MacGyver

This is truck stop food - and unfortunately Nashville thinks it’s bigger than that these days. Culver’s has one - but I can’t imagine traveling for it. Hank’s Honky Tonk down In Murfreesboro has one that looks pretty decent. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59061f216b8f5b6083924623/t/59934d39f14aa10e7f827958/1502825803329/Hanks+New+Larger+Menu.pdf

It took me a bit to make the change - and I don’t use it for everything. But I’ve found the things it does well, It does really well. My gotos are: 1. Things 3 - I moved recently from OmniFocus - it’s my primary planning and task management system 2. Notion - used for all kinds of stuff like notes and documentation. There are a lot of great templates for all kinds of stuff 3. Pocket - a universal extension that allows me to save anything I’m reading for later. Notion can do this too, and I may move it in the future - but I use Pocket for more of a curated reading list to come back to later. If I want to save an article after that, I’ll file it elsewhere.

These are indeed strange times. And, I expect we've still got a ways to go.

Small businesses are having to make some hard choices on inventory/cash on hand right now. I expect they sell all the 9mm slides they can make. That said, they can probably get other variants, and it's probably worth an inquiry via whatever customer service tool they use to check.

I think I've mentioned it elsewhere, but if you haven't listened to WNYC's Blindspot - you should. It's probably the best, most accurate reporting of the road to September 11th I've heard.

I know we've cautioned people against pejoratives here in the past. I don't really care about that here. I would just submit that it makes you seem not serious and takes away from whatever merits the rest of your argument may have.

This is not true. People are certainly entitled to their own opinions. You're really not entitled to your own facts. I recognize that there has been a large scale erosion of what the political class is willing to offer, what some members of the media are willing to report, and what the public at large and individually are willing to accept as "facts." But, facts are supported by evidence that a curious person can go and independently verify. So, sure. Alternative theories of events are fine - and even welcome. But, they have to be supported by actual evidence. And, the lack of evidence to the contrary is not the same as evidence. Just because your "theory" can't be easily disproven - doesn't mean it's grounded in reality. It doesn't make it worthy of consideration. They can do a lot of harm in some cases. For an alternative theory to be viable - there needs to either be evidence to support it - or it needs to point to a hole in the existing evidence that indicates that trust in an existing theory shouldn't be fully trusted. And, in the latter case, it needs to present a path to filling in those holes. But yes, conspiracy theories are less relevant to the argument.

At least on this board, I have a say in what constitutes acceptable dialog. You can believe whatever you want about that day - but take saying it out loud somewhere else. There are those of us who go to sleep every single day with the vision of coworkers jumping out of windows and those towers falling. We can still smell it, and if we try real hard, we can taste it. Seems that sickeningly sweet, metallic taste never really goes away. There are those of us who've been all over the world hunting the people who supported it and carried it out - only to be frustrated in those efforts for a whole host of reasons - political and otherwise. You can certainly be outraged by that. You can be outraged by the fact that we've got people who enlisted after September 11 who've spent their entire careers at war - and are now retiring - many with PTSD that we're still so inadequate in treating. We've lost so much and so many. For those of you who've lost someone you care about or that you served with - I'm so sorry. Know that you're in my prayers daily. For those of you who struggle with post traumatic stress - know that you're in my prayers too. And, I'm always here if you need someone to talk. This community is better with you in it. Yes, we all have fewer liberties than we enjoyed then. We should push back against that. Especially since many of them haven't made the world more safe. I've flown hundreds of time since, and I'm certain I've not been more safe on an airliner than I was when I flew into New York on the afternoon of September 10. But I simply will not allow anyone to disparage the memory of the 2,977 people who died that day. There are plenty of places you can go talk that if you want - this isn't one of them.

Serious doctors are quite in agreement. They're tired of getting their asses kicked night after night in emergency departments. They're tired of having patients leave AMA because they don't have a place to put them and will have to transfer them far from their home and loved ones. They're tired of losing patients who otherwise shouldn't be dying. They're tired of losing patients with other conditions that aren't getting appropriate treatment because they "don't know what to believe." They're just exhausted. Doctors who play doctors for the TV news - sure they don't agree. That's what they're there for. This is a novel disease - and we're all scrambling in public to figure out how to treat it. We don't know more than we do know - but we're closing that gap. People are staying alive today that would have died in March. Stuff like proning patients, convalescent plasma, Remdesivir, etc - when it's suggested - there are paths to try them with scaffolding in place so that we can see if they actually work. We run trials. There's a reason for that structure - even when we want to hope that something works. Even when early results seem promising - we need data. Take something like hydroxycloriquine. You might say, "what's the harm." But, when we do actual trials, we can see that, "oh, there is significant risk of harm in some patients." so, it's not worth the risk in those cases. Or, in the case of convalescent plasma, we see that it might have beneficial effects in some groups - but not others - so that's helpful knowledge since we have limited supplies. All of this is being done in public. I get it that we all want this to be done with - but looking back - we'll be awed at how fast we inculcated battlefield knowledge into actual practice. Frankly, I hope that we take some of these learnings and in the future, streamline some of the overly burdensome regulatory stuff that limits us today. All that said, when a doctor or group comes forward and says, here's something promising - and we're moving it into trials where the results will be publicly available for peer review - that's great. When you have a doctor who says, "here's a miracle cure" - and especially when you have members of the political class amplify it - then you just need to look to see who's bought stock and who benefits from the position.

I like something glossy. Full format. It's kind of like sitting down with the old Sears Wish Book as a kid. I've tried all kinds of things over the years - but for the last few years I've moved them over to a database in Notion. Since most of the rest of the stuff in my life lives there - it makes sense for guns too. Or at least it did - back before the boating accident.

Honestly, I've probably allowed a few voices to fester that I shouldn't have. It's stumbled out of the General Politics forum into the larger forum and kind of made it into a place I don't want to hang out. I expect I'm not the only one for which that is true. While we've long been a site that encourages honest debate - there are a handful of folks here that simply do not deserve the assumption of sincerity. I'm going to correct that going forward. I say this in all sincerity Dave, but what else are you looking for? This whole thing has been done in public. All of it. Literally every piece of data you could ask for is available as we struggle with this as a society. It may be too much? Maybe we don't know where to look or what to trust? Maybe that data doesn't align with the worldview we want to hold? I get all that. But there's more good data out there than has been available in the history of man. Conspiracy theories attempt to assign simple explanations to hard problems. This is a hard problem - so if someone is giving you an an easy answer - it's probably wrong. Couple in the fact that as more and more scientists adopt consensus - the conspiracists have to go further and further to the extreme positions. Sometimes I think we need to back up and just read some of these things out loud. That should likely settle it for any honest person. Now, I'll agree that the average American is terrible at assessing risk. We've de-risked everything in our day to day lives to the extent that when faced with an unknown risk - most simply don't know how to approach it. You can never completely mitigate any risk - but neither should we simply assume all risk needs to be accepted. The problem with the "both sides" approach is that one of those sides is literally killing folks right now. Add to that the above factor that the average American sucks at assessing risk, and that's the reason we're less than welcoming to some of this nonsense.

This thread is really starting to wear my patience.

I’m fairly certain everyone who met him likely left feeling that way. He cared about people in a way that simply cannot be faked.

Prayers for you. Please keep us updated.

I hope I get to be as old as some of you guys... I’m going to be great at it.

It comes from an internal document leaked to WREG.

You guys in Memphis keep your heads down. And maybe stay off ladders and keep the chainsaws in the shed for the next few weeks, too.

I met Charley Pride once as a kid in a Golden Corral in Anniston, Alabama. I was over there with my grandfather, and he was there having lunch. No one seemed to bother him - and truthfully I don’t know that anyone noticed him. But on my way out we passed his table and I said, “hello, Mr. Pride.” He smiled and proceeded to have a lengthy conversation with a kid who probably wasn’t more than 10 or 11. He wasn’t too far from the height of his fame, but he wasn’t too big or important to take the time to talk to a kid. He’s had a fan in me ever since.

While you're getting pictures together for the colt forum - you might as well post them here too. Just saying...

For some personal reasons, I’m thankful that it took a few days longer than the December 6 prediction that I had originally made for COVID related deaths to surpass September 11 deaths. But it’s hard to fathom that only the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Antietam have seen more American casualties than yesterday did: Pearl Harbor would round out number 10 at 2,403.

I run a 32” in portrait mode. It’s hard to go back.

They make some great knees these days. Likely a far cry better than the one you’ve got. They’re going to get you up the same day to start PT. You’re going to hate them and their families for coming generations. But channel that hate into doing the PT religiously. You be back on the lake in no time. Prayers you’ll stay healthy.

They don’t even know exactly how fast he went that day because the gauge didn’t go that high.

One of last of a generation has died - Chuck Yeager has passed at 97. He was truly an American hero - an icon. Over the course of his career, he logged more than 10,000 hours in 361 types of aircraft. If you have not read his autobiography, you’ve no one to blame but yourself - and should remedy that just as soon as possible. You don’t need to break any speed records to get it. Just call your local library. They’ll have it and will probably even walk it right out to the curb for you. He lived quite a life. Spurs to her, General.

You’ve gotten some real gems there over the years.