Meme Dump!

Hey, Look!

"To fully trace the origin story of the Daniel Defense H9 Compact, you’d have to go back to the late 1990s, as online firearm forums were gradually supplanting the old rec.guns newsgroup on Usenet.

Step into the General Firearms Discussion section of any forum not dedicated to a specific brand and you were stepping into a war zone dominated by two feuding camps: the Glock Fanboys and the 1911 Acolytes were the Jets and the Sharks of these online war zones."

My full review is available online.

Panopticon Update...

Meta's pervert goggles are getting face recognition to make stalking random strangers you run across in public even easier.

"Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app."

Well, there's nothing creeptastic about that at all.

This meme remains undefeated:

"Is It Monday Again Already?" Memes!

Tab Clearing...

• The goons who keep an eye on the crews of the "shadow fleet" tankers that are the Russian economy's increasingly tenuous financial lifeline.


• The paid influencers who hype Polymarket to the rubes.


• Pokémon Go location data sold for use in training military drones. No wonder people are starting to hate everything about Big Tech.

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Homemade Meme Dump!

Automotif DCXXVIII...

Absolutely drop-dead gorgeous 1960 'Vette, photographed using a Canon EOS R and RF 24-105mm f/4L IS zoom lens.

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Travel Day Yesterday...

Woke up in a hotel in the middle of Nebraska yesterday after a two-day carbine class/match at Heartland Public Shooting Park just outside Grand Island.

Left the hotel at 0600 local for a ride to Lincoln, a flight to Denver, and then... after my connecting flight wound up delayed by over two hours ...a flight home to Indy. I arrived home around 9PM EDT.

Included in the day was the experience of looking out the airplane window at 6PM and seeing Grand Island below, the place from which I had departed twelve hours prior. Ah, the magic of hub-and-spoke air travel.

After a full day of tours on the concrete floors of the various Hornady plants in Grand Island, two days on the range, and then an absolute Hell Day of travel, I am officially whupped.

 

Friday Closeout Memes!

Brain Buckets

Danish PSA's go pretty hard.

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Tankity!

Interesting video on the Sheridan, the Army's last light tank.

Meme Dump!

Surveillance States

Perhaps unsurprisingly, cops keep getting caught using Flock cameras and their surveillance database to stalk people.

Welcome to the panopticon.

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Hump Day Meme Dump!

Meme Dump!

Back to the Meme Mines!

Automotif DCXXVII...

An attractive looking 1972 Buick Skylark Custom Sport Coupe in Fire Red motoring northbound up College Avenue on a late May afternoon.

Photographed with the Canon EOS R and RF 24-105mm f/4L IS zoom lens.

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Eighty-Two Years Ago Today...

...soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the Allied forces embarked on the Great Crusade.

Harried

Wednesday saw the official retirement of the AV-8B Harrier II V/STOL ground attack aircraft by the USMC after four decades of service.

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Automotif DCXXVI...

This 1965 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport, complete with rumbly 396-cube big block under the hood, was absolutely eye-catching.

Photographed with a Canon EOS R5.

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Everybody's Meme-ing for the Weekend!

Everything from beer cans to party balloons...

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, to say nothing of damage to some of the world's largest smelters, has aluminum prices skyrocketing.

Aluminium prices are at a four-year high, up more than 25% this year, as war in the Middle East and a blocked Strait of Hormuz choke off nearly a quarter of the world’s seaborne metal supply.

Not just aluminum, though. The global helium supply has been kneecapped as well, which will impact everything from microchip manufacturing to MRIs.

The war has also upended markets for products extracted from natural gas. Among the most critical is helium, an odorless element produced as a byproduct of natural gas extraction. Before the war, Qatar supplied roughly one-third of the world’s helium.

Chip manufacturers use it to cool machines that etch circuits onto silicon wafers. Pharmaceutical companies rely on it for quality checks of their products. In magnetic resonance imaging machines, helium cools superconducting magnets.

I've already had a couple people tell me that even though prices on everything from portable electronics to memory cards for cameras is up, if I have any I need to buy, I shouldn't be waiting for Christmas because it's going to be a year minimum once the shooting stops for things to even start getting back to normal.

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Answers to name "Lucky"...

"The pilot of the F-15E Strike Eagle shot down April 3 over Iran was also the pilot of one of the three F-15Es shot down by a Kuwaiti F/A-18 in a friendly fire incident less than five weeks previously, making him “almost certainly” the first Air Force fixed-wing pilot to be shot down twice in the same conflict since the Vietnam war, according to current and former Air Force officials."

This is how you get given a new callsign by your peers.

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Automotif DCXXV...

A tasty Nova with an SS hood. The grille says '69 but it's modified enough that it's hard to be a hundred percent sure.

It's got aftermarket disc brakes on all four corners and the fat dual exhausts dumping out just aft of each rear wheel were emitting a noise advertising that this car had something serious going on under the hood. It was definitely ready to party.

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Memes for the Mid-Week!