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?☠️NYC THE SATAN’S DEN??

Elderly couple get their car smashed by a pack of feral animals. pic.twitter.com/a4aSU5lv1Y

— ?? Michael 2022 ?? (@Michael20224) May 1, 2022

Many a misplaced Liberal wants desperately to make his/her city a bit like NYC or L.A.

The sane people do not.

By now, many will have seen the video of a Ukrainian drone dropping a small bomb through the sunscreen (!) of a car driven by Russian soldiers. Here’s a short thread on how it was done (with thanks to @ian_matveev, on whose thread this is based). /1 pic.twitter.com/EIm3aW1nWn

— ChrisO (@ChrisO_wiki) May 1, 2022

Small, almost undetectable by conventional anti-aircraft measures and delivers a payload with decent precision? And now imagine the same configuration, but as smart weapon sneaking in a non-straight access target and detonating.

The official day when I began reducing food intake was May 1st, 2020. I figured it would be easy to remember being a Communist Holy Day and they specialized in starving people and all that.

And after 2 years, here is where I stand:

190 pounds gone.

Yeah, I am pretty proud of my weight loss.  I am done actively trying to lose anymore, but just stay between 210 and 215 depending on the season of eating. (Trying to lose weight in cold weather is next to impossible! Your body is like I WANT BISCUITS, SAUSAGE AND HOT CHOCOLATE! STAT!) and I have to by pants again which is becoming annoying even if I carry IWB.

And yes, I am gonna pig out (once) in celebration and take the missus for honest to God BBQ next weekend.  Any recommendations in the Murfreesboro area?

UPDATE: I found a “Before” pic. As soon as I can get the missus to take a pic of the “After” version of me, I’ll post both.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1519940521883410434

I feel like God rained fire and brimstone down on Sodom and Gomorrah for less than this.

I used the word evil a lot to describe things.

This is wickedness.

True biblical wickedness.

That one boy who wants his parents to take down the photos of younger him because it reminds him of being a boy, there is something clearly wrong with him that isn’t gender dysphoria.  To obliterate the existence of his pre-transition existence is deeply disturbing.

Seeing this proves to me that Satan is real and has influence in this world, and kind of makes me hope for God’s vengeful wrath to fix it.

I’m going to start building and Arc.

If it doesn’t start flooding soon, we’re going to have to chippering a lot of people.

https://twitter.com/WarPath2pt0/status/1519706061497782272

Here is a news story that gives more details of the incident:

Good on the civilians who stopped to help.

What troubles me is the officer who showed up and give directions but didn’t jump in to put on the tourniquet.  One would think that police officers would have training on that since they are more likely to need to deal with bleeding control.

When seconds count, you shouldn’t have to ask “does anyone have a tourniquet” you should have one on you or know you have one nearby.

The Algorithm got me.

I was hit with the trailer for Jurrasic World: Dominion as the ad in another video I was watching.

This is the sort of utter horse-shit premise that can only come from soft-handed Hollywood writers who have never left the urban landscape of NYC and LA.

Our paleolithic ancestors wiped out most of the megafauna on this planet with sharpened sticks and stone tools.  Despite the presence of other horribly voracious carnivores, bears, wolves, tigers, lions, jackals, hyenas, etc., we have succeeded on every acre of landmass that we set foot on.  Again, armed with little more than stone tools and sharpened sticks.

The idea that a bunch of dinosaurs poses an existential threat to humanity is fucking stupid.

The reason the first Jurassic Park was so scary is that a handful of humans was trapped in the dinosaurs’ world.  The entire cast on the island was ten humans surrounded by hundreds of dinosaurs and only one SPAS12 between them.

Now flip the story.  A few hundred carnivorous dinosaurs let loose on a planet of 7 billion humans who have hunted our predators to near extinction and then put the rest into zoos or preserves so we can look at them from a position of safety.  It’s the dinosaurs who should be afraid.

If a T-Rex or a pack of velociraptors was really a threat to the local population, hunters would be paying fees to wipe them out like feral hogs in Texas.

Arguably, that would be encouraged – at least in Red states – as the biggest threat the dinosaurs would pose would not be to humans but to the local fauna, e.g., carnivorous dinosaurs wiping out the wild elk or bison population.  Smart states would be encouraging the hunting of dinosaurs as an invasive species, to protect the native species, the way Florida encourages python hunts.

As for one helicopter chasing a T-rex in rural America?  As soon as the first T-rex or velociraptor posed a threat to humans in Ruraltown, USA, every red-blooded gun owner would put in for a 577 T-rex, 600 Overkill, 50 BMG, 950 JDJ, or a 20MM to go T-rex killing.

The very premise of this movie is only plausible to the most cloistered of urban jungle city dwellers who do not understand hunters, Red states, or nature.

If I were going to do a Jurassic Park movie that falls on the heels of the terrible Jurrasic World: Fallen Kingdom, where dinosaurs are released into the wild of North America, here is what I would do.

Cattle ranchers in Colorado, Utah, or somewhere like that.  Their herd is getting massacred but it’s not wolves or the usual livestock predators.  It’s dinosaurs.  Now you have a small cast, maybe a dozen ranchers and cowboys.  They are in a remote location so help is not feasible.  They have an incentive, self-preservation and protection of the herd.  They can be outnumbered by dinosaurs.  They are armed, but perhaps not sufficiently for the largest of the carnivore species, e.g., a 30-30 may be enough for a velociraptor but not a T-rex.

This is not “lots of stupid and incompetent people get eaten.”  This is “a handful of people who are familiar with the land and how to survive are suddenly met with a species of predator that is far smarter and more destructive than what they are used to.”

This gives much more of the feeling of the first Jurrasic Park movie, with a bit of Jaws in the beginning, and perhaps some elements of The Grey and The Edge (both excellent man vs. predator in the wilderness survival movies) and is much more character-oriented.

Then again, I’m not a screenwriter who has never seen nature outside of the Central Park or the San Diego Safari Park.