Titles are for nobility

I’ve encountered something of a truism in my travels both overseas and within academia that there is actually no Left in the United States properly speaking, and the Democrats would be a center-right party in any other setting. This is usually a reference to economic policy, and many right-leaning people find this a baffling statement because in their minds left = transgenders and CRT which obviously we have in the United States.

Of course right-leaning people also tend to think any government spending that isn’t on the military is socialism but I digress

I say all this to say that observing the growing number of actual monarchists among right-leaning people is making me question whether we’ve ever even had a proper right-wing in the United States before relatively recently

The handful of American monarchists I’ve talked to mostly say they like it because it makes regime change via assassination way easier, and I hate to say it but they do make a certain sort of sense.

I have one actually, I haven’t put it through the paces yet but it works well enough for my needs. That said, what I paid $100 for was to be able to convert my shotgun back to factory without having to peel industrial glue off the side of the receiver, because I’m weird about permanent modifications on older guns.

Just get the industrial velcro from Home Depot, or include a $3 strip from Esstac with your order for shell holders. It’s low-profile and works fantastic.

Engine Maintenance by Mac Rebisz 

It must be that Canada isn’t sophisticated enough to use Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs). They opted to use a drone equipped with a flame thrower. 🤔

What a perfect way to herd the gullible sheep into 15 minutes cities. 😡

No idea the context, but isn't part of fighting forest fires to cause a controlled burn in front so it has no fuel to spread?

I have no source to back it up but I heard the wildfire was caused by a "controlled" burn that got out of control.

That did happen, but it was the first week of May and it was in Alberta, not Quebec. Wrong coast, and it was extinguished in about ten days, so just over a month ago.

TIL they must only ever be referred to as “Canada Geese” not “Canadian Geese”

via reddit.com

“must” lmao. What are they gonna do if I don’t? Get me fired from my job for “racism” because I called them by the wrong name?

Canadian Geese gonna introduce you to Canadian Healthcare.

TIL about Troy Hurtubise, a Canadian man who built multiple suits of armor to study grizzly bears up close in nature. He’d test these by having his friends hit him with 2x4s or drive trucks into him

via reddit.com

Assuming that he made plate armor my concern would be the bear being able to rip the plates off.

It was damn near a spacesuit with how you had to get into it.

This is also the same dude who made a Halo armor suit and tried to sell it to the Canadian military.

oh gee discord should I try adding numbers? should I try that???? should I try adding numbers to the end of my username so that it's individualized and only mine???? should I try adding numbers??????????

WV has beautiful mountain ranges.. or we did until these things started popping up. They provide not even a fraction of the power of nuclear and they are an eye sore.

Not to mention all the birds they kill. 

And the waste they produce

They're more prone to catistrophic failures that spill a bunch of toxic oil in the ground and if they catch fire can start wildfires.

The arms are consumable parts that cannot be recycled and will never biodegrade. We just bury them now.

Not ancient, but still

has it conquered sadness yet?

A little

I think that means you gotta swing it around some more.

thinking that mr. brightside, a usamerican song by a usamerican band which is one of the most popular songs of the last 30 years, is something that is only popular among brits is funny enough on its own but to say sweet caroline, a song by usamerican icon neil diamond, which is a mainstay of boston sports specifically and usamerican events across the country generally, is also a song only brits know is just hysterical you’ll have to drag me off the internet by my fucking toenails i love it here

people give Americans a lot of shit about nationalistic blindness about global culture but this is truly next level

I recognize that The Killers is an American band, but given that Mr. Brightside is #84 on the UK Top 100 chart this week, its 365th week charting since its debut in May of 2004, I’m not sure we can claim Mr. Brightside as an American song any more.

The Patrick Bury the Light clip got nuked from youtube man can't have shit anymore

how am I supposed to perfectly convey my immense sense of power in a comedic way now

The full 10-minute version is still there, you can just use a timestamped link.

Last evening I grilled up the fish. My sister was laughing that I had my own seasoning blend, my own utensils and my own cookware. Laughing in an amused way. I carry my own kitchen pepper and chicken bouillon in a czech mess kit so I can cook anything on a campfire

I mean that’s the best way to go about life.

In scouts they rarely seasoned anything. I took after Samwise Gamgee.

I really should keep some kind of seasoning can in my car. All the food I keep in there on a regular basis is either freeze dried or canned but I never know when I might have to cook a squirrel over a fire.

I’m gonna be honest, you can fix an awful lot of sins with nothing but a salt shaker and a bottle of good hot sauce.

I hadn't really thought about hot sauce. I mostly use sriracha which is still a bitch to find and I don't think they come in little bottles. I also like tapatio but I don't think they make them in plastic bottles and I'd like to minimize the glass I keep in the back seat considering how much I just chuck stuff back there.

I know Cholula and Valentina are available in plastic packs, like ketchup, but I haven’t seen one in person in years, and I’m not about to buy a 100-pack on Amazon. I hope to find them someday because they’re both fantastic flavorful/mild hot sauces and perfect for fixing a horrorshow MRE.

Last evening I grilled up the fish. My sister was laughing that I had my own seasoning blend, my own utensils and my own cookware. Laughing in an amused way. I carry my own kitchen pepper and chicken bouillon in a czech mess kit so I can cook anything on a campfire

I mean that’s the best way to go about life.

In scouts they rarely seasoned anything. I took after Samwise Gamgee.

I really should keep some kind of seasoning can in my car. All the food I keep in there on a regular basis is either freeze dried or canned but I never know when I might have to cook a squirrel over a fire.

I’m gonna be honest, you can fix an awful lot of sins with nothing but a salt shaker and a bottle of good hot sauce.

I don’t buy the Kazcynski suicide theory.

He was diagnosed with terminal cancer about a year ago and that shit's rough. If the cancer didn't get him I could see a guy getting fed up with that and deciding to end it. I looked it up and an official cause of death hasn't been announced. Apparently the New York Times is reporting it as a suicide citing some anonymous sources. I could absolutely see them lying to sell the story.

What I can't see is a conspiracy to cover up his murder. Unlike MacAffee or Epstein there's not really much to gain politically with Ted out of the way or they would have done it years ago. If another inmate killed him there'd be no real reason to cover it up because it's a supermax prison so it's not like it's someone with power and influence that needs to be protected. If the guards were gonna beat him to death that's also something I think would have happened years ago.

I’m not saying he was killed per se. I just don’t believe he killed himself.

If we want to stretch the definition real thin I guess cancer is a way of the body killing itself lol. But yeah my bet is on NYT writing a celebrity gossip piece.

“Two bullet holes to the back of the head, worst suicide I’ve seen in years” is still less believable than “two bullet holes to the back of the head, worst case of cancer I’ve seen in years” if you wanted him dead. Most people would go “Ted died of cancer? Yeah, I guess he did have that didn’t he” and never ask questions.

Did you know if you put a small ammount of air under your skin you can hold your breath underwater twice as long? Pony Express riders used to do it when fording rivers. Google Pony Inflation for more information.

If you put a small amount of air under your skin, you get something called an embolism and die.

A preferable fate to looking up pony inflation on Google, tbh

"meatless meals the family will love"

Mac and cheese is an acceptable meatless meal.

All acceptable meatless meals were designed as meatless from the ground up. Indian cuisine has tons of them, for example. Meals that were intended to have meat but you substitute in a non-meat item in its place get the brick. Categorically awful.

I know a guy who does this. Regularly espouses the benefits of a GOMAD/POMAM diet. Gallon of milk a day, pound of meat a meal.

He’s built like a gorilla, but he also regularly mentions doing things to public toilets that are banned by the Hague conventions and are punishable by death in 34 countries, so... maybe this diet has some drawbacks.

I’m sure each state has their own rules but in the PNW you can not sell game meat. You even have to file transfer paperwork to give any meaningful weight to a friend or family member. I get that the intent was to keep people from profiting off hunting wild game but I despise the idea that giving a hind quarter of elk to the guy who helped ya pack it out of the ravine could be felony without the right papers.

A few years ago I read an article about a group of hunters who tried to organize an event where they fed the homeless with deer they harvested themselves. It got shut down for not being FDA approved and all the meat was tossed in a dumpster and covered with bleach. It was a lot of meat too. Like 5 whole deer if I remember right.

My last roommate’s dad bagged an elk, got it professionally butchered and gave us enough assorted cuts of elk to fill a refrigerator’s freezer. All of them were wrapped in butcher’s paper and sealed in tape that said NOT FOR RETAIL SALE repeatedly on it. I don’t know the legality of giving/receiving it without payment in this state, but it’s quite clear it could not legally be sold.

I don't know much about islam but I'm gonna say haram. very very haram.

OH WAIT they mean the food additive!

yeah, Monosodium Glutamate is fine for muslims.

This is true, Islamically, nothing prohibits a Muslim from consuming e621

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