Chucktshoes

Awesome. Glad that sorted it.

Your benefactor status appears to need renewal.

I’m absolutely loving this resurgence of the HiPower. It’s making me think of a number of years back when various manufacturers started making their own 1911s.

Done

Many did, yes. It was a lot of small overlapping touchstones that we lose more and more with each passing day. it makes me sad.

While I understand why someone would feel this way, I have to hard disagree. Movies used to be one of the touchstones of American monoculture. The lack of mass cultural commonalities has been supremely harmful for societal cohesion. We are a very large country in population and geography. We need points of commonality if there is any hope of remaining any sort of semi-cohesive entity. They seems insignificant, but all these myriad little points add up to something really important.

Covid shutdowns + the pivot to streaming broke the public of the habit of seeing movies in theaters. They’re all struggling hard now and Hollywood’s insistence on putting out crap movies focused on The Message isn’t helping draw folks back to theaters. I expect to lose at least one major chain in the next couple of years.

Ding! Ding! Ding! This is pretty much the sum of it. Is the default position of the law that it is legal or illegal to carry a firearm? In TN it is illegal.

My daughter is 12, almost 13. My twin boys are 7. My approach is the same with all 3. Think about your actions and the possible consequences. Make good decisions. Seek to act as God has told us is best for us. Beyond that, I can’t do much on my own and thus pray for God’s guiding hand in their lives. As far as the “processes” that bring grandchildren, it’s a wonderful thing in its proper place. In abstract it doesn’t bother me, and I don’t view it as being different between my sons and my daughter. That said, I don’t ever need to know the details.

Farewell Oddball. May you avoid all those negative waves.

Community Notes is the best thing to have ever happened to Twitter.

Thomas wrote the majority opinion, and I think he wrote it with other devices in mind. The FRT lawyers now have Cargill to reference.

Peepholes and Ring cameras exist for a reason. You are under no obligation to answer the door at all. “We just want to talk.” ”You can talk to each other.”

And private party to private party Form 4s must still be on paper.

I’ve tagged him above, but he’s got a very busy personal and professional life. He doesn’t get to spend as much time here as he once did. I am sure that he will see this next time he’s able to get on.

Only upside I see is that it’s close at hand when the Butlerian Jihad kicks off.

At one time there was a dedicated NFA sales board in the classifieds. That looooong since went away because it was used like 3 times. I think the “No NFA” might just be a holdover from then. I don’t know of another reason to prohibit them, but I’m just a janitor around these parts. We shall wait for @TGO Davidto weigh in.

And 80s.

FDR was a commie and he filled the federal bureaucracy with like-minded comrades. All of that is immaterial to the point that I was making regarding the facts around the creation of the federal minimum wage. I’m quite familiar with the arguments surrounding the concept of a minimum wage. I wasn’t making any sort of argument for or against what a minimum wage should be, should provide, or even if it should exist. I’ll be honest, I’m not even really interested in engaging in that debate at the moment for the simple reason that I have fairly conflicted feelings about the whole matter. It is difficult in that I’ve long been of a broadly and even at times radically libertarian economic worldview. At the same time I am cognizant of the reality of our oligarchic crony capitalist system in which free markets are truly more of a myth than a reality. How things should work and how they actually do work are diametrically opposed, and I don’t know a good way to fix it. At least not in a way that doesn’t involve great risk of losing what little window dressing of liberty we have left.