Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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Best Pocket Knife?
In the space of about 15 years, the Chinese have gotten pretty good at the craft of slipjoints, which is a pretty crafty craft indeed. Seems they got pretty good at tactical knives a bit earlier, either because they're a little bit less crafty or western QC, or a bit of both. The only D2 knives I have are Queen slipjoints. As noted previously, I'm a long time slipjoint fan and am quite adept at getting 1095, 420HC/440A and similar steels (SAK) hair-popping sharp. Funny thing, most of those Queens have pretty thick blades for slipjoints and that D2 is rather hell to sharpen. Also, I'm pretty sure the carbides that make it hard generally also prevent the kind of smooth, polished edge I'm used to. Supposedly in D2 they are relatively large and pull or fall out of fine edges, making them coarse. I don't know for sure, but the Queen D2s are said to be a well-heat treated variant as every blade bears a stamp PHD2 for Peters Heat Treating.
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Any Veterinarian’s here?
With all the various vet experience we've had over the last 10 years, I have probably overall encountered about a dozen vets (one of the practices we frequent is an "emergency" or 24-hour vet that is open on weekends and holidays and has a number on staff and rotates from other offices around town). I keep expecting most of them to be aggy. Most of the newer and younger ones are not. Our all-time favorite, who's mostly retired now, is an aggy, but not redass at all.
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I'm An Alcoholic
As a friend of mine without a problem observed once, drinking is not a very productive activity for just about anyone who does it. Of course, a lot of pretty benign drinking accompanies other not-terribly-productive activities, that aren't destructive either, so it's not much of a loss. It's a spectrum. But a whole lot of people without problems seem to find cutting drinking way down or out entirely to be a good life move.
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Your cat is awesome. Damn straight
Very likely, but at 14 months, it's devoted to terrorism and anarchy.
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Trump’s America
It's got electrolytes!
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Trump’s America
I am gonna watch.
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Epstein and Maxwell
Wake up! Smell the cat food, in your bank account.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
Point of order, the V-12 program didn't allow time for athletics or hardly anything else. It was something like 6-8 hours of class per day, including Saturdays. Not including study time, which was a necessity, ie they all played school.
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The Trump Economy
Had not made that connection. Ball is in Colorado now, but started in NY. This involved Crown Cork & Seal out of Philly and a certain American brewery.
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The Trump Economy
I worked on a patent infringement case involving a can lid design that saved something like .03 cents per lid. The number of cans and can lids made and sold annually made that savings into a fairly astronomical sum.
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The Trump Economy
Well, he was on an "affordability" kick for about 30 hours. The problem is that affordability is kind of a 30 year problem, not a 30-second sound bite.
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Non-political tariffs thread
"rules against the United States of America." Subtle, but more of the l'etat c'est moi shit.
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Trump’s America
Yeah the administration will attempt to carry out this dogshit toxic agenda, but it would lose popularity like the proverbial led zeppelin without the malignant shit funnel.
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Bill Ackman
The rationality of all of that compared to DOGE and the recent shit, though.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Generally agreed. I think Sark let his pants slip down a little this off-season and it looks like he's trying hard to recover. I'd like to see some OL action, but he seems to be making a lot of the right noises at present.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
I don't disagree really with any of that. I think as things stand today, yes, there is a ton of ignorance in the electorate on #bothsides, from lack of information, dis and misinformation, and general lack of interest. And, so, ill-informed and careless environment often produces votes or political alignment. But, there is a key point of information for the electorate that is right in their faces: Trump's gutter bigotry. And his lies are more easily proven as such than any politician in any living American's lifetime, if not ever. Not to mention his obvious personality disorders.
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Bill Ackman
- Ryan Wingo - An Explosion of Talent
"Dislocation" gives a new meaning to "finger blast."- Minneapolis ICE Murder
Rooting around in the issue of Supremacy Clause immunity, something I did not know. Idaho charged FBI Ruby Ridge sniper Lon Horiuchi with manslaughter for the death of Vickie Weaver. Horiuchi removed the case to federal court, where the trial court dismissed the case. On appeal, the en banc 9th Circuit said there were too many factual questions to grant Horiuchi immunity from prosecution. https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/253/359/576174/ Idaho later dismissed the case. This is actually pretty on point with the Ross/Good case: A questionable shoot (questionable for Horiuchi, pretty much bad for Ross) leading to no immunity.- Bill Ackman
They're all vastly wealthy, including Trump. And, although most POTUS are relatively vastly wealthy, never in history has there been one so selfish that other vastly wealthy can be so very certain he will do nothing to diminish his own or their vast wealth.- Dog Killer, Kristi Noem
And you are a complete fuckhead shitheel that has been demonstrated to be unworthy of any loyalty at all.- Trump’s America
Obviously, we can defend and conduct offensive operations from Greenland without "owning" it. We already have that right and ability. This is about something else. Could be the minerals, but we can probably purchase mineral rights cheaper (and using private sector funds) than we can "buying" Greenland. I think this is just some "muh legacy" thing.- Minneapolis ICE Murder
More than you wanted to know on that topic. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-federal-officials-immune-from-state-prosecution- Minneapolis ICE Murder
No, under that removal statute, it remains a state charge, prosecuted by state attorneys under state law. It's just presided over by a federal judge sitting in a federal courtroom.- Minneapolis ICE Murder
Well, some access to evidence would be very helpful. Like to figure out which shot was fatal. Kind of fun thing, though, Minnesota could charge him in MN court and there would be a temptation to remove the case to federal court. A federal judge would have about zero qualms ordering the FBI to cooperate. - Ryan Wingo - An Explosion of Talent
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