My Granddad had any old Massey 185 and it was parked for may years we then threw a battery on it and it fired right up

Good work😊👍

Decided to make my own interlock wasn’t as difficult as I thought. Wanted to have one but didn’t wanna spend nearly $100 for a thin piece of metal.

If you think a state like Texas should be able to secede from the union but a state like Donbas should not, you have a very significant inconsistency in your world view.

Looks great!

You can let you use the nail gun or screw a couple in there. Easy enough to watch and she will have fun

The 21-Foot Handgun Drill is Bullshit, Always Has Been

This drill unfolds as follows: a guy with a knife in hand initiates an attack and usually "wins", meaning he touches the gun guy with a fake knife before the gun guy can fake shoot the knife guy.

As if that is a "kill". As if the gun guy can't now shoot the knife guy many, many times. But that isn't even the real bullshit.

Have the knife guy put the knife in a scabbard, and let the gun guy initiate the attack. The bull 💩 becomes instantly obvious. The real lesson is that the attacker, in all situations, tends to have the advantage. This is true from a street attack all the way up to state-on-state military conflict.

The attacker doesn't always win but, statistically, wins far more often than not. Look at every major war in history, and you'll see this is the case. In fact, the nations that we often say "lost" — like Germany in WWII — only lost when they stopped being the attacker and became the defender.

Some reading this won't like it because it grates against the "taught truth", but the taught truth is taught because it's seldom simply true. It is, instead, a construct that generally is false. In many instances, it's the truth hiding in a lie, as it is here.

What the drill should teach you is that having a gun doesn't guarantee you'll survive or win in a fight, even if your attacker doesn't have one. Substitute a hammer for the knife, and the attack becomes even more potentially deadly. You're more likely to survive a stab wound than a blow to the head with a ball peen hammer that can be bought in any hardware store for under 20 bucks.

You could be a Navy SEAL, a Green Beret — it doesn't matter. If someone wants you dead and you don't know it, you're likely dead. The most badass soldier you know can be approached from behind and hit in the head, resulting in death in less than a second. People hate this type of truth because it makes them realize how at risk they really are. That's the point of the 21-foot drill, but most people who teach it don't understand the real lesson.

#grownostr #gunstr #jacksthoughts

My kids are currently hatching a scheme to trap the robot vacuum. Step 1 was to use pieces of shredded paper on the ground for it to smell out and lead it to a trap of pillow barriers.

Anthropomorphism is a natural human behavior output from what we use to understand other humans and perhaps hunt or hide from other animals successfully as well. It’s been a boon to our survival. But misapplied, it acts as a veil over further understanding.

ChatGPT performs pretty well at the imitation of things like ‘reason’ conversationally as we think such an ability must be required in-order to answer a question with a coherent 3 paragraphs or carry a conversation. But you can isolate the LLM with something nearly novel like playing the game Wordle and the illusion is broken.

If AI is a threat or will ever be a threat, (same for any true alien species) anthropomorphism will be a weakness for us. As the “motivations” of an AI will be either simply programmed (robot vacuum), or will be a complete black box that the engineers don’t even fully understand. In either case ascribing a mind and motivation to the behavior will not help you anticipate it’s behavior. #grownostr #AI

Too soon?

2.5 hrs

26 birds for the freezer. Enlisted help from neighbor kids and grandma. Made it a party.

#homestead

#foodsecurity