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Recently I made a portable, class IV laser from kit bash components that is capable of infighting paper at ~4 feet. This thing also reliably ruins CMOS sensors at similar ranges from my personal testing
Total cost is ~$84 (from Amazon) and can be put together in less than an hour
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It's 2026 and a new shooting related copypasta just dropped
My .22 cost $600, my scope $200. I shoot off a bipod, no rangefinder, wind calculators anything like that. I watch the grass to see which way the wind is blowing, I note where the first shot went, after that I can put 20 in a quarter at 300 yards.
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In case you missed it: TREX-ARMS put a field manual vault on their website with over 4000 manuals, all able to be downloaded in epub or PDF format.
Incredible collection of knowledge here. I'm actually considering making one of those Project NOMAD / Internet in a box / knowledge vault setups now to have all this on hand.
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So the equivalent GDP of Russia evaporated from the Nasdaq in just a couple hours this afternoon. The largest daily loss since March of 2020 because of the pandemic
What just happened?
The Nasdaq 100 just posted its largest daily drop since the 2020 Pandemic, with the S&P 500 erasing -$3 trillion today.
Just 24 hours ago, the Dow surged +1,600 points after the Democrats "swept" the Midterms.
So, what changed? Let us explain.
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It's kinda crazy to think that the freedom of speech, tech advancement, manufacturing, space exploration, law and order, infrastructure, national security, and green energy are all in jeopardy because the "progressive" party just swept the midterms. The state of American politics
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"We've become so accustomed to living in free societies that we've forgotten how extraordinary and precious that freedom actually is"
this kind of thinking is, at its core, antithetical to everything western liberalism stands for
the entire premise of liberal democracy is that people with fundamentally different beliefs can disagree, debate, and compete for political power without violence
you don't get to threaten a "reckoning" every time an election doesn't go your way. threatening people with violence to change their political behaviour is terrorism, not democracy
but what makes this rhetoric even worse is the underlying framing. political opponents are no longer people you disagree with, but enemies who need to be defeated at any cost
the whole point of western liberalism is that we found a better way to resolve our differences than threatening each other into submission
this kind of thinking needs to be categorically rejected if we want to retain any semblance of civilization
we've become so accustomed to living in free societies that we've forgotten how extraordinary and precious that freedom actually is
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