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If a liberal lives in TN and likes guns, is he welcome here?

What like do you about the Manix? I've never owned one.

I kicked around the idea of picking up one of these (released today): https://www.bladehq.com/item--Spyderco-M4-Tanto-Paramilitary-2--99617 I think I missed it, assuming it's an exclusive. I had a knife I foolishly sold with that Jade G-10, it was awesome.

Shorting - Lets say I let you borrow my 100 shares of stock. It's currently worth $10.00/share. So that's worth $1,000. As soon as you gain possession of my stock, you sell it. You have $1,000. Tomorrow the stock goes down and it's only worth $5/share so $500. You buy back 100 shares and pay them back to me. You pocket $500, I get my 100 shares back. That's essentially a short. You get screwed when you borrow my 100 shares at $10.00/share, you sell them, and then the next day the stock is worth $50.00/share. Now, you could wait a while (if I'm willing) to purchase the stock to pay me back. But if I demand it back, that's called a margin call. Now you have to spend $5,000 to buy back the shares to pay me back. You just lost $4,000 and have no shares. I have my shares.

I am going to wait until I get my new desk in, which weights about twice as much as what I have now and theoretically could hold 10x as much weight as my current desk. If the new desk is sturdy, I may have other options. My current desire for getting the monitor mounted to the wall was to eliminate shaking when the desk shakes. That said, if the new desk doesn't shake then I may just buy a monitor stand that clamps to the desk and I can hide wires behind the stand.

I've been kicking around this idea for a while, I finally decided that I might draw it up and estimate materials/expenses. It is all theoretical and I'm posting here for ideas to improve quality, reduce cost, both, or make it more functional. Please note this isn't necessarily about practicality, but elegance and design. Everything theoretically drawn to scale. "Finish" boards for wall mount: Rustic Weathered Grey Pine Solid Wood Wall Paneling Philips Hue Play Lights Description: This will be a wallmount display that incorporates a 100mm x 100mm VESA mount of some sort. The 2x4's will be mounted somehow (I haven't entirely figured out how, yet) to the studs in the wall. A small opening below the VESA mount allows power for monitor, Hue lights, and video to the monitor to be discreetly passed through the opening and then to beneath the desk where cable management will take it to the computer or power source. The Hue lights will be controlled via HomeKit and/or the Sync app on my computer. I did not draw it in the figure, but ~1" holes will need to be drilled through the stacked 2"x4"s in order to pass the small power cables for the lights. This image shows that it shouldn't be a problem, but I need to find how long the cables are for each of those that plug into the power adapter. Thoughts? I may or may not actually go through with this, but just something I've had in mind. I'd be talking about $190.00 for the lights and two boxes of the wall paneling, totaling about $50.00 for both of them. The other costs would be lumber in the form of 2"x4"s, a VESA mount, and other miscellaneous expenses such as maybe longer cables, etc. Open to alternative ideas that accomplish the same clean aesthetic. I'd love to get my monitor on the wall. An alternative could be to simply take the cables for the monitor through the wall, but technically (and please, chime in if you have electrical experience), I believe "flexible cabling" (the monitor power cable, since it is high voltage) ran through the wall is against code. If i were to do this method right, I'd have to add an in wall outlet that would be covered by the monitor. This method may overall be much easier and would simply require wiring and the right VESA mount.

This post... I have found QAnon absolutely fascinating. It's been the perfect example of conspiracy/cult mindset. Could you count the number of times their predictions have been wrong? It would take a while. Yet the "theory" kept morphing time after time. It was all "part of the plan" which was quadruple z Argentinian chess, or something like that. I'm afraid it isn't over, though. I predict it will morph one of two directions, maybe both at the same time! Trump is winning. He lost the election on purpose so he could spend more time fighting the deep state/whatever. The deep state/whatever is winning and prevented Trump from accomplishing his goals. Heck, we've already seen most of that last one play out in "Stop the Steal". I don't see any reason "QAnon" cannot continue for years to come, unfortunately. I'm still putting my money on the entire Q movement being one of the three: Foreign Propaganda Campaign US Psyop Campaign A joke that got out of hand Speaking of cults, friends, and getting friends out of cults, there is this book that I've been meaning to read but haven't got around to it.

Well, when people have a lot of extra cash sitting around scarcity forces prices up.

The Beatles

Then again, I've told people I'd buy a haircomb made by Magpul if they made it, so of course I want one.

It's interesting and cool but I'm failing to see the "non-sbr" point of the "large format pistol". Maybe with more photos/videos I'll see some sort of value to such an idea but what exactly about the "large format pistol" would make it worth having? Does that simply mean it has a "brace" or does it not having any braceishstockish thing at all?

Thought we could use something lighthearted.

Well...at least that's what one guy thinks. For those uninformed, this is comedy old.

If I were going for a keep, I’d probably feel a lot better about older ones. A buddy had a Cherokee that I believe was 2000. He loved the thing to death.

I’m actually neutral. I always wanted one really bad but saw that reviews were so-so after being bought by Chrysler and then when they were bought by Fiat it went down ever more. Personal observation. When I discovered the 4Runner line I found I personally like them, but depends on which Jeep mode you are comparing. Here’s to hoping that the Bronco is cool, but who knows.

#itsacult #buya4runnerinstead #sorrybutnotreally

No. It used to work great but then the plug-in became very, very buggy and I think even caused issues with the main site. It hasn’t worked in years.

It's a rather skinny road. Between that and the fact I was curious what he was about to say, I kept my distance with the window slightly cracked. Agreed on the last part.

I always appreciate a great sense of humor...but I really wanted to make it home.

I do want to note that this will be the third "road rage" post within a week or two on TGO. I really do believe that in the mix of COVID, election/politics, social media, all very heavily intertwined with paranoia, fear, and conspiracy theories, a lot of people are on edge more than they've likely ever been and as such reports of road rage and similiar events does not surprise me in the least. I initially considered posting about it but decided against it. However, after seeing other somewhat similar posts I decided it was important for me to do this. I was out running errands about a week ago. It was shortly after 5:30 PM and I decided to grab a few beers before heading home. I stopped at the convenience station, grabbed the goods, and waited in what seemed to be a decently long line for probably 5-10 minutes. I remember not speaking to anyone in the line, but instead watching outside two men assisting a young lady with her old, old F O R D pickup. I was pleased to see they helped her get it started rather quickly, and all seemed right in the world. After checkout, I started to leave. Generally speaking, from this gas station, I can be home within 3-4 minutes. There is exactly one red light and then three additional intersections before I am in front of my driveway. Fast forward about 2 minutes. I'm sitting at the first intersection after the red light. There is a single vehicle in front of me at the stop sign. I quickly notice this driver turned 180 degrees around, facing me and generally looking rather wide eyed at me. At the time, I didn't think much about it other than it seemed odd considering this guy should have simply turned left or right instead. I concluded he either thought he knew me or someone else, or had a case of the heebee jeebies. So, he turned left and I turned left. He sped up rather a bit and I generally thought all was well. As we neared the next turn (for me) off the main road, I was hoping I'd see him continue straight. Well, last moment he threw his turn signal on and turned the same direction. Since I was going home and didn't want to go anywhere else, I turned too. This is a country road with residential houses alongside. He pulled approximately a few hundred yards up that road and stopped the vehicle. I quickly realized that something was about to get interesting as he exited the vehicle towards me. I'm a rather caring guy. There are, potentially, legitimate reasons for approaching another driver. Maybe he needed help, or saw something on my vehicle that needed addressing. That is all certainly possible. I made sure to leave a lot of room between my vehicle and his. I also left the vehicle in D with my foot on the brake. I also I slightly cracked my window as he was waving his arms and yelling at me. I missed what he said initially, so I asked if he could repeat what he said. It's been a week, but I'll paraphrase to the best of my ability. Hey, I want to know what your problem is. What do you mean? You've been following me ever since I left the store up there. What's your problem with me? Sir, I'm just trying to get home. Where do you live? I don't need to tell you that. I knew you didn't live on this road. You need to get out from behind me. You need to go on right now. So, at this point, I carefully but quickly just passed him and kept going. I was very afraid that he would attempt to follow me and had plans on diversion, but he very speedily turned his truck around and went the other direction. In hindsight, he may have very well been in front of me a place or two in the convenience store. I'm sure in his mind, I made eye contact with him once in the store, followed him out of the store, and was going to follow him home for some sort of mischief. I'm mostly sure he was either certifiably paranoid or on drugs of some sort. But, I didn't care to get to know him, anger him, or stick around much longer than needed. The whole encounter was probably 10 seconds. My point? Deescalation is always the preferred method of handling conflict. Even though he flew off the handle immediately I treated him with respect and called him Sir. Had he given me the chance, I would have simply apologized for anything that I had done and assured him I stopped at the store for beer and was headed home to my family. I could have verbally disputed with him, I could have upped the game by cursing/name calling. I could have acted big and tough by acting in threatening manners. At the end of all of it, I just wanted to get home to my family without incident and drink my beer. Be careful out there folks.

I'm glad both you and he made it home safe that day. Deescalation is always preferred to escalation. Again, I'm glad you made it home (as did he), but you were literally at any point one decision away from a shoot-out. Had he had a firearm on his person, he may have not needed to chamber a round and may have had a quicker response time than you. I highlighted the escalation performed by you in red. You needn't use inflammatory language, a simple "I"m very sorry" may well have ended everything on the spot. You claim to have pulled over to defuse the situation, which may very well have been your intent, but most of the time "pulling over" is purely meant for "settling the score". When you withdrew your pistol and chambered a round, that very well could have been seen as an immediate threat to his life. Had he shot you dead, it would have likely been his word vs the word of a dead person (you) who's vehicle was behind his. It would have looked like you followed him and pulled a firearm on him unless your family's lawyer could find video evidence. You considered driving around him out of the question out of fear he may "bash your car or impede you" but then directly resorted to presenting deadly force which could have left either or both of you dead. Insurance fixes cars, not blood drainage holes. Look, I understand that in the heat of the moment it can be tough to make the best decision. I just don't think you responded quite as well as you think you did. You mention being a "careful considerate" driver...that purposefully drifts into the lane in front of a car roughly two car lengths behind. Stay in your lane, I guess? Driving to the police station was your smartest move. Although I do wonder, in this situation, what would happen if the other driver phoned the police and told them you brandished a weapon. Go ahead, call me anti-gun, that's always fun. Here's a question, what is your exact motive for joining TGO and posting this thread? To get (or give) advice? I have a somewhat similar and very true story that happened about 1-2 weeks ago. I'll create a post as to not derail this thread.

I cannot argue against that.

Well...that's not how bitcoin works. This isn't an endorsement for bitcoin but rather just explaining a bit. If you have your own wallet setup on your computer, it's somewhat similar to having a safe in your house. The cryptography setup in that digital wallet is similiar to a safe, the password to the wallet is similar to the combination. If he used an online exchange, then sure it could have been theoretically hacked.

Bump. Lets get more people joined up!