“It’s Wednesday, the Old Man is otherwise occupied until the weekend, it’s safe to let the kids out.” Sucker! Here I am!
Birthdays today include a guy responsible for millions of shitty postcards; a presciently named character actor; one of the greatest animators to ever put pen to cel; one of the worst animators to ever put pen to cel; a commie piece of shit who could write a decent song; a president who was born a King; a great scientist I could never take a cotton to; an icon of symbolism, or something like that; a guy who always seemed to show up in my favorite cult films; and one of the icons of my youth, who took a path later that we can all understand.
Now we can dive into the Links pool.
More pork than an Iowa slaughterhouse.
Yet more annoying performance art.
Did I ever mention that it was impossible to find decent Chinese food in Chicago?
Harvard: right wing nest of white supremacists.
Now we know why Joe loved the trains.
Old Guy Music is young guys doing old guy stuff. And wonderfully.
Good morning. Last night I encountered some handwringing about “multiracial white nationalism”. Imagine that, multiracial white nationalism. Now that is terrifying.
I got nuthin’
They do not argue in good faith, so it is fruitless to argue with them.
It is the last desperate gasp of race hustlers trying to keep their grift going.
There is a lot of money & power in this shit and it is hard to give it up….
multiracial white nationalism
Also known as anybody opposing international communism.
Remember that to the Woke Progressives, being white isn’t a matter of skin color; rather it involves having the habits and character traits that allow one’s family to live a decent life, free of public assistance payouts.
From their repulsive standpoint, ‘multiracial white nationalism’ makes perfect sense.
This.
They reveal who the true racists are when they say things like that. Kind of like that SJW who was debating Sargon of Akkad, and he said “freedom just means that white people dominate everyone else”.
I’m proud to live in a country that has the most diverse white nationalism in the world.
This is good. I’m stealing this for future use.
Who is the greater offender, Hannah or Bakshi? Also, Harry Dean Stanton is the best. He made Big Love worth multiple rewatches.
Hanna, through sheer volume and longevity.
IDK, I’m enjoying implanting subliminal semiotics lessons in my 7 year year old when he groks that so many HB titles are naught but easily self-identifying outgroup (teens, band, teens in band, racing team, etc.) allied with supernatural deus ex machina (talking shark, muggled dog, caveman, talking dune buggy, etc.)to thwart authority figures. Conversely, Crumb was so incensed by Bakshi’s treatment of Fritz the Cat that he promptly killed the character off.
“How sad it is to see our beloved Harvard Divinity School in such decline and decay,” he wrote. “The disarray of a scattered curriculum, the disenchantment of talented yet deferential faculty, and the disorientation of precious students loom large.”
West, who added that Harvard has become “market-driven,” tweeted, “Let us bear witness against this spiritual rot!”
Truth to Power, brother. Don’t let The Man subjugate and oppress you.
He’s not wrong.
He has identified the fact that it is happening, Harvard has allowed Marxists to rot their institutions in exchange for woke points, as have most of our institutions at this point. He might be a little off on the causality though.
I’d hardly ever put Cornell West and Divine in the same sentence unless he agreed to star in a John Waters movie or helped me change a blown tire on the highway. That guy is human slime-mold.
Other than that he looks like he stepped out of a 70’s blaxploitation movie I know little about him, Is he a race hustler like Jesse and Al?
A race hustling acedemic, totally different thing.
Different sort if race hustler. Less politics and shakedowns of corporations, more academic and shakedowns of donors. Instead of writing a PhD dissertation, he rapped. That sort of thing.
I believe the proper phrase here would be “He’s right for all the wrong reasons”.
If I’m reading that correctly, Cornel West is complaining because Harvard didn’t cede total control to him. He’s claiming Jim Crow policies at arguably one of the most leftist institutions in the country.
Well, that shows you how bad it is. If racism and Jim Crow rule even the bastions of leftest halls, how can the rest of the country survive?
I am shocked to hear that Democrat bastions are rife with racism.
Democrat bastions rife with racism. Well, they are.
A lot of my Leftist relatives express shock at homelessness, “income inequality”, crime, shitty schools, police violence, and other dysfunctions in cities that have been run almost entirely by Democrats (often black Democrats) but nevertheless come to the conclusion that white racist Republicans are the cause of those issues.
Or, if I get them to acknowledge that Democrats control those places, they say that “those are very deep-seated problems that don’t have easy solutions and can’t really be blamed just on one political party“. But of course, this standard goes right out the window when they observe something bad in a Republican-run jurisdiction.
About 12 months ago, Harvard started a massive faculty downsizing. Anyone who has been at Harvard for more than a decade knows this happens about every ten years or so. And it is usually a two-step (and two-year) process. The goal is usually to reduce headcount by 1500-2000. (Which should give you an idea that they hire about 200 faculty a year whether they need them or not.)
Step 1 is they send out voluntary – and generous – retirement packages to about 3000 people on staff. Typically about a third take the package. (Almost all of the takers are in their mid-60’s or older, but they send out packages to people about 50+.) This has been so routine that voluntary retirements are rare at Harvard because why not wait until Harvard offers you a great retirement deal.
Step 2 is to find another 500 people and lay them off. Typically this is structured as a another retirement but the retirement package offered is not as generous as the initial offer. If you don’t take this offer, one of two things happen: either your position is eliminated (less common) or your budget is reduced by whatever your salary is (or slightly more) which means YOU have to lay off people that report to you.
I get this info from my sister who was on Harvard faculty for 30 years and took the initial retirement package in November. I could give more detail, but the bottom line is faculty has to earn. If you’re in the top 25% of earners, you are gold. If not, they will push you out (with a pile of money). Revenue comes either from getting donations or grants. And if your budget gets cut, it makes it harder to get those donors and harder to get those grant applications written.
Which tells me that West wasn’t bringing in the money and he was getting his budget cut. The reality is he’s old and can’t hustle for money like he used to. And it wasn’t going to get any easier. Because Harvard will absolutely hire younger faculty and they will chase the same donors and apply for the same grants as someone already on faculty, and the lesser earner gets thrown into the retirement-package-go-round.
Makes sense. And West is responding by playing the political/media angle. Figures.
Good afternoon*, everybody!
*my truth, literally
*waves*
*flutters handkerchief*
“Harvard has actually done very well in terms of bringing different peoples of different colors and gender at a high level into the administration,” he said. “But it does not yet translate on the ground in terms of faculty. It does not yet translate in terms of being able to speak to the seeking of truth among the students.”
Perhaps because tenure makes faculty turnover a near impossibility?
Naah, that can’t be it.
“The change I want hasn’t happened instantly. Somebody is to blame for this!”
Narcissism is a hell of a drug.
There is literally no decent Chinese food here. Living in Houston and Austin may have spoiled me, but I swear the food was better in Tulsa.
Euphemism?
Mesa is the center of Asian food here, and the Dobson Road corridor is amazing.
We imported a thousand Chinese people here, and yet the market has not responded. It’s enough to make someone doubt Adam Smith. Fortunately, I can always blame it on the various barriers to entry.
Same out in Long Island. Grew up in Brooklyn with a great spot right down the block. Nothing decent for miles out here.
I’m pretty sure we covered that in middle school.
A white privilege school, I am sure.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Charteris
Took an Act of Congress to grant residency.
Pre-woke California middle school taught that. So much indoctrination in white male supremacy!
The fact that divinity schools see nothing problematic about hiring atheists speaks volumes about academia.
The divinity schools are largely leftist institutions anymore. Duke would be another prime example of such.
Kill, gut it, skin it, wear it like a trophy.
Also, strut around in it, and demand the respect it used to command be paid to you.
While rolling around with your skinsuit in all of the shit and piss you relieved yourself of.
The fact that they are still peddling Marx’s shit after it killed between 100-150 million people and held 3 billion hostage in prison nations last century and the worst shitholes today are still places doing that shit hard, tells you all you need to know about how fucking retarded these people are…
And a ton of their resentment comes from the fact others don’t see them as important and accomplished as they see themselves because people actually are more impressed with people that actually accomplish something (like being successful and making money, which is why I suspect they are fucking marxists)…
https://mises.org/library/anti-capitalistic-mentality
Should be required reading
That wasn’t real socialism, bro.
Also, the wrong Top Men were in charge.
What are wreckers, hoarders and kulaks? Chopped liver?
Imagine that, multiracial white nationalism. Now that is terrifying.
People who just want to be left alone? Who don’t want to be drafted into serving the interests of the progressive narrative?
What a world, what a world.
“Sure as I know anything, I know this – they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They’ll swing back to the belief that they can make people… better.”
[For the life of me, I will never understand how a prog can write that dialogue and NOT FUCKING UNDERSTAND IT.]
Following up from last night’s thread:
Whether or not you believe that “dark matter” is an actual thing that exists or is just a flaw in the current theory, it’s a wonderful example of the difference between real and pseudo science. There is an actual measurable effect that lead to the postulation of dark matter, and there are ongoing experiments to detect it based on 1) predicting an observation that should occur if dark matter has the properties they think it does and 2) actually observing the predicted behavior.
Compare that with systematic racism or global warming.
White Dwarfs! Black Hos! Red Giants! Blue balls!
I love, love, love astronomy youtubers like Anton Petrov who have the time to condense academic papers into pleasant videos I can listen to at work. I also love how space is 99% free of politics, observable, and generally doesn’t cause me excessive existential dread.
Climate science annoys me for the same reasons.
Petrov is good. I like Dr. Becky as well, although Petrov’s selection of subjects seems better for lay people.
There is always the creationist theory. God created the universe. God created man. God created the laws of physics to fuck with man.
God: What if I make it seem like there is a standard model and then make it so that the experiments result in null hypotheses… lol.
God, trolling us since 15 Billion Years BCE.
That was a joke with a long leadup.. He had to wait some 15 billion years for us to get there…. Then again, when you create the concept of space-time just to set up the joke, it might not mean much to you to have to wait because of that system you created…
…The Aristocrats!
A major plot point in Three Body Problem
Interestingly, it seems to be written in traditional Chinese, and since one of the plot points involves a decidedly non-flattering take on the Cultural Revolution, I would assume that the author is from Taiwan.
However, the Wiki article only refers to him as ‘Chinese.’
Things that make you go hmmm.
Yeah, the underlying attitudes are pretty alien to me. “People need to be ruled” is taken as a given. The Cultural Revolution is used to demonstrate that people can’t rule themselves so the (only) other two options are “humans should be exterminated” and “aliens need to conquer and rule humanity.”
That is interesting but I was alluding to the fact that Wikipedia seems to have fallen in line with the PRC’s official line regarding the ROC.
Wikipeda is run by commies? Why, I never!
Oh, and I found the third book (Death’s End) to be the most interesting, since it was written in reverse — not chronologically, but narratively. The hero fucks everything up, then the background characters/inertia dig themselves out of the mess, the the hero makes everything even worse. And it escalates — the enslavement and extermination of the human race is is only the third worst thing the hero “accomplishes.”
Kind of an indictment of technocratic rule.
More than 200 shopping malls had been looted by Monday afternoon, Rioters looted and destroyed shops, leading to severe shortages of basics. Yooooo I think SA could use some of that multiracial white nationalism right now. Because the tribal infighting and destruction seems far, far worse.
This is Antifa’s vision of the new America too, right?
I think we are too squeamish to make the connection. But essentially, yeah.
Antifa thinks that by destabilizing the communities they can create political room for an implementation of their utopian vision.
What’s happening in South Africa is directly related to tribal affiliation.
So yes, what will happen if Antifa gets their way is a return to tribalism as people retreat to the safety of who they know and trust.
They are going after warehouses and factories, now. Soon they’ll be burning the crops and slaughtering livestock and farmers (some more). Fucking feral people.
Are they just burning warehouses, or are some smart folks emptying them out to their own pre-planned stashes?
Saw a video of some enterprising police officers making sure they took the merchandise out and home before the place was burned down, if that’s what you are asking about…
I guess more of what I’m suggesting, is that the warehouses may be being properly looted by organizations/people who have an idea where all this is going, and are hoping to build a safety stock, or alternately, a stash from which to supply their militia or dole it out to develop a dependent and pliant constituency.
I think the latter. No official source will really let you know one way or the other. Not that official sources can be trusted. NPR told me yesterday at noon that order was restored and things were getting back to normal. That is almost definitely not the case.
One might think NPR has difficulty acknowledging that post-apartheid South Africa is still a shithole.
They might have to admit that the ANC failed to bring about a socialist utopia too.
It will go the same way all of these things do. Mandela was the great hope, but Mandela is dead and his heirs screwed it up. But the idea remains.
Well there’s your problem.
The last video I saw showed hundreds of vehicles lining a road and people filling them with the contents of a warehouse. Could be amazon or similar. It’s no longer opportunistic looting. It’s coordinated destruction. Looks 100x worse than our BLM/antifa scourge.
It sure has a permanent look to it. Kind of like the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe.
In addition to mentioning the lack of tenure, he noted the administration’s “hostility toward the Palestinian cause.” The school has reportedly invested nearly $200 million in companies linked to Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories.
The lack of support and well wishes from the administration after his mother died were also mentioned in his resignation letter. “In my case, a serious commitment to Veritas requires resignation — with precious memories but absolutely no regrets!” he wrote.
West said Tuesday that he was surprised by the reaction to his resignation letter, which he made public to start a “substantive public conversation about the prospects for excellence in higher education.” He emphasized that the problems he laid out are not exclusively confined to the halls of Harvard.
Go pout in a corner, you prissy attention whore.
I didn’t catch that bit about his mother. What an arrogant twat.
Surprised? BS. That was his attempt to start a forest fire.
There really needs to be more smiting
God has spoken. No idols before him.
Bravo based 1st commandment poster.
Yeah, we already did “plague.”
Compare that with systematic racism or global warming.
Cornell West is deeply dissatisfied and unhappy. If that’s not systemic racism, what is?
Prissy marxist whoremonger feels marginalized, stop the world and give him his due!
“an icon of symbolism, or something like that”
*narrows gaze*
I just got it. Needz moar caffeine…
I wonder if they’re going to rename their “China Crash” model.
“Amtrak, a for-profit rail company, receives federal and local subsidies and is subject to oversight by its inspector general.”
LoL! That was a good one. Tell me another!
Railroads have been keeping single mothers well paid for almost 2 centuries now. $1 at a time.
“Any responsive records are currently part of an open and pending criminal investigation,” an attorney for the Amtrak watchdog wrote in denying The Post access to the documents.
“Premature release could afford a virtual roadmap through the government’s evidence … which would provide critical insights into its legal thinking and strategy and could jeopardize the proceedings by more fully revealing the scope and nature of the government’s case,” the lawyer added.
We have to sterilize the evidence.
Strip clubs and “premature release”. Hmmm…
From the Amtrak article.
This stood out for me: Amtrak, a for-profit rail company, receives federal and local subsidies and is subject to oversight by its inspector general.
Have Amtrak ever made a profit or has it basically made up for shortfalls with Gov money?
Also the Amtrak people really blew their careers for a few suits and nights out at a strip club? It’s like they were negotiating for a small town garbage contract. Talk about the best and the brightest.
It is a little surprising. My dad retired from Union Pacific a few years back. The railroad unions are still very powerful. Propped up by the government, but very powerful all the same.
So it is surprising that they got fired to begin with and that these guys would risk a stupidly generous pension for nonsense. It is also a little odd that this information even saw the light of day.
It is probably just the blatant stuff they got caught for. Some underling might have found out and ratted to their superiors or the media. Instant promotion!!
“British Jews to get Apology 800 years after…”
I want the position of official homo spokesperson for the purposes of government apology receiving for sodomy laws. Limo ride, maybe fifteen minutes of standing around in a suit while other speechify, five minutes accepting the apology graciously yet chidingly, then a nice reception with free food. I could probably get away with the odd grope, you know, for reparations.
I was not aware that Jews had been expulsed from England. I’m not surprised as it was common occurance, but didn’t know about this instance.
IIRC, the word Holocaust was coined to describe the expulsion (and rampant wholesale murder) of England’s Jewry.
It was coined to describe a burnt sacrifice in antiquity.
You are correct sir! I was recalling an Alan Ereira or Simon Schama program where they presented a letter from the Pope to Longshanks describing his behavior (murdering the heads of Jewish households, making Jews wear a yellow Star of David on their clothes, confiscating all of their property, and finally expulsion) as Holocaustum.
Dude, I spewed my drink all over the monitor reading this… You should put warning labels on your posts with this sort of real hard snark to protect us hard laughing folks…
Thanks, bro.
You know that Henry I is just a stepping stone to get to Oscar Wilde, right?
Wasn’t he the first #metoo?
I think Alan Turing used up the official apology. Of course, it came just a “couple” years after his death.
Any beard guys have a recommendation for a type of beard oil or moisturizer. Trying to reduce my dander.
While I’m asking, recommendations for after shave for sensitive skin?
Castor oil, cheap and it works
Add a scented oil like eucalyptus to it if you so desire, but go lightly.
I shave with castor oil and do not require an after shave because of it. The downside is it makes a mess of your razor.
I wish I had advice. I tend just to deal with it. I know, lousy strategy.
Here is what I use. Very good for sensitive skin and keeps the skin from drying out and getting inflamed.
https://americanshaving.co/collections/after-shave-balm
I just let mine grow out in a bristly expression of my inner chaos.
I’ve found lotion based after shave works best for sensitive skin.
For beard oil, I blend my own (here’s a quick primer).
I shave clean now but it makes me look like an angry old man. Who knew that frown lines are genetic? I sure don’t miss the trimming, though. I’ll embrace the elder look. Wasn’t like I was gonna get lucky anytime soon.
I’m a big fan of Paul Mitchell’s The Conditioner, a leave-in product applied while the hair is still wet.
I used one called Honest Amish back when I let it grow.
I also use Honest Amish. Works well on short trimmed beards.
My wife has very curly hair and she uses vitamin E oil that you can find in the ‘ethnic products’ aisle. I have used it on my beard and it worked pretty well. A fraction of the price of the beard oil they sell in the men’s grooming section.
Mane and Tail. No joke.
I’ve used Proraso aftershave. I’m not currently using any though since I went electric.
Gracias! back to my shopping and research!
I have really soft skin and a really tough beard. My best shaving results (for my face, anyway) have been with Cremo and an old-fashioned adjustable safety razor.
I use the essence of one of the Glib commenters. Seriously, this stuff is good to keep it soft and itch-free.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/189071608/mens-beard-grooming-cream-wild-man?ref=user_profile&frs=1
For shaving (I have a goatee) I followed this advice, and it worked beautifully (after a couple of weeks) – I, too have sensitieve skin.
https://mises.org/library/shaving-cream-racket
For beard oil / butter, I like this, but I’m biased, as the inventor is a friend with whom I went to high school:
https://fostersfineststore.com/
I use the cheapest Barbasol I can find. It also helps that I only really need to shave like 2-3 times a week.
I also shave in the shower. The hot water/steam combo is more essential than the cream.
The way I read that, *all* the Jews were expelled from England. So, did the same Jews sneak back in, or should England be apologizing to the descendants of Jews anywhere but England?
You always miss some people, and others will have wandered in later.
I’m waiting for the apology to the Welsh, Scots, Cornish, Manx, and Irish
I’m not appologising to myself!
Irish/English hybrid.
Hateful
You just have to half-apologize.
Then English are just wankers. You were colonized by wankers. You couldn’t even find a decent civilization to be colonized by!
*The Romans clear their throat*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1CB-D1TtXc
I have actually not seen that film. I have heard good things though.
It is hilarious, right up to the point where the baby dies. Then it’s only hilarious half the time.
“We apologize to the Welsh, Scots, Cornish, and Manx. Fuck the Irish, they deserved it.” ~the correct British response
Would you like your car bomb in original or extra spicy?
Irish extra spicy? So it’ll have bell pepper in it?
Curry powder.
That reminds me, I wanted to make deviled eggs today.
There was an Irish pub that made a yummy curry boxty. Alas, it’s gone stereotypical “pub” under the new ownership.
Letting you out of the tin mines long enough to sleep is as much apology as you’re going to get.
You should be grateful.
Apologies are meaningless when the come from decendents 16 generations removed from the wrongdoers. I am not remorseful for anything i have not done. Not even a little.
Stop politicizing everything, and do exactly as we say
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) told CNN in May that more than 250 public health officials had left their jobs since the pandemic started — many of them against their will, and others under pressure from people opposed to public health efforts to control the pandemic.
Fiscus said she is worried about the safety of the people of her state. “I am angry that public health is political in this state,” she told CNN. “Public health should never, ever, ever be political,” she added.
Damned disobedient Morlocks. They should know heir place.
*racism detector goes incandescent, then detonates*
Looks like the NACCHOs want some cheese to go with their wine.
These comments are getting quite cheesy.
Earlier Monday, three health policy experts published a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s JAMA Pediatrics arguing that teens should be allowed to decide for themselves whether to get vaccinated.
“Children and adolescents have the capacity to understand and reason about low-risk and high-benefit health care interventions. State laws should therefore authorize minors to consent to COVID-19 vaccination without parental permission,” Larissa Morgan of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Jason Schwartz of Yale University and Dominic Sist of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania wrote.
“In the context of vaccination, some older minors may possess a more accurate understanding of the risks and benefits of a vaccine than their hesitant guardians.”
It’s the undeveloped, pliable brains.
They are seriously playing with fire here. There are a lot of parents who will not tolerate being fucked with when it comes to their kids, myself included.
Kids are smart enough for their own choices on Abortions, vaccines, sex changes and hormone inhibitors, and any other policy the left wants that is opposed by parents.
Now do gun ownership.
Are they also allowed to refuse the vaccine over a parents request that they be vaccinated? Or is this just another example of asymmetry?
I also look forward to ‘policy experts’ filing an amicus brief with the 4th circuit en banc; I mean if “children and adolescents have the capacity to understand about low-risk and high-benefit health care interventions” [whistle blows; stolen base, assuming the conclusion in the postulate. 15 yard penalty, loss of position and retirement benefits], surely an 18 year old is developed enough to buy a handgun before heading off to Syria to have his legs blown off.
Hey Putrid, I wasn’t around last night, so I’ll take this opportunity to give kudos on a fine article. “Chemical Applications of Group Theory” was a life-changing read for me. Yeah, I know, it’s that dull 1/r physics rather than high energy or cosmology, but still.
Of course, that ties in with one of the birthdays today. Circles, man, circles, it’s all circles.
Mercy-Buckets. I’m actually more and more partial to the applied side of things as time goes on. There’s a practicality that has value.
Let me add my appreciation for your article last night. It’s a lot to digest, and I didn’t have the time to write an appropriately thoughtful comment on its content. It’s definitely something to think about.
“Children and adolescents have the capacity to understand and reason about low-risk and high-benefit health care interventions.”
Only if their parents have taught them that kind of reasoning. They fucking well ain’t getting it in the schools. And far too many parents are totally on-board with teaching their kids to be panic-stricken wimps.
Although the links are appreciated I think one of our resident (((hosts))) owes me a few spinners. I’m a completist and your birthday links are cat nip. It’s mid-week and Wapner is on in ten minutes!
Spinners? My understanding of that word may be different than yours.
Spinners for his dubs.
I recognize that as English but have no idea what it means.
There can be both!
Well, it will be working its way back to you, babe.
I think more information is needed. Panther Martin? Mepps? What’s your preferred brand? What size?
The Rubber Band, band man?
Here’s a nice list of famous spinners:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls004296181/
Aww… they took down the Block 19.
How did I not know this existed?
Eeeeeew.
Sigh… As much as I am an unabashed fan of The Lego Group, they can fuck right off on this. Until they go after Mega-Blocs, Best-Lock, and all the other greasy ChiCom knock-offs, they can keep their virtue signaling mouths shut.
Yup. That patent has expired.
I like how the tweet tries to conflate 2 things.
Well you know that that Asian history material is going to be seriously slanted.
Now there is an angle I had not considered. Thanks, Your Eminence.
Notice how I kept things low keyed and reasonable? No yellow journalism here!
Well, you know they won’t get to the point they are driving at.
This is a slippery slope.
I think I watched that video once….
You need to reorient your thinking.
Boo! Boo I say!
*narrows gaze at the lot of ye*
Are you flexing your occidental privilege there?
Zero risk is what they want
“We need to reduce infections because we don’t know what long COVID does,” says Kelley Lee of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, who leads a pandemics and borders research group. That group is advocating for tougher quarantine rules in Canada, raising the specter of new shutdowns. But other experts suggest that such severe moves are unlikely.
What is it about the former Crown colonies that leads them to be dominated by such hopeless cowering pussies?
I think it has been posited before that all the subjects of the Crown that had any stones died in the two world wars.
Suck my long Covid you panicmonger.
Delightful declivities on these callipygian seductresses.
https://archive.li/33uf0
I learned a new word today. Thank you Q.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau indicated last week that vaccinated travelers will be admitted before those who are not vaccinated, but the government has said a full reopening could require 75% of Canadians — or more than 85% of the eligible population — to be fully vaccinated.
“The goal that has been set is extremely high,” says Nathan Stall, a geriatrician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. “We hope we get there, but we may never actually get there.”
Meanwhile, some Canadians have been making their own decisions about acceptable risk.
When Mayor Dilkens’ niece recently married in Michigan, his own mother was unwilling to miss the ceremony. She flew from Windsor to Toronto and then to Detroit — an eight-hour journey that ended less than an hour’s drive from where she’d started.
Decisions like that do not surprise Stall, though the policies that drive them merit reexamination, he believes.
In Canada, there’s a sense that “we’re all in this together,” he says. “I think there’s a huge hesitation to move ahead and allow certain members of society to move ahead and [be] able to have social privileges and freedoms that others don’t yet have.”
It’s better for everyone to be equally miserable. Misery equity will bring society together.
Misery equity is usually how it works. It’s hard to build people up but it’s easy to tear them down.
Marxist Utopia is basically this as a practical application: you have to bring everyone down to the same low level to guarantee that concept of equity…
Just about everybody, the Central Committee members live like kings. Of course they have to worry about being shot so there’s drawbacks there too.
“we may never actually get there”
And what then? Canada just turns into the Iron Curtain.
Fuck. Off. Slaver.
Maple Curtain
Moose Curtian
Finally someone at the TSA is doing something useful.
They could be planning bad things and the FBI told us to keep our eyes open for that!
I was wondering what the actual offense was. Since these people were in public spaces having chosen to dress that way. So if he’s directly filmed, photographed them, there wouldn’t be an issue?
I know it’s not fashionable, but wearing revealing clothing and then expressing outrage at being oogled by creeps is duplicitous. The guy deserves what he gets, but I consider this like posting things on the internet. When walking in public you have little expectation of privacy.
/goes and puts on cycling kit
leon… my eyes are up here!
Add me to this unfashionable pile. Don’t want to be a victim of [insert crime or offense here]? Don’t make yourself look like an easy victim.
Doesn’t mean you deserve to become a victim or that the offender deserves any reduction in blame, but it certainly undercuts your complaint when you put a big flashing neon sign over your head that says “really great [insert crime or offense here] victim right here”.
I don’t think a man looking at a pretty girl automatically makes the girl a “victim.” I’d say it’s just an inescapable fact of human nature. Guys are gonna look at girls, and that’s that.
If looking at pretty girls is now going to be a crime, they’re sure as hell going to have to lock me up.
Guys are gonna look at girls, and that’s that.
UNMUTUAL!
*cancels Animal*
If I was “unmutual” (whatever the hell that is) in a major Midwestern city, would I be…
Unmutual of Omaha?
Unmutual of Omaha is people, you count on to cancel us…
Hey Aqualung
The crime here isn’t taking pictures of people in public. It’s that he did it while I was paying him to assault me for safety.
It isn’t assault if you consent that coerces your consent as a condition of exercising your right to freedom of travel.
It isn’t assault if you consent to it under a regime that coerces your consent as a condition of exercising your right to freedom of travel.
For you art people.
I’m torn. I admire the skill but hate grafitti
Always enjoy those. Thanks, Sean!
I gotta balance out some of the derp I drag in here.
I like the totally gratuitous stock pole dancer pic in the Amtrak article. Super classy, Post.
Can anyone explain what this gibberish is?
It’s a grift.
The incubator will be staffed by Omar’s cronies. They will do nothing except a few media releases and campaign for more money because the problem won’t get solved.
B-I-N-G-O
Sigh. I truly thought cash was the water that would make those food deserts bloom.
It’s the old saw about when your job security is dependent on the problem not being solved, then the problem will never get solved.
She’s got a useless wannabe-chef relative who needs a job?
Show me in the Constitution where the Imperial government is allowed to spend money on any such thing.
It’s cover for an Asian prostitution ring?
Now that’s getting re-elected the old fashioned way.
I’ll gladly explain it to you, but I’ll need good faith money from your part that you are truly interested in it. But you’ve got to make a decision soon, there’s only so many openings.
This seems like a good way to ensure your enemy never surrenders.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/13/taliban-executes-afghan-special-forces-soldiers-video/
Not like it matters, the Chinese are just going to go in and belt n’ road their asses anyway.
PS: IT’S STILL NONE OF OUR FUCKING BUSINESS
It would be entertaining to see the Chicoms blunder into Afghanistan. It is called the ‘graveyard of empires‘ for a reason.
They’re filled with hubris and the right people can make it work syndrome. Of course that’s what they’re going to do given the opportunity and I say we let them.
Yes but they can commit genocide and no one will call them out.
Do you know who else committed genocide and had it not work out as intended?
Thanos
Margaret Sanger?
Dr. Fauci?
The Isrealites in Canaan?
I think i may have mentioned this before – I’ve spent a few afternoons drinking with some old fellows in Brighton Beach who turned out to be veterans of the 40th LCOF (Limited Coalition Of Soviet Forces) and they were quite sanguine, yet amused, about US efforts in the region. I would love to see how giggly they get if China blunders in.
How funny would that be, if China made the same mistakes the Americans, Soviets, British, and others have made so many times before.
Re: the photo at the top – Cute white girl always draws a crowd…
I think that is the opening scene of “Jukakke – The Leavening”.
LOL
So she is the Goyim the have come in and ‘turn on the water’ during the sabbath?
OK< I will give you that one - that was good.
She’s close to being a spinner.
Cute white girl needz moar SQUATS!
I also look forward to ‘policy experts’ filing an amicus brief with the 4th circuit en banc; I mean if “children and adolescents have the capacity to understand about low-risk and high-benefit health care interventions” [whistle blows; stolen base, assuming the conclusion in the postulate. 15 yard penalty, loss of position and retirement benefits], surely an 18 year old is developed enough to buy a handgun before heading off to Syria to have his legs blown off.
Also sufficiently “grown up” to be served a beer in a public restaurant.
If you can take a bullet, you can take a shot.
A HANDGUN?! Prepareth thee ye olde fainting couch!
From the dead thread about symmetry:
“From first principles I can’t see why physical symmetry should say anything about reproductive fitness, if I can step outside the absolute conviction in my bones that drives me to appreciate symmetry.”
Your working off the wrong first principle – such an almost universal, strong preference in humans for physical symmetry, especially in the face, is extremely strong evidence that such symmetry does enhance reproductive fitness. The evidence thus puts the burden of proof on you to show that symmetry doesn’t actually do much to enhance physical fitness.
Most of reproductive fitness derives from immunity from the smallest predators, the ones that cause disease, because they are far and away the largest cause of mortality during childhood and the prime reproductive years. The best way to maximize immunity is to avoid inbreeding, because having two different sets of genes for immunity to specific diseases gives you protection against a broader swath of such diseases than someone who in effect only has one set of genes.
The theory, the details of which I won’t go into here, is that being attacked by diseases when a fetus or young causes the body to express those developmental genes in an asymmetric way. Thus, our notions of beauty is strongly influenced by symmetry.
I just listened to a Deeply Human podcast about why symmetry is important.
Like prolefeed says, symmetry can be whacked if you have problems during in utero development. It was an interesting little podcast.
I get that bilateral symmetry (in humans and others) is a signal of health and reproductive fitness. My question is why? What is the origin of evident property of more advanced animals? I can imagine an amorphous blob that is just as resistant to disease as a ‘perfect’ human [quickly takes a few glances back at Q’s link, returns 2 minutes later…], but has no physical symmetry. So I don’t question the fact that symmetry indicates physical fitness, I wonder however if there’s an underlying casual connection. Or are they both the result of some underlying principle? Or just an accident of simple processes naturally leading to symmetry AND Darwinian selection in that process leading to fitness? IOW, I’m not trying to show that symmetry doesn’t enhance physical fitness, or at least signal it if not be casual, I’m wondering what is the underlying basis of that evident connection?
Because we have 2 eyes, 2 nostrils, 2 nipples, 2 arms, 2 legs, etc. It’s as if the human body was designed for a symmetric universe. So, to not have symmetry would be an automatic signal to others that something is wrong?
“Because we have 2 eyes, 2 nostrils, 2 nipples, 2 arms, 2 legs, etc.”
Speak for yourself.
You have the same problem Two-pack had when he ended being renamed One-Pac?
Perhaps symmetry in larger animals is important for mobility and situational awareness. For instance, a land animal that is asymmetric might not be able to detect and respond to threats from all directions as effectively as a symmetric animal. Which brings up the question why we don’t actually have 360 degree vision and be tripedal in a way that allows easy change of direction.
Probably one reason for our bilateral symmetry stems from the need to have a serial processing of food–which leads to a relatively linear alimentary canal, around which everything else is built. Most central nervous systems seem to have evolved from a main nerve that got big at one end where the main senses ended up being located. So the dual linear natures of the alimentary canal and central nervous system have evolved into a rough cylinder. An interesting question would be why not a trilateral or radial symmetry. My guess at an answer for that question is “gravity,” i.e., there’s an up and a down even in water, and since the big animals evolved initially in water, gravitational acceleration made certain patterns more effective.
It’d also be interesting to see what evolution would produce in a minimal or absent gravitational field.
An interesting question would be why not a trilateral
The Ramans do everything in threes.
God dang noodlers!
Soyu, Shio, and Tonkotsu?
One of my absolutely favorite sci-fi books. The sequels got tedious, as much of Clarke’s later writings did, but they still had decent parts.
It’s a great book, maybe my second favorite Clarke fiction (first being Childhood’s End).
When I was in college, I weaseled my way into a graduate seminar course on SETI. Maybe 10 students. Different guests each week. One week, the guest was Clarke, who was highly annoyed that every question he got after his talk was about what the Ramans looked like.
Yeah, the sequels were pretty pedestrian.
Why “Childhood’s End”? I read that book as an indulgence of Clarke’s communist and new age hocus pocus tendencies.
Childhood’s End creeped me out so much I only ever read it once.
All you Darwinist heathens: it is because we were created in God’s image and that’s they way He wanted things. Q’s friends just were first in line when the boobs and bootys were handed out.
On topic for OMWC.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/12/mlb-draft-jacob-steinmetz-taken-by-diamondbacks/
Koufax nods.
“He does play during the Sabbath and on Jewish holidays,”
Sounds more like an Unorthodox Jew.
There’s probably some rabbi somewhere who can interpret the Talmud to allow it. If the Amish have clever ways to skirt their rules, then (((they))) do too.
Sounds more like an Unorthodox Jew.
But enough about his delivery.
Good Day sweet Glibbies, wherever you are…
G’Day
Back to this:
“Children and adolescents have the capacity to understand and reason about low-risk and high-benefit health care interventions. State laws should therefore authorize minors to consent to COVID-19 vaccination without parental permission,”
What monumental hypocritical condescension. “Children should be allowed to do things we approve of.”
But if those same “wise beyond their years” children want to do something the nannies do not approve of? What then, do we suppose?
What, like buy a handgun before the age of 21?
Or, and I’m just spitballing here, children are pliable and easily manipulated and they want to take advantage of that reality which is exactly what they want to do. As for the low cost, maybe/maybe not but unless a child has some kind if serious preexisting condition the benefits to the individual child receiving the shot are dubious at best.
“But their parents should keep these poor children on the folks’ health insurance until the kids are 26.”
Good point. The cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy is so expansive that it’s hard to keep up.
Well there is still pushback from kids having to get mommy and daddy to sign off on chopping off bits and pieces and sewing on/in other bits and pieces. So roll the narrative with something that people would probably be okay with, regardless that it is contradictory to anything.
Once that foot is in the door, normalize it.
Muh LEGACEEE
Former President George W. Bush on Wednesday offered fresh criticism of the withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan, as the U.S.-backed government in Kabul appears increasingly imperiled and Taliban fighters continue to make rapid gains across the country.
Asked whether the drawdown was a mistake, Bush told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle in an interview: “I think it is, yeah. Because I think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad and sad.”
Bush, whose administration launched the U.S. military invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, specifically cited the plight of Afghan women and girls whom he said could “suffer unspeakable harm” at the hands of the Taliban.
Bush expressed similar concern for the fate of thousands of Afghan translators — as well as their families — who aided U.S. and NATO forces throughout the two-decade war effort.
“It seems like they’re just going to be left behind to be slaughtered by these very brutal people,” Bush said. “And it breaks my heart.”
The remarks from the former president come as even senior Biden administration officials have acknowledged what Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby described as a “deteriorating security situation” in Afghanistan, where the Taliban claims to have overtaken 85 percent of the country’s territory.
STFU you incompetent hack.
^^^THIS ADVICE^^^
He is correct in that we royally fucked over those who cooperated with us.
Everyone else in the world should take note.
We’ve been doing that ever since we played the Indians off of each other and screwed the winners and we continue to do so now, just ask the Hmong and the Kurds.
Speaking of, the Hmong have a community in Northern California that specializes in growing weed. With the recent fires they’ve been out there self-organizing and fighting the blazes with irrigation trucks. Guess how our noble authorities have responded?
https://youtu.be/cM0r6mpqwzU?t=477
The gubmint could fuck up a wet dream, it is known.
As expected?
During last years wildfires where the state didn’t have adequate resources on scene, there were lots of people wanting to help (and a bunch of local residents did in the more accessible fires). The state directed them to this
https://www.oregon.gov/odf/fire/pages/firefighting.aspx
Got a D9 and want to doze some fire lines pro bono? Sure, we can use it. Just do the following
I do not get too wound up about that. It is as some Englishman said, “The Empire does not have allies, it has interests.”
Quaddafi says “hi!”
The people left behind do not have to be slaughtered. If the Taliban slaughters those left behind, it is the Taliban that is responsible for their slaughter. If there is going to any indirect blame laid, it should go to those who are funding the Taliban.
Of course the Taliban are directly responsible. However the US government bears some responsibility for not assisting those who assisted us. I don’t know who’s to blame here, probably the State Department, but I find it darkly humorous that they’re pushing a liberal southern border policy but are abandoning actual political refugees to get slaughtered.
When you have no political value, politicians and bureaucrats couldn’t care less what happens to you. That goes for US citizens, too.
Breaks his heart, but he’s not going to lose any sleep over it because it’s not his problem anymore.
This is what it looks like when someone gives a shit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Wings_of_Eagles
Note the difference in treatment between Perot’s jailbreak team and Carlos Ghosn’s.
I mean he’s right.
The consequences are gonna be sad for thousands of Afghans.
I guess next time he could not fail miserably?
The one good thing I had to say about George W. Bush was that he was a great ex-president – he fucked off to his ranch in Texas and stayed out of the spotlight for the most part. I heard he chimed in on the rowdy unguided tour that took place in the Capitol on January 6th, and how he has to open his yap about withdrawing from Afghanistan. Way to fucking blow it again, Dubya.
Back to normal. Assholes can’t cover their fucking nose and mouth when they sneeze again. And who serves biscuits and gravy with the biscuit unsplit? Animals.
Leave me out of this.
Better then one place I went to that went with brown sugar glazed biscuits… under sausage gravy.
Gah?!
Hmm, I usually get served two full biscuits under the gravy rather than one split in half.
The Space Force former commander who got shitcanned has a long form interview out:
https://youtu.be/vTRSom1Ssgs
I haven’t watched the whole thing yet but it’s interesting so far. Seems like yet another decent and conscientious huy who got fucked by telling the truth.
Yeah, read his book and it is frightening to me how fucking bad it seems to be in the military now. It’s like the U.S. military has adopted the old Soviet Zampolit (political officer) policy with this shit. It’s not a coincidence that as we discover how much of this shit the military personnel are forced to deal with we also see reports on accidents and real morale and fighting capability problems explaining this gap in real fighting vs. bullshit PC indoctrination crap….
It’s almost like they want to make sure the US military can not fight a near peer enemy…
We haven’t fought a true near peer (directly at least) since the ‘40s. That capability’s not needed for the populace though.
The capability they seem to be trying to create is one where they have a military loyal to one party rather than the country and the constitution, and there has to be an end goal for that agenda that has something to do with using them on someone they see as the real enemy…
That problem pre-dates the wokeness rage, and it isn’t purely a matter of the military. This society couldn’t do what it did in WWII – no fucking way.
Just saw a headline (but can’t find the story) that claimed the head of DHS has told Cubans attempting to flee by boat that they will not be allowed into the US.
They did indeed according to what I saw.
No that it matters.
All outside internet has been cut off in the country and the media is state run.. so…
True. I was just noting the, umm, inconsistency. Fleeing Central America for better opportunities, welcome! Fleeing a socialist dictatorship, fuck you.
They might vote Republican!
^This
It also puts a massive hole in democrat party agenda of moving us towards marxism/fascism so the ruling class can get their globalist agenda where they stay in charge of the country and report to their masters in Beijing, back on track.
Speaking from a purely political perspective, they just fucked their chances in Florida. This will not go over well at all.
Assuming the elections are on the up-and-up
Florida actually has among the more decently run elections now that there were so many issues in the past and they worked hard to fix them.
And they’ve all gone to Republicans since. Heh.
Also from a purely political standpoint, could be an opportunity for deSantis.
How would it play out if the governor of a US state granted sanctuary to foreign nationals in opposition to national policy?
Ooo, that would be awesome: sanctuary state.
That would be incredible. But is it too smart and savvy for the stupid party? I think so, hope I’m wrong.
A bunch of states already do so.
https://cis.org/Map-Sanctuary-Cities-Counties-and-States
GL: So you’re saying ICE would *not* drag deSantis off in chains…
Of course not! That would never happen. Hypocrisy is like election fraud. It doesn’t exist.
Well, there’s this.
Mayorkas is a goddamn Cuban FFS. What the hell?
Party over people b
Concerned for the safety of the potential boat people or worried about a further cementing of rightist political leanings in Florida I wonder.
Honestly yeah. I saw it and my stomach got a bit sick.
So many people use bullshit scams of oppression to get into this country. Yes this is “you’re gonna be sent back to Cuba for fleeing fascism”.
Fuck the Biden administration.
*yet
We got rid of the Big Cheeto so it is all worth it.
If the media and the marxists put in 10% of the effort they did to make rule under the Cheeto guy was portrayed as chaotic and destructive, this administration would be in serious trouble and completely unable to pretend they have things under control.
I was thinking about this the other day. Imagine if groups like the CATO Institute had said to themselves, “OK, we hate Trump’s positions on immigration and trade. BUT, his positions on military adventurism and de-regulation are really good. Let’s figure out how we can work with him and move at least those ideas to more liberty.”
But, instead, they went down the “Trump is evil and we must never say a positive word about him. Ever.” They also jumped on board the Russia-conspiracy train early and stayed for a long time.
Yeah, Trump was a poopy-head but there were so many missed opportunities that could have been taken if a lot of groups had just held their noses (see also hyrdroxychloroquin and ivermectin).
There’s a good reason it is called Trump Derangement Syndrome. The visceral hatred for Trump, the man, blinds so many to the possibilities that could have been. The man was a deal maker, and a deal maker works with people who want to work with him. Insult him and say you’ll never deal with him, and you become background noise.
I’m not saying he was the greatest deal maker in the world, but he thought of himself that way, and would behave that way. I certainly didn’t care for a lot of what he did and the way he comported himself, but his straightforwardness was refreshing, and people who knew how to work with him got him to support some good policy, regardless of his bad policies.
and a deal maker works with people who want to work with him
Looking on the bright side of TDS, I was sincerely worried that the Democrats would see an opportunity to deal. I’m almost positive that, if they had swallowed their pride, not gone off the rails on Russian Collusion and impeachment, and decided to deal with him, we would have had a lot a gun control get through at the federal level. So… win?
That was my exact fear as well. I never for once thought that Trump had a firm ideological or moral stand on RKBA. I figured he’d see it as a holy grail to deal to the Democrats for something they really didn’t want to give up.
Did they repeal the wet foot/dry foot thing?
They have been trying to get rid of this since they realized they would never convert people that fled marxism and its evils into voters for the marxists in the US, all while inviting pro marxist welfare seekers to storm our southern border…
Let’s try to square that with the humanitarian need to let people in across the Mexican border.
Maybe just give all those boat people a shove to the west toward Yucatan.
The DHS can suck it. The DSA us with the Cubans
https://mobile.twitter.com/DSA_Intl_Comm/status/1414400133614145540
1. Brrrrr bluhhhhh angle barrel! Congratulations to everyone that thinks OMB. You are incapable of learning. Odumbles told you to your face that he was going to fuck you to death. You applauded and voted for him. If the rest of us were not along for the ride I would be applauding the left sticking it in these idiots and breaking it off.
2. “Mississippi’s health department is aiming to combat misinformation on COVID-19 ”
So they are censoring Fauci?
3. It isn’t just late, it’s hollow.
4. And who is responsible for that Mr. W.E. Dubois medal?
5. You know who else loved trains?
I know, I know….Stormy Daniels….
4. No toad asshole, bat wing or fish gut restaurants? What a shame. I guess I will have to force myself to eat deep dish in the unlikely event that I find myself in the Windy City.
The stupid is so thick it is hard to breath. I think I am going to make a drink.
Angle barrel? Really Spell check? *facepalm*
Must’ve thought you meant one of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krummlauf
OT: I found a box of Sierra MatchKing 240 grain HPBT #2250 bullets that I had moly coated probably about 10 years ago and forgot about.
Sierra doesn’t make these anymore (they don’t make any 240 grain .30 cal bullets anymore). Do I load them up and risk developing The One True Load that Makes My Rifle Shine, only to despair of ever replicating it? Or do I keep them around as a collector’s item?
Sell on auction website and buy some lumber?
240 gr will never be the one true load. Big heavy bullets will have funky trajectories and appreciable drop when shot over a variety of distances. Unless you only take game at 100yards or less and need to punch through heavy brush all the time, 160-180gr is just better. So do what makes you happy.
I’m not sure about that. Brian Litz has some interesting stuff on very long range shooting with heavy .30 caliber bullets. I’ve been experimenting along those lines with the 230 grain Berger Hybrid OTMs in .300 WM.
Years ago, when Dad gave me his reloading stuff, he gave me a table with “ideal” weights for the various calibers. Ideal for .30 cal is 165. He didn’t recall where he got that info but I generally see that manufactured cartridges tend to fall in line with this table.
If you read up on some of Brian Litz’s work, he has a paper showing an analysis of what he calls Weapon Effectiveness Zone (which is a combination of accuracy and terminal energy) that puts .300 Win Mag close to par with .338 Lapua, with the accuracy of the .30 cal being superior at very long ranges. He’s doing this with the Berger 230 grain hybrid ogive OTM bullets.
165 might be ideal for a .308 or a .30-06, but the bigger you go in terms of case volume, you can push heavier, high ballistic coefficient bullets to longer ranges with greater energy retention.
I would think ideal weight would also take into account what the actual round is. A .300 Win Mag. could well have a heavier ideal weight than a .308, or that “underpowered” .30 carbine round we were talking about the other day.
I prefer 180 gr for my .300. I don’t take looong shots, so the bullet drop compared to a lighter round doesn’t bother me, and I like a heavier bullet in general for terminal ballistics. I want to say my .308 rounds are in the 165 gr. range, but I’d have to check.
Or, what db said.
I definitely stay in the 165-175 grain range for my .308 Winchester loads–that seems to be the best accuracy. For the magnum, I try to push the biggest BC I can. By the time I have the best load worked out, I’ll probably need a new barrel.
Part of the desire to run the heavy bullets in the Win Mag is to run slower bullets and keep the barrel alive longer. Push over 3000 fps in a cartridge that runs at the pressures and temperatures of a big magnum for too long and you’ll be lucky to get 2000 rounds out of a barrel before the groups open up unacceptably.
“Ideal” begs the question of “for what purpose”? Very long range may point to a lighter bullet. Shorter range, larger game, a heavier bullet.
Heavier bullet begets higher BC within a given diameter, so the performance is improved. If you want a flat trajectory, by all means, faster is better, but those fast bullets don’t retain energy at long ranges, and, perhaps counterintuitvely, have a greater drop overall at those ranges. High BC wins long range.
My understanding is “ideal” is in flight characteristics and sectional density.
It’s possible that’s true. I’m not enough of a ballistician to say. Maybe the higher BC/higher sectional density are just squeezing marginal bits out of the .30 cal package and that a better big-bore cartridge is what’s needed to go the extra mile, so to speak.
If you’d be at all willing to share that table, I’d bet it would be really interesting to the shooters/handloaders here. Might be an article!
When I was loading .30-06 I used the 165 grain Barnes X-bullets and got pretty good results; good accuracy and velocities within 100fps of my buddy’s 7mm Remington Mag loads, with 25 grains more bullet. Mind you I was loading into a big, heavy commercial Mauser action that was as tough as an M1 tank.
The only .30 I load for these days is the .30-30, and I’m still using the same cast 170-grain flat nose bullets I’ve used for decades.
Running the Barnes 250-grain TSX in my .338. Also good results.
That is very heavy for that caliber. I am guessing the idea was for sub-sonic loads for suppressed rifles. I think 300 Blackout was developed to fill that niche.
Save ’em.
Which caliber? I’m considering using them for either .300WM based on some good stuff I’m seeing with high BC bullets in that cartridge, or for a Blackout load.
I hesitate to disagree with Suthen on these matters, but ammo is for shooting. Shoot ’em!
And post something here on how it goes, how they compare to other rounds, etc.
If you’re familiar with Brian Litz’s work, you’re well beyond needing my advice.
But I doubt they’ll make much of a collectors item, and I doubt they’ll fly better than the Berger 230s. I’d shoot them up.
You’re probably right. Surely there’s a reason Sierra doesn’t make them anymore. I bet they’ll work well in the Blackout, though.
I have, as a keepsake, a box of .224, 55-grain “Herter’s Wasp-Waist Sonic Bullets.” Old George Herter (about whom I should write an article one day) fancied himself quite the marketing genius. As I understand it, a batch of bullets went through a swage once with a setting wrong, and ended up being squished into a weird wasp-waist configuration. George, not wanting to toss the batch, put them in the catalog as the “Wasp-Waist Sonic Bullet” and claimed that the smaller bearing surface and the “improved air flow” over the bullet made them especially deadly. They ended up making them on purpose in a variety of calibers, and as I recall they sold fairly well. I never tried them myself. I saw the unopened box of .22 caliber ones at a gun show and bought them as a bit of nostalgia.
I mean he’s right.
The consequences are gonna be sad for thousands of Afghans.
Absolutely true. After twenty years of our “help”.
Kinda makes you think, don’t it?
“We’re from the US government and we are here to help you” has a completely new meaning…
Needs to be updated: “We’re from the US government and we are here to give you the illusion of choice and freedom”
this is awesome, FooFighters doing Bee Gees,
https://youtu.be/p4DeaXf1FzE
Oh hell yes!
Fresh arrest made over social media racist abuse of England footballers
It follows the arrest of a man on Tuesday by police investigating a racist tweet aimed at Marcus Rashford after England’s penalty shoot-out defeat to Italy in the Euro 2020 final
https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/fresh-arrest-made-over-social-media-racist-abuse-of-england-footballers-12355701
See civilized countries know there are limits to bad speach not like you backwards barbarians
I have been following this a bit. They arrested a twelve-year-old for being edgy on the intertoobs.
Who has ever heard of such a thing?
It’s kind of hard to gauge what’s going on most of the time. None of the news outlets reprint the statements in question (which I kind of understand), but it means we have to take everyone’s word that these things were egregious.
Unless it’s a credible threat it shouldn’t be arrestable. I’d imagine you agree but it needs to be said.
Fuck the English football players and their league. From the commentary I’ve seen, slanted of course, they’ve politicized it similarly to what the NFL has done. Of course there’s a backlash to the skinsuiting.
That sounds like hate speech to me. You should be banned from England
Meh, if I visited I’d probably just get drunk and publicly insult the Queen anyway.
Well you will miss out on the best food and beer in the world if you dont visit. Your loss
Every kind of food that exists is found somewhere in the US, as is every beer style, brewed locally. It might be hard to find the beers amid the rash of IPAs, but some craft brewery, somewhere in the US, makes anything you could want.
Considering the English food reputation I think he’s being sarcastic. Either that or he loves kidney pie.
brewed locally – there is you problem. There is magic in europe that just makes beer better. Except belgium. Belgian beer sucks.
Either that or he loves kidney pie. – more like blood pudding
Blood pudding is unironically great, tho
I admit, I laughed.
George Floyd Mural Blown Apart By Lightning Strike, Officials Say
But no pic of the “destroyed” mural. Disappointing.
I take that back – there is a picture of the destroyed mural further down.
See this is why some black folk dislike the jewish people. They use their special connection to god to do stuff like this
They had insurance?
Always