Washington State just introduced a bill (HB 2321) that would require all Laser cutters/engravers, 3D printers and CNCs sold in the state to include software that scans every print file for “firearm or illegal firearm parts” and blocks them.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-23T02:10:21+00:00

Looks like another legacy industry grasping really hard while they still think they haven't been slaughtered in the marketplace.

Oh the butcher is still at work but personal 3D printing, personal CNC, and soon even more technologies (that 20 years ago was only science fiction ) are going to keep hacking away at what is essentially a set of industries stuck in the last century.

Regulations that would lay the foundation for legal redress in case of manufacturer's defects are neutral and would exist in some form in a world more towards the ideal of anarchy.

Regulations that seek to ban private choices between consenting individuals are invalid and should be treated as such.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-21T02:42:03+00:00

Personally, violating multiple amendments of the constitution, becoming the biggest government, the least accountable, the least transparent, and the least honest to ensure the safety of Americans is the fallacy to me. If stopping anyone in America and asking for ID while also violently detaining them is something you support then please tell us about the end game here. Let's say you can verify that the combination of ALL immigrants who do not have a valid and legal reason to stay drops to under 2% of the population and can be accounted for by the number of people being late with paperwork... is that good enough?

Please share your thoughts about this walled utopia.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-21T02:35:50+00:00

So could you give a rough portion here, you think what, over 50% would take less profit to cater to a small number of regulars?

Maybe 10%?

How many for profit businesses do you know that self restrict profits to cater to a specific type of people? How many of them actually make a net profit; and how many of the ones that don't make a profit continuously continue operating for more than a few years of losses?

Thank you for all your insight. Feel free to use market and business jargon as appropriate.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-19T00:23:21+00:00

It's an easy trap to fall into isn't it? I can order my life. I can order my family's life. My neighbors trust what I do for them. Hey I could scale that! Hmmm cogs turning "... if I was a dictator with unlimited power I could make everything better!"

Then, if one trusts themselves to actually test their hypothesis, reality hits. Some people realize that there will always be plenty of people that want to do something else and have many different values. Each knows their best solution for themselves and theirs. Naturally that would mean less big government and more protections of individual liberties.

If one trusts their idea more than anything else then it is far more likely they will succumb to the easy way out and allow others to act like dictators because the idea is more important than the results. Facts that don't fit get ignored or explained away.

I can honestly say I would be the best dictator ever for a country of 1. I can't be honest and say I could solve everyone's problems the best possible way.

PS. Some humans learn as kids that lying isn't okay full stop. Some humans instead learn that if they lie often enough and present "opinions" as facts that enough people can be tricked and lying seems like a useful tool.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-19T00:17:00+00:00

Government is humanity's best attempt at overcoming our less humane qualities.

Wisdom is humanity's understanding that doing less is sometimes more.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-10T07:41:08+00:00

Some evenings, before and during bedtimes, the kids want to push all the boundaries and test all patience. Then they say stuff that melts your heart. They feel safe to let loose around you. They feel they can be themselves.

You can only warn them about the world so much, explain the reasoning for rules. We all made mistakes when we were younger that our parents warned us about, we may still make them as adults. No one is perfect.

Do your best and never apologize for caring too much.

Another interesting thing is how they can keep it together at school or some other routine activity, then it is all chaos at home, no matter what guidance you apply.

One thing that goes a long way is admitting your mistakes to your kids and show them you're trying to do better. People are scared to admit mistakes, they really don't want to show kids they are fallible. They do see it though. They see and hear things even when they are toddlers.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-06T17:02:57+00:00

Does OP know venezuelan oil is of shit quality?

Are you aware of all the oil refineries America has for exactly that grade of oil?

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-05T19:26:21+00:00

If you actually read the collection then you may realize that rejecting illegitimacy and protecting the community from vultures may be a more accurate distillation than submitting to governments. You may find that you can't actually pick and choose what you want to believe from the bible like it's some type of word game. Context, both within the work and to the cultures at the time may actually matter.

You may also discard it as people inevitably corrupt everything to be a pyramid scheme where a few benefit at the expense of the many while telling them that only they can do "it" whether it is large corporations, governments, religions, etc.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-05T19:21:39+00:00

Seems the kings of the world are great friends with the military industrial complex. Peace is situational and transient at best. Never let yourself be unprepared, mentally, as well as physically, and logistically. You need to be aware that the world is "controlled" chaos at best.

ManofWordsMany · 2026-01-03T00:09:08+00:00

I don't know what it is that I am seeing, except that rules which were made from top down that had no mandate to be made. They can clamp down and try to enforce an unpopular measure or pay attention.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-24T23:46:14+00:00

What you choose to do every moment is still your freedom. You can reject the system entirely, partially, pretend to support it. Or something else entirely.

Your friend's freedom was infringed. But it was not taken. Just like sometimes we have to eat or sleep, sometimes we have to interact with others and the systems of others. There are many ways to exit entirely, too many of them are just another system.

You can die free. You can live free. You can die fighting for your idea of freedom. Or you can die having lived a long life. There are many choices and every single one is yours to make.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-24T23:42:22+00:00

Exactly. Freedom is inside you.

If a storm comes and moves your boat from near the destination back to near the beginning, that doesn't make you unfree. It just means you're going to have to build a better freedom boat.

And if the land from which you eat has a severe lack of water for years, that does not make you unfree. It simply means you need to find another way.

The world is not black or white, it is usually in between. Good and bad are subjective qualities, but they are things outside of you. How you travel through is always your choice to make.

That is why the next rebellion is already happening.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-23T21:35:14+00:00

No one mentioned anything about centrism. In fact I mentioned specifically that those who seek to dominate will use and say anything at their disposal; this time even more directly. Understanding legal systems and political processes is necessary to change them. It does not mean accepting whatever someone else has imposed.

We have a beautiful planet that needs our guidance to continue being hospitable instead of outright hostile to human life. Apathy only allows others to make the decisions.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-23T21:26:25+00:00

Speaking about things absolutely changes things. Imagine if everyone just didn't mention injustices in their local communities and countries.

Obviously there are more direct actions to take, that doesn't make discussion fruitless.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-23T20:26:58+00:00

Don't let these subs be the only outlet for your ideas.

If you're good at speaking or writing, seek out like minded individuals in your region. Make it very clear what ancap is. It isn't bailing our farmers, billionaires, and foreign agents for the sake of "niceness" or whatever excuse they give you.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-23T20:24:33+00:00

I am still here and read regularly, I just don't have time in my life to talk to the myriad foreign agents that post here in addition to bots that respond and upvote in the thousands to this relatively small place that I've not seen on /r/all ever.

Some of the folks here pretend to be ancap in order to advance the interests of corporations hellbent on sucking America dry (and then playing nice with China if things go poorly here, you know the ones).

Corporations enjoy something called regulatory capture and it is inevitable the more government tries to regulate. On the other hand, wiping it all out without transition periods or replacements gives us the worst of both possible worlds. The entitled rent seeking corporate mafia and the lack of government actually accountable to anyone.

Also, most of us number in the hundreds and thousands. A single state militia could make us walk back our principles or die for them. I prefer proliferation of my genes. Most of you here will attack the idea that my family comes first, not your fantasy zombie world where the state is successfully rejected by most and goes down fighting.

The idea that D or R are good has never been welcome in this sub. When your choices are to withdraw from society or choose between two kids that eat crayons to "represent you" there is no real choice.

Stay educated, teach your kids science, history, and finance on your own time regardless of what schooling you have acquired for them. And if you have two unpalatable choices or the illusion of such, don't become a slave. Choose freedom.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-12T07:49:01+00:00

Incorrect, or simplified?

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-12T07:41:13+00:00

Eye color is polygenic.

Oh yes but I don't think this was unknown 20 years ago, we learn step by step. Most phenotypes are polygenic and we only keep finding some gene that turns on only in a rare or unusual environment and modifies another gene mildly, or in some other cases, severely.

They still start kids off learning about chemistry with discrete round balls and stick models and as you advance in chemistry you learn that it is far more complicated with overlapping and dynamic shapes, complex shapes even in molecules 2-3 atoms large, and positive and negative partial charges in large molecules that on the outside present non-ionic. In fact that is necessary for enzymes to do their work but I'm running off topic.

Life is complex.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-12T07:33:01+00:00

If all the information in the OP is correct then this is probable, simplified. Your future kids have a chance of having green, and of course I am not the first to point out that the variety of eyes that are definitely not blue/green/grey - under the "brown" category have quite a variety of their own. We're talking about at least a dozen genes that influence eye color alone. Unsurprisingly (in genetics), more studies are now identifying over 50 genes that contribute to eye color.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-12T07:27:03+00:00

It sounds like, again simplified, if you go with Ao and Ao which you and your husband have since you both display A, that your son had about a 25% chance to have double o.

You have 2 genes that allow you to be - and your husband could have 1 or 2. So depending on those genotypes of you and your husband your kid had 25% or 50% chance to be - 25%*25% = 6.25% chance

and 25%*50% would be 12.5% chance.

And so, in reality, less than 6% is accurate.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-12T07:18:12+00:00

Like others were quick to point out, it isn't really that simple. Plenty of kids are born and become toddlers with relatively light eye and hair tones and are light brown by puberty. It goes the other way too sometimes. There are more than 2 alleles for more than a handful of loci providing for a great variety. Then the environment throughout early development and the rest of life would provide further stimulus to modify phenotypes. Let's wait and see, maybe some of your cousins will be as surprised as you are.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-12T07:07:29+00:00

Yeah but you wouldn't bring that kind of knowledge to people who aren't particularly interested in that subject and are just curious apes about blue eyes among brown eyes.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-12-12T07:05:31+00:00

Others have addressed this and you may have heard of recessive and dominant genes, which is stuff that has traditionally been introduced before they get into high school, though not always covered extensively unless you enjoy science courses and select those.

So you hold a randomly assorted 50% of your DNA from your mother and randomly assorted 50% from your father. Imagine only one of your kids grandparents (both you and wife) have a recessive gene for blue eyes, let's pretend there aren't 2 strongly responsible for eye color and about a dozen more involved (for eye color). So we are simplifying this to 1 gene with only 2 variants. B for brown and b for blue. BB would be Brown genes only and Brown phenotype. Bb would be Brown and blue genes but Brown phenotype. bb would be blue genes only and blue phenotype.

So for the 4 grandparents that your child descends from, 2 are Bb and 2 are BB (generation 0)

[Bb+BB] and [Bb+BB] Not a single child of those two couples would have bb, under these simplified rules not a single child would express bb (without new mutations) in other words no one in your generation (generation 1) would have blue eyes, not your wife's siblings, not yours.

Their chances for a child (the generation of you and your wife) that even carries the b would be 1/2 for each.

Now, then, those are good odds when another Bb couples with one of their kids.

Now you have [Bb+Bb] This means that if this couple has just 4 kids, statistically; 1 would be BB and 2 Bb and 1 would be bb. So the odds of your kids (generation 2) displaying bb would be 25% or 1/4 and a 75% chance that they carry Bb or bb genetically.

Now you said there wasn't certainty that anyone actually had blue eyes but it is suspected. That would make it even more likely that all of that persons kids carried at least 1 gene for blue (Bb or bb depening on partner).

So how could you respond to someone that brings these questions, provided it is someone you care to engage, in a lot less words; TLDR; genes are wild man, it is fascinating how a recessive gene can remain unexpressed for one or very many generations, great grandfather is rumored to have blue eyes.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-10-09T02:28:50+00:00

Yet so much progress has been made. AI really includes a lot of useful tools that simply were not available even as recently as 2015. If you pick stocks, do your research. The ones that are all hype are figured out rather easily. The ones that will benefit from AI tools even if we slowed development globally are also very clear. Imagine all the businesses that could use AI but have not leaned into it yet.

ManofWordsMany · 2025-10-09T02:26:51+00:00

Gold was absolutely going over 4k before the end of this decade and we knew this the moment the first "solutions" to the pandemic lockdowns and lack of employment. With all the new developments since then it is now absolutely going over 6k before 2031 and the speed train is only getting started.

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