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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • Pants-on-head idiocy by the DA.

    It is 100% legal in the US to build your own gun for personal use, and has been for the entire existence of the country.

    Just because it can now be done with custom plastic parts instead of wooden or hardware store parts, changes nothing.

    Plus there is no way to validate when 3D printed guns were created, because they aren’t required to be serialized unless they are made by a dealer for resale. So they’d have to ban ALL pre-existing 3D printed guns of any kind, regardless of manufacture date, since you’re not going to be able to distinguish preban guns.

    Putting spyware into every 3D printer or slicer software, because of what people “might do”, is also ridiculous and scummy.

    TL; DR- This DA needs to fuck off and just use normal constitutional methods to enforce laws.




  • I was thinking about this, and to defray the cost and make EVs more plausible in suburban US areas, they could make one simple modification.

    Instead of the current model where only certain businesses are electing to spend $10-20k per level 2 charger, they should just aim to build almost all new businesses (this would include hotels, apartments, etc.) with basic-bitch 120v 15A outdoor-rated wall outlets in front of every parking spot. The outlets could be on a post, on a wall, built into the concrete curb, whatever is up to code and can be done cheaply.

    The cost per spot would be relatively low compared to level 2 or DC fast charging and then people could charge using their own portable level 1 charger and the provided outlet. Level 1 charging at virtually any parking lot, plus being able to overnight charge where you live, covers almost all use cases.