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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • In a vacuum, yes. The problem is that when, say, chip fabricators go on strike, orders for microchips don’t get fulfilled on time and the company loses money. When SAG goes on strike for months, movies get delayed, and people usually cheer them on in solidarity. When MEDICAL professionals go on strike en mass, people will die… Quickly, in some cases. People say they support us, and I get a free breakfast once a year at Denny’s during Nurse’s Week, but nobody’s going to cheer on the picket line outside when their dad or grandmother is INSIDE, sitting in their own poop, or not being fed, or having respiratory distress.

    You don’t go into nursing for the money or easy work. You don’t even do it because it’s “just a job to pay the bills” because there’s way easier ways to make this little money. You do it to because you’re the kind of person who is more fulfilled by helping a stranger than by helping yourself, and those people are not ok with risking the life and safety of their patients over a shift differential. A LOT of nurses would cross the line to help them anyway, which would negate the whole effort… It sucks, but that’s it.

    I’ve been a nurse for about 10 years now after getting out of the military, so I have some perspective on this, but I don’t know what the way forward is without letting a couple of vulnerable people die to catalyze change in the field.








  • Not quite sure what your concern is with the top fill pattern. It is a load-bearing part, so it kind of needs to be the way it is to retain the part coming out the other side. As far as the extruder exiting the perimeter of the model, I would remind you of the possibility of printing more than one model on a build plate. Although, I hadn’t yet considered trying to print only one to see if it still happens, as a troubleshooting approach. I’ll try that later, to rule out the possibility that it’s being mechanically pulled off by an extruder transport move.



  • I’d considered raising the temperature a little to get the perimeter to stick better to its neighbor, but I wasn’t sure if hotter printing would worsen the thermal contraction, which is what I was originally suspecting was happening. Nothing ever pulls off from an outer perimeter, it’s only inner perimeters of empty loops or holes.