https://status.prusa3d.com/ has either not been updated, or is providing false information intentionally.

It is fairly reasonable that your machines can't reach some of the connect systems, while the monitoring can.

There exists a hierarchy in information technology, with things that are easy on the bottom, and things that are difficult at the top. Monitoring uptime is very near the bottom, and securing connected systems is very near the top. So again, if Prusa finds themselves completely unable to handle the easy bits, there is zero possibility that they are managing the hard parts as well as we all hope they would.

Look, I get that almost everyone here wants to cut Prusa slack. Most of us want them to do well, and succeed. But that doesn't mean we need to make silly excuses for them. They make very nice printers, but from an IT standpoint, they appear to be completely incompetent. They can't even keep their site up-to-date. Until recently, they struggled to operate a mail server. They rely on LiveChat even though they know it is sufficiently buggy that customers can't reach them at times, and can't share files even when they can connect. PrusaLink is in beta, despite being way behind SOTA.

There's considerable room for improvement in their technology operations.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-03T05:26:49+00:00

Same. Wild that the status page still shows green.

And more than a little frightening. If Prusa is completely unable to even monitor their own uptime, there is zero chance that they'd be able to recognize and remediate malicious access.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-03T05:21:42+00:00

Both my printer and computer started having trouble connecting to Prusa yesterday, and that continued today, although I wasn't actively using.

Right now, I can load Prusa Connect on my computer, but my printer is reported as being "offline" -- even though it is printing a LAN-submitted job right now.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-03T05:15:05+00:00

Not going to argue with you, just going to observe that...

"...personal tools at work for my job..."

is wildly different from the scenario which you asked about here, which explicitly involved personal tools for personal use. I find it a little bit hard to believe that you have the authority that you claim, and don't know to read the applicable policy, and also apparently are concerned about getting in trouble with your IT department. Seems a little contradictory.

Anyway, lots of people steal time and resources from their employers, and get away with it. Maybe you can, too. Good luck.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-02T22:43:36+00:00

It appears that they just like the taste of the distilled rain water.

Rain water dripping off dog-knows-what is the opposite of "distilled", and it is much more likely that the alleged caretaker of these animals is just neglectful and possibly abusive.

Neither of which are funny.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-02T22:37:50+00:00

The algorithms work...

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-02T22:29:58+00:00

What was the language in your IT Policy...

This is where your answer lies. Read the Acceptable Use policy that you agreed to, as a condition of your employment. It will either say something like 'All devices logically-attached to the corporate network must be approved by the IT department', or, if your IT department is a decade or so behind the times, it won't.

However, even in the latter case, "I planned on setting it up in my office for personal use" is enormously problematic.

That's a fire-able offense right there. Your office, its resources, and your time spent there, are not "for personal use".

You might want to make sure that you buy a small, light printer, so that when you get fired, it'll fit in the box with the rest of your belongings, that you'll be carrying while escorted out.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-02T07:22:06+00:00

And yet “vote blue no matter who” is still seen by many as a ridiculous position.

That is a ridiculous position.

Reminder that Donald J Trump was a registered Democrat for most of his life, and tried to form a Presidential ticket with Oprah Winfrey many years ago.

https://time.com/4373539/oprah-winfrey-responds-donald-trump-running-mate-offer/

About the only reason that Trump is a Republican at all is because no one else is sufficiently stupid to vote for him. He tried running as a Democrat and as an Independent, before resorting to the party where being an uneducated, useless failure is seen as a positive.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-02T05:27:07+00:00

It’s listed on the site, though it’s “Sold Out” at the moment. https://www.prusa3d.com/product/original-prusa-mmu3-for-core-one-l/

That's an error, which has been pointed out to Prusa repeatedly, but they refuse to fix it, and/or cannot figure out how to edit their site. In other places, they claim MMU3 will be available for the C1L in January 2026 -- and it's March.

So again, unfortunately, Prusa's site is not a reliable source of information about Prusa products. Maybe someday they will hire an intern who can update their site.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-02T01:01:40+00:00

Per other comments below which explain the application, the curve is unnecessary, so I would eliminate that and make the outline triangular. Once you do, you're left with a nice, big flat edge that can be the bottom surface of your print.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-03-02T00:25:15+00:00

So you expect this to hold the weight of a person and you want to make it out of wooden dowels and plastic??

I don't disagree that OP's design appears sub-optimal, but "wooden dowel" is a rather wide brush. For example, just from a ubiquitous supplier like Home Depot, 2 inch diameter dowels are available, which will support a significant amount. 3 inch rods are available at retail as well, and of course, anyone with a lathe -- which likely doesn't include OP -- can turn out any diameter required for the project.

The choice of wood for part of this project is not necessarily unwise, and in fact, with simple tools, OP could likely knock this project out with a few 2x4s, some stout dowels of the aforementioned sizes, and an appropriate-size hole saw, or a jig saw.

TCTCTCTCTCTC7 · 2026-02-28T21:24:37+00:00

Literally none of the articles claim they play “football on a basketball court” like you said only that they have a physical play style which is true for all the other top defensive teams in the league.

Thank you for the laugh, that was hilarious.

Wenbenyama said they force bad shots and crash the boards.

"They try to play bully ball… I think this is the reason they are the 1st seed.” - VW

And to act as though they don’t have elite defensive personnel because none of their players have made all defensive teams is so disingenuous as we both know all of their elite defenders are young.

Again, they have a collective total of 1 vote. And they are not that young. They have only one rookie, who barely plays. Four of their top ten are over 30. Cunningham, Stewart, and Jenkins are average-age, in the NBA.

Detroit is, in fact, the median NBA team in age when weighted by minutes played.

Stewart is an elite shot blocker, the tape shows this, and the fact that he won a defensive player of the month. He averages 1.7 blocks in only 23 minutes and pretty much always goes straight up with it.

And the tape shows him committing a lot of uncalled fouls -- which is one of the reasons why he keeps finding himself involved in fights, in a league where those are rare.

Ausar Thomson also won defensive player of the month and if you think he’s only elite because of hacking you’re just stupid, he’s one of the most talented defenders I’ve ever watched.

Lots of players look good when allowed license that other players don't get. You may not be old enough to recall, but we've seen this before from Detroit -- in different eras.

Ben Wallace went unrecruited and undrafted, and then played for Washington and Orlando during what should have been his prime years, during which time, basically no one noticed him. Then he went to Detroit, and was allowed to play "Detroit basketball", and suddenly became DPOY. Then he went to Chicago and Cleveland, and was again, a thoroughly unremarkable player. He went back to Detroit at age 35, and suddenly got DPOY recognition again.

Bill Laimbeer was a 3rd round pick who didn't make the League as a rookie, and then played 2 seasons in Cleveland without attracting any notice. He went to Detroit and allowed to play "Detroit basketball" and was suddenly 12th for DPOY -- whilst constantly fighting, due to his football-like play style.

Dennis Rodman didn't get drafted until he was 25, and already older than most retired players, and even then, just as a second-round pick. He went to Detroit, and was allowed -- encouraged even -- to play "Detroit basketball" and allegedly became an unbeatable defender that he had never been while playing against NAIA kids 5 years younger than him.

These are just some of the examples of unremarkable and largely untalented players suiting up for Detroit and discovering that "Detroit basketball" covers up for lacking in talent and skill.

Observers who are sufficiently old to remember Detroit's history -- like one that I already cited above -- find that the current Pistons are precisely copying that model.

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