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[Patrick @gorillagun]

You can't order anything thru an app. FROM ANYWHERE! Even if you do you have to call to confirm anyone read and understood your order.

But then again when you pay slave wages that require 4 people to share a dirty 1 bedroom apt. What do you expect?

Food industry workers have gone the way of customer service. "If we make it so unusably bad - no one will use it! We will save so much money!". "How can we design this voicemail system so that it wastes more time than the customers problem is worth?".

[Patrick @gorillagun]

@jjreeves What's with the go go shorts dude?! Those were cool like 5 summers ago.

On Fire Island.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

@Zuffa_Boxing @paramountplus That honestly looks like a fix. Imho.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

Most engineers are not artists. Just look at every single AR companies logos. Except old rimey Colt. If you added the word "airlines" at the end it would make sense. Most of these companies are engineering company. CNC guys. Brilliant in their own right. But there is a reason designers exist. They are not engineers. And engineers are not designers in the visually pleasing sense if the term.

Not to mention AKs were not designed for attachments in the first place. Maybe if they had been like an AR to be modular and have attachments. They would lend themselves better to it. But an AK is a permenantly rivited rifle. Meant to be a singular, complete object. Not meant to be customized. Beyond carving and 99210 stickers. ;) If you know you know.

But yes. Jmac needs a designer to take their excellentky functional products and make them not look like ass. Or at least look like they are designed to be combined with the existing design of the AK. Right now they look like something designed by someone who saw all the attachment points. And figured out how to mechanically make it work. But never saw an AK as a whole. And ever wondered "I wonder how this is going to look on this firearm as a whole?*.

There is a big market for food design in the firearms space. Start with the butt ugly logos for Christ sake. I loved that pistol grip company that out those japanese tattoo type designs in them. If anyone with any design taste and talent out some real art into firearms, like the old time engravers did, you'd have a gold mine of a market. And I'm not taking about engraving old script or just placing nice art. I mean designing the entire firearm or accessory with the art of the object in mind. You'd make a killing. Nit many firearms or accessories these days seem like high art. Or artistically pleasing in anyway. That's what happens when engineers alone design things for function. Yes. Function over beauty everytime. Way more important. But we used to have both. If anyone one figured this out in the future. Firearms and accessories are sadly lacking in the beauty department.

No reason we can't have both. Even if just in the shape of things. Need nir be fancy. That's not what I'm saying. Just not look fugly! Like one thing has nothing to do with the rest of the firearm. Kind of like Jmac.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

It would have been better if he had just left that part out.

He does not need to disparage his adversaries. He's smarter than that.

People follow his advice because of "his" expertise. Not because everyone else is a "jackass".

He's sort of selling himself short.

Live and die by what you accomplish. Not by the failures of your adversaries. Concentrating on others failures cheapens your own accomplishments.

You succeeded because you were better. Not because everyone else was so bad.

I agree with @GarandThumb1 . Lucas doesn't need to point out anyone else's failures. He succeeds because of his superior wisdom alone. Not because of the low qualities of his adversaries.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

@the_autopian Ya. It's the fuel prices. Not the fact that it's engineered to cost you 3 times the purchase price in parts and service. Or the fact that they cost more than anyone can afford.

Ya. Let's blame the price of gas.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

I think it's equally ok to share what worked on your way up the financial ladder. There is obviously a bare minimum in quality. 70-80% say of the highest level of quality?

Then there is the top tier. With the goal of spending the extra money to get to above 90% if you can. But only if the improvement in shooting justifies that greater financial outlay.

I think those are also the core debates. What constitutes a level of quality that is reliable, performs well and won't stop your progression as a shooter. Call that very good quality. Like a BCM.

Anything above that I think you should be at a level of training or expertise that makes that extra cost worth it. Maybe your starting to compete, or move your training to a higher level.

I personally hold a philosophy I call the "sweet spot".

I try to identify that 80% sweet spot. Where your buying things that are 80% of the very best quality. Because that last 10-20% rarely includes anything that is a massive improvement. And that last 10-20% usually comes with a 50% higher price.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

Why is bigpharma so ghost like? We know the CEOs of most major American corporations. But all the leading people behind these corrupt snake oil sales remain generally hidden. I mean I assume I can find their names online. But they are well kept out of the American culture. Owning the media I can see why.

But there are people behind these decisions. Regardless if they jury rigged the American political system to make it impossible to sue them.

We should know these people? And all of their board members and all of their top level execs.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

@RobSchneider @pfizer The precisely accurate term "snake oil salesman" has not changed in centuries.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

@jjreeves You do occasionally have good taste.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

@TimKennedyMMA I lived there for 30 years. Some years ago I innocently pulled out my driver's license when going to vote. Assuming I had to show some form of ID. And was yelled at. Admonished for even attempting to show it. I was dressed down about the rules requiring "I not show it"!

[Patrick @gorillagun]

I'm in the Phillipines and am CERTAIN this is true. Everyone here knows if you speak against the government online you can get in real trouble. Live in any country with gun control. You aren't given "rights". Your given whatever is convenient to the government. Until it's not. And they will be taken away.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

@MeatEaterTV Moose.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

@MeatEaterTV For the record I mean packing out "other people's" trash. As much as your comfortable with. I assume all of us pack out our own trash.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

I guess I just assumed all good hunters do this. If not, we should start a movement. Even if it's just always carrying a small trash bag. And taking what you can with you.

It doesn't have to mean packing out pounds of trash. Just some. Whatever your comfortable with. And encouraging others to do so.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

@Kagan_M_Dunlap I can't believe you missed such an obvious GTA reference. This is a punchline just waiting.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

I don't have much sympathy for alcoholics. If you have one DWI you're an alcoholic. If you have two you're a criminal. And you're still an alcoholic.

Yes. It's a disease. But it's still your responsibility to treat your own disease. You risk killing people by not treating this one - and choosing to drive.

I see the point you're trying to make. The state seizing property is not something we want. But in this case it's the actual tool you've chosen to very likely harm or kill someone with. While continuing to risk other's lives by not treating your illness and choosing to drive.

Should felons who use firesarms in their crimes or drunk drivers have their driving or firearm rights taken away forever? Perhaps not. That's a severity and number of convictions issue.

But should they lose the firearm or vehicle used in the commission of the crime? Probably so.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

How old were these children? And how much similar discipline have they learned from their parents up to this point in their life?

I hate these studies that put blind faith into one possible reason for an outcome.

I can show you a dozen different children from a dozen different family situations. With a dozen different levels of similar discipline. Some may have learned excellent table manners and might have developed a high level of compliance for what they are told to do by an adult. Others might seem feral.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

This is definitely a win. But if you've ever visited a big city like Los Angeles' USPS facilities. Or used them. That is the last institution you would allow to safe keep your firearm. USPS employees in LA are continually getting busted stealing mail. I've had numerous packages stolen. Including gun parts. With no accountability or even concern by local USPS managers. (Who iirc also got busted for stealing packages.)

I can't speak for the entire nation. But LA is like an outlaw outpost that goes on for miles. Thankfully I don't live there anymore. What do you think is going to happen to firearms?! I would not trust the USPS with a dirt clog.

[Patrick @gorillagun]

@BoredElonMusk So true! Lmao! Or ones that line up for every free sample at Costco. 🤣