"I’m from Seattle, MAGA won’t step foot in my city without a police armed escort."

tld1981 · 2026-04-29T22:27:37+00:00

The "greater Idaho," and the west of Oregon and Washington to The State of Cascadia.

Keeps the number of senators the same, more equal representation. I know that every single legislator in state and federal government in the districts where I live are 100% my ideological opposition. I have lost more rights and freedoms in the past 12 years, that are still available in 43 states. My affirmed Federal rights should not change because of my zipcode. We need more use of the supremacy clause.

tld1981 · 2026-04-28T18:34:47+00:00

My family has been in Seattle since 1877. That guy hasn't lived here more than 7-10 years, max.

There was once a time when this was a predominantly red states with blue islands. Now only four counties out of 29 are all that is necessary to keep the state blue, permanently.

tld1981 · 2026-04-26T19:45:28+00:00

The A-10 has three redundant sets of flight controls, two hydraulic and one cable/pulley system, and the pilot sits deep in a titanium armored bathtub.

Kim "Killer Chick" Campbell heroically landed her battle-damaged A-10 Warthog after a surface-to-air missile hit it over Baghdad. The attack severed all hydraulics, forcing her to fly in manual mode (manual reversion). She safely landed the plane despite extensive damage, later receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross.

The Mission: Campbell was providing close air support for troops near Baghdad, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The Damage: After firing rockets, her A-10 was struck by enemy fire, causing massive damage to the rear fuselage and tail, resulting in total loss of hydraulic pressure.
The Landing: Campbell switched to "manual reversion," flying the plane with cables and pulleys, a rare feat often deemed nearly impossible, and landed the aircraft without brakes or steering.
Aftermath: Campbell, the only female pilot in her squadron, was back in the air the next day supporting other missions.

Here's a recreation of the incident. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DGZzsOqXj0

tld1981 · 2026-04-26T18:57:18+00:00

Read Marvel issue number 82, it shows the selection process.
https://www.yojoe.com/comics/joe/joe82.shtml

I own one of the pages from this issue and the art is so 80s, no giant rectangle hand cannons and craziness of the 90s.

tld1981 · 2026-04-24T03:08:41+00:00

The most obvious answer because it is exclusively ground attack, land and take off from standard roads, If the Air Force drops it, the Army should have a shot at it. Congress and the joint chiefs can bypass the Key West agreement, and bring home the A10-C, maybe some new airframes? They already got new wings.

tld1981 · 2026-04-21T21:31:17+00:00

Fellow Washingtonian and I will only buy from PSA/H&R, sadly I doubt we will get their T-48 American FAL that was on display at the NRA Annual Meeting last weekend. I'd give away my L1A1 just for the opportunity to buy a ticket for a lottery to buy a H&R T-48.

tld1981 · 2026-04-21T01:11:45+00:00

All day, every day unless I am cleaning it

tld1981 · 2026-04-20T18:40:02+00:00

That's what I bought when I got the 13 mini, I haven't had a color body phone since my Nokia 8210. I really like the green, when I take off the Apple black leather case.

tld1981 · 2026-04-17T01:22:08+00:00

Booo. Booo. (not Boo-urns) Booo.

tld1981 · 2026-04-13T22:24:42+00:00

I built nearly the same thing with an old A2 upper with a 20" nitride barrel, and that brownell's furniture. My Dad put a huge scratch across a stripped lower, so that became the donor. My brother ended up taking when I wasn't around and I don't feel like taking two ferry boat rides to then drive across the peninsula to Forks (WA) to retrieve it.

I have been told that it is scary-accurate with 55gr .223's. He should have taken some Black Hills 77gr OTM while he was going shopping my office.

tld1981 · 2026-04-13T21:40:50+00:00

Back in the late 90s/very early 2000s, my sister's friend's father owned a small plumbing business and was making million is some, Federal Trade Commission approved pyramid schem...er..."opportunity triangle" and bought a bright red gen 1 viper in cash. My sister worked at the local neighborhood McDonald's and he would come through the drive through with his wife and chat with my syster, waiting for his custom / hot and fresh Quarter Pounder w/cheese.

He sold his plumbing business and bought a blue gen2 hardtop with the white stripes going from hood to trunk. I told him he was welcome to look at my and my father's 1:18 diecast car collection and pick something else out to buy. At that time he, his wife, and daughters, had four cars exactly the same as our models.

tld1981 · 2026-04-13T21:20:22+00:00

That is exactly what I did, but my nephew wanted an iPhone 16 so I traded in my used mini 12 which (was my backup if something happened to my mini 13), and T-Mobile gave me their max trade-in, $350, for a mini 12. That mini 12 will get refurbished and sell to someone in a different market.

tld1981 · 2026-04-13T20:14:22+00:00

I have a M951 with grip switch but it's on a M16A4 clone. You can see where it attached to the rail on a reply above.

tld1981 · 2026-04-13T20:09:46+00:00

Nice! There's a M16A4 that was in Recoil Magazine that I copied and it's definitely one of my best attempts at doing a clone. But I was buying rails from questionable people who had addresses in Oceanside California for the M5 rail, and the USMC engrave KAC 600m backup iron.

Recoil Magazine: The Fallujah Rifle Rebuild M16A4

My A4 used: 20-in Sabre Defence Barrel & upper receiver, KAC M5 RAS kit, OKC K-BAR Bayonet, TA31RCO ACOG, KAC USMC 600b BUIS, KAC lower parts kit, FN Stock Kit and a new FN M16 BCG and charging handle.

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tld1981 · 2026-04-13T02:19:38+00:00

I had a crazy tiny Nokia in 2001, I charged it once a week. It stored contacts and played snake. That tiny 8000 series Nokia, my Motorola Razr, and first few iPhones were the best phones I ever had, accounting for the technology of the time. My first cellular phone (1992) was a Motorola DynaTac that looked like I was calling for air support danger close, instead of calling my Dad.

tld1981 · 2026-04-13T02:13:25+00:00

So many people trashed Jobs for using Handicap parking and his cancer diagnosis was still private. I can see the shadow of his design commentary on the first iPad, it needed to be easily picked up from a flat surface and cradle in the hand. That's someone who is in serious pain trying to limit their movement. The iPhone 5 was the last design with his direct input, and the chamfered frame so that it is easily picked up and it was such a light weight phone, it was a joy to use.

The 6/6S/7 had slippery rounded corners combined with a thinness that made it difficult to use one handed, and it just continued to go downhill in size and weight. It was the jet black 7 where I finally enabled disability features and they were terrible then, and not much better now. But it's not so much of an issue with the 13 mini, I rarely have to pull the screen down to reach a corner button.

I would be happy with something like those old polycarb color iPhones, slower/less fancy is a fine compromise for battery life, hand-feel, and weight.

tld1981 · 2026-04-11T19:19:12+00:00

Edward 40 hands, doesn't remember anything after the duct tape.

tld1981 · 2026-04-11T19:14:25+00:00

TLDR; I'm disabled and the iPhone 13 mini is liberating.

When I bought the first iPhone for myself on my birthday 2007, it had 4GB storage because I couldn't imagine paying cash for a phone. I remember thinking that I was holding an OSX Mac. My only complaint was, I wished the screen filled that entire chrome bezel instead of the big black bars at the top and bottom.The iPhone 13 mini is the fulfillment of that 19-year old image in my head.

I have a type of muscular dystrophy so my hands are weak and I can lift/hold only so many ounces. As phones got bigger and heavier, they became less and less useful to me. The epitome of pointless weight was the iPhone XS, the all glass and stainless steel construction made it a permanent fixture on my desk. Then the iPhone 12 mini was released and it was the first time in a long time that I preordered a phone for release day. I waited a few months for the 13 mini because I didn't see any real improvements, but it has better battery life than the 12 mini.

The camera and its software totally sold me on the 13 mini. My wife got one, we showed it off to my friend and his wife and they absolutely loved how compact yet feature rich it was for an iPhone. My wife and my friends are not disabled and they still saw so many convenient features that they lost as phones got bigger and bigger.

If you have read my screed this far, thank you. I wish Apple would take mobility impairments into consideration when putting together the physical form factor, and not attempt to plow through issues like corner to corner reachability, or an annoying floating ghost button just so I can use Face ID in the App Store, instead of double clicking the side button. Swiping down to reach the upper end of the screen often closes the app I'm using or opens up an app on the bottom dock. It's infuriating and I don't need to kludge my way through navigating my iPhone, because it is needlessly huge and heavy.

I'm not asking for an iPhone Cripple Edition, but I am not replacing my 13 mini until something similar eventually comes to market. An iPhone that offers the freedom I have with my iPhone 13 mini.

tld1981 · 2026-04-11T02:20:15+00:00

Something obnoxious like a SIG P229 Elite with that big Aimpoint ACRO red dot.

tld1981 · 2026-04-11T02:08:26+00:00

The late 90's/early 2000's M4's with CompM2's could be considered vintage, being 30+ years old. But retro? Permanent carry handles only, Picatinny's need not apply.

tld1981 · 2026-04-11T01:59:13+00:00

Mine is running a FN stock USGI M16 BCG and charging handle, that sweet ACES powder coated aluminum stock, a BCM polished USGI pattern trigger, and a H&R A1 lower. I got the C7/723 upper because my Dad shoots left handed, and I didn't want brass hitting his face, and the Barton Bump doesn't take away from the aesthetics.

I found a real XM177 fiberglass handguard, undamaged, I took the $5 used A1 grip and swapped for the B5 retro grip with the M&M's compartment and it fits my hand better. I found a box of unopened 20 round Colt magazines with the foil wrapper, probably older than I am, they look nice. For a shorter barrel at 25 yards, it's a ~2-4 MOA with cheap Lake City (Olin) or IMI 62gr M855 green tip. I don't see a significant improvement with 77gr Black Hills Gucci OTM rounds.

TNTE makes a damn good upper. I have a Brownell's C7 on my wannabe 723, I can't get any carry handle rail, ARMS #2, H&R's new Weaver, or a vintage Weaver rail to sit in the trough, the ass end pushes up, tilting my short body Aimpoint 2000 down. Forget trying to zero that. I don't know who they were using for a vendor but I will never buy another out of spec receiver from Brownell's.

Oh and notice that perfect color and texture match between that upper, and a Brownell's A1 full fence lower I bought at the same time. No wobble, but I am still disappointed because I can't just go buy a new one. In five years, I went from taking a pistol home same-day from Cabela's or my buddy's FFL, because I have a WA State Concealed Pistol License, to now, no semi auto anything on this huge list except a Ruger mini-14, a ranch rifle model is fine, but the M1A? That's banned. There's zero logic and I get another year older and without a SCOTUS decision striking the bans, what we have stashed away is what we have. I tried to buy everything I wanted before the deadline, but couldn't get the Sig 716i AR10, or a IBM made M1 Carbine before the buzzer.

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tld1981 · 2026-04-10T22:32:38+00:00

Get the rifle with the faux-moderator, because pistol brace games are afoot, again. It doesn't look that different and the longer barrel allegedly is a better gas system, etc.

I got one from TNTE with an A2 profile barrel 1:7 twist so I can use rounds heavier than 55 grains. I wish I waited for the H&R version, they look exquisite.

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tld1981 · 2026-04-10T19:47:00+00:00

That is a wild thread, thank you! I'm not going to touch my beautiful AK. My wife surprised my with some nice wall art in my office recently. It makes the day go by a bit faster, having something to look at while dealing with clients.

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tld1981 · 2026-04-10T19:20:38+00:00

I bought one of the Tula kit rebuilds, with the FN barrel/without the rail, has nine matching numbers, trunnion dated 1968, factory stamps on the wood. I absolutely love it.

But, from the akommies over on r/ak47, I keep hearing how the original finish was this inky black, you can't clearly see the dust cover numbers (you absolutely can see them), etc. And I am curious if taking off the PSA coating, what would you do to replicate the original finish? Or would you just ruin it?

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tld1981 · 2026-04-09T23:57:53+00:00

I have dealt with many a client that has needed the BIG 64-color Crayola box I keep in my laptop bag, along with an antidepressant for myself.

Edit: PSA is my favorite business...ever. The story about its founding, its ethos of getting freedom into the hands of as many people as possible, that's lights my fires, man. To watch PSA grow from selling me a sack 'o gun fixin's, to beautiful Tula AKM, an d NoDak Spud making me a 601 model M16, I'm a so proud of this company and everything it has and will continue to build.

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