GlockSpock

Mr. Speaker, I am going to ask my colleagues here today and I am going to challenge the sponsors of this bill and those of them who might think they would vote for this bill to consider whether it is fair. Is it fair to surround yourself with armed guards, with Capitol Hill Police who have guns, with personal details, bodyguards, and ask the people to pay for it when you make it harder for those same people to protect themselves? I don't think that is fair. - Mr. Massie, 2nd Amendment Caucus

Mr. Speaker, I am going to ask my colleagues here today and I am going to challenge the sponsors of this bill and those of them who might think they would vote for this bill to consider whether it is fair. Is it fair to surround yourself with armed guards, with Capitol Hill Police who have guns, with personal details, bodyguards, and ask the people to pay for it when you make it harder for those same people to protect themselves? I don't think that is fair. - Mr. Massie, 2nd Amendment Caucus

Interesting read through overall. https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2021/03/10/house-section/article/H1286-3

I'm honestly surprised something to this extent, or much worse, wasn't attached to the 1.9T bill. I don't have much hopes that it will fail in the Senate. And again, I'm honestly surprised UBC's weren't passed during Obama's presidency. UBC's are a feel good measure that a lot of casual gun-owners (Fudd) support. On the contrary, I argue that if someone isn't incarcerated they should be able to purchase a firearm. If they have proven themselves to be so dangerous they cannot own a firearm, perhaps they shouldn't be on the streets.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8?q={"search"%3A["hr+8"]}&r=1&s=1 Think it will pass? 210 co-sponsors, of note the equivalent bill from last year had 232 co-sponsors. I notice Cohen and Cooper are both on the list. GOA have a nice tool for sending emails.

I don't and haven't ever used one, but someone I know has a Roav. Roav Dash Cams They are made by essentially Anker, whom perhaps many of you have used their chargers, cables, etc. The guy I know that has one shows footage sometimes and it's rather impressive what a sub $100.00 device can do. Based on my experiences with Anker (many, all of them positive), paired with the positive review from my friend, I'd highly recommend any of them.

That's what I get for trying to TGO before morning coffee. Point taken.

So are you saying it’s good or bad that everybody is driving a two year old car with 10,000 miles on it? Isn’t being ahead on mortgage payments a good thing?

I threw another $25.00 to GOA. Why not.

Well, maybe. Serious question: Have you been to every gun-store since noon yesterday? I checked a few places online that have had decent stock over the previous year. Out of stock on a few of them. When there’s a run, it’s a sprint.

Hey! With Biden’s latest initiative, I’d say we could use as many millennials as possible on our side! And of course Glocks are cool!

Very interesting. I’m surprised NBC would even accept their money.

I refinanced using better.com. 2.75%. Would highly recommend as an option for anyone technically savvy.

Ratt

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.