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Dmess85 posted...

wow you used quagmire correctly!

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After almost 2 weeks below freezing it's finally warming up. Now we're in that nasty period where it warms up and the snow starts to melt during the day, turning the ground into a muddy quagmire, then it drops below freezing at night so the remaining slush turns into treacherous ice sheets.

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The Secret came out in 1982. Twelve treasure boxes were buried at various locations around the US and the book contained the clues to the location. In almost 40 years only three of the treasures have been found.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRsR_36mIBY

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Actually, Come Sail Away is pretty great too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5MAg_yWsq8

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Styx is mostly kind of crud but Mr. Roboto rocks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6f_2nPSX8

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

man I hate styx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnvOQBOjow

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Here's my quick and easy recipe for corn pancakes.

1 package Jiffy corn muffin mix
1 egg
2 Tbsp melted butter
3/4 cup milk

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1iOkNDGkFA

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Good pancakes I can eat with just butter. REALLY good pancakes I can eat plain.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ocykBzWDiM

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I laughed so hard at this pic.



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Chorizo is a lousy cereal. You add milk and it just gets soggy.

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I recently bought one of these on clearance at Sam's Club for $199:

https://smile.amazon.com/Handy-Power-Resistant-Generator-Emergency/dp/B08DZ1Q7JH/



It hooks up to your car and will generate 1500W continuous, 3000W surge. That's enough power to run a refrigerator, a gas furnace, a space heater, a television or radio, a crockpot, power tools, a CPAP or oxygen concentrator, a computer and monitor, lamps, or various other household appliances (though not all at the same time, of course). And unlike a dedicated generator, there's no extra maintenance beyond what you'd normally do for your car anyway.

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mooreandrew58 posted...

Trust that people would start making home made guns. Its rare but people have already done such things.

Making your own guns is not difficult. Bullets are easy to make if you have a source of lead. Making your own gunpowder, now that's a bit harder. Like, where are you going to get saltpeter? And making smokeless powder? Probably well beyond most people's skills. (I know how it's made and it involves using various powerful acids.)

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JigsawTDC posted...

This is all going a bit over my head. I don't know enough about stocks to want to risk a triple money/triple loss situation.

Speaking of which, if anyone has any resources to educate myself I'm a good learner! I understand a lot of economic theory, but I don't know a lot about actual practical investing and saving.

An Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) is like a mutual fund, in that it's a basket of stocks, bonds, gold bullion, foreign currency, or whatever, but it's traded like a stock. They're sometimes called "Spiders" after their original name, SPDR.

Mutual funds usually have purchase fees associated with them or you're required to own them for a certain length of time before you can sell, and transactions usually only occur at close of business. ETFs trade like a stock, there's no fees (other than your usual stock trading fees charged by your broker), no time limit on ownership, and orders usually goes through in seconds when the market is open. The main difference is that mutual funds are intended for long term investment, usually 6 months or longer, while ETFs can be held for any length of time from minutes to years.

SPY is a pretty good ETF for beginners. It's the oldest and largest, and it invests in every single stock in the S&P 500 index, so buying 1 share of SPY is like buying stock in 500 companies all at once. This lets you spread out your risk with a single purchase instead of having to actually buy stock in 500 individual companies.

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LuciferSage posted...

Same as it is now really.

Ass, Gas, or Grass.

Nobody rides for free.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Unless you're being fattened up prior to being turned into strange meat pies.

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Coldest night in 100 years.

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Personally I prefer ETFs. You get to invest in a basket of stocks like a mutual fund, but it can be bought and sold like a stock.

SPY invests in the entire S&P 500. It's the very first ETF and the largest.

GLD is the second largest ETF and gives you simple access to the gold market.

DOG is an inverse ETF that bets against the Dow Jones Industrial Average. When the Dow goes down, this ETF goes up. When the Dow wins, this ETF loses.

SQQQ is a leveraged ETF that offers 3x the Nasdaq 100. It's extremely risky, you can make triple the money, or lose triple.

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Booting to ram



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shadowsword87 posted...

What's their reason for power outages?

Higher than normal demand, plus 26 GW of natural gas peaking capacity is offline due to fuel supply issues, and another 4 GW in wind capacity offline due to icing.

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My lock screen features My Little Horsebando.



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That's not bad. You want a bad album, try the Shaggs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5T2kaFiFgg


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I know some people who think it'll be ammo. Heck, even in Fallout I hoard ammo more than caps.

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The only reason she's stuck around so far is that she was almost certainly stuck with a pre-nup so she'll get nothing if she divorces him. If he goes bust there's no reason not to ditch him.

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The Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index chart for Omaha as of February 14th, with projections for the rest of the winter based on the 5 most similar historical seasons. The bottom two are highly unlikely given the current 10-day forecast.



https://mrcc.illinois.edu/research/awssi/indexAwssi.jsp

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zebatov posted...

Who wins in a tie based on suit?

This looks like Blackjack, in which case it's a push. The player gets his bet back, no win, no loss. Suits play no part in Blackjack.

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Arishok posted...

Hope you got room. I'm coming to stay by you just so I can experience snow.

If you don't mind hiking for 1/4 mile in knee-deep snow...

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ReggieTheReckless posted...

Pulaski day

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I think "unofficial" means "no time off from work".

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Very light snow last night, but the winds are howling and obliterated my Death Star trench down the driveway. Now the snow is literally up to my knees when I tried to walk the dog. No point in trying to redig the tunnel because the wind is still blowing and would fill it in by morning. (Not to mention that it's -8F even before wind chill is taken into account, so screw that!)


(This was from 2019, but the snow depth is about the same)

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captpackrat posted...

They skipped 11-19

The Note series numbering is even weirder.

The curved screen version of the Note 4 was known as the Note Edge, with no mention of the version number. They skipped the number 6 because up until then the Note was one number behind the S-series (S5 & Note 4 came out the same year), so skipping 6 allowed them to bring the version numbers into parity (S7 & Note 7 came out the same year). Of course, the Note 7 had major issues requiring a global recall, so finding one of those that hasn't exploded is extremely rare. They re-released the Note 7 with a smaller, less explodey battery as the Note Fan Edition, again, no version number in the name. And like the S-series, they skipped 11-19.

And then there was the Note 8.0, Note 10.1, Note 10.1 2014 Edition, and Note 12.2, all of which were tablets, not phones, and which came out way before the similar numbered phones.

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FatalAccident posted...

Jesus theyre up to s21? I remember when my dad had like the s6 lol

They skipped 11-19

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You can get cheap pork bellies at Costco.

You take a knife and criss-cross the fat layer with a knife. Then give them a rub made of paprika, oregano, cumin, garlic powder, onion powder, turmeric, cayenne pepper, salt, and black pepper. Roast in a 450F oven until the fat begins to brown, then reduce the heat to 350 and continue roasting until the fat is crispy.

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Wolfenoot

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Unless you can eat the whole cow in less than 8 hours after slaughter (under optimal conditions), rigor mortis will set in, and that's not good eats. Aging allows rigor to resolve, which takes about 24 to 36 hours.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

reindeer, or regular?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oW9iaSK90

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