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Jeep advanced off road self-recovery kit
Jeep advanced off road self-recovery kit

A popular loadout for people that do serious offroading. Can work on trucks, but is particularly built for JK and JL Jeeps (2007-current) based on the jack and under-hood compressor mounts.

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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.

September 12, 2023 0 comments
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.

August 29, 2023 0 comments
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

November 6, 2022 14 comments
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

November 24, 2021 3 comments
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

October 13, 2021 7 comments
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Reply to: Best gas masks and respirators for survival Posted June 17, 2024

Avoid buying gas masks from Venture Tactical Just a quick note, since I didn’t see many reviews online when Googling about https://www.venture-tactical.com, where I recently bought an Avon gas mask kit. I ordered a Large mask, but they sent a Medium. They charged me shipping costs when I returned the product for a refund — which shouldn’t happen, as it was their fault to begin with. They didn’t issue the refund until over a month later when I had to hound them about it. I asked what they would do with the Medium mask since I had opened it before realizing they sent the wrong one. They didn’t fully specify, but they did say they don’t do “open box” pricing or similar… which makes me think they are going to resell the opened Medium as new, and that’s really not okay for these kinds of products. Big red flag for a critical respirator vendor. I had chatted with them before purchasing to ask if the product they’d send me would be new-ish inventory (not something that’s been sitting in a warehouse for too long). They told me it would be under a year old, but the actual manufacture date was >18 months before I received it. They had lower pricing than most other shops, but in hindsight it was not worth the savings. I’m now buying directly from Avon.

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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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Reply to: Best gas masks and respirators for survival Posted June 17, 2024

Avoid buying gas masks from Venture Tactical Just a quick note, since I didn’t see many reviews online when Googling about https://www.venture-tactical.com, where I recently bought an Avon gas mask kit. I ordered a Large mask, but they sent a Medium. They charged me shipping costs when I returned the product for a refund — which shouldn’t happen, as it was their fault to begin with. They didn’t issue the refund until over a month later when I had to hound them about it. I asked what they would do with the Medium mask since I had opened it before realizing they sent the wrong one. They didn’t fully specify, but they did say they don’t do “open box” pricing or similar… which makes me think they are going to resell the opened Medium as new, and that’s really not okay for these kinds of products. Big red flag for a critical respirator vendor. I had chatted with them before purchasing to ask if the product they’d send me would be new-ish inventory (not something that’s been sitting in a warehouse for too long). They told me it would be under a year old, but the actual manufacture date was >18 months before I received it. They had lower pricing than most other shops, but in hindsight it was not worth the savings. I’m now buying directly from Avon.

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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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Reply to: Submersion/Drowning Posted November 16, 2022

This is a good example of a realistic austere/SHTF scenario that just isn’t covered in typical medical advice. Which means the answer is “it depends.” This would be my line of thinking: How dirty is the water? How able am I to get the patient to professional help? If no pro help, what are my antibiotic supplies like, how strongly do I feel I need to ration those supplies (eg. it’s a major SHTF event), how likely is this person to survive at all, etc? Say SHTF big time a month ago, so no expectation of expert help. Someone drowns in a backyard pool. The pool looks clean and probably has treatment chemicals in it — and since SHTF recently, the chemicals are probably still effective, meaning the likelihood of microorganism nasties is low. If the patient is generally healthy / not someone who’s already elderly or sick, then I’d probably feel fine not giving an antibiotic and holding onto that for the future. If that scenario was different, where the water was iffy + the person has a history of respiratory infections + I have enough supplies + I think the SHTF event will be over sooner than later, then yeah I might preemptively use antibiotics. 

Reply to: Submersion/Drowning Posted November 16, 2022

You’re thinking about it the right way, and this actually gets into the nuance between “CPR” and “rescue breathing” — which as you know the trend is to de-couple those two in teaching/advice. Drowning = rescue breathing with a possible side of CPR. Starting at 1:34 in the video, Tom says “People that have inhaled water into their lungs need rescue breathing.” The variable is whether or not they have a pulse. No pulse = “classic” CPR where you do breaths and compressions. Pulse = just breathing. You don’t need to immediately tilt the patient — many will often naturally react by coughing out the liquid as acted in the video, since coughing is the lungs natural defense mechanism for “I don’t like what’s in here!” If you start by rolling them over, it’s unlikely that gravity alone is enough to ‘drain’ the lungs without assistance from the patient’s body. So the official advice is to tilt them once they start coughing it up, that way it doesn’t rebound back down where it just came from due to gravity. This also makes it easier in practice… say you’re 100 lbs and the victim is 300 lbs. You’d have a hard time repeatedly going back and forth between rolling them on their side vs. onto their back for breathing/compressions. Better to focus on triggering the body to cough it out, then help that process by rolling them into the recovery position. 

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