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Comment Re:Problems with printing fire arms (Score 2) 94

For what it's worth, simply painting a normal gun to look like a toy has been attempted before, too. But I agree that conversions like this must be pretty spooky if you're in law enforcement. Still, toy gun form factors needn't be the only gimmick; consider the chaos a briefcase gun could unleash without scrutiny. The sky is the limit for designing concealed weapons if one is sufficiently imaginative and determined.

Comment Re: You keep using that word. I don't think it mea (Score 5, Informative) 95

"Penultimate" isn't a synonym for "ultimate"—it means the thing before the ultimate. Likewise we have penumbra for the blurry edge of a shadow (umbra). This results in some truly special words like "antepenult," meaning "the thing before the thing before the final thing," commonly used when discussing where the stress/accent falls in a Greek or Latin word.

"Invaluable" does indeed mean "not able to be valued" when analyzed morphologically, but the standard usage of it is indicating something is beyond value, i.e. infinitely or inestimably valuable. A value of zero is still a value, after all.

"Inflammable" however actually means "able to be inflamed," as in "put in flame" or "set on fire." The confusion comes from assimilation of the Latin preposition "in" (which we have as "in" or "on") instead of the more typical prefix "in-" (which demarcates negation.) You don't have to look very far for other words where "in" doesn't mean "not": indicate, inherit, imply, investigate, indict, involve...

Comment Re:This kind of thing causes Dark Ages and N. Kore (Score 0) 83

Hurting innocent people while taking hostages during a violent riot that seizes control of a building is not "speech", it's terrorism and hostage taking. Thanks for putting antisemitism in quotes though. Tells everyone what they need to know about how you feel about Jews.

Comment Re:So what are the advantages of mRNA? (Score 1) 131

First of all having a large amount of supporting evidence and a comprehensive argument isn't a "gish gallop". And while we're at it this isn't Harry Potter, you can't just recite the name of a fallacy like it's some kind of spell to magic away people's arguments. That's rude.

As to the rest of your post... gee, it's almost like people being angry at a corrupt government for lying to them on behalf of for-profit corporations was the whole point and I literally explicitly said as much.

Funny how leftists can switch between "all corporations are unspeakably evil and corrupt and control the government" to "corporations are literally the platonic ideal of goodness itself and you're an evil far alt right misogynerd zio nazi for saying otherwise" at the drop of a hat.

Comment Re:Why plague? Nobody gets the plague anymore (Score 1) 131

they hadnt taken said land full of people who hate them they would have long since achieved peace in the region.

20 goto 10. And now you're right back to where we started: What excuse do you have for the gruesome slaughter and mass rape of Hebron's indigenous Jewish population long before Israel was founded? See that's the problem with your narrative. You're starting with the conclusion that Jews are always to blame and working backwards from there to invent excuses, but no matter what excuse you invent there was always another crime against humanity committed against the indigenous Jews before it.

Comment Re:So what are the advantages of mRNA? (Score 0) 131

Seriously, I have been hearing the "what if" crowd since Jan 2021 and they have been wrong at every time. It was 1 year, then 2 years, then 3 years, then 5 years. Will the adverse effects show up in 10 years? 20? Can we approve new medicine ever?

Karl Lauterbach, Germany's Minister of Health throughout covid, has completely reversed his position and is now admitting tens of thousands of severe adverse events are flooding germany's medical system. The German mainstream media hav openly called him and the government out on lying and claiming perfect safety and efficacy.

The German government initially admitted the rate of severe life-altering side effects (including deaths) was 1 in 10,000 at an absolute minimum. This was confessed after one of their largest state health care organizations turned whistleblower after seeing catastrophic adverse events occurring at a minimum of TEN times the officially reported rate. This lines up perfectly with the UK's MHRA finding that a mere 10% of severe adverse events ever get reported at all.
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
https://www.welt.de/politik/de... (https://archive.is/gl9Q9)
https://www.gov.uk/drug-safety...
https://www.focus.de/politik/d...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Israel similarly ran a comprehensive cross-sectional survey of patients and found 0.3% of respondents were outright hospitalized, nearly 30% reported life-altering severe events making it hard for them to survive day to day, 25% with pre-existing conditions reported a severe worsening, and 4.5% reported being inflicted with severe neurological disease such as seizures, palsy, and loss of consciousness.

This isn't even getting into the 10% of menstrual age women reporting their reproductive cycle was significantly disrupted or catastrophic rates of miscarriage hidden by maliciously miscategorizing almost all pregnancies as non-pregnant patients. And keep in mind that all of this is also not counting for the internationally accepted and documented 90% rate of underreporting severe adverse events we just discussed.
https://t.me/MOHreport/9197

Comment Re:Why plague? Nobody gets the plague anymore (Score 0, Troll) 131

What hornet's nest did the Jews of Hebron kick in 1929 when entire families were mutilated to death and children as young as 13 raped on their dying parents' entrails?

People have been blaming Jews for the massacres and genocides committed against them for as long as there have been Jews to blame. You're not as original as you think you are.

Comment Re:So much plastic, so many screws... WTF? (Score 1) 23

And your post shows your lack of corporate understanding. Companies use ribbon cables like this because they function as booby traps for anyone opening the device. It's incredible easy to brick a part if there's tons of ultra fragile ribbon cables and connectors all over the place that will tear, snap, or kink the moment you so much as blink wrong during disassembly or reassembly.

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