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    How's everyone doing with this virus crap?

    Mark it now: Cooper is going to extend this stuff another month. He's going to offer some very basic reprieves, like allowing restaurant dining rooms to open. But any and all reprieves are going to come with new and further restrictions like he just put on the retailers, such as requiring...
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    How's everyone doing with this virus crap?

    In some cases where fees and/or permits may be involved, I can at least understand your point (even if I don't agree with it). But in the case of Pisgah here in NC shutting down yesterday, not one of the hiking, biking, or public roads that they closed requires a fee, permit, or any sort of...
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    How's everyone doing with this virus crap?

    Woke up this morning to this: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/nfsnc/alerts-notices/?cid=fseprd724408 Basically they're closing Pisgah National Forest. Hiking trails, dispersed wilderness camping sites, dirt roads, everything... until AUGUST. Absolute, 100%, utter lunacy. I want one person to...
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    How's everyone doing with this virus crap?

    No, the entire STATE of 10.5 million people was projected to need 12k beds. And the entire STATE is only currently using 313. That one hospital I mentioned would (typically) represent well less than 10% of either of those numbers. Our total deaths in the state just surpassed 100 today...
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    How's everyone doing with this virus crap?

    This whole shutdown thing is going to have to start coming to an end pretty soon. Talked to my two sister-in-laws over the weekend. Both are nurses of more than 10 years (i.e. not newbies), one has been furloughed until further notice, and the other has had her hours cut by 50%. Between...
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    Which Polymer Pistol?

    Yea, I was one of those people discounting them for a long time. I've owned and shot a TON of different pistols over the past 10 years (averaged probably 2k-3k rounds / year), tried some variant of dang near everything on the market. But only bought my first CZ back in 2017, and even then I...
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    Which Polymer Pistol?

    Back when this thread was started, I was quite fond of the Ruger and S&W striker-fired handguns. But in the year 2020? You are doing yourself a huge disservice if you haven't shot some of the CZ's newer offerings. Yes, the -75 and it's variants have been around for decades (and they're...
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    How's everyone doing with this virus crap?

    Bingo. Been saying this from the get-go. We're not "flattening" the curve; we're simply delaying it (which may be a good thing, but at what cost?). Given our current response trajectory: How many more people will commit suicide because of the economic downturn? (estimates were 10k+ during...
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    How's everyone doing with this virus crap?

    There isn't any. It doesn't seem like any of our elected officials "get it", but another couple weeks of all these businesses shut down (or worse, more of the lockdowns like Cali, NY, IL), and there's going to be millions or TENS of MILLIONS of people without jobs, a majority of which don't...
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    Investments

    Roughly how old are you now? Do you plan to retire early (before 59-1/2?) You are correct that you can't withdraw earnings from a Roth IRA until 59 1/2; that's the tradeoff for not paying any capital gains taxes on it. But you can withdraw contributions at any time, tax- and penalty- free. So...
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    Investments

    This is my opinion only, some will certainly disagree. But if you're not already completely maxing out your tax-advantaged retirement accounts, then you shouldn't be investing directly in the market. A tax-advantaged account is exactly that: you either don't pay any tax on the investments...
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    How's everyone doing with this virus crap?

    QFT.
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    275/60/17 on lowered truck

    I've got 275/70R17s on a lowered truck. 3" shackles, removed overload and 2nd leaf, and t-bar bolts basically all the way out. General Grabber ATX. I'm running a Hummer H2 wheel. I think the backspacing / offset plays a big difference in how easily they fit. I have extremely minor trimming...
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    What’s it worth? 2004 with 55,000 miles!!!

    Oh yea, I forgot to update that. :roflmao: Paid a lawyer $150, and between the method the cop used to clock me (the least accurate way possible), and the fact I hadn't gotten a single ticket in all my 14 years of driving, the DA threw it out altogether.
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    What’s it worth? 2004 with 55,000 miles!!!

    I agree entirely (I'm from NC as well, Raleigh area, and funny enough, also have a GasGas - 2011 EC250; just rode at Brushy Mountain this past weekend). That truck would be gone in a day at $20k around here. If the seller was patient, probably wouldn't have a problem getting $22k-$25k. I saw...
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    What’s it worth? 2004 with 55,000 miles!!!

    People paying $20k+ for a truck like that are nuts (though I don't doubt for one second that it'd sell in less than a day at that price). $20k-$25k will get you a very nice 3/4 ton gas motor truck that's less than 10 years old, heck maybe less than 5 years old. And it'll be nicer in just about...
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    2wd Street tires?

    Another one to consider is the Yokohama Parada Spec-X. I have them in a 305/50R20, and I've been very happy with them. Not just traction, but rain, noise, and wear as well. Granted I've got a CCSB 4x4 LB7, it's driven 99.9% of the time in 2-wheel drive. I've got the overload and 2nd leaf...
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    New to forum, question about et calculator

    I made an Excel sheet many years ago when I was still in school that was a very detailed, highly accurate racing calculator. You had to input your actual dyno-obtained horsepower values every 100 rpm, your race weight, gear ratios (transmission & rear), automatic or manual transmission, and...
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    George - Big Dipper

    *Not talking specifically about Big Dipper, as I have no experience with him* In general, I'm ok with a longer lead time on stuff, especially when I know that I'm getting the best product / service. But what I don't have a tolerance for is a lack of communication telling me that. I...
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    LLY: Traction Bars recommendation for heavy towing

    The McGaughy's bars are ultimately very similar to Caltracs when it comes to their downfall (if you call it that). If you have that stop bumper backed off so that they don't bind, then the axle will have to wrap before they contact and do anything (same as backing off the preload on the...
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