Does it count if I did it to myself?

Glad you’re okay, pal.

Nah it was the P320 with the discharge issue actually. I’ll look into Adaptive Rifle

Yeah that price is unbeatable! I might have said in my last comment, can’t recall, but I’d like a P365. shot very well with it in training courses and it’s the smallest little guy. I think it would be impractical for me to carry at this point in my life due to the job I work, and I think my SO would have a major problem with it. But as you said, whether it’s coming from above or below, it feels a lot like threats of violence could be increasing in the next decade. So I dunno. I’m also reading Citizen-Protectors: the Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline by Jennifer Carlson. It’s interesting, if unsurprising stuff. Have you read it? It’s a pretty even-handed look, by a sociologist, at the who-what-where-why’s of pistol carry in the USA. It’s a decent read.

Ooooh, I bought it two administrations ago, feeling similar to how I do now. It was the lead up to the election that put Biden in the white house and guns were selling out like crazy while Trump was stoking his base months ahead of time that if he lost it would be because the election and by extension the democratic process had been rigged and soiled. The idea that half the electorate would be stoked on that kind of brain poison and more armed than ever, and, that if one needed a gun they’d have a hard time obtaining one moved me to break out the old credit card. So. Whenever that was. Five years ago I guess? Never touched it until I took a number of shooting classes a couple years back. But I’ve only just now been making an effort to get back into shooting. As it was then, I don’t have any grand delusions about how and when I would ever ‘need’ to use a gun, but the current climate just makes me feel I’d rather have it and not need it than the other way around.

Never carried but I think the APX (regular; all I’ve used) is a terrific gun.

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer company. Cheers.

Extrachad.

Frontier is exactly as much truck as most truck owners actually need. I love it. I wish it was more fuel efficient but it’s a mild, modest, effective vehicle and i have not yet run into a situation it couldn’t deal with. Wonderful purchase. It turns like a boat but that’s a decent trade off to avoid the Toyota Tax on the Tacoma.

Absolutely wonderful album. Managed to grab on vinyl at my local record store a couple years ago.

Those colors! 😍

Just downloaded to Kindle. Thanks for reminding me.

This song is such a banger. Was part of my introduction to retro-styled synthwave. Gorgeous stuff. Endlessly listenable.

What about those of us who clicked the link but got turned away due to content blockers :p

We have strayed so far from God

“I’m in this photo and I don’t like it”

Could be harder. She’s holding the doll and everything.

Nice to know I can finally cancel Prime though. The entire value proposition has now gone. Free shipping is hugely conditional (and prices are artificially jacked to cover it in the first place), and now they want to put the worst thing on the internet (ads) into the only component of Prime I still sorta kinda use sometimes. I’d rather keep the $140 a year or whatever.

Great video.

I’m gonna have kids just so I can make sure to raise them on the correct media diet. They’re getting all the classic video game consoles, in order of generation, so when they get to something like Elden Ring they have the context all the way back to Space Invaders to appreciate it. And we’re going to be a home of physical media, god damn it. We’re not streaming things. We’re putting CD’s and vinyls and blu rays in their respective players. No iPads. Only books, comics, coloring books and notebooks.

How the fuck did parents start giving their kids iPads, anyway? Nintendo Switches? My first Gameboy cost $90 and I bought it with my own birthday money. A children’s book from a young reader series cost $6 new in the 90s and is probably not much worse now. Less, if you buy it used, which is much easier now. And people are just like, “here, my 12 year old child, have an Xbox Series whatever, and an iPad, and a Galaxy phone. They’re all pre-connected to your YouTube account. Don’t let your other parent know that I told you that for Christmas we’re getting you a gaming PC, Logitech C920, condenser microphone, wireless headset, gaming chair, scissor arm, and LED lighting array so you can chase the completely impossible dream of being a professional streamer. Can I kiss your feet while I’m at it? Will that make this a good half-birthday for you?” Unfuckingthinkable. Knock it off.