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Milk_Sheikh

@ Milk_Sheikh @lemm.ee

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  • Texas governor threatens to pull children’s hospital funding over doctor’s viral post

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  • This has to be the depths of depravity, to smugly threaten critical funding for a children’s hospital because some individual doctors (correctly) point out that the state’s immigration question is non binding.

    He’d rather hurt everyone’s kids if it means he can’t hurt the brown kids more. Maybe that tree should have fallen a little closer to his head and we’d all be spared this reality

  • rule

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  • I can SMELL this image ❤️ Stale pizza, sweat mixed with dusty air, the smokers who just got back in, food trampled into the floor, empty beer cans…

    The ravers had warehouse gigs but we all ended the same - bleary eyed and smelly people having the time of their lives, regrettably packing it up and reentering the real world. I miss LAN parties.

  • UK's David Lammy [Foreign Secretary] blasted for saying 'there are no journalists in Gaza'

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  • Click through two links and there’s a video clip of him saying just that, with a smug smile flickering across his face, instead of an ashen expression one might expect if Lammy actually wanted to understand the context of why there are “no journalists” left in Gaza.

    While Hansard doesn’t publish everything in text online, if you cared to look beyond dismissing a headline you don’t like, there’s transcripts from the chamber on the 26th, though Lammy is not credited/recorded.

  • Hustle? In this gig economy?

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  • “We’ve polled our workforce about our new Dynamic Wages™️initiative, and 100% of remaining employees agree!”

    Cool, so you’re an employee owned cooperative now?

  • The dinner was just the beginning

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  • Now look, there’s only two - maybe three - social events where stuffing my face to the gills with deviled eggs is semi acceptable.

    I made my peace with the cholesterol, and I’ll pay the next-day toll every time that platter gets brought out.

  • Shits going down in Syria

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  • Super embarrassing when HTS militants clap your RUSF ‘advisors’ and flex the looted AK-105s tricked out with western optics on Telegram, your Frogfoots and Hinds are smoking wrecks/busy in Ukraine instead of propping up your proxy dictatorship, and SAA et al run away so fast that warehouses of ATGMs get left behind intact.

    And then there’s Wagner in Mali…

  • Someone is rule

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  • The sunk cost of guns is what people focus on, but you’re dead on with ammo being the overwhelming cost. When I was really into USPSA pistol competition club matches, my ammo usage was roughly 300 rounds per month @ around 21-27 cents each shot, or $100 per month all in.

    Not to say you can’t maintain skills and spend far less, but it’s not a cheap pastime. Expect to spend at least $500 for the bare essentials like a used handgun that only leaves the house for range practice, the cost snowballs quickly.

    I would hesitate to give universal advice like “just buy a shotgun” or “Glock 19 with a light” because each use case is different - where do you live, what are you seriously expecting to face as threats, do you just want it for the house, do you have reduced mobility/dexterity, etc

  • Someone is rule

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  • Someone is rule

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  • They don’t listen. The ‘muh rights’ crowd will finger wag the Crumbley parents or Mrs. Lanza, but then turn around and gift their 6yo a rifle.

    All that being said, if someone is looking for a jumping off point or help of where to start, DM me - the gun world is rife with fuddlore bullshit, potential legal peril, and a lot of info that lives in the right wing sphere unfortunately. I waded through it because I enjoy pistol competitions, you don’t have to. Allyship starts with all of us, hmu if you have questions.

  • Someone is rule

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  • I gave this same commentary when all the scared suburban whites ran out and bought guns after seeing the scawy BLM protests - suicides are by far the largest component of deaths via guns annually, I want people to genuinely make a decisions around ownership instead of a fear based reaction today, forget about it next month, and then their kid/relative finds it in the closet a year from now…

    Arm up friend if you think it’s right for you ✊

  • Someone is rule

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  • If you, a loved one, or someone you know is seriously thinking about arming up because of recent events, I would HIGHLY recommend this hour long conversation from some of the crew who make Behind the Bastards.

    Gun ownership is a serious decision - morally, legally, and an endless commitment that a lot of people don’t take seriously. Foremost you/they need to consider if it’ll be an asset or liability in your life and the community?

    • Can you store it safely, read: locked up when not in your hands?
    • Are you in a good/stable headspace? I.e. Will this purchase potentially be a threat to you, from yourself?
    • Do you have the means to not just buy The Thing, but commit time and money to get and stay proficient so you aren’t a danger/ously incompetent if the big bad does happen?

    Training is going to be the hard thing for a lot of people, especially given how the right has captured the culture around guns - there are good apolitical sources of information, but there’s nothing that beats live and dry practice.

  • It never fucking ends, no matter how blatantly it's pointed out

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  • We federated ourselves, it’s open source. Copy and repost away

  • Microchannelplates arent even that hard to produce compared to modern integrated circuits....i dont understand why this 40 year old tube is still that pricy

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  • Iirc there’s like two draw towers domestically and they get the OMNI contracts. Not to mention it’s hardly an easy process, I imagine the manufacturing yield is pretty rough when you’re melting and stretching glass bundles while trying to maintain alignment.

    There’s a reason why big specks and dark pinholes are ‘acceptable’ in everything but aviation use, the cost skyrockets for flawless optics.

  • Took a tent but decided not to use it

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  • Not to mention the huge variety of biomes, even excluding Alaska. Having a huge country that’s sparsely and irregularly inhabited helps too.

  • Elon Musk hides X engagement figures amid user exodus

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  • Elon Musk hides X engagement figures amid user exodus

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  • I already peg Tesla drivers next to Altimas and Ram 2500s, just different energy

    Tesla is for the people who don’t want to drive a car, and their driving aptitude is frequently on full display

    Altimas and Ram needs no further explanation, you already know

  • "The Most open Operating System"

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  • Open to what exactly..?

    OPEN TO WHAT!?

  • Walmart just leveled with Americans: China won’t be paying for Trump’s tariffs, in all likelihood you will

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  • IMO that’s the height of economic policy stupidity because if/when Taiwan gets invaded, China will own nearly all semiconductor manufacturing outside of the highest end fab houses such as Intel or GlobalFoundries. The future of domestic manufacturing is high tech or specialty like Corning glassworks or L3-Harris, even car manufacturers get beat out by imports with our current tariff structure

  • Walmart just leveled with Americans: China won’t be paying for Trump’s tariffs, in all likelihood you will

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  • And this is the absolute brain rot fantasy of tariffs that I keep explaining to these idiots, and keep getting blank stares or awkward silences.

    Tariffs are 100% punitive, without a domestic/alternative sourcing strategy. They can work long term to reduce a foreign nation's competitive advantage in an industry while allowing a domestic industry space to exist, but that only works if there’s a domestic industry that already exists (at enough scale to meet demand) or a long term government program to nurture and build those industries - education/vocation training, regulatory concerns, infrastructure development, raw materials availability, etc

    Tariffs Chinese steel/electronics/machine tools/etc into oblivion? Either buy the imported at a high price, or buy the domestic at a slightly less high price - but the cost is always carried by the consumer no matter what.