lol Deadspin is clearly butthurt about the Trump boys winning. Kind of makes me feel better.

Why did she hurt you?

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I feel like we're both sort of doing a bit but neither of us is really committed to what the bit is.

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What?

http://jezebel.com/5632689/what-is-birth-rape

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Bumping this because Petchesky today seems to have just come to the realization that a lack of competitive balance might not be a good thing. Perhaps he should have edited his whiny post-mortem after the finals by replacing his complaints about "games" with "work" and all will make more sense.

It's easier to justify killing a human fetus if we brand it a rapist.

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http://fusion.kinja.com/disarm-all-dome ... 1796101206

An article on why a misdemeanor conviction should negate a constitutional right.



Oh.

"Disarm all domestic abusers so this doesn't happen again!"

"Would such laws have prevented this?"

"Well, no. BUT STILL!"

Go ahead, try to pass gun control today. Thanks to Cody Wilson I can buy a $250 CNC mill to finish a cheap 80% finished AR lower receiver within 3 hours. If you want to pass a magazine ban, I can 3D print 30 round mags all day on a MakerBot available at Costco and Best Buy. I can print as many as I ever could want.

Yep, thanks to technology and the maker movement, gun control is officially dead. I laugh at Mayor Bloomberg as you cannot undo the the CNC mills. You cannot under the 3D printed lowers (which are improving). You cannot undo the 3D printed mags.

All you need is a Tor browser, Bit Torrent client, and readily available tools. Heck, after you've made a few weapons, it becomes even cheaper than buying them from a gunsmith. Furthermore, this is 100% legal and attempts to make it illegal will never stop it.

These tools will be feared by tyrants in the 21st century the way the printing press was feared by them in the 18th century.

Go ahead statists, pass your gun control laws. They are already rendered obsolete.
https://ghostgunner.net/collections/featured-products

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totally normal

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It's like Panther with a plan.

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First Ogie called for more shootings. Now he's bragging about his guns. Does Ugie think these posts belong on the board.

I don't own a Ghost Gunner (the $250 CNC mill) but my point is it exists (along with 3D printing) and thus its existence means that any gun control law is a futile gesture. It's like any piece of technology, once it's out there, it cannot be undone.

If you pass a magazine limit of 10 rounds (California's law) it can be circumvented with any $800 MakerBot, and if you make enough mags it's cheaper in the long run than buying them.

If California has a law that requires a key to remove the magazine, well you mill your own lower or 3D print one that doesn't have that requirement. Once again, this is entirely legal if you make the weapon yourself. You only need an ATF license if you are making weapons for the purpose of selling. If you use it yourself, no license or paperwork is required.

I guess my larger point is the politicians and gun control groups can argue for gun control all day long, but any legislation they think of is now obsolete as we have entered a new era in personal firearms ownership.

Will these tools make a big impact in the US? No, they will just head off silly gun control laws, which when enacted were found to have almost no impact. (homicides have actually gone down since the 1994 assault weapon ban expired in 2004).

Where these tools will have an impact is in nations where firearms are tightly controlled. If Maduro survives this round of protests, he won't survive the next one when a few CNC mills or 3D printers end up in the hands of the opposition he and Chavez disarmed. Imagine what some of these tools could do if placed in North Korea. Turkey? Qatar? Saudi Arabia? China? As I said, this technology will be as damaging to tyrants in the 21st century as the printing press was to King George III in the 18th century.

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I personally only own a 9mm. I don't own any rifles, but I fully support the right to own one as a Constitutionally protected one.

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The only thing that stops a bad guy with a makerbot is a good guy with a makerbot.

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The North Korean government has an arsenal going all the way up to nuclear weapons; they're not gonna be put down by a few downloaded guns.

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It's where you start with a resistance. For example, Syria in 2011 had a more modernized arsenal than North Korea has today (North Korea's backbone is 50s/60s Soviet stock). That civil war was started by men with rifles and no heavy armaments. Assad's heavy weaponry wasn't even enough to get the upper hand. He needed Iran and Russia to take over much of the fight to put down insurgents with rifles. You can mass produce rifles with 3D printing or a computerized $250 CNC mill. You can do a lot of damage with that and spark something real.

I'd say Afghanistan proves that insurgent tactics and small arms can make things hell for a conventional military.

Granted, I think this will have more of an impact in Venezuela than North Korea as you need to have access to the Internet to get the 3D print files off of Pirate Bay. I can really see this change the game in Venezuela, where Maduro and Chavez disarmed their populace. If I'm Maduro, this technology is what keeps me up at night.

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I'm very close to becoming a MRA. It's just exhausting at this point.

http://deadspin.com/mlb-rolls-out-cool-new-nickname-jerseys-for-everyone-bu-1797687203

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These look so cheap. They're all on the same template with the same block letters and numbers, and most of the nicknames are stupid.

"A large company won't accommodate me in buying dumb crap!" is the best feminism. Thought experiment: come out with a new cookie called "SHIT COOKIE: THE COOKIE FOR REAL MANLY MEN, NO WOMEN ALLOWED" and the catch here is that beneath the diamondplate-and-stenciling packaging, the cookie genuinely tastes like literal human shit. Watch Julie DiCaro get mad that the shit-flavored food isn't marketed to women.

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Wow. I mean... that could genuinely pass for an Onion article.

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A commenter made a good point. These seem to also be fairly gender neutral. Isn't that true equality?

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I love how the author points out "BROTATO" like that's some sort of misogynistic nickname

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I just think it's really problematic that Hormel sells Manwich but doesn't seem to have any space on the shelf for Womanwich. Am I supposed to believe that girls should grow up believing they can't eat tomato paste and corn syrup out of a can? Is that the world we want to live in?

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I could read CH doing that all day.

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i few times i've come across those road/construction signs that say "Men Working" and seriously thought to myself I can't believe someone hasn't made them change those yet

Change it to "Men working and making 22% more than the women".

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