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  1. Just now, SquishMitten said:

    So when's the next launch window? Need to set my calendar. Almost forgot about today

    Saturday. 3:22

  2. So I assume that since the launch time is so specific at 4:33 there is no chance of waiting a bit to see if the weather clears up?

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    Finally got these into the ground this weekend. 8x4, 14” deep.

    I’ve never done any gardening before, so who knows how the fuck this will go. No clue what I’m doing other that what I’ve read over the couple months.

    Filled with 37% screened topsoil, 37% compost, 10% coconut coir, 8% peat, 8% vermiculite.

    The bottoms are 1/2” hardware cloth.

    Next step is to build some hinged cages for the top to keep the wildlife out.

    Planted tomatoes, carrots, radishes, peppers, snap peas, thyme, basil, strawberries, celery, lettuce, dill

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  4. 6 hours ago, gurt said:

    Not much feels as good as when you hit an iron right in the center of the sweet spot

    3 wood off the deck with a slight bit of fade to reach a par 5 in two. Feeling lasts the whole way to the green before I invariably leave the eagle putt well short. 

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  5. The covid lay-off was not kind to my game. I couldn’t get to the range and went out and fired a smooth 100 on what is probably the easiest course in the area. I hit 2 fairways all day. I had multiple rounds last season that I was north of 70% FIR. If it wasn’t such a wide open course I might have shot 120. I just could not stop leaving my hands behind me and blasting everything out to the right. Probably the worst day I’ve had off the tee in 10+ years. Driver, woods, irons, made no difference. Everything was either a big slice, a push, or a shank. Even when I thought I was making a good swing it was trash. I’ve never thrown a golf club, but if I was ever going to, it would have been this past weekend. 
     

     

  6. 18 hours ago, NateHitch said:

    So wife and neighbors wife want to do one of those fold down, fence bars. It's not a bad idea, we spend a lot of time with them and we'd put it to good use. I don't want to do the super simple ones I've seen on social media, where it folds down on one side so one neighbor has a bar/seating area and the other has to stand up. Trying to think of an idea so it pivots down and both sides have a table area. It's a 6' fence. Was thinking maybe I could just have the top 3 feet on a rail that can pivot and raise or lower but would like advice from people with a little more engineering background than myself

    Saw this on reddit today:



     

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  7. 1 minute ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    My vote is herd immunity. Even a fast vaccine is too long to demand all people continue isolating (until the beginning of 2021). Also, the economic damage that would bring for the city and state of NY would take a decade to recover from.

    Once over the initial hump, and hospital capacity and supplies are better, then I think you have to come up with a better fucking plan that this NY on Pause.

    The vulnerable should continue to quarantine, but the rest of us should start getting back to it.
     

    I think that’s the only path forward for NYC. 

  8. 4 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:
    31 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

    In New Jersey or America? I’d double that 5 to 10 and probably make it 15x higher

    Yeah, I would say actual numbers of cases in NYC are probably 10 to 20 times the reported number. Wouldn't be shocked if a quarter to half the city has had it.

    Which would seem to mean that without an extended Wuhan style lockdown, the only think that would stop the spread in NYC is a vaccine or herd immunity. 

  9. 6 hours ago, Pom said:

    Nothing can compare to your first trip! I’m going with seven first timers this year! It will be interesting to see how the course looks in November.

    That’s awesome. I’m looking forward watching him see it for the first time. It’s absolutely like being a kid in Disney world for the first time. 

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  10. 1 hour ago, Pom said:

    Have you been before?

    2nd time. I won the lotto for the Tuesday practice round for 2018. One of the guys that went that year won the lotto for Monday practice round this year, so almost the same 4 guys as last time. One guy had a kid due masters week this year so he gave up his ticket to a guy that’s never been there before. 

  11. 4 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    One flaw in some of the new analysis and even old analysis is imperfect information. We seem to reply on an assumption that we have up to date testing. The other day Houston had a dump of tests finally reported, some tests waiting to be analyzed for a couple of weeks. The number of positives greatly jumped.  However we don't know how many current tests are waiting to be processed. Is it just 1 day's worth of tests?  10?  

    Maryland has been averaging about 300-400 new positives per day. Today it jumped to 1,200.  Did they really experience 3-4x new people with coronavirus or did the labs get new processing machines to catch up on the backlog.  https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/

    the point being that I don't know if the raw numbers tell us the full story without more context. And that context doesn't seem to be available.

     

    Quest diagnostics alone had a backlog of 150,000 samples a week ago and the vast majority of those were from New York. I’d guess part of the big jump from Maryland is the N.Y. pig working it’s way through the python and other places starting to get quicker turnaround time on their results. 

  12. 6 minutes ago, StruggleBus said:

    Yeah, because we shut down massive parts of our economy. 

    And that’s what a lot of the rubes will fail to ever comprehend. That we nearly completely shut down almost the entire country for a month and a half, to keep this in the neighborhood of the worst flu. If we would have just let it run it’s course, no doubt we’d have ended up with a million dead. 

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  13. 6 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Yeah, you're going to need a big run-up over the next four days. You predicted 10,000 deaths/day starting on Friday, argued for it emphatically in the last week of March and batted aside the premise of mitigation playing a role, and then doubled-down on this thread last Wednesday by restating the same.

    I don't know, early numbers today don't look great for the living. High death toll for NY, high early half day update for FL, Indiana looks like it could be flaring up really poorly for the living. Georgia posted some catch-up numbers on the death toll side so that number is inflated in reality, but still not good.

    Today could be the highest death toll for the US yet. Sucks. Was hoping to see the top end hold the line a bit. We won't be anywhere near 10k/day by Friday or within 25,000 of dipshit's numbers he called for by the start of next Wednesday, but it would be nice to see the plateau take hold and then dip in the next week. Probably fantasy, but it beats alternative choices.

    Even with the revised IHME model, to meet their new peak of 3100 deaths per day next week, we’re underneath their projection 3 days in a row now. Unless we start hitting well into the 2000’s soon they will have to revise their total deaths down again. 

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  14. 4 minutes ago, RockyMountainHighHorn said:

    Booked an Airbnb this morning. Why the hell not? Espn was talking about how there won’t be azaleas but the leaves will be changing and have a totally different look. Definitely not how I wanted to see the masters for the first time in person but at least I’ll hopefully be able to see I saw one of the most unique masters. 
     

    also, did anyone ever get their hard tickets for the original tournament or did they not ship? 

    They shipped, at least for the practice rounds. 

  15. 36 minutes ago, freyguy said:

    I took a mask with me this past weekend to go to Home Depot.  The employees and customers are way behind the social distancing practice, as compared to HEB.  At least in my neck of the woods.

    I wore a mask, but as I went thru the store, I wish I had gloves too.  Next time.

    It's very easy to decon a mask.  Just get a spray bottle, fill it with rubbing alcohol, spray both sides and let it air dry. 

    All of this is very easy to do.  Just get past the initial level of self-imposed embarrassment, and you'll be good to go.

    I went to HD to pick up an online order on Saturday and the only two people in the store with masks were two 70+ year old shoppers. My wife had to get some things at target the next morning and she said every single person in the store, customers and employees had masks on. 

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