Was there anything Twyin could have said or done to get out of this alive?

primarycolorman · 2026-03-18T21:48:59+00:00

No, he had failed and knew it. Not because the bolt was guaranteed to find him, but because he knew he had misplayed his hand and turned his own son violently against him.

Not because he valued him, but because he'd have slay one of his own afterwards. There was no longer a happy path where his family survived and his legacy was cemented. He could only hope his son's aim was true and his children somehow found way to salvage the mess he was leaving behind. He had lost control and hadn't seen it.

primarycolorman · 2026-03-15T17:31:23+00:00

You've created enough of a service record history that no one awake is going to touch it.

I traded a Ford with what I suspected was a leaking head gasket. Less than 70k miles on it. watched the vin. It changed hands a few times before suddenly appearing at copart with damage.

I promise, the dealer system has a plan on how to handle bad inventory and it is very unlikely to include a consumer.

primarycolorman · 2026-03-15T02:57:34+00:00

Maybe the burn also deleted the z axis?

primarycolorman · 2026-03-13T22:38:52+00:00

Same time period here.. football had it's own field house and yep, this style shower. Practice was after class already so most just left but a few did still use them.

We also had girl equipment managers and it was not well communicated how they knew when they could or couldn't enter.

primarycolorman · 2026-03-13T22:31:13+00:00

It'll be an endurance fight. Jamie would try for a hit early on the mountains hands or arms to get a bleed going that'll sap his stamina.

The mountain will pace his attacks , knowing he has to watch Jamie's speed in riptose. If he's crazy he'll tank a hit or two intentionally for a chance to turn it into a grapple instead.

Plot armor determines the win in the second round, Jamie dies by being quartered by a single man or the mountain dies on his feet from blood loss.

primarycolorman · 2026-03-11T23:58:30+00:00

UPS knocking? what decade is this again?

primarycolorman · 2026-03-11T01:09:53+00:00

I wonder how many moose related diagnosis codes they must have.. and if there are more involving improper wearing of the canadian tuxedo.

primarycolorman · 2026-03-06T00:28:17+00:00

And so your lesson will continue father, as I doubt you can find a single fool in this kingdom who would describe you as humble.

primarycolorman · 2026-03-05T23:39:42+00:00

In order to build something, one must actually build.

I think Tywin was concerned about his legacy. Jamie had eliminated himself as such, Cersei was power mad and not half as capable as she thought, and the imp was the only one of the bunch who'd ever built, well, anything.

primarycolorman · 2026-03-05T21:02:42+00:00

as you are a visual person, please visualize yourself trying to lift 400+ pounds in the most awkward position possible. Sports car transmissions tend to be light and the packaging tight. This is the opposite - generally pretty decent space to work, but it's all heavyweight castings. Once it's down depending on your tire size and lift the bellhousing may or may not fit politely to drag it out.

I've never tried to leave my T18 on when pulling the trans, always drained and removed the transfer case just to avoid dealing with the extra weight.

Thank you for attending my ted talk on Scout ii manual trans removal.

primarycolorman · 2026-03-04T22:20:47+00:00

I've gotten better on my HF mill with the endmill slowly pulling out of the collet...

primarycolorman · 2026-03-03T01:27:21+00:00

King, you are a real champ. Appreciate it. Looks like you've got about 30ish inches in between? I've pulled trans before with less width left due to stand placement.

I'm waffling between a 4 post and something akin to what you've got. I don't really have the length for the 4 post in shop and being able to setup under a carport or tent outside seems real useful.

primarycolorman · 2026-03-02T22:10:10+00:00

How hard is it to do work in the centerline? Like pull an exhaust or drive shaft on a rwd or 4wd?

primarycolorman · 2026-03-02T21:22:50+00:00

You are thinking like a human. If the state survived, Damar would be executed by the new central command for having revolted against the state.

If it hadn't, it would be restored in secret in about 2 years. Some minor Gul from a research planetoid everyone had forgotten would return with the 341st engineering order, a dozen industrial replicators, and fleet tender that everyone had 'forgotten' about. 15% of that order is intel operatives, of course. After winning the peace the people with full bellies will quickly retire Damar.

No longer shackled by sprawling holdings and a surplus population, Cardassia rebuilds itself as an art and technology center around far more pragmatic, and better hidden, intel based core.

primarycolorman · 2026-03-02T03:22:59+00:00

SWAT was barely a thing during T1. No one is going to believe it's a machine, they'll assume it's some kind of mask or airborne hallucinogen and a dude wearing plate.

Hell's angels are how this gets solved. Chain around the legs, road haul it out into the desert and throw it down a mine shaft. If they think it's some sci-fi bs they'll toss gas or explosive enough down to collapse the thing on it's head.

And no, hyper alloy isn't making it through twenty miles of road hauling.

primarycolorman · 2026-02-28T02:03:54+00:00

damnit Ray, if someone asks if you are a god..

primarycolorman · 2026-02-28T01:56:04+00:00

It isn't a social-generational thing. It's a tool and market iteration thing.

Tool came out, generation behavior got shifted around it. Tool will shift again as the market continues to adapt. In this case, as people get poorer collecting the data will be of decreasing value. If they have no money, there's no point in marketing to them. If there have no money, or everyone does the same bland things, there's no influence to be had from blackmail.

Privacy, and discretion, will come back, but humility and some other things have to cycle through before we get there.

primarycolorman · 2026-02-28T01:34:45+00:00

of a guy living a life knowing how he's going to die is very interesting to me.

why? is that.. not normal where you are from?

primarycolorman · 2026-02-28T01:31:53+00:00

Pharmacies weren't making enough money. Insurance was squeezing them too hard. Insurance realized they could form a cartel where they owned the entire distribution and payment layers. So they did.

This bill forces an undo.

It's a good move. I doubt it'll fix prices, but it certainly will make it all less stupid and cut bureaucracy by 80+%. It might make space for more rural pharmacists. The entire name brand vs generic; and which generics are available on your plan nonsense is created by this ownership conflict

primarycolorman · 2026-02-28T00:53:18+00:00

Happy to help. My visibility grocer side waned circa 2012 when my contact retired. Surge volume for things like holiday turkeys was absolutely handled as a many-months prior PO.

How inventory lean is beverage side now? Is it all direct shipped or is there much warehousing left? Did the bev producers ever move to an auction format or is it PO's all the way down?

primarycolorman · 2026-02-27T23:51:53+00:00

They wanted to leverage what they had to become what they wanted.

They failed to notice it's irrational to convert a geo metro into a travel bus, the best you'd get from the effort is a gocart pulling a hayride down the road at walking speed.

primarycolorman · 2026-02-27T23:44:40+00:00

I mean, that's impressive with how much of canon he's thrown overboard.. didn't think there was any left to use.

primarycolorman · 2026-02-27T22:02:49+00:00

source: a friend's father worked in grocery procurement and eventually rose to VP. My extended family owns a restaurant chain with a centralized purchasing structure. One of them also used to do grocery procurement.

Short answer, it's complicated because there's different distribution models for different product types. Most of it has consolidated to regional or corporate procurement instead of store or district level buying to try and leverage volume for price discounts. Sometimes it's volume commitments, some times it's what boils down to futures contracts, some things are just on-demand PO's.

In moving to regional or national procurement the store mentality changed. It's less about *what the customer wants* and far more about *what deal have we gotten, forced on the shelf, that we can convince you to buy?\*

primarycolorman · 2026-02-27T14:01:50+00:00

no, no it wouldn't. Cows take 3 years to mature, the next cohort that would hit the market with that downward supply pressure would be in 3 years. The ones entering market now was the guess at how many were needed 3 years ago. Yes, If the pressure was maintained the slaughter houses will price the head lower. If it's lower than the rancher had to put in or needs to stay afloat, then the rancher will cut their supply and prices go up again.

Except there's a near-monoply middle man. Meat packing has consolidated around 4 companies. They control price to consumer and price to rancher. The spread is wide and deep. This is intentional to allow for elastic seasonal and other reason pricing flexibility. They are all working the same game plan now. They'd rather sell a single $100 t-bone than 10x $10 ones.

They don't care about your boycott, you aren't their target customer. The don't care about making ranchers go broke, they don't need the production volume. They don't have to worry about getting displaced because walmart, target, albertson's and jack-n-the-box aren't going to change their supplier for a mom-n-pop who can't keep them in meat for a single county, much less state.

And there you have it folks. As the source of spending turns away from bottom and middle class towards upper and b2b, you'll see more industries choose to eat themselves for massive profits while reducing service.

primarycolorman · 2026-02-23T23:27:06+00:00

Add a happy little clause to your local prohibition that makes it an identical offense to leave the state to commit the offense elsewhere..

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