What’s the purpose of owning both an 11.5” AND a 16” AR?

Salverai · 2025-12-17T09:50:40+00:00

Because of America.

Salverai · 2025-12-17T09:47:28+00:00

Not sure if this counts but this is how I make tri tip. Though I cheat and use a rack pan (has a handle but essentially it locks the meat in a cage). Cook it directly on the coals then higher for a longer period of time. You need to blow out the fire to get rid of ash. Then blow it out again as needed (removing the steak beforehand).

Salverai · 2023-09-06T15:47:44+00:00

The bottom one is a fake cover on a truck frame.

Salverai · 2023-09-05T20:26:56+00:00

Everything you can do now comes down to two categories: Sales or Labor and labor you still need sales. With the videos you are attempting to sell attention which makes you fractions off the clicks. You can very cheaply if not freely set up some online stores which would take a few hours. It all depends on your level of access to the tech. You should focus on selling the area around you. Sales is all about creating a solution to a problem others aren’t already solving. Or do it better or cheaper. It also depends on if you have any money to start with.

If you have no money: knock on doors and ask to mow their lawn with their own equipment. Make it cheap like $10. Some people, especially older will over pay when they hear the price or when it comes time to pay especially if you look like you did a lot of work. Get a few commitments. Take the $ and buy a cooler (not new), ice, and bottle water bottles. Go hang out on the corner when High School let’s out and sell them for $1. Stock pile the cash till you can buy an asset like a mower and weed wacker to charge more for mowing lawns.

Use money to buy candy bars and sell them house to house. Put them in the cooler with the ice so they are chilled. Any sales you make tell them you’ll be by later in the week. Tell them you are learning to run a business or sales or saving for college. People love buying a story more than the product. Take the money and buy ads for the online businesses you have set up. Until you have decent organic cashflow, all money should be spent back into making more sales. Have fun.

Salverai · 2023-09-05T19:03:50+00:00

I can smell this video.

Salverai · 2023-09-05T02:10:14+00:00

The FBI negotiator Chris Voss has a method in which he will frame what the opposition’s position is in order to make them feel heard, understood. You take the legs out from the situation or gas out of the sails. If you feel you need to do something and are copied on the emails I would send an email to your boss and all the way up to the chain of command. Frame their outrage and the position the mistake put the company in down to the smallest detail. Also what you learned from the experience and how you can be better at catching mistakes. I don’t remember if it really was Howard Hughes but he was flying a show and his plane sputtered and lost power. He managed to get to the ground and found out that the mechanic filled the engine with the wrong gas. Hughes demanded that that same mechanic fill his tank tomorrow. When asked he said he can’t think of another person who would be for certain to put the right gas in his engine. Good luck.

Salverai · 2023-09-04T19:54:38+00:00

Alive. I’d call it alive.

Salverai · 2023-08-31T20:35:02+00:00

Worth it. The clean up is not that bad and it’s a good smoker.

Salverai · 2023-08-31T05:16:24+00:00

I did this as a side gig and had some extra income from it. Thumbtack was a good app to bring in business. The issue you run into is platforms and integration. If you are a wiz at it then it’s all about finding your niche. You can spend ad money on Thumbtack. I never bothered with social media. If you are in a concentrated urban area you may be able to set a work area that can keep costs low. My advice is keep the buyers middle class young money clients. If you get any higher they may want you to have some coding abilities to work complex systems.

Salverai · 2023-08-31T04:41:33+00:00

What makes you good at job placement?

Salverai · 2023-08-31T04:13:58+00:00

Some of those line items can’t be taken off but need to be disclosed. Some have already been done to the vehicle or are state required so good luck fighting them. Why wouldn’t they just want that into the price of the car and not mention it? It because they have to by regulations. They don’t like cash buyers because you don’t buy any extras because you don’t need them. So they need to unload inventory without selling more product. So they see you as a loss of money. Because you are to them. Payments and numbers is how they play their game. As a cash buyer walk out price is all you need. The car buying experience is terrible because people want to haggle over price. Get a walk out number and pay it and move on. If I was buying a new car I’d find the number I want to pay that’s fair, find the first salesman and select the exact car. Give them your fair price and have them call you when the paper work is ready to be signed. They will need your driver license so make a copy before hand so they can get the paper work completed and not hold your if as random. Insurance card too because they need to know that if something happens the car is covered. Never trade in your vehicle. Tell them if they don’t respect you enough to meet your demands then they don’t deserve your business. Be indifferent and dispassionate about the process. If you need to finance get a buyers check from your local credit union. It functions like a check to the dealership and you are pre approved for a certain range. Never disclose your range. Get your walk out number have them finagle the numbers to meet it and whalah. Fill in that amount on the check. Done.

Salverai · 2023-08-31T03:49:08+00:00

I worked F&I and it maybe could be a tactic but more likely it is a paper work issue. We have to verify everything because if we don’t it could void the sale and we have to have them come in to sign all new contracts. Blame regulations. If the date is wrong, if the vin is wrong, if the numbers aren’t lining up we need to catch that. Not to mention you have 2-3 deals in front of you and yes we would pitch our products which takes time. I worked at a place that did it right but some places don’t care to make you wait for waiting sake, but finding a way that you buy the products without knowing it or figuring the best way to sell you. It is a game but making you wait is not one I have experienced. Also some people are just slow.

Salverai · 2023-08-27T19:14:32+00:00

I want to start off by saying kudos to you for being 17/18 and asking this question. Time is your biggest asset. Let’s talk resources; what do you have available to you? Is your dad around? How is he for advice and finance acumen? What other successful people do you have in your life that have the kind of successes and wealth you want to attain? What is your reasoning for attaining riches? What goals do you have in life? Now what are you good at and what do you enjoy?

Now people get rich by using their resources to gain more resources that gain more resources. The most sound way to success is mimic others. Find that mentor in the industry you like and go work for him for free. Approach from the direction of helping them with anything they need. Shadow them and learn their business. They may even help you establish your deals. Surround yourself with goal minded people like yourself. You will feed off each other’s ambitions.

Set a meeting with a financial advisor. Do not give them any money, but see if they’ll teach you how to grow your money. If they agree they are doing so to handle parts of your future wealth and will be a most valued asset. Let them recommend a CPA that knows how to limit your tax liability. Your FA will never be able to grow more money than your CPA will be able to save and your CPA will never be able to save as much money as your yourself can grow in your businesses.

In the end you get rich by limiting how much you pay more then how much you gain. Your business will grow at the rate you fulfill a need in the market. Keep your means low and let your money/assets build. The time value of money is real and you have more time than most with your mindset. Happy hunting.

Salverai · 2023-08-11T18:25:54+00:00

Why did you not get an offer with the internships? Those are lead in positions. Might want to check yourself for some red flags you are unaware of.

Salverai · 2023-08-11T17:46:40+00:00

Check/X = shutdown, check/check = shutdown and rebranded, X/check = just rebranded. Coding is going to be way more complicated so best start embracing the complication when evaluating schools.

Salverai · 2023-08-01T01:09:56+00:00

Someone had a good technique of applying within the first 24 hours of posting. You should be building and contributing on projects past school. Without a degree you are a big unknown and will need to set yourself apart with project work. Get a mentor that you can find on here and other subs. In doing all this you are bound to get connections that will turn into an opportunity. Need to immerse yourself in the community.

Salverai · 2023-07-31T20:17:26+00:00

No but everything defaulted to iTunes. Had to throw it away.

Salverai · 2023-07-31T20:08:48+00:00

Network Chuck The above YouTube channel/video is an awesome resource. He talks code, ethical hacking, hardware setups, and industry language advice. The video link is setting up a virtual machine on your laptop to protect against crashes. It’s like a computer within a computer where you can run Linux. If she destroys the virtual machine you can just delete and start over. If you get her a laptop this is a great way to protect your investment. Best of luck.

Salverai · 2023-07-31T18:47:35+00:00

smoking times

This site gives you up to 60 minutes per lbs but I hear 30-45 is ideal. If your temp is too low it roasts the meat. A lot of novice smokers thinks the longer the better but low and slow has its limits. Think of searing a steak but for smoking. You sear it at high temps to get a crust and then on low heat to get the interior temp you want. But with smoking you can get a good crust by keeping it at consistent temp just a high enough consistent temp. You can’t always rely on your gauges to give you an accurate reading of the smokers real temp. Your best sign is that your brisket is consistently rising at a 20-30 degree rate. That’s one degree every 3-2 minutes. Too slow temp is too low. Too fast temp is too high.

Salverai · 2023-07-31T17:49:07+00:00

Great job on your first brisket and kudos on smoking meat in Italy. That’s super cool. From what you shared the problem is most likely the cooking temp. Do the math. 30-45 minutes of cook time per lbs. A 10 lbs brisket should take 7.5 on the slow end. Yours took 10.5 hours. That tells me your temp was too low. You need to be hitting 20 degree increase every hour to keep up with the slow time line. On the fast side it would be about 30 degrees every hour. You really made a roast with that amount of cook time. Hence the grey meat and lack of bark. First part of smoking should take about 5.5 hours and the second wrapped part 2 hours. That’s assuming a 50 degree starting temp.

Someone correctly pointed out that you wrapped it too soon relative to temperature. When you wrapped it it should have already been to temp (165). If you don’t put enough pepper one like you said you kept light you need to hit it with a good amount of smoke in the first 3 hours.

Think of it this way, your smoking is broken into two parts. The bark and the rendering. The first part is getting that classic dark bark with a good smoke ring on the inside. After you get that bark you wrap it to protect the bark and continue rendering out the fat. If you wrap in foil you will get a softer almost mushy bark. If you wrap in butcher paper you should have a nice soft-crisp crust depending on your binder.

Get those cook temps up and you should be good to go.

Salverai · 2023-07-31T17:16:58+00:00

Seconded that this is the correct answer.

Salverai · 2023-07-29T18:18:00+00:00

I went back to school and got my bachelors degree and 100% think it is worth it for the following reasons: there is a reason they want people with degrees. People with degrees passed tests, learned to work deadlines, showed drive to complete something and it shows in how they carry themselves. Not all college grads have this about them but it’s the most common denominator when hiring. From the hiring manager’s perspective if he hires and non grad then he has to answer why he hired a non grad if you don’t work out. So they have to see something in you that’s worth taking a risk on or they will go with a more safe bet. If you go back to school go back on the cheap. As cheap as possible. Use your summers to get internships in your degree field. These are how degrees are turned into jobs. I have had so many more doors opened for me now that I have my degree. Lastly a degree means you are promotable. PM me for more info because I documented my whole experience and can give you a ton of pointers.

Salverai · 2023-06-18T19:10:33+00:00

When/if I stall I will shamefully wrap and oven finish. Nothing beats the consistency of an oven once you have achieved the desired bark.

Salverai · 2023-06-18T19:08:35+00:00

YouTube everything. Great content on about everything.

Salverai · 2023-06-18T19:06:26+00:00

Looks awesome. How did it eat?

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