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Beginner’s guide to guns

Our one page, non-political beginners guide to guns explains all the basics you need to know, from laws and lingo to the best calibers for self defense.

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Best bug out bag survival backpack

Emergency preparedness, survival, and backpack experts have reviewed 100's of bags to narrow down this list of the best packs for your bug out bag.

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Sneak peek of whole new TP website launching soon

Excited to finally share that we've rebuilt TP from scratch, and I wanted to share a preview and some of our thinking. You won't need to do anything. Edit: Originally thought we'd launch Dec 1, but the person building the website got sick with the 'tripledemic', so it'll be January at earliest.  Context: I started TP as a weekend side project, thinking it would only ever be me blogging my thoughts at small scale. That's why I launched it on WordPress, which is a great off-the-shelf tool f

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Review: Steambow Stinger 2 “AR-6” repeating mini crossbow

Austrian company Steambow recently released the Stinger 2 AR-6 pistol crossbow and sent me a review sample. The basics: $330 street price 2.6 lbs 22-25 inches long (25 with stock extended), 17 inches wide at limbs 6 bolt magazine capacity Picatinny mounting rails and AR-15 stocks/furniture 55 pound limbs (the arms that bend when cocked) that produce 180 feet per second shots with 5 inches of penetration in ballistic gel at short range Optional “pro” limbs at 90 pound d

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Interview: former Reddit CEO and Terraformation founder Yishan Wong on planting a trillion trees and the value of community

The startup Terraformation recently raised $30M as part of its quest to solve the climate crisis by rapidly reforesting 3 billion acres --- which is more land than the entire US! Founder Yishan Wong, the former CEO of Reddit and an early employee at Facebook and PayPal, talked with us about his new project and what he's learned that could be helpful for you and your community as we all try to prevent our planet from dying. Quick intro clip on Terraformation: https://vimeo.com/508887304

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Great question. We’re still early in the curve, but there’s some direct data and some reasonable/pattern-matching inferences.  The attention to the product, catalyzed by mil/LE, creates price pressure forces. And manufacturers specifically said they’re trying to bring costs down and make the products more universally appealing. That’s why brands like Holosun are getting more in the game — Holosun being specifically known as a company that makes decent-enough cheap consumer options. One of the ways they’re doing that is by changing the form factors / feature sets. Like the silhouette example I picture, where they’re intentionally not measuring and presenting fine-grained data about specific temperatures and gradients. While some military-level stuff will show “this specific point on this object is ##.# degrees” along with lots of shades of white / whatever color to show temp gradients at high resolution / DPI… some of the cheaper stuff is simply flagging “hey this bulky object is overall warmer than the environment.” Which for consumers is all you really need to know. And you don’t need that to be effective at long ranges (like from a drone or helicopter) since you’ll only really be under 300 meters at best, mostly <100M. “AI” and other peripheral tech advances help here too, because you don’t have to have sensitive hardware that’s hard to make at scale (and thus expensive) and can fill in those gaps with software making deductions from rougher data.

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Great question. We’re still early in the curve, but there’s some direct data and some reasonable/pattern-matching inferences.  The attention to the product, catalyzed by mil/LE, creates price pressure forces. And manufacturers specifically said they’re trying to bring costs down and make the products more universally appealing. That’s why brands like Holosun are getting more in the game — Holosun being specifically known as a company that makes decent-enough cheap consumer options. One of the ways they’re doing that is by changing the form factors / feature sets. Like the silhouette example I picture, where they’re intentionally not measuring and presenting fine-grained data about specific temperatures and gradients. While some military-level stuff will show “this specific point on this object is ##.# degrees” along with lots of shades of white / whatever color to show temp gradients at high resolution / DPI… some of the cheaper stuff is simply flagging “hey this bulky object is overall warmer than the environment.” Which for consumers is all you really need to know. And you don’t need that to be effective at long ranges (like from a drone or helicopter) since you’ll only really be under 300 meters at best, mostly <100M. “AI” and other peripheral tech advances help here too, because you don’t have to have sensitive hardware that’s hard to make at scale (and thus expensive) and can fill in those gaps with software making deductions from rougher data.


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