valleyforge @valleyforge@qoto.org

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFPJf-wKTd0 Veritasium is wild

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31800580

If you haven't heard this story you should read it

If you own a V8 powered Mustang that isn't named "Sleipnir" you're doing it wrong. That is the perfect name.

FYI the springs in these cheap "rough rider" revolvers are consumable parts. Just get a spare set for like $30.

So essentially a bunch of city people saw pictures of men riding horses and thought it looked scary so border patrol is not going to be allowed to ride horses anymore

I was a C two months ago! At this rate I'll make A in one or two months

I bought something on etsy from someone in cornwall and on the customs form for shipping they listed it as a "gift" when "sale of goods" is clearly an option. I admire their thrift.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/09/22/top-army-spokesperson-suspended-after-abysmal-climate-survey/

I had no idea anyone ever made a repro colt-burgess
https://taylorsfirearms.com/catalog/product/view/id/460/s/1883-burgessr-rifle/category/13/

These people are wrong. https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/equitable-research-requires-questioning-status-quo

con-man, journalist, and a politician are all just variations of professional liar

I wonder what random people eventually received stuff that was stuck on the boats in the suez canal a few months ago

I'm looking forward to a dove hunt in a few weeks and yesterday a morning dove landed on a bench in front of me in downtown. Taunting me.

https://www.shopheritagemfg.com/stocks

You could absolutely do this with the new 2 inch barrel version.

If you have a heritage rough rider 22 revolver. It's only $300 including the stamp to make it into a carbine. Heritage makes the parts.

Hot take?:

"Western" movies is a terrible way to define a genre. We don't define other genre's by their setting (except for maybe scifi?). Instead of talking about "Western" movies we should talk about the genre I would call "Hero" movies. The "Hero" movie genre includes everything from The Outlaw Josey Wales, Seven Samurai, The Patriot, and possibly Star Wars. This is a better genre definition than "Westerns".

Is Back to the Future Part 3 a western but not the other parts? They have similar plots! That's the point of the movies! So do Josey Wales and The Patriot. These are the same movies in different settings.

So if "Westerns" are defined solely by their setting then the episodes of Star Trek TNG that take place in the old west are a western but Firefly isn't. This definition of a genre is absurd and useless.

I'm starting to think that the whole "permanent record" this is a grand conspiracy to oppress children

I'm watching bladerunner and I noticed that this lamp has various hunting pictures on it. I wonder why they chose that.

stews are a great way to make it look like you know how to cook a lot more than you actually do