Still think you have rights? Still think they’ll eventually treat you fairly? Still want my guns? Fuck. You.

I feel like a cornered rat watching all the other rats yell slogans at the cat. Predators don’t have empathy. Not having feelings for your prey is a rather important part of being a predator.

You people always on an AI witch hunt. You could, maybe, check for yourself?

https://tineye.com/search/c6a25c42a70c31e19ede8d18aaae5e81a478c32d?sort=crawl_date&order=asc&page=1

How’s that working out for you? Feeling smarter? Superior to the commoner? Crying yourself to sleep alone on your body-length anime pillow?

Lemmy in a fucking nutshell.

“You’re not LEFTY enough! You must pass my purity tests or you are MAGA!”

Bullshit like this is why we’ll never get anywhere. Any of you assholes notice America is now a fascist country? Anyone know how they got control? By not fucking fighting among themselves, that’s fucking how.

We’re going to have to take in some people who aren’t 100% in agreement with every fucking point. THAT’S a hard pill to swallow.

If you asked me if Lay’s were made with real potatoes, I’m not sure how I’d respond. Depends on the actual question? I’m assuming they’re made from bits of potatoes, processed to hell and back and boiled in oil, kinda like Pringles.

We’ve insisted our food look perfect for so long that the industry responded. How many people would chunk out a chip with a little green or black on it? That’s normal. We took tomatoes and bred them to be perfectly pink and round and shiny, lost all the acids and sugars. Now some people think they hate tomatoes because that’s all they’ve ever known.

Anyway, this is marketing pushing potatoes to the forefront to make chips sound healthy and natural. Maybe they will be?

made with no artificial flavors or colors from artificial sources by the end of the 2025

Sounds good.

Lay’s Baked and Lay’s Kettle Cooked chips are also getting an ingredient update. Lay’s Baked will be made with olive oil and have 50% less fat than regular potato chips and a new version of Lay’s Kettle Cooked Reduced Fat Original Sea Salt will be made with avocado oil and offer 40% less fat than regular potato chips — with more new options across PepsiCo’s food portfolio to come in 2026.

Sounds even better. But lord, how much more expensive? Don’t eat them, don’t care.

Can’t trust the marketing team, but with RFK banning so many things, some good, some bad, who knows? Wish I could cut that fucker in half (maybe quartered?) and just use the positive ideas out his brain. Reminds me of the Nazis being anti-smoking.

I’m in a poor Florida county. Next door is the 2nd poorest county and mine’s only better because the south end is the bougie area. Likely losing my Obamacare, which I just fucking got.

Worked and paid taxes for 35-years, finally need something from my government, “Get bent loser.”

Fair question, but that only matters for a terrorism charge. The administration has been trying to make the left out to be violent terrorists. They removed the DOJ webpage that showed right-wing violence was the worst, by a long shot. This is not helping their case.

What does any of this have to do with moving?

My dumbass did this with my wife on our second date. Agreed to meet at an historical nature trail in town. She’s so damned late it’s dark when she pulls up. For background, she’s from Manila, total city girl, but I assumed people like her grew up in the jungle or something.

<standing 25’ back>

“Are there any bears in there?”

“Well, there could be one, but almost certainly not, we’re in the city. Besides, they run from people.”

<whipping her head side to side>

“It’s OK. I have a gun if I really need to scare something off.”

<vigorously whipping her head side to side>

“OK, let’s find something else to do.”

Yes, I’m that dumb.

She still won’t go on the local trails at night. Tried to meet me as I was coming out. Had almost got to her and she texted she was leaving because an animal crossed the trail.

Fat boy like this crossed our trail last summer, all waddling side to side. Now you got me wondering just how fat he is now.

The staple foods we’ve chosen to cultivate are all energy dense. Overheard a client talking to another guy he hadn’t seen in years, “Yeah, got diabetes. Can’t eat any white foods. :(”

That really got me thinking. Rice, potatoes, wheat and corn. The core desirability is energy.

Add something like beans to fix nitrogen and add missing nutrients, you’re all set.

Let the deer and squirrels and wild pigs eat the acorns, then eat the deer and squirrels and wild pigs. Easy!

Everybody thinks GenX are Boomers.

He only coveted the award because Obama won one. Nothing more to the story. After Obama handed him his ass at the White House Corespondent’s Dinner, it was game on.

If you haven’t seen that, have a quick look at history being made. Only reason Trump ran.

Was transactional, and you could bet on how he would act. Now grandpa does as he’s told. Not being funny. His dementia has been sliding off the cliff since '21 or '22, he’s very near free-fall.

Look at the general’s meeting and his UN address. He’s fucking gone.

At this point I’m surprised his handlers let him speak in public. How long can they sustain that and what comes next?

Do tell. I seriously need a brain reset, like never before in life.

God. Damnit.

I like to think I’m media savvy, but this headline had me for a minute.

Hurts consumers by taking away transparency in their billing. Why would they do this? How does this benefit the consumer?

I’ve worked for a few ISPs, on the phone and in the field, can’t come up with an argument for this roll back being a good thing for anyone but the ISPs.

We scared up a Blue Heron at the swamp last month. Seen plenty of them from a slight distance. They are monsters up close.

And where exactly will you hide?

You got masked men, one in street clothes, one in gear I can buy on Amazon, attempting a kidnapping in broad fucking daylight. FFS, some masked rando this week just pointed a pepper-ball gun at a woman in the car next to him! For filming him. (Note here: No court of law will expect an average civilian to know the difference between a pepper-ball gun and a “real” gun. In any case, “less lethal” rounds can still be lethal. You saw a GUN.)

IANAL, but I know more than most about gun rights. I’m a liberal gun nut so it behooves me to understand these things best I can. I have watched hours of YouTube on various cases and how they played out.

PRO TIP: Self-defense laws are far more restrictive than most on the left or right understand. The technicalities, state to state, are rough to internalize. Most depend on some notion of “reasonable threat”. What did you see, what did you feel, was happening in the moment?

Remember that kid who shot the YouTube asshole in the mall? Everybody had an opinion when it happened. Here’s a respected GunTuber/lawyer’s brief on how and why he was found not guilty. You can get a taste of the complexity of state laws. EDIT: Watched that again. Yes James is cheesy, kinda his shtick, but he’s a real lawyer who defends real self-defense cases. Please give this a watch if you are armed. This was a close one, could have gone either way.

I am not aware of any state in the Union that prohibits one from shooting an unidentified, no uniform, no police lights, masked man threatening another person with a gun.

If you’re going to carry, you must read the actual law for your state. You must be aware of how cases in your state have played out. And you must be ready to die or end up in a concrete and steel box, for life, if you pull your weapon.

Would you like to know more? Check Massad Ayoub on YouTube. He strikes me as conservative\non-MAGA, but he keeps his mouth fucking shut on politics, just the facts ma’am. He was a cop for 30-years and has 300+ court cases under his belt as an expert witness in self-defense shootings. You could do worse than learn from him.