Physicist 3D-printed a Lamborghini because his son liked one (2019)

Re:Physicist 3D-printed a Lamborghini because his son liked ... by sixQuarks on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:07AM (#26602353)

Haha, Sorry but Americans THINK they know freedom. The US is full of regulation and red tape. Let’s see you buy a house and do whatever you want on the property, even in rural areas.

3rd world countries have the true freedom to do what you want

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Re:Physicist 3D-printed a Lamborghini because his son liked ... by Pokepokalypse on Saturday March 27, 2021 @11:38AM (#26603064)

I do own a house I had built on rural property, and there's a lot more lattitude (you might call it "freedom") for what you can do on your property.

On the other hand, no matter where you live, there's always a few "karens" in the neighborhood who will do what they can to keep you from say, renting your property out and having large numbers of otherwise homeless people setting up a tent-city. (that seems to be one of the hard limits).

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Re:Physicist 3D-printed a Lamborghini because his son liked ... by AuryGlenz on Saturday March 27, 2021 @01:54PM (#26604033)

I live in a rural area in the US and I’m having a hard time coming up with anything that I couldn’t do on/to my property. I can shoot guns. I could blow stuff up. I regularly go in my hot tub naked. I couldn’t make drugs, I suppose.

Selling the property afterwards is another story, as things need to be up to code.

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Re:Physicist 3D-printed a Lamborghini because his son liked ... by fermienrico on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:05PM (#26604115)

More than gov, I am bothered by HOAssholes in our community. These people are the worst, the most empty people on the planet. Being part of the HOA leadership doesn't mean you're an emperor of this land that I paid for.

I would kill to get out in the country side and buy my own piece of land without HOA.

Makes me angry just thinking about this.

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Re:Physicist 3D-printed a Lamborghini because his son liked ... by sixQuarks on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:44PM (#26625500)

Can you open a gas station in your front yard?

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Re:Physicist 3D-printed a Lamborghini because his son liked ... by aphextron on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:40AM (#26602589)

That's the true greatness of the US though. Finding a balance between provision for the rule of law, enforcement of contracts, protection of civil liberties, and environmental/food/drug regulation alongside the right to do whatever the hell you want personally. It's why many things like our homicide rate, car fatality rate, and poverty rates can seem third world in nature, yet our institutions and regulatory agencies are the gold standard for the world.

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Re:Physicist 3D-printed a Lamborghini because his son liked ... by ncmncm on Saturday March 27, 2021 @06:46PM (#26606302)

Poverty, infant mortality, mutagens and endocrine disruptors in drinking water, police impunity, more incarcerated than entire rest of the world combined, institutional corruption, $140M fighter jet with 600+ designed-in class 1 faults that cannot be cancelled because its parts are contracted out to 48 different states.

So, yes, "third world in nature". But the billionaires find life here pretty convenient.

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Re:Physicist 3D-printed a Lamborghini because his son liked ... by p1esk on Saturday March 27, 2021 @11:05AM (#26602813)

3rd world countries have the true freedom to do what you want

And others have freedom to what they want to you. Unless you’re rich and/or connected.

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