I love utilities. Love love FLOVE me some utilities. I have utilities for every single damned thing I ever did and do, and some are already built into Windows. I even have a utility to make whatever latest Windows OS look like XP. Yes, really. You will find that some of these are quite primitive and/or aren’t developed anymore. I. Do. Not. Care. They do what I want and when what I want to do is something I can’t do, I go looking for more utilities. No, I don’t want one program with all the bells and whistles. I want one program that does one task well.
Writhe in misery, fools!
A list (not even close to exhaustive):
There are also programs that are either pay-as-you-can, subscription, or that I’ve paid a pretty penny for and that have paid for themselves many times over, mostly related to my work:
And lastly there’s Pinterest, where, as I have said before, girls collect pretty pictures and crafts we will never do* and guys collect prepper ideas and “fuck yeah, ‘Murka” memes. It has monetized America’s hoarding proclivities. There is a utility to help organize and back up all that business, but it uses SeaMonkey and SeaMonkey is hot garbage.
Pssst. Dirty little secret: Buying, collecting, and reorganizing one’s craft supplies IS the hobby.
Everything always comes back to Nikki Sixx.
Scared money never wins.
Wow… My eyes hurt looking at that desktop.
Also, Mojeaux, I am behind on them, but I dig the Monsters and Mormons stories! Very clever and enjoyable from one of [[[them]]].
(I think that’s the right bracket).
Need more Monsters and Mormons.
Do you mean to say you want a sequel or that the world does not have enough monsters or Mormons?
Sequel. Although the wizard part of me is intrigued by your other interpretation.
I just emailed my publishing partner to find out his thoughts.
DO IT!!!!
Et tu, Swissy?
Heavens, I never thought that would be such a hit with [[[nons]]].
I was really grooving on the premise and the story.
Hey, I actually bought it.
I’d read more.
And pay for it!
Yay!!!! I’m glad you’re liking them. It was originally meant as a serious in-joke but the more the merrier!
Yes, that is the right bracket for [[[us]]].
My background is usually just a plain old #000000.
I prefer battleship gray, like I’ve got on my blog.
With light gray text, right?
Yellow.
lemon?
Black text with green links.
#metoo
I get those guys all mixed up. Was Nikki Sixx the heroin addict, the cocaine addict, the booze addict, or the guy with the nine inch schlong that was schtupping Pam Anderson back when she was schtuppable?
*Would still schtupp
#metoo
Nikki Sixx = heroin addict
Vince Neil = coke and booze
Tommy Lee = schlong, coke, and booze
Mick Mars = ankylosing spondylolisthesis
Mick Mars was the guy who needed a hip replacement. Tommy Lee was Pam’s mister. Vince was the singer.
/my actual knowledge thereof
Ah yes Macrium Reflect.
The program that on one version (since corrected) that didn’t properly uninstall itself and prevented Windows 10 from upgrading itself to a new addition. Fortunately it was on my gaming PC which has far few applications installed. I wasted a good 10 hours of research and a month or so of time figuring out the problem. I was about a week a way from wiping the drive and do a clean install.
Not my favorite program by a long shot…
Huh. Macrium Reflect‘s been nothing but a life-saver for me. I’ve only ever used the free version (which was more than enough).
One of the utilities I brought over to Win10 is a little thing called Agent Ransack, which is a blindingly-fast (to me, anyways) file search utility. Another was SyncBack Pro, a very decent backup utility.
Wow that desktop… lol. That’s the desktop of a serial killer right there.
A short sentence for what each does would be cool. I guess I could click the links but… *meh* 🙂
You are so right! I’m sorry. #MojoFail
Slate-think
The reason I’m not saying this is an A-plus effort is because it’s still not clear if the many lower-income workers who don’t file their taxes are going to get this money in the end, or how soon they will get it. There is a large population of people who just do not file income taxes. If you’re a single worker who makes $10,000 in a year below the standard deduction, you don’t have to file. These are very vulnerable people, a lot of whom have probably been laid off. And it’s not clear if our tax authorities have the information to track them down. On top of that, if they do have addresses, the government is going to send these people a check. If they don’t have direct deposit, that could take weeks.
Then once those lower-income people get a check, they’ll probably end up taking it to ACE cash checking or something to actually cash it. And that means a part of that money is going to get taken off the top and given to an intermediary. That sucks.
———-
What a lot of people wanted to do initially was replace people’s salaries or wages at a 100 percent rate, just give them what they were making before so they can still afford their basics and pay rent. The issue is that state unemployment systems are so technologically backward that that was impossible. There was no way to do that sort of calculation quickly for that many people and roll it out within less than a few months. The administrative constraints made that a nonstarter. So what states said they could do is tack on an extra few hundred bucks to everyone’s check. Even Mitch McConnell, when there was this very short-lived Republican rebellion, said this is the best way we can figure out to give money to people.
——-
Nothing works. The fact that we couldn’t do the unemployment policy that we really wanted because our systems were so bad was a preview of what was to come. You had more than 16 million unemployment claims in several weeks. These state systems were totally overwhelmed. Websites started crashing. Phone lines were jammed. Nobody could get through. People were spending a week trying to apply.
Also, the United States loves to run programs on a local level. The unemployment system is entirely run through states, and state offices are very much budget-constrained. So they’re not going to put fixing their unemployment insurance interface or their back-end systems for administering it anywhere near the top of their priority list. They’re just not going to unless there’s a disaster like this that forces their hand and they get some federal money to help them. I think we’re also seeing some of the perils of governing localism and also this balkanized administrative welfare state.
Central planning at the national level would fix all of our problems, and federalism is the last refuge of scoundrels and slavery apologists.
Now, let’s get everybody into the Ministry of Plenty database and start saving the ntion from decay and despair.
Federalism is awful and racist unless it can be used to score a point against Trump when Trump says in a press conference he has absolute authority.
Yes, the only issue with that proposal is that it’s too tough to calculate how much money to give people.
This is easy. A living wage.
Not for or against a government-run Ministry of Plenty doing redistribution of wealth. But the money redistributed has to be voluntary. Donation not taxation.
My favorite part of this fantasy is the idea of gov’t agents tracking down people so they can give them free money. So people are so helpless they can’t take action on their part to do what it takes to get a $.
raGE RISING!
MADISON (WLUK)
Through the end of May then…that’s bullshit.
My own dickbag governor declared yesterday that he would be happy to take his boot off of the economy by May 4th on 2 conditions:
That:
1. The number of infected must be on the decline. Currently WA is fairly level as far as new infections daily; there is no decline.
2. The testing must be more widespread, higher numbers of tested, and faster testing/results.
So basically whenever he wants. He used bullshit numbers to get us into this, and goshdarnit he’ll use bullshit numbers to set us free!
So governors are now issuing their hostage release demands. Things were much easier back when the hostage takers were only asking for a bag of money and a flight to Cuba.
“hostage release demands”
Ima steal that.
The testing must be more widespread, higher numbers of tested
So useful when they keep coming back 80+% negative (outside of NY/NJ). Just like fucking zombies with MOAR TESTZ!
Well, we can just fake more positives, assume more false negatives, and fake more attributable deaths. We can fill in the numerators:denominators however we want! Also, we’re collaborating with the patriotic freedom-loving governors in Oregon and California to be sure we stay on the same message. No mention of our good neighbors in Idaho though.
Like a good neighbor,
Statist Ream are there!
Why not? They let China get away with the same thing!
Something something rope.
Something something lamppost.
You called for my new favorite song?
Now I need to find a way to work catin into everyday conversations.
That’s some straight up bullshit right there.
Uffda. Your governor is gonna egg ours into extending the lock down here too. Don’t want to have to listen to you Packer Backers taunting us with your bigger lockdown boners.
I’m hoping Walz knows that fucking with the fishing opener (5/9) would be a bridge too far. Especially since fishing out doors has to be one of the less dangerous activities you can engage in.
Have you not heard the latest from WHO?
Hey Holiness,
My kid just got home with some nice crappies from your lake. Get your ass out there!
Actually, get your boat ready so we can get out there!
Cool and awesome utils, MJ.
As far as I can remember, the only thing I’ve ever used Pinterest for was to collect pics of various shades of red hair so I could show one to my stylist and say, “There – that one. Make my hair that color.”
::whimpers:: I miss my stylist! : (
I just keep trying to get my spousal unit to get her stylist to colour her hair Pale Copper Blonde. She won’t even do it for my birthday! /pouty face
I’ve come across that bug, er, “feature”, a zillion times.
That’ll show ’em
Amazon will suspend all distribution operations in its six warehouses in France until at least April 20, according to an internal document sent to French labor unions. The decision came after a French court ruled on Tuesday that the company must limit deliveries to essential goods while it conducts a thorough assessment of the coronavirus contagion risk at its warehouses.
The court gave the French subsidiary of the U.S. online retail giant 24 hours to restrict shipments to essential goods such as food or medical supplies, or face a fine of $1.1 million for each day of non-compliance. The company decided to temporarily halt operations.
What about the people placing nonessential orders? Will they be hunted down and punished? Or is keeping them from getting their orders filled sufficient (for now)?
Carrying over from the expired thread:
To disagree with Don, a single-action trigger is one in which the trigger does only one thing — release the hammer. If pulling the trigger does anything else, it’s not single action. For most DA guns, the second action is cocking the hammer or compressing the striker spring, though obviously in revolvers it also rotates the cylinder and there are a few oddities you can find on the Forgotten Weapons channel.
oh, all that’s correct; no arguing it
I just think that 88% of folks think in terms of the demonstrated utility, not the buried kinematics. I default to cowboy logic here (not a hill I would die on, mind ye) just because I doubt “double action” was dreampt by the house gear fiend at Colt (who scribbled it furiously in his sketchbook) but by the necessity of its invention.
The strategic marketing probably led. * an office in New Haven * Fellows, what we need is a double action revolver, viz: one that can shoot whether the trigger is cocked or not; THAT, gentlemen, is what I can sell at top dollar! * several fists pounds agreement and approval * *end scene *
* somewhere in Kansas * Cowboy 1: I wisht I had me one of them pistols that would shoot even when I ain’t a got times to cock duh trigger! Cowboy 2: You mean, the trigger actuates two functions, both cocking the hammer and releasing it as well!!!??!! Cowboy 1: wut?
full disclosure: I’m totes into burying kinematics.
Language is descriptive!!!! * hides behind HM’s skirts *
Just to weigh in on this discussion to add some perspective – I don’t think there was such a massive demand for the double action revolver at the time when single-actions revolvers were the norm for a couple reasons –
1) I doubt many people can fully grasp the revolutionary difference Colt’s revolver made in the American west. Just review the history of the Texas Rangers and the Comanche to understand the tremendous change in the dynamic between the tenacious Rangers and the Comanche (arguably the most fearsome mounted warriors ever known). The impact of the revolver in this contest that Captain Walker of the Rangers sought out and collaborated with Sam Colt to not only bring Colt back from destitute obscurity and revive his failed venture but put him on the path to fame and fortune.
The form and function of this revolver was so transformative that I believe it would take more than a generation to even appreciate the relatively slight improvement of double-action.
2) Metallurgy of the time was so poor that it was an engineering challenge to bring a robust, functional double-action mechanism to market (I’m looking at you Colt Lightning/Thunderer). Triggers tended to be heavy – some early pistols had longer triggers to be pulled simultaneously by both index and middle finger – which did not enhance accuracy. So the single-action continued to be the better option.
That’s my take on it worth every penny you paid for it.
‘Some Ford Workers Are Wearing Vibrating Social-Distancing Bracelets
by Shane McGlaun
April 16, 2020, 2:50 am’
https://fordauthority.com/2020/04/some-ford-workers-are-wearing-vibrating-social-distancing-bracelets/
That’s not why they’re wearing a vibrating device….
Factory workers wear vibrators.
/CNN
Factory workers wildly cum when closer than 6 feet to each other. /Pornhub
Trump forces factory workers into sex trade
/CNN
Where they are wearing them is the question.
I saw This is Not What I Expected, I know how those proximity alarms end.
I’m betting the pictures don’t show bracelets on wrists.
SugarFree to the white courtesy phone…
For imagining workday at plant: bracelets vibrate when get less than six feet, because six feet is magic
If you don’t add icons to your desktop how do you tell when it is getting to be time for the next computer? I thought you started conidering a new rig when the icons reached the midpoint of the screen and got serious about a new rig when you realize that it takes you longer to find the icon than to search the drive for the game?
I…
I… don’t…
That…
Sense makes no…
/wanders off to get another beer.
Reopen Virginia protest shut down by Gov Coonman who doesn’t like his authoritay challenged.
I read that and I get that you will be closed until September. Good luck with that. If it ever warms up in Michigan, there will be riots in Lansing if Whitmer tries to extend this past May 1.
Yeah, it sounds like he’s positioning himself to extend it until September if he thinks he can get away with it.
I hope the protests continue. The optics of these are even better than the 2A protest earlier this year — no rednecks with big, scary guns; just ordinary people sitting on the capitol lawn with no masks.
Virginia is already warm and people in Richmond already starting to get pissed about closures of park system parking lots popular for accessing the James River.
Also, the green-vested “park monitors” hassling people for not distancing, etc.
Naturally. Protesting is non-essential. All educated people agree on that.
Oh, the prog bile and spleen about this protest was sickening. Total (deliberate) misunderstanding of the protesters’ motivations, complete disregard that there might be rights issues here, etc.
I swear, it’s like they’re trying to use this to wreck the economy and blame Trump for it.
Personal: Ordered CZ pistol shown as “in-stock” (vs the many other items shown “out of stock”) from Classic Firearms on 3/31 and it still hasn’t shipped yet. They charged my CC, though.
It’s a proxy culture war at this point. Who doesn’t want another one of those.
“I swear, it’s like they’re trying to use this to wreck the economy and blame Trump for it.”
Yep. It’s almost like that.
I’m old enough to remember when dissent was patriotic.
April 2003?
‘I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.’
― Hillary Rodham Clinton
I’m old enough to remember when it wasn’t.
Heh, one of the dumbass cops posting that notice is wearing his mask under his nose. They do realize people breathe through the nose, right?
When you work with a much of mouth breathers, it’s easy to forget.
Germany’s reopening plan – no antibody passports or surveillance required:
https://www.dw.com/en/a-nitty-gritty-look-at-germanys-loosened-coronavirus-lockdown-rules/a-53149361
Germans are even more even keeled than the nutjobs parasites sitting in governor’s mansions over here
Chancellor Merkel said that face masks would not be required but that she “strongly recommended” wearing them while shopping or on public transportation.
Imagine that. The assholes here can’t get over their “if it’s not forbidden, it must be mandatory” thinking.
We (the US) are really showing ourselves to be the worst in so many ways. Incompetence, authoritarianism, panic, and on and on.
There are advantages in living in a high-trust society that’s not going through a cold civil war when it comes to dealing with a pandemic.
“There are advantages in living in a high-trust society ….”
Your words remind me of the introduction to a song.
“Living in Eden has its advantages.
As a marginalized member of a spectator democracy, you choose your own dependencies: Lust, hate, blood, love.
Don’t think of it as manufactured consent, think of it as the candy everybody wants.”
*sigh*
I was supposed to be in Germany in July.
I feel your pain – we were planning a trip to Germany/Austria in early August.
who the hell goes to the Fatherland after Easter? they’re right about a lot of things, but, if you see windows open: most volk stink at least every other day
Because it was going to be Iceland to Belgium to northern Germany to Amsterdam back to Iceland.
The flights to Iceland (only thing that we had locked in so far) got cancelled earlier this week. As it stands, I’m out ~$30 on deposits, which I can live with. The traveling on the other hand, I can’t get back.
As it stands, the current planning is a New England road trip for several weeks in Autumn. If the lockdown goes on much longer, I may press for separate vacations for my own sanity.
oh I’m sure that makes sense
I was just being silly and never want to miss a chance to bag on brilliant German types who can’t figure out how not to stink (I’ve paid my dues on this one)
‘Facebook will begin alerting users who react to or like coronavirus stories fact-checkers have marked as false
Previously, Facebook alerted users to fake coronavirus stories only if they tried sharing posts containing false information
Facebook has offered financial support to various fact-checking companies’
https://www.ibtimes.com/facebook-will-alert-users-who-react-or-fake-coronavirus-stories-2960011
The one thing I have noticed is the prevaalence of fact check warning on facebook where the item being fact checked does not actually make the claim which is being marked as false. I have seen that over a dozen times in recent days. Perfectly reasonable position taken opposing some aspect of this, marked as false and when you click through the ‘fact check’ is a rebuttal of some outlandish claim like “Covid 19 is entirely made up” or “Michigan is welding people in their homes”. It is very dirty pool IMHO.
Facebook’s mask is slipping even more?
They have a mask?
‘But they’re missing the point entirely. Facebook’s problem is not that its “curators” are biased. Facebook’s problem is that it refuses to admit that they’re biased’
This right-wing complaint from slate.com/technology/2016/05/yes-facebook-is-biased-now-it-should-admit-it.html
That was before the Zuck went to Congress, claiming Facebook was above the political Left-Right fray.
Facebook now is defining ‘fact’, ‘fake news’, and ‘truth’ as defined by the worldwide Ministry of Truth and going after the other side.
‘Sales at Arizona marijuana dispensaries skyrocketed in March as coronavirus shutdown started’
https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/consumers/2020/04/16/arizona-medical-marijuana-sales-record-march-2020-coronavirus/5145997002/
Well Duh, I can’t go to NV or Needles,
‘Months after President Donald Trump promised to open FBI files to help families of the 9/11 victims in a civil lawsuit against the Saudi government, the Justice Department has doubled down on its claim that the information is a state secret. In a series of filings just before a midnight court deadline on Monday, the attorney general, William Barr; the acting director of national intelligence, Richard Grenell; and other senior officials insisted to a federal judge in the civil case that further disclosures about Saudi connections to the 9/11 plot would imperil national security. But the administration insisted in court filings that even its justification for that secrecy needed to remain secret.’
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/16/attorney-general-bill-barr-refuses-to-release-911-documents-to-families-of-the-victims_partner/
Your problems, they will all be solved
Grocery stores have become stalwarts for Americans during the coronavirus pandemic — when almost everything else is closed, you can rely on supermarkets to be open. Food stores have been deemed an essential service and their employees, essential workers. Now, two industry organizations want these employees, who risk exposure to the coronavirus by going to work, to be considered akin to first responders.
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), which represents about 1.3 million workers, and The Kroger Co. supermarket chain, are calling on federal and state government officials to designate grocery store associates as “extended first responders” or “emergency personnel.”
“Since the onset of this pandemic, Kroger family of companies associates, who are also members of the UFCW, have been working tirelessly to make sure that millions of American families have the fresh food and products they need,” a statement from Kroger chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen and UFCW International President Marc Perrone reads. “As all Americans are now witnessing — grocery workers play a critical role in our communities and they must be protected.”
*waves magic wand*
They’re just angling for that Glock special pricing for first responders.
Kroger is doing this because they know the union will have to be paid off one way or the other, and would prefer that the taxpayers rather than shareholders fund that.
Absolutely nobody to like here.
I wonder how the FOP is going to spin this-
Former Beavercreek, D.A.R.E officer arrested on child pornography charges
“It was research! Yeah, that’s it! So he could warn the kids about how not to get exploited!”
+1 Pete Townshend
Exactly what I thought,
Sup Tres!
HEY YUFUS!
One more time….
Projectile pooper pleads guilty for not staying home
that doesnt belong here…
*Remembers cop investigating kid for kiddy porn because he took pictures of himself. Cop insisted the kid get a boner so he could take a photo and compare to the kiddy porn in question.*
Shockingly that cop was arrested himself for kiddy porn a few months later.
43 minutes ago
‘Flak-Bait made history on April 17, 1945, when it became the only American bomber to fly 200 missions.’
‘Seventy-five years after a memorable mission, the B26 bomber ‘Flak-Bait’ undergoes preservation at the National Air and Space Museum’
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/world-war-ii-bomber-took-more-enemy-fire-most-others-and-always-came-home-180974690/
Kekistanis of the Greatest Generation.
OT: I turned off the dynamic page refresh in Monocle to try to deal with the 504 problems, and now there’s no way to turn it back on. (I don’t have the three-line options above the navigation tools). In fact I don’t have Monocle at all anymore, apparently, since I’ve got the normal comments scheme with numbers, and no options to mute people or preview comments.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and closing Firefox and reopening it, but I can’t get Monocle to work any more. Any ideas what to do?
Check the thermostat.
Turning it off and on again.
Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
Distancing and face masks?
But, what do I know? I feel like my kid. Every time I make a comment, I get a time out.
Everybody else gets a time-out, too. 😉
After clicking ‘Post Comment’ wait five seconds then F5
Didn’t seem to help. I get the 504 and then hit the back button. Bigger issue for me is I lose the new comment count. I have to try and read through them all and hit post with perfect timing
Okay, so I get the 504 error. I hit the back button and then refresh. Keeps the “unread” count if you’re using monocle/eyepiece/whatever it’s called.
I lose the LH toolbar or parts of it get covered over sometimes. I arrow down to the bottom and it clears up and all buttons are then revealed.
But I’ve also gone three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink fighting the damned thing YMMV
when I wrote that I clearly heard Left Hand in my head
when I now read it it clearly says Lord Hummongous
Left Hand you say?
https://xkcd.com/2033/
I found our squirrels
+1 another XKCD fan
-1 not sure how diagram applies. Monocle software, not hardware
Switch to Eyepiece.
YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!
Assuming this is the link, it won’t open for me.
According to TamperMonkey this is the homepage. I don’t remember exactly how the install worked. Seems like Eyepiece is a branch of Monocle.
Either trsh can come to your aid or maybe check the resources page here – I think it’s there too.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Fires Health Minister for Pushing Total Confinement, Something Bolsonaro Rejects
So jealous right now.
How would total confinement and closing all businesses supposed to work? The guy is nuts. People have to eat. Someone has to keep the water system running, the electrical system running…..what’s this guy’s name? Joseph Stalin? In three days he would be gibbetted.
First place to check is menu-> add-ons – > tampermonkey options – > installed userscripts
See if the Monocle one is enabled.
I’ve got Greasemonkey. I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it, and eventually found what looks like an old version (2.01) with all the options at the bottom of the page, but that’s not what I had before. But the pages of Monocle and Eyepiece won’t open for me.
Click here to hopefully fix it. Sounds like you were on Eyepiece and now are on legacy Monocle? Anyway, this is the latest and greatest, and should automagically install.
It’s a testament to your trustworthiness that I just clicked a link that promised to install software automatically. And I clicked it!
I’m the anti-HM… for now?
Had no idea you guys had such a nifty addon. This is pretty nice. Thanks!
Wait, do we need tampermonkey or greasemonkey? Now I am confused. I clicked your link and got something that was way different.
Either. I use tampermonkey personally because I can make little tweaks for myself without pushing the buggy code to production.
Aaaah, you changed it a lot and added a mute option. No wonder nobody replies to my super witty posts.
LG, Monocle is a wonderful thing. I haven’t been able to figure out how to get Eyepiece on my allegedly-“smart” phone, and I miss the features when I don’t have access to my laptop.
In non tyranny news, I smoked a batch of ribs today and the pork butt is still on there. I am usually a rub only sort of guy but I felt like a bit of sauce in these trying times. I mixed a couple T of candied Jalepenos with about a 1/2C of ketchup and about a 1/4C of acv. Sweet baby jesus that is a fine sauce for ribs. I fully plan a meat coma later. I only tasted them because I am not done being angry today.
Dammit. Not supposed to land there.
*clears throat, taps on water glass*
You people are awesome. Top to bottom, end to end. Without this little bastion of sanity and rationality, I might either be at the top of a bell tower or the bottom of a tequila bottle.
Hey, now. Let’s not bag on tequila just yet.
/tosses P Brooks a flask
I kind of like how I feel when I get to the bottom of a tequila bottle. Most times. I mean, those times I have another tequila bottle. Which is always in these trying times.
Oh fuck off!
I concur. And you know, there ARE some single Glibbroads here. (I am not one of them.) Just sayin’…
Montana sez “Hold muh beer.”
According to the flier produced by the Valley County Health Department, out-of-towners who lack the government-issued armbands will be prohibited from stores and residents are notified to call law enforcement if they do not comply.
Just give them yellow stars instead.
The linked newspaper has the usual response about wasn’t their intent and has been rescinded. Bullshit. Heads need to be mounted on pikes. Oops, my bad isn’t good enough anymore.
Man the Bee….oh wait, this….this isn’t satire?
Another glass of wine for me
Is that county small enough that everyone knows everyone else because that’s the only way that’d work.
We’re going to need a lot more lampposts.
Since I feel it would be a wasted opportunity
You know who else…
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/04/15/echoing-trump-more-gop-state-legislators-call-for-easing-closures
““I imagine that those who are most critical of aggressive state action [are] people who tend to be very supportive of whatever position President Trump is taking,” said John Weingart, associate director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. Weingart noted that some GOP legislators may be motivated by their animus toward big government, but added, “I don’t see a consistent political philosophy as much as responding to the party that controls the White House.””
Got that, Trumptards? All you reckless cranks and terrorists prattling on about your precious rights and liberties are just parroting Orange Hitler’s bullshit.
That anyone can say horseshit like that in public and not immediately get a broken nose disheartens me.
Meh, there is probably some truth to that, most people don’t work from first principles. Where’d the anti-war left go once the D’s were guiding the missiles? Where’d the fiscal-responsibility right go once the R’s had the purse strings? Just because I agree with some protesters message gives me little comfort that we are working from the same set of ideals.
Studies suggest that less than 15% of people work from an ideological point of view. Methinks youre right.
I was listening to a Dave Smith/Michael Malice podcast while I was out walking. Boaz and his ‘flexible’ principles didn’t make it out alive.
wow, I wish I had that remove empty directories tool 5 months ago when I spent a solid weekend re-organzing my media and transferring it all to the NAS I built
oh well, now I know for next time!
I generally don’t share how primitive I am (because I know I am and get off my fucking lawn already), but I figure y’all know by now I’m a cranky old lady and I’ll do what I damn well please.
However, “desktop of a serial killer” was totally worth whatever ridicule came my way. That’s totally awesome.
trust me this would have saved me a lot of time. I ended up having to learn how to use powershell to do it, and all along I was like “there has to be another way but nothing comes up on google?”
Just bought a Ruger 10/22. What else do I need for it? What kind of cleaning kit? What kind if ammo? I’m very much a newbie. Any and all suggestions welcome
27 million rounds of cheap assed ammo.
search back a day or two here to get the full complement of sighting options
.22 bore snake & some FP-10
Any ammo you can find and extra magazines.
Congrats.
You just bought one of the best guns you can buy. Get you a hoppes or similar cleaning kit. You will need a shoulder strap and a scope. Don’t use the scope for a while. Practice with the iron sights for at least a few months.
“Practice with the iron sights for at least a few months.”
^^^THIS
As a new shooter, you want to become proficient with iron sites.
My first .22 was a marlin semi. Great gun for the price. Later in life I bought a Ruger 10/22 and never looked back. Great gun for all kinds of situations plus cheap and fun to shoot.
Ruger 10-22 was my first gun. Had it for decades. Had some feed issues with it a year or so ago. Bought a new mag and extractor. Seems to be fine now.
I learned to shoot with a .22 like this one.
I loved that gun and still do. With the large port and a handful of loose .22 rounds, it was surprisingly fast to fire multiple rounds. I left it at my parent’s house so I would have something to shoot when visiting. A few years ago, my brother in-law was using it. Since it doesn’t have a manual safety, he thought it would be safer to carry with the bolt removed. Unfortunately, it has a two part bolt and he lost the front piece. I might have to buy another so I can make a new piece for the bolt.
Gotta love a bolt action!
iron sites? So like Jerry Pournelle’s website, Robert Conquest’s site etc.?
If it didn’t come with sights, you’ll need some sort of optic and mounting for it.
Any cleaning kit with a .22 brush will work as long as the cleaning rod is long enough to pass through the barrel.
Borepatches. If you’re really cheap, instead of buying the .22 ones, you can buy .45s and cut htem into quarters.
Lead/copper solvent I don’t know that there’s really any difference between brands, but most everyone loves Hoppe’s No. 9
Lubricant. This can be combined as a clean/lubricate/protect mixture (CLP) and there are dozens of brands out there. Some people swear by Ballistol, I’ve been using Eez-ox, since that’s what the LGS threw into my bag as a first time customer and it works just fine AFAICT
If you’re not using a CLP, you’ll need to buy separate cleaning solution and protecting solutions in addition to lubricant, though that “protectant” isn’t necessary if you shoot all the time.
As far as ammo, CCI has an excellent reputation when it comes to .22LR. I haven’t had much/any problem even running Remmington “golden bullet,” which was the cheapest thing at my Wal-Mart through my 10/22. UCS might have has some issues with a particular brand.
Oh yeah, if you bought it new, there’s probably a coupon in the box for 20% off of stuff at shopruger.com up to a certain amount. Max that out on magazines.
If you’re in a 10-round mag-limited state, the “trimag” device lets you bolt together 3 10 rounders, and I quite like it.
BX-25 is junk anyways. Might check out that tri-mag myself.
Can’t go wrong with CCI. I personally would start out with box of 50 max of a few brands to make sure YOUR rifle is going to feed it reliably. You probably want to get an extra 10 round mag from Rugar. Sling and swivels are nice. Something cheap with a pad will do you. You’ll want a case for it as well. Just long enough to fit the rifle. Leave room width wise for a scope.
https://www.brownells.com/ammunition/rimfire-ammo/standard-velocity-ammo-22-long-rifle-40gr-lead-round-nose-prod82463.aspx
I know it’s “just a .22”, but get some nice earmuffs.
My Dad shot a turkey in his yard with a .22 and came to the conclusion that a .22 is a lot louder than you expect when shooting it in a residential neighborhood.
Best suggestion: find an organization near you that shoots USPSA Steel Challenge and enter in RFRI (rimfire rifle iron sights — if you have iron sights, RFRO otherwise). You will have riciculous amounts of fun. Bring five magazines.
‘ I’m very much a newbie.’
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Solid, DNT. I laughed.
A generic gun cleaning kit from Wal-Mart will be more than sufficient. Separately buy a couple of extra brass brushes for .22 that screw on the end of the rod in. the gun cleaning kit.
Top notch ammo, in my opinion – CCI 40 grain standard velocity – it’s not cheap.
Browse here. Note the options for searches on the left side. Familiarize yourself with prices/velocities/brands
The only one I dont recommend are the cheap Remington Thunderbolts. They are not loaded consistently and are dirty as hell to shoot.
https://www.midwayusa.com/rimfire-ammunition/br?cid=7547&targetLocation=%2F_%2FN-7547%2B4294967257%3FNp%3D2%26Nr%3DAND%2528p_visible%253A1%252Ccustomertypeid%253A1%2529%26Nrpp%3D24%26Ns%3Dp_metric_sales_velocity%257C1%26Ntpc%3D1%26Ntpr%3D1&customerSelectedSort=False
Try not to get anything really hot like CCI mini-mags as they slam the bolt back too hard on autos and can cause damage after too much shooting. Those are best in non-autos. I like the heavier 40 gr bullets and at 22 ranges the standard velocity works very well. Copper coated bullets are cleaner than uncoated lead.
That is a very fun rifle to shoot. Shoot it a lot. Try different bullets. You will have a ton of fun figuring out what works best.
Get extra magazines
https://palmettostatearmory.com/champion-25rd-magazine-with-metal-head-and-magazine-loader-combo-40428.html?avad=243993_e1a478885&utm_source=Avantlink&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=ale
Aside from this bunch I recommend the Ruger brand mags. You want them to feed properly.
Bang! Pop! Pow! Spfffft! BLAM! Pop!
*Me shooting Remington Thunderbolts in my K-22
Thanks everybody! I knew I’d get solid advic