Random Thought Thread

Sharp & Fiery said:
The only time I helped a body shop make big bucks, was when I hit…



…well…




….a BIG buck!
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Same! It’s amazing how much damage a deer can/will do to a person’s vehicle 😑

Next pickup I added the full heavy duty brush guard, I epically wanted to fully protect the radiator 🙏🏻

Never hit another one, thank goodness 👍
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
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Yoko was asking for pictures of the light Chopper

I don't have any assembled. We will be done beveling the last of them this week. About half of them are hardened. We've switched over production to the standard Chopper now.

Waiting on sheaths (can't make a sheath until you have a knife)

Will probably start to ship in about 2 weeks.
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These look unchanged from the Oct 4 Outlaw cut! :) Can you show a picture or two of a more finished Fat Bastard?
 
Retired UPS Driver said:
Same! It’s amazing how much damage a deer can/will do to a person’s vehicle 😑

Next pickup I added the full heavy duty brush guard, I epically wanted to fully protect the radiator 🙏🏻

Never hit another one, thank goodness 👍
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Ah… probably works the same way as buying brand new snow tires, or a snowblower in MI. You spend the money and the shit just avoids you out of spite 😂😂😂
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
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Yoko was asking for pictures of the light Chopper

I don't have any assembled. We will be done beveling the last of them this week. About half of them are hardened. We've switched over production to the standard Chopper now.

Waiting on sheaths (can't make a sheath until you have a knife)

Will probably start to ship in about 2 weeks.
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Thanks for the pics bro!!!!!!
 
bluemax_1 said:
Wouldn’t they be second responders 😂
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Yeah but knife and gun places don't have discounts for *second* responders. Besides, sometimes I'm the first one to actually have an effective response. The first responders drop them off just as broken as they were when they picked them up. Sometimes. Of course there are other times that they fix them in the field and the trip to the ER is sort of a formality. "Yup. You fixed 'em. Carry on."
 
Murphjd25 said:
Every place is flooding here. It’s bad, 100 year flood they say. Been out helping people all day then had to drop the boy off at nanas. 4 am is going to be here in a few hours I better get to bed Nashville here we come!
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First of all be safe and secondly, good man for helping the folks in need :)

Now time for me to go at a tangent as usual :D

1- I hate the term 100 year old flood because it doesn't mean like what the name suggests.

2- I found out a couple of nights ago that there was a time during Earth's 6000 year old history, which they said was roughly about 234 million years ago, a period which is called the Carnian Pluvial Event that it rained constantly on Earth for at least 1 million years and quite possibly up to 2 million years. This event mimics the history of Noah's Arc Event but something about the math doesn't add up. I math not very good, just like my alter ego Nathan!
 
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Casinostocks said:
First of all be safe and secondly, good man for helping the folks in need :)

Now time for me to go at a tangent as usual :D

1- I hate the term 100 year old flood because it doesn't mean like what the name suggests.

2- I found out a couple of nights ago that there was a time during Earth's 6000 year old history, which they said was roughly about 234 million years ago, a period which is called the Carnian Pluvial Event that it rained constantly on Earth for at least 1 million years and quite possibly up to 2 million years. This event mimics the history of Noah's Arc Event but something about the math doesn't add up. I math not very good, just like my alter ego Nathan!
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"100 year flood" is one that is above a threshold that has a 1% chance of being exceeded within any given year, which means a 63% chance of occurring in 100 years.

No scientist claims the Carnian Pluvial Episode had constant rain, just significantly more precipitation and humidity than the periods before and after it.  The amount of rainfall in the Southwest US for example was estimated to be 1200-1600 mm/year during that period which is about as much rainfall as New York or Miami currently gets. Not exactly a constant deluge.
 
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A while back, I mentioned my experiences using Instacart, where I signed up for their free promo trial, used it, then canceled it just before the trial period ended (so I wouldn’t end up with the recurring subscription), and ever since then, Instacart regularly sends me offers for things like 20$ off each of the next 2 orders of $60 or more etc. that I can use without subscribing to Instacart.

I generally ignore them until I see something that’s more like 40%-50% off the order, which I wind up seeing about once every month or two lol.

Turns out, Instacart has been using AI to gauge individuals “price sensitivity”, and charging some customers more, when it determines they’re less price sensitive (i.e. when it gauges that a person orders stuff anyway, without price checking).

I always price check whatever items I’m thinking of purchasing, before using the Instacart offers, and have had deliveries to my door from Instacart from a store, that I also happened to go to in person the same day, and out of curiosity, confirmed that the total I paid to Instacart delivered to my door was ~40% less than the price in the store.

Apparently, their AI swings both ways and punishes frequent users, while rewarding people like me, too stingy to get their paid subscription and ignoring their offers until they drop costs drastically 😂

*** years ago, I’m positive Amazon was doing the same thing. Different people online would post seeing different prices for the same item on Amazon within minutes of each other, and if I went back to look at the item multiple times, the price would increase (because it showed interest in that item).

Haven’t seen that with Amazon in the past few years. Maybe they had complaints about it.
 
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