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Hozz

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  1. It seems like most people in this thread think the death rate of mostly elderly, already sick with one or more chronic conditions, is far worse than losing 10 million jobs in two weeks from a 165 million man labor force. We got people predicting 250K dead by Summer...how many people are out of work by then? 30 million? That is unprecedented in that short of a time period. 40 million out of work puts us in Great Depression territory which took place over a decade. This one size fits all shut everything down now thinking is short sighted and ineffective. The 'experts' have been wrong on their casualty numbers (The guy Rogan had on mid March talking about 500K dead US by July, where is that guy now?), can someone link to anyone that has been remotely accurate?
  2. All our kids are out of the house so its just wife and I at home. We trialed all the meal delivery services that had some kind of discounted first order, which is almost all of them. This was 3 years ago so there were fewer choices but we probably tried 6-7 of them. We settled on Home Chef and have been getting them pretty steady since then. Their base price is $10 a plate, free shipping on orders over $50. Every meal has some kind of customization option though so you can get a different protein, more of a protein, etc. If you are cooking for two I would highly recommend trialing them at least. First order is like half off. We skip some weeks, but not many. My wife has become like a 500% better cook since we started and we have a lot less wasted produce and leftovers. The packaging is very efficient...our normal 3 meals for two a week comes in a 12"x12"x12" box, well insulated. Proteins are sandwiched between two layers of those reusable ice pack things on the bottom with all the other ingredients separated by meal in their own bag on top. Then you get a recipe card for each meal. They have an insane amount of variety, you will cook and eat dishes you probably have never heard of much less tried. They have an online cookbook section with the recipe for every meal you have ordered and we have tried 342 unique recipes and maybe 10 of them sucked. Every so many weeks you order they give you 3 'free' boxes to share with new customers. They call them free but they are really $50 off your first order. They expire after 60 days if you don't send them to anyone and all of my real life friends and family interested in this got an email from me a long time ago. So I am currently sitting on 15 of them, if you are interested PM an email address and I will send you one. I think the regular new customer trial is $30 off so this is a pretty good deal.
  3. I am a huge fan of the Witcher games so there was no way I wasn't gonna watch the series but the first two episodes, IMO, are not paced well and they are going back and forth between three timelines. I think the show tightens up and gets a lot better from episode 3 on. The thing with Tiger King...its a doc that if it was fictional people would be like 'Come on, no way!'. Gay dude convinces two straight dudes to marry him at the same time, for example. I was very reluctant to start watching it but man it hooked me and I loved it.
  4. This thread has proven to be a prolific vehicle for people to nominate themselves for ignore. Question for those capable of talking about the virus without predicting burning bodies in the streets...why didn't anyone freak out over H1N1/Swine Flu in 2009-10 the way people are freaking out now? https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/h1n1-vs-novel-coronovirus-how-do-they-compare/ar-BB10vk2M according to that it killed 12K in the US, including 6K in a month from mid October 2009 to mid November 2009. 60 million infected 275K hospitalized in a year. And I don't remember anyone closing anything or it dominating the headlines 24/7. What is different or what has changed since then?
  5. Saw this over the weekend. No expectations going in...what a fantastic, unique movie. 2019 sure had some great films.
  6. Tried watching the latest Godzilla last night. My god it sucked. Got about half way and my wife and I just looked at each other and had the same thought 'What the fuck are we doing?'
  7. I don't have the answer. I just think destroying entire sectors of the economy by shutting shit down isn't the answer. Maybe it is, maybe we'll see that, maybe we won't. I am on the side of this isn't that big of a deal. There is no winning that argument though. 3 months from now, if our casualties are Italy level, then the people that wanted shit shut down ASAP are going to have an argument and it would be hard to make a case against that. But if the casualties are not at that rate? Then it just becomes a discussion on should we have acted sooner or did we overreact? We won't ever know. My guess right now is we have around 1000 deaths entering the Summer. Not great but a far cry from the 500K some alarmists have speculated. edit: My sister is an ER doc in a Missouri suburb. She is more concerned with this situation than I thought she would be, mostly due to her hospital not having a ton of ventilators. I also have a best friend since high school that is a GI doc in Houston, he sees this like I do, its not a big deal and is being overblown.
  8. Keeping up with this thread is almost a full time job. There is way more hysteria on display here than I would have guessed. Also it would be awesome if people just picked one or the other DT or CR thread on this topic and stick to just the one. I'm 46 and fat. I'm not worried about this virus at all personally, and I don't have a spleen. I don't get sick much and if a virus is going to take me out, so be it. My diet is red meat and alcohol and I've had a good run. I am a little bit concerned for my FIL, he is late 70s, and my mom who is 71. Still, as long as they take the precautions they should, I don't think its likely they get infected and then even if they do, they are way more likely to recover than die according to the best data I can find. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ I'm in IT so its pretty easy to do my job from anywhere that has internet. My company finally issued a WFH until further notice decree this morning. I'm way more concerned with the recession we seem to be headed for and with entire sectors of the economy being utterly destroyed. Our middle son does contract AV work for conferences and sporting events....he literally has nothing scheduled for the first time ever. Airlines are selling off or retiring part of their fleets. Hotels are empty and/or closed. We eat at the same place every Sunday night, the bartender we are friendly with said he covered a shift for someone the day before and had just two tables in two hours before being sent home. The place was like 20% of normal capacity, parking lot empty when you usually have to park in the back. What are all these hourly/tip wage work force people supposed to do? Finally, for the people pushing for federal or state 'lockdowns'...that would be a fucking disaster. There would be an immediate run on literally everything. My wife went out to the nearest Walmart and HEB this afternoon and she said pretty much everything was picked over. Surprising me, beer and wine was fully stocked but that was about the only items in our normal rotation she was able to purchase.
  9. I had heard that they charge sales tax to Texas now, do they? The same guy also has another site I was unaware of until recently called ammoempire.com. The hook there is that shipping is free. Not sure if they charge sales tax to Texas, seems like either neither would or both would.
  10. I think that is most of it.
  11. The two suppressors I ordered last APRIL had the NFA paperwork finally come through yesterday (technically one came in last Monday but I wanted to wait until both were in and just do one 4473) and I picked them up today. Exciting. I went through the Silencer Shop website and did the 1 off trust for both of them and a local place with their kiosk for the transfer. Both of them are from Griffin, a Recce 5 that will go on an X95 for mostly tacticool and a Revolution 9 that may split time between various handguns and a PSA AK-V. I got various 150gr stuff that should be subsonic, but we'll see. My company bonuses in April and these were impulse buys, I would have normally done a lot more research before pulling the trigger on something like this.
  12. Hozz

    XFL: The sequel

    The kickoff change is fantastic and I think it will make its way to the NFL in a year or two. It makes the play relevant and exciting. Same with the PAT, the 1-2-3 point option is very engaging in a way a chip shot field goal just isn't.
  13. This is, perhaps, a perfect parody of this season.
  14. I thought that was a pretty good ep. The chase-victoria-peter stuff was great. It was hilarious watching Peter's reaction to her reveal. The way they sold Cleveland was funny as well. What happened to the budget? Don't they usually take them some place pimp? Aleyah's dress at the end was fire.
  15. Kickoff at 7p local time. Unironically featuring strong Polynesian ties but also a lot of national talent. Bijan and Prince Dorbah are playing in the game.
  16. Targeting is a terrible rule that never should have been implemented. It is there to appease people that don't even watch the sport. The fact that a player can be tossed because he broke down for a tackle ahead of a ball carrier lowering themselves or making any kind of football move that changes where the defender makes contact with them is absurd and incongruous with how the sport is actually played. It is a very bad rule and blemishes the sport. Also it blows my mind that anyone from the South could think CTE, or anything, is an existential threat to football. Football is the most popular sport in the US and its only getting more popular. NFL ratings are up. CFB ratings are up. In the South, in the Fall, its what we do on Friday Saturday and Sunday. This isn't changing. Science and technology will eventually solve for CTE, in the meantime we're still going to be playing and watching football.
  17. Watching some highlights today and man #8 in the Clemson secondary got absolutely lit up all night. Difference in the game seemed to be LSU adjusted to the 3-1-7 after a quarter by just having Burrow bail out up the middle as needed and Clemson never warmed to the fact that it was an off night for TL. He was missing badly.
  18. My FIL is an aggy back from the days when they didn't have women. 50% of the time he sees me he mentions that Texas is a girls school. I guess because they didn't have girls. Not sure. Anyway. He called me after their bowl game this year to let me know that Jimbo wasn't trying to beat the point spread. I found that to be some next level aggy shit.
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  20. I think the game will be close. Clemson is tested and better than any of the three teams that played a 1 score game with LSU. And Clemson's defense is better than Auburn's which was the only team to have really slowed LSU down all year. I'll be rooting for Clemson. I used to think it was cute to listen to LSU talk shit every year only to get beaten into oblivion by Saban. Now that they actually won, its not as cute especially on top of their antics in our game and the lies about the AC in the locker room. Fuck these guys.
  21. Yeah his performance in Bloodline is about as good as it gets.
  22. There was a game about a month ago and a lineman got beat and he said, I shit you not, "Brooks has no idea who came inside of him." I tried to find it on YouTube but I couldn't.
  23. That was a great game as well. The best semi final CFP game yet probably? Most of the others have been blowouts. I thought the Rose Bowl just had a bit of everything that makes college football the best sport. Some interesting story lines, the setting/history and the game itself had a lot of fun shit you don't see all that often like a kickoff return TD and the muffed snap from the punter that got returned for a TD.
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