counterargument: 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

A nice clownly guffaw right before impact would be delightful.

I’m not an expert, but I’m like five-nines certain a guillotine does not make a “D’aww” sound when activated.

San Antonio -> Austin -> Dallas is ~5h (and they’re basically in a straight line)

LA to SF is ~6h

Add Houston on the end and it’s 8h+ (roughly a C shaped route) or roughly San Diego to SF.

Interesting the distance between the furthest points in each state is roughly 14 hours for both. They’re weirdly analogous.

HERESY DETECTED

The Italians of all people.

Wait until you learn that the letter J wasn’t invented until the 1500’s.

Ah shit. I do this and I just assumed my kids were cool with it. Thank you for being the mirror I didn’t know I needed.

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If it walks like a snake and quacks like a snake…

The “launcher” is probably one of those under barrel AR-15 attachments which is trivial to get (expensive and might also require the steps below, but that’s a one time thing).

The grenades though:

To legally purchase, make, or possess a Destructive Device (DD) you must:

Be 21+ years of age to purchase a DD from a dealer.

Be 18+ years of age to purchase a DD from an individual on a Form 4 to Form 4 transfer (contingent on state laws).

Be 18+ years of age to make and register a DD on a Form 1 (contingent on state laws).

Be 18+ years of age to possess a DD as a beneficiary of a trust or as a member of a corporation (contingent on state laws).

Be a resident of the United States.

Be legally eligible to purchase a firearm.

Pass a BATFE background check.

Pay a one-time $200 tax to register or transfer the item.

Reside in a state that currently allows ownership of DD’s.

And you have to do the forms and pay the $200 for each grenade individually.

Have you never seen the size of roaches in Texas? And they fly!

back then the buzz word was “expert system” and later “fuzzy logic”, all kinda sorta leading down the same path LLM 's have taken today, they just didn’t have the compute power back then.

Just in case you didn’t know:

article: https://everything2.com/title/The+Heinlein+-+Hubbard+Wager+Myth

relevant bit:

“RAH and LRH had one or more discussions during 1944 and or 1945 when they were both in Philadelphia, and RAH pointed out to LRH that religions had an inordinate amount of legal latitude in the U.S. and that churches could engage in a great many activities otherwise thought of as secular, under the tax and other protection churches enjoy. He had already explored these ideas in some of his stories and was to revisit these notions in their original form in Stranger. It is possible that this conversation or series of conversations took place as late as December 1945 or early 1946 and in Los Angeles.”

The theme of money and religion was apparently a very popular one for Hubbard as he seems to have mentioned it at several other informal discussions around the same time. In a 1978 interview Harlan Ellison commented “Scientology is bullshit! Man, I was there the night L. Ron Hubbard invented it, for Christ Sakes!..We were sitting around one night… who else was there? Alfred Bester, and Cyril Kornbluth, and Lester Del Rey, and Ron Hubbard, who was making a penny a word, and had been for years. And he said “This bullshit’s got to stop!” He says, “I gotta get money.” He says, “I want to get rich”.”

man. tube. food. camera. TV.