MacGyver

My sincerest congratulations! We need more engineers - and I feel like there’s more opportunity than there has ever been.

This one made me laugh:

I don’t know that your kidneys would net you a Hi-Point with a broken stock with the shape they’re currently in.

Man, that's some pretty wood.

It’s hard on those cold, damp days where it seems like you just can’t get warm.

If you work for a company that uses Kronos for workforce management - there’s a decent possibility that you’re going to get a physical paycheck this week because of this vulnerability.

Oh, that's me too. I guess all that was just my way of saying - "you've probably now spent enough time on investigating it to not worry about it happening again."

If it was the first time this problem happened, and it was only with one round and I couldn't replicate it - I think I might chalk it up to a defect bullet and not worry about it too much.

The precedent this case sets - regardless of your feelings about abortion - harms the court and the country. Gun rights won’t be the last controversial topic in which this ruling will be used as support. The justices know that, too. So maybe look at it like this. Five justices knew good and well this would be applied to gun rights (because if nothing else Roberts explicitly told them so in his dissent) and willingly went ahead and offered those rights up anyway. They were sent up there to do a job and took the first opportunity they got to do it. But, because they swung at this case - it’ll have ramifications that spread far beyond abortion.

I consider myself firmly pro-life. Actually, I consider myself pro whole life - which puts me at odds with just about every mainline political group. The hardliners are going to get what they want by what more or less amounts to a trick. Roberts warned about this in his dissent. Of course they knew this was going to happen in states like California. But they don’t care - this is their god.

I fail to see how this thread brings any value to this community. What does it do for the whole of the community for one group to point at another and tell them they suck? Memphis doesn’t need me to defend it - and I’m sure our members who live there are fine with the rest of y’all staying home. But, I just don’t get it.

No power here in Brentwood. But fortunately all my people are safe.

Sadly, the victim mentality that pervades populism pretty much assures that sooner or later pretty much everyone will find themselves the enemy. It's confusing at first. And, it's an awfully lonely place to find oneself. You get over it though.

A lot of very serious people I know are really paying attention to this variant being sequenced out of South Africa. None of us are out of this until all of us are out of it.

I’m going to pause this one for a minute - mainly because I’ve got other things I want to think about over the next few days.

Glad to hear he's on the mend - and that he's got someone who cares about him enough to notice when he's not around.

That looks really nice.

So this is your gun - but you're not affiliated with the shop?

Got my flu shot the other day to no fanfare. No noticeable side effects. That said, everyones' immune systems are kind of trashed right now. It's kind of like when you send a kid to kindergarten and everyone who's previously been healthy spends the next year sick every other week. A lot of people have been doing a lot less over the last year and a half. It will be unsurprising to see traditional vaccines and colds and such knock some people off level for a bit.

If I was buying another one today, I’d buy another Pit Boss in a heartbeat. Their Pro Series 820 is just about perfect.

There's a small bucket on the side of the Reqtec just like the PitBoss. It's mostly hidden - but you can just barely see the edge of it in the picture above. My experience is that there's just not much ash left over. Since there's a fan that feeds into the firebox - there's nothing but a little white ash left - if that. Pull the grate off every now and then and hit it with a shop vac. If you check the ReqTec site - you can see how the legs bolt on in the pictures. You could definitely mount it on a stand or similar.

I love my pellet grill. I've had natural gas grills and have probably burned enough propane in my lifetime to be a topic of discussion at last weeks climate summit. I have had a Big Green Egg for years. Nothing beats the convenience of a pellet grill. All the flavor of cooking over wood - with a thermostat to control the temperature. It'll legit be the last grill you ever buy.

Nice

I’ve shot a bunch of the 147s. I like them. I prefer Federal HSTs.

You don’t. Until you do. But then it’s too late to change your mind.