Since I am aware few of you will click the links, I will post this link here. I will also post this picture below because I am also certain slightly more than a few of you will click that link.
I have considered committing an atrocity. Why? Because I live in the current year the future, why shouldn’t I be able to do cyberpunk dystopia things that make Fudd boomers cringe at the range? Its bad enough I got the 2.5” barrel… Anyways this is more of an after Xmas project since I can justify it on the grounds I didn’t get what I really wanted for Xmas. Talk me out of it, into it, or ignore at your leisure.
¡enlaces!
Why not? The apocalyptic meltdown predicted by every classical economist hasn’t occurred here…yet.
A train collides with a bus. You come up with the punchline.
Its like that movie Quinciñera, where the girls dad gets a management position at work but then immediately goes into hiding because he’s actually from Mexico.
More news from alternate universe America.
Milei’s party suffers a “crushing” defeat at the polls—actually it was their stock market that was crushed with the news, not Millei.
Continental realignment might be getting a bit over our skis.
When I said I liked Pete, I knew eventually I will regret it. I might get there eventually.
A tune worthy of your Tuesday. Lets hit it!
Consumer confidence is falling, unemployment is rising, and interest rates are soaring to record highs as the government repeatedly intervenes in the currency market to prop up the peso and hold down inflation in hopes of placating cash-strapped voters.
Huh. That doesn’t sound very libertarian.
I was playing around with some numbers earlier today, there is some context as to why, but its not important.
So, anyway, I was trying to break US household income in 1955 into quintiles. The data I found wasn’t perfectly aligned with what I was trying to do, so had to do some interpolating. I then converted to 2025 dollars and calculated percentage of 2025 households into each category. Results in table below. Nothing surprising, but still interesting.
5th Quintile <$2,200 20% $6,900 20% >$83,100 49%
Okay, that didn’t work at all…trying again:
5th Quintile $0–$2,200 20% $0-$26,300 15%
4th Quintile $2,200-$3,700 20% $26,300-$45,000 12%
3rd Quintile $3,700-$5,100 20% $45,000-$61,200 12%
2nd Quintile $5,100-$6,900 20% $61,200-$83,100 12%
1st Quintile +$6,900 20% +$83,100 49%
Which inflation metric did you go by?
Whichever one google used when I asked to convert 1955 dollar to 2025 dollar.
It makes a difference, but the general idea is close enough.
I considered doing it by value of silver.
Your atrocity is on back order, so there must at least some who think it isn’t atrocious. It’s too late to be a trendsetter. But you can be a follower. A brave follower who follows with bravery! Do it! Do it!
I don’t know, Mexi seems to really want the thing that goes up.
Goddamnit
Smdh
I used one of those to mount a Trijicon on my revolver.
So I’ve got that going for me.
Revolvers are the stick shifts of handguns. Also, I like revolvers. They’re elegant weapons from a more civilized era and the stylish choice for eliminating brutals.
When a country behaves as if they are waging war on you, you behave as if you are waging back.
Exactly
Nah… at least it is better than a pipe pistol and you can throw on a longer barrel with it if you find a Raider camp with some suitable scrap parts. Having a scope early game is nice.
🙂
This is good feedback…
The train company Canadian Pacific Kansas City of Mexico in a statement called on drivers “to respect the signage and to comply with the full stop order at railroad crossings, to avoid accidents like the one this morning in Atlacomulco.”
You would think that this doesn’t need to be said, but… Mexico.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZrb-ao5v3M
Other than probably the Laffer Curve… I can’t come up with a modern economic theory that’s been right in my lifetime.
At least we’re currently spared the 2000 era “New economy! No recessions ever again! Infinite Growth!” (or whatever it was exactly… I just remember it being really, really stupid to justify the Dot Com Boom).
Hmmm. In the last thread I said the limit on government is how much bullying and theft people will tolerate. I should have said the principle behind the Laffer curve applies to both taxation and government in general.
Supply and Demand is still pretty accurate.
I don’t think that’s “modern”, is it? (I’m thinking econ since the 50s or 60s probably here…)
I’m not so sure that the tariffs aren’t going to come around and bite us. They haven’t, “yet”, but the vast majority of tariffs didn’t come into effect until the beginning of August. I’m certainly not going to call a mission accomplished 1 month into tariffs on everyone all the time.
I still think it’s a bad idea. I was affected by the new trade policy twice in one day today, after not having been personally affected hitherto. One item I couldn’t get because the vast majority of Europe is not currently shipping to the US with the sudden drop of de minimus, and the other I was tariffed $61 for a $285 item made by a sole proprietor in Norway.
I think we’ll all see more of this.
Hopefully it wasn’t a semi-conductor layer.
Swiss!
I hope they’re still running that self-deportation bonus… take advantage of it senors and senoras… better than living in fear because you know the law is coming for you.
Looks like the same Mr. Shooty I have. I support this project!
Excellent
Cry harder, bully.
Yeah. Bolivia did not defeat socialism nor will it ever.
Nothing like reinforcing that people will get what they vote for — good and hard…. SENOR SMITH IS STANDING BY… HIS ARGENTINIAN BEEF CAN’T BE CORRALLED BY ANY GAUCHOS!
STEVE CAN SWING IT LIKE A BOLO. TAKE A HIKER OUT AT KNEES.
Gas production, the country’s main revenue source, plummeted from 60 million cubic meters per day in 2014–2015 to just 28 million in 2025. Mismanagement and lack of maintenance slashed exports and so, foreign trade.
1 – Nationalize an industry
2 – Put cronies in charge of production
3 – Defer maintenance
4 – ???
5 –
ProfitPoverty!I wonder where we’ve seen this before?
Can’t they mandate higher production like Newsome plans on doing while refineries shut down in his state?
You should mount a scope that comes half way back up your arm. With a laser. Like Stallone in Cobra.
That was a real thing, albeit obscure as fuck. https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Cobra_(1986)#Jatimatic_SMG
The spetznatz officer they brought in during the original Red Dawn movie carried one of those also.
https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Red_Dawn_(1984)#Jatimatic_Submachine_Gun
That may be going a bit too far.
I’m sure she made lots of young men want to experience la petit morte….
And some old men too… Probably.
Being married — I’m certainly not going to give any indication one way or another.
Im married and allowed to, within reason, appreciate the fairer sex
Mr. TOK appreciates an attractive person, male or female, which gives me a lot of leeway.
On this day in history, Mao Zedong became a good Communist.
I like not this anniversary. Bring me a different anniversary.
Ok- January 21!
DO IT, MS!
But the plate is on backorder
You might be able to get it from EGW directly.
Kind of light on just what federal charge they think they can bring here. Hopefully not some cockamamie “hate crime” crap that continues the bad precedent…
Do I want the asshole charged, convicted and imprisoned (prison or max security asylum… no.. not Arkham, dammit!)? Yes. Are the state laws sufficient? Yes. Should the Feds step in every time they think the state is mucking it up because they’re idiots or have a different opinion when it isn’t an actual Federal crime? Hell no.
We get enough of this with the “States don’t charge people enough to placate the BLM mob, so Fed racial charges ensue” during the JackAss party tenure… no need to extend the stupidity.
🙄
Stupid party doing stupid things.
“Alright already, dont make a federal case out of it” needs to once again enter our lexicon.
If you shoot the anachronistic revolver, be sure to wear the appropriate steampunk garb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z97uQjMOq_I
Oh yes, and have some gizmo with dry ice to make fun clouds of vapor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuS3G7YKrj4
Last week, Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar welcomed the increased US deployment in the region and praised the strike against the vessel allegedly carrying drugs. “The pain and suffering the cartels have inflicted on our nation is immense. I have no sympathy for traffickers; the US military should kill them all violently,” Persad-Bissessar said.
Based PM.
I was thinking I should ask how precisely we should kill them non-violently… but then, Canada is right there — doing so is MAiD to order for them.
There is no understating the devastation drug smuggling has had on so many sleepy, formerly peaceful and nearly crime free Caribbean islands.
“Trump’s hand-picked Supreme Court majority just became the Grand Marshal for a parade of racial terror in Los Angeles,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement.
What an orator.
On the teevee right now about the Charlottesville murder: “blah blah blah blah blah blah blah…..enough is enough!”
I want to know how many violent criminals were set loose on the street today while they were flapping their fucking gums.
Local news just dropped a story about the terrible injustice that is happening here in Ohio. Convicting rapists, pedophiles, and murders to life without parole.
Cleveland child rapist’s case highlights little-known Ohio prison trend
Read the fucking room. I for one have no issue with rapists, pedophiles, and murders being in jail for life without parole.
Rehabilitation isn’t the point. Punishment with safeguards to reduce the chance of injustices, by the State in order to avoid private feuds, deterrence, and above all removal and isolation of revealed threats to public safety are the points. Rehabilitation is a religious fantasy the progressives tacked onto the system and then encouraged to swallow the system up.
They want to disarm the public, teach helplessness and unleash as many criminals as possible on the populace. It is that simple.
In words of HI McDonnough, “I don’t know how you come down on the incarceration question, whether it’s for rehabiIitation or revenge, but I was beginning to think revenge is the onIy argument makes any sense.”
Train vs bus? That’s a lot of pregnancies.
Sure, one of the things I don’t like…
“And we’re launching the egg sandwiches,” Mr. Dacus said. They are, he noted, the top item purchased by the millions of American visitors descending on Japan each year and visiting 7-Eleven stores.
The sandwiches are made with the fluffy Japanese “milk bread,” and a team in Texas worked with Japanese suppliers to learn how to produce it in the United States. Milk bread and Japanese mayonnaise give the egg sandwiches “the heavenly pillow thing,” Mr. Dacus said.
Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/business/7-eleven-ceo-stephen-dacus.html
https://archive.fo/eqeHC
Take the whitest white bread and make it whiter!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_milk_bread
No because Americans are ignorant and dirty in general compared to the Japanese. They will maintain a gas station to where it doesn’t feel dirty to eat there. Not the same here.
Huge image to overcome here.
I should note that Buckey’s and Wawa pull it off. 7/11 in America, though? They’d need to completely change the quality of people they hire or at least the standards they hold their gas stations to.
I was thinking of Wawa as well.
I worked at a Sev, back in the nineties. And it isn’t the people who work there so much as the people who shop there.
Did this get posted yet?
https://archive.is/94z8M
The NYT is very concerned about too many immigrants moving into an area, driving up prices, and destroying the local food scene.
Awful, just awful.
No, but I think MS posted about the “concern” before with a different source. Nice to see the NYT is consistent in its spin.
Indeed I did.
*searches article for ‘Al pastor’*
Just a complaint about bell peppers appearing in this dish in one place.
How dare they change that ancient Mexican dish of vertically grilled meat!
The punishment has drawn criticism from reform advocates, who argue it strips away any chance of rehabilitation.
It doesn’t prevent rehabilitation; just release.
“Foreigners come in with these different types of food, and then [the locals] have a tendency to adopt them as well.”
Cultural appropriation?
Hmm, my S&W 296 isn’t ugly enough, what to do? Yep, it fits the L frames.
Somebody has to make grips in a hideous color.
Indeed it does
I hate EZ-Pass. They are billing me Now for tolls incurred in June. I thought someone was scamming me somehow. Nope, just a long lag on processing transactions. It’s computerized and I have an RFID “bill me” tag for the system to read. At worst I should be billed by that evening.
New York is really bad about that, and it is very hard to figure out whether you are being double billed or just getting different legs of the same trip billed 90 days apart.
I’m still wondering if I will ever get a bill from Texas through their pay by plate system when I drove through the DFW area on my FreedomFest 2025 road trip.
Contrast with Oklahoma. When I got home, I went to their toll authority’s website. I was able to pay my toll bill.
Probably sent the bill to some Texan with the same plate number.
My daughter got a bill for $550 worth of tolls 3 years after using the tolls system in the Austin area, so be patient, they’ll get to you eventually or as UCS says, they probably already billed it to someone else.
Wait, you let the state track your movement?
Unless he covers up his license plate, they are.
I’d attract more attention as a digital hermit routing myself such as to avoid every licence plate reader I could identify and not possessing a phone.
I drove all over NYC, bridges and tunnels, and never got pinged.
Having temp reg works wonders.
$1,000 for a phone with real world battery life that is so good they offer a magnetic extra battery as an option.
But it does have a recycled cross body strap in 10 colors! Win.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/introducing-iphone-air-a-powerful-new-iphone-with-a-breakthrough-design/
Those things are stupidly delicate, regardless of what (cr)Apple’s proprietary bend test says.
No shit. My first sarcastic thought was “Gee, that won’t bend if I sit down in the wrong pants.”
Nelson laugh.
A 2024 report by a three-judge panel that investigated whether the three lawyers engaged in misconduct by attempting to circumvent procedures designed to have cases randomly assigned to a judge found they did so because they viewed Burke as a “bad draw.”
The new case was reassigned to Burke, who despite their concerns blocked the law’s enforcement, though an appeals court later reinstated it.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/lbgtq-rights-lawyer-indicted-lying-during-alabama-judge-shopping-inquiry-2025-09-09/
🚨 Attorney Aaron Siri Shares the Results of a Bombshell Vaxxed vs. Unvaxxed Study
“Overall the study found that after 10 years, 17% of the unvaccinated children had a chronic health issue while 57% of the vaccinated children had at least one chronic health issue.”
https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1965520139132256554
One thing that bothers me is that the pro-vax side is so damn determined to sweep any potential side effects under the rug that honest conversation is impossible and there’s no real impetuous by the powers that be to look into, you know, if we can’t do this shit better.
I think most vaccines have been overall positive for the human race, but the people who are pro-vaccine are stupidly dishonest and refuse to even acknowledge any drawbacks most of the time.
And then you have slimy pricks like Bill Gates who were using humans as guinea pigs in India.
I thought Bill Gates considered adverse affects a positive?
A lot of the honest conversations we’re not allowed to have in the US today boil down to questioning someone’s religious beliefs.
Reminder that the soccer match is on.
For the Boomers & GenXers: Ollie North married Fawn Hall.
We just discussed this at work today.
Last week a coworker was throwing a bunch of stuff in the shred bin and I said , “look at Fawn Hall here”.
“Who’s Oliver North?”
I forget, were they banging back in the day?
I thought she died in a kiln explosion…
I think that was Fawn Liebowitz.
Leibowitz.
So close…
Ollie North married Fawn Hall.
I said, at the time, if I ever got hauled up in front of a bunch of assholes like that I’d want my secretary to look a lot more like Aunt Bea than Fawn Hall.
She’s 66 now. I’m sure she looks more like Aunt Bea now.
*I like revolvers. I’ve only fired a few (don’t remember what) but the consistency of wheel-action greatly pleases me.
*I like Mexico+ getting confidence from Trump to tell China to fuck off a bit.
*South America is fucked. Such an odd place, and I’m curious to know more about why the Spanish-speaking nations never looked north, decided the US kinda had something going, and the S Americans teamed up themselves. (Why didn’t they? People are people.)
*I hope for Millei, but I’m not optimistic in any capacity. He’s surrounded by nations of peoples so used to dole-living that they can’t imagine ripping off the shackles. (And stringing up their overlords w the chains.) It’s sad, but.. People are people. (We’re usually stupid.)
Columbia was a wild adventure. I’m thrilled *it* was my foray into the continent. I admit, I didn’t do too much ‘culture’ there. Well. Uh. It is Medellin. Fantastic skiing. (And the glorious beach in Santa Marta. Much tomfoolery. https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=2c3c6c9257d3bc5e&rlz=1CATSMI_enUS1160US1160&sxsrf=AE3TifNPmCu0V1y6RHgwQrgo7BX0J3bztg:1757457942853&udm=2&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIeuyr9ljWioGWIw0oasFed3q5v-jrTO4UFmLjWc-eQrSDAn5yCiUOywCEMyD2GzPsD4p6NxyE0nWcubdFo_geguuEzTyhb5YnZGp9oc-5cJgdOWVqSlpwqlRFBrxaDT9YXk-Cdymu63-zeABH1e7STtPakvrAsNBjNpc49sGHXpjHEuW6dw&q=santa+marta+colombia&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjsyJCD4cyPAxWvv4kEHftWDFYQtKgLegQIERAB&biw=1430&bih=650&dpr=1.25
People are people. Yes. The culture you are raised in, especially in your most important formative years, sticks with you for life.
The pre-columbian cultures in the new world were stone age tribes. That doesnt get washed away overnight…or for that matter over 1000 years.
Why should it be that you and I should get along so awfully?
😃
I was referring to Evan’s ‘people are people’ statement.
As for you and I getting along so awfully Rhy, I wasnt aware of that….but then I am a bit socially retarded and I miss a lot of thing.
We get along awfully?
Suthen: Truth. The indigenous Americans didn’t have the wheel, writing, or domesticated animals. Frankly, they were barbarians. Culture does stick. Who and what you grow up with/in is permanent.
“Why should it be that you and I should get along so awfully?” <– My thought on karma being real: You=Asshole? Then you hang out with assholes who do assholish things. Attracts bad shit.
Good person? Ya hang around with good people who do good things. Attracts good shit.
What comes 'round goes 'round. Ain't nothin' new, but I feel people overlook or ignore the 'social' aspect of our species. It matters for a reason, and is my chief fear for the yutes. They're growing up where Real People are rarely interacted with. They grow up with Alexa and Siri and want more.
Kiosk AI Sexual Services anticipated. ("Half off your first time!")
Everyone will live in their own little bubble. It'll be so convenient and fun! (For a while…) Had a fun talk with Mom about facial recognition on her iPhone and how fingerprints and DNA-passwords are the obvious next step. Didn't freak her out. (23 and Me already has it anyway.) Sigh.
*I like revolvers. I’ve only fired a few (don’t remember what) but the consistency of wheel-action greatly pleases me.
I love my Ruger GP100 in good ol’ .357 Magnum. I’m constantly torn between CC’ing that one or my CZ-75… 6 shots of super-high stopping power, or 18 shots of less stopping power?
I’m still lusting after a Schofield revolver. I’ll pick one up when I’m sitting on a spare $1000… I’m sure it’s between the couch cushions and in the car tray.
❤️ my GP100, but I have no interest in carrying it
Ugh, USMNT at it again. Tonight they will lose to… checks notes… Japan. OK, then.
I’ll have you know that I open every link except obvious sports links and Q’s links.
lol I thought I was the only one who does not open Q’s links.
Siiiiigh. Q usually posts them when I’m on my hour-lunch. When I’m alone. In my car. Thinking of Crush. He tempts and taunts me, Q. (I love it. (Kinda.))
My new car and it’s fold-down seats are going to be game-changers. I’d love to invite Crush to nap there when we *don’t* have ‘lunch’ at the same time. Give her her time. Eventually, I’d join in on the nap, to be escalated to a profound Cuddle Nap. And so on..
Most folk also want a pony. I’d prefer our overlords actually followed the Constitution, but currently, I’d also accept my replacement phone finally arriving, now 2+ days after paying $100 for it to be overnight -shipped to me. ) A young Winona Ryder would also be pleasing for a solid Snuggle Sleep. Go forth, God. Please me. (Please?))
(OK. Just ‘assist’ the Cubs holding their lead. Ya can swing it.)
Orly?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-NvQ6VJYtE