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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When people think of Holocaust denial, they typically think of white supremacists. However, communists have their own version.
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.
No, I haven't taken a leave of my senses and suddenly become stupid enough to believe that communism is a workable philosophy. But a quick read of history since the Bolshevik revolution in Russia will lead you to conclude that communism, at least as a strategy for gaining power, is very effective. It is that point I'm discussing in this post.
What happens when a politician does something stupid? His supporters explain why his stupidity is actually a good thing. That's because politics is a cult of personality.