JTarrou
5d ago
That's just something people who don't want kids say. "Amg, I couldn't possibly bring a child into a first world country with a planetary top 5% wealth because god is about to smite us all"
JTarrou
6d ago
Basic anarcho-tyranny. They want maximum leeway to use the legal system for things they like and against people they don't like (charging a white woman with being mean to a rapist), while obtaining maximum freedom for their own people under that legal system (50-time felonious loser with knife should be handled by therapists, not cops). There's no mystery here, it is what it says on the tin.
They like criminals and dislike people who resist/arrest criminals. Speech is violence and violence is speech, depending on who is speaking/stabbing. Kto-kogo. There is no internal contradiction. This has always been the plan, this has always been the strategy, for over a century.
JTarrou
7d ago
Then let me tell you a little tale about context. Far up north, where the trains don't run and the law is weak, live my in-laws. Dying small town, full of white and native trash. In that town, the only black people are the Jamaican doctors who are the only MDs who will work in a town like that. They're the richest and brightest people in town. So super-black Jamaicans are top of the SES heirarchy, but the rare less-black guy from downstate is considered a degen and likely thief. Nobody has any trouble telling them apart.
JTarrou
7d ago
Do you know of even one person in the world who is racist strictly on skin tone? Nobody hates melanin, man.
JTarrou
7d ago
he hoped everyone would interbreed and then we'd all be brown.
Such a weird thing to fetishize, as if brown people aren't racist against each other and everyone else. Ask a Mexican about Guatemalans, FFS.
JTarrou
8d ago
I feel that. With diet and weight training I can get up to ~170. Without, I drop to 145. The last time I had major surgeries, I got down under 130.
The bright side is, I usually look great for my age. Downside is, I get a two-week flu and look like a gulag inmate, and it takes me months to put the weight back on. My body just eats itself, constantly.
You can get holsters for guns with lights, but it generally needs to be specific to your gun + light. There are some universals like the Omnivore, but in my experience you're better off ordering the correct holster from a reputable semi-custom shop. For duty holsters, Safariland is something like the industry standard.
I keep a gunbelt that both my nightstand safe guns fit into, one with a light, one without. The downside here is cost, as a good holster is $80-200, and a full gunbelt rig three to five hundred. The joy of Glocks is that all four of my carry and competition guns fit into the same holster, with or without lights and optics, so I only needed the one.
JTarrou
9d ago
If the various and sundry ecological predictions are correct, then it seems to me there is only one broad course of action: Push nuclear, nuke China and Russia and re-colonize the entire world to keep them from developing in ways that would produce carbon. Anything short of that is ineffective and unserious, according to the current state of climate science. We are already past the tipping point, the ice caps will melt within a century and if we don't start killing billions, there won't be a future for humanity. Naturally, being an American, I favor other billions.
Modestly proposed, modestly delivered.
Or maybe, just maybe, science didn't solve the entire planet's climate model in 1975 and this whole thing is overblown. Good news! Turns out we didn't need to kill all those people after all! Woops!
JTarrou
9d ago
Glock triggers are among the worst factory pulls in that class, and the stock shoe is pretty bad. But they do smooth out well at high round counts and the shoe is easily replaced. Learning the Glock trigger was much easier than full double-action-only snubby triggers. When people shoot my battered old carry gun, they think the trigger is great for a Glock, but it's just a shoe and fifty-two thousand rounds. Most expensive trigger job in history.
JTarrou
9d ago
There's something darkly funny about the prospect of the profit motive of the cynical businessman being far more valuable than the truth motive of a good-faith academic for producing actual knowledge or useful research.
Darkly funny? That is just obvious reality, and always has been.
JTarrou
10d ago
It isn't my sense of things that academia contributes much to medical and engineering research. Maybe Johns Hopkins and MIT do, but not "academia". 99% of universities produce exactly nothing of any scientific, cultural or literary worth.
JTarrou
10d ago
Academia will not reform itself and will not stop trying to overthrow the government, constitution and society that produces and funds it. They will at some point be brought to heel, either by the government or the people. Some president sooner or later will realize all the money and land being sucked up by organizations of useless traitors and fake "scientists", and just take it. That is, if the people don't turn up with pitchforks first.
Whenever and however that happens, exactly nothing of value will be lost. Academia is underwater morally, politically and scientifically. It is fundamentally compromised and incapable of even describing the problem. The above report is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
JTarrou
10d ago
I carried a Smith Airweight for a decade, so I know why you're carrying a revolver. Does it have to be the Bodyguard?
Out of curiosity, exactly how many rounds have you fired in that gun?
JTarrou
10d ago
There's guns I like a lot better than Glocks, subjectively. But in terms of the whole package, aftermarket, reliability etc. the glocks are just too ubiquitous. It's cheaper and easier to run multiple guns in multiple holsters with various magazines etc. Plus they're dead simple to work on, and I shoot them as well as anything on the duty market. Do like Walthers and Caniks, even M&Ps aren't that bad.
JTarrou
10d ago
In pockets: Knife (Leek), wallet, phone, keys.
On belt: G19
I don't bother with much else, unless it's specifically a political protest.
JTarrou
14d ago
All good so far as individuals are concerned. Individuals are unpredictable. Populations are predictable. I think the concept is fine so long as it's combined with other evidence and at the population level. Just because people are imprecise and "scholars" are political hacks doesn't hurt the concept itself. If you tell enough young men that some thing is bad and they will be rewarded for hurting it, some percentage will take you up on the implicit offer to the degree it is legitimized by their social context.
JTarrou
15d ago
As someone who barely uses AI and doesn't much care about it, it seems to me that what we have created is not artificial intelligence, but robot translators. A good enough AI can translate the vast fluctuation of semantic meaning from real people in real language into machine binary. This used to require immense technical skill and knowledge, but at some point will be available to anyone willing to put some time in.
JTarrou
15d ago
Sure, but "unheard of" and "practically unheard of at the country level" are two vastly different statements.
JTarrou
15d ago
Exactly. If you value money, you should shred your fertility and make that cash so you can have a really nice nursing home.
Or you could get the same result a lot poorer, but the incompetents taking care of you are at least your family instead of illegal dominicans.
JTarrou
16d ago
It's worse than that. Nobody cares about climate change per se, it's just an apocalyptic hobbyhorse to push commie nonsense. It may or may not be happening, but nobody is going to do a thing about it because the things they want to do won't fix it. It's just eschatology. And when this one wears out, they will replace it with something else. In my youth it was acid rain and the Ozone hole. It was going to end agriculture and humanity shortly, but luckily we banned some chemicals a few years after the hole started closing up and immediately transitioned to Global Warming. Something else will replace Climate Change, and probably within a decade or two. You'll still have your C02 doomers, but eventually the jig will be up and we'll move on to something else as a society to fill our imaginations.
JTarrou
16d ago
literal Handmaiden's Tale stans who somehow see no issue with it.
Handmaid's Tale isn't horror, it's porn. Wishcasting. Subverting itself. A dystopian low-fertility future in which any random chick who can pop out a kid is a precious resource to be hoarded by the nearest warlord? Why that's just like the Old Days.
JTarrou
17d ago
My father was one of ten, he had seven, my siblings have from three to eight kids. Neighbor in high school had 23, seventeen with the first wife, who subsequently expired as one does. Nearly everyone in their social circle has 6-12 kids. It's not nearly unheard of, you just gotta live in the sticks with the plain folk.
The grams was throwing me off, so I converted to grains to compare for the layperson who might not grok the difference.
3.5 grams is ~52 grains, which is lighter than the standard 5.56 loading of 55 grains. There is to my knowledge no blackpowder firearm ever manufactured that would fire such a tiny ball. Not a popgun, much less a musket, which historically would have been firing a ball weighing roughly between 500 to 600 grains. This is not a small difference, the listed weight is maybe 10% of the real weight. Nobody who knows a thing about blackpowder firearms would be fooled by a 52gr ball. Even modern blackpowder guns, which use more efficient powder and are smaller caliber, fire 300-500 gr bullets.
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