Dude only half of these are actually the onion. It's all satire, relax

Oh no. Oh no

get your common sense and logic out of here lol

I imagine that's only if you market it as drugs.

"Hey you got the good drugs?" "Yeah here"

But what if you played the long con, started....say a salt distribution ring. Have a run down house full of it, sell it in baggies, make it look as suspicious as possible only for them to do stakeouts, get informants in there, just to find you are not doing anything illegal at all, it just has all the signs without the actual law breaking. If you call it salt they'll probably think it's a code name for a drug

"Hey you got the good salt?" "Yeah here"

goes back to the police lab

"wtf? It's just salt?"

Then they would just think the informant got compromised and have to raid the house lol

I wonder if it was kind of a nod to the MGS world in general being over the top with the crazy characters, sci fi superweapons etc even though that's the norm for the characters in series

How bad did he mess up to be issued a blaster like that?

Follower? Fan? Enjoyer? lol

I like how the pattern adapts to different lighting

I don't have a 3D printer but if I did I would try to keep it in a basement or garage, or at least keep a window open

chootem inna hed nah boa!

It's called 10 tap. So quickly half press (not clicking) the button 10 times, then press and hold. It goes to the next mode preset.

For normal use clicking the button is the first mode (low) and half press then click for the second (high)

like this (skip about halfway)

My go to light for work is a Streamlight Protac 2L-X. It has a few modes to set it up how you prefer. Plain bright. Low, bright. Bright, strobe. Rechargable 18650 but you have to take the battery out to plug a usb into it but it lasts a loong time between charges so I don't mind

Strobe is great for raves, self defense and epilepsy tests! (jk)

Oh shit it's Erusea

They have more in common than you might think!

China's entire history is coming together and breaking apart over and over. Australia has a lot of land but the vast majority is unpopulated.

I think the difference is size. The US has states the size of European countries. Getting a country/state to pull together is a lot easier than the whole EU/US because the culture and goals are similar. Right now the Carolinas are pulling together to deal with flooding and Florida is dealing with a rocking hurricane season.

But I agree with another comment that the real divides would be city vs rural.

Cities tend to think that government is the main answer to problems since their lives are surrounded by roads and buildings and public transport and people have a lot less of their own to work with. You can't easily have a garden in an apartment for example.

Rural doesn't have as much government influence since so much focus is spent on the cities. Power outages last longer, stores are few and far between, side roads are often an afterthought and police and fire are 10 min away if you're lucky. So people use the land and neighbors and have the ability to be mostly self reliant.

So you can see where the divides come from on a lot of subjects

Watching "The Fog" (1980) for the first time!

Nice one!

The Rand corporation made a paper on what they call the "neomedieval era". They get paid to research and write a bunch of analytical stuff for the US Govt and other big picture people.

The idea is that the last 200 years has been an anomaly. Big central governments, industry, media etc. They make the case that a shift has started since about 2000. We are gradually sliding back to how things have worked for most of human history, decentralized societies, greater divides between rich and poor and governments trying their best to get by. Less chance of massive conventional world wars and more chance of messy regional ones (Syria, Lebanon etc). It's an interesting read. So no it's not just you!

Anyway what we should all try to do is focus on what you can locally. Make friends, build skills and do stuff with them. Be involved and help each other. Yes there are always bigger fish to take things but building up is better than being helpless in difficult situations. It can be fun AND fufill a bigger purpose. No need for constant doom and gloom to do better.

If I can get to a level my grandparents were with gardening, canning, sewing, diy repairs etc I'd be pretty well set. Back then it was a norm, but we offloaded those skills on companies and governments. Now it could be seen as homesteading or prepping but in their time it was common sense for a society that made it through world wars and the depression.

That pic reminds me of the intro scene in "Downfall" (the movie that all the hitler yelling videos come from)