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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. I know it's the Mavs, but Doncic is amazing and I have to root for them over Kawhi and the Clips.
  2. Slick! Purple w/ white interior is 🔥
  3. I don’t get the Nebraska hate. We owned them. Yeah they bailed and were bitches but I put that more on Osborne. I’ve always found Nebraska fans to be great and I really enjoyed my trips to Lincoln. Winning helps that.
  4. Only there's a lot more older alumni of LHB than younger. Well, depending on how you define old I guess. I'm 42 so I'm definitely old I see LHB as a service organization, and that's how Paula Crider who was Director during my time in LHB clearly positioned it to my class. If you're in service to the University, and the University has gone through all the negotiations with stakeholders to come to conclusion to save The Eyes as the school song, you play it. If you have a personal issue playing The Eyes, you should stand on your principles and quit LHB, fight for justice, whatever. My $0.02
  5. I hope that interview was done and article written before the players and administration came together on their plan. Otherwise, they need to find a new drum major. And if you are in LHB and won't play The Eyes, you shouldn't be in LHB. What is the point of having a band if they refuse to play the school song? When I was in LHB 20+ years ago, there were more people interested in playing than they had spots. Not everyone made it. I'm sure if people don't want to play, there are 3 more people willing to take their spot.
  6. Not sure how we didn’t get some foul calls on our last 3 drives in Q1. Nice to see Patty hit some 3 balls. He keeps going under screens and leaving shooters open thou.
  7. I'm interested, but how are they not compatible with your system? Are they also refurb? Apparently the Carrier Infinity system the prior owner put in has proprietary wiring that is not like everything else on the market? It only works with its thermostat. Bummer. Yes, I bought the refurbs. Coronavirus is free! Yes, in Austin.
  8. Not that he looks that different but I never realized that John Ratzenberger was in Empire Strikes Back...
  9. This seems very un-CDC like to roll out a big announcement like that without having all the various stakeholders already looped in and standing next to him. Either that, or Austin and the Travis County Commissioners were verbally on board and wanted to let CDC float the trial balloon announcement so they could come out later and be "surprised."
  10. EMP has a "fallout" radius, just like a nuke, depending on size and altitude of detonation.
  11. We're literally discussing a hypothetical, hop off your high horse. So we have more cropland but we're more technology dependent than ever in ag production, from H20 control to harvest. Not sure how that farmer is going to do it when his tech dies, no GPS automation, etc. And even if he is able to do it all manually, in this scenario trucking and distribution is also knocked way down in capacity. Who knows what a full on EMP attack can actually affect? I hope we never get to find out. Maybe it's half as bad as I speculated above...we only lose 100M people. The point is polite society is more on a knife's edge than people appreciate, as illustrated by the COVID panic shopping, the Texas gas "shortage" a few years back, Katrina, and a million other examples. Only in this scenario the devastation isn't localized to city or state like a hurricane, it's much more far reaching. The expert who wrote the book I and someone else linked above says (with data to back it up) that a properly executed EMP could knock out a lot more than we think. Then again, if I were a terrorist with the ability to do an EMP attack, I'd probably just go straight for a nuke attack in a major city; maybe less impactful geographically but more impactful psychologically.
  12. This shit is my wheelhouse. There are 2 questions: How likely is an EMP attack to occur? How bad would it be if it did happen? On "How Likely," I think the answer is "not very likely," although the % goes up each year. To perform a high-altitude EMP (HEMP) requires state-level sponsorship, sophistication, and technology. Right now that means an ICBM or something close to it. Near peer states like China know it would trigger a MAD scenario, along with how intertwined they are to our economy. If you're looking for something different to worry about, it's not China doing an EMP, it's the delivery and technology becoming commoditized enough that a shithole country or terrorist group is able to execute it. Who do we fire our nukes at when some anonymous terror group pilot a container ship in the Pacific or Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico right up to our doorstep and fires off an EMP from there? Container delivered nukes/EMPs are very possible right now. I'm a lot more worried about a country with nothing left to lose than I am China. Which is why it's in our interest for Russia's economy to be better and not so petrol based, but that's a different thread... On "How bad," the answer is "really, really bad." At least for a HEMP. Basically, 90% of the U.S. population could die within two years. Think about it: our population is completely, totally dependent on technology. Technology drives crop production, distribution, factories, trucks, internet, everything. A really strong EMP that fries transformers, sidelines trucking, knocks out farming and production equipment...and what are we back to? An agrarian society circa early 1900's. That level of technology doesn't have the carrying capacity for 330M+ people. You saw what happened with COVID-19 and people freaking out over toilet paper, that's was nothing. Trucks go down and stores are empty in 2-3 days. Refrigeration and air conditioning, done. If you're like me and require temperature controlled medicine like insulin, you're dead within a few months. The rest die in food riots and civil unrest before the succumb to famine, and then disease. All those wonderful medical technologies and drugs we've developed? Useless or inaccessible now. Live in or near a major city? The government isn't coming to help, you're on your own. Oh, you have your own farm/ranch? Great, I hope you're more than a tank of gas from any major population center because guess who is coming for your shit - everyone. Anyway, it's not a good picture and I try not to think about it. If you really want to go down the rabbit hole on this, read the One Second After book trilogy by William Forstchen. Just don't be surprised when you turn into a prepper.
  13. I had 2 different d2d salespeople come by over the past week. We've been in COVID-19 self-quarantine after testing positive. They did the normal bullshit of spewing their words and getting halfway through their spiel before I had the door open and I just said "Oh, sorry man we're COVID positive in here right now." One guy literally RAN back down the walkway, lol. I think we'll remain "COVID positive" for awhile here.
  14. Hopefully my last update... M-Th last week was shitty. See above updates. Friday I started feeling better. Energy was back up, nausea went away. By Sunday and through to today Tuesday, I'm feeling like a million bucks relatively - my energy is 95% and the only lingering symptom I have is a light and intermittent cough. I did work out with some light weightlifting last night and felt pretty winded, but I also have been nursing a groin pull so I've been off for several weeks and it's hard to say how much is COVID and how much is just being off. I do feel like it's hard to take a really deep breath, if I try to force my lungs full of air, it starts a coughing fit. When things calm down if I'm not back to 100% I'll see about getting a scan to look for damage, but just sitting around the house, playing with the kids or working on the computer, I feel fine at this point.
  15. These apparently aren’t compatible with my system. Paid $129/ea, selling for $50/ea. Link to this model on ecobee's website: https://www.ecobee.com/en-us/smart-thermostats/certified-refurbished-ecobee3-lite/
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