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[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 68 points 1 week ago (43 children)

You can buy whole kits to build your own, the capacity to control what is made with the is about as much as if you tried to ban someone with a table saw from building a birdhouse.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (34 children)

tried to ban someone with a table saw from building a birdhouse.

Thats a perfectly succinct analogy.

[–] lung@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (33 children)

Pretty sure you could make a gun too, which is the point of this 3D printer thing

And like what about other CNC machines?

I like that California is on the frontier of many tech laws, but this and the age thing are particularly dumb lately

[–] Oneiros@eviltoast.org 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah I’ve lived in CA for about 10 years now and have loved it, but the new laws they are passing are making it extremely likely that I’ll be moving soon. Especially with tje fact that we are either getting either Becerra who’s in Big AI and Big Oils pocket.

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