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TwiceHorn

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  1. TBQH, as the kids like to say, a goodly number of American farmers need to be put out of their misery (and their dependence on the US taxpayer). But, because I like to avoid cruelty, that needs to be done gradually, without events like mass bankruptcy caused by a dumbass trade war. Maybe by natural attrition.
  2. Because I am a sick fucker.
  3. What about Halle? If she were smarter and not so cray? Hmmm?
  4. I'm one of the last people that wants to shortchange veterans. But I am personally aware of several that have substantial disability ratings and payments basically for aggravation of known existing conditions (knees that were fucked up in high school sports, a tendency toward depression and other MH issues that were problematic before enlistment and short of PTSD (non-combatant veterans)). In several of these cases, these problems quite nearly disqualified them from service, so known to the military. They get a couple thousand a month and pay substantially reduced property taxes, among other things. I'm not wholly opposed to tightening up disability standards. Regardless, I am suspicious of anything that happens under Whisky Pete. Looks like this might not affect those maimed or suffering severe PTSD, as I don' think you can claim medication fixes any of that.
  5. I know, I appreciate your posts, also. I'm just intuiting stuff, I don't know shit. Weirdly enough, or expectedly, between engineers and small business owners, a lot of my clients and those I interact with are dumb enough to be Trump voters, and quite a few are part of the base (my dead reckoning of it), while others tend to be of the sort of "libertarian/both sides/they're all shitheads" persuasion and seem to appreciate less dramatic shitheads than Trump.
  6. Can you elaborate on the first? I agree that people saw a pretty complete lack of leadership on his part. But I think that's inherent to the guy. He did do Warp Speed, which I guess was sort of successful, but of mixed impact because it swiftly delivered a drug that a whole lot of his base didn't want or came to not want. Also, your second seems to somewhat contradict the first, especially in the context of softlynow's post. I think a lot of not-quite-low-info, but disengaged voters still sensed that Trump was a shitshow without knowing any details. And I'm not sure how better leadership on Covid would have changed that perception.
  7. 8Cr13MoV is fine by me. But I'm a cheap date steel wise.
  8. Yeah, a nug of truth going both ways, really.
  9. 8Cr13MoV/CPM-S30VLulz.
  10. For better or worse, that seems to be a long-standing talking point of the right regarding any minority candidate. I'm not saying it's valid against all of them, but there's a nug of truth to that, I guess.
  11. Yeah lotta people did some hardcore outdoor living with fairly suspect knives by today's standards. Could argue I suppose that a handforged carbon steel knife of simple construction is better/more reliable than an imitation tacticool blade.
  12. As I have said here or elsewhere, it's just my feels, but I think a big factor for Biden's victory was "emotional incontinence fatigue" among otherwise fairly non-committal voters. And that was absent in 2024 and goldfish-brained people just forgot. It may take longer exposure to Crockett than a nine-month campaign for that fatigue to set in against her. This boils down to fight Trump with Trump tactics or with how we really wish things to be.
  13. TwiceHorn replied to RollLeft's topic in Cloak Room
    Also, I have kind of pondered that type of malapropism. I think it speaks to someone who reads a lot and thus encounters words and feels comfortable using them with an at least contextual definition (sometimes they fuck up the meanings, too). But they don't spend any time discussing such matters using those words with intelligent people, who might at least steer them toward proper pronunciation and usage, if not correct them. Might especially be a creature of the internet. Before it, one usually had to seek out high-minded reading with perhaps advanced vocabulary. Now you can find it, even stumble upon it, with high frequency.
  14. TwiceHorn replied to RollLeft's topic in Cloak Room
    Also, Trump GOP.
  15. The other thing is the equal time rule would require Colbert to at least offer Crockett, Paxton, Cornyn, and Hunt. Paxton on Colbert would probably be high comedy, though.
  16. Geezus. MIght be cheaper than a purpose build turbo genset, but I cannot imagine that that is in any way fuel efficient. By the 80s, 737s were using high-bypass turbofans, which are particularly ill-adapted to just turning a generator. I suppose they take the fan and duct off, but again, geezus.
  17. Good piece on the ludicrous attempted prosecution of the "Mark Kelly group." https://newrepublic.com/article/206671/trump-six-democrats-prosecution-backfires
  18. The Chinese are damn good at knife making now, no question about it. The only open question nowadays is probably the materials. I bought a cheapo Ganzo some years ago. It is, broadly speaking, a quality knife. It is supposedly 440C. I suspect that is not true or it is a soft heat treat, because it is very easy to sharpen. I also understand that if you attempt to disassemble it the screw heads and threads strip easily and that the pivot is pretty low quality. Also, the liners are not cut out, so it is disproportionately heavy.
  19. I have learned in the context of bike parts (Shimano mainly), there are some pretty incredibly detailed counterfeits out there, down to the packaging. One of the giveaways can be less crisp part numbers and text stampings, indicating they might be using old/discarded tooling. As might be expected, though, the counterfeits often fail prematurely.
  20. You can get some pretty small turbo gensets these days. What are Elmo and the AI bros fueling their turbines with mostly? Natural gas? One of the more amazing things is they actually have gas turbines that run on pulverized coal mixed with air. Amazing in the abstract sense, probably pretty disgusting in the environmental sense.
  21. So, this kind of half-truthful flame throwing shit, which Crockett is very good at, may be the very thing to which some persuadable voters object.
  22. Yay, back to steam! The original turbines were driven by the expansion of steam, so no compressor or combustion stage. A huge development in marine propulsion. And later electricity generation in coal, gas, and oil fired power plants, again with steam as the working fluid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Algernon_Parsons Frank Whittle and some Krauts figured out that by adding a compression stage and combustion chamber, the expansion of an air-fuel mixture would drive a turbine without the inefficient intermediate step of burning fuel to generate steam. And those jet engines directly burning a fuel were adapted to marine propulsion and electricity generation.
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