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Gravy Train

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  1. Here's an excellent way to ruin my weekend and piss away $430 on a replacement tire. Was a new Continental Extreme Contact Sport in an odd size that I can't retrieve until Tuesday. I am now looking at LS/LT-swapped Jeeps to add to the stable.
  2. Bonus: The ACC remains absent after the Sweet Sixteen
  3. Is this where we have an opportunity to fix it with legislation, or pass it on to the taxpayer and look the other way, while using Trump as a convenient yesteryear talking-point of distraction?
  4. Matt has so poorly handled this season that I'm likely to just delete the DVR queue and stop watching for a while. Bring back BIP, or I'm out.
  5. We're not supposed to discuss enforcement of the current law and amnesty quotas already in place, are we? Humane means of immigration exist through consulates, but it's not a swift process, nor accommodating enough to the masses who annually exceed these quotas, to the tune of one million annually. It's that piece of the system that's actually "broken," right now, not enforcement or states' rights.
  6. "We're gonna fix immigration, but don't come now," type messaging, and likely poor PR by the White House to Mexico and the rest of Central America. The unfortunate collateral to granting DACA amnesty might influence families to send off more of their children, for at least an opportunity to enroll in public schools, find a free meal/shelter and potentially land a future DACA-type fortune. Free flights to other border towns and diverting FEMA resources to pick up for CBP is bad PR to the American taxpayer as well.
  7. Concerned Democrats - "Have you tried just throwing a few squares at the plebes while looking the other way? We do that with our southern borders and it's all working out just fine! No, we don't need to address the root of the problem just yet, these tasty squares will hold them over until the next administration anyways!" Concerned Republicans - "Have you tried doing nothing about this while talking around the problem? Deflection is a far cheaper method, bro! I mean, someone's gotta pay the maintenance schedule for the Corporate Learjet."
  8. That's great when inflation isn't a thing and central banks aren't printing their asses off among an asset bubble in the longest bull market run in history. This ball of yarn will never correct itself.
  9. The title of the thread is "rewarding financial irresponsibility" and, ironically, to keep the pitchforks down and money printer hot, we're now in full-send basic income* *one or more fuck trophies required
  10. Great win for the Banks and Chinese goods I suppose? Fantastic mechanism to slow down the already-snail's-pace of the IRS, much like diverting FEMA resources to border response. It's another form of entitlements the middle-class taxpayer is on the hook for, and one that I'll never realize. I support the economic stimulus motivation, but when 60% of the first-round CARES-act stimulus payments were diverted into savings or paying down debt, these direct payments have proven marginally effective. https://www.nber.org/digest/oct20/most-stimulus-payments-were-saved-or-applied-debt
  11. It's no longer a tax credit, the IRS is now issuing $300 monthly checks to the too-WIDE pool of eligibility, including those who now have no work incentives/requirements. It's absolutely an effective stimulus, but becomes basic income policy if the benefit continues beyond December. It's flawed and has no spend stipulation, diapers be damned.
  12. Funny, given the title of this thread, I assumed it hinted at ever-expanding entitlements programs, now the no-strings-attached, $3,600-per-child benefit attached to the COVID-19 relief bill. https://www.businessinsider.com/child-allowance-payment-stimulus-bill-basic-income-2021-3 https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2021/03/14/thanks-to-the-stimulus-bill-child-allowances-are-here-to-stay-but-we-have-to-pay-for-them/?utm_source=pushly
  13. I'm jealous of the light control and contrast of modern LCD and OLED displays-- they'll always be a couple steps ahead of the projector but also difficult to mimic the cinema feel. This is one of those interests where if you keep using it, you'll keep convincing yourself of the ways you could "make it better." I'm now as the point where I'm ready to ditch the AVR for a processor/amp(s) setup (Yamaha CX/MX-A5200 or Anthem AVM/MCA) and relocate the projector into an enclosure outside the room. Have a hundred other projects I'd rather knock out ahead of it.
  14. Former Hoover, AL High coach Rush Propst doesn't mind taking down Kirby Smart and Nick Saban with him https://www.outkick.com/alleged-recording-of-rush-propst-includes-talk-of-illegal-recruiting-by-georgia-alabama/ In other news, Auburn pressured a professor to change a grade to keep a player eligible last year: https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2021/03/lawsuit-alleges-auburn-changed-grade-of-former-football-player-in-2019.html
  15. I caught that in a different article this morning, going to cross-post it in the Jawja thread.
  16. "Ice-T, Eazy-E, Malcom-X, Fuckin' A... Oh wait, that's been done before too.
  17. Woke crowd: Can't start Hudson Card, too many "privilegeds" huddled around the center. Woke crowd: Coach Banks needs to enroll in sensitivity training. Girlfriend checks out but pet monkey is highly racist.
  18. Fuck that, I'm tired of the shifting goalposts of cultural "racist" victimhood, mostly by ill-read and marginally-experienced Millennial little orange-slice-eating, everyone-got-a-trophy shits. Their social media slanders of self-declared agendas and demands are equally as bullying as one who shames a donor's E-mail with "the blacks" in its content. There's a legitimate cause to reform treatment misappropriations, not reinvent a brand because their bygone history doesn't fit their agenda. We're also not alone in this currently, Baylor is about to deal with the same nonsense that affects the entire institution's name.
  19. Ha, Rachel Lindsay wants Emmanual Acho to take over Chris Harrison's role, moving forward.
  20. The franchise will suffer more than Harrison will for what it will become. Too many established eyeballs that will fail to tune in on a show that trips over its own dick for quotas.
  21. I thought there might be a related thread on this topic? Maybe it was a prior "Help Me With This?" post. It took me a year to build my theater and finally got to fire it up in June. Paint was decided early on with Sherwin-Williams Tricorn black and Gibraltar. I chose the wrong flat base and it shows marring too easily. Will probably need to top coat it in the future. On the other hand, I easily found two fabric swatches from Guilford of Maine that GIK ordered quickly to match the finishes. The movie posters on the sides are GIK 4" Acoustic Art Panels with rock wool stuffing and printed acoustic canvas. The front stage is using GIK 244 bass traps in the corners, rear are GIK full tri-traps and GIK Polyfusors above the entry. GIK basic gridfusors are painted at the ceiling soffits between the Atmos channels. Component list: Middle Atlantic Sliding Rack Shelf 17U, Middle Atlantic custom brushed rack shelves Panamax MB1500 UPS Sony ES STR-ZA5000ES AVR Sony ES UBP-1100ES 4K Bluray Player Sony HAP-S1 High Resolution Audio Player TiVo Bolt Vox 6-tuner whole-home DVR HP EliteDesk 705 G4 AMD Ryzen HTPC Apple TV 4K Sony PlayStation 5 Chief RPAU mount and 24" extension Sony VPL-VW885ES 4K Laser Projector Seymour Screen Excellence 123" Custom 2.40:1 XD Acoustic Transparent screen, 3.5" velvet borders with Fidelio magnetic masking panels (for 16:9 image) Definitive Technology UIW RLS II L/C/R arrays Definitive Technology UIW RSS II bi-polar back surrounds Definitive Technology DI 6.5R in-ceiling Atmos channels (5.4.2) SVS PB2000 Pro front subwoofer SVS PC2000 Pro rear subwoofer HT Design Warwick top grain brown leather power recliner row seating (interior chofa) Logitech Harmony Elite RF remote The room measures just 13' W x 16' D, and comfortably seats four, but that's the limit. If I were to do it over again, I'd build a box for the projector at the back wall or better yet, outside of the room. It's quiet but operates just behind the seating row and could use more throw distance and room for an anamorphic lens. I'd also like to eventually use a dedicated processor like an Anthem AVM 60 with a bank of amplifiers.
  22. The super-passionate keyboard warriors are calling out all the past contestants (who have fuckall to do with this) to "denounce" Chris Harrison and his take on the doxxing overreach. I wouldn't mind if ABC just kills the entire season as it is now, leaving everyone with the most boring cliffhanger in the history of the franchise. Resume with BIP, hosted by Wells, facilitated by a round of Covid/Gardasil vaccines prior to filming.
  23. Cancel culture got Gina Carano and Chris Harrison in one week. Ouch. They're going to have to edit the finale or have a very uncomfortable ending for Matt if nothing changes from here forward.
  24. Someone highly entertaining, but seemingly even more embarrassing. I wished he had women figured out before football., but some guys need an entire life to understand women. Probably a benefit to recruiting though.
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