• Foxfire@pawb.social
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    15 hours ago

    Take it as a compliment, the judge thinks you just pulled all that out of thin air. “Imagine what could’ve happened with pre-planning” the judge thinks. “The whole city could’ve been leveled!” They’re afraid of your genius, let them be!

    • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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      20 hours ago

      If it’s not got design drawings, specifications, and QC, it’s improvised.

      I can make any ad-hoc modification to a machine and be paid for it, and that’s improvised.

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        18 hours ago

        But that isn’t the criteria they’re working with in any news report or court case, is it?

        If I draw up some plans on a napkin with crayon, make my thing based on that, and “QC” says all the parts are to spec, and it fails and looks like shit in the process… I would say that is FAR more improvised than the guy making a pipe bomb out of hardware store supplies that’s set off by a complex electronic custom timer/signal receiver.

        I do get your point, I’m just being slightly ridiculous for humor’s sake.

        It’s all entirely “did someone make this in a factory with government approval or not”

        Y’know… In this hypothetical news story/court case…

  • Kowowow@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    Sorry but only artisinal ethically sourced explosive devices for me thanks