Ditto

And many, many others.

It is not the future. It is NOW if we finally put this gas bullshit behind us.

I guess Canada is not for sale because you found a better deal elsewhere, duggie?

Diversify, diversify, diversify. And don’t be too dependent on outside stuff. The neoliberal shit needs to end. All it took is one jackass to bring it all down.

This is why Charles de Gaulle was onto something when he built France to be more independent and resilient to outside influence. He had many flaws, but that was not one of them.

Not cost effective. Maybe by 2080 or something.

And in the meantime Canada is soon approaching a time when all healthcare will become for-profit like in the US, and the whole ‘we never could have afforded it in the first place. It was always a bad idea’ by both Libs and Cons will start to be spouted.

But combat is one of the most calorie-intensive activity you can do. Hungry soldiers aren’t good soldiers. Whenever they could they tried to get soldiers meals from field kitchens, even those on the front lines and in active combat. It kept morale and energy up.

You notice the interest in UFOs and stuff are at an all time low? Despite the unbelievable availability of cameras, we are not seeing any really good UFO photos or sightings. It is almost like if Aliens are there, they decided to do a big ‘nope’ and go elsewhere.

But I saw a video documenting this and it showed that in some way the decline has happened was that due to the past 20 years of severe government incompetence the idea that the government would be able to hide and manage something as big as alien visitations is no longer believable.

This shit looks like prison food…

WW2 field rations were revolutionary for the time, and US troops rarely went unsupplied (Axis forces often had missing food supplies all the time. The Japanese and Russians had it particularly bad). But the field rations were often described as being unfilling and didn’t provide enough calories as needed. But they were not as bad as many people make them out to be. Granted if I had to eat nothing but those rations for weeks on end I’d be a very sad soldier.

Too much to list.

And I have said it ten million times before. The current total bans they’re doing is abso-fucking-lutely not going to do squat. You are basically saying ‘we should leave this and that model of rifle or shotgun only’ to somehow say ‘this will eliminate danger to kids’. Nope, because any rifle or shotgun can be technically used to commit a shooting.

In 2010 in the UK a guy went on a rampage with a single-shot .22LR rifle and a double barrelled shotgun, the type of ‘safe’ guns most gun control advocates believe should be the only type of firearm available to civilians, and he STILL killed over 10 people.

I remember reading articles by Heidi, the main gun control advocate in Canada who was present in the 1989 polytechnique shooting (she heard the gun shots, but was very far away from the actual shooter) who had a hatred of that particular model that he used in the shooting like somehow it was THAT model that was only thing that made it fucking possible. It wasn’t

BTW, the model he used? Ruger Mini-14, and at that time (and somehow still believed today) that it was easy to convert a semi-automatic rifle into a fully-automatic rifle. He had a go at it and ended up breaking the mechanism, meaning the shooting that killed 14 young women that day was committed effectively by a jam-prone, manually operated gun. Not even a fast-firing semi-auto rifle.

And I am going to say it again. The bans that have been happening in the past 6 years have been extremely ineffective, have not collected many of the banned guns (next to no owners surrendered their weapons, meaning they are still there), has been unbelievably expensive, have caused massive divisiveness in various governmental agencies, have lead to a huge rift in everything.

And do you have any sense of irony? ‘ooooh think of the children!’ the same damn excuse that the guys on top everywhere in the world have been using to infringe on all of our freedoms? Whether it is the 2010/11 failed ‘protecting children from online predators’ act that only mentioned children and predators in the title and nowhere in the bill? Or the age verification crap going on, the OS outlawing, and a hell of a lot more.

Even the anti-gun shit is getting so damn bad it is pissing off the 3D printing community and privacy advocates, since they want to pass draconian acts that think they will somehow curb 3D printed firearms (which aren’t a problem. If they were, we’d be seeing a fuckload more of them by now, but so far we’re still seeing boring old fashioned factory produced guns), and those laws are so crudely written and so impossible to enforce that they will effectively make it impossible for most people to 3D print anything, and will make 3D printers cost 5 or 10 times more. Same thing with machinist and metal working communities who are under fire because their skill at forging and shaping metal to something that could actually become a decent gun.

Why are you so willing to use and fall for the same Epstein class cry when you aren’t for any other subject?

Watch the fucking video and read the damn linked article. The LLM did more to make the shooting happen than anything else. In both the Canadian Tumbler Ridge shooting and the one in Florida. You have no idea what you are talking about.

We don’t have a lot of mass knife attacks, we don’t have a lot of bombings, we don’t have a lot of poisonings, because as you pointed out they have a much higher skill/knowledge requirement. The thing you intentionally ignored is that the skill/knowledge requirement for pulling a trigger is really low.

And LLMs would absolute reduce that friction to next to nothing, which would make it happen more often and more successfully.

The Nazi incel shooter would NEVER have succeeded in any of his goals without the chat. It doesn’t matter that he had a gun (which was his dad’s gun, not his own), the chats revealed that he knew so little about firearms and the times when people gathered most densely that he if tried to do what he did without chatGPT he would likely failed to kill anyone. Injuries maybe, but not deaths. The guy was so ignorant on how to carry out an attack and without the support of chatGPT he might have gotten over his desire to kill and even suicide with minimal or no intervention.

BTW, for explosives that I mentioned? There is a precedent on how reducing friction can facilitate a massive rise in bombings is the availability of bombing making instruction manuals. As I said, the internet is awash with them, but once upon a time they weren’t available… until BBSes in the late 80s and early 90s started having them And once people were able to get them there was a massive spike in pipe bomb incidents in the US at the time.

Timothy McVeigh used such books in making the bomb he used to blow up the FBI building in Oklahoma city. They are still available.

A bomb making guide reduces friction in making successful bombings, but if it were combined with an LLM who ‘just wanted to help with a fun experiment’ it would reduce whatever friction left to nothing.

If you have been paying attention to the gun control situation in Canada and how people from countless organisations such as Canada Post and the RCMP and tons of others have been reacting to this, you’d be amazed how many Canadians are opposed to it.

And it is all 100% based on ‘I just do not like guns’ which I am going to say is unsufficient anymore than simply me saying ‘I just like guns’. Most people actually believe that somehow Canadians could conceal carry or were able to do so until recently or some other bullshit. Complete ignorance of the actual state of things.

So let’s throw billions more dollars on this scheme that has yet to produce a single tangible result. The long gun registry, the handgun ban, and the tens of thousands of rifle models. Cash in the furnace. Let’s also cut healthcare more to fund that, too.

I am fucking done.

Those rifle bans are dumb, but they’re basically how they’ve always done things. When they were deciding on what was a ‘restricted’ vs ‘prohibited’ rifle in the 90s when the licensing scheme first got into play, it was clear that they looked up a gun digest and simply picked out a lot of stuff at random and it made no sense.

For example AK rifles were prohib, but ARs were not. AR rifles were restricted, but plenty of equally capable rifles were non-restricted. Some bans literally made no sense. The G41 assault rifle, an experimental German rifle that never went beyond the prototype phase, was added to the prohib list anyway. That gun was produced in such limited quantities and uses such unique and highly specialized ammunition (it was an experimental caseless round) that no criminal or criminal organization can get a hold of no matter what.

The whole point is their thinking is ‘I hate guns and I want to destroy any and all shooting sports and hunting’ This even apparently is extending to subsistence hunters who need a rifle to survive. This is why the SKS is not yet banned even though they have been trying to for a very, very long time. If they ban that it will cause a hell of a lot of problems for a lot of people… and they’re still trying anyway!

You should read it some time. The law is dumber than you think and targets the wrong shit.

If you think I believe anyone should be able to walk into a supermarket and buy a handgun and ammunition, then you would be wrong.