Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

“THE POLICE WANT IT, THEREFORE WE SAY NO.”

https://x.com/MollyBeck/status/2080698417886507207

LIFE NOT UNENDING: Ultimate Limit of The Human Lifespan May Be Identified, Study Suggests. “new study suggests immortal life may be scientifically impossible, even if we somehow found the perfect anti-aging medicine. If scientists managed to overcome every other aspect of aging, humans still couldn’t live forever, the new research shows. Random DNA mutations would continue accumulating in our cells until the body could no longer function. Simulations conducted by a team at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Russia suggest this process could impose a fundamental limit on human lifespan, with most people living no longer than about 150 to 190 years under this optimistic scenario.”

TODAY’S STARSHIP LAUNCH WORKED:

THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME ACCOUNTABILITY: Why is Tate Adamiak Being Treated More Harshly Than Most Criminals ATF Prosecutes?

fter ATF agents kicked down his doors, they found nothing illegal or even suspected of being illegal. As a result, the ATF brought in a specialist, ATF Firearm Enforcement Officer Jeffrey R. Bodell, who discombobulated the actual items that the agents had found—all of which are still sold legally online, most do not even require an ID—and turned them into machineguns and destructive devices.

Adamiak was charged with illegally possessing a machinegun for a toy STEN submachinegun found during the search warrant. He paid $75 for the non-firing Spanish replica—or toy—which was made by Denix and is still sold online. Bodell inserted a real STEN barrel and receiver, neither Bodell nor his assistant could make it fire more than one round at a time. Despite their hard work, the toy STEN would not even accept a real magazine. Still, Bodell officially ruled that the toy was a machinegun.

Adamiak was charged with illegally possessing two destructive devices, two inert RPGs that had holes drilled into their receivers and were stripped of internal parts. ATF’s “expert” added parts from real RPGs until they would fire a single subcaliber 7.62x39mm round. As a result, he classified the RPGs as destructive devices. The inert RPGs are still legally sold today without an FFL or any other paperwork.

People’s careers should end for this kind of behavior.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

ONGOING:

SHE’S AN OLD LADY, GIVE HER A BREAK:

UNSUNG HERO:

His spiritual descendant:

DON’T STOP: Team Trump’s anti-fraud drive is making more news than anyone can follow. “One day this week, the Justice Department announced it had finally nabbed a fugitive Medicare fraudster on the lam since 2022, who allegedly stole more than half a billion dollars, even as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Medicare-Medicaid czar Dr. Mehmet Oz froze over $1 billion in funding to California and Minnesota over apparent Medicaid fraud. About the same time, Scott Bessent’s Treasury stopped $100 million in tax money going to dead people thanks to new verification procedures, while the IRS chief revealed that a recent scrub of the Social Security Number database found that one in 10 recipients were erroneously listed.”

I REMEMBER WHEN THE LEFT WAS AGAINST “ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC.”

Or pretended to be.

UPDATE:

BLACKPILLERS BE REMINDED: