A rather lovely weekend. I managed to help my sisters move to their new apartment. Its close by, but I was weirded out at how much it reminded me of living in military housing. At any rate I found the time to run to Scottsdale Gun Club to take a look at one of these. They didn’t have one but the shop next door that takes advantage of such lapses in their inventory did.
All the gun people on the internet either seem to love it or hate it. The whole thing is gimmicky to me. As if it was marketed to the type of person that needs to conceal carry, and wants to get into competitive shooting but for some reason only wants to purchase a single pistol. Who are these people? I guess it needs a thorough break in and will not really cycle without the comp, which sort of sort of makes it difficult to conceal. If you’re actually going to compete with it, control might be a problem since its a compact. You may as well go with the full size version in that case—which by the way both shops had on hand and is freaking awesome. Plus its $200 less than the compact and seems like a decent value at $1100.
Anyways…the big story in Brazil is veteran surfer Marcio Friere was killed doing what he loved (not drugs, he was surfing) in Portugal.
Surfing is too local? Fine. As you are likely aware Brasilia hosted the 
world’s most awesome soccer riot over the weekend. At first nobody in corporate media wanted to touch it, and we had to find all of this on Telegram. It included niceties like rioter’s discovery of a supreme court justice’s dildo. It eventually hit Twitter and they had no choice but to cover it. And so:
- Scenes from Planet of the Apes
- Ever wonder what the Battle of Little Bighorn looked like?
- A true businessman
- They sent the army. End of transmission.
Meanwhile in Florida, Bolsonaro is in the hospital with stomach pain. It seems more likely related to his being stabbed a few years ago not the CIA poisoning him. I’m open to both explanations, honestly. Naturally, the corporate media is seeding the narrative team brandon extradite him for crimes committed by a mob while he was out of the country, who’s violent actions he publicly condemned.
In Mexico news. “Three Amigos Conference.” With any luck those morons might do something positive for the world and break out into performing My Little Buttercup.
Go back to the Three Amigos link, because here’s a song everyone will hate.
I see these links are on cpt. //jk
Let us all be grateful that the rioters/trespassers didn’t find Pelosi’s dildo.
The big gavel she carried so gleefully?
Or Graham’s.
Although, he’s probably an experienced enough power bottom to clean himself out before playtime…
Dear god, please stop.
Well, he isn’t WarmFuzzySheldon, after all.
You just haven’t caught me in the right mood, is all.
Why does FN list both those pistols as “double action” when they are clearly striker-fired? Am I missing something?
They’re talking about the chicks you get when you show them your gun.
Bolsonaristas are invading Congress en masse in Brasilia.
Muh-fascisms!
Holy shit. A policeman arrives on horseback to contain the insurrection and the Bolsonaristas beat the horse and bloody the policeman to the ground. I am speechless
*sigh*
I guess all protests by people who are insufficiently leftwing are “insurrection” now.
seeding the narrative team brandon extradite him for crimes committed by a mob while he was out of the country, who’s violent actions he publicly condemned.
I think I have seen this movie.
Go big or go home:
https://fnamerica.com/510tactical/
Eh. I like my sixguns. But, of course, every cat its own rat.
Oh dear.
Why?
FN already made God’s gift to the auto pistol, The Higher Power. There is no need for lessor automatic’s, and certainly not in crap calibers.
Whose side is the army on in Brazil? I’m unclear. Or are some parts loyal to different factions?
A few comments down in the twitterering:
“The Brazilian Military are the final arbiters of election results. They know there was widespread fraud by Luna and are not pliantly accepting the result. The parliament controls the police. Potential civil war.”
No idea if this is accurate or not
/not an independent fact checker
Fairly accurate with many South American countries.
I haven’t seen a authoritative source to explain the sides. There’s other videos out there that suggest the local cops were on the sides of the protestors.
I imagine the Brazilian Army is on the side that promises them the most.
FN pistols just kinda leave me cold.
Franz Ferdinand had the same experience.
Okay, I walked into that one.
Really? He drove in.
I’m gonna skip the whole story arch. He forgot to duke.
Drive around in Sarajevo, get Serbed.
Have you no Princip-les?
I was expecting an ultimatum from Swiss. Apparently he decided on a more diplomatic solution.
Still love my Belgian (FN) Brownings.
How our rulers react to Lulu running Brazil should be interesting.
On the one hand, he a leftist who wants to put his enemies in a gulag and become a dictator – which they really like. Maybe our alphabet agencies even helped pull off that “insurrection” a few days ago.
On the other hand, he literally founded BRICS and will pull Brazil closer to China and Russia economically and maybe militarily. He’s talking about getting Argentina into the organization. Our neo-cons and globalists will hate it, but they can’t regime change him because they’ll end up with Bolosnaro or some General doing a Pinochet reenactment.
I think they would be willing to accept a general as a substitute for the time being as long as he supports the Empire.
The neocons are useful idiots for the Davos crowd. Davos is encouraging them to act like assholes in order to break the US dollar’s reserve currency status.
They didn’t need any encouragement to act like assholes.
No, but they’re too stupid/arrogant to realize that they’re being played.
Sure, lets keep depleting our own weapons for no point or purpose.
The U.S. is considering sending Stryker armored combat vehicles to Ukraine in an upcoming aid package to help Kyiv fend off an expected Russian spring offensive, according to two people familiar with the discussion.
The news follows the Biden administration’s announcement last week that it will send 50 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, a powerful tracked armored vehicle that carries an autocannon, a machine gun and TOW missiles.
The Strykers may be part of the next tranche of military aid, according to a Defense Department official, who like others asked for anonymity to discuss internal deliberations ahead of an announcement. The administration could announce the package, with or without Strykers, late next week around the time of the next Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Germany.
Im still holding to we are moving from defensive weapons to building an invasion force
Oh and the Ukranian FM basically said no one is doing enough.
Not even the Russians?
I don’t think there’s really such a thing as (purely) defensive weapons. And I have a hard time believing anyone, even the idiots in DC and the crooks in Ukraine, is actually planning to invade Russia.
Do we actually have mothballed Strykers? Or are they going to strip them out of active or reserve units, degrading our ability to fight somewhere?
That’s a good point.
* Drafts legislation providing $20 billion to replace military equipment *
I guess I’d rather have them in Ukraine than U.S. police departments.
Except the police departments can’t end all of humanity with the push of a button in retaliation.
Rather, the people that the police use them against……I really need a nap.
If our enemy, the United States Government, ships them to the Ukraine, then they can’t use them against us here.
Every bomb, tank, missile etc that the U.S. government ships out weakens it. We really benefit from sitting back and letting the unimpressive people in the enemy class make this mistake.
The company I work for has hired a high-falluting consulting company to change how we work (our kid-CEO comes from the touchy-feely tech sector).
Authentic gibberish so far:
Open seating
Talk to your Change Agents
Innovation Hub (aka Work Cafe)
Collaborative spaces
Focus rooms
Huddle spaces
Flexible ecosystem
Yay! We are going to slay! Nothing can hold us back!
Sounds like they hired interior decorators.
Hoteling?
When do you get the wine dispensers?
Huddle spaces? Sound like where you hide when you’ve been triggered.
Huh. Didn’t know we worked at the same company.
When talking to your “Change Agent”, wear a t-shirt with an arrow that points down and says “I’m with stupid”.
That’s funny. I’ll have to get one of those.
None of this shit works.
The only thing that really helps is a clear, concise purpose or mission articulated by passionate people. That’s it.
*shorts C****s*
In more sane HR news, today we were all given 2 extra personal days per year, and 8 hours PTO to volunteer with any legit charity.
It probably has something to do with the 75-ish open positions we are struggling to fill.
I’d be brushing up my resume.
This is probably the most disgusting lie of the Big Lie that is the left’s J6 narrative: The Shameful Exploitation of Brian Sicknick’s Death
People only exist to be used to advance The Narrative.
Damn shame about Brazilian surfer Marcio Freire.
By all accounts, he was a swell guy.
You really wiped out with that one.
Better to wipe out, than be washed up.
But then you can wave for help.
Considers joining in…
I’ll wait for the next set.
Watch it or Swiss will drop in.
He’ll hang ten of us if he sees all these puns.
With a wave of praise?
He’ll wait and catch the crest.
It happens sometimes. Nonetheless, my motto remains Maria Diem… or “Seas the Day.”
Boooo.
Also, I guess it was just his turn in the barrel…
That comment is going to make some waves
Look at you, waxing
patheticpoetic.*MASS NARROWED GAZE*
And I see the army is now involved. I was waiting for that moment. It is Brazil after all.
Yes. It remains to be seen which side they support.
I’m sure some of you are familiar with the Australian Mighty Car Mods youtube guys. They just put up an interesting episode in honor of fifteen years of MCM.
It was about the show itself, and what they do and how they make it happen. I, ignorant as I am, found the part about data wrangling (I’m sure that’s common usage, but I had never heard it before) and the server setup they made to store fifteen years’ worth of video. It’s not as if I didn’t already know, but holy shit, there is a lot of work in the background to put 15-20 minutes of edited video on youtube.
Mighty Car Mods link
As I’m reading Pravda’s hyperbolic reactions to the unapproved sightseeing at the Brazilian capital, I’m starting to be reminded of the way that everyone who questioned anything about the government’s response to 9/11 for the first few years after it happened was casually lumped in with the Taliban and called terrorists. It all wreaks to high heaven of Neo-Con branding. I wonder how much of this is due to influence of many of the same dirtbags (ie Kristol, Frum) seamlessly switching parties and being welcomed with open arms by the corporate press.
Neocon or the Permanent State?
I mean, they’re basically the same already. I guess I’m just referring to the particular branding being from that group of assholes. Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, the term terrorist is incredibly en vogue again. Before the woke were simply calling every one who disagreed with them “racist” and demanding socialism to solve it, there were the neo-cons in the early 2000’s seeing a shoe bomber every time someone hesitated at giving up a whole host of civil rights. And with warmongering suddenly becoming super fashionable again, I just have to suspect that those shit bags have something to do with it.
Reeks. Not to go all Teds’ on you, but…
… I never asked the new job if I could get an office with a door.
I’ve wanted one for so long…
So, did you get one?
I don’t know. My start date isn’t until 2/2
Your timing is excellent for making it a condition of starting the new job. It’s too late for them to easily find someone else at this point, so the easy thing to do is give you the office with a door. And bureaucracies default to the easy thing.
The problem is there might not even be one.
Make your own?
You also didn’t ask for an office with walls.
Without walls, I can’t have rats in the walls.
That’s your scheme! You want to invade my office walls!
It doesn’t matter. We come out at night to eat what we can find and drag our junk across your keyboard.
Typing gloves for the win.
LOL. I haven’t been around much and didn’t know about the new job. What will you be doing?
I will be managing a greap responsible for administration of the software that handles batch management, faxes, and printer mapping/driver distribution. It’s a larger team than my peoplesoft infrastructure group, but lower profile. More management, less tech.
Congrats! Does it require modifying your handle here?
He hasn’t detached from the public teat.
Sad!
OT: I’m almost done completing the spreadsheet calculating next payday’s semiannual incentives, and I may be done with the annual census for our 401(k), the last Big Thing on my plate for Hell Month.
I can’t shake the paranoid feeling that I’m forgetting something terribly important. 😟
Paying yourself $1,000,000,000 dollars from the general fund?
utilities?
Reliable Coworker pays the utilities.
I did almost forget one item, but my payroll manager at our processor reminded me of it, and it’s only for senior management, so who cares?
10% for the Big Guy?
I once heard of a scheme where the W-2s were programmed to take a few cents from every employees FWT and add it to the programmer’s W-2. No one noticed but spread across 25,000 employees the programer made out well.
Superman III?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz7XK98_9LM
Looks like knowledge of the story is pretty widespread. I heard it in the 1970s. An auditor knocked a pile of W-2s on the floor, and while picking them up saw one – the programmer’s – where the FWT shown was about 75% of the gross salary. Puzzled, the auditor investigated and turned up the fraud.
From the dedthred:
“Obesity is not a lifestyle problem. It is not a lifestyle disease. It predominately emerges from biological factors.” – Aaron Kelly, co-director of the Center for Pediatric Medicine (U of Mini-Soda).“
While I have no doubt genetics and whatnot play a role, I have to believe lifestyle is the main thing. The reason being, we have gone from obesity being relatively rare, to being nearly the general rule at all ages. Genetics and biological factors don’t change that fast. Level of physical activity and diet do.
Insert “in little more than a generation” where it will do the most good.
So I guess there’s no point in all those “healthy” school lunches they keep pushing.
Somewhere a Wookie is sad.
Purely post WWII in the U.S. Hell, hunger was the bigger problem when I was young. We’ve gone from that to obesity in 4-5 decades. Bullshit on anything strictly biological.
Some people are genetically disposed to packing on fat, no doubt, but yeah, the STRICTLY biological explanation is straight up bullshit and most can control it with diet and exercise and a bit of self-control.
Some people are genetically disposed to respond differently to different foods.
I dare you to find anyone who is genetically disposed to packing on adipose tissue on a carnivore diet.
Pretty much every Eskimo?
Lol.
Adipose.
I think you could set the date when obesity started to really tick up later than WWII. When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, there was very little childhood obesity. As in, our class of about 150 had one, maybe two “fat kids”.
I am going outside to cook up some chicken and pork chops for the week. I have about 15 minutes left in the day. That will taste delicious regardless of what dietitians and governments think.
Pork chops defrosting for dinner tomorrow, 2 whole chickens defrosting for Fri or Sat. One to be roasted the other to become soup.
Mrs. TOK doesn’t follow the news like I do. This is one story I won’t bring up. She’ll blow a gasket when she hears about this.
Well, it IS bio-chemical processes.
I have a hard time reconciling this push for surgeries to cure obesity in 13 year olds with the one for body positivity and fat is healthy shit.
Overall it’s a sick push to get our children cut up early. Whether fat or transgender it supports the goal of pushing more people towards surgery centers that suffered during lockdown. Money money!
Interesting, I was watching a YouTube guy make the same point, basically they locked kids in their homes for two years while discouraging healthy activities so they became a bunch of lardasses and now they’re approving $urgery to fix the problem.
We have had gov’t by technocrat for… how many years now? 60-70? In any case, fixing things by parts replacement is all they know. They cannot even conceive of any other answer, let alone another paradigm. From boob jobs, to masks, wire harness replacement to total home makeover, there isn’t anything that money cannot buy for a quick fix.
No exercise, no religion, no simple repairs.
Don’t even bother trying to reconcile competing insanities.
I don’t. The goal is demoralization and subservience.
You missed the pharmaceutical part of the intervention strategy – can’t wait to let them become adults before imprinting brand loyalty on them!
“Obesity is not a lifestyle problem. It is not a lifestyle disease. It predominately emerges from biological factors.” – Aaron Kelly, co-director of the Center for Pediatric Medicine (U of Mini-Soda).“
At this point, I would be delighted to see the pediatricians’ union sued for malpractice and fined into penury.
I was a healthy weight. I changed lifestyles. I got fat. I changed lifestyles. I got less fat. Clearly biological.
Fuck off public health educrat!
You sound white supremacist…
…and angry and unappreciative of the advice from his credentialed superiors.
What sort of “drug therapy” is recommended for childhood obesity? Testosterone? Growth hormone? LSD?
Puberty blockers.
Just turn on your TV and watch for the next Pfizer ad.
I have a fairly new TV, I don’t need to put a hail of bullets into it.
I think a lot of the noise we’re seeing about it comes from the recent (6-8months ago?) approval of “wegovy” (and one or tow other recently introduced ones I believe). In what is surely a coincidence, comes complete with a very high price tag. I believe it’s supposed to modulate GLP-1 receptors in the brain to reduce intake/hunger signals and increase energy expenditure. Side effects like vomiting, the shits, fatigue, etc. More worrying seems like dose dependent increase in risk of thyroid cancer (in mouse trials, not human). I suspect this is another one of those where long term impacts are not well known. And it’s likely something you will have to be on long term to maintain the benefit. Might be me being jaded from the last 3 years (or more), but seems like the usual plague of modern pharmacological medicine, especially for a problem that is so eminently treatable with changes to lifestyle. But as long as they don’t outlaw those lifestyle changes for the rest of us and don’t mandate the use, whatever, have at it and you deal with the downstream effects.
The most amazing thing in the medical-industrial history of this country is the transformation of patent medicine from snake-oil to respectability, all courtesy of the magic of the FDA.
Ozembic/Ribelsus
Hola!
Nice gun. Nice Little Bighorn Re-enactment. Bad politicians. Worse media.
Perfect Little Buttercup!
I’m actually looking for my brother, as a wedding gift. I haven’t decided if I should go with something normal but reliable, or straight up race gun.
as a wedding gift
Matching his & hers?
No…she’s left handed.
Mirror imaged set?
Damn. That’s a nice present.
I think I got my brother some kitchen knives!
Kitchen knives are for closers!
I may or may not have offered the RV repair guy some pie
OH YEEEEEEEAH!
[cue cheesy porn music]
Some cherry pie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjyZKfdwlng
Lol.
Chafed’s boys covered it.
Giggity.
Obligatory
So good.
Thanks for the R&M episode, by the way. I died.
I look forward to any episode with Keith David as the President – he’s so great.
Oh dear
Time for a front end alignment?
Hopefully he reciprocates with a free lube job and undercarriage inspection.
I will start calling my teabagging of you when I First all over you an undercarriage inspection so as to try and preserve your dignity.
You say the sweetest things!
I never thought this would happen to me…
Good lord. UPS’s customer service is abysmal.
They are so bad I recently switched to FEDEX. Who suck.
I look favorably upon FedEx for their good sense in hiring XX no-longer-TD.
My uncle has worked for them (in corporate) for a few decades. He wouldn’t stick around if they weren’t at least an okay company. He told Coke to shove it in the 90s when they went proto-woke.
How fucking hard is it to plug in a shipper and receiver and return the tracking number(s)?
Beats me. I couldn’t get into my own account to even try to set up a shipment.
They kept sending me emails that my account was about to expire and I needed to log in to keep it active. I tried multiple times on multiple days to log in, but kept getting an error that there was a technical issue. So, I tried to use the tech support: “Sign in to contact support.” 🤬
The three the agent gave me to check are all being sent to the (shipper’s) city. Wrong fucking direction.
“If you have the delivery date, I’d be able to quickly look it up.”
Yeah right, after repeatedly asking for the same information I already gave. But ok. Start brute forcing 7-10 days after the shipped date, dipshit. That’s far less time than your round and round chatting.
The Wednesday before Christmas, due to two big winter storms back-to-back, we had packages that were running late from USPS, FedEx and UPS. We were going out of town for a long weekend for Christmas, so I tried to get them all to hold the packages so they wouldn’t be sitting on my front steps for 5 days. UPS said I could do it online by paying $9.95 PER PACKAGE. I said hell no and hopped on their online chat. A fucking half hour later, the lady says she has sent a message to the local UPS terminal explaining my problem, and I would get a call by 10am. The next day, no call, but I did get a notification that evening that they delivered all the packages. 🤬
For both USPS and FedEx I went online and in less than 5 minutes I created a vacation hold and my packages didn’t get delivered until the Tuesday after Christmas.
Fuck UPS
Yeah, FedEx will hold packages at FedEx office locations without charge. UPS wants me to pay to leave a package at their customer center where it’s already at and not send a driver out. BS.
What you are paying for is to stop, in some small way, their highly automated system.
They don’t like it when you stop their highly automated system. That takes people.
People who buy Canik Rivals?
IS that the gun the dude used to win at your comp?
Speaking of pistols, whats everyone’s thoughts on the new Rock Island 5.0?
Also, imagine being such an asshole totalitarian neo-puritan that you want to criminalize *checks magic 8-ball* gas stoves.
You already can’t buy non-EPA certified wood stoves. After Wickard, there’s no real surprise left in regulatory banning.
All that is left is increasing malice toward the common citizen. “Hey, people like that thing. Fuck ’em, let’s find some reason to ban it.”
I’ve got a wood stove for the workshop built on a used 55-gallon steel drum. Hope to get it installed next summer, after the floors are re-done.
Probably not EPA certified. Fuck ’em.
It looks weird and that triggers me.
Don’t go off half-cocked
Meh.
1911 clone. In other words, outdated crap for wannabes.
I like the 1911
*racks slide*
Say wha? Its literally nothing at all like a 1911.
Speaking of pistols, whats everyone’s thoughts on the new Rock Island 5.0?
It’s ugly.
“If you have the delivery date, I’d be able to quickly look it up.”
“If I knew when it was going to get here, I wouldn’t be tracking it.”
Hopefully we’re filling up the post hopper like Cousin Eddie filling up the shitter of his RV.
I’ve made an offering, with the potential for it to have more parts.
Are you doing your part?
I thought bondage was your kink, not Scheißeporn.
That’s awesome. All I have to do is threaten to stink up the place and everyone jumps.
Shit, you get people coming out of the woodwork who haven’t commented in forever.
*waves at CA*
I’m often lurking. But am usually far enough behind the posting I don’t want to deadpost. It has been a while.
Yo, CA! ‘Sup?
I’ve got a post in the works. Light as a feather it is, but anything to put a stop to Swiss’s piteous mewing.
Congratulations and thanks to Ozy and his compatriots are due.
The military vaccine mandate is officially kaput.
Fantastic!
Congrats. Ozy!
link?
https://open.substack.com/pub/covidreason/p/breaking-the-pentagon-has-ended-its
thanks
Good job, Ozy!
Battle of the Outcasts
Reason outdoes themselves. File this one under “you never go full tard.”
https://reason.com/2023/01/10/like-trump-biden-had-a-private-stash-of-secret-documents-but-it-was-much-less-impressive/
“Like Trump, Biden Had a Private Stash of Secret Documents, but It Was Much Less Impressive”
In this article you will learn that it is totally OK when we do it. Sullum sinks to new depths of partisan shilling to claim that Trump is super terrible and Biden is above reproach, regardless of what actually happened.
Well ackshually…
Trump was President and can declassify at will, the VP cannot. Does that figure into the article’s estimate of impressiveness?
Bonus, they had a 2 author article explaining why the Twitter files don’t really mean much of anything…. I mean, maybe perhaps some stuff happened, but nit really important. But the real worry is that Republicans are going to make things much worse by trying to do something about it.
I am pretty much in the “they have gone the way that Drudge Report went” camp at this point.
Whatever. Stupid cocksucker (and not in a good way)
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) commissioner Richard Trumka Jr looks like his blimp father had a child with The Devil. Is it really possible to ban something that’s been used for over a century with little negative fanfare with the stroke of some douchebag bureaucrat’s pen?
Commie shitbag
I’m willing to sacrifice a few bureaucrats to the guillotinesin order to keep my gas stove. Seriously…
I’d think the existing ones would be grandfathered but it seems like a hell of an overreach. Almost all consumer goods and appliances have inherent though infinitesimally small risks.
See above for wood stove bans. Of course it is. You just didn’t realize how dangerous they were.
OK steak people:
My daughter lives in an apartment with no grill and only an electric range. I’m gonna get her a cast iron pan, but what’s the best way of doing a steak without setting off the smoke detectors?
Reverse sear.
In the oven at 250ish until you reach the desired internal temp.
The in the pan at very high temp for a couple of minutes per side.
Not enough smoke to cause a problem.
Thanks. I do that outside, but I was curious about indoor peeps.
Biggest hassle will be getting the three years needed to get cast iron to temp on an electric stove.
I use olive oil in the pan. I get it as hot as I can without it starting to smoke.
Drop in the steak and it sizzles like crazy but does not produce smoke.
I recommend putting a lid over the pan or using a splatter guard.
This my it’s-the-middle-of-winter-in-Iowa solution.
Disconnect the smoke detector