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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. If they can't take Mariupol before the rains hit, what are the possibilities that they can get close enough to rain terror on the land route to rain enough terror down from the skies to effectively shut off Russia' land route? Obviously that would lead to some intense fighting, but it seems like our cluster munitions have mad a huge difference in the last couple of weeks. Will the increased production across Europe and America be able to supply them with the artillery they need to lay seige on the area without actually holding it?
  2. I actually looked up what actual armorers have said in news interviews immediately after the incident, and pretty much all of them said the opposite of what's been said here as far as the actor's duty to check the weapon and where to point it, etc. That said, I don't see the purpose of charging him. Our criminal justice system should be about rehabilitation and not retaliation.
  3. I just wanted to quote this so y'all can watch it again.
  4. To get a decent range, you'd probably need to fire a solid projectile that then turns into a lot of projectiles. So you'd need to have some way of determining range and then some sort of smart fuse type system. Even an old school type punt gun probably couldn't generate enough velocity to be effective at the ranges you'd need it to.
  5. The reporter has to be smart enough to understand what happened in order to clearly report on it.
  6. Finished Rebels tonight. I always forget how dusty the room gets during the finale. Next Wednesday!
  7. What's an ass dollar and why do you seem to think mine is dirty?
  8. Maybe consider taking an extended fishing trip with her. Or give it a few weeks and take her on a trip across the country looking for doves to hunt. If she's not into being personally involved with the meat she eats, take her on a camping trip with no destination or plan. The point is, make her spend some one on one time with you where she has no alternative. Eventually she will talk because she has nothing else to do. And then when she does y'all can spend a couple more weeks having fun and tell the wife that it was tough but eventually you broke through.
  9. No clue, but as a father of three kids, just getting necessities like food (which those little shits mostly just waste), diapers, and clothes has gone up a ton. The more kids you have the more it affects you. The escape price for Target used to be about $100. Now it is at least $150. Need to upgrade to a bigger house because your family got bigger? Lol, you're screwed.
  10. There's going to be significant discontent as long as cost of living adjustments don't actually adjust for cost of living. The lower wage workers have mostly had their adjustments, but the middle class hasn't and isn't happy about having to adjust their lifestyle.
  11. Pork rinds are best bought already spiced with cajun spices. But hot sauce should be used on chicharrones de harina. I'm partial Valentina, but Cholula works as well.
  12. It's pretty sick how the state is treating her. As a tax payer, I would much rather the state admit they were wrong and pay her, not that any sort of financial compensation can make her whole again. This could be an interesting case to keep an eye on, however. I'm not up to date on what the status of cases like this are nationwide, but we as a society clearly need to flesh out exactly how fetal rights work post Dobbs.
  13. Don't worry. Someone will be posting stories about her in the wives thread before too long. And not long after that someone will be posting about your grandkids right here. All will come in due time. Just keep doing what you're doing and being a good father. Most things tend to work themselves out with enough time and patience as long as you do your part.
  14. Yeah, I'm ready to draw some dicks on some ammo. We need an update.
  15. The Comanche were most likely a fairly insignificant mountain tribe before Europeans arrived and they acquired horses. It's pretty hard to pin down, and I'm sure someone contests that version of history, but we do know that they didn't occupy what later became to be known as Comancheria until after the Spanish began their conquest of middle America. Within a few generations they became some of the greatest mounted warriors in the history of the world and swept south taking over everything in their path. It took the invention of the Colt Patterson revolver to finally put them on the downhill slope. Without the Comanche, the Spanish, and later Mexico, probably would have never seeked to settle white Americans in Texas.
  16. Anybody ever had any problem with their spypoint only sending one photo?
  17. It's beginning to look like they may not have much choice.
  18. I wish I had thought of that when my girl was at that age.
  19. I didn't realize you meant clearcutting for development. We should definitely be doing more multifamily and other denser development to avoid cutting down out forests.
  20. Moving a tree that big and old is kind of like looking at a really old person hooked up to life support and on dialysis and chemo all at the same time and saying, "we should move them to a different hospital." Sure it might work, and that other hospital is probably better, but is it really a smart thing to do?
  21. Fires specifically don't occur at near the rate that they historically did. And if we didn't practice forestry like we do with southern pine (clearcutting), there is no way that we would be able to meet the need that we have for housing. That said, it is often done poorly, and often because landowners hire loggers to do it instead of hiring a forester. A properly done clear-cut will leave streamline management zones with a minimal amount of basal area uncut, and will also leave strips along roads and such uncut so that the general public doesn't have to see how ugly it is. Because it is ugly. But clear cuts provide habitat for all kinds of wildlife that wouldn't otherwise have it. Saying clear-cuts are bad is like saying agriculture is bad, because that is what it is. Unless you just hate people in general, I think agriculture is pretty necessary.
  22. For a more serious response, I majored in forestry and wildlife at about the worst time possible. I finished up school in the fall of 2009 when the economy was in the dumpster due to the housing crash. Of course, houses being primarily built out of wood, there was absolutely nothing out there in the field of forestry. Even folks who had made a good living with forestry for years were looking for a way to make ends meet. So there was no way I was going to find a job doing that. And wildlife, well that's one of those majors that lots of people do because it is a pretty cool thing to major in, but the job market doesn't support the number of folks who major in it. Especially when there is a major recession. So I worked a few odd jobs here and there and eventually went into operations at a chemical plant (way more money than I would have made with my degree). After a couple of years they decided to bring an R&D unit back up that did reactive extrusion. The original plan was to train an operator on each shift to run it, but it was a pretty complicated machine and you really had to know what you were doing to get it to run right. I was vacation relief at the time and there wasn't much vacation to cover, so I ended up training (which was more figuring out the best way to run it on your own) more than anybody else, and I had a pretty good knack for it. They ended up making me the sole operator on it once they realized that the other operators would have to spend so much time learning to run it while only training on their long weekends which only happens once every four weeks. When I first went down and started running it, it was in a pretty sorry state. They had rebuilt it all wrong and there was no way it was going to do anything useful because it was incapable of maintaining any sort of steady state conditions. I was able to use my education to demonstrate to management what exactly was going on and figure out exactly what they needed to do to fix it. See, one of the fundamental aspects of both forestry and wildlife is figuring out what you have so that you can then make management decisions about what to do with it. Trees don't grow uniformly, animals don't stay exclusively on whatever property you are looking at. They die, new ones are born. You have to figure out a way to take all of that into account when you survey them before you can make any management decisions. Well it turns out that that kind of thinking is perfectly suited for R&D. In my first year there, I was basically able to not only make the thing run properly, but also able to design experiments and design new ways of collecting data from those experiments so that what we learned from them would actually be useful. I'm not sure that I learned any more that year than I have any year since doing what I do, but it was by far the most transformative.
  23. Jedediah Luke. Or Jedi Luke for short. But who am I kidding, your child will be Harry or Potter.
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