!agree

they are the excuse for authoritarianism

this is not the first time this has happened

thats true

the communists in germany posed no true threat

they simply stressed the system enough to push it into a new equilibrium

in other words its way easier to shove a stick into the spokes of societies bicycle than it is to actually do something useful

guy gets off the bike and beats you into a bloody pulp

bike is still ruined

society is a delicate thing that should be treated with care, reckless idiocy is very dangerous

ive kindof been thinking they will go one way and the US will go the other, at least in burgerland here there seems to be building backlash

like people are starting to get seirously pissed

that is the only reason trump had any chance in hell of winning despite being an absolutely wretched candidate in pretty much every regard

silicon valley gets way more rep than they deserve

it probably wouldnt be that hard to dethrone them

get woke get broke i guess

as we all know, caring has a massive impact on the actual outcome 👍

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to be honest it should probably be 'one of you will be shot at random every hour until you decide on a budget'

There needs to be less liability for failed operations

Kick doctors out that fail

But don't offload the cost of failure on people who needhelp

True, affirmative action is a cancer at this point

I like how my phone tried to auto fill "affirmative action is great"

Oh google

You and your agendas

Engineers are pretty important these days

Billions would not be able to go on living without them

They just act like it because they make way more money

If my father's car travels an average of 30 miles per hour and the gas station is 2.5 miles away, why has it taken him six years to go and get cigarettes

Ha

He was the ninja all along

thats kindof how the creators need to get right now

well what they do is not nothing

a lot of people live mainly off of very small contrbutions

that nobody would have bothered making if it wasnt really really easy

and patreon does do that quite well

they take a payment from the user that is big enough to absorb transaction fees

then disburse it to all of their funded creators

and they also get a single large payment

that absorbs transaction fees

most of those little contributions, if not consolodated, would have cost the person more and been more of a hassle to set up than they were worth

which would result in a massive drop in the mun muns

im not neccesarily saying it would be all that hard to dethrone patreon

hence, know your place delivery boy

what they do is valuable and tricky, but they are in an environment where many people could figure out those things

'man dies driving 3d printed car downloaded from 4chan designed to disconnect brakes above 50 miles per hour'

running out of battery and being unable to cycle the gun except manually for one

you would ideally have some way to draw a bit of power from the cartridges to drive the action

if not neccesarily via gas then something else

nobody likes needing two kinds of thing to make their gun work

the ammo

and then the other ammo

to make the first ammo work

maybe electromagnetically draw power from a coil along the bore of the barrel?

>shrug

then bullet passing through the coil induces current to drive the mechanism

i dunno how well that would work though

it would probably need to be a superconductor to generate enough power

well yes but if the bolt is reciprocating back under power already then what is the electricity even doing for you

are we talking purely doing away with a firing pin? i dunno that building a steam engine style crank to charge things up is actually simpler than a mechanical firing pin

well i mean unless its delayed blowback, there is no such thing as the bolt moving except via some kind of gas operation

well wait okay maybe the unlocking could be electronic

then the rest of the extraction is from the force of the casing being driven out of the barrel by gas force

so it electronically unlocks the bolt from the chamber instead of using gas to do that

and then the bolt goes back under residual gas pressure

that might actually be a fair bit simpler

wouldnt be nearly as fiddly to design either since you arent trying to magic correct bolt-unlock timing out of gas pressure and mechanical know-how

retards

the whole reason why socialism doesnt work is because one doesn't simply just do that

you are trying to feed meat eaters grass, you are trying to make the ball roll uphill

i dont really see that there _is_ any such path, it would be such a complicated reprogramming that these retards clearly dont have the finesse for

pure socialists generally dont have what it takes to last long term

the reason attempts at socialist/communist societies fails consistently isnt the ideologues that started it

its the predators that immediately devour them and take over

as the socialist/communist conception of how humans think is proven so horribly wrong

that tens or hundreds of millions wind up dying before the damage can be undone

which is shocking to some

especially how far they will go

i think they see their enemies as kindof disgusting monsters

therefore killing them is just

i just see socialists/communists as dangerously out of touch with reality

i have no problems with many socialist policies per say, but a purely socialist society would implode every time pretty much

you wouldnt even really have humans as we know them anymore if you got to a point where it worked

very solid editing

i think electrical locking would be very easy to achieve

you could recharge the system via a crank driven by the bolt as mentioned earlier

its potentially just a coil to shove the locking mechanism around

easier, no need for a gas piston

no need for super finely toleranced systems designed to release the locking at the exact right time off of gas pressure alone

that take years to perfect

its maybe two moving parts

little locks on either side of the bolt that extend and retract

insofar as you arent making a new gun at that point

either there is a fair bit of fiddling to do as your particular gas system is refined

or its another ar-15 derivative

well because potentially it would be cheaper

to have something that doesnt need these super toleranced parts

even the g3 needs a huge amount of machine work to make it precisely enough for it to run right