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2024 US Presidential Election

smokeymcpot42088 said:
Woah logistical fallacy overload. I had to stop reading at 'take em out' and deep breath it. You would condone someone being 'taken out' because you don't want 'portland' to happen.

What about Amsterdam? Take em out?

Want to know the fundamental difference between those two places; Amsterdam treats substance 'problems' as a *breathe* HEALTHCARE ISSUE *exhale*

Portland is in the US and as you realize we have a rich history of treating drugs as crime.

This is something that will take time and you will run into problems. NONE as large or life ruining as prohibition. (darwin cases aside)
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yea ya take em out

show em who's boss
 
smokeymcpot42088 said:
Lemme play devils advocate for a second. Say I just want to sell guns and damn the moral and legal reprocussions.

A 50k metal printer (I have no knowledge here so bear with me) if indeed able to print a decent (fires enough times to sell lol) Ar-15 or anything similar, wouldn't I be able to make my money back fairly quickly? *just humor me I realize that would still not be a wise way to invest in such an enterprise.
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I only know about the 3d printers from what I've read with interest being in the field. So, my knowledge might be a little outdated.

Last I read, there was liquid metal and sintered metal printing. Neither will make a part to better than a +/- .003" tolerance, and that's pushing it. Gun bores are at least +/-.001", aren't they? Not sure of tolerances in the rest of the gun. Also, many parts of a gun are heat treated if I'm not mistaken. Parts coming off a 3d metal printer would still have to have a heat treat. I'm not sure sintered printing even lends itself to that.

This is a quick answer, I have to leave in a second. I'll add more later, maybe.

My first reaction would be that it would still be a too soft, loose tolerance, weapon which might fly apart upon shooting after a while. That might indeed take a little while from what I've read about advances in the field this morning, but would still be a real danger to the shooter.

10 years ago, engineers used to print plastic prototypes of metal parts for R&D. When I questioned that, they said, "Hey, these things will work for weeks before flying apart. That's long enough to test them."
So, I imagine those guns would work for "long enough for some uses", but I think a gun maven would still be disappointed.
 
^ that echoes my own thoughts highly. Just checkin to see if it could be done as if you can do it. SOMEONE will. Which would mean keep an eye out for ppls fake arse guns they bought at dirt cheap or wherever. (nothin wrong with dirt cheat but you get it; I don't want someone to hand me somethin at the range that could possibly explode.

Krinkle Sorry I went hard on that one post it was a real hard night. I stand by what I say but it could have been succinct and polite. That came from a place of personal pain having nothing to do with you. I apologize.
 
(mostly from politico.com):
  • “I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy,” Vance said in an interview with Charlie Rose in 2016, while publicizing his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.” “I never liked him.”

  • “As somebody who doesn’t like Trump, myself, I sort of — I understand where Trump’s voters come from,” Vance later said in the Rose interview. “But I also don’t like Trump himself, and that made me realize that maybe I’m not quite part of either world totally.”

  • “My god what an idiot,” Vance wrote in one of the tweets. It was one of many tweets now deleted.

  • Vance once questioned whether Trump could be “America’s Hitler” in a private Facebook message in 2016 to one of his former roommates.

  • Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California was quick to point out Vance’s old text messages on Sunday: “You called Trump “American Hitler” — now show your self back to the kids’ table,” he said on social media.
nothing changes.

alasdair
 
alasdairm said:
(mostly from politico.com):
  • “I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy,” Vance said in an interview with Charlie Rose in 2016, while publicizing his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.” “I never liked him.”

  • “As somebody who doesn’t like Trump, myself, I sort of — I understand where Trump’s voters come from,” Vance later said in the Rose interview. “But I also don’t like Trump himself, and that made me realize that maybe I’m not quite part of either world totally.”

  • “My god what an idiot,” Vance wrote in one of the tweets. It was one of many tweets now deleted.

  • Vance once questioned whether Trump could be “America’s Hitler” in a private Facebook message in 2016 to one of his former roommates.

  • Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California was quick to point out Vance’s old text messages on Sunday: “You called Trump “American Hitler” — now show your self back to the kids’ table,” he said on social media.
nothing changes.

alasdair
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Ohio is a state locked up tight by a Republican supermajority Numerous instances recently of the state legislature pulling dirty tricks to circumvent the will of the voters. Nationally, it did flirt with being a purple state before getting more dependably Repug recently.

There are a lot of Dems in Ohio cities really sick of what the Republicans have been doing lately. I'm not sure Repugs see Ohio as dependable as they used to and there is also a Senate seat. Sherrod Brown has been a dependable win for the Dems for years but they are going after his seat hard this year.

This could be tactically to lock up Ohio in the Presidential and try to help win Sherrod Brown's seat.

@alasdairm I love Trae. Beau for a good perspective and Trae for mile a minute funny with the commentary.
And, yeah, JD Vance is for JD Vance.
 
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Mr. Krinkle said:
but then again, you can't really expect people to act responsibly when they're on meth or fentanyl

right?
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No man, wrong. As long as you use tax dollars to test the drugs before giving the junkies the drugs, the drug won't have the same results and junkies will suddenly be responsible productive citizens. It's the fact that the government doesn't give out high quality drugs they tested that is the real problem
 
Electrum1 said:
No man, wrong. As long as you use tax dollars to test the drugs before giving the junkies the drugs, the drug won't have the same results and junkies will suddenly be responsible productive citizens. It's the fact that the government doesn't give out high quality drugs they tested that is the real problem
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Sometimes it's better to keep people alive longer so that they can become productive citizens, because plenty of junkies I know have contributed
 
TripSitterNZ said:
biden needs to step down to stop these nutjobs republicans getting in
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he may not get in if you don't vote for him like you said you would:

TripSitterNZ said:
I am going to vote for trump in this upcoming election. this is over the top lol he aint gonna be a diactor.
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seriously, if you're going to troll, you have to have a better memory...

alasdair
 
deficiT said:
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The sad thing is, there's far too many people out there who will still believe this without a second thought. This is South Park levels of ridiculousness. Just when a convenient excuse is required, out pops the covid card - it would probably be 'the Russian's shat in my cornflakes' if covid weren't an available option.

Absolute pantomime.
 
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The sad thing is, there's far too many people out there who will still believe this without a second thought. This is South Park levels of ridiculousness. Just when a convenient excuse is required, out pops the covid card - it would probably be 'the Russian's shat in my cornflakes' if covid weren't an available option.

Absolute pantomime.<
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Simply testing positive isn't enough. If he uses it to get out of the second debate, for instance, I will have suspicions. And, suspicions ≠ total belief that I say is true to all and sundry.
 
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Recovering. From a positive "test" result that means the square root of fuck all.

Four years on, and we're still being fed this nonsense about tests that aren't tests. If Kary Mullis hadn't "died" right before covid started they wouldn't be able to peddle this propaganda, he would have stood up and ripped it all to shreds, and the public wouldn't still be here four years on believing in this fraudulent bullshit.
 
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Recovering. From a positive "test" result that means the square root of fuck all.

Four years on, and we're still being fed this nonsense about tests that aren't tests. If Kary Mullis hadn't "died" right before covid started they wouldn't be able to peddle this propaganda, he would have stood up and ripped it all to shreds, and the public wouldn't still be here four years on believing in this fraudulent bullshit.
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How old are you?
 
the utter insanity of this race is something else.



he is literally kissing the helmet on stage at the rnc.

he must seriously believe that his supporters don't see through such transparent, pandering bullshit. that anybody would be remotely moved by it.

it's beyond satire at this point and just one, huge parody of itself.

alasdair
 
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