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The Royal We

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  1. The Royal We

    ATVs

    Agreed on 4WD being a must have. I never go mudding or really in any terrain that needs 4WD, but use it all the time when pulling out a stump or pulling a heavy trailer or stuff like that.
  2. Well that's a good start. MOAR
  3. I'm glad he slipped in that thang has a hemi in it. amirite? @Mother mopar
  4. I remember doing that same stretch of road when I was in high school - in a '91 4Runner with a severely under powered 3.0 V6. Getting stuck behind a semi and needing a long stretch of open road to get up the speed to pass was absolute misery.
  5. This is fucking brutal at this point (has been for a while). Come on man.
  6. Meatball rn, probably.
  7. e) never log into the STONK account and act like it never happened
  8. WTF? That is a really odd and wide range of emotions on display in a short period of time. Meatball is wound too tight and looks like he could snap at any moment.
  9. What in the blue fuck is this hot garbage? This showed up in my mail today, someone on the next road over has the same house number as me. It’s a real doozy trying to scare up the olds.
  10. Could be, who knows. I read early on that some of the scientists that put their name on the original paper were very reputable and had proverbial skins on the wall already. I don't know why they would risk torching their reputation over this if they knew it was really bunk. They would have to find a new line of work if they could no longer get funding for any future research projects.
  11. Very vague. This guy compared their description of the process to something like an old treasure map scribbled down on a napkin. It seems like it's a miracle they even got this close on their 1st attempt if that is the ranges they were working with.
  12. Yea, this is my thought as well. Sort of comparing apples and potatoes.
  13. This US team started gathering materials for a replication attempt the first night after the paper was published and appear to have been able to generate a tiny fleck of the material in their first attempt. Evidently the original paper is very generic in some of the steps needed to synthesize the LK99; for example, these guys tried 13 different "bake" times in the furnace for one of the steps. A lot of those times generated partially synthesized materials or just straight garbage. But this one little fleck does exhibit the Meissner effect - at least on one end of the material. People a lot smarter than me are encouraged by this...
  14. Whether or not he truly believed he won is completely irrelevant. Trump can and should try that defense, but I think other J6 defendants tried it and it didn't help them out in the least. Maybe this thread from a law professor at NYU and Harvard will help? Lots of good examples with cites to the indictment included in the thread.
  15. That's it? They are making a big kerfluffle out of that!? These same people must be furious that Jared and Ivanka made between $23,791,645 and $120,676,949 in outside income in just their final year WHILE working in the White House! And that's just what they actually disclosed in their forms. https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Jared-C-Kushner-2021-278TERM.pdf https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Ivanka-Trump-2021-278TERM.pdf Oh, what's that? These people couldn't be bothered to give a wet fart fuck about that? Okay. Cool. Hook 'Em!
  16. Jesus, wtf? Get an alarm during the test drive and I'm sprinting the other way. I'm also at least 90 miles from a dealer who could fix something big that goes pear-shaped on me, so I'm a little more allergic to older boats. My Hurricane is a '13, but the outboard has been bulletproof and there really aren't any electronics on it to fuck up. It's nothing fancy, but I bought it for cheap from my MIL and it's been great for our kids so far. I do think they are going to get bored of the tube/ZUP/skis in the next few years though. Thanks for all the info. I've followed your posts on boats for years and you've obviously seen and done a lot of shit with them. Appreciate it.
  17. That 230 did look really clean. You'd be comfortable buying a boat that old if you got a good look at it? Would make me nervous.
  18. Yeesh, yea I didn't think about the draft point not being at the rear of the boat. Probably a no go for me then. I put in new bunks on my cradle last year and purposefully made them as short as possible to use up as little of the water in the slip as possible. They are ~10 inches above the I beams that run perpendicular to the slip. The water depth at the back is probably 5ft right now, but at the very front it's probably closer to 2ft. And the lake is almost 2 ft down from full pool today. Maybe the technology continues to get better where I can find something that will work, but like you are saying, physics trumps everything at some point. Or maybe the next time the water level falls waaay down like it did in 2011 I'll dig a canal and reinforce the sides to make the water deeper in the slip.
  19. Thanks for the reply, that makes sense. I started poking around looking at '20-'22 used models and there sure is shit is a Cobalt premium that I don't know would be worth it. A Malibu or Mastercraft could easily be had for the same price (or less) as the Cobalt in the same year model, and that seems a little silly for what I would be trying to do. It looks like I would have to go back to a '18 or '19 on a Centurion to get there. I don't think anyone riding behind my boat would able to tell too much of a difference in the quality of the wake as long as they could surf it. One of our friends has a 2010ish Supra that we were out on a few weeks ago and he was having all kinds of problems with the perfect pass system and/or the engine was misfiring. The wave was shite. I felt bad for him, but no way I'd want to mess with one that old unless I knew more about how to fix them on my own. It probably would make more sense just to rework my cradle to work with a "real" wake boat. But the increased height of the bunks would eat up more of the water in my slip and with the feast or famine nature of rain in our area the last few years that probably would mean more time on the trailer.
  20. Curious why you say this? Is it just a bad mashup of luxury and functionality? Or are there problems with the lower unit design? I ask because the ability to surf behind an I/O interests me. We live on a lake and I keep my boat in the covered slip at our dock 95% of the time, but the water is not consistently deep enough for a real deal surf boat. And I'd have to get a new cradle for the lift to accommodate the drive shaft/prop on a surf boat. It looks like these Cobalts draft ~3 ft and that would work unless the water in the lake is way down and I'd be trailering then anyway. We currently have a Hurricane deck boat with an outboard, which is great for our lake and for skiing/tubing/cruising and even wakeboarding for beginners. But I do think as my kids get older they would enjoy surfing more than anything else.
  21. It's already been said, but you could be more of a friend by telling him you're sorry he got shit on (again) and that while it would hurt like hell if he left, that's probably what he should do. Unless you have some pull with senior management to get him more money now... I had something similar happen to me at my first job out of college. I was too young for them to give me a managerial position so they gave it to someone from the outside instead. Having to train my new boss who knew nothing at all about what we did, while also knowing that they were making quite a bit more money than me was completely deflating. I bounced.
  22. Whooo boy, that was one for the ages.
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