Sorry! XD
Iâd guess they still had their shotguns in their back rooms. As plan B. With plan A played to minimize the need for plan B.
Iterated prisoner dilemma; first offer cooperation, then do what the other side did in the previous turn. With occasional forgiveness added it gives optimal results.
I dunno, one should watch the documentary, âThe Monsters Are on Maple Streetâ
3D printer. That could be handyâŚ
I tend to think that the best protection is a community struggling to survive with a few rifles. Any organized gang could kill them, but why bother? Youâre only going to suffer losses to steal a few weeks of food at best. If you keep doing that, you wonât exist long in this world.
An over-engineered perimeter defense just shouts âthereâs something worth protecting!â to me. As a desperate bandit king, thatâs the sort of place Iâd want to attack. Sure, weâll die in unpleasant numbers. But afterwards Iâll have the guns, and the survival gear, and the fortress. That sort of âriches or die tryingâ can be very attractive to somebody dying as it is.
Besides having things worth stealing, another great way to attract hostility is to blow somebodyâs child up. Iâm not convinced landmines will consistently communicate âgo awayâ and not âIâm going to kill the guy who placed theseâ.
until you run out of filament made in China.
True, such gangs wonât exist in such form for long - but to survive in long term you have to survive the roving gangs during the timespan of their existence.
With enough firepower the facility can serve as a sink for the bandits. Kind of like a bottle with sugar water used to deplete the local stock of wasps.
Which is why you have multiple facilities set up like this. All containing poisoned food to finish off anyone strong enough to get through.
Iâll have to start working on the plastic recycler/filament extruderâŚ
Who scared us so much about each other that most of us spend so much time jabbering like traumatized paranoids about how to defend ourselves from each other?
Reminds me of the Rhododendron Honey song by Leslie Fish. (Sorry, only lyrics, I wasnât able to find the music online.)
Excellent thing to do. Try to measure the diameter of the filament going out in two perpendicular directions, for quality control and feedback for the machine. Also try to measure the force on the extruder screw.
âŚif weâd want to go extra-fancy, we could add Raman spectrometer for assessing the quality of the feedstock, or even the degree of thermal degradation of the result (plastics hate having long thermal history, the time spent being hot degrades the chains).
This rig would be good not just for recycling but also for making arbitrary mixes, using some commonly available polymers as the host matrix and functional fillers for advanced properties.
Fox News.
It is sublimated rage from white folks who got nervous when civil rights for blacks happened.
Hot cup of coffee. Stay back.
Thoughts?
Get a room, you two!
Ask me since Iâve actually had one.
It is shit unless youâre desperate. It isnât worth the money to do and the quality is often uneven.
Filament is so cheap and reliable (overall) that it isnât worth it to do this.
Looks good to me. (And to the waaant bookmarks it goes.)
Misses the quality control feedbacks like filament diameter testing and possibly detection of inclusions and bubbles. Which can be potentially added as an upgrade.
Thought. Printing directly from the granules, with large (1mm+) nozzle, for large objects with lower resolution.
But arenât white people only mutant black people?
