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Yeah that is crazy to me. Growing up in Houston, and probably anywhere in Texas, you were brought up to think Blue Bell is like some mystical shit other states don't have and that its the best ice cream you can get. I remember reading the label for the first time and thinking what the fuck is all this chemical bullshit?

Rooting for him more than normal. He was one of our best tacklers. He often took a perfect angle on pursuing the ball carrier even when deep or starting from the other side of the field.

I love IWI stuff so I am definitely biased. I have an X95 in 5.56, a Galil Ace in 7.62x39 and their newish optic ready 9mm pistol, the Masada. I did replace the triggers in the X95 and the Ace. X95 trigger replacement was not worth the price. ALG makes a version of the AKT for the Ace and that absolutely was worth it. Also replaced the handguard on the Ace with an MLOK model from RS Regulate. There is another company that makes them now too, for less. Forget who they are now. People say the X95 is not as accurate as the Tavor...that may be true but I am not as accurate as either and neither is the cheap steel I shoot through it most of the time. I like my X95 a lot and when I let people shoot it, they are smiling when they hand it back to me. I got my Ace in 7.62x39 because it is about the best factory AK in that chamber around. Recently suppressed I shot some subsonic 196gr Brown Bear through it. The pings on a steel target from 100 yards are arguably louder than what you hear when you pull the trigger. Normally I shoot based on price per round so I like lots of cheap Russian steel for the most part. This is steel and Russian, but its about 50 cents a round which is not cheap to me. But it will be hard to go back to full speed cheap from the subsonic. Masada is an impressive gun at its price point. I think I paid $500 for a pistol with optic bundle. Especially considering IWI shit usually is not reasonably priced. Honestly it reminds me of an improved G19, at least out of the box from the factory. 3 dot sights and trigger are vastly superior to my factory gen3 G19. Ergonomics are subjective but I think Masada wins there too. Standard mag is 17 v 15, in favor of Masada as well. Also, the optics ready slide. This was my first pistol to mount an optic and I liked it more than I thought I would. One downside is there don't seem to be any threaded barrels for the Masada. Never shot or handled a Scar.

Have not played anything in a while and this was not even on my radar until a few days ago. Preload up on Steam and unlocks April 28. Strong XCOM vibe + over the top violence/everything from Gears franchise. https://www.gearstactics.com/ https://www.youtube.com/embed/9QJRZNrD6XU

The CARES act, I read anyway, has some forbearance plan for FHA loans in it. I want to say up to a year in 90 day intervals. Might be worth looking into. I filed 2018 taxes but not 2019, yet. Stimulus money posted to checking account on April 15.

Sorry to read this. I've had to put down three dogs and they were all brutal experiences.

sgammo.com still has some stuff at close to normal pricing. I ordered Sunday and they shipped 1k 7.62x39 on Monday and I got it yesterday. Texas sales tax on it now sure does suck. A buddy of mine uses www.targetsportsusa.com because of that, no tax allegedly, flat rate shipping, havent ordered from there myself.

Allegedly they are going to add another episode to this in the next week or so.

They deliver for $10+ a tip. Well worth it IMO.

Not a lot of actual debate there, and that's not the forum for me. I don't think I posted anything political. I think its worth talking about. If we can bet on death tolls surely we can debate public policy responses to this virus here as well.

So preventing one death is worth how many jobs exactly?

It seems like most people in this thread think the death rate of mostly elderly, already sick with one or more chronic conditions, is far worse than losing 10 million jobs in two weeks from a 165 million man labor force. We got people predicting 250K dead by Summer...how many people are out of work by then? 30 million? That is unprecedented in that short of a time period. 40 million out of work puts us in Great Depression territory which took place over a decade. This one size fits all shut everything down now thinking is short sighted and ineffective. The 'experts' have been wrong on their casualty numbers (The guy Rogan had on mid March talking about 500K dead US by July, where is that guy now?), can someone link to anyone that has been remotely accurate?

All our kids are out of the house so its just wife and I at home. We trialed all the meal delivery services that had some kind of discounted first order, which is almost all of them. This was 3 years ago so there were fewer choices but we probably tried 6-7 of them. We settled on Home Chef and have been getting them pretty steady since then. Their base price is $10 a plate, free shipping on orders over $50. Every meal has some kind of customization option though so you can get a different protein, more of a protein, etc. If you are cooking for two I would highly recommend trialing them at least. First order is like half off. We skip some weeks, but not many. My wife has become like a 500% better cook since we started and we have a lot less wasted produce and leftovers. The packaging is very efficient...our normal 3 meals for two a week comes in a 12"x12"x12" box, well insulated. Proteins are sandwiched between two layers of those reusable ice pack things on the bottom with all the other ingredients separated by meal in their own bag on top. Then you get a recipe card for each meal. They have an insane amount of variety, you will cook and eat dishes you probably have never heard of much less tried. They have an online cookbook section with the recipe for every meal you have ordered and we have tried 342 unique recipes and maybe 10 of them sucked. Every so many weeks you order they give you 3 'free' boxes to share with new customers. They call them free but they are really $50 off your first order. They expire after 60 days if you don't send them to anyone and all of my real life friends and family interested in this got an email from me a long time ago. So I am currently sitting on 15 of them, if you are interested PM an email address and I will send you one. I think the regular new customer trial is $30 off so this is a pretty good deal.

I am a huge fan of the Witcher games so there was no way I wasn't gonna watch the series but the first two episodes, IMO, are not paced well and they are going back and forth between three timelines. I think the show tightens up and gets a lot better from episode 3 on. The thing with Tiger King...its a doc that if it was fictional people would be like 'Come on, no way!'. Gay dude convinces two straight dudes to marry him at the same time, for example. I was very reluctant to start watching it but man it hooked me and I loved it.

This thread has proven to be a prolific vehicle for people to nominate themselves for ignore. Question for those capable of talking about the virus without predicting burning bodies in the streets...why didn't anyone freak out over H1N1/Swine Flu in 2009-10 the way people are freaking out now? https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/h1n1-vs-novel-coronovirus-how-do-they-compare/ar-BB10vk2M according to that it killed 12K in the US, including 6K in a month from mid October 2009 to mid November 2009. 60 million infected 275K hospitalized in a year. And I don't remember anyone closing anything or it dominating the headlines 24/7. What is different or what has changed since then?

Saw this over the weekend. No expectations going in...what a fantastic, unique movie. 2019 sure had some great films.

Tried watching the latest Godzilla last night. My god it sucked. Got about half way and my wife and I just looked at each other and had the same thought 'What the fuck are we doing?'

I don't have the answer. I just think destroying entire sectors of the economy by shutting shit down isn't the answer. Maybe it is, maybe we'll see that, maybe we won't. I am on the side of this isn't that big of a deal. There is no winning that argument though. 3 months from now, if our casualties are Italy level, then the people that wanted shit shut down ASAP are going to have an argument and it would be hard to make a case against that. But if the casualties are not at that rate? Then it just becomes a discussion on should we have acted sooner or did we overreact? We won't ever know. My guess right now is we have around 1000 deaths entering the Summer. Not great but a far cry from the 500K some alarmists have speculated. edit: My sister is an ER doc in a Missouri suburb. She is more concerned with this situation than I thought she would be, mostly due to her hospital not having a ton of ventilators. I also have a best friend since high school that is a GI doc in Houston, he sees this like I do, its not a big deal and is being overblown.

Keeping up with this thread is almost a full time job. There is way more hysteria on display here than I would have guessed. Also it would be awesome if people just picked one or the other DT or CR thread on this topic and stick to just the one. I'm 46 and fat. I'm not worried about this virus at all personally, and I don't have a spleen. I don't get sick much and if a virus is going to take me out, so be it. My diet is red meat and alcohol and I've had a good run. I am a little bit concerned for my FIL, he is late 70s, and my mom who is 71. Still, as long as they take the precautions they should, I don't think its likely they get infected and then even if they do, they are way more likely to recover than die according to the best data I can find. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ I'm in IT so its pretty easy to do my job from anywhere that has internet. My company finally issued a WFH until further notice decree this morning. I'm way more concerned with the recession we seem to be headed for and with entire sectors of the economy being utterly destroyed. Our middle son does contract AV work for conferences and sporting events....he literally has nothing scheduled for the first time ever. Airlines are selling off or retiring part of their fleets. Hotels are empty and/or closed. We eat at the same place every Sunday night, the bartender we are friendly with said he covered a shift for someone the day before and had just two tables in two hours before being sent home. The place was like 20% of normal capacity, parking lot empty when you usually have to park in the back. What are all these hourly/tip wage work force people supposed to do? Finally, for the people pushing for federal or state 'lockdowns'...that would be a fucking disaster. There would be an immediate run on literally everything. My wife went out to the nearest Walmart and HEB this afternoon and she said pretty much everything was picked over. Surprising me, beer and wine was fully stocked but that was about the only items in our normal rotation she was able to purchase.

I had heard that they charge sales tax to Texas now, do they? The same guy also has another site I was unaware of until recently called ammoempire.com. The hook there is that shipping is free. Not sure if they charge sales tax to Texas, seems like either neither would or both would.

500K dead in the US by July? I'll take the under.

I think that is most of it.

The two suppressors I ordered last APRIL had the NFA paperwork finally come through yesterday (technically one came in last Monday but I wanted to wait until both were in and just do one 4473) and I picked them up today. Exciting. I went through the Silencer Shop website and did the 1 off trust for both of them and a local place with their kiosk for the transfer. Both of them are from Griffin, a Recce 5 that will go on an X95 for mostly tacticool and a Revolution 9 that may split time between various handguns and a PSA AK-V. I got various 150gr stuff that should be subsonic, but we'll see. My company bonuses in April and these were impulse buys, I would have normally done a lot more research before pulling the trigger on something like this.

The kickoff change is fantastic and I think it will make its way to the NFL in a year or two. It makes the play relevant and exciting. Same with the PAT, the 1-2-3 point option is very engaging in a way a chip shot field goal just isn't.

This is, perhaps, a perfect parody of this season.