Good morning one and all to another glorious day!
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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About The Author
Banjos
Wife of Sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active growing girls. Perpetually exhausted.
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Heya Banjos- how YOU doin?
Not bad, Tres, not bad at all.
/current titty status: calm
Sounds like your office has reasonable AC temps.
I’ve shared pics with a few Glibs. My “office” this week is about 300’ in the air on a smoke stack.
But it has been nice weather.
This you Tres?
“Nearly Entire Senate Democratic Caucus Vote in Favor of Giving Trump Limited Tariff Authority In Exchange For Sanctions Against Russia”
Why do they care?
There is an election coming, and they can then call Trump names and say he is doing things that hurt people, is the only thing I can think off.
Russia, Russia, Russia?
Except when Hillary does it?
The left is all in on Ukraine.
Only when they can take their attention away from “Palestine”. Ukraine is yesterday’s hotness.
Ain’t it funny that when these people start a war it is Jihad, but as soon as they are getting their asses kicked it is a genocide?
And yet the left haven’t shown up on the frontlines.
Bessent’s inner circle is drafting a blueprint that could ultimately strip non-compliant organizations of their 501(c)(3) status, according to two of the people familiar with the plans. The reviews could result in massive back payments and civil penalties, the same sources said.
“Could”, unnamed sources.
Call me when the Feds actually strip those organizations of their 501(c)(3) status. Until then, it’s still “nothing happens” o’clock.
I am seriously not getting this “Nothing is happening” thing. I can get “I want more of it, faster”, maybe “I don’t trust unnamed sources”, and obviously “I hate that things are too slow because to get people legally takes time”, but “Mothing is happening”, to me sounds, as if your internal clock has been wrecked by social media and television where everything happens in 30 mins to an hour.
Also what is the alternative? Go back to “All the bad shit is happening”?
The alternative is doing something. Not talking about it.
This is talk. Talk is cheap.
I recall a lot of people saying shit was talk a year ago that is happening now. I see none of those people saying “My bad”. No, they are doubling down on the whining.
There are people being deported, but our elections are not going to be fixed for the mid terms, the debt is growing faster than ever, and Trump still hasn’t realized that the trade deficit is a big part of what has been preventing the dollar from tanking. (for those who share his blindness it works like this: A trade deficit is literally us sending more dollars overseas for stuff than we take back from overseas for stuff. Since stuff has value, and dollars are merely counters of value, the more stuff we have, per dollar in circulation the more each dollar will buy. Reducing the trade deficit means bringing dollars here and sending stuff overseas.)
Decoupling form a hostile CCP China is the plan. And I see it working.
Congress hasn’t done shit. About anything.
Nobody Who Matters has gone to jail for any of the unbelievably numerous crimes committed by People Who Matter.
As we saw with the “Biden” admin, everything Trump actually does can and will be reversed by the next Dem administration.
Color me less than optimistic.
And Trump has undermined any lasting legacy by getting rid of (more) principled politicians like Massie or MTG and installing empty puppets like Nordone.
I recall a lot of people saying shit was talk a year ago that is happening now. I see none of those people saying “My bad”
It’s still just talk.
TRUST THE PLAN!
So let’s cave in and let the demcorats and their agenda win?
Got it.
This.
*Everything* Trump accomplished will be reversed. On day one. And the punishment will be dialed up to 11.
That is why were are complaining.
That is why were are complaining.
I understand the complaints. I understand the “And nothing else will happen” (in no small part because of entrenched interests/decades of judicial appointments).
What I find frustrating about it is – “what’s the solution?” You’re not getting anything through congress – look at the SAVE act. How do you make it ‘permanent’ in our system of government when 1) you have decades of entrenched revolutionaries and 2) your fellow citizens seem content with continuing the status quo?
I prefer talking about issues, doing things – even if short term – to just letting it ride. We get to the bottom quicker letting it ride, but I’m not sure I’ll like what’s at the bottom. At least talking about issues and making efforts, however futile or misguided, normalize the position and make it possible for more serious and/or effective people to keep pushing forward.
I prefer talking about issues, doing things – even if short term – to just letting it ride.
The Federal government is collapsing. Donald Trump is not and never was the guy to fix it, even if he had a willing Congress. He’s always been a charlatan.
I do stuff where people are actually serious about making change and actually get things done.
I do stuff where people are actually serious about making change and actually get things done.
That’s partly the way.
And maybe the skids can be greased a bit at this level by normalizing the ideas at the national level, even if the implementation is poorly executed.
And I will not minimize the impact of putting the skids on censorship, pushing back, both in words and deeds, on trans and DEI stuff. By doing that, it makes it much more likely that efforts on the local level can progress to do something concretely. It opens up the field for the more competent and effective to do better things. Hell, 3 years ago, you couldn’t talk about things like that, let along enact any effective push-back. That’s not nothing, and given where we’ve let ourselves get to, probably the best that one can expect at the national level.
I do agree about talk having some cultural impact and pushback on some of the recent ridiculousness. Hell, it’s probably more consequential than any of Donald’s executive orders.
Call me when Soros’ personal accountant isn’t the Secretary of Treasury.
To be fair… “something” may be happening, but not fast enough to happen before the next Democrat administration turns it back into “nothing”. Even the article says the process will take years.
So how does complaining and making it easier for the next democrat admin to screw us all over help?
I am not being a dick, but it is stunning to me that anyone would think the thing to do is complain and undermine the chances of staying the course, instead of making sure others jump on the bandwagon, even if it till take time to get what we want/need, so we can get there.
Calling a spade a spade instead of drinking the flavor aid is the first step in righting the ship.
There is no course to stay. Trump is narcissistic windbag who gets led by the nose by people willing to fawn over him. This is isn’t the libertarian messiah. It’s not even the conservative messiah.
The process will be fast tracked as soon as the new Dem administration is installed.
They will use this to hassle the fuck out of all the conservative groups. Louis Lerner will be called out of retirement and given a new laptop to spearhead the effort.
“President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America, amid ongoing trade tensions with Canada.”
That’s retarded.
Retarded, but also funny.
Especially in lieu of the fact it would invalidate most trade compacts mentioning it.
No, Alex, I’m afraid treaties and international agreements don’t work on “exact words” magic. If they reference a geographic name which changes later, it continues to apply to the feature as understood at the time of the agreement. So agreements regarding Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico remain in force despite the temporary mislabelling.
If some idiot judge in MA can ignore the SCOTUS telling her that the Post office should only send mail in ballots to registered voters verified as eligible, striking down her previous bullshit, and she just issue another injunction to allow cheating, while claiming she is doing it to make elections ‘fair”, why can’t we just ignore shit, huh?
No UCS, in this case it would render all agreements invalid until new agreements could be reached with the Fae living beneath the large puddle in question. Fae are sticklers for precise wording.
Hard to picture any trade agreements mentioning a specific province or lake but who knows.
I can’t wait for the howls of indignation from every proggie town along the coast, including my hometown.
I have heard of Canada being called Gay America before, but Fae America is new.
The proper response is for Canada to rename it Lake Epstein.
That would be Lake Michigan.
https://www.wionews.com/world/epstein-files-trump-witnessed-the-killing-of-my-newborn-baby-13-year-old-girl-told-fbi-1766648320302
So many popups that’s unreadable.
“Socialist mayoral candidate accidentally reveals abject incompetence of Los Angeles officials”
Revealing the obvious? LA has been a shitshow for years.
That story is hilarious.
And she hasn’t even taken the stupidity down, like they usually do when called out.
Nine months to paint a crosswalk on a cracked street is pretty impressive for CA government. They must have fast tracked a bunch of environmental studies.
One thing I have noticed is that the new voter doesn’t vote for a government that tries to maintain infrastructure and the basic services for the least amount of money as possible like they did in the past, and seems to be a feminized asshat voting for feelings (social justice!!). But when you have decades of that shit and everything is breaking down, even the dumbest voter focused on nonsense will feel the pain and want some remediation. This idiotic and laughable stunt is an attempt to affect the idiots that are realizing everything is falling apart as billions of dollars taken from gullible people go into social welfare funding, where practically all of it is fraud and misspending.
Until we stop voting for social justice and demand working infrastructure and basic services again, expect things to keep getting worse and more of these stunts about painting stripes on a cracked road in east bumfuck.
Unfortunately for now, they have a counter to that. The just say things are falling apart because the rich aren’t paying their fair share, and that works with all too many people.
In my previous town – a large college town – all the proggies blamed the shitty infrastructure on the university and its tax-exempt status. Never mind that the university threw millions at the city in lieu of taxes every year anyway.
It’s just a crosswalk, the opportunity to loop in a bunch of leftist teat-suckling groups is limited. Not like it’s an wildlife overpass.
Oh, I am sure they could have found a speckled cricket somewhere in a 500 mile radius.
I’m surprised they didn’t make it a Legibitiqua crosswalk.
I don’t think they can name it after Mayor Bass’ daughter.
“Both individuals who died tested positive for measles prior to their deaths and were not vaccinated, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. One was an infant, the agency stated, pointing to Diamantoni’s comments.
The agency stated that it uses the term “measles-associated” for deaths “when laboratory or epidemiologic evidence of measles is present, but the disease may not be assessed by the medical certifier or coroner to be the immediate cause of death.””
That sounds like bullshit. Regardless, it’s only one or two deaths. Also, aren’t kids vaccinated for measles around five?
The infant was a newborn.
Shapiro straight up fabricated the whole thing.
Yup.
https://archive.is/ZUcGW
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/26/pennsylvania-outbreak-kennedy-measles-vax-01050922
Who knew measles causes spleen ruptures?
What’s the adjectival form of spleen? Spleenal? Spleenial?
splenic
Spleen and words derived therefrom are hilarious. And they don’t even have a “k” sound in them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO6if5s0zmk
Shapiro straight up fabricated the whole thing.
I would not be surprised if he had a grudge against the Amish. They’ve become politically active since the Rona Panic when they ignored the Rona restrictions and supported Doug Mastriano. Amish don’t get vaccinated, and I saw some early speculation that it was Amish that died.
That is believable. Just like they are getting harassed in NY.
MMR around 1 typically.
I never got an MMR, but a measles vax around 5 – 6.
The vaccine schedule for kids is much more aggressive now, than when we were kids.
I just got the whole battery, total of something like 20 shots across three or four months.
Honestly not as expansive as I expected – a lot of them were boosters of previous shots – and I am not certain that I got everything that kids are getting from the ridiculous list I saw somewhere a while back.
I’d also be curious of the immigration status of the person or birth mother in the case of the infant. They usually try and paint these cases as right wing lunatics, when it’s usually an unvaccinated illegal.
The county coroner has said nobody reported any measles deaths to him, as required by law.
There has also been zero, zip, nada release of any information other than the press release. Including to the CDC, etc.
It’s all bullshit.
This is another hoax that’s developing in real time right in front of us. There seems to be no evidence, but nobody making the claim will walk it back, the “news” will keep repeating it, and the Dems will use it as another talking point. At Thanksgiving your Dem aunt will talk about it like it’s the undisputed truth, and when you try to counter she’ll call you a conspiracy theorist.
Such is the world we live in.
Local news source
Yes, a newborn male who died of a “splenatic rupture” tested positive for measles, Diamantoni said, but measles was not the cause of death — the laceration to the spleen is the cause. And measles was ruled out as a contributing factor because, Diamantoni said, “there was no swelling or enlargement whatsoever” of the spleen and there was “massive blood loss” from the laceration.
If the Amish truly Exodus themselves from NY and PA over vaccines, I think it would be great to air drop some bread for them as they make their journey.
Semi-Related: How retarded is Josh Shapiro? They guy has presidential aspirations and decides to antagonize one of the few groups of people liked by most Americans. No way this doesn’t blow up in his face in 2028.
I think the Democrats are too antisemitic now.
“Antifa Networks Panic After Trump Administration Sanctions Their Secret Tech Collective”
Takes time to unravel these sorts of forensics and find the connections. Especially when you are also getting rid of the people that were supposed to investigate this stuff but turned a blind eye to it because they were busy spying on school kid parents objecting to their kids being LGBTed or old grannies praying for things. Anyone else catch that they found the same entities collecting money for real terror organizations, like Hamas, were doing so for Antifa world wide as well? Follow the money. It all leads to the anti American western billionaires like Soros, the ME, and CCP China.
Cut that funding and the whole racket disappears by itself. Just like the expected summer of rioting, looting, and crime this year never happened because USAID and ActBlue money was gone.
This is a decent example of the anti- “nothing else happened”. I’ve seen lame “No Kings” protests but not a single riot. That’s something.
“No matter how petty, I fully support any move that trolls Canada”
Canada once could stand tall. Now, after the Castreau era specifically, it is a freaking joke.
“The American food company said in a news release that with all of its U.S. cereals — including popular options like Lucky Charms and Trix — now being free of certified colors, 90% of its total retail portfolio in the nation has completed the transition.”
No one should be eating either of those.
Those artifical dyes were probably the healthiest things in those.
I’m here to tell ya…
I am still upset at my sister who ate all the Lucky Charms marshmallows leaving the box of cereal. We had to finish the box before mom would get more cereal.
I never liked any of the cereals with marshmallow pieces. 😝 Cap’n Crunch with Crunchberries (Bring back Red Dye #2!) was the GOAT and had the best prizes. The folks in my college dining hall fought over them.
Also, Quisp > Quake.
My first exposure to bad metrics (or at least my first *awareness* of bad metrics):
4th Grade. We’re doing some sort of nutrition segment. Various breakfast cereals were brought in and we were to rank them by how “healthy” they are.
The teacher declared Lucky Charms to be an “unhealthy” cereal, and then we ranked all of the other above/below it… by vitamin content on the side panel. Interestingly enough, sugary kids cereals are fortified with vitamins and minerals out the ying-yang, while grownup non-sugared cereals aren’t. Boy as that teacher surprised when Rice Krispies was the most unhealthy cereal available, below even shredded wheat.
SPECIAL K!
And then there is whatever Grape Nuts is supposed to be.
Most misleading name ever.
…and Grape-Nuts stick to your teeth…
I used to eat all those cereals and my kids were raised on them.
Rat on a train:
Driveway filler. That’s what Grape Nuts are supposed to be.
Grape Nuts exist to teach kids that marketing is a lie. They have neither grapes nor nuts, nor any flavor a human would ever wish to experience.
It’s not for use in shotguns as grapeshot?
RoaT – Grapeshot is for cannon, and has larger shot size than many shotguns can reliably even fit down the bore.
Grapenuts? Yum!
Once I asked my doctor why people in the US weren’t getting scurvy and things like that. I definitely don’t eat a lot of fruits and vegetables and neither do most people. He said it’s because our packaged foods are “fortified”. They sneak vitamins and minerals into bread and cereal, iodine into salt, etc.
TOK – I appear to get my Vitamin C from bell peppers. 🤷♂️
I guess I can’t give up my breakfast salads.
Cut up peppers and put them in an omelet.
why people in the US weren’t getting scurvy and things like that.
While it doesn’t apply to a large fraction of people in the US, you don’t actually need that much vitamin C. Glucose binds very effectively to the receptor that vitamin C does, so in a condition of chronically elevated glucose, you will be very bad at taking up vitamin C.
That’s partly why sailors had an issue – beer for drink, carb dense hard tack style things for food. Eating citrus compensates for the preferential binding by adding more C to the system.
Look at Inuits and other northern peoples – nary a fruit to be found and not a scurvy to be found.
The simple rubric of you need fruits to prevent scurvy is, as most such simplifications and ‘just-so’ type stories, much more nuanced and complicated.
Ok, dad.
HEY!!
Whatever, but I’m not buying that the artificial colors were at all harmful.
This is just more sucking up to Jr’s odd crusade against them.
Artificial colors are generally made from petroleum byproducts.
I’m sure they are good for you.
So I have seen a whole bunch of people complaining about the fact Boomers had it so good while they can’t do anything. They use all sorts of twisted statistics and make some really dubious claims that always come back to “Why do I have to work so hard, sacrifice the luxury expenditures I want, or do something as crazy as save up for a long time?”. I get that income has not kept up with inflation. I also get that education today is not worth the expense. My problem is that I keep noticing these kids complaining, don’t want to work, have enormous debt from dumb college degrees, spend all their money on luxury items they pretend they can’t live without, think the idea of roommates is icky, and believe they should immediately get the same standard of living as their parents, even though, on average, their parents took between 20 and 30 years to get there while limiting their luxury expenses. The scariest thing to me is that the loudest ones are women that do not want to get married and men that think work means being a social influencer making bank (cause any other sort of work is below them).
The worst part is that when you point any of this out they, throw a tantrum and accuse you of being the problem. No wonder they love the idea of socialism. Envy and jealousy seem to be now considered OK feelings instead of a sign your character is lacking.
There are two problems that look like one because they have similar effects despite very different causes. One problem is the erosion of the work ethic as you point out. But the other, which you give lip service to but then dismiss, is that inflation of the currency supply reduces the wealth of those whose wealth is in cash or contracts payable in cash, like employment agreements. Wages don’t keep up with inflation. They will never keep up with inflation. Inflation is not rising prices, rising prices are a symptom. Inflation is the process of those with the legal right to create the counters we have ‘agreed’ to use for exchanges creating more of them. The counters have value because we agree that they can be exchanged for stuff. Prices rise because there are now more counters chasing the same stuff. In other words the supply of counters has increased while the demand has stayed the same. This on the surface looks like it changes nothing, things cost more counters, but there are proportionally more counters to be used, but the nasty little trick is that your counters don’t increase. The new counters are in the hands of the people who get to create them (or more accurately are created as they are spent by those people, generally as loans to the Government). This quite literally, and every bit as effectively as taxes or direct robbery, redistributes wealth from workers, and businesses with cash or long term contracts for cash, to those who issued the new counters. People with assets, stock, land, etc. suffer less loss, but do not get the gains.
TLDR: There are lazy young people, but even the hard working ones are being screwed by money printer go brrr, and they are not wrong to view this as corrupt, even if their socialist solutions are retarded.
“TLDR: There are lazy young people, but
even the hard working ones areeveryone is being screwed by money printer go brrr, and they are not wrong to view this as corrupt, even if their socialist solutions are retarded.”We are all in that boat. They are not special.
Except older people have had the opportunity to acquire assets which don’t lose value from this process whereas young people are in the stage where all they have is their ability to trade labor for cash to hopefully begin acquiring assets. They are absolutely more vulnerable to this than I am because my wealth is in assets.
AlexinCT:
There’s more to it than work effort and savings. See also the oft linked Chump Effect article.
Wealth in restricted assets and fixed incomes isn’t great either.
The greed in today’s youth is largely due to not killing enough commies and the abandonment of traditional religion & morality.
Yes, anything that is payable at a set rate in cash, or a rate that only changes at long intervals, is looted by inflation.
“Except older people have had the opportunity to acquire assets which don’t lose value from this process whereas young people are in the stage where all they have is their ability to trade labor for cash to hopefully begin acquiring assets.”
I would agree with you if they couldn’t just invest in the stock market. My kid who is in this group of young people, is living frugally and investing most of his earnings, and he will have enough money put away – in less than 6 yrs – to put $100K, after paying the onerous capital gains taxes, down for a home. He also does not get the newest phone the minute it comes out at the highest price or spends money buying $12 lattes, so there is that, I stress. His buddies that complain do a lot of that and doordash.
Savings are devalued by inflation. I would say older people have had the opportunity to acquire assets which may retain value, or lose value, while inflation happens. Traditionally, “pensioners” on fixed incomes are devastated by inflation.
Inflation also makes debt easier to repay. Young people are more likely to have a higher debt to asset ratio, meaning the impact of inflation on their finances is more complex than a simple “Old people are rich and inflation doesn’t matter to them, and young people are poor and hit harder by inflation”.
Everybody is screwed by a devaluing currency except people who hold debt at rates below the rate of inflation.
That was an interesting read.
I think back on some of the places I lived when I was young and single and wonder how we a) didn’t die and b) weren’t booted by the landlord.
Several places with 2 bedrooms and 6 guys living there was not uncommon. Bunks in each room and learning to live with other knuckle heads.
Wasn’t fun, but it was all we could afford.
I also wonder what factor that credit has played in all of this. When I was a young man no one would think of giving us a credit card. Checks were available, but they used to actually prosecute people who wrote bad ones.
When we ran out of money, we were just out of money. Sat home and waited for the next pay check. Now? Credit cards to the rescue! All the Altar Kids had credit card companies begging them to take one of their cards when they checked into their freshmen dorms.
I think you’re seeing a bit of a silent majority effect happening. Most younger people don’t do any of this. My son, for example, has 3 roommates. He works hard and is still looking for a better job, as are all of his friends. I think the complainers are just louder and there are a lot of undetected hard-working, diligent thoughtful young people out there too busy to say anything.
Good.
That effect is everywhere – because social media is mostly retards – and it drives me apeshit.
Because boobs just aren’t an idea.
“Sydney Sweeney goes TOPLESS and sucks on her thumb in her raunchiest lingerie commercial ever”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16085105/Sydney-Sweeney-topless-syrn-lingerie.html
“Sydney Sweeney eats her birthday cake in Syrn lingerie”
https://pagesix.com/2026/08/27/style/sydney-sweeney-eats-birthday-cake-in-lingerie-for-syrn-campaign/
Fugly women and crazy dudes in dresses, hardest hit?
How come I never see these commercials and it’s always AIDS medicine commercials for me?
Yep. Always with the drug commercials. At least Roku commercials are filtering in, but those still pale in comparison to a Sweeney ad.
Yeah, all my commercials are either “Prep” (channels that youngsters might watch) or St. Judes (all other channels).
Hmmm. The Algo knows.
It’s all ED meds, fat jabs, and autoimmune disorder drug adds for me.
Sydney Sweeney is mid.
Obviously, you’re more into KPop idols.
True Blood already taught me there are gay vampires.
Your whole country is medieval.
The only thing I ever saw her in was The White Lotus series (and that sucked too). I had no idea that she was the super sex pot everyone was talking about.
She was a mildly attractive annoying girl in that show. Absolutely nothing to write home about.
mid
mildly attractive
She was/is unapologetically feminine and exudes feminine sexuality. In an era that actively devalues that, even the “mid” becomes a symbol.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Tundra sent me that birthday cake video. There was a lot of time spent in my bunk last night.
Uffda. Don’t you realize that Tundra is grooming you?
Don’t believe me? I bet Tundra has already sent a Scream mask to you.
Tundra’s into wheelchair porn.
Maybe Tundra is just misunderstood?
In other news, a trans women makes more sense than actual women.
“Lindsay Clancy Supporters Are INSANE.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghzZ-QFvCmg
UnCiv: According to people who claim their opinions matter, pistols should be zeroed at 45′.
I zeroed mine at 50′ because that’s the range KFGC has at their pistol shack. Even with slide-mounted optics there’s not much height over bore, BUT at 105′ (the length of targets in two steel challenge stages) my POI is higher than my POA. Not enough to miss as long as I’m holding center, but the bullet is still travelling up.
zeroing? did cowboys in the wild west zero their Peacemaker? I think not. people these days.
Cowboys would have killed for a semiauto with a green dot.
No, they wouldn’t. You want large caliber revolver that can take down a mad steer.
Tater – you realize that the 45 colt that the peacemaker was chambered in provides no more energy than a 45 ACP, and only marginally more than a 9mm Para? Not until you get into the +P rounds that were not on the market back then and would probably break the old Colt.
Bah. Olde-tymey black power loads are extremely underpowered by modern standards. Heck, .45ACP was chosen specifically because of its cow-killing power!
*The reference I was using might have been for smokeless .45 colt, and not black powder.
Thank you.
It’s how far away whatever you are shooting. 45′ seems a bit much for practical applications.
You are confusing zero, which is effectively fixed during shooting as changing it requires a process, and aim point. The purpose of zeroing to a set distance is so you can easily calculate aim points. That said there is very little difference between point blank and 50 feet. A 9mm will drop something like half an inch in that distance.
Correct. Remember that since most sights are over the bore, the round will be rising until at least the point of zero (which is why my 105′ shots hit high with a 50′ zero, but would be low at some longer range) So any targets closer than that point of zero will have no greater deviation between POA and POI than the distance between the bore and the sight (and that deviation will decrease until the zero point is reached).
No, I’m not. Unless it’s set parallel (not unreasonable for a handgun) the bullet crosses the line at two points.
Both of my carry pistols have green laser sights mounted under barrel.
I have them zeroed at 10 yards — point of impact is the same as the point of aim with both iron sights and the laser at 10 yards.
Most violent encounters occur inside that distance (from what I have read).
My carry pistols have 3.3 and 3 inch barrels. I don’t expect to be shooting either of those at 25 yards or beyond, but I have practiced at that distance in the past. The difference between POI and POA at that distance is negligible compared to my accuracy with a 3ish inch barrel at that distance.
YMMV
You’re not wrong (AFAIK) that actual defensive pistol use isn’t out at 35 yards. However, most of my trigger time is out doing fun gun stuff, and all close targets gets boring fast and also rewards pure speed over everything else.
And I do keep one of my competition guns as the nightstand gun, because why the fuck not? It works great and I can hit stuff fast with it, especially at any conceivable distance inside my house.
I generally do an initial zero of my pistol at 10 yards (at that distance I expect to have the bullet holes touching), then confirm at 25 yards.
There are arguments to be made in favor of a 15-yard zero, but I’m used to my method.
In the category ” What The Fuck is YouTube recommending me”, what the fuck is this shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEff9-DtwjU
Something unavailable in the USA.
K-crap?
seems to be random korean chicks singing .
So, imaginary sources claim Trump will do Good Thing X. Based on past performance, Good Thing X will not happen.
Wake me up when we know who was running the damned country from 2020-2024.
Yeah, it’s all bullshit and after the midterms anything he tries will be a dead letter anyway. Never in the course of human events has so much political capital been so stupidly squandered by so few and it’s such a shame.
I really liked all those executive orders. All he needed to do was work with congress to get each one written as a very simple and short bill. If the Dems wanted to oppose, fine. Get them on the record opposing things 75% of people want.
Everything he’s done so far can and will be easily reversed by the next Dem president.
We all know Obama and Biden had EO’s written in stone, but Trump’s will end up to have been written in the sand at low tide.
Sensei:
People bitching about the trigger on the S2 Carry are pretending to trigger snobbery. If you do get one, it would be interesting to find out which one becomes the EDC and which is the backup after you practice with both at the range.
I know you were primarily wanting a metal-framed gun, but this video contains a comparison of two high-performance carry guns, and gratuitous CZ owner insults:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPl9s1WNY9I
If you do get one – I won’t
Speaking of triggers, the trigger safety on the Shield X Is significantly more comfortable than on the Glock and I figured out why. They added a face plate for the finger to push against that is basically the width of the trigger, so it’s a forward half of the tirgger and you don’t have this narrow blade digging in to your finger as you disengage the safety before reaching the main trigger pull.
The Shield X (really the M&P style in general) is more comfortable, but it’s also somewhat less functional as a safety and more vulnerable to snag hazards.
When I was shooting Glocks more often, I would sometimes take the factory trigger and shave the safety down until it was flush with the trigger face when fully deactivated. This made it more comfortable, but also increased the chance that the trigger safety could fail to deactivate if my trigger finger placement wasn’t perfect.
There are only tradeoffs here in this imperfect world.
Wow. I’ve never shot enough rounds in single sessions through my G21 to even notice the trigger safety or have it get annoying to pull the trigger.
With the Kydex holster I have, I only have to worry about my shirt as a snag issue, but that’s more likely to snag on the rest of the gun than get inside the trigger guard. So I think I should be good as long as I drill clearing the shirt in its entirety.
@Sensei – I disliked the Glock trigger safety at 0 rounds fired. Just the way it felt put me off.
UnCiv –
Reholstering is where you really have to be cautious about trigger snags.
Sensei –
I shoot a lot more than most normal people. It’s not uncommon for me to burn 600-800 rounds in a single range session.
So what you’re saying is – always dump your mag?
/snark.
You can learn a huge amount by mag dumping into the berm, as long as you’re paying attention. No snark here at all – every shooter should spend some time and ammo doing this.
Thanks. I’m still waiting for my PD. I’m hopeful today, but probably next week. Sigh.
Next hell is finding a dealer that will order the CZ and modify or change it to 10 round mag.
And it will be zero’d at 15 yards.
Prison sentences in fraud case
A nearly two-year investigation sparked by a viral dashcam video has led to prison sentences for two men who admitted orchestrating a scheme to stage car crashes on New York highways and file fraudulent insurance claims.
District Attorney Melinda Katz and Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that 53-year-old Jaime Huiracocha and 34-year-old Victor Murillo pleaded guilty to their roles in the conspiracy.
Huiracocha will spend between one and three years in jail and Murillo will spend two years in jail.
Considering the risks involved with this scheme the sentences are wholly inadequate.
“The Indiana teacher accused of orchestrating a so-called “Scream” mask gangbang sex scandal with underage students is officially divorced….
The deal says Brittany’s ex will have sole legal custody of their kid, due to her being in jail. She will regain legal custody following her release from jail, assuming no other restrictions are in place….
As TMZ previously reported, Brittany is accused of sexually abusing multiple junior high school students she met at two different schools. Investigators allege she supplied alcohol and magic mushrooms to some of the boys before engaging in sexual activity with them.
Authorities also allege one incident involved multiple students wearing masks inspired by the “Scream” movie franchise during an alleged group sexual encounter.”
https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/27/brittany-fortinberry-divorce-finalized/
Some shit is just weird.
Masks won’t do any good, there’s no mistaking that FUPA.
Junior High dudes. They could care less
Also, she has big fake tits, so that overcomes any other shortcomings.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Young(er) people hold doors open for me, offer to carry my stuff to the car. Seems that small town USA still has a lot of well raised well mannered youngsters.
I count Jimbo, Kinnath and PONick, et al, as youngsters though.
I’m immature. Does that count as a youngster?
I saw the trailer The Uprising movie. looks bloody horrible.
Is this anti-OMB porn?
I am not sure what the consensus on Richard II is, but Shakey portrait him as bad.
Medieval ‘Robin Hood’ retelling that’s more akin to 300/John Wick, at least based on the ads/stories.
‘Robin Hood’ retelling ?
I think I read that the Uprising is supposed to be a prequel to the Robin Hood story.
it has nothing to do with robin hood it is about the peasants revolt.
Tips on learning Japanese
Lol.
chick is kinda cute
パーフェクト!
Paafekuto!
However, it more than partly true. Japanese speakers don’t understand the many English words they know when they are pronounced in English.
100% true.
Works the other way too. Once you learn how the Nips pronounce/convert English words your Japanese vocab expands considerably.
For sure. Even now – if I don’t know the Japanese word for something with one of my friends I’ll katakana -ize it and see if they know it.
Probably a 33% hit rate.
Only now of course. I’m sure the union will get them their job back plus backpay.
FAA Found LaGuardia Air-Traffic Controllers Left Work Early Before Deadly Collision
OBE would have thrown them off the roof of the tower.
“A New Hampshire man whose home was going up in flames allegedly stole a rescue truck from responding firefighters, then crashed into a fire engine, drove over active hoses and narrowly missed three firefighters before fleeing the scene, authorities said.
Nestor Roman II, 30, of Dalton, faces multiple charges after authorities said he stole the rescue vehicle and later crashed several miles from his burning home.”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/28/us-news/new-hampshire-man-nestor-roman-ii-allegedly-steals-rescue-truck-from-firefighters-battling-his-burning-home/
CWAA
I almost admire his commitment to felonious stupidity. Also, pic checks out.
Tell me you cook meth without saying, “I cook meth…”
He might be living in New Hampshire, but that’s a Florida man if I’ve ever seen one.
Hey, I’ve seen this before.
It’s still a bold strategy.
Pay no attention to his comments on Jews.
El-Sayed Tries to Sell Himself as Mainstream to Michigan Voters
Retards are holding a march on Washington to defend Democracy.
Their branding is so terrible. The Tea Party, even Occupy Wallstreet, had a purpose you could easily understand. This vague “save democracy” and “no kings” stuff is just bland and unconvincing.
I wish this one was branded “No Kings” considering it hijacking MLK’s March on Washington anniversary.
Our Democracy or some other democracy?
Everyone in this scene is dead.
Let that sink in
https://x.com/kevin_smith45/status/2092723811942539470
Getting old sucks.
Hopefully not tipping off the reaper, but not everyone from this 1961 scene is dead
Kids watched that yesterday.
The boy is in love with Home Alone.
Hasan Piker has been named the #3 Most Influential Creator of 2026 by Rolling Stone
He is ranked only below Druski and IShowSpeed, an increase from his #8 position in 2025
https://x.com/Popstonox/status/2093028058445799633
Influencing is what you do with people that lack facts and logic. I am far more worried why so many idiots think these “influencers” are something to spend time on. You are better off just watching porn, now it feels.
Druski and IShow are entertainers, really. Influencer is a strange word.
Norway’s King Harald V dies at 89 after being on sick leave for weeks
Norway’s monarch has died at the age of 89 after being on sick leave for several weeks. King Harald V was the king of Norway since 1991.
https://eu.usatoday.com/videos/entertainment/celebrities/2026/08/28/norways-king-harald-v-dies-at-89/91505561007/
King Haakon VIII takes the throne in Norway following death of Harald V
Hopefully he will have to eat a plate of lutefisk before he can wear the crown.
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Unions are threatening to withhold support from political candidates who oppose data-center projects.
If Unions are for it, I’m now opposed.
I used to be ambivalent.
Leaving aside whether data centers are a good thing or not, any group hitching their political wagon to them being thrown up willy nilly is going to get their teeth kicked in.
Final hours for a shagalicious Rolls-Royce. Over $100K. Just pay no attention to the Carfax report.
Ugh, water damage…that thing would be a nightmare to own on its best day.
Six two and even that ‘water damage’ report was insurance fraud to get out from under an unaffordable car payment/repair bill.
Japan spent $98.7 billion to prop up the yen in the past month in a joint action with the U.S., a record intervention that has had a modest impact so far.
The yen has given up many of its initial gains, highlighting the limitations of government efforts to move prices in financial markets. The U.S. has also tried to stem a rise in bond yields, again with limited success.
Keep going! Pay not attention to the underlying issues with both the USD and JPY.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/japan-spent-record-98-7-billion-to-prop-up-yen-in-past-month-ddb03c64?st=z3CPk9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
what issues? look rock solid to me.
“Misley is also barred from describing Tyler ‘as a human trafficker, sex slave owner, Nazi, one who engaged in war crimes, and equating what occurred here with the Holocaust,’ the judge ruled.”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16086009/steven-tyler-legal-win-sexual-assault-court-trial.html
What about that time Aerosmith occupied Poland?
How can Tyler look more like Johnny Depp nowadays than Depp does?
Biological convergence. As species mutate over time, they can form the same survival adaptations even though they come from different genetic stock.
How times have changed.
Good Good is getting canceled for an ad where a guy tackles a woman who is trying to use his golf club. Panties are bunched over all this violence against women.
Remember Terry Tate – office linebacker – was a equal opportunity enforcer back in 2003.
Deacon Jones nods in agreement.
Some stupid marketing person needs to be fired along with whomever approved the ad. Why not just a macho shove to some male golfing buddy? Or, more “woke”, an attractive athletic black woman clocking a doofus male golfer in loud checked pants? The ad viewing world is used to seeing black or minority women edumacating clueless white folks about insurance, detergents, drugs, and
breakfast cereals.
Are we sure they didn’t see this coming? When’s the last time the general public knew a new driver had come out and all it costs extra is a “heartfelt” apology.
So, a few weeks back, I bought Splatoon Raiders to try it out.
The default control scheme has got to be the stupidest I have ever seen. Left-right aiming was with the analog stick, while up-down was by motion controls. Now, had it been 100% analog stick or 100% motion control I could at least understand the thought processes that went into it. Both of those make sense. This 50/50 mixup did not. And it was impossible to work with, because my mind kept expecting the control I was using for a given axis would apply to the other axis, so I was fighting the system and consciously going “no, now I have to go use that instead” when these things need to be instinctive.
I was on the verge of abandoning it entirely when I got past the point in the tutorial where they Finally unlocked the configuration options to switch to 100% analog stick. After that controls were mostly a breeze.
I had the same experience. The motion control sucks ass and I turned it off only to discover why they implemented motion control in the first place – because of the chaos coming at you from every direction. I find the analog stick aiming difficult to deal with so much going on at once.
In the end I kind of lost interest and played something else.
The first game drove me crazy enough. I never revisited the series. same complaints, plus you couldn’t do two player with a single cartridge with the first game.
Raiders is single-player only, which is why it’s the first of the series I’ve tried.
https://opengridworks.com/power-plants
Thank me later for wasting your morning.
That’s actually quite cool!
I got a sketchy-looking fake popup. What is it?
Interactive map of industrial power infrastructure. Staggering in its completeness.
Neat.
There is a lot of talk about the “enshitification” of things lately. I found something that’s actually not shitty. My company lets us keep our old decommissioned equipment so now I have a new personal laptop. I really want to get back to writing for here (and other things). I remember hearing on a podcast that Scrivener is a great tool for writers (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview).
Some things that impressed me:
1. The product looks well designed and has good reviews
2. The price is $59. Not per month, not a subscription. Just one time license. You get free minor releases, and have to pay for major new releases (discounted for current users).
3. The license is good for multiple computers in your house, as long as they have the same O/S.
4. I’m using the free trial version. It’s the full version, good for 30 days. But not 30 calendar days – 30 days of use. If you used it every other day, then you get it for 60 days.
So far I like it, and I’ll buy it if I end up using it a lot.
I worry about the lift of importing my existing workflow into a tool like that.
Try it for 30 days. I like that it’s just a simple file explorer where you can create folders and subfolders for chapters or however you want to organize things. Moving a chapter is just drag and drop. And it automatically creates a quick summary/outline view of your chapters. There’s also a research section where you can put links and documents and stuff.
There are probably some import features that I haven’t looked at.
“Not per month, not a subscription.”
Subscription software that needs an internet connection is a tool of the devil.
Most definitely. That’s why this jumped out at me. I was expecting $200-$300 one time, or a monthly subscription.
I bought Microsoft office years ago.
Installed it on my laptop and the bastards unlisenced it.
Despite allowing more voices on its opinion pages the WP certainly knows its readers.
FDA just approved updated covid shots. Here’s what to know as cases edge upward.
https://archive.fo/BAJRX
Please list the states. Also, I’m sure it’s possible in those likely deeply red states to find at least a few selected quotes from Team Blue residents who couldn’t actually get the shots. However, I’m also pretty sure you are going to have to work those quotes.
Final hours for a shagalicious Rolls-Royce. Over $100K. Just pay no attention to the Carfax report.
If I was making a high budget explosion extravaganza and wanted a ritzy looking car to crash and blow up I might buy it.
Just a thought:
Rooting for failure is not a good look.
Interactive map of industrial power infrastructure. Staggering in its completeness.
Sounds like a terrorist how-to guide.
You said it, not me…
You too can shut the local grid down with this one trick!
“Layshia Clarendon was born a female but decided to have her breasts removed while playing in the WNBA. She played in the league from 2013 to 2024….
The league allowed Clarendon to play while receiving testosterone…
Layshia Clarendon was not shy about her transition. She even posted photos of her breast removal while she was playing in the WNBA in 2021.
Layshia was playing for the New York Liberty and then the Minnesota Lynx that year.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/wnba-had-trans-player-league-years-so-why/
“WNBA’s most glamorous player Cameron Brink explodes at ‘piece of s***’ Enes Kanter Freedom amid trans controversy: ‘I don’t stand for that’
She told The Mirror US: ‘For me personally, when it comes to the trans issues I believe you’re talking about, I think it’s a non-issue and it’s people trying to just come for the trans community, and I just don’t stand for that.'”
https://www.dailymail.com/sport/wnba/article-16083457/cameron-brink-enes-kanter-wnba-trans.html
“‘They want a mechanism to continue tearing down women period and women’s sports. I hate that this is true and I desperately want for us to get to a place where women athletes can just be left alone and be great and be paid well. People can come and watch and just be respected. But that is clearly not where we are….
‘The rise in women’s sports and the rise of the popularity in all these sports leagues, particularly the W, has come hand-in-hand with the rise of this hate and discrimination. It’s why it’s important for us as women athletes to continue to speak out about these issues and continue to do it together to show a united and collective fight.
‘Let’s make one thing clear: We do not need men in the WNBA, or women’s sports in general, to make it successful.'”
https://www.dailymail.com/sport/wnba/article-16086419/Megan-Rapinoe-takes-aim-Enes-Kanter-Freedoms-WNBA-bid-brutal-podcast-rant-Bad-faith-actor.html
The Special Olympics has fewer retards.
Judicial crystal-gazer
A federal judge has ruled in favor of artificial intelligence company Anthropic in its legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a written order Thursday night that the Pentagon acted illegally by punishing the AI company for its criticism of the Department of Defense’s views on AI use. The government is expected to fight the ruling.
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Lin wrote that the government’s actions “were based on a desire to make a public example out of Anthropic for its ‘arrogance’ in criticizing the government, not based on any articulable basis to believe that Anthropic would actually sabotage its model.”
Now all she has to do is set damages based on what a contract would have been worth.
Being a judge is awesome.
In the 59-page ruling, Lin, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, wrote that neither the Constitution nor the federal statute the government invoked allows them to “impose sweeping penalties based principally on Anthropic’s critique of the Administration’s views.”
Anthropic sued the Pentagon over the supply chain risk designation in March for what it called an “unlawful campaign of retaliation” over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology.
The legal challenge intensified an unusually public dispute over how AI can be used in warfare and mass surveillance. Anthropic’s primary tech industry rival, ChatGPT maker OpenAI, made its own deal to work with the Pentagon just hours after the government punished Anthropic for its stance.
“You want the job, but you don’t want to accept the terms of the contract. Is that about it? NEXT!”