I once saw someone go on a rant about how artists need to stop drawing Hanzo with a “Roman nose”……as if this boy hasn’t had his whole situation busted in and broken like 30 times. Whoops, was I supposed to be doin’ kink or somethin’???
“no computer. The National Tracing Center is not allowed to have centralized computer data.“
WAIT, WHAT???
That’s the big no-no,” says Charlie.That’s
been a federal law, thanks to the NRA, since 1986: No searchable
database of America’s gun owners. So people here have to use paper, sort
through enormous stacks of forms and record books that gun stores are
required to keep and to eventually turn over to the feds when requested.
It’s kind of like a library in the old days—but without the card
catalog. They can use pictures of paper, like microfilm (they recently
got the go-ahead to convert the microfilm to PDFs), as long as the
pictures of paper are not searchable. You have to flip through and read.
No searching by gun owner. No searching by name.“
‘The Writer,’ 1 of 3 surviving automata
from the 18th century, is a programmable
boy that uses quill and ink to write any 40
letters of custom text. This 240-year-old
automaton uses all 6,000 of its parts to
create just enough pressure for fluid,
elegant writing, and is thought by
some to be the first computer. Source
This is truly a masterpiece of engineering from an early age. So amazing!
okay LOOK. I understand that on a purely mechanical and engineering level that this is an incredible piece but if scifi and fantasy media has taught me anything it’s that this motherfucker is haunted af and probably writes out gruesome deaths that mysteriously end up coming to pass thanks but NO THANKS BYE
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