I still don’t understand why they let budget bills get stuffed with unrelated laws. Seems like those should be separate bills, not hidden in must pass legislation.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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Lobbyists would never.
I try to consider what would happen if someone actually had the integrity to stand up to this shit.
They'd get outed for holding back the budget. Media would be all over it framing them as being obstructionist.
It'd require some balls and connection to the media to set the story straight.
But it'd also require that they even know about what they're voting for. These kinds of changes are deliberately being shoveled onto the cart after train has started running. You'd have to hire a team to read everything as soon as it written and demand that changes are published before voting, which it is sometimes isn't, so this is something that also have to be addressed all the while the media is shooting at you.
The best thing would be to allow a complete breakdown. Don't pass anything. See what happens and who the people support when they're hungry.
The state now controls the means of production?
Sounds dangerously Communist!
Socialism for the rich, unions for the dogs and scraps for the rest.
Unions are for everyone, what?
no I agree but if you take a look at the USA from afar then it appears this way. It is no me not wanting unions its the other way around.
From the actual bill:
HOWEVER, THAT IF THE WORKING GROUP DETERMINES THAT IT IS NOT TECHNOLOGICALLY FEASIBLE TO REQUIRE THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTERS SOLD IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO INCLUDE BLOCKING TECHNOLOGY, THE WORKING GROUP SHALL SO REPORT, AND NO REGULATIONS SHALL BE REQUIRED TO BE PROMULGATED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE WORKING GROUP DETER- MINES THAT IT IS TECHNOLOGICALLY FEASIBLE.
Considering the number of open source 3d printers, and mills, plus conversion packages for manual mills, It's ludicrous to assume it's feasible. And NY has nowhere near the manufacturing monopoly to force the rest of the country, let alone the world, to comply with a demand that all of them have blocking systems.
Even given the safety check of a working group, this same bill also makes a stick illegal. So it's more than likely to fail on a few challenges, assuming it even makes it to final vote in this form.
They start with closed source and will close the open source loop hole in a future bill. This is boiling frogs if anything.
It's even better than that - for them.
With this bill the legislation is effectively now on the books but in a dormant state where it can be selectively activated at any future time and with whatever scope the 'working group' decide.
Oooh, Louis Rossman is going to be PISSED * grabs popcorn *
I don't think I've ever seen one of his videos where he isn't angry. I just assumed that was his natural state.
He's now talking at Mach3.
Instead of just grabbing popcorn (self entertainment), maybe you should see if you can help him in some way?
Even if something like this were to actually come to fruition, I have to imagine that all it would really result in is kind of like when the EU used to have less strict guidelines on wireless technologies and in America you could just flash the European firmware to get longer range. Surely there will just be a New York specific firmware and then you can flash the firmware from somewhere else.
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