The above report is obviously not to be taken without a dose of scepticism, as it comes from the military opponent. However your response makes me wonder if you have any source to back up your claim that Ukraine is torturing its foreign volunteers into some meat grinder operations like you imply here. Or did you merely need a line to put the victim of an aggression at the same level as the aggressor without any such thing?
Most people are hiding that glass behind TPU. It is pretty pointless other than being a durability weak point. You don’t need glass for wireless charging. You do know that there are alternatived to metal, do you any they don’t need to feel cheap either.
User replaceable batteries do not require phones that are “risky” to use “in a light drizzle”. Decent IP ratings are possible even with those. It is just a question of good design. But such design can’t be really expected by companies pushing glass phone backside for no other reason than that they are prone to break.
Exactly
I am slightly worried by anti-vaxxers being Simpsons fans. Do they understand what they are watching?
Not necessarily, if they are more hostile towards that kind of “content” than in this case Spotify, it isn’t necessarily more attractive to AI scammers.
Indeed. Its service is available in only a limited number of countries. Interestingly though it is one of the oldest streaming platforms around.
I personally started to use Qobuz. Their algorithm isn’t great, their target group is more the more distinguished music listener but their library is pretty much as big as any others plus they do have the largest library of hi-res music too and they actually sell also hi-res and CD lossless music if that is of interest to you. Most importantly though, they have a “ban-AI-music” stance on their platform. Soon enough, one will have to rely on platforms like that if one does not want to wade through a sea of AI slop.
The downside is that Qobuz is a bit more expensive than others (while paying the most to artists however, as far as I know).
It is a less shitty alternative to Spotify, while costing less. They are also paying artists considerably more.
Projection, as always.
That’s all I wanted as response.
A lot of text and still not a single word about what exactly that she is saying that makes it cringe for you.
Mind to elaborate on your one line, low effort insult? Maybe with any kind of argument?
Why are you leaving out a key part of my argument? You know you are still talking to the same person, aren’t you.
I was talking about a complete functional weapon in the first post. And in the latter I was talking about the easiest to produce parts alone, which could be oriduced even with something like woodworking tools.
Would you also say that a carpenter can build firearms? Possibly you do, I wouldn’t do that.
PLA is a poor material choice for the application but an easy one. So they might not care. I am not saying that it is dysfunctional, just not a good choice.
PLA hydrolises over time, and becomes brittle and is sensitive to UV, ie day light. It is enough to leave it in a sunny place with some glass reflection for it to soften up and deform but the worst features is probably that unlike many other polymers it tends to fail catastrophically, when it fails, ie nothing much happens until it snaps and splinters. Its impact resistance is also comparably poor.
You seem to run in doors that are open. My whole point was that 3d printing is not suitable to create the functional parts of a fire arm, and by that I mean creating it directly with 3d printing, not some helper products and I also mean for hobbyist levels. Maybe with metal 3d printing etc more is possible but that is neither easy nor cheap nor readily available in anyone’s basement. It is easier to get your hands on a CNC and probably cheaper too.
If your argument is that for what 3d printing can be used, it is a fairly easy method and can enable cost effective low number production, yes it can. So yes, if you will, then it has made it more accessible for those things. If someone want to regulate private firearm construction however, just regulate private firearm construction. Don’t outlaw open 3d printers, CNCs or if we are at it, woodwork tools.
Interesting read. I did not know about the honestly horribly ineffective (if not outgright dysfunctional) legislation in much of the US in this regard. I was however having functional arguments in mind though. The functional core components of a Glock are not made from organic polymers, for a reason.
Yes, printing the frame of a firearm is perfectly feasible. But if you don’t know your tool and its materials, you are putting yourself at risk. It is really like with all those other tools that can produce such a frame just as well. But then, if you say most people print it with PLA you might have a strong point that most people 3d printing that don’t know what they are doing or don’t care about PLA’s serious limitations for that application, and do it anyway.
PS: I wouldn’t consider using a 3D printed jig … and ECM as a part being produced by 3d printing. A helper part is for producing it by other means is 3d printed. Again, plenty of alternative methods to do so. Are they all going to be restricted?
Technicalities are important. Parties can campaign on that and peopld vote on it but there us no obligation, only majorities in Parliament. Things like that, the letter of thff es law start to matter especially during constitional crises.
Trump is nervous about the mid terms for a reason. His agenda of dismantlig state institutions, rule of law and democracy could run into a dead lock with an actively hostile legislative.
Still these votes are for Parliament/MPs on the ballot, not the prime minister directly, aren’t they. Yes, parties will campaign with a certain perdon as prime minister in mind, but that position is not directly elected, is it?
Trump can only rule by executive orders because the other institutions let him and majd no fuss. Things would get a whole lot mire diffucult for him if the majority in the legislative actually did make a fuss about it.
Hungary did not elect a prime minister, it elected a parliament. The new govnernment incl the prime minister is just a consequence of parliamentary majorities, which changed.
The US is an odd one, as it elects just a part if its legislative but it does elect that part nonetheless. While that won’t push the US president out if power, it could turn him into a lame duck. The destruction of the US democracy and state institutions relies on the legislative being complicit and staying silent.
The first video, which, may or may not be from Ukraine today or any time doesn’t show any torture of foreign voluntaries. It looks like conscription. The 2nd link I cannot access, because I will definitely not reopen my reddit account. I am happy visiting it exclusively as a guest, if at all. In either case. I was thinking of a bit more than just some random video on reddit or even worse, Telegram.
Being undersupplied, thanks to Russian supply line attacks, is not the same as torturing people with the sole purpose of making them do something by the superiors.