I have a MK. 1. It’s fun little gun to shoot. It’s extremely accurate.

I just cleaned out the inside of my window AC unit. It would occasionally decide to just start spewing water out the front so I decided to crack it open. Inside was about a centimeter of sludge, a small plant, and a mushroom about the size of a golf ball. It’s probably the first time it’s ever been cleaned.

I don’t mean to imply this isn’t bad, but hasn’t the legal precedent for over a decade been that the president can order anyone killed in the interest of national security without any sort of judicial review? If they can just kill citizens with drone strikes then “citizenship” doesn’t really mean that much.

I mean it would be bad if they deported him to South Africa. I wouldn’t want to inflict him on them. They should deport him to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean instead.

Peaceful politics only work if they’re backed up with the threat of extreme violence and/or economic harm. Idk why anyone would think otherwise.

Schweizer is about as left as it gets for high level analysis of the grocery industry unfortunately. He’s supportive of the measure to be clear. Idk if he lives in NYC though.

Sanitation is key but it’s surprisingly easy. The only sanitation issues I’ve ever had were from fermenting in places I definitely should not have had ferments going.

I’m not sure about makgeolli but a lot of commercial alcohol is treated and filtered to remove yeast and sediment which homebrewers usually aren’t equipped to deal with as thoroughly. The yeast and sediment can severely worsen hangovers so be aware of that.

If the DSA was actually like this I might rejoin

I’ve been off the grid for the last four days. What did I miss?

His municipal grocery stores should actually be armories for the revolutionary guard

Yeah huge numbers of the worst off workers already don’t get shit for holidays and have to deal with everyone else’s privilege on those days. The rational part of my brain doesn’t want any working person to lose that benefit but part of me really couldn’t give a shit. Especially so because any time I say “maybe everything should be closed on holidays, not just your job” to a white collar worker they act like I said we should ritually sacrifice their dog.

This is a threat to Iran but more importantly it’s a threat to the US. Israel cannot sustain a prolonged conventional war with Iran. I’m not sure they could even win it if it went nuclear but I don’t know enough about their arsenal or what the political reaction would be to say that. Only with direct US intervention could they win. The US doesn’t want to get involved though because the US military is also not really capable of winning without sustaining casualties it doesn’t want to.

In the long term, Israel nuking Iran would likely be much worse for the US than direct US intervention though. Firstly Iran would respond by destroying all of the oil infrastructure in West-aligned countries, significantly harming the global economy. Secondly the US Dollar would totally lose its supremacy in international politics to the nuclear umbrella. Thirdly Pakistan might start flinging nukes too and who knows how India, China, and Russia will respond to that.

Right now the US isn’t figuring out how to attack Iran. They’ve been doing that for decades. They’re trying to guess whether they should cave to Israel’s threat or not.

Wait till you find out how many people don’t wash their hands

It’s their only play. Without US intervention, in a matter of weeks Tel Aviv would look like Gaza. They either nuke Iran to save themselves, destroying the international US led status quo since 1945 or the US keeps it conventional by bearing as much of the war as Israel wants it to.

Edit: and if Israel drops nukes I think the chances of Pakistan getting involved and possibly responding in kind skyrockets.

Maybe a little more intense than simple sabotage but: TM 31-210-Improvised Munitions and Ecodefense, a Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. FM 19-15-Civil Disturbances might be useful too.

The Democratic primary for the mayoral election is next week.

If you’re going to do the revolution or anything remotely illegal don’t discuss it on or even near a computer, phone, or any device that can send or received telecommunication signals.

They’re meant to be shot from some distance at the limbs of people who are going to be taken into custody and provided proper medical care after. They’re basically meant to break arms or legs. Firing them at close range or at heads or center mass is a gross misuse of them and that is how they kill people.

It varies a little bit between munitions but usually police are only supposed to aim at limbs with them from more than a few meters away. They’re intended to be shot at people’s extremeties to force them to drop a weapon so that they can be subdued (and provided with neccessary medical care shortly after) without hurting themselves or someone else. For instance if someone is threatening officers with a knife, police could shoot them in the arm, likely breaking the bone, and forcing the person to drop the knife.

Getting hit in the head or center mass with them often leads to life threatening injuries because they break bones (like the skull or ribs), cause internal bleeding, and bruise or rupture organs. If they’re being used for crowd control they should only be getting shot at legs or feet from a substantial distance and even that is extreme.

I definitely agree that Americans are complicit in their own fascism but that’s true whether or not they have access to education.

I think more importantly than that Americans have access to some of the best amenities in the world. You can go to the hospital. You or your kids can go to school. You can own a car. You can drive on half decent roads. You’ll probably work less than sixty hours a week. Sure Europe has all these things and better, and the situation in the US is worsening, but at the end of the day Americans can still go to the hospital and buy a Funko after and that means we’re in the top 50%. Most people think things are more or less fine because as long as you ignore the crumbling foundation things are fine