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AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just fucking why lol? How braindead do you have to be? It’s just fundamentally impossible to prevent actual criminals or terrorists from simply ignoring this and making guns.

  The logic behind all gun laws.

  Is this to permanently prevent individuals to build their own stuff? Like the next manufacturing revolution has to be kept out of the hands of the proletariat?

  Yes.

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  • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The logic behind all gun laws.

    And drug laws for that matter.

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      %100, prohibition has never worked. Ever.

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  • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m not against sensible gun control laws like background checks. And if you want to shoot guns for fun keep them at your local shooting range, or for hunting at your local hunting club. In an “armory”. That works just fine in most of the world.

    Manufacturing a gun requires serious effort and it’s not just clicking a button. But it is impossible to completely prevent, and it’s braindead to try. Not a single gun death will be prevented by this law, unlike gun control laws which do work - at least outside the US.

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• 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah just like they hate that we complain about them online and can see how widespread the sentiment is

  They want control of all social media and news, they don’t want us having our own hardware anymore, they want everyone to have to only post under their real name and they want our homes and vehicles and fucking light poles to scan our faces, match them to our IDs, and record a map of everywhere we have been and when, who we associated with, what we said, and what we are doing.

  And we have to rent the privilege from them.

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• RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yes, its the second one, no matter what they say.

  Making your own stuff, or worse, repairing things thst they SLAVED over perfect plamned obsolecence for??? How dare yee not CONSUME.

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  • blargh513@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    As a person who probably spends WAY too much time fixing my old worn out crap because I’m a cheap fuck, I never got into 3d printing.

    The reality is that for fixing things, I am rarely at a point where I would need to design and create an entirely new thing. Buying commodity crap is almost always faster and cheaper. I’m not saying that 3d printing should be outlawed and certainly not that we should not care. We should all care deeply, even if this doesn’t impact you directly (as is the case with me).

    The only point I would make is that 3d printing is not likely to make a meaingful dent profit made from people like me who fix a lot of junk. It’s a lot easier and faster to just hit the hardware store for a box of fasteners, some wood, PVC, whatever to cobble something up. For stuff like auto repair (which I do way too much of), I don’t think I could print the stuff I would need. Most of the crap I would need would have to be precisely measured for fit, waterproof, heat proof, vibration proof and will often have a handful of separate parts therein. I just replaced a wiring harness for my mass air flow sensor. It has four wires and a wide plastic connector with the four pin terminals inside and a part that slides forward to lock it in place. I bought one for 9 bucks, it came the next day. If I had to design something like that, I’d need to either get the schematic for the original or do a 3d scan, maybe someone already did and it exists, maybe they did not. Then I print the main part, print the second part for the locking slider, put em together, hope I don’t crack one in the process. Then I need to buy the individual pin terminals that are pre wired or make new ones. Can’t print wires that I’m aware of.

    Killing off 3d printing as a way to boost profits of selling crap to those of us who fix our own stuff seems like it would be a drop in the damn ocean. I presume it’s just another form of social control. It won’t stop people printing out ghost guns, I doubt it would stop hobbyists and inventors from doing stuff. People have been making shit long before 3d printers.

    The whole thing just seems massively stupid, I cannot understand what they would hope for. It almost seems like this would backfire and people would start figuring out some awful thing they could 3d print and use against people like this.

    Caltrops?

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