A Geek with Guns

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My AUG Setup

Rather than post a review of a rifle for which there are already a million reviews, I thought I'd go over how I setup my Steyr AUG.

• By Christopher Burg

It's Your Fault

The discussion about global warming is usually a debate between whether it's happening or not or whether it's manmade or natural. Those who agree that it's happening and it's manmade also agree that it's your fault.

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Never Buy a Smith and Wesson

In this post I share my six month saga with Smith and Wesson. Through this saga I learned that Smith and Wesson, a company I once held in high regard, is utterly incompetent and dishonest.

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I Will Not Install Your App

Everywhere you turn companies are turning the straight forward into the convoluted by unnecessarily inserting apps in the middle. There's no reason anybody needs to pull out their smartphone to order lunch, pump gas, or check into a hotel.

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The Rebel Rule Follower

Socialists, communists, and many other leftists see themselves are rebels. They believe that they're revolutionaries fighting against a corrupt and oppressive society. While there are some rebels amongst today's leftists, many of them are actually rule followers to the extreme. Rather than fighting against society, they're fighting for it.

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Enough Is Enough, Too Much Is Too Much

I see far too many people get caught in the trap of believing more is better when it comes to physical fitness. It doesn't help that this attitude is propagated by many fitness influencers. The truth is too much is too much.

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I Love AI

AI, the marketing name used by companies to sell large language models, is a total privacy nightmare that fails to work far too often to be trustworthy. I absolutely love it.

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An Ode to Illegalism

Of all the branches of anarchist theory, illegalism stands as the most honest. It does away with all of the pretension that plague so many other schools of anarchist thought. Unfortunately it doesn't get its deserved time in the spotlight. Don't worry, despite the title, this won't be written in poetic form.

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Communist Holocaust Denial

When people think of Holocaust denial, they typically think of white supremacists. However, communists have their own version.

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The XM7: Everything Old Is New Again

The United States Army is trying to replace the venerable M4 as the standard infantry rifle. A recent report regarding the M4's successor, the XM7, shows that everything old is new again.

• By Christopher Burg