QAnon has to explain why these people are walking free, despite the fact that the defender of all things good and holy, Donald Trump, is in the White House. To deal with this dissonance, Q disciples believe that all of these supposed child rapists and murderers have actually already been arrested by Trump. They are…

do you think that had Kelly stayed in active duty and had to lead men into battle due to Trump’s tweet that he would stand behind having men & women die for the fucker?

I think he’s more comfortable being an ineffective Chief of Staff than he is in seeing someone else that Trump might pick in the role.

Agreed. The one slender reed of respectability that otherwise reprehensible mansplainers, menninists, MRAs and incels have is that men do face some legitimate gender-based problems that are under-appreciated and under-addressed by society. This includes everything from the stigma men face about addressing their own…

In my experience, the single most significant factor in whether you’re going to like a beer is whether you like the brewery. Good breweries seem to pretty consistently make good beers of any style. While just-OK breweries seem to be the same sort of just-OK about everything.

The level of delusion that has to accompany “if the military ever decided to turn on the citizenry (and given that it’s an all-volunteer force, and I’ve been part of it, I find that extremely unlikely—most soldiers would not be willing to kill their own without goddamn good reason), I could defend my kith and kin…

I can even understand the Jar-Jar hate, and distinguish it in large part from the hate over Rose.

Are they finding it’s a useful and powerful tool? Are they?

But you know who does have that much to print untraceable guns? Any drug cartel. Now they don’t need to buy weapons from a manufacturer, they can just make them in a warehouse, right next to where they cut their coke.

Why isn’t the proper analogy VR? To quote the seminal movie The Lawnmower Man:

I’m sure large scale organized criminals will pony up the 100k for a printer. If they can produce untraceable guns in the comfort of their own “home” in mass quantities, I’m sure it would be considered a necessary business expense.

Don’t be worried about today’s 3D printers. Worry about the ones in five to 10 years, which absolutely will be capable of more complex fabrication with much sturdier materials.

Well, what if all five shots connected and killed five people? How would you feel then?

Well

Having lived before the smart phone craze, I can see how very, very different it was than the 3D printing craze. I mean, even in the heyday everyone basically knew that computer-phones of some sort were going to be in everyone’s pocket. Everyone could see the utility of it. And in many ways, the smart phone just…

According to Elementary this week, the street value of a well-made ghost gun - milled by a qualified smith, not cranked out on a home 3D printer - is $1000.

Yeah, this isn’t the firearm I’m worried about but then again all it takes is one to make it past airline security and then game over.

Well, again, you can already do that now. You can sell blocks of aluminum that have been milled to 80% resemble the lower receiver of an AR-15. And you can sell, along with that, the program for a computerized mill to turn that into a 100% receiver.

Honestly, I don’t buy it. I never did. The 3D printing craze came and went. The technology exists already at a pretty affordable price point . . . if any of us had a need for it. I have many $500-$1000 appliances and devices in my life already. I can definitely afford another. But while the technology is plenty…