burn my onions again m'f'ker

Express is what I have used. I got the stretchy comfort band for it. I don't like scraping my cuticles and knuckles on the carbon fiber when drawing, so I covered the edge with a strip of moleskin. The non-Express might be more adjustable but the Express is more compact overall.

Bodyguard 2.0 is just incredibly small but it shoots well for me. Nice, easy to pick up iron sights. One of the magazines had a follower installed backwards, but that was easy to fix myself. One failure to feed on the first few rounds through it and has been running fine since. I haven't shot it that much though. Like maybe 200 rounds. It shoots .380acp instead of 9mm, so it's not quite as powerful but I think 10 easy to aim rounds is enough stopping power. Bear in mind James Bond and most European police forces used the even less powerful .32acp for most of the 20th century. Pick out defensive ammo that performed well here https://www.luckygunner.com/labs/self-defense-ammo-ballistic-tests/#380ACP

this belongs in the slop comm

let's please keep reddit content contained unless it's like something really epic

Do these powerful guys ever end up actually being executed? I only ever hear about the sentencing.

edit: google ai says usually the two-year reprieve turns into a commuted sentence to life imprisonment for good behavior, but there are some exceptions.

Li Jianping (executed 2024) In December 2024, China executed Li Jianping, a former official from Inner Mongolia, for what Chinese state media called the country's largest corruption case.

He was convicted of embezzling more than 3 billion yuan (over $421 million), along with charges of bribery, misuse of public funds, and colluding with a criminal syndicate. His death sentence was issued in September 2022 and upheld on appeal in August 2024, with the execution carried out in December 2024. The execution was approved by the Supreme People's Court, a rare application of the death penalty for graft cases, demonstrating President Xi Jinping's intensifying anti-corruption campaign.

Lai Xiaomin (executed 2021) In January 2021, Lai Xiaomin, a former chairman of one of China's largest state-controlled asset management firms, China Huarong, was executed for corruption and bigamy.

He was convicted of taking "extremely large" bribes totaling over $260 million. Footage was shown on Chinese state television of safes and cabinets in his apartment stuffed with cash.

Liu Han (executed 2015) In 2015, Liu Han, a former mining tycoon and billionaire, was executed for running a "mafia-style" gang.

He was found guilty of leading a criminal organization involved in murder, assault, and embezzlement. The execution was seen as part of Xi Jinping's anti-corruption drive, targeting wealthy individuals with connections to out-of-favor politicians.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/epstein-birthday-book-congress-9d79ab34

Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed

Lawyers for Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book

ah dang this is a bit isn't it

god bless ublock origin

bourgeois donor class sure knows how to pick em

i post my myers-briggs and 9 axes profiles, as well as my fbi psychological profile and credit card history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZHZWie7OHc Taiwan parliament brawl.

Taiwan’s parliament descended into a brawl on Friday just days before the inauguration of Lai Ching-te, the new president.

Politicians pushed, hit and tackled each other, clambering across tables as they swarmed around the speaker’s seat in the legislative chamber after tempers became heated in a bitter dispute about parliamentary reforms.

The argument broke out over a push by the main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), and its allies, to give parliament greater powers of scrutiny over the government.

This includes a controversial move to criminalise officials who are deemed to make false statements in parliament – a proposal which has been rejected by Mr Lai’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as “an unconstitutional abuse of power”.

The unruly scenes are likely to add to speculation that Mr Lai will face a tougher challenge than President Tsai Ing-wen, his predecessor, in gaining support for his legislative policies after he takes office.

• The Telegraph

I don't buy it. 6 schmucks just rent a sailboat and some deep sea diving equipment? It's a scapegoat. The only country both capable and incentivized to pull it off is the US. US officials and Biden have said many times they would destroy it. They just can't be seen as responsible for directly attacking Russia and Europe.