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The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don’t have to copy anyone else. If you do, you’re second best. . . John Denver

[Skillet @coldSKLT]

@harveyspistols

[Harvey's Pistol & Pawn @harveyspistols]

No. Rascal did not meet the man.
However, Rascal thought he was tops.
One of the few truly good ones, if you will.
I told him it might be in poor taste. Rascal said, he loved the man and everyone else could just get over it. 🤷‍♂️

So this week's giveaway is very much a celebration of and an homage to that good and beloved actor, passionate farmer, and kindly nature loving soul, Sam Neill.

Rascal knows the SPAS12 is more in line but, alas, we do not have one. So, even though it is more @prattprattpratt than Sam we will be giving away a Marlin SBL 45-70 govt!

To Enter: FOLLOW us as well as our long time sponsor @SummRidge , repost or quote post this post (I know y'all have some good gifs ready), and be sure to ALSO REPLY to this post.

Good luck all and thank you for participating with us and helping spread the word!

In honor of Sam, get outside this weekend and enjoy the beauty that is all around you, waiting for you.

Good luck
& Godspeed Mr. Neill.

[Skillet @coldSKLT]

@BonafideKRS Absolutely would, but i want me a dent-side

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

They want you to believe your voice doesn't matter.

Yet in just the last few days:

-LAPD canceled its Flock contract.

-Meta cancelled Muse Image AI after privacy outrage.

-One of the largest planned U.S. data centers was killed (PW Digital Gateway) by local opposition.

The surveillance state isn't inevitable.

It advances when people are apathetic.
It retreats when people fight back.

Public pressure works. Keep pushing.

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

INSANE: 900 Snakes, Including Venomous Cobras, Escape into Village from Breeding Farm After Massive Flooding in China.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Here is everything raw milk gives you that the carton in the shop cannot.

The minerals are identical, so leave the calcium out of it. What the heat kills is the living half of the milk, the part that only survives if it comes straight from the animal:

- Lactoperoxidase, the milk's own antimicrobial defence
- Lactoferrin, the protein that locks up iron and starves the bugs
- Immunoglobulins, actual antibodies straight from the cow
- Lysozyme, the enzyme that breaks bacteria apart
- Lipase, which splits the fat so you don't have to
- The native lactic-acid cultures, the good bacteria, gone
- Riboflavin, B12 and folate, dented on the way through the vat

Not one of those shows up on the carton, because the carton only counts what survives the heat.

They'll tell you the minerals come through fine, and they do. They just never mention the milk didn't.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Il y a un mois, au lendemain de l'IPO de SpaceX, je publiais une analyse expliquant pourquoi cette entreprise vaudrait 30 à 50 trillions de dollars d'ici cinq ans. Trente millions de vues, et pas mal de gens pour me dire que j'avais perdu la tête. Elon m'avait RT.

Hier, Elon Musk a écrit que SpaceX vaudra plus que le reste de la Terre si ses objectifs sont atteints. « More than the rest of Earth. » Tout le monde y a vu une provocation. Moi j'y vois un théorème. Laissez-moi le démontrer.

Posons le problème. La richesse mondiale totale, tout ce que huit milliards d'humains possèdent, immobilier, actions, usines, or, pèse environ 500 trillions de dollars. Dire qu'une entreprise vaudra davantage que tout cela réuni semble arithmétiquement absurde. Et ça l'est. Dans un système fermé. La phrase de Musk ne dit qu'une seule chose, et c'est la plus importante du siècle : le système est en train de s'ouvrir.

Accordons aux décroissants leur unique point valide : la croissance infinie est impossible dans un monde fini. Leur erreur n'est pas logique, elle est géographique. Ils ont cru que le monde s'arrêtait à la Terre. Or la Terre représente 0,0003 % de la masse du système solaire et intercepte un demi-milliardième de l'énergie du Soleil. Nous nous disputons des miettes au pied d'un buffet que personne n'a encore ouvert. Ouvrez-le, et l'hypercroissance cesse d'être un slogan pour redevenir une trajectoire physique.

A. Depuis dix mille ans, la richesse suit une seule variable : la quantité d'énergie et de matière que l'homme sait capter et organiser. Feu, agriculture, charbon, pétrole, atome, silicium. Chaque bond de civilisation est un bond énergétique. Notre civilisation entière tourne sur 20 térawatts. Le Soleil en rayonne vingt mille milliards de fois plus, en continu, gratuitement, depuis quatre milliards et demi d'années. Sur l'échelle de Kardashev, nous sommes une civilisation de type 0,7. Le Soleil, à lui seul, nous emmène au type II.

B. SpaceX ne participe pas à cette transition. SpaceX en possède l'unique porte. Starship divise le coût de l'orbite par cent, la constellation assure les communications, et le deuxième acteur mondial a dix ans de retard. J'ai déjà fait la liste de ce que ça débloque, data centers orbitaux, usines en microgravité, minage d'astéroïdes, Mars. Ce qui m'intéresse aujourd'hui, c'est l'étage que personne ne price : ce que ça débloque dans les têtes.

Car voici ce que les démographes refusent de voir. La natalité occidentale ne s'effondre pas à cause du prix de l'immobilier. Nos arrière-grands-parents faisaient six enfants dans des logements sans chauffage. Elle s'effondre parce qu'on a confisqué le futur. On ne fait pas d'enfants pour un monde qu'on nous décrit comme finissant. On en fait pour un monde qui commence. Le pic de natalité occidental coïncide exactement avec le pic d'optimisme technologique, les jets, l'atome, Apollo. Girard l'avait compris : une civilisation privée de frontière retourne sa rivalité contre elle-même, et c'est très exactement notre époque, guerres culturelles, ressentiment, déclin administré par comités. Rendez-lui une frontière, et la même énergie mimétique redevient émulation, construction, transmission. La colonisation du cosmos est le premier projet capable d'unifier l'Occident depuis 1969. On refera des enfants comme on posait des pierres de cathédrale, pour un édifice qu'on ne verra pas achevé. Le premier bébé né en orbite fera plus pour la démographie européenne que cinquante ans de politiques familiales.

Maintenant, additionnez. Une économie terrestre relancée par un projet commun et une démographie qui repart. Une économie orbitale complète, énergie, calcul, industrie, tourisme, dont chaque dollar transitera par le même péage. Un système solaire dont la matière et l'énergie excèdent tout ce que la Terre contiendra jamais. Et une seule entreprise qui détient l'accès.

Si A, la richesse suit l'énergie captée, et si B, SpaceX ouvre seule un réservoir un milliard de fois supérieur, alors la conclusion tombe d'elle-même : comparer SpaceX à la richesse terrestre est une erreur de catégorie. La Terre cesse d'être le dénominateur. « Plus que le reste de la Terre » n'est pas une hyperbole. C'est un arrondi à l'inférieur.

Personne, devant le premier puits de pétrole en 1859, n'a dessiné Dubaï. Personne, devant le premier transistor, n'a imaginé que le calcul deviendrait la première industrie du monde. Nous sommes en 1859, et le puits vient de jaillir.

Je maintiens ce que j'écrivais il y a un mois : achetez de l'optimisme. Je ne change qu'un détail. La taille du sous-jacent. C'est l'univers.

[Shawn Hendrix @TheShawnHendrix]

Effective immediately a stay at home order is in place signed by executive order of the president.

Any travel will be illegal for the next 15 days. Our partner Flock safety will help us keep people safe by automatically reporting any violators to local law enforcement. (This is what the future looks like under big data and flock.) stop flock.

[KJCTMBrownstreak @Brownstreak_]

@Milajoy Soon enough everyone will realize that credentials are fraudulent and college was a scheme set up to collect money from you in perpetuity with no guarantee of any results. So many people cheat their way through school. It’s organized cheating too.

[Mrgunsngear @Mrgunsngear]

Georgia Deputy Quin’sha Goss has been arrested for illegally accessing Flock & it's AI database multiple times following an audit of the software.

This will be a daily occurrence if these systems are allowed to remain in place....

#police #crime #PoliceState #4thAmendment #14thAmendment #CivilRights #ALPR #cops #stalking #women #georgia #albany #flock #SurveillanceState

[Skillet @coldSKLT]

@Dexerto Go to settings, time management, set shorts to 0 mins, boom, no shorts

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The irony of Republicans trying to attach the “SAVE Act” to a bill (NDAA) that betrays our sovereignty by merging our military technology and supply lines with a country of 10 million people that’s been at war with its own citizens for its 78 year existence.

Who are we SAVE-ing?

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

Here’s the problem with Flock cameras.

Imagine Flock cameras are an autistic savant police officer doing patrol that has photographic memory.

A major crime happens and a lookout for a certain vehicle is issued. The officer instantly remembers seeing the vehicle from his patrol spot and can help the investigation. They catch a killer or find a missing kid.

Nobody has a problem with that. Or even the tech really.

The problem is when it’s dozens of officers and they can’t hold back when their best friend asks them who they saw and when. And their best friend is loyal to another government or sells the information to the highest bidder.

[Jeremy Todd @Jtodd601]

Stopping Flock cameras and data centers is EXISTENTIAL. We either fight them or CBDC’s and Social Credit Scores are next. This is tyranny like we’ve never see.

Even the soviets couldn’t track your every move. This is happening RIGHT NOW under a Republican President and Congress

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Flock cams have been found at:

-Bike paths
-Nature trails
-Public parks
-Wilderness areas
-Community pools
-Reproductive clinics
-Schools & preschools
-Entrance to state parks
-Gyms & recreation centers
-Children’s gymnastics room

It's not plate tracking.
It’s people tracking.

[Owen Benjamin 🐻 @OwenBenjamin]

I’ve spent decades studying WwII and I can never get to the bottom of it. Its spell on top of spell.

WWI is tragically easy to understand. Probably why it’s barely ever discussed.
Major causes:
Arms race for smokeless gunpowder and the chemicals we all take for granted now that makes modern war possible. Germany cracked the code, a Jew named wiseman failed for England trying to make it out of mold. Germany used hard wood trees for the compound and England didn’t have it. Germany’s industrial output and engineering was scaring the shit out of everyone.

Central banking. The grabblers in the city of London lost America in 1783 desperate to get us back. Christmas of 1913 snuck in federal reserve and needed to do mass liquidation of men in Europe to make way for central banking system and destroy vestiges of guilds and monarchies.

Israel. Rothschilds wanted Israel and Churchill and a ton of “lords” owed them money. Belfour declorarion in exchange for help defeating ottomans and getting America in war.

The relatively recent formations of Italy and Germany created an insane web of alliances that made no sense and a desire to homogenize any culture loyal to local kingdoms and identities

But what made it the bloodbath it became was most people including the elite class could not comprehend what high tech industrial war would look like. And the meat grinder of the stalemate. It was the last war the leaders families were expected to fight in.

The amount of actual death, destruction and change in all aspects of life is hard to comprehend. WWII was just a continuation of the results of WWI and I think a massive shift into psychological control, social engineering, and war by deception.

In my opinion the real hell and death and tragedy was WWI and the traumatized world did wwii to try and find a homeostasis.

Money and machines didn’t build those cathedrals and stone domes. It was living men. It’s why they’re so much above anything built since. A machine or a debt instrument is a hollow eco of living men in guilds.

People are much more aware now of the dehumanizing pasteurization of new technology. But they weren’t back then. The villages were cleared of all the men who happily wanted an adventure. The few who returned were never the same.

Something was unleashed in WWI that is now a ghost in our collective memory. Rest in peace sons of Europe and America. We will remember and thrive in your honor.

[Skillet @coldSKLT]

@DeathMetalV He didn't start it, but he sure as fack built it

[Royce Lopez @hippojuicefilm]

Destroying flock cameras is morally the right thing to do. You can not change my mind.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

"We have cameras everywhere in that town and you cannot get a breath of fresh air without us knowing"

When police are admitting this out loud, it's time to admit the cage isn’t coming, we're already inside it.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Flock cameras have been out up in the Richland Wildlife Management Area in Florida

The location of the flock cameras are in “miles and miles of Florida wilderness with no neighborhoods or shopping centers, subdivisions or traffic lights around — Why are there surveillance cameras here? Why are there license plate readers sitting at the crossroads of a wildlife management area?

Who are they watching? The hunters? People exercising their Second Amendment rights? Families going camping? Fishermen headed to a boat ramp? Because it isn't just here”

“But here's the question that no one seems willing to ask: How much surveillance are we willing to accept? For decades, law enforcement investigated crimes without building massive networks of cameras that record the movements of millions of law-abiding Americans”

I have ferried these cameras are indeed there, and there is literally nothing around the area

They were installed by the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office which has also deployed dozens of Flock cameras across the county. From what I can find, over 40 installed on county roads

Law enforcement says there are here for

- Recovering stolen vehicles
- Tracking suspects
- Solving crimes in these rural areas
- General public safety

They look like unnecessary surveillance. There is literally nothing around here

I have included a video that shows just how far these cameras really are from society, it’s shocking