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This is how I imagine everybody who drives a lifted Jeep Gladiator with gas cans and axes strapped to them but lives in the suburbs and works in an office.
Don’t forget the angy eyes:
And the widdle wadder:
The ridiculous obsession with TRT from the alt right makes me hope the Trump administration accidentally does a huge thing to help the transmasc community - legalize testosterone. Healthcare in the US is in a death spiral and it’s all the way down to the clinic level, I’m so sick of having to deal with getting refills from my impossible-to-message-directly doctors and prior authorization bullshit. And even an over the top Democrat blue wave pushing through universal healthcare won’t restructure the entire profit seeking nature of our healthcare system (it’ll help though). Just let me DIY like the transfemme folks I know. Right now I won’t because of how extremely illegal it is to buy T without a prescription.
carbon-fiber barrel
My immersion is ruined by the mention of the material that cracks if someone sneezes too hard nearby.
They’re getting pretty common. It’s a steel barrel sleeved in a cf wrap. They’re lightweight and strong and the cf insulates the barrel. It’s more common for hunting rifles where the barrel itself is exposed and more likely to burn the shooter through handling than an AR which will have a handguard.
Hm, better not fly in any airplane made in the last 60 years…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_RB211
"On 23 June 1967, Rolls-Royce offered Lockheed the RB211-06 for the L-1011. The new engine was to be rated at 33,260 lbf (147,900 N) thrust and combined features of several engines then under development: the large high-power, high-bypass design from the RB207 and the triple-spool design of the RB203.[8] To this was added one new piece of technology, a fan stage built of a new carbon fibre material called Hyfil developed at the RAE Farnborough. "
Thanks, I’ll avoid flying with Lockheed Martin.
They don’t make engines. In any case, carbon fiber is everywhere and your shockingly ignorant take on the material is impressively stupid in the age of instant information access.
It takes a lot to impress me, and you, sir and/or madam, have done so.
They’re not fully carbon fibre. The inner core of the barrel is steel, but it’s relatively thin. The layers of carbon fibre are then wrapped around it to get the compressive strength you’d need a lot of steel to achieve. So you get the same or better accuracy at a lower weight.
The tradeoff is the barrel loses a ton of thermal mass which means they heat up very quickly. Not so good for a combat rifle.
lulz
Yeah, TRT – when you make your own – is the Ketricel White of the Jem Hadar from ST:DS9.
Isn’t the point of ketracel white that the Jem Hadar didn’t naturally produce something necessary it provided them?
War has brought us countless technological advancements like radio, which led to cell phones and the vast interconnected network we all use every day in modern times that has led to tbe creation of “AI.”
So the answer to “War, what is it good for?” is “absolutely nothing.”
War motivates rich people to pour money into technological advancements.
They could also do that without the fucking war aspect, but they won’t, the bastards.
Definitely no chance those things could be developed without the incentive to kill other people behind it
Porn did more. Probably.
war also ruined bread
I just had a flashback to a place I worked at where this guy who was a client was an “author” that wrote the worst drivel that was all about the stuff his shitty James Bond ripoff carried around. It sounded like the whole first half of this, entirely unironically.
Agent Michael Scarn?
Michael Scott wishes.
The guy got fucking published. Or paid someone to publish his shit. He would send us paperback copies of his books. Most of a paragraph about a Walther PPK (the gun you start with in GoldenEye is the only reason I remember) when he could have just said “an easy to conceal pistol” is where I drew the line.
The British dude who went in to Nairobi’s DusitD2 complex when there was a bit of trouble was wearing a black rifle coffee patch so they’re probably tapping in to that.
why the hell does a coffee company want to align itself with firearm users? There are so many different coffee-consuming customer bases they could pander to, and they want to go for the 'aard maan crowd
So they can sell you gun related shit like stickers and hats. It’s basically a meme of bullshit where other mall ninjas can hang out and pat each other’s balls and measure all their lawns with tactical rulers.
The tacticool crowd is ripe for exploitation. You can make anything “tactical” and then boom, they’re in it.
Imagine taking something really cheap like ground coffee (and let’s be real, this is gonna be some cheap shit) and then you put it in a black bag with an all-caps stencil font and a silhouette of a gun, and some people will pay you premium price for it.
Business goes tits up? Slap a sticker on the bag with some floral designs and a picture of an amethyst crystal and now you can recoup it with the crunchy new age health crowd.
Do you know anywhere else I can get tactical-grade coffee beans?
From the Erythroxylum novogranatense
Because they need idiots to buy their dog shit robusta beans. That’s pretty much it. Nobody who takes coffee even a little bit seriously would ever drink that swill, so if they want to sell the beans they need a hook for stupid people.
The company was started by a group of former veterans that were having a hard time adjusting to civilian life after seeing combat. It was a tongue in cheek name riding the early wave of bespoke coffee.
Okay that humanizes it a bit, I like them a bit better now. It feels like it was built organically, but their corporate branch pivoted to the 'MURICA crowd
Could be that the parent company makes lots of brands, and wants this sector to spend more. For instance, have you ever wanted bottled water? And some illusion of corporate choice?
Whenever a company makes their whole image about something that has nothing to do with their actual business model, I immediately doubt the quality of their product or service. Especially if that image comes with an overtly political agenda. If their thing is something I like or care about, I’ll consider the possibility that their quality might, maybe, be decent, but this particular company is one where I intend to let my assumption stand untested.
I can’t tell you if the coffee is any good, (I’m not supposed to drink coffee anymore. But the doctor didn’t say anything about tea). But the company was started by veterans that were having a hard time adjusting to civilian life after combat.
They made some money, and then sold the brand out and retired.
Reminds me of my in-laws switching to Patriot Wireless to get away from “liberal AT&T”. I couldn’t figure out which part was more laughable. Thr fact that AT&T and “liberal” are virtual antonyms or that they’re paying money to a middle man and still get service through AT&T.
Apparently you dont need mass market appeal when there is a dedicated group of idiots who are naive enough to believe you’re on their “team” and will enthusiastically spend money on your inferior product or service in cult-like solidarity.
Same, they’re just pandering to a guaranteed base instead of actually bettering their product
There’s a MAGAt brand for a lot of things. It’s one of the ways you know the whole damn thing is a grift.
I said to my kids the first time Trump was voted in that there is the market of suckers that will but any garbage so long as you Mega market it. My kids are good people so didn’t take advantage of that but we have seen so, so many businesses that have popped up, not just Trump family stuff, to take advantage. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t moral and ethical. The grift is so easy against 25% of the population in (every?) country.
That and the very obvious, extremely transparent fucking astronomical grift happening before our eyes.
Feels before reals. They buy it bacase “Black Rifle”. It could taste like shit. They pour a cup and, “This stuff tastes like shit lol.” and they’d keep buying it because Black Rifle pisses off the libs, it has a gun on it, and the makers are making the brainwashed snowflakes feel manly for having Manly Gun Label Coffee.
I mean. I’ve had plenty of liberal coworkers who take way too much pride in their ability to chug simmered down burnt coffee sludge. It’s a weird toxic yet widespread subcultural trait in healthcare / first responder and military / pseudomilitia circles, which have a very wide variety of political affiliations.
Not only will I drink bean sludge but I’ll drink decaf bean sludge and seize the means of production while I’m doing it.
Granted, I’m seizing the means to get a better cup of coffee first but the people will own that cup.
I think most of the coffee sludge drinkers are more signaling about (admittedly toxic and resulting from exploitation) work ethic than any particular loyalty to the brand of stimulant sludge in the office coffee pot.
Black Rifle coffee specifically seems more like a conservative version of the liberal Starbucks drinkers in the 2000s who drank it because it signaled their politics and in spite of the burnt beans.
Plus, some people have grown accustomed to the burnt flavor and enjoy it.
When virtue signaling is your advertising, you don’t have to think real hard.
Illlusion no coffee is “strong” enough so insert man thing + advertising to vets and repubs
you don’t need a wide customer base if they are devoted enough
Right, and my very strong suspicion is they also really insinuated themselves into the lives of US military people. Whether aggressive marketing, or lots of “respect the troops/thank a veteran” style pandering and t-shirts and hoodies and all that shit, or a combination of all that, they definitely feel like a Nine Line Medevac level of cynicism company. It’s been years but I bet at least one of these companies has fully-transparently fascist apparel for sale right now. Fascism really seems to make for such easy business, at least to the right customers, sadly.
I always remember one particular dude who appeared to have gone ‘full hooah’ I guess you could say, as military and exercise and, idk, gear seemed nearly his whole identity, and he was basically hawking this ridiculous coffee. It was a perfect fit (if contrived, maybe even on both sides).
that’s true. Might as well make money from the morons who consistently block any form of political progress
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I delivered the picture by drone…
I also love the idea of him bringing a long term supply of HRT onto the battlefield. T vials much like E really want to be stored at room temperature (20-25 C, with short excursions of 15-30 C), so even if he was the badass he thinks he’s a few hot days away from ruining his supply
He’d probably have a fancy insulated case… One that he didn’t read the directions on, which say “for short trips” and “keep of direct sunlight”
The case gleams, prominently clipped to the combat webbing, very much in direct sunlight
I really gotta pull the trigger on that Amazon cart with the drone and programmer socks
real
and thats why you gotta get EW right (which is done by biggest nerds you’re likely to know)
Ew is hard, you can’t really saturate the whole spectrum, and it’s pretty easy to adapt to by changing frequencies.
Its also why a lot of the small combat drones use spools of fiber optic cable. Cant jam a radio frequency if there isint one
Small here is at least 10" (and nobody uses it on them) and more often 15"/17"/22". Fiber is expensive and using <20km is not viable. It weights a lot, it creates bigger profile, etc., etc.
This hits different when you read it in the Houthi dialect of Arabic
(Dune chant plays) yaraaaaaaaaa
