Performance Shooting, Games, and Combat Simulation Content. Nerd, gun, gear, training, and leadership stuff. The occasional nuanced take. Opinions are my own.
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First live fire with the @WerkzHolsters concealed rig. Worked a bunch of stuff on a pretty heavy volume day. Draw live is 1.3ish at 10. Dry fire will continue until performance improves.
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Lol.
This is so true.
I need everyone to understand this.
These two pictures, are the same picture.
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Rough match today. Couple acceptable classifiers. Both were high B. First one the table start was bad and I over confirmed throughout mostly because of a terrible connection off the table.
Second was about as good as I can shoot 90% As. First position was too slow getting on the gun. Wasn't able to blend the center position. Hits were there. 1 D kept it out of A class.
I need to shoot more matches. Practices feel good but weird arrays pressure stage plans make match experience indispensable.
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SpaceX alone just created over 5,000 millionaires while you have lifted zero people out of poverty or created zero millionaires (besides yourself)
Jun 12
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.
The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.
We need a wealth tax.
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Lol wtf?
Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.
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Capitalism is undefeatedβ¦ ππ
Jun 12
Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.
400 of them are now worth over $100 million.
These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.
Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.
Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."
The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.
Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
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Jun 12
Post after post from elite politicians like this... And every single one just comes off as so exceptionally whiny and bitch-made.
Jun 12
Americans are struggling to pay for groceries and gas while Elon Musk becomes a TRILLIONAIRE.
When the federal government is for sale, the rich get richer and everyone else gets shafted.
The system is rigged.
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Jun 12
Financial success should be celebrated, studied, and taught.
Envious victimhood-maxing should invite relentless mockery.
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I actually like much of the symbolism. We need to add the names of our honored dead and reconsider the weird awning thing.
Jun 12
GWOT veterans...
Take 3 minutes and watch this explanation of the elements of the proposed GWOT memorial. It might change your mind. It did mine.
Thanks @JDKeelingIII for sending this my way.
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Yeah so 44 half reps at 135 is still pretty rad.
I'm 180lbs and max about 295 on bench. (SECWAR is stronger than me). I do a burn out set at 135 on bench days and usually hit 30ish /- reps.
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Americaβs @SECWAR CRUSHED 44 reps on the bench after a morning run with the troops yesterday in GTMO.
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Jun 12
Elon Musk is about to become a trillionaire
If he agreed to pay just 80% of that as a wealth tax to the EU, the EU government could use its efficient operating experience to fund bicycles with solar panels attached to them for over 40 residents of the Netherlands
Elon is being selfish by not paying the wealth tax
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I remember being stoked for Fortnite back before Battle Royales existed. It was supposed to be a co-op survival/crafting zombie wave defense game and looked really cool.
The Battle Royale thing was a Pub G inspired accident and I've still never actually played it.
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Waking up to some more negative vr news from @wanderervr
βThe last few years have been tough. For VR as a market, for Wanderer, and for our studio. We had ambitious plans and for the most part we think we executed them as well as we could. Sadly, it wasn't enough. The game performed solidly on console but we just didn't see the mobile uptake we'd counted on. What we'd banked on didn't pay off. We're eternally grateful for the chance Sony took on us - their belief in this IP from the start (and their continued commitment) made so much of what we achieved possible. We're also thankful and humbled by the support we received from Meta and Pico along the way. There are genuinely good people behind these platforms who backed us through and through. We're still figuring out what's next for Mighty Eyes amidst this (very) volatile market. But we won't be developing Wanderer 2, and ongoing support for Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate isn't something weβre able to continue.
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How accurate do you think this is @atKenNelson @nuttymaxwell @KingWash1789 @KrisVectors @atl_flaneur
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I don't know, man.
I just want a spot that honors the fallen and mourns the tragedy of the GWOT.
I don't know what it looks like, only what it feels like...
It feels like misappropriated blood and treasure, a train wreck in slow motion, a long slow repetitive miserable agonizing grind felt in isolation by a fraction of the population.
Maybe that's it. The GWOT was America's longest war. It was fought entirely by volunteers. Fathers and sons fought on the same battlefields separated by decades. Guys went back over and over and over again. An entire generation of millennials gave their youth to the effort - not because they were made to - but because Uncle Sam asked them to and they obliged.
Whatever. Glad a memorial, however it may ultimately take shape, is making progress.
Jun 10
An early look at the @GWOTMF memorial planned for Washington, D.C, released today.
It's planned on what are now athletic fields at the corner of Henry Bacon Drive and Constitution Avenue, near the Lincoln Memorial and Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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Couple of PCSL-style 2 Gun matches coming up. Need a holster. Recommendations? Or do I just put a safariland on the belt and call it? Don't trust my USPSA holster to retain at speed.
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This popped up in my memories today.
One took a round in the plate on a breach the following year. He was banged up pretty good and left service. He's a state trooper now.
One leveled up and drives 47s these days.
I'm a professional nerd now.
10 years ago we were a gun team leader, a Squad Leader, and a young Captain.
When I see photos like this now I just think of how young we were - all in our twenties - and how much trust and confidence our leaders and our nation put in my boys' ability to do the work.
I don't miss the job too much, but I miss the boys.
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