In America, a hardware store called Harbor Freight.
I walked in to buy one roll of black electrical tape. Seventy-nine cents.
At the register, a bearded clerk named Frank scanned my tape, reached beneath the counter, and placed a massive red five-gallon plastic bucket between us.
"Free bucket weekend," he said.
I looked at the price tag on the bucket. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents.
I looked at my tape. Seventy-nine cents.
I stood before the register while basic arithmetic died in my hands.
"The vessel costs six times the tribute," I informed him. "If you do this for every customer, your house will fall before winter."
"Been doing it for years, chief. Take the bucket."
In my land, when a lord grants you a vessel larger than your purchase, you are expected to fill it in his service.
I held the wire handle with both hands and asked Frank what a man does with such a bucket.
He looked at me the way a monk looks at an uninitiated boy.
"Everything," Frank said, "except carry water."
I thought he was speaking in riddles. He was speaking the literal law of the land.
I have now inspected four garages on my street, and I must report that the entire residential infrastructure of the United States rests upon five-gallon plastic buckets.
Nobody puts water in them.
The first bucket holds rusty bolts from machines that died during the Bush administration.
The second bucket is inverted so a man can sit on it while staring at a lawnmower he has no intention of fixing today.
The third bucket is an emergency step-stool so a father can stand fourteen inches closer to a smoke detector that will not stop chirping.
I carried my red bucket home and set it beside my garage door.
On Saturday morning, my seventy-four-year-old neighbor Walt walked past my driveway with his coffee.
He stopped. He looked at the red bucket. Then he looked at me.
Without a word, Walt walked back to his own garage, returned sixty seconds later, and dropped a brand-new yellow sponge and a brass hose nozzle into my bucket.
"Saw you finally got your bucket," Walt said, tapping the plastic rim twice. "Welcome to the street, kid."
I spent seventy-nine cents on tape.
They gave me a throne, a toolbox, and citizenship on my block.
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@rTravisCampbell@JHTW1282@GunOwners they didn’t invent it, they bought previous patents and partial rights to previous patents, and are suing on the grounds of patent infringement for something that works entirely differently than a cassette-style FRT
@Beltfedz@unseenkiller1@CrixCoTM@stankycheeese@DrDeath1776@PrintsandtheRev it’s worth it if youre ever able to find the time. my experience just comes from Solidworks from school, but you can still do a fair bit even at the entry CSWA level. i’m slow with a lot of it but it’s still a neat experience if you ever have the time. there’s browser-based, too
@unseenkiller1@CrixCoTM@stankycheeese@DrDeath1776@PrintsandtheRev my idea before stumbling upon it was kinda the same as his, with the CMMG internals. i figured it could even use their 4.6 bolt. of course, it’ll be more costly, but then seeing that he had a 9mm version, there’s the cheap option
plus there’s the chassis that uses the Rock stuff
@CommonArms @PrintsandtheRev@unseenkiller1@DrDeath1776 that’s where i looked too before asking yall. the room is supposed to load you into is gone, and searching any of the keywords you’d think it would be yields nothing. so i think it really is just gone from there
@krrawn@PrintsandtheRev@DrDeath1776 shoot if you have the stuff, i’d be willing to try and figure things out the best i can. i’m not insanely experienced like a lot of yall, but i figured it was a beta anyways and any help is better than none
@PrintsandtheRev@DrDeath1776 dang, gotcha. thank yall. am i allowed to ask if files are floating around out there somewhere, at least? in whatever the last state it was left in
@Firewatch824 @2Aupdates which is even funnier, because the only reason the “easily convertible” ones are still made (gen 3, if i remember correctly) is because they’re the only glocks allowed under CA’s handgun roster. it’s all so absurd
Lawrence DeMonico from rare breed firearms used his time at GOALs - an event for 2A advocacy - to issue C&Ds to fellow 2A companies for “infringing on his patents” I couldn’t think of a more disgusting display of human behavior. I will personally be boycotting rare breed from this point on.
@benshandle@OfficialXYO literally. few are asking this and there haven’t been any answers except @OfficialXYO saying “we’ll let you know” to one of them. i’m just hoping for a straight 1:1 conversion and no forking or anything