warning: Smith & Wesson Knives

[xxo]

@Chronovore

@CR888

Often grown in soils with very high lead content etc… I’m not sure at what point we should continue supporting foreign regimes that seek to see our demise. The USD is what’s made the people’s liberation army as strong as it is. Trump was turning things around and slowing the one way flow of $$$

I’m wary of getting too far off topic but that flow has been going on for a long time. I still see people in the hobby knocking Chinese manufacturers or people who buy Chinese knives. As if those decisions make a difference… People upset about trade imbalances and outsourcing need to look to their own government. That government, with help from establishment-types on both sides of the aisle, have created this economic landscape over the course of several decades with everything from NAFTA to high taxes and strict regulations.

I just saw an article today that “millennials” are approaching 40 with only 80% the wealth their parents had at that age. Well, the Federal Reserve keeps printing money. The government keeps throwing money away. Most of what we buy is made overseas. This is not a surprise and it is not an accident.

Of course, those details are all just “fake news” and anyone discussing it is probably racist, sexist, a “denier” of something or otherwise retrograde. So let’s all stop being doubleplusungood and get back to discussing EDC gear.

Establishment politicians (both parties), wall street, the media, globalists and academia are all in bed with the CCP, but no one is forcing you to buy another Chinese knife.

[xxo]

@CR888

@xxo

@Lightbringer

@xxo

It’s food also, most apple juice, frozen fish, shrimp, canned mushrooms and oranges come from China. Other can goods, fruits, vegetables, tomato sauce etc along with some processed chicken, are increasingly coming from China as well.

That’s why I go around the periphery of the supermarket vs through the aisles. Fresh fruits’n’veggies, milk, eggs, meat, etc.

Given how easy it is to make frenchfries or FF sweet-potatoes, I have no idea why anyone bothers buying bagged frozen FFs/FFSPs.

It’s fresh produces too, lettuce, cabbage, radishes, carrots, ginger, garlic, eggplant, peppers, onions, potatoes, etc are all being imported from China.

Often grown in soils with very high lead content etc… I’m not sure at what point we should continue supporting foreign regimes that seek to see our demise. The USD is what’s made the people’s liberation army as strong as it is. Trump was turning things around and slowing the one way flow of $$$

I wonder what kind of pesticides they use or what they spray on it to make it look edible after shipping across the ocean? My dog was killed a decade ago when they put rat poison in dog food to make it look like it had high protein (none of the dog food companies disclosed that they were getting ingredients from China before this happened). Many of the Chinese people don’t trust the CCP controlled food supply either and try to import food/medicines for their families whenever they can.

[pennzy]

Farm to table as often as possible. We are what we eat. Be cautious even with locally grown food.

[aginthelaw]

After 2 months of use my s&w’s blade is working loose and can’t cut butter during a heatwave

[max]

@aginthelaw

After 2 months of use my s&w’s blade is working loose and can’t cut butter during a heatwave

LOL

[Oli]

3 dollars. beware/warning

[ChrisGarrett]

@aginthelaw

After 2 months of use my s&w’s blade is working loose and can’t cut butter during a heatwave

I’m only kidding and would never say anything even slightly denigrating, to anyone, anywhere, but learn how to use a ‘screwdriver and sharpening stone.’

Chris

[Lightbringer]

@aginthelaw

After 2 months of use my s&w’s blade is working loose and can’t cut butter during a heatwave

Hope it doesn’t sound like too dumb a question, but whut’s one got to do with the other?

My go,comma (the PF clone) has a little bit of a wiggle when at about right-angles (perfectly fixed when open and locked), but it’s still pretty much razor sharp. Only used it opening boxes and paring/cutting fruit and stuff (washing beforehand, of course).

Dunno what any wiggle has to do with cutting ability. Hm?

[CR888]

@xxo

@CR888

@xxo

@Lightbringer

@xxo

It’s food also, most apple juice, frozen fish, shrimp, canned mushrooms and oranges come from China. Other can goods, fruits, vegetables, tomato sauce etc along with some processed chicken, are increasingly coming from China as well.

That’s why I go around the periphery of the supermarket vs through the aisles. Fresh fruits’n’veggies, milk, eggs, meat, etc.

Given how easy it is to make frenchfries or FF sweet-potatoes, I have no idea why anyone bothers buying bagged frozen FFs/FFSPs.

It’s fresh produces too, lettuce, cabbage, radishes, carrots, ginger, garlic, eggplant, peppers, onions, potatoes, etc are all being imported from China.

Often grown in soils with very high lead content etc… I’m not sure at what point we should continue supporting foreign regimes that seek to see our demise. The USD is what’s made the people’s liberation army as strong as it is. Trump was turning things around and slowing the one way flow of $$$

I wonder what kind of pesticides they use or what they spray on it to make it look edible after shipping across the ocean? My dog was killed a decade ago when they put rat poison in dog food to make it look like it had high protein (none of the dog food companies disclosed that they were getting ingredients from China before this happened). Many of the Chinese people don’t trust the CCP controlled food supply either and try to import food/medicines for their families whenever they can.

Sorry to hear what happened to your dog, that sounds awful. And afterwards to find out you were unknowingly feeding your dog dogfood from China. That would hurt. There is a big black market here where baby milk powder is stripped off the shelves by Chinese citizens who send it over to China as they don’t trust feeding their babies milk powder from China. It’s a huge problem as these resellers go shop to shop buying everything on the shelf. I think some good will come from this pandemic that was forced on us, we have realised a lot as far as relying on China for PPE etc. The more capacity we have to produce things the better off we are. I think many countries will back away from solely relying on China for so many vital supplies on national security reasons alone. Again sorry about your dog, that would have made you furious.

[Lightbringer]

@CR888

I think some good will come from this pandemic that was forced on us, we have realised a lot as far as relying on China for PPE etc.

I’m still pist that the “one-use” plastic bags THAT I USED (small garbage-can liners, disposing of used cat-litter, etc.) are still banned for whatever “green” reasons, but you can’t walk one block without seeing one of those stoopit disposable facemasks tossed on the ground, loaded with plastic microfibers.

Even if “properly” disposed of, no one asks where they’re all ending up.

[Chronovore]

@xxo

… I wonder what kind of pesticides they use or what they spray on it to make it look edible after shipping across the ocean? My dog was killed a decade ago when they put rat poison in dog food to make it look like it had high protein (none of the dog food companies disclosed that they were getting ingredients from China before this happened). Many of the Chinese people don’t trust the CCP controlled food supply either and try to import food/medicines for their families whenever they can.

I’m sorry to hear about your dog. That happened to a friend of mine. I think it caused kidney failure or something for her dog. It reminds me of the all the toxic fillers that ended up in Victorian bread. It also makes me wonder about all the messed up additives we put in our own food and the glyphosate we spray on our own crops.

I think I first saw this story on Lou Dobbs back in the day. He talked a lot about the topics coming up here. Well, he kept on until Cancel Culture finally got him. His show was canceled shortly after the last presidential election…

[xxo]

@CR888

@xxo

@CR888

@xxo

@Lightbringer

@xxo

It’s food also, most apple juice, frozen fish, shrimp, canned mushrooms and oranges come from China. Other can goods, fruits, vegetables, tomato sauce etc along with some processed chicken, are increasingly coming from China as well.

That’s why I go around the periphery of the supermarket vs through the aisles. Fresh fruits’n’veggies, milk, eggs, meat, etc.

Given how easy it is to make frenchfries or FF sweet-potatoes, I have no idea why anyone bothers buying bagged frozen FFs/FFSPs.

It’s fresh produces too, lettuce, cabbage, radishes, carrots, ginger, garlic, eggplant, peppers, onions, potatoes, etc are all being imported from China.

Often grown in soils with very high lead content etc… I’m not sure at what point we should continue supporting foreign regimes that seek to see our demise. The USD is what’s made the people’s liberation army as strong as it is. Trump was turning things around and slowing the one way flow of $$$

I wonder what kind of pesticides they use or what they spray on it to make it look edible after shipping across the ocean? My dog was killed a decade ago when they put rat poison in dog food to make it look like it had high protein (none of the dog food companies disclosed that they were getting ingredients from China before this happened). Many of the Chinese people don’t trust the CCP controlled food supply either and try to import food/medicines for their families whenever they can.

Sorry to hear what happened to your dog, that sounds awful. And afterwards to find out you were unknowingly feeding your dog dogfood from China. That would hurt. There is a big black market here where baby milk powder is stripped off the shelves by Chinese citizens who send it over to China as they don’t trust feeding their babies milk powder from China. It’s a huge problem as these resellers go shop to shop buying everything on the shelf. I think some good will come from this pandemic that was forced on us, we have realised a lot as far as relying on China for PPE etc. The more capacity we have to produce things the better off we are. I think many countries will back away from solely relying on China for so many vital supplies on national security reasons alone. Again sorry about your dog, that would have made you furious.

Thanks it was awful, it took some time for her to die in pain, the vet didn’t know what was causing it until it was too late.

@Chronovore

@xxo

… I wonder what kind of pesticides they use or what they spray on it to make it look edible after shipping across the ocean? My dog was killed a decade ago when they put rat poison in dog food to make it look like it had high protein (none of the dog food companies disclosed that they were getting ingredients from China before this happened). Many of the Chinese people don’t trust the CCP controlled food supply either and try to import food/medicines for their families whenever they can.

I’m sorry to hear about your dog. That happened to a friend of mine. I think it caused kidney failure or something for her dog. It reminds me of the all the toxic fillers that ended up in Victorian bread. It also makes me wonder about all the messed up additives we put in our own food and the glyphosate we spray on our own crops.

I think I first saw this story on Lou Dobbs back in the day. He talked a lot about the topics coming up here. Well, he kept on until Cancel Culture finally got him. His show was canceled shortly after the last presidential election…

It was a hell of a thing.