The difference is all the gun totin' Trump voters genuinely believed, either via self delusion or with the assistance of right wing media, that Trump wouldn't take their guns. They made up any number of excuses to rationalize what was said in order to maintain support for their man. "He didn't actually mean it." "He was just speaking figuratively." "It was taken out of context." Etc., etc.
That will last only right up until he actually does this. Never mind that it's already too late in that they voted for him. I am predicting that exact moment is when the realization will finally set in. I'm sure many will probably also try to cope by trying to find someone else to blame. That won't change the fact that in the moment, regardless of the rationale, showing up in a uniform and trying to kick in a paranoid nut's door and tell him you're here for his guns is a monumentally stupid idea. The element of surprise will surely work in the feds' favor only until it comes out that the first gun owner has been killed as a result of a mass confiscation incident.
Both sides will ultimately and inevitably decide that "shoot first, ask questions second" will be the only viable strategy. Except it isn't, when both sides are doing it. The only winning move is not to play.
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And me.
There are basically only two lines that this administration can cross after which it will be, to employ the vernacular, on.
- Cancelling retirees' social security and/or retirement benefits
- Trying to take everyone's guns
The major difference is that one those groups is preeminently equipped to make that process very difficult. I'll bet you can guess which one it is.
The one thing that every paranoid loon agrees on -- left or right -- is that the US government actually attempting to blanket confiscate guns is the 100% unquestionable and unambiguous indicator of everything going absolutely sideways. This is why gun bans have always been incremental; those in politics absolutely know that the end result of trying to do it all at once is only a guarantee that a lot of people get shot.
Watching all the rednecks try to reconcile that it is in fact Trump's gubmint that is comin' to a'take their gunz is going to be quite the spectacle, I'm sure.
To each their own for sure, but the takeaway here is that there are definitely better notepads than Notepad by now, especially since having AI baked into your plain text editor isn't something that anyone ever asked for.
At this rate you may a well use a slab of some granite and a chisel, or maybe even vim.
Especially since in the height of my pirating years during teenagerdom, no amount of cajoling or coercion could get me to pay for whatever it was because I didn't have any money. Which not at all coincidentally was why I was pirating it in the first place.
These dweebs always operate from the frankly invalid preconception that if the pirate had not pirated the media they would have paid for it and therefore they're "owed" a sale, but that's not how it works. I imagine that if the vast majority of people were unable to pirate their thing, they simply would not watch/listen/read/play/consume the thing at all.
Notepad++.
That is all.
Hell, I run a ghost community. I did indeed port it over from reddit, just out of spite. But to be fair, it was pretty ghosty over there, too.
I'm not too worried about it. I just don't have much to post about just now. It's not hurting anything.
He literally warned you he was going to do this. He warned you in the debate with Kamala, on national television. Did people not believe him?
Where are all those "Genocide Joe and Kamala" people now, hmm? Just disappeared back into the woodwork?
The top end Asko model has four racks...
I've been at it again.
I've been using the hell out of these drawer thingies, what with you fill with Gridfinity bins and store ~~pocketknives~~ various things in.
Well, I screwed myself over and it turns out I need a stack of drawers one cell narrower than stock. The original author posted sources in Onshape but I will be buggered if I'm signing up for Yet Another Account just for that.
So I reconstructed the entire thing -- my way -- in FreeCAD. Because obviously that's the less insane option. (I guess this also allowed me to excise the magnet ears from the drawers, which is a worthless increase in print time and small waste of material for me since I don't use magnets with my Gridfinity bins)
Anyway, here it is.
This is my dinky 2x2 test print. Which is very nearly but not quite completely useless. (For instance, it fits Nite-Ize cable ties very well, as you can see.) If it makes you feel any better, the generator absolutely will make you a 1x1, 1u tall drawer assembly if you ask it to which truly will be fully useless...
VSO.
So we got one of these rather silly sponge holder ducks.
The only problem is that Mr. Quacks here doesn't quite weigh enough. With a sponge his beak -- especially one that's laden with water -- he's prone to falling over into the sink. The sponge is held quite a ways outboard, and altogether the entire duck only weighs 65.4 grams.
I tried one other gimcrack solution before this, which was to glue a suction cup to his butt. That didn't work very well.
Instead, I opted to fill him up with some ballast. These will do nicely.
Yes, all of these pictures were just taken on my grubby stovetop. No, I am not going to pull out all the stops to perform my usual level of photography on, let's not put too fine a point on it, a butt plug for a rubber duck. I used a very short (less than a meter) scrap of left over TPU I had lying around to make a... cork... so I could fill the duck with ballast and then keep it all inside.
I am also given to understand that I should have perhaps made such at thing corkscrew shaped, but I am very sorry to inform you that I didn't do this, either.
I didn't count how many BB's I used. Two fillings of that speed loader that came with my Crosman M4, is what it was. I'll let you do the math: Now he weighs a much more suitable 265.7 grams, a little over four times the original weight, and acts rather like a weeble-wobble. With this you can tip him over so far the sponge falls out before he topples over himself. And can also shake him like a maraca, if you're really bored.
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So, Are We Just Agreed That The Hardware Requirements Popup on HL: Alyx Is Just BS Now?
(lemmy.world)
This is a broadly substance free post. But I assume most VR headset owners have at this point at least tried Half Life: Alyx.
It therefore follows that most of you are familiar with this dumb popup you get the first time you run it:
Fair enough, on my old PC I only had a Sandy Bridge i7 2600K and a GTX1080Ti. Maybe I was below the recommended requirement even though I played through the entire campaign just fine.
Well, I just built a new PC containing a Ryzen 9 9900X, a Radeon RX 7900 XTX with 24 gigs of VRAM, and 64 gigs of system RAM.
And I still get that dumb "low memory" popup.
This game came out four years ago, Valve. What the hell did you expect people to play it on? A Cray EX254?
More noodling around with Overture glow PLA.
I tried to tweak the exposure a bit this time to make it look more like how you perceive it in reality.
I'm finally getting around to messing with this stuff. Now I can balisong in the dark.
Step 2 is determining how badly all the particles of gumf in this filament negatively impact the mechanical strength.
Edit: I probably should have said this in the first place, but this is Overture green glow PLA.
The model is my Rockhopper balisong utility knife. Go check it out -- it's fully printable, even the hardware.
Wouldn't you know it, I've been messing with the current release candidate for FreeCAD lately. Just now, I used it to make this.
I got annoyed at having to search through all these multipacks of files to find a Gridfinity bin in the size I want. So I decided the hell with it, and made a parametric configurable FreeCAD model that creates bins or you, in any size (within reason) and also with a configurable number of fixed dividers in the bargain.
My main intent was, of course, to use these to organize oodles and oodles of pocketknives. You'll never be able to guess why. But if you have a use for it, knock yourself out.
This one's a real reach. Mo' obsure, mo' better.
I got annoyed by my BRS Replicant (clone) showing up with very swanky channel milled handles, but no latch. Yes, it came with a little ballistic nylon belt pouch and no, even I of all people am not a big enough nerd to actually wear it that way.
So I made this, which is a little friction fit dingus you can print out of TPU that fits quite snugly over the bite handle and holds the knife shut, but you can slip it over the end of the safe handle with your pinky easily.
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I'm going to 3D print a badge and pin it to my wall, or something. Right after I finish rolling on the floor and laughing. Just give me a few minutes.
- Context: This guy creates an "angry" sub to bitch about things. Cool, cool.
- Same guy posts a couple of troll-level ranty screeds filled with nonsense and bad faith "arguments," such as they can even be considered arguments at all. W/e, that's his prerogative. However...
- Doing this in public means that this makes it to the .world front page as these things do, which invites people to comment on this silliness. Myself included.
- Jabroni gets butthurt about his opinions actually having to withstand scrutiny and then, of course, hilarity ensues.
- ...But bro is also under the impression you can't say "fuck" on the internet for some reason?
But that's not the actual headline, here. What's bats is, he actually went through and deleted pretty much every comment in that thread. Here it is.
He's, uh, really racking up the popularity.
TL;DR: User openly calls out a specific demographic (one that is prevalent on this instance, no less), is shocked when said demographic shows up, responds by throwing a tantrum and bans everyone from his playpen. Comedy gold!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17328458
Oh boy, here I go shillin' again.
I just updated my 3D printable balisong utility knife so hard that it wound up with a new name.
As usual, you get the brief version here. Massive amounts of details are located, as ever, in the original post and also at the Printables link.
Want one? Of course you do. Get the files here.
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