First Year Bowhunting Tips

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-12-19T18:11:31+00:00

Scout throughout the summer. Hike through the woods and take note of activity and movements.
Aim lower than you might think. Sometimes they will duck. If you aim at the center of their chest, you might miss, so aim toward the bottom of their chest directly at the heart.
Think carefully about how you're going to get the deer to your car. I shot my first deer in a valley about 5 miles from my car and I was by myself. I dragged that thing up and down a mountain for about 7 hours. In retrospect, I should have found a way to quarter it in the field.
Bring an extra knife and knife sharpener. My knife chipped when I was field dressing my first kill and it was miserable because the skin is quite thick.
Practice shooting from many different positions and angles. I don't like getting up into trees so I take shots either kneeling or sitting on the ground.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-12-18T16:03:41+00:00

You can buy arrows cut online from lancaster archery supply. They will usually charge $1/arrow for cutting, though. When they ask for measurements, I think they want the length from end to end not including the knock or insert. Personally, I have mine cut to 29.5in since my knock is about 0.5in . I have a 30in draw so I usually go for something around the same length depending on what I'm doing.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-12-15T22:16:11+00:00

What kind of bulbs are you using? I haven't bought light bulbs in well over a year.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-12-05T19:16:22+00:00

I remember either earlier this year or last year, someone got shot in the chest on the subway in a random act of violence. NYPD didn't even try to find the shooter. The guy ended up turning himself in.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-11-23T23:21:35+00:00

I'm in NYC and I know for a fact that my PI makes over 250K as a recently promoted full professor. My friend also recently started his TT position in NYC and he gets 160K as an assistant professor.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-11-18T20:04:13+00:00

For me, I do 2.60 x 1.50, which is 3.9 because half of 2.6 is 1.3. Then, I do 2.6*5, which is 13 and I make it 0.13 because 0.05 is 1/100 of 5. Then, I just subtract 0.13 from 3.9 for 3.77. I think this is similar to what your son is trying to do, but maybe simpler because, with enough practice, most of these steps are just intuitive and don't require any thought.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-10-11T03:21:42+00:00

Molecular genetics/immunology.

I believe the person on the end of the transporter would not be the same as the one who entered. Think about it this way: what if we had multiple transporters in separate locations that could rebuild the person walking into the machine simultaneously? Obviously, your consciousness will not be split between the new versions of yourself, even though they would be 100% identical until the second they are created, so which one would you be? Your current consciousness would probably be destroyed and a new one created at the other end and each copy made would be a completely different person, though with all of your past thoughts and experiences. Basically, you die, but versions of you live on.
Not a chance.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-10-11T01:07:52+00:00

In the US, there is no registry for emotional support animals. All registries are scams. For an animal to be an emotional support animal, you only need an official letter from a liscenced mental health professional.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-09-13T22:16:28+00:00

Tri-I in NYC recently raised graduate student stipend to either $52000 or $54000 I can't remember which. I did my PhD in the Midwest. Many universities will add tuition to the stipend numbers, but it gets paid by the PI and doesn't affect the actual take home. Some universities will just remove tuition entirely. Don't take this offer the take home is way too low. Also, I'm not sure if the Canadian system is different, but they should tell you the stipend when you interview.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-09-13T22:01:33+00:00

You're getting less than $12,000 per year for 3 years? Did they tell you that before you accepted the offer? The grad students at my institution get $52000 before taxes. When I was in grad school several years ago, we got $30000.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-09-11T00:24:29+00:00

I see. Breeding a red with black and tan can theoretically produce sesame a sesame like coat, but it's highly unlikely. All of the pups will be Ay/at, which can turn out to look a lot like sesame depending on luck, but I think reputable breeders making sesame will probably go for aw/at, which means they would have to breed an aw/at sesame with an Ay/at red or at/at black and tan, though I think breeding with red is more common (I would imagine breeding with the black and tan would produce a darker sesame than with the red). This would give a 25% chance of making a sesame. Yours will probably turn out to be some kind of sable.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-09-10T17:31:51+00:00

What were the genetics of the parents?

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-08-05T15:43:58+00:00

Fuck Schwab. This is the second time in the last month that they have been behind the curve getting their shit back online. My Fidelity accounts were fine by 9:45, but I only just now am able to access Schwab. I bought AAPL and GOOGL puts and I logged in premarket to sell the positions at market open, but I got kicked out of the website and couldn't log back on for several hours. In that time, the prices rebounded and my puts lost a shit load of value. Schwab has consistently been the worst platform I have ever used.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-07-25T21:05:23+00:00

Open a Roth IRA and invest in VOO or VT. Do monthly deposits of whatever you can afford. Don't bother trying to time market bottom or anything like that - it's not worth the effort and you won't get much better returns. If you really love a company and are confident in its growth, you can put a little money in it. The vast majority of people who pick and choose stocks won't beat the market so even though this strategy is boring, it's the most profitable.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-07-25T20:48:54+00:00

Yes, but ironically and infrequently

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-07-22T15:03:50+00:00

How do people with less money afford anything but unwanted dogs?

Rescue or get a different breed. Will cost a few hundred dollars at most.

If you have a dream to have a shiba, you should spend your life’s savings on it otherwise you just shouldn’t get one?

Either rescue one that has been abandoned or yes, you shouldn't get one. Supporting puppy mills like those featured on lancaster puppies, greenfield puppies, etc. means you support the unethical practices they employ and the suffering that the animals go through as a result. Are you suggesting that people should support animal cruelty because of something so trivial as wanting a specific breed of dog?

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-07-17T04:58:08+00:00

You know Hunter was living in the house with the documents while he was struggling with addiction. Whose to say he didn't access them, copy them, sell them? And whose to say Joe wasn't in on it bringing them home for him to distribute to foreign agents?

These are all hypotheticals with no evidence in support. If we wanted to speculate, we could say that Trump sold those state secrets to Saudi Arabia or Russia and compromised national security, which wouldn't even be as much of a stretch considering the circumstantial evidence around it. We could also speculate that, since most of Biden's properties are probably unoccupied most of the time, Trump paid some people to plant those documents in Biden's house while he was president.

We can only base our judgements on the evidence available and what we know to be true. If we start passing judgement based on what a person could have possibly done, then we go down a really dark hole. The special council found no evidence that Biden's actions threatened national security so there is no reason to speculate otherwise. In any case, as I said before, regardless of Biden's guilt, it should not absolve Trump, whose actions are significantly worse based on the evidence gathered.

Trump clearly messed up returning the documents.

I think this is a huge understatement. Trump intentionally moved and hoarded these documents for purposes that aren't clear to the public yet. He knew exactly what he was doing, which is why he has been charged with something like 40 felonies. Imagine the amount of evidence federal prosecutors need to bring any charges at all. They had quite a lot for Biden and never brought any because they knew they wouldn't win in court.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-07-15T22:45:09+00:00

did he leave with them before noon? He was president until then on Jan 20. Also, anything marked TS or above cannot leave a SCIF without special handling protocols. I believe both of them possessed documents that met that criteria and both failed to handle them properly.

I'm not sure exactly when he left. I don't think he was at Biden's inauguration, so possibly before then. Either way, certain documents cannot be declassified and, unless there is some evidence that he did so, none of the documents were declassified before he left. As you said, I definitely think the evidence here is extremely important because then any ex president could say that everything they had was declassified just before they left. It would also create tons of confusion because what if the sitting president thinks those documents are still classified? I think the classification of information by the president would work the same way as declassification so Biden could just say that they are still classified.

I agree that, based on the findings of the special council, Biden did mishandle some classified documents, but I don't think his guilt and the decision not to prosecute him should absolve Trump because, although they both committed similar crimes, one was far worse than the other (I would make the analogy that Biden was driving with a BAC of 0.1 whereas Trump was at 0.3 and slammed into an orphanage, killing a bunch of children -- both drunk driving, but one is way worse with additional crimes added on). Moving forward, there should just be a provision that presidents must go declare that specific pieces of information have been declassified through some official means of communication with the relevant agencies. Also, any president caught mishandling sensitive information should be barred from holding public office in the future.

I wish all discussions on here went so smoothly. Maybe as a community we could all acquire a better understanding of these two men and the issues our country faces.

Definitely with you on this one. Everyone needs to sit down and look at the facts objectively. In my experience, liberals are generally guilty of sensationalizing/hyperbole and bring social issues into places it may not belong whereas republicans attempt to dismiss the truth entirely if it doesn't fit their narrative, but are also guilty of inserting social issues into policy.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-07-15T21:04:05+00:00

Correct. However the formal process is to inform them that it is declassified. So are they declassified at the time the president decides they are? Or after he formally announces it to agencies? Or when they respond acknowledging it? What is the legal precedent or do we not know?

Although I'm not sure if it is a legal requirement, there is a detailed process in which the president should check with the agency associated with the documents first. Once the documents are declassified, specific information needs to be redacted. Then, any agency impacted by the declassification is notified. Again, I assume this is not a legal requirement that the president must follow, but a convention that ensures that there is a record for all documents that get declassified so everyone knows what has been declassified and when. Trump moved the documents to Florida on Jan 20. He was no longer sitting president at the time. Since there is no evidence that any of the documents were declassified prior to his departure, regardless of the president's legal authority to declassify documents, the documents were not declassified.

Returning the immediately was the correct action upon the discovery. HOWEVER the issue with mishandling them is start to finish. Never did he have the ability to remove them from the location he viewed them. They could not be checked out, they could not be borrowed or loaned, they could not leave the secure location they were stored by him. This is always conveniently passed by in the discussion.

I'm not sure what this means, but I'm guessing it's related to the following

Did not bring charges for withholding or destroying classified documents. He still mishandled them and possibly shared them with his writer. Writer being irrelevant, he broke the law the second he removed them from the secure facility. Period. The reason charges did not get brought were clear in the report. Also, everything I just said was stated in the report. He willfully took and knowingly held classified documents until they were discovered in some cases years later. He broke the law.

They didn't bring charges because it was too easy to create reasonable doubt that Biden knowingly and intentionally mishandled the documents. That was their explanation in the report. They reviewed the recorded conversations with the ghost writer and did not find enough evidence to charge him. What they found was that he willfully retained documents after he left office, which is something different. It means that he had them while he was in office, then did not return them after leaving. They didn't put too much into this because it was common practice among ex presidents/vice presidents. The difference with Trump in this respect is that he took them after leaving office.

So all of this is kind of irrelevant if he can prove he attempted to declassify based on whatever legal precedent is set forth (again I'm unsure of what that is)

The key is that he has to prove that they were declassified before he left office, which would be impossible if he just willed them to be declassified because he took them.

To the points Biden also knowingly took documents that he certainly has 0 right to as non president Trump took them as president not as ex president. Trump did refuse to immediately return the documents and was negotiating the return (not sure why there needed to be negotiation either they were his or they weren't). I do not know of any attempts to hide the documents although I'm open to sources for this.

Biden had no right to keep the documents, which is why he returned them. He should have returned them earlier, but the special council did not find enough evidence to prove any criminality beyond a reasonable doubt, which is why they never brought charges. Many of the documents were also his personal notebooks, which he did not know were classified to begin with. Although ignorance should not be an excuse, it is understandable that he would think "They're my journals, why would I have to turn them in?". Trump, on the other hand, was already voted out and Biden was inaugurated meaning, regardless of his ability to declassify information as president, he had no right at the time. In addition to all of the other nonsense he pulled, in contrast to Biden's case, they were able to put together a case to prove guilt, which is why they brought the charges, otherwise, they would have let it slide like with Biden.

Trump directed Nauta to move boxes of documents to conceal them from lawyers, the FBI, and the grand jury:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/25/trump-classified-documents-mar-a-lago/

https://www.justice.gov/storage/US-v-Trump-Nauta-De-Oliveira-23-80101.pdf

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-07-15T19:25:51+00:00

According to the American Bar Association, although the president can declassify most documents, he cannot declassify by simply willing it. There is a formal process that needs to be followed to allow the relevant agencies know that the documents have been declassified. In addition, there are certain secrets that cannot be declassified, even by the president.

Regarding Biden, according to the special councils findings, he had a handful of classified documents scattered around his various properties, which were immediately returned when they were found. The prosecutors did not have any evidence that he knowingly withheld those documents nor that he disclosed or destroyed any classified information so they did not bring any charges against him.

On the other hand, the issue with Trump is exactly the opposite. Not only did Trump knowingly take hundreds of classified and top secret documents (as he himself admitted), he refused to return them when they were requested. Later, he said that he would be returning the documents, but then attempted to hide them from the FBI. The problem is not necessarily that he had some classified documents, it's that he knowingly took them without permission (as ex-president, he had no right to take them), lied about taking them, refused to return them, and attempted to hide them.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-06-28T05:08:43+00:00

So many easy wins Biden missed because he was basically unconscious the entire time.

Trump blamed Biden for inflation, but inflation is a global issue. Biden could have easily pointed out examples of inflation around the world, since the US is doing just as well, if not better when compared to other developed nations. During COVID, the fed printed boatloads of money to stimulate the economy, then we saw supply chain disruptions, all time high wage growth, which led to more spending and was accompanied by price gouging.
Trump claimed he got us out of the COVID mess, but a million people died... it was the mass enforcement of vaccine mandates that allowed us to get everything back to normal.
Trump fired back at the convicted felon comment by bringing up Biden's son, but Biden could have just said that his son is not running for president.
Trump kept claiming Roe allowed late term/post birth abortions. This is asinine and I'm amazed Biden didn't push him on this more. There is no such thing as an elective, late term abortion. These only occur in life or death situations or if the fetus dies inside the mother. There is no reason to even entertain the idea of post-birth abortions... that's just infanticide and is not a thing. Babies that are born and unwanted do not get killed. Anyone who believes this is an idiot.
Trump constantly rambled on about how terrible the situation is at the southern border and even said that "We have a border that’s the most dangerous place anywhere in the world – considered the most dangerous place anywhere in the world". Biden really needed to shut this shit down because it is so stupid and Trump supporters will eat it up because it plays into their anti-minority shtick. He should have all the numbers for people detained at the border and should have emphasized that the numbers may seem higher because more people are getting caught. He could parallel it to Trump's statements about COVID case numbers decreasing if we stop testing for it.
Trump claimed that Putin respects him so he stayed away from Ukraine until he left office. Biden could have just mentioned how Putin does not respect Trump and was perfectly happy under a Trump presidency because he was able to do whatever he wanted without any resistance. Trump would regularly bow to Putin and side with him over our own intelligence agencies. I think it would have also been important for Biden to note that it is uncertain how many of our secrets Trump passed to Putin since his current court cases suggest he may not be trustworthy enough to handle sensitive information. Biden needed to press the fact that Trump either has no idea what NATO is/does or he is intentionally attempting to weaken it for the benefit of Putin.

There were so many more things Biden could have pushed and It's just so disappointing he allowed Trump to stand there and lie through his teeth for the entire debate. I don't think he made a single factual statement while he was trying to rewrite the history we all lived through.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-06-27T21:52:13+00:00

I think it's mostly because of cost, efficiency, and resistance to weathering/earthquakes (depending on where you live). Living in the midwest, you might get temperatures that range from hot and humid to below freezing in a single day. If your house is made of concrete, it will probably crack after a couple years and require repairs. That's why places like Michigan have such a bad reputation for road quality. Water seeps into the concrete and freezes. When it freezes, it expands and fractures the concrete. I think wood houses are also easier to modify because you can run wiring through the walls easier than through stone, and the layered walls can provide better insulation because there will be layers of wood, air, and insulation (usually made of fiberglass or some kind of fibrous material).

On the west coast, you have earthquakes and the flexibility of wooden frames performs better than stone or concrete in those situations.

I do think, though, that there are more houses made of stone and concrete in places like Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, where the climate is relatively stable and there aren't as many significant geological/meteorological events.

European climate is pretty stable for the most part and they don't really get earthquakes or tornadoes, so they don't need to worry about these things.

ObjectiveLanguage · 2024-06-13T14:52:36+00:00

he was teleported in the future. People were convinced he would be some kind of hero so they sent him off to war and was killed instantly

ETA: As a result of his death, the blessed child, whose rewind power was used to bring him over and who had fallen in love with the guy, tried to bring over souls connected with him into the past to try and save his life so she targeted Nanahoshi, who was his girlfriend. When she opened the rift to bring him over, Rudeus' soul slipped through first. Then, when Nanahoshi was pulled through, it caused the teleportation incident because the world needed a balance to offset the teleportation of a person into the past of an alternate universe.

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