Alabama 3’s “woke up this morning” played on the radio and finished exactly as I was pulling into my spot at home, and of all possible leftovers from the cookout, I had half a tray of baked ziti. the auspices for the coming week are *very* good. bada bing, gabagool, this thing of ours, etc etc
I miss when the bots at least tried to seduce you, or were comically bizarre.
get ridiculous with it. ‘tired of cranking your peenits? sick of jorking your peenor & balls? click here for carnal knowledge, hormone intense sweat & the delicate joy of synced moaning.’
put some real effort in and wear more than 15 pieces of flair.
Lad with a broccoli cut at the mall: idk man, shits pretty crazy today.
Military recruiter who’s been trying to convince him for the last 10 minutes that playing ranked in Warzone translates well to an infantry MOS: It might be, but consider this - you pull through a few years and you can land a talk spot. You like podcasts and interviews on the TikTok, right? You can make up any badass shit you want, just practice your pacing and use a lot of inside-baseball jargon. Pretty uh, ‘based’, right? Let’s just set you up with the ASVAB, it won’t take long.
Local teen James Nelson went no-contact with his father after he became an active ICE agent again this year when he heard about the unchecked force he’d be encouraged to use under President Trump.
“Every time the phone rings I worry that it’s THE call,” said 17-year-old Nelson. “I fear that it’s my dad and he still hasn’t killed himself. It just comes with the territory when your father is in that line of work. You never know what day will be his last but you can be sure it isn’t going to be soon enough. Here’s hoping my luck turns around and my dad offs himself.”
we can argue about what game mods are better, but one I refuse to debate is the one I just got for fallout 4 that replaces the main menu screen music with ‘the beast’ from sicario. having that looming music build as the game zooms in on power armor fucks so hard I feel like I need a cigarette
I know that some suppressors are constructed of really exotic materials, like titanium and carbon fiber, and the manufacturers are sometimes still “boutique” in their production scale, but it’s still just a machined tube with some threads and drop-in baffles with a powder coat, *maybe* some QD bearings on one end. so at some point I have to assume the prices they’re asking for is just ‘lol how bad do you want this.’ like, if you’re getting a totally legit registered can, you’re willing to pay the stamp - which is 200 clams to some alphabet soup boys for nothing but adding your name in a database - so these manufacturers & vendors know you have some scratch you’re more than willing to part ways from.
it’s just super funny to me that these are priced above or similar to many of the rifles they’d go on. one of mine is a 'frankenstein’ AR that I’ve assembled from used & spare parts, and it’s super funny to me that the gun - the thing that actually goes *bang* - would be worth 1/8th of the accessory I’d attach to muffle said *bang* just so I don’t honk off my neighbors too much. worth a laugh, I guess.
it’s always super funny seeing two patrol cars ‘69’ parked. how on earth can 2 cops yap for that long? as if they have rich inner lives worth discussing. one of the main reasons they are cops is because they’re dull enough to park ass in a car for a shift and not go insane. just two $75k vehicles idling for hours so a pair of meatheads can discuss their recent sports betting losses.
listen, waking up - alive, against my better judgement - in america is hard enough. but the fact the federal government is being audited by a quasi- agency named after a fucking meme headed by arguably the biggest & richest dumbass alive, who needs more validation than a 4 year old after their first creative foray into fingerpainting, it’s too much. it’s too much. ive cultivated an incredible ironic distance to this spectacular world, but this is like wearing the lead vest for an x-ray while standing on the chernobyl elephants foot, it’s just not enough. it’s too fucking much.
the kindest, most intelligent, funniest and most beautiful people i know are trans women. the world would not be the same without trans women, and it wouldnt be half as joyful or creative or worth living in.
I really don’t understand the hate that PSA AR-15s get. they’re cheap - so what? it’s a proven platform. I’ve got several ARs (big surprise, right) and one is a PSA, and it just *works* dude. It goes bang every time, and it groups so closely with other, more expensive/ custom builds I’ve used that the late, great paul harrell would say “the difference is within the standard deviation, and not enough difference to make a difference.”
There’s a definite truth to the fact that PSA has had quality control problems. They’re a budget company with incredibly high output. I’ve heard some past horror stories particularly about their barrels and gas blocks. And they’re definitely somewhat crude, typically quite overgassed, generally offered in suboptimal formats wrt barrel length and gas system etc. But I think this stuff is blown way the fuck out of proportion out of sheer classism and snobbery. Most of the PSA hate out there is fucking memetic. People who have spent way more money on an AR that has nicer components and functions more elegantly trying to slam people for not having the money or interest to do the same thing. The worst offenders I see are assholes in the cloning community who spend absolutely insane amounts of money on getting KAC and LMT and Geissele components because they need to keep telling themselves that diminishing returns don’t apply to them and the 80/20 rule is communist hogwash.
that’s unfortunate to hear about the QC issues, i guess it’s expected at that volume from such a (relatively) new builder but I’ve seen nothing like that firsthand. hopefully they’ve rectified that? I guess time & testing will tell.
and the dumping I’ve seen is mostly that- shittin on people with cheaper rigs. whenever a guy with a daniel defense, sig mcx spear, or just straight up gucci build wants to laugh at PSAs, i take that with several tablespoons of salt. the gucci builds are the wildest: it’s one gun still chambered in a NATO standard cartridge and you don’t do match grade shooting, you’re grossly overhandling that steak dude
I really don’t understand the hate that PSA AR-15s get. they’re cheap - so what? it’s a proven platform. I’ve got several ARs (big surprise, right) and one is a PSA, and it just *works* dude. It goes bang every time, and it groups so closely with other, more expensive/ custom builds I’ve used that the late, great paul harrell would say “the difference is within the standard deviation, and not enough difference to make a difference.”
Anonymous:
id like to get a gun - something simple, easy to get, not expensive, easy for a newbie to use - just to keep in the house, i dont need to go hunting or whatever. im willing to go through training and get whatever licensure or whatever is required, i just have No Idea where to start even asking about like licenses or where to practice shooting or whats needed. i can (and will!) do some basic googling, but you seem like a good resource. i just want like - a recommendation for a good starter gun, and maybe some "heres some good places to go" and "heres what you need for a licensec. i live in the twin cities if this helps.
Okay so in the Twin Cities the first thing you should do is get your handgun purchase permit. You need this to purchase a “Semiautomatic military-style assault weapon” in MN (There’s a clause that says weapons “generally recognized” to have sporting purpose are excluded, which should mean AR15s, but whatever). But the gun you end up with depends on many factors, chief among them being how much money and time you’re willing to put into this.
If you’re getting one gun, and you’re only planning on keeping it around the house for defensive purposes, get an AR15. They’re loud as fuck, so you need to keep electronic earpro like Walker Razors with the gun, but they’re absurdly easy to use, are extremely lightweight, and have negligible recoil.
It’s a bit of a faux pas to recommend them, but PSA really does seem to make the most dependable of the budget AR15s. I’d probably advise you get a 16" with a midlength gas system. A shorter barrel length may be attractive, 10.5" being the most common (and worst), but the concussive blast is even more pronounced on those and can be disorienting. It’s something that you can absolutely train out, but requires commitment. Right now, ammunition is generally expensive so it’ll cost more to get enough rounds downrange to overcome that aspect. You’ll need to work on flinch in any case, and you can overcome it if you just focus, I overcame flinch really quickly because of that. But it’s that much more of a hurdle. And you’ll definitely feel your skull rattle a little bit with a short barreled 5.56.
That rifle should also have a red dot (Holosun 403 is about the best value out there), some kind of flashlight (Streamlight HL-X is fantastic value), a two-point quick-adjust sling (this will help you control recoil), and I’d say a minimum of 5 magazines (Pmags are cheap and the best design).
If you don’t want to spend around $600 on putting that together, you could get a perfectly serviceable handgun for considerably less. But you’ll need to practice a LOT more, and it won’t be anywhere near as effective or easy to use. All things are tradeoffs.
