MacGyver

I’ll close it.

Is it your RMR thread?

Edit the topic. You should see a drop down menu.

Vanderbilt’s burn unit is one of the best around. He should be in good hands there. I’m so sorry to hear this. We’ll keep him and his family in our prayers.

If you’re basing business decisions on Facebook traffic, I question whether you might be better off just taking that money and just burning it. We’ve already got the data showing that they’re purposefully inflating numbers they’re showing advertisers. Instagram is owned by Facebook for those who may not know. Like it’s predecessor, it’s a giant time suck.

My parents have a giant hickory nut tree right behind their house. It drops so many nuts that it’s actually kind of problematic as they age. I didn’t realize how many varieties of hickory trees there were until last night when I was researching them. On their particular variant, the nuts were quite bitter when raw, but really pleasant when roasted. The squirrels sure love them. If you’re sitting out on their back deck this time of year, you’re likely to end up getting showered with hickory nut hulls as the squirrels chew through them.

I always thought you were supposed to toast hickory nuts first.

Oh, that looks like a fun evening.

Looks to be “minute of hog” accurate.

That last one is a nice fish!

Few thousand per million in coverage on the first $50MM or so. It falls off steeply the higher you go up the tower. Nobody writes that whole policy. All the carriers take chunks of the risk. Most of the major carriers are writing limit loss checks on this. Some of them who were attached at multiple points will write more than one check.

Yeah, scratch that. They've got a $750MM excess casualty placement. That's insane. They certainly got their money's worth.

This is at least $635 million above their insurance tower.

Metamodern sounds in country music is a great album. If you ever turn on country radio and think, “man what happened?” you’ll enjoy it.

Just in case anyone wants to see what a reflection of the kingdom of heaven looks like, this is about as close to it as you’re likely to see.

I hope that his family and all who knew him will find some peace. He will be missed here on TGO.

Empathy is such a rare trait these days.

Yeah, fox or coyote. That things is too skinny to be a cat.

I’ll be a good character witness.

Anyone who posts on a board like TGO ought to give that some hard thought.

In any case, we have a saying that, “the evidence has to tell the story.” There’s a big difference between that and, “the evidence needs to support the story.” At the end of the day, this case’s evidence (and also the defense’s lack thereof) told a different story than the defense team would have had the jury believe.

Mind you, I come from a skeptical tradition. But, the argument we’d make would be along the lines of prayer doesn’t belong in schools because we neither need nor want the government teaching our children how to pray.

It is in fact rare to see such art on a Congressional document.

Just linking this here for those who might find it interesting. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6432520/The-NRA-Russia-How-a-Tax-Exempt-Organization.pdf It may take an administration switch - but LaPierre would be smart to walk now. Sooner or later they’re going to come for him and indict him for campaign finance violations. Agree with it or not - it’s coming.

What’s that old saying? Why are lawyers so expensive? Because they’re worth it. I expect it applies here. Maybe especially here. It’s probably worth the few hundred bucks it’ll cost just to put a professional in as a buffer between you and someone you’ve got a relationship with. They’ll take the “personal” out of it and just get the deal done.