That’s Rodeo

When you’re making a 2 AM Microwave Quesadilla and that timer hits :01

When an REI lib tries to tell you that American hunters and anglers aren’t ackshully the ones paying for fish and wildlife conservation they’re citing a very famous activist “study” called the Molde study that was published around 2015 to demoralize hunters and take away your power to make wildlife decisions in your state. The Molde study is an activist NGO report that states its own explicit purpose: lessening decision-making power of hunters and anglers on state wildlife commissions. The aim to do this despite the fact that hunters and anglers are the largest financiers of fish and wildlife conservation activities through excise gear taxes and licenses (under the North American Model of wildlife conservation). The Molde study always comes up in mountain lion contexts because one mountain lion NGO pushes it really hard in their online material and the AI platforms prioritize it in this context. The Molde study has a lot of fatal flaws beginning with the fact that it was bought and paid for by an NGO that’s explicitly anti predator hunting. The study states in its opening pages that it’s less rigorous research than it is an activists tool to fight hunter influence on wildlife commissions. That’s what we call a conflict of interest in research but activist extremist NGOs don’t care about that and AI lookups treat it with the same priority as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s data. Then, the methodology is a farce, it counts the entire American land management agency budget line for agencies like the BLM and Forest Service as contributions of “non hunting taxpayers” to conservation, even though large parts of the budgets of some of these agencies have nothing to do with wildlife. They also don’t attribute all excise taxes on guns and ammo to hunters, not using self reported sale data, but just taking a guess of who not to include. I could go on, but long story short, when an REI American tells American hunters and anglers they’re not ackshully paying for wildlife conservation, they’re trying to demoralize you with activist nonsense and your response should be to go buy more ammo or soft plastics or flies.

This is a scientifically illiterate post by someone who has no idea how Americans manage wildlife populations. State agencies use complex, state of the art datasets on populations, prey base, habitat, human/wildlife conflict to set hunting quotas and ensure a sustainable harvest. Data from Camera traps, prey abundance studies, GPS collars, all inform statistical models are all paid for by hunting license dollars and taxes on guns and ammunition. So in many ways, our state of the art science and locally responsive management is thanks to hunters like Dart. Every state agency with a mountain lion hunt has goals of maintaining their population, balancing predators and prey, and stopping human/wildlife conflict.

Look, its not really about taking away hunting or fishing. Its about talking away self-reliance.

Thank you @SecRollins for always advocating for the independent rancher. Casey Murph represents the very best of American agriculture. We cannot afford to lose him and the fifth-generation cattle operation he manages in Arizona

Thank you Secretary Rollins for putting regular Americans first and making sure our public land serves Americans first. The loss of Casey’s family’s operation on that land for a foreign company to run solar would be a massive loss for Western heritage, livelihoods, and our way of life. Casey also provides habitat to migrating wildlife and has a unique and specialized knowledge of arid ecology and range systems. He’s a patriot, thanks for helping him. I hope he gets to meet you and President Trump! Thanks also to @americaunwon for spreading the word.

Correct me if I’m wrong but the way it’s written would also make butchering livestock illegal as well.

If one state passes this, fully expect it to be an issue in many other states in short order, and eventually all states as it gains momentum.

The Vegan Agenda

John Wayne was born on this day 119 years ago. The actor’s final role in a film was Garindan ezz Zavor in the original Star Wars. George Lucas used stock audio from Wayne to voice the character. Now, his grandson Brendan Wayne is one of the actors who plays Din Djarin.

@theharshith_ America IS my family’s startup.

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@EzhmaarSul Just let John Wayne’s grandson be Mando full time

Bo-Katan’s arrogance and asshole behavior is her downfall (as always). You ruined Boba Fett by making him a Tatooine crime boss, so give Fett’s Mandalore story to Din Djarin (and recast someone cheaper with some gravitas who doesn’t demand to take off the helmet constantly).

If Disney wants to pull out of this nose dive: 1. Decanonize the Rey Saga. Cast Sebastian Stan as Luke Skywalker. Find a cute ginger actress with heavies to be Mara Jade. You’re doing Heir to the Empire. 2. Set that up with Mando 4. Show Bo-Katan fucking everything up (again).

The funniest maths in modern environmentalism. One almond requires 12 litres of irrigated water to produce. Peer-reviewed, ScienceDirect, 2017. A glass of almond milk contains roughly 50 of them. 600 litres of water before the carton is filled. The water comes from the San Joaquin Valley in California, which sits over one of the most over-extracted aquifers on earth. The valley floor has subsided by up to nine metres in places due to groundwater depletion. The carton is then refrigerated, sailed across the Atlantic, refrigerated again, lorried to a Manchester Tesco, and bought by someone who is concerned about the environmental impact of dairy. Meanwhile, in Cheshire. A British dairy cow drinks roughly 70 to 100 litres of water a day and produces around 28 litres of milk. That's about 3.5 litres of water per litre of milk. The water is rainwater that fell on her field or came from a local stream fed by the same rainwater. The rain was going to fall on the field whether the cow stood in it or not. 80% of her moisture intake comes from the grass itself, which is also rain. She converts the grass, free of charge, into a litre of milk containing seven times the protein and four times the calcium of almond milk, and shipped roughly 18 miles to the same Tesco. To recap. 600 litres of stolen aquifer, flown halfway round the world for nutritionally worthless beige water. Or 3.5 litres of rain that was already falling, converted by an animal you can pet, into actual food. The shopper picks the almond. She has been told this is the ethical position. The aquifer would like a word.

> Enhanced Games launched in 2026 as the first “doped Olympics” > Athletes openly allowed to use steroids, PEDs, anything legal > Founded on the idea that human limits are artificial and drugs unlock the real ceiling > Hunter Armstrong shows up > Two time Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder > Refuses every drug > Sings up as the only “non enhanced” swimmer in his field > Faces a pool full of athletes pumped on steroids > Wins the 50m backstroke anyway > Walks away with $250,000 Dude is absolut chad.

@braxton_mccoy My Dad was 50 when I turned 18

FNG yapping about how stupid and horrible it would be to be 42 years old and have an 18 year old child. To me, who is 41 soon and has an 18 year old kid.

The old Ad Guys used to call their profession "The Dark Arts", because nobody understood what they did. Nobody understands it now, because those guys--who were mostly white men--were pushed out of the Ad Industry. And the feminized risk-adverse "teams" that replaced them never bothered to learn it. The new "ad teams" were (and are) obsessed with data and metrics just like the rest of the corporate world. Data and metrics and logic and reason are essential if you're building a factory, or a software product, or sending a rocket to Mars. But all of those things are useless in creative fields. Because persuasion isn't rational or logical. If you find yourself using logic to convince the masses then you've already lost. To change someone's mind you have to go for their heart first. Their minds will follow, but only after they have a change of heart. The old Ad Guys knew this, because it's the key to the Dark Arts. And they had a formula. First, take universal truths--the deepest truth--and connect that truth with a story. Then (and this is key) present it to the audience in an artful and appealing way. If you pull it off--if you do it correctly--you can hack anything. You can hack any sort of skepticism, prejudice, or social conditioning. All those things get tossed aside when you speak to the heart. Even though it's gone out of vogue, we still know how to do this. There are still men who know and practice the Dark Arts. Many of them want revenge for what happened. This is how we change the world. This is how we win.

It's important to recognize that this false binary between pro or anti data center is an op (probably funded by tech companies). Most of the opposition falls under two categories: 1) don't build a data center in that area. 2) people that don't want a surveillance state run by people who hate them. So far everything I have said publicly has been from camp 1. But camp 2 has some merit to their arguments as well.

Imagine a world where you can sit and glass for grizzly bears with your son… Pretty epic.