dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️ @ dual_sport_dork @lemmy.world

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Not without breaking the nails off of their strip, at which point you're redesigning the feed mechanism, and at that rate you may as well start from scratch.

Nailguns don't work in the manner like I predict you're thinking of -- you can't add a barrel to one since the nail itself is not fired via the compressed air as a projectile. The air drives a piston which strikes the nail exactly like a hammer. The energy is imparted in the nail in that impact and that's all you get. Adding additional barrel length will not increase the velocity in any way. It may just at the outside increase the flight stability of the projectile very slightly, but nailgun nails aren't very well balanced, they're surprisingly inconsistent, and they're usually not very straight to begin with either.

I used to manage a hardware store. Trust me, myself and my crew have/had a lot of experience with trying to weaponize various tools, parts, and equipment. Boredom on a slow Sunday afternoon will do that for you...

Not much range on a nailgun. The nails tumble in flight in quite a short distance.

Way ahead of you. Ever load a thumbtack into a piece of 5/16" brake line and give it a puff with your air compressor?

Don't ask me how but the fuckers remain straight in flight. They're cylindrical enough that you could surely make such an apparatus magazine fed.

You forgot the screaming eagles and the guitar solo. Otherwise, a solid attempt.

Anything to avoid having to actually address the systemic poverty and bigotry ingrained in the system that leads to violence...

From what I understand the "problem" as it's being framed in terms of ghost guns and inner city crime or whatever the buzzword is this year is not hobbyists running off a lower or frame for themselves. None of those guys in the hood and their switches are buying Bambus or building Vorons and suddenly turning into 3D printing gurus -- Someone, or several someones more likely, are deliberately mass manufacturing these things for sale to the criminals which is already thoroughly illegal. Find the gun runners and stomp on them. I thought you guys were supposed to have this big scary police force and surveillance apparatus?

You'll have to use your blowgun. Those are still unregulated.

Don't worry, my state considers throwing stars to be "assault weapons" now and their sale and possession is banned. There's still stupidity abound if you care to look hard enough.

This twerp must have some absolutely devastating dirt on Trumpy boy. I'm coming to the conclusion that there's no other explanation. It can't possibly just be money; Trump has tons of other rich donors. What I'm struggling to predict, though, is just what he could possibly have to hold over Trump's head that's worse than selling classified documents, misusing campaign funds, trying to incite an insurrection, or failing to pay his hookers.

Notice how we're already asking past the sale with the tacit labeling of "sexual material harmful to minors," with the presupposed declaration that sexual material is automatically harmful to minors.

The all-consuming mission to look at boobies is essentially universal for all pubescent boys from about 12 all the way to the age of majority. This is well known, and none of us came off any the worse despite widespread availability of older brothers' back issues of Hustler, Usenet, dial-up BBS systems, and ultimately the world wide web.

If teens weren't naturally interested in sex where wouldn't been all them teenage pregnancies. Q.E.D.

I KNO₃, right?

Yeah, that's ridiculous.

Just slapping a "homeopathy" label on something with no oversight can't be an automatic dodge-all to regulation. If Hershey needs to prove what they put in a candy bar, anyone hawking homeopathic products should need to prove what they put in there as well.

At least homeopathic anything is not directly harmful in the context of ingesting it, because it contains no active ingredient.

It's only harmful in that people don't understand that it's bullshit and therefore believe that it works, and might skip actual effective treatment for whatever their ailment is in favor of cheaper (and totally ineffective) homeopathic whatever-the-hell. For that reason it should at least be regulated to the extent of having a big neon warning sticker on it that says, "This product is completely ineffective and accomplishes nothing other than setting your money on fire."

I'm all for outlawing it from a consumer advocacy standpoint because it's a scam, but otherwise it's just expensive water.

So, just like how pretty much every other drone manufacturers drones already work. Somehow people only give DJI shit over this and develop a curious blind spot about everybody else.

It is trivially easy for anyone with thumbs to kit-build a drone with no regulatory compliance whatsoever, in nearly any size, with absurd range and capabilities, for just a few hundred dollars. Despite that state of affairs having been the case for years, this has mysteriously failed to cause the Earth to fall out of its orbit into the sun.

Anyone who is planning shenanigans and doesn't take phasing or teleportation is asking for it. Sooner or later some government entity or another is going to try to put you in some kind of prison and you'd better have an escape card. Especially if you also take immortality. If you're immortal and some asshole Cask of Amontillados you, you're going to be pissed off about it forever.

And is "divine powers" just a free combo deal of magic, invisibility, and immortality?

Pfft. Everyone knows nobody really lives in Montana. They just pretend they do on paper so they can incorporate LLC's there and put license plates on their dirt bikes and quads. Montana's entire population is actually in Kentucky and Florida.

Just think of all the moose you could farm in that space, or whatever it is the Canadians want to do with it.

Boy howdy, I sure can't wait for 99.9% of all manufacturers on Earth to completely ignore this as well, and keep selling devices and cables that are completely unlabeled.

And almost certainly so that uncoordinated users don't slice the insides of their cheeks.

So is lobsters and crabs.

Eating them anyway, though.

Perennial camping-stuff manufacturer Light My Fire do indeed make a Knork, which is the first example that leapt to my mind. They may call it a "spork" but the fork end has a (butter-grade) knife edge machined into one side of it. As an added bonus, you get a whole entire unmolested spoon on the other end, too. Anyone who is cool enough to count would surely get the titanium version, which may just barely achieve enough rigidity to actually cut anything.

I used to have one but I lent it to somebody for a camping trip -- damned if I remember who -- and never got it back. Oh well.

Well, I can at least claim that I can legitimately claim an oft-unused spot on this diagram through being one of the probably select few who has ever put an edge on a spoon.

Look, some of us have a brand to maintain, you know?

Also, perhaps now is a good time to dredge up this.