Okay. I’ve lost. Panic is apparently the only recourse we have to not dying by drowning in our own fluids on a pallet in an over-crowded hospital. So let’s all just fuckin’ panic. Because everyone else is doing it. I had a nice lunch with my mother today, who is not exactly panicking, but has started putting up enough freezer meals to feed her and my father for about six weeks. But no mask out in public, and we did eat at a restaurant. All the parts where we didn’t talk about the new plague were great. So about half the meal. Whatever. Its Friday the 13th, let’s get it all over with.
Well, that was a quick fall for Florida Man, gubernatorial candidate sub-type. Toootally just a post-wedding party.
Ted Cruz must be really killing it at WoW. He’s extending his self-quarantine. “We’ve got a big raid on Friday night, and I’m kind of high up in the guild, so… I’ll just have to stay home a little longer. Its been a while since I could really focus on the game.” — totally made up quote.
My jumped up county commishes want to declare a state of emergency “to maintain public health”. Like what? Use cops to break up the flea markets on weekends? So much stupid. We’ve had 2 cases. TWO.
Mexico considers closing US border.
Have a Megadeth song from… I guess after I stopped buying their albums.
I want that quote to be real.
“I like killing people because it is so much fun it is more fun than killing wild game in the forrest because man is the most dangeroue anamal of all to kill something gives me the most thrilling experence it is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl the best part of it is thae when I die I will be reborn in paradice and the I have killed will become my slaves I will not give you my name because you will try to sloi down or atop my collectiog of slaves for my afterlife ebeorietemethhpiti”
SFPD – 0
Me – guess
I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Every week is the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
OK, well, I also picked the wrong week to renovate my bathroom.
OK, I’ll say it: Every week is the wrong week to renovate a bathroom.
Especially this one. Whoever hung the drywall should be taken out and shot.
Most people who hang drywall should be taken out and shot.
*sees self out*
*quickly*
They didn’t put setting over the nails!
Most people
who hang drywallshould be taken out and shot.FTFY
They didn’t put setting over the nails!
That’s usually not the hangers job.
Whoever didn’t do it.
How can you do that type of work without huffing?
I’m hoping there is enough VOC in the primer to hold off the jones.
And it’s not the Bee!
Will they build a wall?
“Coronavirus outbreak: Mongolia closes China border”
https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-outbreak-mongolia-closes-china-border
There’s already a wall. Walls are good for keeping out, as well as keeping in.
SEE? Trump said he’d get them to pay for it!
MMGA!
Wife text me from store. No TP. Deli closed.
I figured out why there’s a run on TP.
Every time someone sneezes, ten people shit their pants.
Lol. We have plenty, I just figured might as well get some while she was there. I haven’t been shopping for a couple weeks so haven’t experienced empty shelves.
I swear, it’s like people don’t realize poop washes off with water.
Lol.
Why is there TP panic? Does no one own socks?
https://i.redd.it/b9hkx5md2hm41.jpg
Tyre Center? What the hell is that?
https://i.redd.it/8oru33mb6hm41.jpg
Holy shit ! Is that you waiting in line, Scruff?
To be fair, some of those people look like they take gigantic poos and need half a roll to wipe themselves.
Pretty much any type of disinfectant product has disappeared from the shelves here: bleach, antibacterial surface wipes, antibacterial hand wipes, hydrogen peroxide, and rubbing alcohol.
Remember kids, antibacterial dish soap can also be used as hand soap and for surface cleaning.
They just do it because they care so deeply about children
The General Assembly (VA State Legislature) just made it legal for municipalities to allow their employees to bargain collectively. This will not end well.
Of course they did. Assholes.
I have chosen to not pay attention to anything the Assembly is doing right now. I wish to be blissfully unaware of the hell being unleashed, because otherwise I’ll be too depressed to get out of bed in the morning.
20 days and counting until we can list our house and GTFO.
We have a family from church coming over tonight to see if they want to buy us out before we even list.
Now that would be sweet. Best of luck!
Good luck, Trashy.
Here’s a successful sale!
Can you leave without a sale? Or does one thing depend on another? You are TX bound, Dallas area?
Nah, can’t leave without a sale. Assuming that coronavirus doesn’t murder the housing market here, we shouldnt have trouble getting out of the house. Places around here have been selling within a week of listing.
Heading to Dallas, yep!
Sir Digby hardest hit.
I worked for a Dallas company but always lived, worked in another area. I’m not much of a big city guy, other than I worked in cities until I could get out at
my earliest time. Always been a bumpkin.
“You disrupted our plan to disrupt the school day!”
Posted in the last thread. I just hate to see such prose go to waste.
I copy /pasted this from the WFMU chat board a couple minutes ago.
While the swamp is drained and pedos rounded up, this virus is being used to keep the fearful herded people safe from FF shootings which are always carried out by said swamp. Empty schools mean no FF events. Cruise ships and disney can no longer traffick children and drugs like usual. The pedo cult has used their tainted ADRENOCHROME and now those addicted to sucking on children’s youthful organs are infected – so we can find them and contain them. You will witness this for yourself.
But, of course, most will take their own lives rather than pay the price for their sick twisted crimes.
CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN!
The Storm Is Upon Us and it is time to drain this swamp of TRAITORS AND CANNIBALS.
Thank God For POTUS and Q and all anons WW
I’ll copy/paste my response: Good lord. Is that, like TDS-DS?
Who was that guy who used to paste the wall of text about cats?
Sounds like it could be a relative of his.
That’s pretty good.
Hey E, we were chatting Soul Asylum the other day. I found a show from 1990, before they got huge. My two favorite albums, Hangtime andAnd The Horse They Rode In On, are both well represented in this set.
Sound is rough, but it does give a good sense of what a fun live band they were.
I saw them at Iowa State in 1990. They rocked.
Ipso Facto opened for them
https://vimeo.com/301475467
Hah!
I saw them last year. They are still going strong!
Yeah. I was turned on to them in 85 by my college rock brother. And was there with Hang Time and Clam Dip and And the Horse. But I kept moving more punk/hardcore and SA was moving more pop. We separated at Runaway Train. I just haven’t listened to them in 25 years. They’re good. I just need to ease back in.
Mexico considers closing US border.
And are they paying for it?
I skipped the nearby Smith’s and went to an out-of-the-way, little-trafficked Lowe’s, but still couldn’t avoid a long line. No fist-fights over TP or the last gallon of milk, everything is well-stocked and orderly (though maybe not the paper products, I didn’t check). Everyone was either jovial or ambivalent. It felt like a less frantic Thanksgiving eve rush than stocking up for the pandemic. If this is the end of the world/”late-stage” capitalism, we’ve had it pretty good.
Bernie haz a sad there’s no bread lines yet.
Not to worry; he’s called for a moratorium on rent and mortgage payments.
You bought milk at a Lowe’s?
The Lowe’s grocery near me has a bar. Get a beer or wine to carry around while you shop.
Oh, I only know of the home improvement Lowe’s
WHYCOME YOU NO GO SMITH’S?
/STEVE
Because of the raping, Steve. Enough with the raping.
If anyone’s interested, these guys https://coffeetraders.com/ are offering free shipping on orders over $40. I know coffee is an individual taste thing, but I’ve been happily buying from them for about 25 years (sheesh, I am old).
I thought it was coffin traders, and that seemed premature even in the plague years.
Mexico considers closing US border.
Good luck with that one.
They’re going to build a wall and make America pay for it
Yikes. That Megadeth song is terrible. I’m a first four albums kinda guy. Does anyone else recall some apocryphal third-hand anecdote about Marty Friedman receiving a blowjob from the chick sat next to him on a plane, or did I dream that?
The Album is great, that song, not so much…..
XX says all employees were called over to grocery to restock dry groceries ASAP.
I haven’t seen so many 1000 yard stares since I left Afghanistan, than in the local Super Target, today.
She thinks this is hilarious.
That’s a good attitude to have while Civilization’s Dying https://youtu.be/VJxdiIXnkPM
Progresso canned soup mostly decimated, certainly the good varieties. Low-sodium flavors still on shelf.
It looks like Trump really is getting Mexico to pay for the border wall. 😉
If his aides didn’t have his Twitter on double secret lockdown right now, he’d probably tweet that.
So the Hair hid Donald’s phone from him and the Hat?
He hid it in the salad.
The People’s Panic of Pandemic 2020 soundtrack.
Hi Brett!
Glad you had a nice lunch with mom.
The Mexican border story is awesome. Alanis has a fly in her chardonnay.
I’m getting panic fatigue. Traffic was backed up a block just to get into the fucking Costco parking lot. I went to Hyvee instead. It was busy, but not stupid. Of course, there was no rice, paper products or pasta sauce.
SMDH.
This was the wrong day for Costco.
My wife is in line at grocery. Guess it’s freaking mayham. Line to back of store.
I made sure we got our shopping in early. Figured this was coming.
Hope you and the wife are doing well, I’m sure a very stressful time with your son overseas, wishing you the best.
Thanks. I really appreciate that. He’s coming home in a week or so. His school didn’t recall him, but he decided that since Europe is off limits and everything is shut down (including the University, there’s not much point in staying. He’ll finish his classes remotely.
He’s extremely disappointed. Actually, we all are. He was having a great time and we were planning to meet him in Prague for a week.
China is asshole.
It’s racist against asians and hispanics.
This weekend was going to be a normal big grocery run for me (Costco, etc.), but I guess I’ll just wait until the stocking-up frenzy subsides. I suppose I’ll be eating restaurant food until then, since nobody seems to be going to those.
My daughter’s school just got closed for two weeks.
Then my boss directed us to work from home till further notice.
My wife is thrilled.
I’m not; not because I hate my home; I love it in fact. No, the problem is that I have to do a lot of work in SQLServer Management Studio with huge datasets. With my home ISP, it becomes like trying to transfer water from one Olympic-sized swimming pool to another, using a straw.
My work is going to get a lot slower….
Warn your Boss of such…unless the boss will spring for a better home ISP…
It’s been a day and my wife is ready to murder one or more of our three.
No VMs you can work from?
No…. Frustratingly.
How about a desktop you can RDP to?
I WFH full time and that is my preferred method to avoid having to transfer a lot of data back to my laptop.
More reliable too.
I could do that, but then if my laptop gets shutdown, for whatever reason (glares at the direction of the guys who push out OS updates), I am SOL having to drive all the way into the office to start the thing up.
Additionally, working RDP means single monitor operation, which I want to avoid.
I’ll cope.
Thank me later. AOC e1659Fwu 15.6-Inch Ultra Slim 1366×768 Res 200 cd/m2 Brightness USB 3.0-Powered Portable LED Monitor w/ Case https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CMKOVMO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_d–AEbM0W0ZKH
RDP does multi monitor just fine, even on a 20 megabit dsl connection.
I’d go bananas if I had to use a single monitor.
If their updates mess it up, then it’s their job to reboot it. Also, they may be able to restart it at the hardware level using “magic packet” or similar technology, provided your org has properly enabled that.
We had a problem with “green” employees who would love to turn their PC’s off to “save power” over long weekends and holidays, and when they were on vacation.
These were the same employees, who would not log out for any reason and would leave documents open and unsaved in defiance of organizational policy during the normal work-week.
Yeah, I can’t work from home because I don’t have good enough Internet.
We’re WFH now too.
Ugh, you’re going to be contending with your daughter for bandwidth.
I’m trying to cancel my kid’s flight back to college. Spirit sent a number to call and promised free cancellations / credits if it’s due to the virus. The phone number has a busy signal. A literal busy signal that I haven’t heard in years.
hah – my daughter got sick overnight (no, not the dreaded Corona of Death, just the stomach bug she seems to get once a year that makes her vomit nonstop overnight – and it always starts at about one AM) and when I called the school this morning to say she would be out, I heard a busy signal and thought the same thing – “Holy shit, when was the last time I heard a busy signal??”
“It keeps making this weird beeping sound.” /millenial
I didn’t know busy signals were still possible in the VOIP era.
Northam just closed all VA K-12 schools for the next two weeks. My county’s spring break was after those two weeks are up. We have camping plans. I am going to be pissed if they try to kill spring break over this too. Not one single case in my county yet, but the grocery stores have been stripped bare. I hate how everyone is working themselves up into full on hysterics over this.
*sigh*
My sphincter is clenched in dread at the inevitable sending-home-of-employees my husband’s work will commence soon.
I’m sorry. I know you don’t want him underfoot.
So, the Dow finished up 9+% today.
I don’t think the TDS folks are going to get the wrecked America they so desperately want.
Related:
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1238506473224896514
Yeah, it shot up right at the end of the day, concurrent with Trump declaring a national emergency.
It fluctuated wildly at the beginning of the last two recessions as well.
The overall trend is down, obviously.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, LIBTARD!
So it’s come to this. I just received an email from Lover’s Lane (adult ‘stuff’ store) regarding the virus…
I shit you not.
The market finds a way.
Now THAT is thinking outside the box, while thinking about….the box.
Does it come in 55 gallon drums?
Cashier said was like that all day. Yeah I stocked up 2 weeks ago. But wife had some things she wanted to get. Didn’t know it would be like that.
My boys work at a chain grocery store, and management said this was their busiest day in years, including all holidays. They tell me most of the complaints they got were from people who were just there for their regular shopping, who were annoyed at the panickers buying everything out.
Oh, and there was a long line of people trying to get into the store this morning before it opened, like it was Black Friday or something. They let in small groups at a time to shop before fully opening the store.
I’m going on my regularly scheduled 6am Kroger run mañana, if there are more than the usual half-dozen cars in the lot I’m turning around and coming home. Fuck it I have 45+ cans of soup, lbs of rice and pasta in the pantry and a pork butt and a turkey in the freezer. And nine rolls of TP and socks and a shower. If the beer dock doesn’t run out of Strohs I’ll be cool for a couple months.
We have plenty of stuff. Wife’s gym trainer has her on nutrition plan so I’m guessing she wanted stuff specific for that.
Beans and rice. Thanks for the reminder. Used to be those items were always in-stock, but now with the “wonder pot” everyone can cook whole beans and grains.
I just do ’em in my oven, in quantity. Makes good freezer food. Cheap as borscht, too, if you buy your beans at places like Bulk Barn.
We’ve got a turkey, a brisket, and a bunch of venison in the freeze so meat won’t be a problem. for a while.
Same here. We don’t start panicking until power goes out for an extended period. Then we start the countdown clock.
Got a brisket curing for st. Patty day…along with 15lbs of chicken, 5lbs of sausage, 10lbs of pork…
Im good so long as the electricity holds..then its hook up the generator
Me too. I had the day off already, so did the weekly grocery shopping this morning. Good lord.
I went to the grocery store at 8:30 this morning. Stayed under 15 items so I could use the self-checkout, which wasn’t too bad a wait but still the longest I’ve ever seen. All the cashiers had at least 10-12 people per line. Store manager said it was like that when he got there at 6:30.
“Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is warned by the New York Attorney General to stop selling fraudulent coronavirus cures”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8107205/Alex-Jones-accused-selling-phony-coronavirus-cures.html
The press is all over Trump to self-quarantine b/c one of the Brazilian aide’s tested positive. “Why aren’t you, since you are making people coming back from Europe quarantine” – “are you being selfish” – “when are you being tested” – “who should Americans listen to”
It’s like they think if he self-quarantines they can take over.
Yes, saw that in his taking press questions after the presentation.
The Left media just can’t help themselves. When reporters for PBS ask “aren’t you being selfish?” they aren’t helping anyone nor are they probing for useful information for people during a crisis — no, they want to be the story themselves. “Hey everybody! Did you see I called Trump selfish? What a zinger, I bet he never recovers from that. I’m so great!”
“Note that Trump’s coronavirus team is all male, all old, and all white.”
https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1238548689506926595
the horror!
Hmm. Did he post the same about the Democrats running for president? Did he take a Stand there?
Hey, afaik Tulsi’s still Running, Man.
I watched the thing anyway and that wasn’t the case.
Didn’t he introduce a woman at the press conference?
Yes.
Two actually, including a woman of color (South Asian though, I know they don’t get to count as minorities) and one of the women was standing behind him during the entire Presidential speech.
What was interesting was that all the corporate CEOs were white men, but what were they supposed to do, send the company’s minority female head of HR to this instead? Twenty years from now, perhaps even ten, when all the education and experience has caught up, more than half of those CEOs will be women and minorities. Meanwhile, please don’t blame the younger white men in this country for the fact that guys 20 years older than we are are commonly in the seats of power, we didn’t appoint them, and you shouldn’t punish us for it.
you shouldn’t punish us for it
But that’s the whole point of this exercise.
I want to say King was trolling.
You would be wrong.
I’m up 5% today. Another few weeks of that, and I might get back to where I was.
I figure the market will tank again next week, then in 45-60 days when everyone fails to die, it will plod upward again.
I’m a terrible prognosticator, though.
It’s going to be volatile for a while. S&P will stay in that 2500-3000 range for a while.
concurrent with Trump declaring a national emergency.
Public Enemy Number One has seized dictatorial powerz!!!!11
He’s gonna round up teh gheys and bleckx!
Guess who just received his “invitation” to take the census online, complete with personal census ID?
Saving this for tomorrow to shred. Maybe with pictures for you good people.
Supposedly my state may add a another rep if the numbers are as good as estimated, so I’m being urged to fill mine out. Thoughts?
Depends
Will the extra seat be gerrymandered to send an additional lunatic to DC?
If I was still in IL I’d not do it cause IL needs to lose seats.
Where I am now though is reasonably sane and needs every resident it can claim.
Well, I’m in a red (though trending purple) state, so there’s a 100% they’ll be crazy but not a 100% chance they’ll be commie shitbags, so that’s a plus, I suppose.
I put down how many people are in the house and send it in.
I just got mine in the mail today. Not too bad, only nine questions. Eight more than necessary but nothing about toilets and magazine subscriptions like the last one I got.
Interesting that you got the form in the mail and I got the “invitation” to participate online.
Got ours yesterday. Since it’s online now, does everybody get the “long” form equivalent?
I got the pre-form some months ago and filled out such questions as I thought were constitutional.
I got another form yesterday, but the code wouldn’t work at the site.
Who knows what that means.
You’re gonna make your state less powerful.
Take it and say there are 35 people live in your home.
Truth is, it doesn’t really matter. The final numbers will end up with more “adjustments” than a surface temperature dataset.
I got mine today.
Added the number of people living here. Added dummy first names and clicked through everything else.
If there is a blank and you click next it asks you to fill it the field. Click next again and off it goes to the next page.
Been nice knowing all of you.
WHAT PART OF ‘LEGAL’ DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?
Judges have told us to go ahead and appear by JVN instead of in person for court. The state bar also finally reversed their decision mandating in-person CLEs and will accept remote attendance for all credits.
“Ok boomer girl meme but I make it Slavic.”
https://twitter.com/Barbara4u2/status/1238554824624373760
Headline:
“GM, Ford, FCA announce work from home plans.”
That should be interesting.
Gonna be tough to assemble those……
“Honey, clear out some space in the living room – I’ll be installing fenders in there”
And a fleet of flatbeds to carry the cars from house to house as they’re being assembled.
Quality might go up.
When I was in college we took a moped from the kid next door and disassembled it in our frat house. It didn’t go back together all that great and it’s how I picture Ford workers…
I can’t find the clip in Real Genius where they put Kent’s car in his room.
“This is God, Kent”
Well, ackshually…
“This is Jesus, Kent.”
Shopping advice: check your ethnic grocery stores.
The local H Mart & 99 Ranch (Korean & Chinese supermarkets, respectively) were busy, but still amply supplied and in no way full of panicking white people like the Kroger & Walmart were. I was even able to grab some tp. It’s Asian Grocery Store Brand and so probably made out of prisoners & cats or something, but the point is, they had plenty, along with plenty of rice, noodles, etc.
Hmmmmm….will definitely hit up the Indian grocery
Great idea! I think I need guajillos anyway.
Yeah Food City seems reasonably stocked. The local Mexicans aren’t freaking out yet.
“Florida man arrested for throwing rocks at cars while naked”
https://nypost.com/2020/03/13/florida-man-arrested-for-throwing-rocks-at-cars-while-naked/
How is that news?
He wasn’t a candidate for Governor?
Tres-
I saw your brake bleeding issue in the other thread. Is it ABS-related, perhaps? Maybe there is that one special trick…
Yeah, if the ABS unit has air, it would not build pressure.
Not sure how to bleed that, though.
ABS modules sometimes have bleed screws on them, most automotive ones do not though. Otherwise you need to trigger the ABS in order to move the air out of the servo. Some diagnostic tools can do this electronically, but otherwise you need to trick it into activating. If you jack all four wheel off the ground and run the vehicle in gear, then apply the brakes, it should cause the ABS to kick in. Kinda sketchy though.
Kinda?!?
Thanks, Frosty! Good information.
Didn’t see his post but I usually default to using a power bleeder. (I have no idea what his issue is)
Grotty old break systems can last a long time until you have to fix something. Add new fluid, move he old fluid around and make the seals travel in parts of the cylenders that haven’t been used in years and they no longer seal. Could be the master cylender seal(s). I’ve seen that happen a number of times.
Also, you never replace *one* leaky section. The others just haven’t been exposed yet. Test with some *hard* application of the brakes. Not to test your new work, but to expose the next weakest section.
Huh. Now I’m wondering if my meeting of creditors is going to get postponed.
Can’t they just do a teleconference?
No idea. It’s in 2 weeks.
They could, but it depends on FRBP, local rules, judge’s whims, whether he has his own teleconference setup or would (gods forbid) have to use the one in another court’s space, etc.
Yesterday my wife scheduled 3 days of training in another state for next week. Hope DeWine lets her back in:)
Just back from the local market getting the fresh ingredients for dinner. Reconned the aisles for signs of panic buying. Paper goods pretty thin. Hand sanitizers gone. Other areas worst hit: canned fruit and diced tomatos. Plenty of Rotel though so we’re good.
I’m gonna stock up on dry-roasted peanuts. I’ve lived on them before for a couple weeks; I could do it again.
I used to live on potatoes. We always have plenty of food. Hope we don’t lose electricity! I should probably invest in a generator. Probably not the best time to buy:) even if we lose the meat, we have plenty to eat.
Our market rice is gone but potatoes are all stocked. People dont think of substitutes when panic buying
I used to live on potatoes.
Get a load of Matt Damon on Mars here.
Friday Funbags offers stimulus so you inject liquidity.
http://archive.is/n3dxL
“You are entering a high community transmission area.”
While I was at the meat market, some slightly milfy chick off to the side was letting her toddler get some milk. Weird as fuck but those milk laden tatas were beautiful. Not DD silicon injections, but nice handfuls like God intended.
Now I’m thirsty.
11 is what happens when falsies are done properly.
My top two teammembers both just found out their kids’ school is cancelled for 2 weeks. They’ve also cancelled Prom and Graduation! I thought Graduation was in May ffs!
Brake bleed- None of my cars even have ABS, so I don’t know. The brake lines are a convoluted nightmare on those systems, though. Maybe you need a vacuum bleeder to get the fluid to flow through all those twists and humps and auxiliary cylinders.
Got it covered!
https://postimg.cc/vDPZm94P
Still, no dice.
What’s the issue?
Only front brakes, and the back refuse to bleed out (specially the right rear caliper that I replaced). Its like it wont build pressure, so like I read up-thread, perhaps the ABS system.
Motive makes a lovely bottle you can pressurize and pump the fluid through quickly. ABS or no, this makes it a one-person job. Just get the right attachment for your master cylinder.
When it akshually ran low on fluid from the leak, it did mess its little panties and flashed SERVICE BRAKE SYSTEM and put the truck into “limp home mode”. It seemed to resolve when I topped off the massah cylindah, but maybe the ABS thinks there’s still a fault ?
I dunno…shitty weather here tomorrow, and church cancelled for Sunday. Ill likely put wrenches back on it then.
There’s likely a little magnetic switch under the reservoir. When the level gets low the float drops and triggers it, which is why topping it off fixed the service light. But, if you drew air into the circuit, you’re going to have a very spongy pedal until you get that air evacuated. So long as the ABS didn’t cycle while there was air in the system, you shouldn’t have any air in the ABS circuit. Just bleed and bleed and bleed until you get it out. It may also be helpful to remove the caliper and elevate it while you use the Mighty Vac.
I’ve had much better luck with a pressure bleeder than the vacuum ones.
I’m off to do our every-other-month Sam’s Club run.
If…if I don’t make it back…please tell my family I loved them.
Grips for the Beretta arrived today, just got them installed:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/IMG_20200313_140921-scaled.jpg
They are thinner than the Hogue flat rubber panels that were on it and also change the shape quite a bit since their perimeter is a bit smaller. Since I’ll be WFH on Monday and I live across the street from my club, I’ll put a couple hundred rounds through it at lunchtime. I was hoping on taking this to an IDPA match on the 28th, we’ll see if it gets quarantined or not.
Sharp!
The Italians do make beautiful things. And this design even works!
Gorgeous. I think it’s definitely gonna shoot better now.
Man do I love the looks of those Berettas.
I want an LTT Compact
https://www.beretta.com/en-us/92g-elite-ltt-compact/
Yeah, one of the old rich retirees in IDPA bought a LTT full sized in stainless. Do Want. However, it’s going to have to wait its turn.
How’s the grip size on that thing? Really thick or would it be manageable for a person with hands on the small end of medium? I was thinking of getting a Glock 19 but the Beretta has me tempted.
I’m not a Beretta guy, but isn’t the 92 DA/SA?
If so, why wouldn’t you just get a Sig: a zillion models, calibers, magazines, and fits, world-class fit and finish and shootability, all very affordable with max value retention
/ G30 EDC
The Beretta got me worked up I guess. Buds Gun Shop has factory reconditioned P229s in 40 cal for a great price and that’s definitely an alternate possibility.
The club where I do my “serious” shooting is 90+% SIG fanboys. They have vastly more malfunctions than the four of us shooting CZs.
This Beretta (I bought it used) is my least reliable pistol, just barely over 99% My Shadow 2 is more than 99.95%.
But it’s soooo pretty…
Why wouldn’t you get both? Not a fan of the decocker on the sig, but small nit. Love how the 229 shoots. Something about that old M9 though.
Some savvy Glib recommended that I get this. I did and it’s amazeballs. The original trigger was heavy but had a beautiful break to it. This keeps that break and reduces the pull to “the only thing DA about the first shot is the length.”
(Sigs) have vastly more malfunctions
I defer to your stats.
I’m not a Sig or Glock fanboi, but I had just heard good stuff on the first and find the second an excellent compromise (my G30 has never malfunctioned in any fashion, but I probably only have 1k rounds through it). The thing about online research is the same as real life: job one is figuring out whether the source is an idiot; you can find people writing who could clearly f**k up the sleeves on a vest.
But I’m going to trust that you’re careful about confirmation bias and wouldn’t make such a declaration without a strong sense of your confidence limits.
In this case, I’m pretty sure I’m on solid statistical ground. I keep a log of all the shots fired, and if/when/what type of stoppage occurs. The Beretta has had 12 malfunctions in 1521 rounds fired. My Ruger MkIV Hunter has had 4 (all light strikes) in 1557, and the CZ – two failures to extract and one failure to eject in 8782.
Now with the other shooters, there is a major possible confounder, which is that most of them also reload. And some of them apparently aren’t terribly good at it. However there are two that only shoot factory ammo through their SIGs and they also have stoppages at least once a practice session.
There are two people who run Glocks, I do not recall them ever having a stoppage.
The Vertec grip is vastly more ergonomic than the original 92 shape.
But even with the original grip, if I practiced regularly I could shoot it well and I only wear size 9 gloves.
Yeah, that’s purty.
Nice!
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You need to embed a tiny diamond ? inside the monocle.
Dammit, now I actually need to do that. And have to figure out the best way to not screw up the G10 in doing so.
Woah there! That looks sweet!
I need that in Glock Gen 4.
Wow, awesome.
We know how to panic buy out here because of the tropical storms each year. I stopped in at the commissary to get a few items for the week and even there the TP and paper products were stripped bare. The lines had people with a couple of dozen steaks, a case of canned chili and lots of moms buying up kid single serving products by the gross. Even runs on bottled water.
Maybe I missed a memo but I don’t think they are closing water distribution systems and sewage treatment plants because of Wuhan Flu. (Yeah I said it. Fuck you CCP and WHO.) I hate hate hate frozen peas. I plead for the Glib community to start a rumor that frozen peas protect you from Wuhan so those evil items leave store shelves.
On a positive note my local liquor and poki store was fully stocked. Having spicy poki and a rum drink for lunch. Thank you to my company for having a work from home exercise today.
Oh yes and remember…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lauOEEillQ
Ahi Tuna? I had it one time but wasn’t into it.
We’re on work from home for the next 30 days. I’m jealous you can sit by the pool while working from home
Yeah, I noticed Gatorade being bought by the cart. Went down the juice aisle and plenty of juice and Gatorade powder. I dunno, people are crazy.
On the plus side, if they can stop going out after the marathon buys, stopping meeting their moms group for coffee at Starbucks, and so on, it might be worth it.
I buy frozen peas because they are always available, way less work, and you can just keep them in the freezer.
Went to store for my normal trip…
Hand sanitizer out of stock…bar soap…plenty.
Pasta out of stock…udon noodles…plenty
X packs of water out of stock…gallon jugs…plenty
Sale on pork and chicken and i normally stock up on that anyway.
Someone was trying to sell bleach on Amazon for 30 bucks for 121oz. Screw off
Still, no dice.
Bummer. That kind of stuff makes ya crazy.
I know- Ive done a lot of brakes (ABS and non) but Ive never seen this.
But, there’s a reason. I just dont know what it is right now.
It is both rear wheels not getting brake pressure? Does the master cylinder have a proportioning valve? That’s pretty old school tech though, I’m not sure what vehicle you’re working on.
A lot of brake systems have a delay valve instead of a proportioning valve. The front brakes get pressure, then the valve opens and the rears get the same pressure. If Tres has that system, drawing on the caliper with the Mighty Vac may do nothing since the valve isn’t open. If so, the solution is to do it the old fashioned way with two people. One pumps the pressure up while the other cracks the bleed nipple. Speed Bleeders also come in really handy in this situation.
You can also use a jar and a hose.
National Guard activated in six states to help fight coronavirus
Republican governors
FL
IA
Democrat governors
LA
NY
RI
WA
Is it time for open carry?
What is the NatG gonna do? Blockade the virus. You only bring that in when you are ready to lay the gauntlet down
How many divisions does coronavirus have?
Fun estimate:
Rebels fielded 1,000k men; figure 4-5k per division = 200 divisions to do the shooting
Disease accounted for 2/3 of deaths, so those 200 divisions only did a third of the killing
so, in the Civil War, disease “fielded” the strength of 400 divisions against the Union
Run away!
National Guard activated in six states to help fight coronavirus
Is there a “shoot on sight” order for anybody with the sniffles?
Cole from Snakediet has is the most glib response to the TP panic. NSFW. Salty language. He even channels Patches O’houlahan… Play at 1.5X speed for complete enjoyment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq3t2g21Hr0
‘Don’t sit around and be a fat drunk fuck, get up and live your life.’
Um, my life is sitting around being a fat drunk fuck, thank you very much, Mr Screaming Asshole.
Lasted about 15 seconds.
Less than 10 seconds.
What an oddly specific news story.
Dateline London
“He wasn’t an antisemite. At least, no more than everyone else.”
And now, a word from our sponsor…
For months, commentators have wondered whether there will be a return to normality after President Trump leaves office. In his address Thursday on the coronavirus pandemic, Joe Biden left no doubt that if elected, that’s exactly what he intends.
His speech was for the most part well crafted, his ideas were reasonable, his words calm and reassuring, and he related well with working people and the vulnerable. In short, this was a classic presidential speech.
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For many years, American public health officials have prided themselves on the quality of their scientists and researchers and the global leadership they have exercised. The parade of global health specialists from major universities appearing to talk about coronavirus on network news gives a sense of just how robust those efforts have been. Conventional wisdom says that their global efforts have been very helpful in meeting past outbreaks here and overseas.
But to a surprising degree, it appears that in this crisis, it’s every nation for itself and that the Trump administration feels no need to pull together other countries for a coordinated global response. Nowhere was that more obvious than in Trump’s out-of-the-blue announcement Wednesday night that he is banning travelers from most of Europe to the US for 30 days, and perhaps more.
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But say this for Biden: he was sufficiently presidential that viewers could for one of the first times, imagine him in the Oval Office.
CNN. It’s like a 24 hour a day infomercial for the Democratic Party.
Wasn’t that, you know, China’s responsibility?
Not if America engineered the virus, like they claim.
Admin nothing. Deny everything. Make counter-accusations.
It’s like a 24-hour-a-day infomercial for the Democratic Party.
More like “a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democratic National Committee.”
If they do shift the DNC nod to Joe, who’s going to be the real power? Valarie Jarrett? Joe’s brain tumor? HILDAWG?
They will have to do some massive spin to get Joe elected, but the media-education-oligarchy is well-poised to do it.
After the address Biden took off his pants, huffed a young girl’s hair, and confused an elm tree with his wife.
For many years, American public health officials have
prided themselves on the quality of their scientists and researchers and the global leadership they have exercisedblown their load conflating public health with individual, usually lifestyle caused, health and non-health political issues.Now that airports all over the U.S. are virtually empty, does anyone watch CNN any more? (Here in Canada, I suspect the same fate for CBC’s Newsworld.)
mayor who doesn’t rate a wiki page goes full Al Haig
(11) Temporarily suspend, limit, cancel, convene, reschedule, postpone, continue, or relocate all meetings of the City Council, and any City committee, commission, board, authority, or other City body as deemed appropriate by the Mayor.
wow. go big or go home on your authoritarian bender I guess.
They totally aren’t going to use the flimsiest of premises to fuck with your 2A rights folks.
(some) Corona virus mapping sites are being used to imbed malware on people’s computers to steal data…
https://youtu.be/bEEaqoSiIPw
…so be careful.
Chatted with my neighbor when I got home. He said he went shopping too. I asked what he bought.
“Ammo”
I told him that if it all goes pear shaped I’d haul all my supplies to his house. He told me that’d be fine as long as I baked bread.
Our common interest keep us strong
You know what “bake bread” means?
Gary Johnson does.
Niceeee…..
She’ll soon be rolling in dough?
Yeast something something
After she gets all tarted up?
“Mexico considers closing US border.”
ducking racists man.
I asked what he bought.
“Ammo”
Nice.
I picked the right neighborhood.
Suppression
Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday attributed some of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) struggles in Michigan’s Democratic primary election on Tuesday to “rampant voter suppression.”
“Well, I think one thing that … that isn’t being talked about is the rampant voter suppression in this country,” Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News’s Bret Baier, citing long lines that young voters in college towns such as Ann Arbor had to face.
“Right there, in Ann Arbor, where we had that rally, those kids were waiting three hours in line to vote in Michigan,” she explained.
Huh. My heart bleeds for them.
Totally not a paranoid conspiracy theorist
McConnell is so poisoned by his right-wing ideology that he can’t see this, or chooses not to. Instead, he’s standing firm on the long-standing Republican tendency to view employers as feudal lords who should be allowed to treat employees however they wish — even, apparently, if that means allowing a deadly disease to rip through the population, potentially killing hundreds of thousands of people if it is not checked.
So far, most of the panic over the coronavirus outbreak has been driven by the undeniable incompetence of Donald Trump. At every turn, Trump has made this situation worse — even going so far as to try to discourage testing to bamboozle the public and, I suspect, tanking the markets by screwing up an Oval Office address because he’s too vain to wear glasses so he can see well enough to read a teleprompter.
That’s all true. But it’s also important to understand that the larger Republican Party, even without Trump, is also to blame for what looks to be a serious public health crisis. Right-wing ideology, often marketed as “rugged individualism” but perhaps better understood as an aversion to the very concept of a common good, is one major reason why the U.S. government, hamstrung for decades by Republican power, isn’t better equipped to handle a crisis.
This isn’t just a Trump problem. This is a widespread Republican problem. For decades, GOP strategy has been consistent: Whenever they get power, they slash regulations and gut spending, with the goal of making government less effective. This is a deliberate strategy to make the public broadly distrustful of government, and therefore increasingly open to shifting more and more power to the wealthy individuals who control the private sector.
Slash regulations and gut spending? I thought we were talking about Republicans.
What planet does this writer live on? If the GOP actually did that, I’d vote for them.
exactly; bring it
*throws down gauntlet*
Make me vote Republican: I dares ya
*spits*
*gales of laughter*
serious shooting
I don’t own anything tactical. If I was considering open carry, whose holsters and belts should I consider?
Galco makes nice holsters.
I love mine
There are many great belt manufacturers out there — just make sure it’s got a core and you’ll be OK.
For belts: https://www.thebeltman.net
I don’t OC and holsters are subject to too much user preference.
That being said, I picked up one of these for my P228:
https://www.safariland.com/products/holsters-and-gear/holsters/concealable-holsters/belt-slide/model-82-carrylok-auto-retention-belt-slide-holster-10870.html
I liked the idea, and it seems well made, but I just don’t want the attention of OCing.
I just don’t want the attention
I come in on that side most of the time
My son got top marks as a 2L for a paper that argued that OC was a 1A right. I thought it was a risky topic, but he sold it.
Open carry for what purpose? I have a $50 clip on Holster from TheHolsterStore.com for my hiking gun and Milt Sparks for my nicer pistols.
As for belts, I wear Milt Sparks. They’re expensive at $120, but also the last belt you’ll need to buy. They’re double layered to support a firearm and a holster, and they incorporate the curve in the belt for your lower back.
I really like my Bravo holster. It’s an IWB, but if I were to get an OWB, it would be one of theirs.
Not stylish, though.
I’ve had good luck with Old Faithful
https://oldfaithfulholsters.com/
Excellent guarantee. They even sent me a free leather replacement after the dog got a hold of it.
Hello friends. Has this made the rounds yet?
Chinese Foreign Ministry suggests US Army to blame for coronavirus pandemic
https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinese-foreign-ministry-us-army-blame-coronavirus
These next few comments might be my last for a month or two. I have a weigh-in coming up and a lot of books to read, so no time for here. If I think of something really funny, I’ll submit a post. In the mean time, I offer this:
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Army Private Identifies as General
CAMP SWAMPY – Private Bailey recently came out as trans-flag officer. This means that although he had been assigned the rank of private, he truly feels he is a
four-star general. “This rank-affirming procedure will help the Army recognize me for what I’ve always known I was”, said now General Bailey as he lounged on his bunk. Through gritted teeth, his platoon sergeant acknowledged his firm commitment to treat all soldiers with dignity and respect. Meanwhile, the other branches of the military have struggled to adjust to the new policy of “Be What You Want, Do What You Feel”. Over 90% of the Air Force now identifies as fighter pilots, but without enough ground crews, all flight operations have ceased. As for the Navy, with 90% of the fleet now identifying as SEALs (vs a mere 50% last year), every ship is now in port. In contrast, the Marine Corps so far has not seen any major disruption, though many have chosen to go topless and get face tattoos. Pentagon officials conceded the difficulties, but added that the new policy makes it far easier to meet recruitment goals. “It’s like Project 100,000 times 1,000”, said Army Lieutenant Colonel Dick Hertz, who added that “all those gate guards just made coming to work a big hassle”. Elsewhere, other service members took advantage of the policy in less dramatic ways. “I just identify as someone who passes height and weight”, said Specialist Melvin Brooks, who added “I do paperwork and I joined to get money for college. Why be greedy?”
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Oh, the General and the Major and the Captain,
The Lieutenant and the Sergeant and the Corporal,
They will tell you with a shout
They would rather live without
A certain private by the name of Beetle Bailey
Beetle Bailey!
I didn’t know there was a theme song. Fun fact: the 3 most common words on a Medal of Honor citation besides “for conspicuous gallantry” are…[drum roll]….
Private. First. Class.
Another unofficial Army song from soldier, scientist, and satirist Tom Lehrer (yes him of National Brotherhood Week)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHQb7JT6_zU
a personal hero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hazelius_Sternberg
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Charles Hazelius Sternberg (June 15, 1850 – July 20, 1943), was an American fossil collector and amateur paleontologist.
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Sternberg also collected for various museums and institutions, and his work took him all over North America, including locations in California, Montana, Texas, and Canada.[4]
Sternberg moved to San Diego, California in 1921 and held the honorary title of Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the San Diego Natural History Museum.[3] He continued to
lead fossil-hunting expeditions throughout North America and sold his specimens to museums and universities world-wide.
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After his wife’s death in 1938, Sternberg moved in with his son Levi Sternberg in Toronto, Canada, where he lived until his death aged 93.[3] Sternberg wrote two books about his paleontological adventures: “The Life of a Fossil Hunter” (1909)[6] and “Hunting Dinosaurs in the Badlands of the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada: A Sequel to The Life of a Fossil Hunter” (1917).
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Charles Sternberg was a deeply religious man. He wrote devotional poetry and published a collection of poems called A Story of the Past: Or, the Romance of Science (1911). [8][9] In his old age, he would visit the American Museum of Natural History to view his finds, and one visit to the “Trachodon mummy” inspired the following quote:
“ My own body will crumble in dust, my soul return to the God who gave it, but the works of His hands, those animals of other days, will give joy and pleasure to generations yet unborn. ”
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Spending one’s final years in a museum enjoying the things you discovered – I cannot imagine a more pleasant way to spend old age.
Trump really screwed up the COVID PR response, and really, the PR is the most important thing here. He should have known the fake media was going to create a frenzy. Initial reactions seem to be that his speech today was good, but should be an interesting few weeks.
While the PR game was atrocious, do you think his actual moves were bad?
It was a mistake to get caught saying it was a democrat hoax, because even though he was saying the media was blowing it up into the end of the world, at a glance of a headline, you get the impression Trump claimed it didnt exist or was a Dem concoction,
He should have simply said we are watching and sampling and will pay due diligence to changing circumstance, but to exercise caution and otherwise go about normally.
Trump came out looking like **HE** was the one who went political.
“He should have simply said we are watching and sampling and will pay due diligence to changing circumstance, but to exercise caution and otherwise go about normally. ”
That would have required a level of a temperance I don’t think he possesses (but I agree with your point).
Yes, that would have been a good thing to start doing long ago. Perhaps a daily update from CDC pinned to his twitter feed since that is his primary means of communicating to the people.
I agree he doesn’t possess that level of temperance; it would be best for the virus updates to not *come* from him, but rather him just highlighting the words from the Science-y folks. Then he could add his signature “We have the best scientists, don’t we folks…”
Bringing out all the healthcare company CEOs along with folks from the CDC and HHS today was a good move. It signaled that he and Pence have gotten a major public-private partnership going on this, which is the only way to really make it work (while also nicely demonstrating how much better that is than a socialism response). No doubt the media will find a way to spin it badly for Trump, but it looked like he had a pretty solid team behind him on the podium, and he wisely let everyone have 30 seconds in front of the microphone, just to demonstrate how credentialed and influential that team is.
So for those who might wish to spin “incompetent bungled response!” one can say, “oh, so you can do better than the combined support of that group? Please explain how, rather than just saying orange man bad”. As a physician I may even be able to counter someone with that without fear of the usual “OMG you must like Trump!”
I’d say also Pence owning the testing capacity, which has been lacking for a while due to a number of missteps.
And general bureaucratic incompetence, mostly due to the civil service and structure of government, but Trumps at the top, so he owns it right or wrong.
And to all that I agree. I am speaking of the actions over the past two-weeks, not his typical vomiting of words. Were they good steps?
I need one of those old timey plague doctor masks.
Like this: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/secrets-behind-plague-doctor-mask-terrifying-costume-009201 ?
Yup, that looks more authentic. Probably worked for the same reasons surgical masks do today: keep you from touching your face.
Here’s a more modern spin that would suit me well. https://imgflip.com/i/3siy1n
I need one of those old timey plague doctor masks.
Just paint your old Toucan Sam mask, it will look just the same.
“Follow your nose!”
OK,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnHBccHGnLQ
I’ve found wearing a Groucho Marx mask in public tends to keep people out of kicking distance.
Late to the links but just wanted to say: BEST THEMED FOR THE DAY LINKS MUSIC EVAH!
I have arrived home. Most likely infected with the Corona virus, but if 120 proof is enough to kill the Corona virus, if I drink enough to get my BAC up to 60%, I should be safe, right?
Couldn’t hurt.
A buddy of mine just returned from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex; he’s self-isolating for two weeks. It may involve unusually large amounts of booze during this time.
Why the big run on bottled water today? Are water systems gonna be subjected to the CV? If a person didn’t carry a bottle to work/play why would one need 3 cases of 35? Since many won’t be going to work they won’t need that bottle.
There are a lot of things about my fellow man that I don’t understand. If kids skip a few weeks of school will they be held over until they get 180 days in the classroom? Will the little tikes only be able to read 5/6 as well as they should.?
I might get one of those rain collecting barrels, if only to water the gardens with. https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/garden/water-and-irrigation/rain-barrels/110151-collapsible-rain-barrel
No bureaucrat is going to let this crisis go to waste. They will put some new fee on in the name of public health, and it will really be all about taxes and pensions.
I am going to fill trash cans with water in the garden. My well water is very cold and slows down the plants when they are first in the cool soil.
A day in the sun will warm up the water a lot. More work for me but I believe my garden will start better. Fill the barrels every night, by the next afternoon…
You won’t need to do that in sunny CA though
I had a thought today: what if, when they crunch the numbers for 2020, we see a drop in the teen suicide rate, and an improvement in the standardized testing scores for high schoolers: SAT, ACT, even the ASVAB?
I just went down the hill to the little local grocer (minimart + liquor shop). Got some potatoes, ham, celery, sour cream.
Time to get my home-made potato soup on!!!
Meanwhile, in line ahead of me was a gent buying a couple of rolls of toilet paper. Said the big grocers are OUT.
Observers who recommend having at least a couple of paychecks worth in ready cash savings had better turn their attention to how many Americans live toilet roll to toilet roll!
Dead thread humping again. Sigh.
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At the last bit of some red beans and rice. I really don’t cook that often enough, its such a fantastic dish. Wasn’t a full size dinner portion, so I threw a couple eggs in with them. Eggs are honestly the universal food, they go with every single thing I can imagine. Maybe not like a bit of leftover pasta, that might be weird. But whenever I only have a little bit of chili, or a little bit of barbecue, or a little bit of jambalya or a little bit of soup or stew, out comes the small nonstick pan to fry 1-3 eggs while the leftovers nuke.
Had scrambled eggs and venison sausage for lunch. Right now eggs are super cheap, 98c a dozen for jumbos (which aren’t giant size) at Walmart