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Take a look at this https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/SiliconValley

Look up the author of the full paper. Not of Brown University that reprints the paper, but of the author.

If the US did not have absurd rules against smooth-bore handguns, smooth-bore guns would be common as small game getters and anti-snake guns. Those smoothbore handguns would be very useful as anti-drone guns. But, because the NFA exists, anyone back by the US is at a huge disadvantage. It would take 50 years of R&D to catch up with where we would have been.

Imagine a FPV suicide drone comes at you, and you have a select-fire machine .44 Magnum pistol (think Desert Eagle, but with a larger magazine capacity and with an extendable/foldable stock) pumping out the equivalent to .410 shotshells. The recoil is straight back, preventing muzzle rise. That's what could have been.

Instead, we have 9mm Barettas and Glocks shooting single projectiles, in semi-auto.

Even a .45LC/.410 revolver would be better than what they have right now.

First trick: Find several identical sets sold under different brands, where only the case colors and branding are different. That means multiple Chinese merchants buy the same stuff and have it branded for their brand. That means it’s good stuff.

Second trick: If several people sell identical sets, the cheapest one will be the best. (I know this is counter-intuitive.) Because the low-price seller sells a larger volume than the others, they will have their act together. Someone selling the same set of 2x the price will know it's missing a part or two, and expects complaints and returns, which they have priced into the cost of selling it. I think there's a cultural thing where the Chinese mark up damaged items instead of marking them down.

Third trick: Know that the tools are designed to barely live past their return date, so buy ultra-heavy-duty for cheap. Here's an example: A cheap Chinese socket set will be barely strong enough to last a month of light use, but a cheap Chinese impact socket set will be barely strong enough to last a month of impacts. That cheap impact socket set will last a lifetime if used with hand wrenches, so that's what I buy. I can get a nice Chinese 50-piece impact socket set for $35 (1/4" drive) or $45 (3/8" drive) that will last me a lifetime of working on things that break with my hands.

Fourth trick: Trust your marketplace and resellers, not the manufacturers. A good reseller will test something before stocking it and will stop selling things that get returned. I trust AmArtisan, SwanLake, Horusdy, and others on Amazon who put their name on generic Chineseium. (I doubly trust them when they are all selling identical tool sets with different branding.) This is different from American brands where I trust manufacturers like Ryobi regardless of who is reselling their tools.

I was teaching a class today, and wanted to show 2 JewTube videos. The first had some slut saying she smoked cannibis with her dad, and the second had a guy without his shirt showing off his muscles.

I gave up and paid $13.99 a month for JewTubePlus.

I wonder why Fed.Gov cut them off?

For those who do not know, this has been a site for non-prescription antibiotics for "ornamental fish" that were the same pills from the same factories that humans get at pharmacies. Preppers loved them.

I was browsing Amazon and noticed that my wife does not look like the woman in the underwear ad. I called Amazon and asked if I could exchange her. They said no.