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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Like we can focus on memes alone, please!

    If you want to understand motivation, not just for “today’s attention challenged individual on the go”, but something that’s universally applicable, I’d suggest you go to the source and look up self determination theory.

    I’d be happy to apply the theory on your case, but for the sake of brevity I shall refrain from doing so unprovoked.

    The tldr is that there’s three basic knobs you can twist to affect someone’s motivation: competence, self determination and belonging. You don’t need to actually invoke real change, but strengthening a person’s perception of those feelings will induce a positive psychological impact.






  • When I signed up with my psychiatrist the wait was 72 weeks.

    I just looked it up, and the same psychiatrist now has a wait of 304 weeks! If I limit my search to psychiatrists within 50km, as the crow flies, basically about an hours drive, I have 6 psychiatrists "available. Their self reported wait periods ranges from 159 to 700 weeks. 700 fucking weeks! The 700 weeks is probably a case of “sorry, you’ll have to wait 14 years, because I’m not allowed to take in more patients, or pay for the eval yourself”, but the average for the 5 fastest is still 226 weeks.

    I don’t know where you’re at, but my username gives me away - I just don’t want to fuel the American “socialized health care is ineffective” bonfire by making it too obvious.





  • My approach would be to combine pretty much what everyone else has said, and add annealing to the process:

    1. More walls, higher temp, bricklayers (the usual wank when you’re more into 3d printing tech than design). Test if watertight and proceed to #2 when it obviously isn’t
    2. Can I just buy the container?
    3. No? Then annealing could be a solution. Take the print from #1 and put it in a baking tray. Fill out every bit of air with sand to support the print. Bake the print at just above the glass temp for the filament for a enough time for the sand to get up to temp. Turn off oven and let the entire thing cool down slowly. Test the dimensions and watertightness.
    4. Realize that I didn’t do a good job of supporting the structure and I spent too much material printing extra walls. Others have suggested coating the print, which will add material in a somewhat unpredictable manner. Is it acceptable in view of my tolerances, can I alter the design to make it acceptable? Print with minimal material and coat with epoxy.
    5. Get tired of the project and start comfort printing cute stuff for people you like…