Woo! “Primal” was absolutely bugnuts in the best way possible. And Season 2 premiers in just a few weeks…
Woo! “Primal” was absolutely bugnuts in the best way possible. And Season 2 premiers in just a few weeks…
The future is now!
According to THIS ARTICLE, a drone of this kind runs around $20,000. That’s a lot. But the payload is 11 handguns… purchased in the US for perhaps $200 each, sold in Canada for up to $3000 each, the profit would be about $30,800 per run: you could simply throw the drone away each time in still rake in substantial cash profit. Fly it two or three times – a job of a few hours – and you’ve got yourself a decent yearly salary right there.
Illegal? Sure. Wrong? Ummm… Given what current Canadian dictator Justin Trudeau has said about Canadians not having the right to defend themselves, delivering them the *means* of self defense is not wrong. Sadly, of course, these gun are highly unlikely to be going to average Canadians, but more likely gang members, “migrants” and other members of the criminal element… but the potential still stands for simple robotics to be useful for delivering the means of self defense to regular people. Further afield, drone deliveries could be used to drop off ammo (bullets, grenades, rockets, etc.) to Ukrainian defense forces. There, of course, care would have to be taken to make sure that that drone delivering weapons to you won’t be using those weapons *on* you. Similarly, the use of drones along the US-Canadian border would have to be done with care; I would not be surprised if authoritarian, anti-human-rights types like “Fang Fang Swalwell” wouldn’t sabotage the effort by swapping out good guns for compromised weapons, or even weapons that have poison or polonium dusted onto them.
This is one of those cities that wants to tell everyone else who to live.
Nah.
Just another day in NYC.pic.twitter.com/iyXILAsTs3
— Leftism (@LeftismForU) July 6, 2022
Shazam!
Two days after a looney bugman decided to shoot up an Independence Day parade, someone went and kerploded the Georgia Guidestones. If you don’t know what those were… well, read up on ’em and marvel at the weirdness.
(2/3) The videos show the explosion and a car leaving the scene shortly after the explosion. No one was injured. pic.twitter.com/8YNmEML9fW
— GA Bureau of Investigation (@GBI_GA) July 6, 2022
The lesson to be drawn:
— UltraMAGA (@faiburns) July 6, 2022
And of course…
I can guarantee a woman was not responsible for this pic.twitter.com/X1PQJVtKSO
— Jessica O’Donnell (@heckyessica) July 6, 2022
#Ukraine: A Russian soldier demonstrating the most unsafe method of destroying a Ukrainian 5P85S launcher from a S-300PS SAM system.
This launcher is likely a part of a S-300PS battery which was abandoned in #Kherson Oblast in the first days of war. pic.twitter.com/DRCprM5U6b— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) July 6, 2022
Not related apart from “what THE HELL is this noise?” The downfall of new York City continues apace as an old man (ah, crap, he’s younger’n *me*) is sent to jail because he defended himself against a violent assault:
Wild video shows NYC bodega worker allegedly stabbing man to death https://t.co/L9hT8MXIye pic.twitter.com/KjkxbhI2Ki
— New York Post (@nypost) July 5, 2022
New York City: not even once.
The fella on the right seems to have a bright future with the Minoans.
Whoops.
The photos there are *not* appetizing. Of course it’s impossible to say that they are legit. All the photos there are closeups of moldy buns and insect legs in burgers and fries… none at least in that article show the food actually in context of being within the former McDonalds restaurants. The bug legs could be added in for effect; the burgers might be old. But it could all be honest reporting, too.
You wouldn’t think it would be *that* hard to maintain standards when you have the same facilities, presumably the same supply chain and presumably much the same staff. But I guess here we are.
Heh.
Brandon Herrera walks us through the history and workings of Hiram Maxim’s machine gun… designed waaaaay back in 1884. The period from 1850 to 1950 has got to be the most amazing time in terms of technological advancement actually and obviously changing things, and military tech was a large part of it. Interestingly, what the Maxim did is pretty much exactly what modern machine guns do; the lead it sent downrange would be largely indistinguishable from what a modern gun would send. The difference, of course, is that a modern gun would be *far* simpler and much lighter, thus more practical. Compare to the difference between a musket from 1850 and an M-14 from 1950: there is no comparing what they did.
Which points out the genius of Moses Browning, and why we need a Federal holiday – nay, an entire *month* – to properly celebrate him and his 1911.
Courtesy Reddit:
My mom held a graduation party today and no one came.
Could easily be a hoax-post… perhaps the party was scheduled at 6PM, and this photo was taken at 5. Or it could be legit. In any event, for a lot of people, this sort of thing strikes a nerve:
The whole thread is *full* of this sort of thing…
My mom always said I couldn’t have bday parties because my bday is during winter break. I never questioned it. Then I realized that I had no friends and was bullied. My mom wasn’t going to humiliate me like that and wasn’t going to spend money on bullies. I had 30 kids in my class k-12, so bullying was very…targeted and specific.
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When my youngest had her 7th birthday we invited her class to a party at the children’s museum. Lots of interactive things to do there…the place was like an indoor physics playground.
Nobody came. We were heartbroken. Sure, she would still have fun. But it was sad.
A couple visiting from England spotted what was happening. Their girl spent the whole time with ours, and they even bought her a birthday present from the gift shop.
I still think about that act of kindness.
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I’m near retirement age and never had a birthday party in my entire life. Family was dirt poor when I was a kid, as an adult it’s a day that’s just impossible for people to attend. Always wondered what it was like for y’all.
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It happens to adults too. I invited a bunch of “friends” and coworkers to a bar for my birthday. I sat there drinking alone for two hours before I walked home crying. Didn’t even get a happy birthday last year from anyone except my mom and aunt.
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We took COVID seriously and during the summer of 2020 our daughter turned 4. We didn’t have a party, but we invited all of our family to a zoom meeting to sing her happy birthday.
Not a single member of my family joined the call. I tried my best to keep my composure but I ended up crying in the bathroom after we cleaned up. They’re always on their phones and tablets anyway. There was no reason they couldn’t pop in for thirty seconds on a Saturday to sing happy birthday. I’m tearing up just thinking about it.
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