I think most everybody likes a low bore axis.

I like DSA but I think it's somewhat niche - a lot of the geezer market that would go for those is on revolvers or 1911s instead.

So probably a lot of small DSAs will not be forthcoming.

I take it the compact CZs are still too big for you?

Good luck with the Kimber, revolver 9s are a rare breed.

what gun do you wish somebody would make?

it seems like the main selling point here is a swappable FCU (a la recent Sigs)

thanks for posting, this is hilarious

Very little of that is "the free market"

Student debt is a federal program

Housing shortages are (largely) caused by zoning restrictions

Healthcare is intensely regulated

Big Tech was largely created by the US government as a surveillance tool, for example the CIA's In-Q-Tel fund

The remainder is heavily influenced by the degradation following US abandonment of sound money

better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6

I thought threads was lefty also?

why wait until 18

It takes immense force to make people in a world of scarce resources act as though resources are hyper-abundant.

This is why Communism will always be authoritarian.

Imagine a simple tribe adopts violent revolutionary communism.

The great hunter slays a mighty beast.

Rather than surrender the lion's share, the tribe kills him.

Everyone's bellies are full.

But what happens in a few weeks or a month when the giraffe bones have been picked clean?

We need a new mighty hunter.

Communism requires infinite productivity that has transcended scarcity.

Karl Marx imagined communism only after a period of capitalism that produced immense wealth.

The meme of "fully automated luxury space communism" embeds the assumption that work is no longer required for wealth.

Imagine you possess a replicator from Star Trek, and can conjure up any food dish you can imagine for a negligible amount of energy.

Why should anyone go hungry?

We see this logic in modern Leftism, not just among communists but also among their less hardcore compatriots - democratic socialists, progressives, and the like.

"We are a rich society, surely we can afford universal healthcare."

"Why should anyone in the developed world go hungry?"

And so on...

These variants differ only in the range of goods which are to be given the illusion of hyper-abundance, and thus in the level of coercion required to make the populace play along.

Communism requires the whole populace to play along with the illusion of hyper-abundance for all goods, and therefore requires utter control.

This is not without its internal logic.

Given the assumption of infinite resources, it follows that those who are deprived are victims.

The rich and powerful could grant our wildest dreams (or most basic needs) at no (real) cost to themselves, but they choose not to.

If they could just be forced to share their infinite abundance, we would all live like kings.

Instead no human resource is actually hyper-abundant; even relatively abundant resources like water require scarce human effort and time to make useful.

Consequently, those who want to help the poor should ask how resources can be made more abundant.

Where does prosperity come from?

The Left has an answer to this as well, of course.

Exploitation!

The rich stole their wealth from the poor.

Perhaps some did.

But how come the poor are better off now than in the past?

If it's exploitation all the way down, how come the poorest parts of the world are getting richer?

Exploitation may be part of the story, but it can't be the whole story.

So where does prosperity come from?

maybe but the white countries are all run by Jews which is pretty pathetic also

The hard left would support killing random CEOs, but I think if somebody killed Bezos or the head of an oil company there would be a lot less support than for killing a health insurance exec

There's nothing wrong with science, but you'll have a devil of a time trying to tell science from things dressed up to look like science

yeah good episode of JRE

If authorities stop sending the rescue wagon to Narcan the junkies the problem would clear up pretty quickly

I've got a couple wheats but not from a rare year

yeah but sifting through pennies is a pain, not really worth the time and effort

I go through my change when I spend cash and pick out real pennies but after a couple years of doing that I've only got like 1/3 of a pound

When you subsidize something, you get more of it

This reminds me of colonial Brits paying a bounty for cobras, resulting in cobra breeding operations

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ny-ag-limits-3d-guns-buyback-after-exploitation-3d-printing-community

same here

alongside precious metals I also have some boxes of US nickels, which have a metal value over 5c

being metal, they should hold value against inflation

having a face value, they hold value against deflation

being coins there's some potential for appreciation in the event of currency revaluation (they don't also recall and mint new coins)

I got my first silver quarter (a Standing Liberty) for free today out of a vending machine reject tray

Sometimes they get Gaddaffi'd or Sadaam'd