You should really take a look on the Internet before making these kind of posts. People have been making decently-accurate 9mm barrels at home for about ten years now, and it's clearly fairly popular because if you look up one of the required tools on Amazon the site recommends some of the others that are needed.

I haven't really been following this for a couple of years so I don't know whether anyone has progressed past rimfire barrels for rifles, but anyone can make pistol and shotgun barrels by spending $150 on Amazon and following simple instructions online.

Again, Burmese rebels have been using these guns in combat with the military, at least until they can steal a real gun from a dead soldier. They work and they're easy to build even in a dictatorship like Burma.

Yeah, but that would be racist.

Some of the most popular 3D-printed guns were developed in Europe. Americans don't really need 3D-printed guns, because they can just buy real guns. Europeans do.

> you can’t even rifle the barrel properly without specialized equipment that’s not run of the mill CNC

Burmese rebels have been using semi-auto 9mm carbines which require no firearms parts other than the ammo. An Indian guy made a .22 AR-15 with a few basic tools and some parts he bought from Aliexpress.

Humans are much more innovative than you seem to believe. This law will just criminalize people who aren't a problem while criminals buy real guns from the black market.

The primary reason movies are so expensive these days is that they'll pay tens of millions of dollars for a familiar face on the poster.

If those familiar faces were willing to work for a regular wage rather than a million dollars a day, they could easily compete with Hollywood.

It will have an Apple logo.

Probably in part. I think it's great that my IDE has been able to do a lot of the grunt-work for me for a year or more, but people I know who use LLMs to do most of their coding still say the code it generates is bad and they worry that it may be unmaintainable in future... they may be able to ship products faster, but will they be able to fix them in five years?

We'll find out five years.

> As the Times article says, “The blessing and the curse is that now everyone inside your company becomes a coder”. That ain't such a bad thing in my opinion.

Much of my time as a coder is spent figuring out what the customer actually wants rather than what they think they want.

If customers understood what they want, a lot of us would be out of work already.

I suspect the fun part comes in five years when the software needs major revisions and the new AI model has no idea what the original AI model did and nor does anyone still left at the company who would be able to review the changes. So either you start putting half-understood changes into the software or have to get the new AI model to just rewrite everything from scratch and invalidate five years of testing.

I'm expecting to see a major software collapse in a few years as all the vibe-coded software starts to break and no-one can fix it.

> Companies usually choose to not have competition.

Companies block competition by paying politicians to pass regulations that keep competitors out of the market.

Standard Oil was losing masses of money because it had to keep buying up all the competition and the competitors would then just start a new company which Standard Oil would then have to buy at an inflated valuation. Today it would just bribe a few politicians to introduce onerous regulations on new oil wells and refineries so no-one could afford to compete with them.

Oh, wait...

Which is why he was able to just round up the Woke and send them to gulags.

Communists always round up the Woke and send them to gulags because they're just useful idiots used to undermine the society the communists took over.

To put it bluntly, Hollywood is full of Epsteiners who dream of teenage ass. They don't care whether the show succeeds so long as they get what they want.

I just finished reading an SF novel set in a similar kind of space training academy and in the entire novel there were only two mentions of sex and one teen "should I date him or him?" romance without a lot of angst. Because they're actually training to explore the galaxy and they're more concerned about not being killed in their first day on the job than they are in getting off.

But that's not written by an Epsteiner.

> There's nothing wrong with, you know, not marginalizing groups of people.

People get marginalized because they're socially destructive.

The right marginalize the left because the left are destructive in right-wing societies. The left marginalize the right because they're destructive in left-wing societies.

So yes, there's everything wrong with not marginalizing groups of people who are socially destructive. If you don't, they will destroy your society. This is, for example, why Stalin rounded up the Woke in the USSR and sent them to gulags to save communism.

Back on Star Trek, the original series was very Woke for its time. But it also had good characters and generally told good stories. The modern Woke are incapable of producing good characters or telling good stories.

We kind of did.

The original SR-71 was going to be hydrogen powered because jet fuel could self-combust at the kind of temperatures it would reach on board and the CIA had plenty of money to spend to try something new.

They scrapped that idea because the hydrogen version was huge and had limited range and it turned out to be easier to make the jet fuel not self-combust than to make hydrogen work as a fuel. As with all these other fads, there's a reason why we've used fuels that make sense for decades rather than fuels that make some oligarch more money.

> How exactly are we going to do that?

Kill all humans, I guess.

You have to understand that we live under a death cult which wants to destroy all sentient life on the planet. Pushing for "there must be none" is one way to do that, because once we shut down oil, nuclear and plastics 90% of the population die and the other 10% spend the rest of their lives fighting each other for food and shelter.