No organized shooting for TWO WEEKS between CO Nats and Area 7. I’m getting the shakes. Must put in some serious range time this weekend since I’m going back to irons (Iron Sight Nats are in October, want to do less shamefully than at the last one). Been doing dry fire practice, but it’s not the same since the distances are much shorter in the house; so the time it takes my eyes to shift focus between the sights and targets is also much shorter/easier. The first time I heard a grandmaster say that the thing they needed most to work on was “seeing faster” I laughed — now I’m starting to understand. However, I’m also switching to a new holster,* so this practice is really important to get the ball-bearing retention thingy broken in.
*I’ve been using this for the past three season because the entire set is less expensive than one name brand mag pouch. And honestly it works great– as long as you’re using a non-retentive gunbucket type holster (which I have been). But the belt is far too floppy (and nobody likes too floppy) for the Ghost holster or other race-type ones to work. Fortunately when glockstyle.com went out of business I was able to pick up a Guga Ribas (my favorite Star Wars minor character) steel core belt for 90% off.
Not a whole lot going on early in the week. The 10th is a good day to close on a house, but I don’t know if that’s helpful to anyone. The end of the week though, that’s when the Sun empowers Mercury and Mars, so definitely news about war, also probably changes in war. The two typically go together.
Leo is on a tear these days. On Monday, it loses Mars so that’s… not great but really more just a regression to the mean. Also it leaves Venus unbalanced so dial back on the aggression. Even more so, on Tuesday Leo picks up Mercury (Sorry Cancer) meaning it’s prime time to find that sleek other for mating opportunities. Back to Monday, since Mars is leaving Leo, that means it’s going into Virgo so that’s a good day for those people to act directly/decisively. Reading the charts for auspices on my match day doesn’t show anything major, but everything that is there emphasizes defensiveness. I’ll play it safe and let other people fuck up.
Cancer: Queen of Wands – The is card is a whole pile of archetypes based around the ideal qualities of a non-urban/non-elite woman. Think Daisy Duke, Lara Croft, every honky-tonk bartender that saves/becomes the love interest of the hero.
Leo: The Blank card – still don’t know if this card is officially in the deck, but it’s here.
Virgo: Justice reversed – Injustice.
Libra: 3 of Cups – Sorority party, bachelorette party, or any other gathering involving women, frivolity and alcohol.
Scorpio: Queen of Coins – Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.
Sagittarius: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril. Note that these are both rolalty of money but one being reversed they show the positive and negative aspects of having the ability to spend.
Capricorn: The Moon – Division, distrust, inability to determine friend from foe, also the ability to move between hostile groups.
Aquarius: Ace of Swords reversed – Great force leading to bad results.
Pisces: Page of Cups reversed – An underling/hireling fucking up the job.
Aries: 4 of wands reversed – Prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment.
Taurus: 2 of Wands – Success but dissatisfaction with it.
Gemini: The High Priestess – Secrets, mystery, silence, tenacity, mystery, wisdom, science.
Right now, my definition of success is getting out ot the transcription ghetto and into a real job, which will happen on Wednesday. However, I will probably find it dissatisfactory, which, okay, but I’ll still be making a whole lot more money.
Taurus: 2 of Wands – Success but dissatisfaction with it.
I took good notes, but it doesn’t seem to have helped very much – John Kelly
Cancer: Queen of Wands – The is card is a whole pile of archetypes based around the ideal qualities of a non-urban/non-elite woman. Think Daisy Duke, Lara Croft, every honky-tonk bartender that saves/becomes the love interest of the hero.
I’m a whole pile of archeology? Speak up! I don’t hear so good any more – Dianne Feinstein
Yesterday was vacuum cleaner maintenance. It is absurd how much dust Lily brings in.
Awww, Lily belly.
I’m kind of liking the new season of Jack Ryan.
Sagittarius: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril. Note that these are both rolalty of money but one being reversed they show the positive and negative aspects of having the ability to spend.
No comprende, amigo. Try it in Amurrikin.
I will probably find it dissatisfactory, which, okay, but I’ll still be making a whole lot more money.
Money can be a soothing balm.
The want of money to exchange for other stuff encourages people to get up in the morning
Great vids as usual. I dig those standards – underrated dogs.
Leo: The Blank card – still don’t know if this card is officially in the deck, but it’s here.
Wildcard, bitches!
Two kids from 1 child families: “My dog can whip your dog’s butt”
/Kids need siblings
Woot. I can choose my destiny this week.
Virgo: Justice reversed – Injustice
This astrology stuff is very complicated
the entire set
I’m very intrigued about being more tactical in EDC, but with a striker and one in the pipe, all I think about is safety. I worry much more about the act of (and discretion involved in) drawing than the shooting part
This is gaming gear, not EDC or tactical. Everything is a bit drop-offset to make it faster to grab, but that also means it’s less secure.
of course, but for those of us who aren’t competitors, it particularly stimulates the question of how tactical EDC can be and still maximize safety
DA gun with the hammer down, and my thumb on said hammer when holstering.
You said “mystery” twice.
It’s a mysterious card.
It’s terribly mysterious but can it cut guns in half?
maybe that’s part of the tenacity thing?
So that is where all my money went.
You said “mystery” twice.
He likes mystery.
Carrying over from the dead thread:
“According to my model, weather is climate when it suits our purposes
Earth’s average temperature hit an unofficial record high on Tuesday, according to the University of Maine’s climate data website Climate Reanalyzer: 62.9 degrees Fahrenheit (17.18 degrees Celsius). It wasn’t a fluke. The temperature hit the same reading on Wednesday.”
Now, if you actually look at the breakdown by region, the premise is bullshit. A more honest take: “Most of the globe appears to be within a normal temperature range, but parts of the Southern tropics may be hotter than usual. Except the data is suspect, since the data for the Southern tropics is really erratic and lumpy, which means we’re extrapolating from a handful of stations which may not be representative of the area as a whole, with vast swaths of the earth not being monitored at all.”
But that nuanced take wouldn’t fit The Agenda TM at all.
It was a study in One Voice Media that all said the same thing. If enough ‘trusted’ sources say it, the people believe it without even thinking about it.
It got a big article in my local paper. Bet on crickets when it gets debunked.
The problem here is obviously the ghost gun…
https://nypost.com/2023/07/08/disturbing-videos-show-madman-on-scooter-fatally-gun-down-elderly-man-shoot-innocent-bystander-in-broad-daylight/
I saw the unedited one. No one fucking stopped to help. It may have been for nought, but putting pressure on the bleed might have helped.
Random racial shootings are the issue, but GUNZ!
Miss Netherlands 2023
Please stop.
Why is the stunning and brave one covered in purple dye?
Distraction from the Adam’s apple?
Świątek just saved two match points.
And Svitolina forces a third set.
I’m gouda have to say I thought the Dutch were more into dykes.
Another take from a rather surprising source
When the lawsuit was first filed, I was skeptical. The feds jawbone companies all the time. Now, having made my way not once but twice through Judge Terry A. Doughty’s 155-page opinion, I find myself stunned and depressed at the degree to which the Biden administration, from its first days in office, has used its influence to limit the audience for views that differ from its own.
To occasionally ask for a story to be held on national security grounds (in most cases, temporarily), or even to ask a personal favor regarding a post or two would be business as usual — subject to abuse, yes, but generally minor in scope. What makes this case different and even scary is the systematic nature of what the White House has been doing — from the micromanagement of which posts should come down to demanding regular reports on compliance.
The opinion is impossible to summarize, so let me just set forth a handful of examples.
Consider the issue of Covid vaccine hesitancy. My wife and I are both pro-vaccines. We’re happily vaccinated and fully boosted. But it’s absurd to suppose that no rational person could fear the unknown risks of newly approved medications. Long-term problems are exceedingly rare, but they certainly exist. Yet the administration pressed hard, and successfully, for the removal or downgrading of posts counseling hesitancy.
Consider the case of the novelist Alex Berenson. Maybe his views on Covid vaccines are hooey that the rest of us should ignore. But what I hadn’t known until read Doughty’s opinion is that Twitter took action to suspend Berenson’s account only after the White House demanded to know why he hadn’t been “kicked off” the platform; or that the decision was made within hours of Biden’s public criticism of how social media companies were handling “misinformation” about the pandemic.
The opinion also details the administration’s efforts to reduce the spread of claims that prior infection with Covid-19 conferred some protection, at a time when experts were hotly debating whether illness and recovery created a durable natural immunity. Similarly, the White House successfully pressured the platforms to downgrade and in some cases delete posts and videos that criticized lockdowns or mask mandates. The examples go on and on. Whatever one thinks of any single instance, the overall picture is one in which the government seeks to establish an official position on an issue of public importance, and then, through pressure on social media companies, makes it difficult for those who disagree to find an audience.
That’s the very definition of restricting dissent; and labeling dissent as “misinformation” in no way broadens the authority of government to regulate debate.
It’s not sufficient to respond that the companies might have barred a lot of this content anyway. Most of the posts detailed in Doughty’s opinion did not violate platform policies; nevertheless, the White House succeeded in getting the companies to downgrade, label or remove them entirely.
Imagine my surprise.
*Probably paywalled- I’m surprised Bloomberg let me through
I’ve been pretty busy with the new puppy so it’s been hard to get on a thread at the same time as NA, but I wanted to say the wife and I both enjoyed our visit to the Optics match, and meeting NA. Also, if I’d known I was shooting the Beretta for a prize, I wouldn’t have fucked up so badly.*
I did get a chance to shoot the suppressed Sig .22, just before they boxed up everything to get out of the rain. It was pretty nice, but I’m really not used to shooting with optics, it’s an adjustment.
*Narrator: That is a lie.
How great was the pressure? Sufficiently great that a Facebook executive responded to one official by assuring the administration that the company wanted to know how to “get back into the White House’s good graces.” Another wrote: “[W]e’re keen to amplify any messaging you want us to project.” And, again, these are only a few examples of the efforts by the platforms to please officialdom.
Forgive me, Master. Show me how I may better serve you.
Just slather on some Bondo and nobody will ever know.
https://sfstandard.com/business/princess-cruises-ruby-princess-depart-sunday/