Can anyone make a gas stove or propane grill? Can you rig up your own home-made propane tank? Can you get your propane from a rando who mixed it at home? Are there rules and restrictions on ventilation and how houses are built or where you can use your grill? Be reasonable.
Actually yes: Consumer protection regulations exist for cars, RC/drones and parts, canning supplies, and certainly guns. All those components are set up so that they function a certain way, more dangerous versions are restricted, and governments try at the very least to educate people about the dangers of just DIY stuff (e.g. safe home canning). Your illusion of competent adults is created, in part, by a framework of regulatory guardrails.
Where did I say ban everything that’s dangerous? Do you want to have no restrictions on anything? Lots of things that are dangerous are banned or restricted, and you’re probably alive and healthy today in part for that.
Dude distilling 5 gallons of wash with no understanding of how it works, the danger to him or his neighbours, no regulation of the parts or ingredients that go into his setup is a menace and an accident waiting to happen.
Ahh, you can just go buy a gun and use it in your own home with no license or background check eh? Rah rah America I guess.
As for the rest, there are layers upon layers of consumer protection regulations that go into limiting what parts you can buy, what can be imported, what quality it is, how it should work. I guess if you’re gonna be real intense you can go buy some lithium cells, motors, 3d print parts etc, but outside of that there is a vast framework of overlapping regulations trying to keep stupid people from hurting themselves or others. Your ignorance of the systems protecting you doesn’t mean they aren’t there or that they aren’t important, and they probably contribute to the illusion of competence and divine support so many have. It’s not Good keeping you safe, it’s actually the government.
False. My great grandpa was a bootlegger. There are and we’re explosions and fires making hooch.
Yeah, gotta take courses for some of those right? Get a licence? Some have safety standards so you know what you get and come with instructions on how to operate them?
There are rules and regulations on almost everything you listed. Because health and safety regulations are written in blood.
Or, you know, be indifferent to human suffering and societal cost and basic common sense. Very American vibe these days.
I feel this ruling is going to have explosive results.
I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.
Or maybe he is actually Ozymandias all along, giving the world a villian to rally around.
we still use caucasoid?
Nope, unless you are a
Expecting a happy ending, were we? Well, I’m sorry, Hughie. It ain’t that kind of massage parlor.
Depends on where you live, because science is different depending on geography apparently.
Next is Russian Barbie?
Greed, ignorance, wrath, sloth. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace…
No no, those layoffs were because AI does the work now, silly.
Its published in Fortune, I’m curious what you expected when you clicked on the link.
So far everyone has missed the best part:
“They don’t like the word war because you are supposed to get approval. So I will use the word ‘military operation.’ Which is really what it is. It’s called a military decimation."
TBD if this “military operation” will be “special” too.
That’s one hell of a conga line, I tell you what!
Caligula
Maybe the Marines will secure the Straight by firing bullets into the water and then declare victory over it? Some people tell me this is a very victorious way to wage war.
Hamberder meal!