chiliedogg

If someone hasn't made a 3D printable model for IR glasses I think I may make one this weekend.

With a model file, 20 cents of filament, a few LEDs, some wire, and a watch battery these could be made DIY for a few dollars after the printer cost. You can get a decent 3D printer for 200 bucks these days.

They won't be as stylish, but they'd do the job just fine.

Bush was mostly lawful evil. Trump is just a Captain Planet villain.

I think you're right. I need to pick a nationality to hate.

I'm thinking Icelanders. They don't know how to use vowels, get free electricity from the earth, and their cops hardly murder anyone.

I hadn't considered projecting my self-loathing onto others...

Everyone looks at extremes.

Yeah, a populace armed with AR-15s and Glocks can't fight bombers, but when a government reaches the point where bombers are being used against the population you'll also have a military split, so there will be heavy equipment on both sides.

Imagine something smaller in scale, like if the governor of Texas decided to start execution of liberals while Trump was President. Trump probably wouldn't directly take part, but also wouldn't send in the military to stop the governor.

That's where small arms for civilians becomes relevant.

They're also relevant because they're distributed. With 100 million+ armed households, there's no safe way to be a tyrant.

Trump was almost killed by 1 person who planned poorly. If there were millions of armed people moved to that level of violence it would be impossible to govern without committing the kind of atrocity that would cause a military split/coup.

It's reaching the point where that won't matter.

Bush v Gore was clear regarding the Safe Harbor date. Even if the traitorous, anti-democracy assholes win on appeal, it won't matter if the election is over and the state legislature turns red and reverses the laws.

Way to Streisand Effect the incident for potential universities.

"Our kid will cheat and we'll sue you for calling him out" looks great on a college application.

God I wish it were that easy to sleep on demand.

How is voting for her the best option. Literally all she can do is benefit the Republicans by pulling votes from the Dems. Hell, in Georgia they've literally ruled that votes for her won't be counted even though she's on the ballot.

Her winning the US Presidential election is less-likely than winning the power all 25 consecutive times by finding the winning ticket on the ground at random truck stops in Malaysia.

I have a 32 gig flippy A/C one and it's amazing. I didn't want it any bigger because lots of legacy devices can't read more than 32 gigs. I can use mine with any of my laptops or phones, and also in the 16yo plotter at work.

Nobody remembers OnLive...

Dude, that's not gonna happen. As you said, it's the voters who are the "problem." Our City Council straight-up banned rezoning any districts to multifamily or 2-family. We have a mixed-use district in the code because we're required to, but it must be on a plot of land of at least 50 acres along a state highway. The largest single tract of land in the city is 15 acres, and it's not on a state highway.

We also have a minimum lot size of 1 acre and minimum street frontage for a single-family lot of 150 feet for all newly-platted lots. The citizens super duper don't want the poor moving in.

But you also have to look at it from a different perspective. Many of these suburban towns are made up of people who actively chose to live a less-urban lifestyle, and as the sprawl approaches them they get very, very hostile. They don't want new people or more affordable housing. They bought their houses 15 years ago when they cost 80 grand. Now people are buying those same houses for a million dollars and tearing them down to build a 7-million dollar house.