jivandabeast

@ jivandabeast @lemmy.browntown.dev

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jivandabeast @lemmy.browntown.dev 17h ago

(please someone correct me if I'm wrong on this)

Doesn't boycotting Bambu ignore that they are one of the biggest names in 3D printing with a product that is cheaper and better than their main competitor (Prusa). Frankly, I don't think anyone is going to spend 2x the amount for literally a worse product (Bambu P2S @ $550 vs Prusa Core One @ $999)

I get all the arguments about the repairability and longevity of Prusa printers, but when someone is saving for months to buy a luxury item I simply cannot see them making all those sacrifices

5d ago

Anyone else want to know the gender breakdown of this group?

jivandabeast @lemmy.browntown.dev 5d ago

But now the story is online ...?

1w ago

someDaysAreBetterThanOthers

You'll hate it, but honestly I went for (cyber engineering) a consulting internship, led to a full time offer at the firm which i eventually turned into a really good position at my client

1w ago

someDaysAreBetterThanOthers

Monopoly money is the best kind of money

1w ago

California Wants to Put License Plates on E-Bikes and Slow Them Down. Cyclists Are Not Happy About It

True, I did exaggerate. But the reality is sustained motorized speed is entirely different from a cyclist's burst speed, which is exactly why they shouldn't be regulated the same way.

1w ago

California Wants to Put License Plates on E-Bikes and Slow Them Down. Cyclists Are Not Happy About It

You're sustaining 30 for over an hour on a road bike solely by pedaling? I didn't know we had olympians in the comments

1w ago

California Wants to Put License Plates on E-Bikes and Slow Them Down. Cyclists Are Not Happy About It

It's more about liability, if someone is riding around on an unregistered ebike and cause some sort of incident then they (or they're parents, since IMO it's a lot of kids who are ripping around on these) are the liable party

1w ago

California Wants to Put License Plates on E-Bikes and Slow Them Down. Cyclists Are Not Happy About It

30mph is FAST, A 49cc moped is going to be able to hit a top speed of 30 miles per hour.

I'd say a speed limit for no licensing/registration/insurance should be 15mph. Thats about the speed an average cyclist would be able to go without electronic assists.

3w ago

UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

jivandabeast @lemmy.browntown.dev 3w ago

Lmfaooooooooo how do you think the teenage vaping epidemic came to be? Every store wasn't checking ID? Kids been buying nic from dealers for years now

3w ago

Burgerule

jivandabeast @lemmy.browntown.dev 3w ago

Doesn't Japan have really strict food advertising laws, so the item you receive needs to VERY closely resemble the picture you saw on the packaging/advertising?

1mo ago

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

Probably clearer if i wrote: "the cost OR barriers to entry are very high"

A cheap liquor still off the shelf is like $300, which is definitely not impulse buy territory IMO and before even getting to this point you'd have to have done at least a trivial amount of research to have learned how to distill and what machines to look at in the first place.

Alternatively, they could build their own. But that would require doing an extensive amount of research on how to build a still, which in turn would end up providing you with a bunch of safety information regardless.

This is definitely not common knowledge.

1mo ago

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

Because this is a thread about a reversal on a ban on distilling. My original comment mentioned all of those hobbies outside of any context of regulation/licensing due to the high risks inherent in their activities without any restrictions in place.

Responder tried to argue that they all have restrictions. I said that it was false and then reiterated my main point, which is being glad (as a member of the homebrew community) that home distilling is now allowed, banning it was dumb, and everyone screaming in this thread about keeping it banned because of "dAnGeR" is unreasonable

1mo ago

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

All those components are set up so that they function a certain way, more dangerous versions are restricted

TY for making my point for me, it was really nice of you. Legalization is what allows those manufactured safeguards to exist. Without legalization, there is no way a company is going to sell a still that meets a UL safety metric. Which in turn causes anyone who wants to do this to use a cobbled together rig that's probably leaking fuel or gases.

Lots of things that are dangerous are banned or restricted

And lots of things that are dangerous are not banned or restricted, and are in fact extremely normalized. I could go buy fireworks in a tent on the side of the road, without needing to provide my age or any sort of training -- and fireworks are VASTLY more dangerous than distilling.

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.

Again, this is a product of prohibition and not having access to safe equipment or information. The cost/barriers to entry for home distilling are also very high. There is a minimum amount of research that you would need to do in order to understand what the procedure is and what equipment you would even need.

Finally, I will once again state that the dangers of home distilling are extremely overblown. When New Zealand legalized home distilling there were zero reports of methanol poisoning from home-distillation, caused 0.14% of residential fires, and 0 deaths. 1 2 3.

Someone is literally more likely to have a fire and/or die from an unattended candle.

1mo ago

Artemis 2 just splashed down successfully

Was at a sushi restaurant where they had it playing on the TV. Some guy got in front the tv and started screaming for them to turn it off because its propaganda and obviously fake.

Like five waiters went over, laughed at him, and then watched the landing

1mo ago

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

I'm talking about people in this thread commenting like this reversal is going to cause massive fires tomorrow.

But to your point, the ban was never about safety, it was about tax collection.

1mo ago

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

So tired of government overreach smh

1mo ago

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

Actually no: there are no courses, licensing, rules, or regulations for a hobbyist (which is who this ruling affects) on the majority of the things that I listed (cars, RC/drones, canning, making kombucha, and even to a certain extent guns. We trust adults to be adults and learn the skills required to do these things because the risk is almost entirely to them.

If we had to ban everything that had a chance of causing harm to people, shouldn't we ban gas stoves? Those could cause an explosion if someone was careless and left the gas running.

A dude distilling 5 gallons of wash in his backyard for his own personal consumption is not the same as a distillery processing 1000 gallons of wash.

1mo ago

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional