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I've no experience with good robotic vacuums. We were given a very inexpensive one as a gift, and it was useless; the algorithm driving it couldn't effectively tell, or take action, when it got stuck. So it was stuck constantly. against almost anything it touched. You really had to walk around behind it to steer it with your foot. That, and the dirt container only held about as much hair as the dog could shed in a minute. So avoid the cheap ones. Hopefully someone here can weigh in on what the good ones can do.

As do I, and I encourage anyone who lived through the horrible TP shortages earlier this year to come to my house this weekend and haul away as many as you possibly can. Don't risk running out! The most choice leaves are under the shrubs and forsythia bushes, so be sure and rake those out and take them with you.

Late last week, the Costco in East Hanover had more toilet paper than I've ever seen in one place. Bales of Charmin stacked to the ceiling, not just where they normally keep it, but there were similar stacks in other places in the store. So Costco is definitely hoarding... I didn't notice if they had purchase limits or not.

It's been decades since I've hunted pheasants, but I miss the experience. There was a time when I could hunt pheasants and ducks almost right outside my door, on the family farm. Of course, without a dog, I wasn't bringing home a lot of pheasants... #6 shot was the consistent recommendation, high brass shells, but generally not magnum loads. I was shooting reloads in my Wingmaster 20 gauge, but I no longer recall the load data.

Nice! Beautifully browned. I smoked my first whole turkey just a month or two ago, can’t figure out now why I waited so long.

Good article. I'd read enough about TCL vulnerabilities previously, that TCL TVs joined Alexa speakers and Ring doorbells on the list of things I will never allow in my home.

No, a majority of the population need not be infected. A pandemic is a geographical reference, it is an epidemic that occurs worldwide, or at least across a very wide area. They tend to affect a lot of people, often with high mortality, but the definition doesn't reference % infected or % killed. Rarely if ever has a pandemic infected the majority of the population. Plague in Europe, and first introduction of smallpox among native Americans in North America, maybe, but that's cherry picking examples.

If all you have are standard small rifle primers, I'd say load up some rounds and test them. The powder will ignite! From what I've read (but not independently confirmed) you will probably lose a little velocity, and see a little more shot-to-shot variability in muzzle velocity by using a standard primer where the reloading manuals recommend a magnum primer. Over the years, I've moved away from using powders that recommend magnum primers, just so that I don't have to keep magnum and standard primers in stock. It has made my life simpler to buy and use standard primers for everything, or almost everything...I've still got a few magnum large rifle primers that I use to reload the big honkin' rifle cases, but I shoot those so infrequently that I don't need to keep many of those primers around.

I've ignored him since his inauguration. Of course, it's easier for me since I'm not a small business owner, feeling his boot on my neck.

One potential gotcha...a number of air rifles have internal suppressors (they'll be advertised as such). Those are legal in most states, because obviously they aren't suppressed firearms. But, because NJ pretends air rifles are firearms, they'll also pretend suppressed air rifles are suppressed firearms, which are bad news here. The fundamental problem is that the prosecutors and judges are allowed to play in a make-believe fantasyland of their own creation, while the rest of us have to live in the real world and suffer the consequences.

If the gun was obtained legally while you were a resident of another state, and assuming it is legal within the state of NJ, it is perfectly legal to move to NJ and bring the gun along, in which case you will not have an FID (though you may elect to get one after the move), nor will there exist a NJ permit to purchase, if the gun in question is a handgun. Also, if memory serves, if you are willed firearms (and I believe they have to be listed individually in the will), you can inherit firearms in NJ, without having an FID or obtaining a permit to purchase for handguns.

Air rifle and air pistol competition is a thing, from local club matches, college competitions, NRA sectionals right up through national championships, the World Cup, and the Olympics. It is reasonable to assume that serious practitioners might spend hundreds of hours practicing safely inside their own homes, perhaps using a 'silent' pellet trap such as this one to eliminate the sound of pellets hitting a metal backstop. Silent pellet trap

Wow--I'm stunned and saddened. I like to tell new shooters I'm training that in the 10's of thousand's of hours I've spent training and competing on ranges across the country, I've NEVER seen an injury. The occasional accident, yes...ADs, case head separations, etc, but thanks to relentless adherence to range safety protocols, I've never seen an injury. I can't say that about any other hobby in which I participate. But they can happen. So sorry to hear of this one.

If the increase in permit applications was only 430%, that can only be explained by you, plus a statewide reduction in other people applying for permits.

Yep. Plus all the rest of us! Welcome to the forum, hope you'll stick around.

I agree. I'd suggest a .22 semiautomatic with good ergonomics and adjustable sights, a .357 revolver, or a 1911. You can get the latter in 9mm if you want to limit the number of calibers you stock...but you know you really want it in .45.

I wasn't asked, but I'll jump in and say there is a big difference between Germany in the 30's and early 40's and what is happening here, now. BUT there is plenty of re-education creeping into the K-12 and liberal arts college curricula.

It might have...that was a nasty problem at the time. Rain events in the northeast had been recorded with a pH below 3; lemon juice is in the 2-3 range. It didn't just go away, but with a bunch of money thrown at the problem, SO2 and NOx emissions from the coal plants (primarily) were cut in half and eventually the lakes buffered out most of the excess acidity. Fish populations came back. So it's a manageable problem, just takes some effort and resolve.

Sadly, that happens all across the political spectrum. Replace 'NY Times' with 'Fox News' or the 'BBC' or 'NewsMax' or 'Al Jazeera' (I presume) and you see the same thing. Many people pretend to talk about science, but really are just spouting their particular political worldview, tied to one or two scientific facts that support their position, and ignoring the larger body of knowledge--which is often complex and nuanced and takes real effort to understand.

Hurricanes are kind of a special case. The deadliest ones mostly predate the weather satellite. Fifty years ago, folks had only a vague idea as to track, timing, and magnitude. A hundred years ago, they had almost no clue as to what was about to hit them.

I looked it up-the bacterium is easily killed by cooking. It is transmissible through undercooked armadillo, and apparently in some places raw armadillo liver is considered a delicacy. You can learn the weirdest stuff on the internet... So always cook your armadillo thoroughly. Bats, too. :-)

I took advantage of the great weather today and fired up the smoker. I'd been looking for an uncured ham for a long time--still haven't found a local source--but instead I found an interesting recipe for smoking a cured ham. I started with an 11 lb butt half, coated it in a maple syrup/bourbon/honey dijon/pepper/paprika paste overnight, threw it on the smoker over hickory wood, mopped every hour with more syrup/bourbon/mustard, than glazed in the last hour with a similar concoction. I smoked pig candy (bacon strips coated with BBQ rub, maple syrup, and brown sugar) as an appetizer, and served with butter/brown sugar/pecan hasselback sweet potatoes as a side. Turned out pretty good!

Yes, I figure it must have raised governor gopher's blood pressure about 25 points.

The 2nd Amendment is the failsafe. But if there is a new administration, I think there will be more cases headed to the Supreme Court than in the past, both because of changes pushed through at the federal level, and at the state level by states emboldened by what they think is a mandate to pursue their liberal agenda.

That'd be funny--I could call the bluff and sent mine in! (a leftover from my side gig as a crew chief for a fireworks company). But seriously, vendors throwing up nonsensical roadblocks to purchase really sucks.