Planing a cooler presentation when I get my Redneck Business channel going. I’m stunned by how ignorant people are on the subject. My $100 Lifetime cooler keeps cold exactly as long as a $500 RTIC or Yeti. And those are only for if you need multiple days of cool. I have a dozen coolers for various needs, and most are Igloos I got from the thrift.

I’m guessing Norfolk is home base for a boomer or two? Yeah, I’d go for a pair or three thermonuclear bombs ending every fight, every front, overnight. Smash Berlin, Toyko and, just because Russians, Moscow.

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I would kill or die to see American reporters grow a fucking pair and hammer the questions home like this.

No good in the rain, too hot in the sun.

less time exposed to the elements

That’s my take. Convincing my little kids to at least bring a hat when we canoe or hike, like I’m torturing them. Last hike we got rained on, “Why you keep wiping your face like that? OH, bet you wish you had brought your new hat!”

They’re cooking in the sun while I dip my hat in the river and slap it on. No problems here!

My wife is far wiser. Despite being a city girl, like, never-been-in-the-woods-before city girl, she learned quick. We easily have 20 hats between us. And spares at camp, in the car, in the truck, everywhere.

That’s clearly L3-37.

Aww, ya beat me to it, and did better to boot.

Allow me to translate.

Super cheap Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops (helmet), covered in dyed military surplus cloth, used Yukon Gen1 (ancient and mostly useless) night vision goggles, held on with Go Pro parts and a military surplus mount.

Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops

The helmet.

Piracy is theft. Period.

The only remaining question is if one requires an argument to steal in this context. I am fine with this theft and require no justification to sleep well.

"Commander Lock : Dammit, Morpheus. Not everyone believes what you believe.

Morpheus : My beliefs do not require them to."

The grey stuff is powdered aluminum.

I’ve seen a .22LR of mine keyhole. Once. Or twice. Ever. I honestly thought this was an AI imagine making fun of the PLA.

I’ve got that version that shoots 410. Because of the rifling on it comes out in a pinwheel. If you shot me at 10-15", I doubt a single pellet would land.

He got CNN’s Crossfire cancelled. Seen that one? You should.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE

He retired, quit. And still he came back to say these things, add to our discourse. He didn’t have to. He could have wondered off to an island and fucked off forever.

And OP added so much more. I don’t know what more you want from the man.

That episode should be required for all Americans. ALL Americans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE

That was so powerful it killed the program.

I’d put this as close second for required viewing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2HKbygLjJs

No. America isn’t the greatest country in the world anymore.

The one guy is right. You can have a beer or two and be perfectly safe to drive. (Unless you’re my 99lb. wife who hardly ever drinks.)

For those not around, MADD was a force to be reckoned with. I was a kid/teenager in the 80s, who wouldn’t normally have given a shit, but we were well aware of MADD. They were powerful and they were heard. I give them about all the credit.

As to the stats at the end, kinda wishy washy. Deaths dropping despite the huge population increase is eye opening. But vehicles and driving practices became far safer in those years. Crumple zones? No thanks. We rolled tanks. Seat belts were for communists and air bags were considered deadly.

FFS, my parents were very safety minded, but I was napping in the rear-view window deck, hauling ass on the interstate. Not sure I ever wore a seatbelt in the backseat. (And then there was the time I pulled a toy revolver on a Missouri State trooper. LOL, dad had to go downtown and pay that ticket on the spot.)

The 38,000 number is for 2020. Remember that year when we weren’t driving? Car deaths are on par with gun deaths, about 50K per CDC numbers. And one type of violence is rarely random while the other type almost always is. Driving is still pretty scary if you look at it like that.

So I’d hardly give the turnaround on drunk driving all the credit. OTOH, nobody seemed to give a shit before MADD got mad. Young people would be fucking appalled at what attitudes were like in the day.

Killroy was here.

Huh. There’s some sort of obvious difference between people then and now. But if I point it out, lemmy will assure me I’m a hater.

Just restarted Discworld #1 today! Be awhile till I get all the way to the post office novel.