Contrary to what many people may believe, while I’m sure the government has an idea of who has guns and who doesn’t, I doubt that idea accurately reflects reality. There are lots of ways in the US to get or make a gun that don’t involve anything beyond cash changing hands.

It’s only a matter of time.

I’ve found having a cotton t-shirt as a base to actually help when wearing layers, as the cotton wicks away any sweat from my skin and keeps me feeling generally drier and therefor warmer (and I don’t sweat enough to completely soak the shirt, YMMV if you sweat a lot). Also helps if you find wool or other outer layers itchy. You’re right to not wear additional layers of cotton fabric, though.

Sounds like a fine way to end up eating a buckshot sandwich, but I’m not one to interrupt my enemy while they’re making a mistake.

it’s just the usual “hurr durr anything smaller than .45 is for girls” bullshit. Usually espoused by the sort of ancient old farts who remember carrying one in WWII, Korea, or Vietnam; and who dislike the general shift to smaller bullets going faster because they don’t understand terminal ballistics.

Precisely what I mean. If it were a high enough dose to notice, we’d all be tripping balls. If it weren’t, I would assume everyone to just be mildly more pleasant. And uh… that is absolutely not what is happening. Nobody in the news is pleasant right now. At all. I’m certainly not having a great time, are you?

I’m like 50% certain (as someone who has not partaken in the substances which I’m about to talk out my ass regarding) that OOP must’ve simply meant something less… kosher, shall we say – PCP? Bath salts? Cocaine? Some other drug that would actually account for the insanity? As far as I know LSD is a vastly more pleasant experience than whatever the fuck is going on in the world right now, unless you’re taking really massive doses, in which case… I think things would be arguably less coherent, though you’ve absolutely got me stumped as to how the current news cycle could be more insane than it already is.

Like, I know MKULTRA isn’t that obscure, but I also think it’s possible they just don’t know their drugs.

the tl;dr I got from this: he’s extra fucked in the long term (aka: anything beyond midterms and especially after january 19th 2028, not that I think he’ll even live that long) but he can still screw us all very hard in the short term (anything from now til midterms), even if we completely dispense with the possibility of martial law and the attempted meddling in/cancellation of elections around midterms or in 2028 (which is not a bet I’d make).

To the shock and surprise of absolutely, positively, not one single human being with a brain.

I’d like to think I’d notice if the world suddenly went all kaleidoscope on me, actually.

Wouldn’t that be the Seal of Disapproval, then? The Seal of Approval sounds like an easy mark.

Yo dawg…

No no, you’ll need slugs if you want to hole-punch any body armor.

Not that I would know what you aim on using your wireless hole-punch for.

Mental acrobatics. Mental Cirque du Soleil, if you will.

If you have a swiss army knife with one, use the awl to punch a new hole in the belt. Worked great for me.

Well, if you have an awl handy you could always just make new notches. That’s what I did when I had a belt that didn’t have a hole at the right spacing for me.

Counter-counterpoint: if you, on the other hand, wrap your lips around the spigot while drinking – you have exactly ten seconds to get the fuck out of my sight you absolute gremlin.

I mean, your “starting ingredients” as it were definitely came from someone’s nethers, but I suppose if you want to be pedantic.

Nearly?