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Living in a civilized society with other people should have its social responsibilities, amongst others.
And you get to decide what others are forced to do, right?
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"This is how its always been" is one of the banes of my existence. It explains why we're here, but not how to do better. There are ways to do better. A national holiday for elections has been mentioned countless times. We could do like Australia and mandate required voting. Prisoners should be able to vote. But this country is too hell-bent on punishment. Registration can be made on the same day of voting, rather tha…
> A national holiday for elections has been mentioned countless times. Many people already do get the option to ditch out of work to go vote. And it's not logistically possible for _everyone_ to have the day off. So really this is just a matter of sliding the scale a bit so _more_ people can vote; at the cost of more inconvenience. Personally, I'd rather just make mail-in voting more common.
No election can mitigate this so long as your vote is provable to a third party.
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That isn't true though, coupons, boarding passes, and even confidential documents use Eurion marks. It's not everywhere because it isn't worthwhile going through the hassle of getting printers that can print them; while 3D printing OEM parts would be much more valuable.
Who issues Eurion-marked boarding passes? That strikes me as extremely counterproductive given the actually sensitive part of a BP is an (outside of the US) unsigned, semi-publicly-documented barcode.
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EURion marks are a feature you must include on your banknote for it to even be considered real. And it's _one_ feature. It's relatively trivial to make a chip which can detect their presence. On the other hand, if I need a replacement part for something, it's unlikely I will find the manufacturer giving me models for it. And if a manufacturer is giving me models for it, they probably do so with the explicit expectati…
> This is never going to work, or scale Neither does DRM, really, but it certainly causes a great deal of inconvenience, and is upheld by the legal system.
But the people producing 3D printable gun parts are _not_ interested in applying the DRM.
If you want to draw an analogy to media, this is more like if the government mandated porn detection software on your computer which would prevent porn from being able to be displayed on your screen. Or mandating HDCP between your monitor and your computer so that your computer could implement restrictions on what you could view on the monitor.
Except that computers are extremely difficult to DIY from basic components (I mean raw chips and metal). Meanwhile I can literally buy aluminium extrusions, or even bits of wood, some stepper motors, some gears, some belts, some pulleys and some stepper drivers, an STM32 devboard and get PCBWay to make me a simple PCB, or just use a prototyping board. And at the end of it, I would have a high quality (maybe a bit slow) 3D printer. I can tell you with absolute certainty that it could print gun parts because I have personally taken a trash-tier prusa i3 mk2 clone and turned it into a machine which could probably rival the mk3 at least.
How exactly are they planning on stopping me from designing a part, slicing it, and then putting it on a DIY 3D printer?
They could maybe achieve this by restricting the sale of certain components such as hot-ends, extruder gears (although you can get away with generic gears), or stepper motors and stepper motor drivers. I just don't see it happening. Maybe they could ban open source slicers and CAD programs?
But I guess I better start stocking up on high quality stepper motors and stepper motor drivers and buy a milling machine and a lathe so I can manufacture the other parts myself. You never know when the UK government will steal another wonderful authoritarian idea from another country.
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They are not "exceptions". It's exactly as I wrote: possessing a live grenade is legal , subject only to paying the $200 tax and doing the associated paperwork for the feds. The illegal part is not paying the tax. State laws are another matter entirely, but even many states with stringent gun laws don't ban DDs specifically (probably because many lawmakers are not aware that such things are legal). As for the backgro…
> firearm transfer under federal jurisdiction A far looser restriction. > doing the associated paperwork for the feds. That implies that it’s guaranteed you will pass, which is false. That said, the ability for some states to totally ban ownership outside of military or police rests on them not receiving constitutional protection.
It is not a "may issue" situation. You're guaranteed to pass so long as you are not in any specifically defined disqualifying categories, which are the same as for regular firearms.
Anecdotally I can tell you that I've had more (false positive) rejections on my 4473 than I did on my NFA applications.
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2004! You were way ahead of most of us on that game. Custom CNC stuff is tremendously rewarding and fun to work with. I haven't built a 4x8 table (yet), but I've made some smaller stuff. I credit the introduction of these machines into my life with bringing me out of the deepest and longest-lasting period of mental unwellness I've ever experienced, and it'll be a real shame if this kind of hobby becomes hobbled by le…
Michigan border towns are insane for that reason. People come from as far as 6 states over for the cheap prices. On the other side of the state from Monroe lies New Buffalo. 33 dispos on a small stretch of road in a small lake town. All to bring in.. wait for it… $1.4mil in tax revenue ie basically a rounding error for even a small municipality… https://www.wndu.com/2026/01/28/new-buffalo-residents-voice-...
I don't even partake, myself, but I went to Monroe recently for a run with some family members. And we got hungry.
We stopped at 24-hour Coney Island-like place that has American food, Greek food, and anything that can be made with eggs on a grill, and sat down for a proper dinner. It was actually a very lovely experience: The service was excellent, and the food exceeded expectation.
It was neither expensive nor cheap as restaurant prices go these days, but whatever money we spent on it was left there in Monroe instead of taken back to Ohio.
And that matters, for Monroe. :)
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Cloudflare is ridiculous. I can't even open it using Cromite (privacy enhanced, but not over the top, android browser). I get: blog.adafruit.com Verifying you are human. This may take a few seconds. blog.adafruit.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding. And this hangs forever. What difference does it make if I access this site using a browser (blocked anyway) or I asked my LLM to fetch t…
this isn’t an adafruit-specific stance, it’s a web-wide problem. automated scraping and bot traffic is enough to take independent sites offline, and cloudflare is a tool we use to keep the site available at all. we publish full-text rss with no blockers here: https://blog.adafruit.com/rss . if cloudflare trips on your browser and you want an article, email me and i’ll send it in whatever format you want, we're always…
My critique is less about this site and more about the state of Web in general.
Thank you for providing the rss feed.
New York should introduce a technology that can detect politicians and law makers who are not the sharpest tool in the shed, and let them go
That exists, it's a functioning education system and electorate aware of current events, past history and able to reason logically and impartially, and a viable fourth estate. The problem is, as Rousseau warned us, elections only function for so long as the voters are able to see and identify efforts to bribe them with their own money (paraphrased).
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No. Pakistan supported an insurgency group for 20 years. No insurgency like that can exist without foreign support in some form, usually from governments but it can be from resource export. And the reality is nobody has ever defeated a foreign sponsored insurgency. Some have ended because the sponsor quit sponsoring them, but that is not the same thing as defeated.
I don't really think it's news that the Taliban are sponsored by Pakistan. We've known that longer than I've been alive.
Nobody has ever defeated a foreign-funded insurgency, other than by the funding going away. It's no surprise we didn't accomplish what nobody else has, either.
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That is the essence of the weird gun laws. Take a Glock pistol as an example. The only part that has a serial number and is legally “the gun” is the thing you hold in your hand: the frame. It’s plastic and has the trigger and some parts to hold the magazine. The rest of the stuff? You can buy and overnight ship it to yourself legally with almost no regulation (as of 2026 CA requires more gun-like treatment for those…
I just grabbed my glock to check. The frame, slide and barrel are all have serial markings and it's about 15 years old at this point.