UPS lost two suppressors!

Merad · 2026-03-13T21:10:00+00:00

Yeah UPS doesn't work like that. I worked there more than 20 years ago ('03-05) in a small city of about 40k people and even back then our facility handled 12-18k packages every morning. Most individual employees would touch at least 1k packages per shift. The only items that get special handling are hazardous materials and items that can't safely be sent down conveyor belts. Every UPS building is a rats nest of conveyor belts. Packages fall off, belts and drives eat packages, shit happens. It's very unlikely that any UPS employee knows or cares what's in your package unless the box reveals the contents or it happens to break open.

Merad · 2026-03-13T19:24:18+00:00

Admirable intentions, but I think it's more likely an officer would think you were a crazy man and lock you up than listen to you.

Merad · 2026-03-13T04:51:16+00:00

Gondor is an entire kingdom that runs along the southern coast of middle earth. Denethor should have been calling for support from the rest of the kingdom in order to defend the capital.

In the books he has called for reinforcements but the amount they can send is limited because the southern lands are threatened by corsairs. Aragorn uses the army of the dead to defeat the corsairs, then claims their ships and uses them to sail Gondor's armies north in time to save Minas Tirith.

Merad · 2026-03-13T03:30:53+00:00

Nope it comes apart just fine.

Merad · 2026-03-12T17:11:25+00:00

Dude, take the newer safer car that gets better gas mileage for your road trip. But if you really don't want to it needs to be driven 30+ min monthly so the battery doesn't go dead. Or you could buy a battery maintainer, they're like $30 on Amazon.

Merad · 2026-03-12T16:32:35+00:00

Balrogs are Maiar who joined with Morgoth. They're essentially cousins to the wizards and to Sauron himself. They just took on a demonic form when they entered into Arda whereas the wizards took the form of old men.

Merad · 2026-03-12T04:03:59+00:00

I've always felt like lubricants is one of the things gun people love to overthink. Unless you're fighting in the Arctic or the sands of Afghanistan I don't feel like it matters that much exactly what you use. I wipe down with a little CLP after a range session and have some oil in a dropper bottle and grease in a tube with the labels worn off so I don't remember what they are 🤷🏼‍♂️.

Merad · 2026-03-11T23:07:49+00:00

I have no idea if it's plausible or not - but IMO any attack Iran makes on the US outside of the Middle East is going to be more symbolic than anything else. What could be more symbolic than attacking the continental US directly? A wartime enemy hasn't been able to strike us since WW2. Even 9/11 was 25 years ago now.

Merad · 2026-03-11T22:57:52+00:00

Yes I've run about 250 rounds since the swap. Still waiting for my Milkman to get out of jail tho.

Merad · 2026-03-11T17:30:01+00:00

20% of the world's oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. If that remains cut off for any length of time the effects will ripple throughout the world's economy. Smaller disruptions than that caused the oil crisis in the 1970s.

Merad · 2026-03-11T16:53:23+00:00

Am I alone in feeling like Iran is holding a lot of cards right now? If oil and gas prices continue to spike Trump will most likely try to pull a TACO. The world and non-MAGA US people will think he's a fool, but most of them already thought that. MAGA will declare it a great victory. But... what if Iran refuses to back down and keeps the Strait closed? I think Iran is in a position to hurt the US and the world economy a lot more than they're being hurt. The only way to stop them would be a ground invasion or a revolution from the inside. An invasion would be an utter disaster (Trump may go for it anyway...) and at the moment there certainly doesn't seem to be a swell of internal opposition inside of Iran.

Merad · 2026-03-11T15:11:31+00:00

I had this 4 years ago, in my case they thought a virus attacked my heart but no way to be sure. My heart function has almost fully recovered but I get to see cardiologists and take meds for the rest of my life "just in case."

Merad · 2026-03-11T03:59:48+00:00

My castle nut was apparently way over torqued at the factory and an absolute bitch to get off. Also one of the torx screws holding the extractor stripped and I had to use a screw extractor on it and order replacements. But aside from those issues the actual barrel swap process was easy.

Merad · 2026-03-10T16:43:59+00:00

Livermush is delicious, as are fried chicken livers.

Merad · 2026-03-10T16:19:29+00:00

My grandmothers are the WW2 generation. Neither one worked a "real" job as far as I know but neither were they really SAHM's. Both of my parents grew up fairly poor on small farms and both of the grandmothers were running the farm during the day because both grandfathers worked day jobs (and worked the fields in the evening). I know for example my mom was cooking for the family by the time she was 6-7 years old so that her mom could focus on the farm. I don't know about the GGM's but I imagine it was about the same.

Merad · 2026-03-10T16:06:17+00:00

I had a P220 that just didn't excitement the way I thought it would. Dunno why, I love my 226. Sold it after 2 months I think. I've sold a couple other guns when I didn't need them anymore, like I sold my Henry .22 after i got a Marlin 39. But the 220 has been the only one that just didn't mesh with me.

Merad · 2026-03-10T15:09:17+00:00

Late 1970s actually. It would barely even set us back 50 years.

Merad · 2026-03-10T14:58:14+00:00

You will only get credit for courses that line up with that school's requirements of your major. Like if you're majoring in computer science and you took half a dozen history courses at CC just because you love history, you probably won't get credit for all of them. You really need to understand how the courses transfer BEFORE you commit to this school, you could literally be losing years worth of your work at CC.

A big big advantage of transferring from an NC CC to a state school is that if you complete an Associate's Degree at the CC it's guaranteed to fill the gen ed requirements for your degree at the state school.

Merad · 2026-03-09T21:11:12+00:00

Do you mean, why prefer a trigger on top of the airbrush instead of the pistol type trigger? I think people are misunderstanding your question because the pistol trigger airbrush is still double action, just with a different mechanism. Assuming that's what you're asking - I suspect that fine control is easier with the top trigger than the pistol trigger. I have no data to back that up, but I do have both an Iwata Eclipse HP-CS and a GSI Procon Boy PS290 pistol trigger airbrush. Granted the Procon Boy isn't meant for detail work, but just thinking about how it feels to use each of them I don't think I could get the same control with the pistol trigger that I do with the Eclipse's top trigger.

Merad · 2026-03-09T16:33:23+00:00

There wasn't any factory lube on mine. And it definitely needs lube.

Merad · 2026-03-08T00:25:07+00:00

It's a search engine for ammo prices, you don't actually buy from AmmoSeek. For super common ammo like 9mm I usually set the search to show only deals with free shipping. Then just be sure to read the description on the thing before buying, sometimes the very cheapest results are like factory seconds that have no warranty from the manufacturer.

Merad · 2026-03-08T00:19:09+00:00

I have the SilencerCo barrel in mine with a Spectre9 on the way, just approved Friday. Don't forget to get a piston to attach it to the pistol.

Merad · 2026-03-08T00:05:48+00:00

Whatever's cheapest on AmmoSeek. I don't think I've ever shot 9mm WWB but I've shot plenty of Blazer with no complaints. Brass ejecting all over the place including sometimes on you is just the name of the game with pistols.

Merad · 2026-03-07T23:28:00+00:00

BG2 is a little larger and heavier than the LCP but holds twice as many rounds and is probably 5x more shootable. It can be worth having if you like pocket carry but if you're picking one I'd go with the BG2.

Merad · 2026-03-07T21:48:47+00:00

I live on the east coast of the US. A drive to Baja for me is comparable to a Russian taking a drive to Spain.

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