{"id":1145,"date":"2025-06-30T12:34:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2025-06-30T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:35:00","slug":"but-nothing-breaks-like-a-broken-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/30\/but-nothing-breaks-like-a-broken-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"But nothing breaks like a broken promise&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was quite a busy past few days &#8211; I always enjoy when company visits, but even when the company is pleasant it can still be quite exhausting. Our guest left on Saturday, and we spent the rest of the day like bumps on a log, and slept in late on Sunday to catch up on missed sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Republicans are still screwing over gun owners &#8211; the revised Senate bill will lower the NFA tax on suppressors and SBRs from $200 to $0, but the tax, while still extortion, is not the concern of most who are fighting for the deregulation. For those of us, it is about removing the onerous burdens and legal hurdles to own these items at all. You need to ask permission to take your device over state lines, if your barrel is 1mm short you could be a felon, if you change a piece of plastic that isn&#8217;t &#8220;correct&#8221; you could be a felon &#8211; don&#8217;t get me started on all the bullshit about how they classify guns.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/atf-gun-classification.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/atf-gun-classification.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/atf-gun-classification-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/atf-gun-classification-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/atf-gun-classification-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/atf-gun-classification-55x55.webp 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s these hurdles that gun owners are fighting to remove, and the Republicans are going to soon realize that they were given their current power because gun owners believed what they said on the campaign trail and showed up in force. In fact, passing this makes the issue more difficult to address down the line as it would no longer be able to be addressed through the budget reconciliation process as well as set precedent to change the tax rate. Now the gun control proponents will be able to just say they are adding it back because &#8220;muh gun safety&#8221; but hey, lets adjust for inflation\/devaluation of the USD and raise the tax stamp to $5000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For far too long, gun owners have been forced to compromise and accept the table scraps fed to us, but people are waking up &#8211; the Republicans aren&#8217;t that much better on guns than the Democrats. None of them want an armed populace who could be a challenge to their authority. And if they don&#8217;t get their act together and fix this bill, it will be a bloodbath when the midterms come around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what do you know &#8211; the last time the HPA came up, there was the country music concert shooting in Vegas, and what happened yesterday? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2025\/jun\/29\/active-shooter-incident-reported-near-rathdrum-in-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">The ambush shooting of first responders right where we used to live<\/a>. Now I&#8217;m not saying that this is necessarily a false flag, but I&#8217;ve become increasingly skeptical of coincidences like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you don&#8217;t believe the government could ever do something like that? Well, I don&#8217;t know what to say&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/government.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/government.jpg 474w, https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/government-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Interesting Tidbits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/facebook-users-say-theyve-caught-the-app-analyzing-their-camera-roll-with-meta-ai-without-their-knowledge-heres-how-to-make-sure-it-doesnt-happen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Facebook users say they&#8217;ve caught the app analyzing their camera roll with Meta AI\u2060 without their knowledge\u2014here&#8217;s how to make sure it doesn&#8217;t happen<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;if you agree to turn this feature on, you&#8217;re giving Facebook permission to continuously crawl your entire camera roll, pulling random photos from it and uploading them to the cloud, where they might get fed through Meta&#8217;s AI image generator.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/software-apps\/onedrive-user-locked-out-of-30-years-worth-of-photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">OneDrive user locked out of &#8220;30 years worth of photos and work&#8221; without any support \u2014 calls Microsoft a &#8220;Kafkaesque black hole&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;With the option to save and store your fondest and most treasured moments in cloud services like Google Photos, iCloud, Dropbox, or Microsoft OneDrive, it seems like a foolproof way to preserve these memories for an entire lifetime (or so I thought).&#8221; Remember: If it&#8217;s not backed up in at least three places, in at least two different formats, with at least one offsite copy, the data is at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2025\/06\/25\/amazons_ring_ai_video_description\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Amazon&#8217;s Ring can now use AI to &#8216;learn the routines of your residence&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;And here&#8217;s where it gets a little bit creepy: &#8216;It will learn the routines of your residence, get smarter, and deliver peace of mind by only notifying you when it is something out of the ordinary.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stgeorgeutah.com\/news\/couple-pleads-guilty-in-500k-federal-fraud-case-tied-to-st-george-ammunition-business\/article_0d3c5b02-f57d-4f93-ab3a-aa8dd9e0fc6f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Couple pleads guilty in $500K federal fraud case tied to St. George ammunition business<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Federal prosecutors allege that over a nearly two-year period, starting in December of 2021, Donaldson and Winters ran a scheme to defraud clients out of nearly $600,000.&#8221; One would think that people buying bulk ammo in these quantities are not ones to try to scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-14850291\/universe-self-destruct-button-scientists.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Is THIS how the world will end? The universe has a &#8216;self-destruct button&#8217; that could WIPE OUT life in an instant, scientists warn<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;The basic idea is that our universe isn&#8217;t currently in its most stable state, meaning we are in what scientists call a &#8216;false vacuum&#8217;. If any part of the universe is ever pushed into its stable state, a bubble of &#8216;true vacuum&#8217; will expand through the universe, destroying everything it touches.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/06\/28\/politics\/mexican-drug-cartel-fbi-hack-informants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mexican drug cartel used hacker to track FBI official, then killed potential informants, government audit says<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;A Mexican drug cartel hired a hacker to surveil the movements of a senior FBI official in Mexico City in 2018 or earlier, gathering information from the city\u2019s camera system that allowed the cartel to kill potential FBI informants, the Justice Department inspector general said in a new report.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.net\/news\/security\/31181290\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">XeggeX Exchange\u2019s Tragic Collapse: A Crucial Lesson in Crypto Security<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;The unfortunate demise of <strong>XeggeX<\/strong> serves as a potent reminder for every cryptocurrency enthusiast and investor to prioritize security above convenience. While centralized exchanges offer ease of access and liquidity, they also represent a single point of failure that can lead to catastrophic losses.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneymetals.com\/guides\/what-is-junk-silver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">What is Junk silver?<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Nowadays, in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, coins containing silver, but having no collectible value are known as &#8216;junk silver.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was quite a busy past few days &#8211; I always enjoy when company visits, but even when the company is pleasant it can still be quite exhausting. 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