USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen. I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify. In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather. "Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully. "Honey, that's what it looks like." The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it." I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it. I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South. It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent. "Well?" the waitress asked. "I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed." "Everybody does, hon." Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it. Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating. I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden. It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

Jimmy Carr nailed something a lot of us feel but can’t explain. We’re living better than 99.9% of humans who ever walked the earth, hot showers, modern medicine, endless entertainment, kids that actually survive infancy, yet so many of us feel miserable. He calls it “life dysmorphia.” We get used to how good we have it (the hedonic treadmill), then compare ourselves to everyone else and tank our own happiness. As he puts it: happiness = quality of life minus envy. Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.” When was the last time you caught yourself feeling unhappy despite objectively having it pretty damn good?

Now hitting beta at Black Lotus Coalition from Developer @Stubbs_GunGuy! The Smp5K! A 3d printed 22lr and offered in a K size that manufacturers for some reason dont offer. It is a remix of Kaewon's fully DIY Yippee-Ki-Yay that uses a CMMG bolt to be SS/FRT compatible. It is compatible with many original Yippee-Ki-Yay parts but includes fun new versions of each part. Additional versions are planned to come shortly in the future.

Hot new Fuddblaster is out now! The gun no one knows how it works, where dozen of Youtubers have just made shit up about it! Don't miss it!

Elon Musk isn't stealing anything from me. The Government? Stealing quite a lot, actually.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the only thing holding you back is you. It’s not the boomers, the government, inflation, foreign invaders, housing prices, or AI. It’s you. Quit looking for excuses and get to work. Work hard, work smart, work harder than everyone else. 🇺🇸

I hope for every one person caught there are at least a thousand still 3D printing and spreading the signal. ⚡

A 17 year old in France was raided. These guns and more, as well as his "still hot 3D printer" were seized.

Yet to be released, but this is probably my most relevant remix for this thread. The design is a text file that compresses to a 1337 byte archive. The whole of the uncompressed OpenSCAD script fits inside a version 40 QR code.

When in California

Range day with my daughter. 5 years old and the hitchhiker is her favorite gun to shoot.

Sir, another state (Delaware) just introduced 3d printer blocking legislation. It's still in committee, I've sent out emails to representatives on both sides. Please DM me so we can speak about it. This topic needs maximum visibility and you are doing a great job.

... another 3D printing ban state, Delaware just jumped in. BOTH additive and subtractive, blueprint blocking technology. I have been telling you since January this was going to spread. This is a near carbon-copy of New York's bill plus more. THIS IS A WAR ON MANUFACTURING!

Father’s Day Sale 15% off chest rigs and components 10% off belts 10% off pouches 10% off fanny and waist packs.

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Got to try out the Popillia M&P beta last weekend by @chuckcheese1776 TLDR it slaps. 🤘

Medical supply shortage inbound. Even if you don't live in CA, it's gonna have knock-on effects as Medline has to pull from other warehouses.

55 gallon drum full of play sand with a 4 foot piece of 3 inch ABS bolted onto the front of it will handle all the way up to 308

No tips on how to protect your digital data from THE FREAKING INVASIVE, TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT? Encrypt everything stored locally and before it ever leaves your device to enter "the cloud". Don't reuse passwords, and make sure to select high entropy passwords. Think twice before downloading ANY GOVERNMENT SOFTWARE OR APPS (permissions are usually very invasive and the government WILL take advantage of that.)

California claims its voting is super secure, but when it comes to buying a gun they be like "no you can't use voter registration to prove residency, are you crazy? We don't actually check that shit!"