Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I’ve spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.

Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.

Just don’t ask who what’s in the pattern buffer.

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Cake day: August 27th, 2024

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  • Meijer doesn’t sell anymore, and Walmart went to shotguns only around me.

    matches are genuinely inclusive, and homo-/transphobes are not welcome.

    This is important to me. I am CIS white guy, but too often when someone is wearing shit like “fuck your feelings/let’s go Brandon” and “your body my choice” and nobody says anything, but the moment you speak up you get shit for “starting something” and “making a scene” and of course good luck reminding that crowd what happens when someone like THEM makes a scene, people end up dead.

    Yeah, those $500+ classes don’t bother me with their time investment but holy shit I guess it’s just too expensive to help people… My account has under 400 until I can find a new job that doesn’t have so much down time between contracts…

    I would happily attend the WFR classes, especially since I go mountain biking, hiking, fishing, etc in the woods and know from experience a fun day riding a bike 20 miles from the road can quickly turn south when a carbon fiber part snaps and slices an artery. Luckily someone had a tourniquet in their bag and the bleeding was stemmed until EMT got there… Eventually.

    I’m sure they’re better for a variety of first aid than the TCCC-CLS is, but both sound like they would be worth doing nowadays.


  • Around my parts of Ohio, there are several different sporting goods stores, both chain and locally owned, with various outdoor activities to shop for. From fishing, to bicycles, to football stuff and hunting gear.

    I would say I’ve tried everything I can to get them to come with my wife and I when we bust out the targets, but one of them is concerned about messing up their gun (which I countered by saying better to break a bad gun in practice than when you need to shoot someone about to murder you, to recieve a hand-waved dismissal) and another just “doesn’t have the time”… but this is the first I’m hearing of inrangeTV so I am definitely checking them out myself as well.

    I really need to get first aid certified, but so far all I have done to that end is getting a couple first aid guides, a few kits of varying types, and watching a lot of videos… Basically FA… And I’d like to be able to patch someone up from a wound especially if I’m willing to put it there.


  • I sent the first news story about the signal chats to my parents ands in-laws in a big group that said “I had better never fucking hear another one of you dumbasses say a word about ‘HeR eEeEeEmAiLs’ ever again”

    Not a single one replied, both parents have (according to my wife) started taking Facebook posts they’ve made in the past down, and my in-laws have not said a political word in over a week. It’s been refreshing.

    They clearly aren’t ready to accept they may have been totally wrong all along, but it’s nice to see they might be self-aware enough to recognize when they might be potentially maybe SOMETIMES be less than correct about specific things.

    You need a microscope to see it, but i consider it a step up.




  • I mean, by process of elimination, I guess.

    I thought about including orks in there, but they do too many uncool things like trying to fight people who don’t want to fight.

    They’re perfectly happy fighting anyone and everyone, including themselves, and just want a good propper fight.

    Kind of hard justifying a fight with puppies though…



  • Luckily for me I got the job in-store for bicycles, but then after a few months they couldn’t keep people behind the gun counter and had to ask me to start filling in. By the time I left, I was behind the gun counter more than the bike counter.

    I’m positive my looks nowadays would draw plenty of comments, but back then I looked like the stereotypical straight white guy that didn’t have any strong political opinions… I know I’d be getting comments about my appearance now. Lgbtq+ support and long hair are enough I’m sure I’d even have some locals waiting for me to get off work to harass me. It wouldn’t be the first time a republicunt took issue with an employee and tried to wait until closing to start shit. Which is a bad idea when half the employees have their CCW.

    No worries about the neighbors owning guns. They’re citizens, they just don’t pass the “paper bag test” for cops, and have their own firearms. They used to be staunchly against firearms until 2020. Then with all the political bullshit leading straight into covid made them reconsider.

    I miss being able to shoot a text to 6 friends asking if anyone wants to go shooting at friend 2s house, and within two hours we’re all laughing, chowing down on snacks, setting up a ton of clay targets for some friendly competitions… Now I’m down to 0(ish) friends that aren’t primarily my wife’s friends, and they don’t do target practice. They can strip and maintain all their guns with a blindfold on, but I don’t think they’ve even sighted them in properly. Many discussions have been had over this unfortunately.

    The bystander effect made 8 people watch from 15ft away as I literally crawled across a street, covered in blood, my leg twisted the wrong way, after a close call from a truck while riding a bicycle made me eat shit. After one person FINALLY ran over to me, suddenly all 8 were walking over, apologizing saying they thought someone else was coming over first.

    Because of that I have decided unless there is a CLEAR leader in getting things taken care of, I’m always going to try to be the first to act when someone is in need. If someone collapses on the ground, I’m running over to make sure they’re breathing/conscious, and I either actively calling an ambulance or pointing at a specific person and going “YOU, MALE WITH THE RED SHIRT, CALL 911 RIGHT NOW” since people react far quicker when called out specifically. Don’t assume someone else will show up to help. You ARE RIGHT THERE. So help.

    Anyways, daily reminder that armed minorities are harder to oppress. Armed minorities make governments afraid.







  • Well you may not be able to get them to swap out a box magazine from a machine gun in 6 seconds, but you might be able to get them to pull a very small weapons platform? I’m thinking “1911 taped to a stick on a sled” but I’m open to brainstorming.

    While you an pull the upper/lower apart, idk if I’d consider that “cat carrier size” unless you have an SBR.

    My rifle would need to have the barrel and stock pulled off. Definitely need some sort of takedown rifle, but most mass produced ones are crap. I used to sell guns at a previous job, and we usually didn’t get high end stuff unless it was a special order.

    I think by the time you “NEED” a rifle in an end-of-world/society scenario, most of humanity is probably dead, the nuclear fallout has mostly dissipated, and you now need one to assist in hunting/scouting. Until then, I’d wager you’re right about one not being necessary. Shorter barrels, less weight, you really aren’t going to be engaging with anyone beyond 200yds even in large urban settings.

    Honestly, I confident enough with my 9mm and my 45 that I could see myself just grabbing those with my utility bag and 4 day kit, and leaving all the heavy ass rifles at home. The only exception is if there’s enough time for my wife and I to grab another round of stuff after corralling the dogs.

    As for needing the rifles during civil unrest, well… I have a few neighbors who are definitely going to be ICE targets soon, and they have been invited to start shooting with us in preparation.

    I miss the good old days when target practice was fun and banter was abound, now things are too far gone for any sort of levity in those situations. We all know why we are practicing, and will likely need the skills to be as polished as possible soon.






  • The obvious choice is to buy a multi-piece rifle, full size or pcc is up to you, that breaks into 2+ pieces.

    Have your pet carriers modified to carry the pieces and some utility things like ammo/cleaning/batteries/etc.

    Now when you load up your pets, you also have your carry gun!

    No part of this was thought out for practicality, results may vary from intent.

    Arm your kitties.