Kinda seems that the whole rest of the world should just join BRICS or something. Tariffs ain’t gone mean much if the rest of the world just shrugs and keeps progressing their global economy without you.

She’s doing business internationally and failed to comply with local regulations and courier terms of use for her products’ destination.

There’re agreements that govern how mail transits from Canada to the US and agreements that govern how the US moves mail to military bases in host countries. To facilitate the hundreds of different permutations of local laws USPS provides a portal where you can check if what you intend to mail is permitted.

Bennett had no idea her business’s products were going to a country where they would be illegal.

She should have known. The military member would have given her their address including “APO AE 09837.” She should have then visited the USPS APO restrictions portal and typed in “09837” whereupon she would have seen the following:

E2. Any matter depicting nude or seminude persons, pornographic, or sexual items are prohibited.

At that point she would have known that sending one of her products to that address was illegal in the destination country she was doing business in and a violation of her couriers terms.

She didn’t do that, Bahrain notified the recipient (technically the US Military) and asked them to notify the sender, and they did.

It’s her choice to support APOs, but if she does support APOs she’s doing business all across the world and is subject to the local restrictions. If she just wants to deal with the US and Canada and not have to deal with other countries’ customs than she shouldn’t support APOs.

It’s illegal to mail someone alcohol in the US. It’s also illegal to mail someone alcohol in Bahrain. Regardless of if someone orders alcohol online it’s still illegal to send alcohol. If you disregard that and mail alcohol anyway then you are breaking the law.

Though it’s legal to mail sex toys in the US, it is illegal to mail sex toys to Bahrain–even if to a US military base. Regardless of if someone orders sex toys online it’s still illegal to mail sex toys to Bahrain. If you disregard that and mail sex toys to Bahrain anyway then you are breaking the law.

I mean, if she takes money on an order that won’t be fulfilled, yeah. But she can just refuse to accept orders with a mailing address that’s an APO without risk.

For what? Using USPS is not compulsory. Having an APO/FPO is not a protected class. There are already restrictions on what can be sent to an APO (to include things that are illegal in the host country, like Bahrain). And logistics processing outside of your companies “normal” flow is not compulsory just to appease a US grunt.

There are plenty of companies that don’t send to APOs and they continue to exist without doing so just fine.

She could also just deny orders to any APO as a matter of policy.

Apparently the US Department of DefenseWar thinks that they can order non-US citizens not resident in the USA to cease and desist from mailing things.

It’s not to stop mailing things. It’s to stop mailing things to them. That should be a basic right. I want nothing more than to be able to tell my grocery store to stop mailing me anything, and I’m sure most employers don’t want their employees having dildos delivered to their work, especially in places where possession of such items is illegal.

If you’re engaged in international business you do actually have to respect the laws of the countries you operate in.

If it uses the police algorithm to determine gunness it’ll just refuse to print anything.

If it just stops things that “look” like a gun then printable guns will evolve in shape to conceal their properties making them potentially even more dangerous because people won’t be able to recognize them for what they are.

Where will this logic live? On the main board? What if I swap my main board out for some random SBC with code I wrote myself? On the motor driver? I don’t pass G-Code to the motor driver you really gonna inspect the momentary electric pulses for a series of motors to determine if the result is vaguely gun shaped? What if I print in parts?

What would deploying armed troops to the streets do to quell protests against armed troops in the streets?

Jeorgia on my mind.

Ah yes, we fight wars because we’re just so gosh darn empathetic.

Good. Nazis should fear every moment of their life.

We do not discriminate against any individuals or agencies… We are committed to welcoming all guests.

Even murderous secret police of a fascist state? That seems pretty high up on the list of people you should “discriminate against.”

About 8,000,000,000 people.

Everyone else in this square state ignores 'em. Why not join in the fun?

She’s old, so crime’s fine

You mean the guy so not in the path of the vehicle that he felt comfortable promoting the vehicle to “uncontrolled” before casually walking away as if nothing had happened wasn’t actually run over?

Whoever would have fucking guessed?

Let’s see, so a brown person already in their car tried to leave a life threatening situation and was shot for it? Is that a more accurate account of whatever the fuck the state had to say?

Well, it’s not the only thing.

When the government breaks the 4th to crack down on the 1st there’s still the 2nd.

And why would Trump sign this?