Zombie Squad

I always think of Escape to Athena When I see a C96. That movie made me actually want one with the little stock. Imagine my disappoint when I grew up and found out about the paperwork nutroll and the void of 50 State legal issues. http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/9/91/ETA_22.jpg/400px-ETA_22.jpg T...

When a government in the US declares law-abiding citizens to be domestic terrorists, you know things are going sideways fast.

The San Francisco city government has formally labelled the pro-gun lobbyist National Rifle Association (NRA) a "domestic terrorist organisation"

Things like this do not happen in a healthy, functioning democracy. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-21/come-heavily-armed-oregon-senator-threatens-violence-governor-hunts-down-lawmakers Excellent find. Practically no major news outlets were reporting on this, which in of itself is fascinatin...

https://www.wlbt.com/2019/06/14/dps-gan ... -officers/

Street gangs are threatening law enforcement with murder again.

Mad scientists. Reanimated pig brains. What could go wrong? https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/17/health/dead-pig-brain-function-study/index.html (CNN)A new experiment has raised medical and ethical questions as serious as those surrounding human gene editing: A support system delivering artificial blo...

It has been my experience that citizen response goes beyond community-level and above disasters. When I experienced a very personal SHTF situation back in June of 2017, it wasn't government agencies or food banks that helped me at first, it was friends and neighbors. After my preps ran out, it was f...

I liked it. It's a smarter movie than it seems on the surface, especially if you like rock music.

This sounds like it would be a nice topic for discussion... In another thread. On topic: https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Second-earthquake-in-4-days-centered-in-eastern-Tennessee-502881551.html MASCOT, Tenn. (AP) - An earthquake centered in eastern Tennessee also was felt in three other states. Th...

What about the Isle of Man? Some one mentioned the Applachan (sp?) mountains the US. It would be great to hide in but agriculture is almost non existent in the mountains. Not many places in the UK. 65 million people, at least half of them trying to surge out of the cities. Three days of food max du...

A few thoughts. People who choose not to vaccinate their kids are putting the lives of other kids who can't be vaccinated at risk. Children who are battling cancer or who have received organ transplants can't be vaccinated because their immune systems are shot due to chemo or immunosuppressant drugs...

I don't see much to discuss on ZS here. If you are the subject of a red flag order, comply with police and fight it in court or end up a criminal or dead like the guy in MD. Everything else is politics.

I think part of the problem is the tendency of drug companies to invent new disorders to sell new drugs. A lot of things are being classified as mental illness that are common, like seasonal affective disorder (the winter blues), are being included in the new editions of the DSM, and pharmaceutical ...

No matter what you chose, no prepper worth his salt should rely on salvage or barter for something as important as self-defense and game-getting. As far as the question asked in the OP I tend to fall into the "Buy it cheap and stack it deep" camp, because unless you are planning to shoot your way th...

I have to wonder if the gunmen could have been actual Iranian military instead of terrorists posing as soldiers. I know I don't trust Iranian government sources to tell the truth about it at all. Nonetheless, the parade is a symbolic target for Sunni terrorist groups in Iraq.

Well ZS, I had quite a bit happen to me in the last year. My business partner died, I had to put my brother into skilled nursing care, and my mom has been in the hospital since last June. I saw my income completely dry up, and if I hadn't had my food and financial prepared in order I would have been...

While political divisions get all the press, I see deep cultural divisions tearing this country apart. There is a huge gulf between rural America and urban America, and political divisions are only a symptom of this. America's strength has always been it's diversity, but not in the modern PC sense. ...

I'll give a semi serious reply, with the caveat that I haven't read the whole thread. In Iraq and Afghanistan militia groups sprang up to cover local defense in the absence of government authority. They mostly used weapons seized from former government sources like military and police units. Here in...

I noticed that traffic has been on a downward trend for the past few years, and the number of people posting has dwindled, too. Heck, when we had the last forum fundraiser we didn't get an update on the final totals for almost a year, and when I pointed it out Whisk.E. seemed to get upset that his h...

Not to throw a wet blanket on the fire, but remember that any change to an SKS brings in almost an instant 922r compliance situation. If you change the stock you have modified three 922r items and you will instantly have to change 3-4 more depending on your model. the stock is three items and chang...

A thought stuck me the other night that make me shake a bit.

Super intelligent AI might be scary, but what about the lesser forms? If computers get as smart as a 4 year old they are still going to be put to work. The scary thought? How easy is it to fool a 4 year old? How cruel can 4 year olds be?

Price gouging laws are put in place to make sure that everyone has a chance to get needed goods and services. The example upthread about the store owner running out of stock and having trouble paying bills is a good argument, but here's another one. An elderly person on a fixed income tries to evac...

I agree, generally, though I think there are certainly situations where government interference is beneficial: Goods with inherent limits; e.g. in my town we have a total of one pharmacy, so it has a de facto monopoly on prescriptions and some other things in disaster situations. Where there's evid...

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And strongman Putin says: the nation that leads in AI... "will be the ruler of the world"

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Silly human. ASIs can't be confined by meatbag concepts like nation-states

Everything I've read so far has the latest test coming in at around 100kt. That's definitely in the strategic range. One of those could carve the heart out of any American city. I'm no nuclear expert, but 100kt is a bit high for a boosted fission weapon IMHO. I guess the little round man's claims ab...