Much to my very great annoyance, my fellow Americans are generally world-leaders in the dubious field of inventing and buying into bullcrap nonsensical anti-science conspiracy theories. But this time, it seems the Brits are leading the charge. the claim? 5G transmitters are magically creating the coronavirus.
Ayup.
Thunderf00t takes this one down. You wouldn’t think such a patently absurd notion would need debunking, but welcome to 2020. Bonus: religious nuttery.
Most data sites show the current state of things. This one purports to project what the future holds, for individual US states and the US as a whole. I’ve no idea how accurate it is, but it is interesting. IMO, we’re too early on the curves to project forward with much accuracy, so it’ll be worth checking back later and seeing where things wash out.
As a general rule I’ve no interest in watching “childrens” YouTube channels. But this one is just a little bit different… the child in question is being raised by parents who are raising her well. If more parents did this, it’d be a better and safer world, not to mention far less crazy.
I was initially intrigued. But then the truly unusual feature was described, and now I *really* want to see what sort of pattern this shotgun produces.
Here’s the new eXXXXXTREEEEEEEME sport of the coming century…
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She’s quite good at it. the other cats, not so much.
A “Flying Jeep” circa 1957 with two lift fans and what appears to be a fuselage composed largely of two long floats. Presumably this vehicle could land on water, though with the substantial downwash, it’d be a heck of a mess.
On one level, casting blame within the US for the Kung Flu is silly, since the disease is a somewhat unprecedented freakshow that came out of Communist China. But on the other hand…
On January 31, there was this:
Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has been on an absolute tear about coronavirus, calling for all Americans in China to “get out now,” demanding the U.S. implement an extensive travel ban targeting China proposing a “Manhattan Project-level effort to create a vaccine” ― a reference to the undertaking that produced the atomic bomb during World War II.
Huh. Imagine if, instead of calling Cotton a fearmonger, a nut and a bigot, the HuffPo and other outlets had said “maybe we should listen to this guy.” On the same day that HuffPo mocked the idea that the virus was worth worrying about, Trump issued his travel ban on people coming from China, thus preemptively striking at those who, a couple months later, would accuse him of belated interest in the pandemic.
In short, if you are in the US you can access a number of downloadable files for 3D printable firearms.
While I would avoid any such weapon like the plague in favor of properly manufactured firearms made from *good* materials, having this system in place and recognized as legal is a good first step towards the day when any American can download and print a *good* firearm without having to deal with governmental BS. As has been pointed out from time to time, many people want gun laws to be similar to automobile laws. And there are precisely zero laws against making your own automobile at home. Granted a car is *way* bigger than most firearms…
The sci-fi dream is a general replicator, such as from Star Trek. Trek replicators use magic transporter technology, but the basic idea of a machine that builds up anything from drugs or hamburgers to pistols from raw materials is a valid one.