Morning yoga. Enjoy!
Doesn't everybody start their day with that same morning routine?
Posts by dewman
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Well with a fourth potential vaccine then we'll be making brain-eating zombies, flesh-eating zombies, bone-chomping zombies, what's next, normal vaccinated people?
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Not sure what you are referring to when you say do it in place without removing it... Removing what?
Yes I used two torque wrenches. My smaller one for most of the bolts and the large one for the last bolt which is 85 ft lbs.
"Do it in place," as in did you have to remove the angle drive from your SS in order to add the reinforcement or were you able to remove all the necessary bolts, slip the support in, and install the new bolts. I'm assuming that's what you were able to do.
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Whew, installed my DDMWorks Angle Drive Brace today. Not a hard install really but I could have used smaller hands and if I could trade in this 68+year body for just a couple of hours the getting up and down on the garage floor would have been easier.
The shoulder that I had surgery on a few weeks ago wasn't much help either but I got it done. 
Anyway, it's done and behind me now. I feel a better about the angle drive being more ridged. Tomorrow and Wednesday are supposed to be in the 60's so I may have to get out and play a little.Were you able to do it in place without removing it?
If so did you need a torque wrench or any other special tools?
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Where is the 99.6 coming from... everything I read says about a 3% death rate... for the US.
Toial Cases 28,768,564
19,505,059
Cases which had an outcome:
18,993,422 (97%)Recovered / Discharged
511,637 (3%)Deathsbillythekidd you are correct, it is actually 3.4%, so working backward from the 499K deaths this would mean 14.7M people contracted the virus or about 4.5% of the US population thus far has had Covid-19.
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I did a small bit of research on shooting deaths a few years ago, all top 10 cities were run by democrats, 8 out of the top 10 have been run by democrats for 50 years or so.
How much would that "mass shootings" number change if you remove democrat run murder mills?
"Democrat run murder mills?" Really?
Here are the top 10 US cities by murder rate per capita (2021 list), with how high it is compared to the US average, it will surprise you:
East St. Louis, IL - 27.8X (Seventh straight year, and nearly double the rate of #2, something's wrong here).
Gary IN - 15.6X
St. Louis, MO - 13X
Petersburg, VA - 12.2X
Baltimore, MD - 11.8X
Pine Bluff, AZ - 11.1X
Chester, PA - 10.6X
Jackson, MS - 9.5X
Detroit, MI 0 8.3X
Meridian, MS - 7.7X
https://www.neighborhoodscout.…ighest-murder-rate-cities
NONE of the ten biggest cities in the US made this list. Perhaps politics isn't the issue.
The top ten largest US cities in size order are:
NYC,
LA,
Chicago (East Chicago IN did make it at 24th I think, but Chicago is in IL)
Houston
Phoenix
Philidelphia
San Antonio
San Diego
Dallas
San Jose
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Or maybe
Oh God the Bannana Splits!
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On the comparison between US and UK deaths as a result of firearms:
2017 the US had 12.21 deaths due to gun violence per 100,000 people
2015 the UK has 0.2 deaths due to gun violence per 100,000 people.
That's a 61X difference.
Different firearms, like different types of hammers, have different purposes. I'm all for hunting and protecting yourself, especially so you and your family feel secure in your own home. Shotguns, hunting rifles, even certain handguns are all fine by me. Do regular folks really NEED military weapons? Sure you can hunt deer with an AR-15 modified to be fully automatic, but is it really the right tool for the job? Does having an Uzi duct taped under the end table in your living room really make you safer?
Military weapons were designed for one purpose, killing people, they are professional tools designed for professional use and don't belong in the hands of civilians.
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If anyone - ANYONE - can explain how some of the strictest gun laws in the country that are in Chicago has helped gun violence in any way - I will gladly turn in all my firearms to Beto O’Rourke (and I despise that man). Humans have been killers since Cain killed Abel -.if guns magically disappeared it would just go back to swords and rocks
Does it always have to be an all-or-nothing argument when it comes to gun control?
Chicago and gun laws not working is an old and flawed argument. Yes, they HAD stricter laws which went into effect in 1982, but then they were struck down in 2010, something most doing the arguing fail to acknowledge. In-fact:
"With that, Chicago lost its status -- or its stigma, depending on your perspective -- of having the strictest gun possession laws in the United States. In comparably sized big cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, the city administers the concealed-carry permitting process. In Illinois, the Illinois State Police processes applications, so it can be argued that Chicago has less autonomy in restricting concealed carry within its borders than do other cities."
Here are the links to back this up:
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Display MoreSo lets see ... 10 years=3652 days/2,400 = 1 "mass shooting" every 1.5 days ......
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Yeah that sounds high right, but then again, it depends on how you define mass shootings, Vox, the site that claims over 2,400 uses this definition:
Mass shooting data comes from the Gun Violence Archive, which defines mass shootings as events in which four or more people, excluding the shooter, were shot but not necessarily killed at the same general time and location. GVA’s definition differs from other definitions of mass shootings, which may require that four or more people are killed or exclude certain shootings, such as gang-related and domestic events.
I kinda think four people being shot at about the same time in the same place, excluding the shooter, sounded like a reasonable definition.
Here is the link if you wish to explore it further:
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Hey Rab
There are 6 tires in that photo - is there a new secret?
No, he's probably just preparing for a long weekend of riding.
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John Hopkins Dr says the herd immunity will be done by April for you worry warts who believe the media and the danger of a 99.6 percent survival rate flu.
So a 99.6% survival rate means 4 people of every 1,000 exposed die, one person for every 250 people exposed. While that doesn't sound like much let's run some numbers.
Today the US Population is 328M. Assume half are eventually exposed, as it is highly transmissible, that means 164M people. Now if one in every 250 of those die we'll eventually see 656K deaths. Almost exactly a year after the first US Covid-19 death and today we crossed the 500K death toll line, so eventually seeing 656K is not reasonable.
In any given year the US Population loses between 12K and 60K people to the flu, data since 2010 (CDC). Let's average that and say 36K/year. Again assuming half the population is exposed, that's a 99.98% survival rate or one person in every 5,000 exposed dies.
Yeah, Covid-19 is just another flu that happens to be 20X more deadly, oh wait, we should take into account that this number reflects all the mask-wearing, shutdowns, self-imposed isolation, etc... that we've all been living the past year, so what's there to worry about. I mean it's not like it's an airborne version of Ebola with a 17% survival rate.
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That is an accurate summary, but here is the full text of the bill for those curious:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/…gress/house-bill/127/text
It was introduced on Jan 4th by a Democrat from TX and instantly referred to the House Judiciary Committee, where it should be killed.
This is an example of congress being blocked by NRA back politicians from passing any form of sensible gun control legislation for so long, that the pendulum has had the time to swing as far left as possible.
In 2012, right after Sandy Hook, the NRA should have drafted and promoted something responsible, but no it's a slippery slope. HUGE mistake, HUGE.
Now look where we are, nearly 10 years later, over 2,400 mass shootings, and people justifiably fed up. This Bill goes way too far.
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That’s how the early models came from factory. Pad was black, not red. Infamous for falling off (cheesy factory glue). Not sure what year they changed design. I’m sure someone else will chime in...
My 2019 S does NOT have these pads.
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Sorry I just do not buy that logic but hey it was a great conversation!
Enjoy the rest of your weekend
Agreed, hopefully, we'll make it up to uncorked, where we can pick this up in person.
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I guess you just do not understand what I am saying the odds are 100% against that many people using the same exact language in a single day
You can have 3 different channels on at the same time
3 different people covering the same topic
3 different producers or whatever you call the people who decide the stories to be covered and how
All saying the same exact thing at the same time on the same day
That just does not add up
It's human programming.
Most mainstream television media content is delivered on a predetermined schedule that has been designed to maximize engagement, that's why we have morning, evening, and late-night news shows.
The odds are actually closer to 100% that they will all be saying and focusing on the same thing one news cycle later. Success breeds success, competitors may miss a story in one cycle, but they will all be on it at the next cycle, and many will be using the same language and pushing a viewpoint that they known their consumers can digest. These news shows are formula-driven and programmed to shove down our throats what they know we have a taste for. Take the touching personal story most have at the end, the desert after a meal of formulated programming.
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That is very insightful and may very well be 100% true but it doesn't answer my question
What are the odds that so many people on so many different stations have exactly the same wording. Even here on this forum we have a pretty diverse group, and in most cases even though many people will comment on s subject with the same overall opinion they have their own way of expressing it.
I am not talking about their political views just the fact that they use almost exactly the same words - doesn't seem be be against the odds?
These are independent new services with a variety of commentators.
This is not an accusation but an observation nothing more nothing less.
Humans are generally lazy, they use or re-use, whatever has proven to work. Also, we can be easily programmed to repeat things, jingles, tv ads, whole industries are built on our programmability. We watch our peers and competitors closely and adopt what we see that appears to be working for them, this includes language. By reusing words and phrases already in use we don't need to create new ones and educate folks in their meaning and proper use. Hence all the re-use.
While words, phrases, songs, and videos can go viral, the ideas behind them can exhibit a gravitational pull all their own. The more current, and the greater the extremes, the stronger the gravitational attraction for the media and the consumers of that media.
For example, there are 535 voting members in congress, and one is receiving a vast amount of media attention the past few days, Ted Cruz, why? The extreme nature of the situation he created, then the dimensions layered onto the story as it played out.
EXTREME: Wednesday Ted jets off with the family to an 85-degree beach in another country while DOZENS of his constituents literally freeze to death in bone-chilling weather, under ice and snow with extended, and rolling power outages.
DIMENSION #1: Thursday, back against the wall, he blames it on his daughters, and having to chaperone them in order to be "a good dad."
DIMENSION #2: Friday blame shifts to his wife Heidi as a family "friend" leaked his wife's text messages to the NYT demonstrating that their house was freezing on Wednesday, and it was time to get out of Dodge as she invited others to join them, direct flight and $309 hotel rooms.
Honestly, the above will be a textbook case that media consultants use for years to come training future executives and politicians.
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I hink I just dropped the Bourbon
and the cigars...
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OK so maybe you could help me understand something about the major new networks that has always confused me.
Take any topic that is the news of the day - don't care who it is about Trump / Biden any major topic. If I flip thru the channels every news person seems to use the exact same phrases. It just baffles me how 3 or 4 completely independent new agencies would all come up with the same exact phrases. You would just think the odds that that many different companies and that many different personalities would have different wording.
Just never could figure that out unless they all draw water from the same well. Just wondering
Words are like viruses, by themselves, without context, or a host they are meaningless and can't replicate.
Had I used the hashtag #JanuaryExemption in December it would have fallen on deaf ears and died. But on the afternoon of February 9th, it went "viral" and now lives forever as one scary idea. Anyone watching the impeachment and hearing that phrase immediately, mentally, went down that rabbit hole, contemplating if a lame-duck president could actually do whatever they wanted during January with impunity.
With the #JanuaryExemption as a thing, a president could stroll into the National Archives, ask to see the Constitution, and snatched it up. Then take a dump in front of everyone, wiped their ass with the Constitution, and flash their Zippo, and set it on fire. As they watched it burn, they could then piss on the remaining parchment to put out the fire. With only a few weeks to impeach, and complete a trial prior to the inauguration, they'd walk. There's now a precedent for such behavior.
Words represent ideas, and extreme or newsworthy ideas often spread virally through social or mainstream media, it doesn't matter. That's why phrases are parroted between sources feeding the same customers.
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I guess you watch and believe main stream media fake news faithfully....it’s full of radical liberal left snowflake commie propaganda 24/7...from well educated BLM, Antifa, peaceful rioters and looters, planned parenthood.....and the worst part is what they are doing to your kids brain in grade school, high school and college everyday....think about it......and don’t forget I’m a racist, misogamist, and all the other “ists”
Every other lefty social platform is practicing censorship of everyone with a normal right brain....
The end is near....2.0 is incoming
Here is that "belief" word again.
"Fake news" is recently created fiction because it can be proven false.
"Mainstream media" are well-funded businesses that can easily be sued for slander and libel, so what they say has to be provably true, eventually in a court of law. You may not like the facts they echo, particularly when they don't align with your "beliefs," but that's something you have to reconcile.
On November 4th Trump lost the popular vote when Biden earned 81M votes and Trump 74M votes. It's a fact, it can be looked up in any number of places, and has become part of the historical record. It doesn't require belief.
Actually, I stay in the middle of my lane. I've found that driving too far on the left leads one into oncoming traffic, and too far to the right, roadside trash that messes with my ride. If I hear something that is outlandish, I check it out by seeking other reputable sources who have the resources to stand behind their claims.
I'm friends with someone who matched on the 6th, and I don't think less of him. Some of my closest friends are deeply on the right of the political spectrum. Most of my family and my wife's family think Trump walks on water and won in November.
Frankly, I've voted for both Republican and Democratic candidates at all levels for the past three decades. I was prepared to vote for John McCain in 2008, had he selected Romney or Lieberman, both people I respect, he would have had my vote. We know how that turned out.
