I don’t care if Sears doesn’t even exist anymore, it’s the Sears Tower.

I’m sure it has to be written in a book for Chuck Schumer to think it qualifies.

I just wrote a book that says that Chuck Schumer’s house is on my ancestral homeland, because my deity says so. That makes it Chuck’s fault when I drop bombs on it.

In case you can’t read Yiddish.

Me either. Not everything is “for” me. There are people who it is for. More publicity means it’ll reach more poeple who it could be for. If you happen to know someone who’s going, kick them some money to help cover gas, water, food, first aid, whatever.

Stablecoins are just tokens which have their value pegged to “something,” often a fiat currency.

You can always exchange 1 USDT for US$1, and vice versa. That’s it.

Some interesting things came to my attention recently.

One, there was a headline about the guy who got caught setting fire to Teslas at a dealership, saying that he had caused “$5 million in damage.” For setting a few things on fire? Really?

Then, my HOA insurance policy renewal came across my desk (for the HOA, I’m on the board). I’m looking over all the details in the quote and I find some things about a federal program to insure against terrorism. This section explained how, in 2020, the requirement that the perpetrator be a “foreign agent” was dropped. Guess what wasn’t dropped: the requirement that the damage must be at least $5 million. There is a portion of the insurance premium that goes to pay for this program (its own insurance premium that’s handled through the insurance company). It’s $80/year.

Ever wonder why they’re so keen on classifying these as terrorism? Sure, the authoritarianism is a big part of it, but the other part is that it lets them get paid more money, from the federal government. Call it terrorism, say there was more than $5M in damages, get paid.

FU47

EVs are especially heavy, too, and they eat tires much faster than ICE cars. Tire tax is 100% appropriate, and a brilliant idea.

The other day, I did some quick math to figure out what my family of five driving four cars across the country would look like. Several days and probably upwards of $5000 in fuel, if we can find it, and if cash is worth anything. I have a motorcycle that I would sell to fund part of that, and I’ve already decided which of the four cars would be first to sell on the road.

I am fully expecting things to escalate to the point where any time we have to leave the house to get groceries, fuel, medicine, two people will be required. One to do the shopping, the other to be an armed guard.

This chapter in American history is about as fucked up as it’s been in living memory, and we have a very long way to go yet.

That’s brilliant.

They did.

Extortion.

That Tesla accounting “discrepancy” has to get paid for somehow.

If the judiciary didn’t exist at all, you know there would be some vigilante justice being meted out on a regular basis.

Just saying.

Online reviews are a total crapshoot even when they are written by actual people, because people are fucking idiots.

The one I got earlier today pleaded:

My dad just lost his job and I have no money for tuition next semester. Please help me raise money so I can keep going to school! Donate anything you can to these bitcoin and litecoin addresses <3

I don’t think it’s anything more complicated than trying to scam money from people.

☒ Soap box ☒ Ballot box ☒ Jury box ☐ Ammo box

If the range is not vigorously enforcing safety, you don’t want to be there regardless of politics. This is one of the reasons I mentioned RangeUSA. Both of the stores I’ve been to, there’s a range safety officer on the back line all the time, and they take their shit seriously. I was transferring loose rounds into an empty package “caddy” outside of the lane, and a guy stopped almost immediately to check that I wasn’t loading magazines. Another guy gave me shooting advice because he’d been watching what I was doing. And I’ve seen all sorts of people in there every time I’ve gone, both customers and employees.

But how is someone from a marginalized group supposed to know which range is going to be welcoming and which merely walking through the door is an invitation to harassment or worse.

Just like anywhere else, you’re not going to know unless you go in, or if you’re able to talk to people who already have. Google reviews can be helpful; I know there’s a couple of places in my area that I’m avoiding on that basis. Of course, you will probably have more luck finding a “clean, well-lighted place” in a populated area than in a rural one, but again, that goes for everything, not just shooting ranges.

It is true that there are plenty of ranges out there that cater to the fascists. There are also ones that don’t. RangeUSA is a chain store that has locations across the midwest and east Texas, and I’ve found them to be very nice. I’m sure there are other ranges out there like it.