I’d like to wish a merry fuck you to the sore on the inside of my mouth that has been a goddamn fire the last few days. Fuck cankersores nothing seems to be touching it.

American companies being welfare queens, imagine that.

A couple things I have to note, also as someone that used to do gun repairs and basic gunsmithing for a shop back in the day:

1. They are a bitch to clean, but the right tools can make it a lot easier. Get a boresnake, proper cleaning solvent and lube, patches and brushes, both brass and regular brush. Watch a youtube video and learn how to properly clean it. Pop out the two push pins and field strip it and cleaning it is rather easy. For the upper run boresnake through with solvent and patches until clean, then run it through again with lube. EZ.

(Also learn to clean or at least do a half-ass clean if time is a problem after every range visit, we got so many firearms that looked like they hadn’t been cleaned in years and were always a real bitch to take care of. My personal favorite was someone upset that we couldn’t magically restore his “5 years in a garage in Florida humidity in a duffel bag never fired or cleaned” that was rusted and pitted to hell, and that it couldn’t be brought back to factory new for 30 bucks 😂)

2. I haven’t personally had this happen to me, but also range use will vary wildly from combat use so I can’t speak on this too much.

3. They are because aluminum is very popular for manufacturing. If taken care of properly, this won’t be an issue. See above that most people don’t clean and maintain theirs properly lmao

4. Skill issue. Memes aside a good quality BCG is important for this reason. More people need to learn how the parts work on their build and change out parts as necessary if they are having issues with certain parts of it.

I completely agree with everything except the bit about Bear Creek, I can’t talk shit when my 300blk upper from them runs well 😂

I mean, nobody wants to admit that they ate 9 cans of ravioli own a BCA, but I do and it’s actually been surprisingly nice.

Okay memes aside, if buying BCA/PSA tier bottom bin parts know how to inspect them and make sure that they’re good quality. With any firearm purchase actually give it a good look over, clean and prep it, know how to do little things like sanding down a feed ramp with a little bit of time and sandpaper (youtube is great for this). Don’t just buy something planning to just shove it in the closet and not do any sort of work or prep or testing it at the range because if you do that, it’s going to be a lot worse if you need it to work and it doesn’t :)

Honestly if I had to have a notoriously unreliable car, I’d pick a Delorian over this any day.

At least the Delorian can be dressed up like in BTTF.

Testing? Testing with what? The cheapest crappiest frangible 9mm they could find?

The real ballsy move is riding two wheels, where I’m going I don’t need imaginary armor panels around me.

Happened to me as well. Turns out they no likey if you use a VPN and will ban you for it.

GreenManGaming is a legitimate reseller, in a similar fashion to humble bundle or similar sellers.

I also do not like them because their keys if you are buying on sale for a new launch, their keys are usually UK based as they are UK based and they will not let you play on sooner launch dates, as I learned with Mirrors Edge Catalyst’s release when I wanted to play on day 1 and should have bought direct through origin, but instead now I had to wait a week, and they did not offer a refund policy.

So instead I bought the game again on origin and gave away the other key as a free giveaway to spite them 😂

If it’s a “trusted” source, as in a popular one, such as a certain link from a certain girl that is fit, yes.

Otherwise another option I’ve done for a while was buying cheap keys from greymarket type resellers, though for those I only did them from AAA publishers never putting their games on sale and on a second account (idea being you minimize risk and if something did turn out to be a stolen key, which was a problem for a while on those kinds of sites, a chargeback isn’t going to hurt a AAA publisher as much as an honest small published in house indie dev team).

Honestly if it’s a big setup like Spotify or Netflix or etc, “royalties” don’t mean shit to the production team / artists / whoever. Unless they’re Mariah Carey levels of replayed every year everywhere to the tune of sitting on millions in checks yearly, they aren’t going to get shit. Personally I’d rather support them in other ways such as buying merchandise, going to live shows etc but that’s just me.

Remember though this is in minecraft, don’t pirate irl because that is very bad and you will personally prevent executives at warn-a-brother from buying another learjet. Remember: “pirating is bad and you should feel bad” 😂

It’s not a mobile client sadly, but for desktop I’ve always liked “4k video downloader” (Softonic). It’s something you have to download on there, but I copy the youtube link, open the app have it parse the link and then it’s downloaded and ready in .mp4 pretty quickly, with .mp3 as an option too for music.

It’s a bit convoluted, but I’ll usually download albums and tracks on my PC, have it all saved in a music folder then copy it manually to my phone.

“Please stand and yell “Mcdonalds” to end commercial”

We did do that once as bored teenagers on an off day back in maybe 2006. Though the pizza shop let us know it was going to take about two hours, which we were totally cool with, and tipped the driver like 20 bucks (on top of a $15 order) because we knew it was probably hell getting there.

Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do, I get that. But if you’re gonna be doing that, please tip your drivers very generously and give them plenty of time and don’t be an asshole to them :)

Gonna likely be Houston about this time tomorrow. Good luck and godspeed to whoever braves the roads.

Delivery really is just much more convenient. I’ve been getting my groceries delivered like this from a certain big box retailer and it’s been very nice. No more bullshit traffic, bullshit parking, bullshit walk in and out, bullshit aisle walking around slow people, bullshit searching, bullshit looking for an employee for 20 minutes to help get a $3 stick of deodorant, bullshit line at checkout, etc etc. Now it’s just click add to cart and it shows up at my door the next day.

I’m sure it’s partly by design because they charge a subscription for the service, but the convenience and money/time saved not having to drive makes it so worth it.

I view this as a self correction in itself as well. Walgreens is losing money because they skewed so far that they’re annoying customers into leaving en masse for other options. Now their options are they can either go back to the old model that worked better, or they can keep playing hardball until more stores go out of business, and someone else can take over that corner and sell better.

That’s what I would call a bubble. The same has been said for FAANG stocks because they are success stories, and I do think that TSLA and NVDA are large enough with enough assets that they aren’t going belly under overnight.

That said, there were stock advisers, people with degrees and decades of work in early 2001 saying “Buy Enron!” Same goes for dot com stocks, same goes for cypto bros. I’ve made some pocket change off those two companies “mooning” their share values so I am definitely not complaining, but don’t rely solely on those two to go “line go up” forever. When they did my decision was not to buy more, my decision was to very smartly sell off a small portion to “make my money back” per se, and now the rest is house money basically :)

This is why one of my “divestments” is non-cash valuable currency, items such as weapons / tool stockpiles, and training / knowledge. Seriously on that last one is so important if you have a day off learn how to use basic hand and power tools. Learn to cook something. Learn how basic gardening works. Take a CPR and Stop the bleed course, how to do basic electrical work, etc. You don’t have to be professional at them but learn how to do them.

Best case scenario, you can be cheaper and look sexy knowing how to cook clean and repair. Worst case scenario, those are going to be worth more than Benjamins in a true SHTF scenario.

I’ll die on that hill with you. Most likely from self-induced health problems from loving the good food here too much, but for all the crap that we deal with the good food is a plus.

I’m gonna put it this way: In an apartment complex I used to live in, AT&T service was terrible while Sprint (still a thing at the time) and Tmobile had okay service, and Verizon had great service.

One of my neighbors there was literally worked for AT&T as a telcom engineer or something, and was as such eligible to get free cell service from AT&T.

He paid the hundred bucks or whatever at the time for Verizon, instead of the literally free service he could get from his employer, because it was so terrible. Good riddance.