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  1. On 8/19/2025 at 11:25 PM, DalTxHornFan said:

    Yep.  Carjacking is part of our heritage as Americans!  Go for the 80/20!

    Yeah, im not reading the next four pages or whatever have been posted since this, but there is a big difference in mobilizing the militia to put down something like the whiskey rebellion and mobilizing the national guard to fight crime that is at a 30 year low and happens to manifest itself in one particular form of crime. 

    And I'm not even completely sold on the justification of mobilizing the militia for the whiskey rebellion. We fought a war to rif ourselves of the kind of control that a colonizer uses to take control of the colonists, yet a lot of those same aspects were at issue with the whiskey rebellion. 

    And now we are using the militia aka national guard to fight a surge in crime that is actually a statistical low point...

    It occurs to me that maybe we shouldn't have passed all those gun control laws that were designed and used to keep undesirable people from bearing arms because it sort of puts some limits on our liberty. 

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  2. Also, there was a line about her being able to hear certain frequencies in I think episode 1. Clearly she has more capabilities than the rest. 

    On 8/21/2025 at 12:08 PM, MissingInAction said:

    Gooiest show in the history of television. 

    Im curious what the prolapsed anus creature does.

    You gotta pay extra for that. 

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  3. Go to Traveler's Antiques and Trading outside of Amarillo. Buy several pounds of black powder, drill some holes, get some model rocketry igniters, and boom. Even with the drive, you will still save some time. You could also probably find some of the black powder substitutes locally.

  4. 8 hours ago, Anastasis said:

    Man I’m about to go on a suppressor buying spree after Jan 1. I don’t anticipate shooting anything without a can on the end. 

    I plan on having a few form 1's ready to go, because why not? 2 liter bottle? Why not? 

     

    I also need to learn CAD, because an integrally suppressed pen gun that shoots .22lr would be pretty sweet to print out. Would it serve a purpose? No, but it would be pretty a pretty cool project. 

     

    Also, FYI, there is a forced reset mod sailing on the strange waters for your 10/22...

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  5. I had an old Case knife we found in my grandfather's stuff after he died. When I looked it up, I saw the same model and age for sale for like $1200.  There are lots of people who will pay good money for some of those old knives. 

  6. On 8/2/2025 at 2:00 AM, flatdawgs said:

    Birthright citizenship hasn't always been sacrosanct - it's been taken away from various out groups at various times. In doing some genealogical research I came across a naturalization certificate for my great-grandmother. The hell? I knew her; knew she had been born in Dundee, Illinois to American parents; knew she probably had never even left the country in her lifetime.

    It turns out that, due to the Expatriation Act of 1907, if an American woman married a foreign national she had to take his citizenship and forfeit her American citizenship (and no, of course it didn't work the other way). At the time there was no dual citizenship and there was a backlash against immigrants, which is somewhat of an American pastime. My great-grandfather was a Danish citizen who had not yet naturalized as an American, so she became a subject of the King of Denmark (apparently in his Spokanish Realm) and no longer an American. It wasn't until the 1930s that she was allowed to become an American citizen again - but only after having to go through the naturalization process.

    All that to say there is precedent for revoking birthright citizenship, and although Congress actually passed a law in that case, this SCOTUS seems to have no particular care for that sort of thing when it suits them.

    Well, rights for women hasn't always been sacrosanct. Women were basically assumed to be vassals to their husbands or fathers for most of history, so it kind of makes sense in a twisted way if you look at it from the perspective of society over 100 years ago. The husband and wife were "supposed" to be one. But like you said it didn't work that way the other way around. It took quite a while for that to change even after the women's rights movement took off, however the women still had birthright citizenship on account of her parents until they married. 

     

    As an aside, my Great great great great grandfather came over from Denmark in 1833 and our family still bears his very Danish name until this day. I have a copy of the ship's manifest from when he landed, as well as a copy of the record of his christening in Copenhagen and his marriage license in the Georgia. It's funny how my last name is Danish, but I actually have no other known Danish ancestry other than him. 

     

     

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  7. A couple of weeks ago things were pretty slow at work, and I ended reading/reading about several court cases involving birthright citizenship. The judicial record with regards to the SCOTUS is pretty consistent and pretty clear. Most of it involved Chinese or other Asian immigrants on the west coast, but the results were pretty consistent. 

     

    I really dont get how they think they have the legal justification for what they are doing right now unless they think the law doesn't apply to them, which it seems they think. 

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  8. I'm sort of philosophically libertarian to an extent, but I recognize that libertarianism doesn't have very many practical applications in today's world unless we can somehow unwind untold government intervention. And even if we did manage to do that, there is still a need for government. IMO, much of what we see on the "conservative" or "liberal" side of politics involves the denial of certain human rights in order to shape society into whatever whichever group thinks it should look like instead of actually protecting all of human rights. 

     

    That said, my kids have watched plenty of PBS kids shows. I have watched the occasional shows intended for adults. I'm not sure I'm seeing any bias. I mean, there is undoubtedly some sort of bias in any given show because the creators have biases, but I can't really recall anything that blatant. 

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  9. 9 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

    The South American LIDAR scans they are doing now is wild!  Entire civilizations.  Cities with supposedly millions of people.  Across much of the Amazon and S.America.  Just gone.  Overgrown and swallowed up by the jungle centuries ago.  

    Over 60,000 Mayan structures discovered!

    Laser Imaging Reveals 60,000 Maya Structures Under Jungle Canopy

    I'm a firm believer that the Americas were much more populated and advanced than previously thought. I think there is enough evidence to put the Clovis first hypothesis to rest, although I haven't seen any convincing evidence that any pre-clovis civilizations were particularly widespread. But looking at those images, I can't help but think there is a strong possibility that those scientists are reading more into the data than it says. I'm not saying I don't think it's a possibility, but prehistoric anthropologists seem to be pretty clanish and not welcoming of any hypothesis that contradicts their beliefs. More so than most branches of science, for whatever reason. Maybe it has something to do with funding and some kind of intense rivalry on who can come up with the best solution to the questions. 

     

    It would be pretty cool to see those hypothesis validated, and I'm rooting for them, but I'm skeptical. Of course I'm saying all this without having actually spent some time looking into the data, so I can't entirely discount them either. 

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