FuglyDuck

huh.This would also lighten the head up, too.

I would suggest putting a sort of cooling vent nozzle thingy to open up the airflow a bit better so you’re not just blasting, but a simple part with a nipple connection should do it nicely.

It’s not a duck.

Also he is wearing some very dapper mittens.

So you want to see Trump in prison, but strapped to a cam show where tips cause various electrodes to, you know, zap him?

Electrodes in very awkward places?

Tips go to helping all the people he hates most, of course.

It depends on who you talk to. Libertarians will cite standing up against corruption.

Granted, the asshole was shooting .50 cal rounds into propane tanks with the hope of creating an explosion, so he’s far from someone to worship.

And yes. He’s certainly a whack job. The zoning issues being the source of the perceived corruption (the sewer issues and access are… well he could have been made whole but was intransigent. I’m not sure he was ever actually blocked off from road access.)

Probably super-fundamentalist christians. Jack the Ripper attacked prostitutes, after all.

as a side note, an antihero is a person whose not a good person but does good things, usually for greedy or selfish motives, but also sometimes becasue, well. they’re not that bad.

Killdozer (marvin heeymeyer) is an antihero, for example.

Pick me! Pick Me! I have ideas.

not very good ones, I’m afraid, but I can at least make sure Trump can’t hurt any more kids.

Yup.

But they want to control the pipeline all the same.

Don’t need a printer to do any of that. it’s also faster just to drive to a state that allows gunshow loopholes and buy an otherwise untraceable firearm. takes less skill, too.

part of the problem with that is that most of your ghost guns are “just” the AR 15 lower receiver- the part classified as the “firearm” because of some technicality only a lawyer can understand.

It’s not a load bearing, nor is it exposed to any particularly high levels of heat, nor any sort of particularly nasty gasses. So that can be printed in just about anything if the printer’s resolution is good enough. (IIRC, they typically call for resin printers.)

Then, the ghost gun peeps just buy the rest of the components retail and pay cash.

for fully-printed firearms, you’re looking at things like DMLS or other kinds of precision metalwork. It’s the kind of work that would be more expensive than roadtripping to arizona and getting loophole-gun.

Fun fact, you don’t need a 3d printer to make ghost guns, and you’ve never needed them.

Laws restricting printers aren’t about firearms, it’s about restricting access to disruptive technology before it disrupts too much of how we innovate. (Because innovation has historically been tied to big-industry with the little guy being unable to get into it. Because it costs a shit ton.)

What exactly are you asking?

It’s pretty easy, for example, to turn an image into a grayscale .bmp and convert that to an elevation map that roughly creates an embossed/engraved surface.

It’s not easy to take photos of objects and turn them into 3d models of that object. It’s pretty much impossible from a single photo, as well. It’s possible, but usually fairly complicated- it’s called photogrammetry and there’s tools and plugins for blender that can do it; but it’s very hit or miss.

I 3d printed most of the bits for a Kosh Naranec costume. he could be a court magician… and it would still fit with the lore in bab 5, too. (oh. you said you don’t want something over the top…sorry. the best part is you can set up some motion activated light shows and play his various enigmatic one liners, stand the thing up in a corner and go get a pint someplace else; without ever leaving character. The avalanche has fallen. it’s too late for the pebbles to vote.)

alternatively you could do an “actual” court magician. or something to that effect. 3d print baubles and a top to some kind of staff. generic robes in black with a big baggy hat to round it out. learning some slight of hand might help sell it.

So, I’m going to preface this with a quick reminder that once deployed, a folding knife is going to cause the same kind of wounds as a fixed bladed of similar size and shape. and example for this is the Benchmade Adamas family. They have a folding knife, an auto-opening folding knife and a paracord wrapped skeleton-grip (with paracord,) fixed bladed knife.

Once deployed, the knives are all going to do about the same in a fight. And the two folding knives- the auto, and the manual knife- are going to function basically identically. In Minnesota, the only one of these that’s illegal to carry is the auto. The only reason that’s illegal to carry is because of perception. (the same perception as switchblades.) There’s no practical reason that auto-opening knives are any more likely to be used in some kind of crime than manual-opening folders.

Back in the early fifties, switchblades were frequently used by youth gangs (west side story, for example,) or rough-and-tumble types (especially in cowboy or war movies,) as a sort of visual code to indicate they were of rather dubious character. eventually that became associated with black guys being villains, because hollywood never met a trope it didn’t like. even when the villain was white, or whatever, that was broadly overlooked by popular culture.

It was outlawed in '58 largely because people perceived it at the weapon of choice by black men. it had nothing to do at all with knives themselves being particularly dangerous. or even all that common, really.

the same is true of asian martial arts movies and balisongs. (which is ridiculous. the only thing a bali should be used for is as a slightly more exciting fidgit spinner. Sorry.)

Or brass knuckles (relating to the italian mafia and irish mob. hollywood gave those to the enforcers.)

This isn’t to say that maybe knives and brass knuckles and things shouldn’t be regulated. But outside of “Knives larger than x length”, and the occasional feature like double edges or spear points (Which are bad for general use, and usually purely for a weapon, not a tool); there’s always some other reason for it being outlawed… and generally that reason is that “the wrong people” are using them.

and many jurisdictions have laws written by people who don’t have a frooking clue and are simply reacting to a knife being associated with whatever out-group happens to exist at the time.

maybe instead go to the wikipedia page for ‘Gravity Knife’

or just read my comment more fully. Gravity knives don’t have switches. or buttons. If you’re considering the hinge mechanism that allows a gravity knife to operate, then practically any folder is a “switch blade” and that’s just not true.

from the wiki I linked:

A gravity knife is a knife with a blade contained in its handle, which opens its blade through the force of gravity. This mechanism of opening is fundamentally different from the switchblade…

Even in gravity knives that appear to be opened by a switch or buttons… all that button is doing is unlocking the blade to allow it to be deployed or retracted. If simply having a button or switch or something is all it takes to be a switchblade, then this classic gem would also be a switchblade.

Just to be pedantic, gravity knives aren’t switchblades.

They have a blade that slides freely (and under the force of gravity.) the grip is basically a hinged nutcracker that, when closed, traps the sliding blade either deployed or retracted.

In any case, they’re no more dangerous than your standard folding knives of the same general proportions.

The illegality of certain knives (switch blades, gravity knives, balisongs, etc) are largely not based on the danger or actual use of those knives as weapons.

In the US it’s usually reactionary and racism.

Musk’s net worth dropped $121 billion.

So… does this make him not the richest guy yet?

…how many of them are good…?