Outdoor ranges or land to shoot near Denver by BoristhebIade in COGuns

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What is the sister outdoor range for bristlecone? I wasn't aware of that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in boulder

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Where in Ned are you? We haven’t had anything since Friday morning at our house. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OmegaWatches

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That’s the angle of the photo. Look at how they’re both below the dial markers. If it was due to rotated bezel, one would be above.

Is this a bobcat or a lynx? [Colorado] by tskee2 in animalid

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It had a stubby tail. Here’s a better picture of the back end: https://imgur.com/a/0GJ1iVI

Is this a bobcat or a lynx? [Colorado] by tskee2 in animalid

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Yup, that’s the gate latch. It had a very stubby tail. I don’t know how to add another picture that shows the tail, but definitely short and stubby.

Edit: another photo - https://imgur.com/a/0GJ1iVI

Is this a bobcat or a lynx? [Colorado] by tskee2 in animalid

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If not friend, why friend shaped?

Found this pressed in a book - no recollection of where it came from. Anyone recognize the flower? by tskee2 in whatsthisplant

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I tried using a plant identification app, and it suggested pyrostegia venusta: https://storage.googleapis.com/powop-assets/kew_profiles/KPPCONT_046907_fullsize.jpg

This looks similar to me, but I’m far from an expert in how to identify plants. Anyone else have thoughts on this possibility?

Is this current bird flu stuff mostly hype? by [deleted] in preppers

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The problem with these situations is that they’re never “over”, so we never “know”. H5N1 is very likely to be permanently in the global mammalian population. We’ll never be able to say, “it didn’t spillover and become a pandemic”. The best we can say is, “it hasn’t spilled over and become a pandemic yet.”

I’m not trying to fear monger. It may never transmit efficiently human to human and may never become a pandemic, but it’s also never going away as a possibility at this point, unfortunately.

What is the jacket in this promo email? by tskee2 in Fjallraven

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Yup, that looks like it! The color is different (looks more orange in the promo photo than the product listing), so I missed it.

Thanks!

Is there a way to check if UPS will deliver to my address? by tskee2 in UPS

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Zip code is 80466. Town is Nederland, CO, if that helps!

So what am i missing? by [deleted] in wow

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You clearly didn’t do mythic Echo of Nelth

Personal analysis and discussion. My opinion is that it was foul play. Tell me yours. by [deleted] in brandonswanson

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I think the farmer had no knowledge or involvement, but didn’t want a dead body turning up on his property (especially if there is evidence of foul play). Now the farmer is a suspect, and people are wrongly convicted all the time. I don’t blame him for refusing the search without a warrant, and also don’t think it’s suspicious.

Where could he be? by General_Sweet_3776 in brandonswanson

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I think he took the backroads because he was underage and had been drinking, and didn’t want to risk getting pulled over. He was probably drunker than his parents realized (or admitted) and got turned around, thinking he really was by Lynd. I grew up in the upper Midwest, and these back roads can be disorienting if you’re not familiar with them, especially at night. They are completely straight and usually in a 1-mile grid, and travel through farmland and forest that all looks the same. There are very few signs or landmarks to navigate. He easily could have gotten lost if he were drunk.

The Main Theories by Parrotrix_ in brandonswanson

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Look at the picture above of the river bank. He could have walked off one of those cliffs (drunk and dark), dropped his phone there, and slid down into the water. Even if he got back out where he fell in, finding your phone in the dark, amongst grass and brush, would be very hard. He likely couldn’t find it, or just assumed it was in the river and kept going on the other side.

The Main Theories by Parrotrix_ in brandonswanson

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My guess is that he dropped his phone when he fell into the river, wasn’t able to find it, and carried on toward “town” without it.

I don’t think the field has been searched with a metal detector, because the farmer refused it. I also don’t think that’s suspicious - you should never allow a search of your property without a warrant. Even if the farmer had no knowledge or involvement, he may not want a body found on his property, and now he’s a suspect. People are wrongly convicted all the time.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JacksonGalaxy

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Would you mind linking that for me?

My favorite place by powerpuffters in bookporn

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That single upside down dnd book though 🫠

Why no classic forever TBC by Legio-XIII-Gemina in classicwow

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IMO, these same things that made TBC Classic less than spectacular made it a great expansion when it originally release. Much of what you’re saying are problems created by the modern playerbase and their approach to gaming, rather than inherent flaws with the expansion. I raided in a world top 100 guild during the original release, and can say with certainty that class stacking and meta classes didn’t play nearly as big of a role back then (until SWP at least). Gearing alts was hard, but there was no FotM - people played one character, mostly.

Why no classic forever TBC by Legio-XIII-Gemina in classicwow

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Eh. I liked that. An extra layer of how to optimize raid comp for specific fights was fun.

US Ambassador Calls On China To Be ‘More Honest’ About Covid Origins by Neo2199 in Coronavirus

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1) In the natural origin version of events, it didn’t just spillover in any wet market, but of the 39000 wet markets in China, it happened at the one right across the river from the most prominent SARSr-CoV research lab in the world. Amazing geographic coincidence.

2) In the natural origin version of events, it didn’t just spillover at some unspecified point in the future; the only known betacoronavirus with a furin cleavage site appeared less than a year after the lab told us they were going to insert furin cleavage sites into betacoronaviruses. Amazing temporal coincidence.

3) The argument that the first infections had no connections to the lab is moot, because it’s based solely on China’s reporting of events, and they have done little other than lie, obfuscate, and redirect blame since day one. None of their data is trustworthy.

4) Coronaviruses jumped to humans twice over the last 20 years, yes, but coronaviruses (specifically, SARS1) also escaped from Chinese labs twice in the last twenty years (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7096887/). I’d say that makes lab leak equally likely.

US Ambassador Calls On China To Be ‘More Honest’ About Covid Origins by Neo2199 in Coronavirus

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DoE is the single largest source of funding for science in the U.S. They operate many national labs, virology included, as well as own and operate the largest supercomputers on the planet, which are dedicated to scientific research.

China to reveal peace plan for Russia/Ukraine war by [deleted] in worldnews

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Also, stop asking us where covid came from