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  1. My wife got tested for immunity during her last pregnancy. She has to go get a booster, as her immunity had waned. Apparently that’s a thing.
  2. Ok. I didn’t know Ross but knew a few that did. I also don’t claim to know the full story, but as I understand it Silk Road was a marketplace for everything from mail order weed (IDGAF) to hard drugs, criminal acts for hire and worse. Meaning it’s almost a certainty normal folks were directly affected in a negative way by his facilitation of this marketplace. And he was convicted by a jury of his peers, appealed and lost. Meaning he gets a get of jail free card, and those of us who live their lives by the rules of our social construct probably wouldn’t get that “do over with 650 million in an offshore bank” if we did the same things he did. I’m genuinely asking, why is that cool, because to me it seems a bit the opposite?
  3. I’m guessing most of the ones that survived were sealed attics. I’d put money building code is changed within two code cycles (6 years…which is fast for the industry) to heavily discourage vented attics in wildfire prone areas.
  4. Dewpoint in Austin is 10. Don’t know I’ve ever seen it that low.
  5. For carp? Sure. Bass, they’re assholes.
  6. I have used incandescent work lights to add heat to the garage in the past. Put it next to the water heater and the plants we bring in. Granted I’m in Texas so it’s not often but it works surprisingly well.
  7. The cost of training all the people that will be fired because of this might cost more than the plane
  8. This has convinced me to add a standalone dehumidifier. Goddamnit I’m done with this shit.
  9. Every time this thread hits the top half the page it makes me want a damn blizzard. I think the one off Stassney will be getting a visit so my kids can appreciate the greatness this week.
  10. I dunno, I think it’s more likely he jumped off the building because of something he did. Weird series of events, in any case.
  11. Blue Ford here…cabs? AC? What are those?
  12. I grew up riding around on the tractor and was driving it as soon as I could stand up and reach far enough to push in the clutch. First time I drove the truck without anyone in the cab with me was because the cattle got across the creek that served as the back property line. We got all the cows back in the trailer and shuttled to our pasture easily but the bull was not happy. Plan was to open the gate to the trailer and start rolling so we’d get some distance quickly from the bull. Dad told me “pop the clutch and give it gas, it’s a diesel so you can’t kill it. Don’t stop until the bull stops chasing us. I don’t want to get hurt.” I was somewhere between 10 and 12. Farm life was fun and a hell of a lot of work. My kids don’t get exposure to that, unfortunately.
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