Obligatory call out to Hank Green’s “The Fix” and his amazing fact-based intimidations: https://youtube.com/shorts/J8fmQ8E7rhE

Ha! I fucking called that after they claimed they also were taking a hard line. Complete bullshit.

One far right family of billionaires

Could you imagine if ol’ bone spurs had actually went to Vietnam?

Oh, I very much doubt that. They’re counting on the federal goverment as a “backstop” to their over extended debts when the bill comes due (several orders of magnitude over extended, mind you. More than a trillion over extended.). They’re gonna play mouth service for the public, but give Bitch Baby Trump whatever it takes to keep that backstop secured and reep all the benefits of their beyond unrealistic gamble and none of the financial consequences.

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I… did not… inhale.

That’s… not what I asked you, Bill.

Even if it were true that China stole the election, how is “something happened 6 years ago” an emergency? He won in 2024, so it can’t be that effective anymore.

I’m really not even a little bit following what you’re trying to say. What units are you using? What does the Sagittarius A* have to do with anything? What scale factor are you talking about? Mass? Volume? “Mass of electron cloud equivalent to black hole” what electron cloud? Where are you pulling these numbers?

Mass isn’t what determines if a singularity forms. Density is. Enough mass has to be formed in small enough volume to form a singularity. Mass more most matter would have to multiply by many many orders of magnitude for a planet to form one. Adding a single election to each atom doesn’t do that.

Maybe charge can play a factor, but I don’t really have any idea how exactly or how significant it is.

In the example in from that what if, they are putting a universe’s worth of mass in the volume of the moon, so it would create a super massive singularity. That’s not what is happening in here.

If every atom suddenly gained an electron, they would indeed increase in mass. But a hydrogen atoms would gain the most relative mass as it is the lightest atom, and that would only be an increase of 1/1837th of its total mass now, so… not that much. Masses of heavier atoms and the macro level matter made from them would increase in mass even more marginally. It would be a negligible difference, definitely not be enough for a singularity to form from this increase alone unless a star’s core were already riding that edge.

So their original determination would still be correct, that molecules would fly apart (atomized) and explode outward into the vacuum of space. Now, maaaaybe if the explosive force were enough to cause atoms to collide in space and at relativistic speeds, tiny singularities might form. But their combined negative charge would be far more powerful than their gravitational pull, and they would decay almost immediately, so… no crunch.

Grain of salt: I love physics, but I’m not a physicist.

Extra electrons make atoms go 'splodey.

Hey those fucking atom bastards are nothing but negativity. They know what they did.

You know how when you put magnet faces together with the same polarity, they push against each other. If you squeeze them together they will pop away. When an atom has an extra electron, it makes its charge more negative. If all of the atoms have extra electrons, all of their charges will be more negative. Now imagine every single atom in the universe was suddenly the same polarity and began pushing all other atoms away. I’ll let your imagination take over from there.

Didn’t he already do that before? Am I imagining that?

Well they have my vote. My bar isn’t very high anymore after the last few elections

Oh good. I don’t think we need to add a 137 year old Hitler to the current political situation. It’s bad enough as it is. I assume your Nans haven’t Holocausted anyone. …right?

Both Hitler and Nana?

Didn’t your nana?

Frankly it seems more like a mild inconvenience then actual prevention. I don’t really care how smart a software gets, it can’t predict and prevent all possible configurations of prints that could possibly be used to create functioning guns without being so overly restrictive that even perfectly innocent prints would get flagged constantly in which case they simple won’t sell to normal users.

It would be a constant game of whack a mole with new creative designs, using multiple printers or with non-printed parts in the design. But no hardware or software that a smart enough engineer has their hands on is impervious to mods either, especially if they’re motivated like someone seeking to produce firearms would be.

It’s an overreaching law that will likely solve little to nothing, but might make 3d printers in general a bit more annoying to work with. “Sorry, you can’t make your dice tower because there’s a 16 percent change that it could be capable of firing an RPG out of the dragon’s mouth. Please make your design at least 12 percent less gun-ish and try again.”