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  1. Do y'all even stop to think about what you are emphasizing unironically? 

    "Of course ADP has stopped putting out the jobs report they've released every month for the last ~20 years! Pffft, anyone that wanted their company to survive would know not to do that."

    Why is that? What would happen to ADP that might impact their "survival" if they released numbers that reflected a slowing economy? Be specific. 

  2. 1 hour ago, Anton Chigurh said:

     

     


    He is 100% right about not running HID/LED in housings not designed for them.

    I have done a few HID retrofits (added projectors to stock housings, and even used all OEM parts for one of them) in the past on some of my previous vehicles which was pretty great. I thought about doing it to the FJ, but have only replaced the bulbs with better halogens so far.

    It’s really just a trade off for longevity vs brightness. I’m using these and they are good and I really like the light color (rated at about 3400K which is pretty neutral):

    https://www.usa.philips.com/c-p/LUM9003NGPS2_50/nightguide-platinum-car-headlight-bulb

    https://a.co/d/gtyjerX

    I'm glad I stumbled onto that write up because I was about to just order plug and play LEDs to replace the stock bulbs. I don't want to tinker with adding projectors or ballasts or any additional stuff that is likely to be one more thing that can break.

    Those philips bulbs look perfect, thank you for the response! 

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  3. 9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    @PTINS curious what you think of this

    IEA Sees Drone Strikes Weighing on Russia Oil-Processing Till Mid-2026 - Bloomberg

    "The impact from Ukrainian drone strikes will suppress Russia’s refinery processing rates until at least mid-2026, the International Energy Agency says in its latest monthly oil-market report... '

    Previously, we had assumed a normalization of refining activity as we approached year-end but now embed a more cautious outlook,' the Paris-based agency said in a report on Tuesday. The IEA currently sees Russian processing rates at just under 5 million barrels a day through June 2026, and a recovery toward 5.4 million barrels a day later, with the outlook to be revised as more information becomes available. '

    The increasingly widespread and significant Ukrainian drone campaign against Russian oil refineries and infrastructure' has so far cut the nation’s crude processing by an estimated 500,000 barrels a day, the agency said...

    With the drone strikes weighing on refinery runs, Russia raised its crude exports in September to 5.1 million barrels a day, the highest since May 2023, according to the IEA. Still, the nation’s oil-export revenues declined to a three-month low of $13.4 billion, the agency estimated.

    The decline came as Russia’s crude-supply revenues, which rose $200 million month-on-month, were more than offset by a $440 million drop for oil-product exports, the report said. According to the IEA calculations, Russian fuel supplies to other countries in September reached 2.4 million barrels a day, the lowest in a decade, excluding April 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic."

     

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    I was told there would be no math..., but ~90%(?) of Russia's refineries have been hit and it's only taken ~9% of their daily processing volume offline? I realize that they haven't completely leveled every refinery that has been attacked, but only 500k bbls/day offline seems low to me.

    Either way-

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  4. Has anyone replaced the low beam bulbs on their Taco/4Runner/FJ? The low beams in my 2017 Taco are pretty damn paltry but I'm on information overload after digging around on the internet for opinions on replacement options.

    This dude has too much time on his hands, but this is an insane amount of information on the subject:

    https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/3rd-gen-hid-vs-led-vs-halogen-h11-projector-headlights.589465/

    His main rec for staying with Halogen bulbs is no longer available, but these seem like they are pretty close:

    https://www.amazon.com/SYLVANIA-SilverStar-Performance-Replacement-Technology/dp/B008BE04C6/ref=sr_1_4?af=eyJ2ZWhpY2xlTmFtZSI6IjIwMTcgVG95b3RhIFRhY29tYSIsInZlaGljbGUiOiIyMDE3LTc2LTEwMzctNDMxMS0tNTMtOS04LTIxMzE3LS04LTEtLS0xIn0%3D&c=ts&refinements=p_n_feature_nine_browse-bin%3A9002307011&s=automotive&vehicle=2017-76-1037-4311--53-9-8-21317--8-1---1&vehicleName=2017+Toyota+Tacoma

  5. 1 hour ago, orange dream said:

    I'm sure there is a level of wisdom in Will's advice that is just significantly beyond both my golf ability and my mental capacity but to say the best way to go from a 12 to a 0 handicap is to get to the green in as few strokes as possible seems like Captain Obvious advice. Thanks.

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    I thought the same thing.

    Like, I'm trying bro, wtf do you mean? Maybe he means just focus on getting on the pad somewhere and don't be so worried about getting close to the flag?

  6. My son’s team plays College Park in their playoff game on Friday in Rockwall. They played them earlier in the season during a tournament and got waxed. They’ve had a good season despite playing a lot of Sophomores for significant minutes all year. 
     

    Rockwall Heath won their district and they have a kid that is a really strong goal scorer. I can’t remember his name, but he has well over 100 goals this season. Really cocky kid, but he’s got a great shot and plays tough defense too. 
     

    My son backs up a senior who is the best player on their team and hasn’t played a ton this year. The senior fouled out early in the 3rd in their last game and my son held up pretty well the rest of the way. He can’t shoot nearly as well, but he had an assist and a couple of blocks. Next year he should really level up. He needs to get meaner…

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  7. I played in a tournament Monday at Dallas Athletic Club and saw some shit I’ve never seen before. It was a scramble and the group in front of us were terrible golfers, but at least they were slow too. I noticed on our 17th hole that one of their carts was parked really close to the green. They finish up putting and the lady just drives right across the middle of the green. Not like she just clipped the edge, she drove around a green side bunker and crossed all the way through the fattest part of the green. 
     

    One of my playing partners knew the driver and called her out after the round and she tried to deny it. 
     

    Brutal to see the tracks when we got up there. The greens were in fantastic shape too.

    #CSB

     

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  8. 5 minutes ago, blacklab said:

    Have considered a tacoma for my kids for a while. Went to craiglist today to see what's available

    $5000 for this 1998 with 261k miles

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    Only $40k for this 2003 with 86k miles

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    It took me for fucking ever to find one. I know a guy that is one of the sales managers at a huge Toyota dealership and he helped me get this one for not much over what the dealership gave for it on a trade. And I still ended up spending almost 2X what I thought I could find one for when I started looking.

    I had a 2003 four door TRD with 130k miles that I got $10k for on a trade-in back in 2010. I should have never gotten rid of it.

  9. 6 minutes ago, The Hot Dog Buffet said:

    Yeah, it's not the shooter. Not unless he bought the house at 83 N Lee Ln when he was 16.

    https://www.homes.com/property/83-n-lee-ln-st-george-ut/t0clt0kb7gdj1/

    That link doesn't work for me for some reason, but it looks like you are right and it's not the shooter's (or his parents) address. I was just posting what came up when I followed chainsaw's directions to see the form.

    The Washington County tax assessor's site shows this: 

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  10. 2 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    People need to calm down with assumptions. Just because his family might've been Republican or conservative doesn't mean the kid was. If anything, the kid just may be an edgelord like we're seeing more and more of with young white males. We'll find out more but people need to stop trying to spike the football until more comes out. 

    The first 4 items in Billy's list are plainly true. The 5th is still TBD.

    That didn't stop potus and others all the way down calling for beating the hell out of the "Left" or openly calling for civil war 2.0. And I really doubt they are going to reconsider now and will just keep escalating and fanning the flames that got us here in the first place. I'd love to be wrong.

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  11. 3 minutes ago, Thrawn said:

    Was this internet troll on internet troll violence? Sort of looks like it. I'm not sure what this kid's exact motivations are, but he sure seems to have been sucked into at least one, if not several, of the internets cesspools. 

    This is my first impression too. I wish I had just a smidge of confidence that we'll get the true results of the killer's computer being scrubbed, but I have a sinking feeling that no matter what the actual contents are we'll be told it was nothing but HuffPost articles and Maddow videos from youtube.

     

    ETA - the only hope is that his real Discord and 4chan posting history has already been archived by other members.

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  12. 9 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

    Holy shit - Fox News is going to implode upon itself if dude actually was a Groyper.

    Nah, they won't even mention it. And you know the qanon fucks running the FBI won't disclose that this kid spent countless hours on 4chan getting radicalized. I'm obviously jumping to conclusions myself based on a picture of him dressing up as a Pepe meme for Halloween, but that's pretty fucking strong circumstantial evidence.

    This may actually be a leading member of the Leopards/Faces party running into a rogue Leopard. 

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  13. 7 minutes ago, morehornsepower said:

    I've got 40k miles on a '23 'Babymax' Silverado and love it. - my first diesel.  Torque & fuel mileage have been fantastic.  It has been used for what I would call medium duty towiing, around 7500lbs trailer weight, and has been great.  Previous truck was the 5.3.

    As a first-time diesel owner, adding DEF is the only annoying thing - but that is every 1000+ miles or so

    Thank you for the info, exactly what I was looking for.

    I was considering a truck, but I think I need one more Dadmobile before getting back to a truck. There aren't as many Yukon XLs around as there are trucks with the 3.0 in them, but that's the way I'm leaning at the moment. The transmission in my '18 is acting a little dodgy and the A/C started blowing just cold enough to piss me off last week, so it might be time.

    I guess you can do the DEF delete after the factory warranty is out as well? 

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