Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

The trestle bridge sets on concrete pilings set deep into the soil at the banks. A tree growing literally on top of the piling or nearly could definitely be felled if the piling failed upon the collapse.

Again, totally spitballing here.
Just to share
A number of yeas ago driving to work at 0530 in my Range rover ( pos car) there was a crash. A branch 15" in diameter came off a dead tree on the road side and landed on the windshield roof junction and a piece pierced my front hood.
My glass fragments int both hands which I had to pull out with pickups.
Called wife to drive me to work. Car was towed to bodyshop . $14K in repairs. But It was just not my day. Little more on the roof and I could have been quadriplegic.
 
II don't think so. With only five places to bury them or provide parts, they won't be on my list. And, don't give me that crap about them never breaking. All mecanical things break. And, they have no proof yet of them not wearing out or rotting from our roads.
Neighbor has the SUV one. Resembles a G Wagon/Early Defender. He got in Houston. Local BMW shop will service and warranty according to him
 
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It's a great choice if you want to pay more for less capacity than 9mm or less performance than 45.
Or, better performance than a 9MM and more capacity than a 45ACP. No fanboy here, but it's a perfectly respectable caliber, the 3rd most popular handgun caliber in the world. :)
 
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Or, better performance than a 9MM and more capacity than a 45ACP. No fanboy here, but it's perfectly respectable caliber, the 3rd most popular handgun caliber in the world. :)
Si.

I own a couple 40s, no 45s ... well, a 45-70 ... about half the capacity but twice the thump
 
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@The D she’s not too bad without a pump going.
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I’ll never understand the dominatrix shit though, I’m good on that
 
@The D she’s not too bad without a pump going.
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I’ll never understand the dominatrix shit though, I’m good on that
This may be an older pic, she doesn’t look nearly as big.

The idea of any of the weird shit is a little bit exciting but I’ve never sought any of it out. The thought of all that equipment and having to maintain all of it on top of working on cars for a living is fucking exhausting

And now, something more normal. Some weapons-grade boo-tay

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This video is brought to you by one of the tech companies most in league with those who most wish to control you. So is it a warning cry, or is this like inception? A video design to trigger you by drawing a plausible timeline to trigger your response and allow you to be further controlled?

If you take into account where this was published (youtube) and you assume that every fact is true, then you have to come to the conclusion the video, put out on social media for you to click, as just another tool to control you.

You can't believe that the video is 100% true, and that you aren't being controlled by it. And if you aren't being controlled, then the video lacks basis, or you believe you are somehow immune and special. Special in a way these seemingly all-powerful programs could not have figured out how to break.

Which is it?
That thought did cross my mind.
 
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Taylor Swift is one of the most popular, also, but that doesn't make her respectable. Just saying. :)

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A long time ago during a 9mm vs. .45 thread someone posted here about the 2009 Ft. Hood shooter. He used a 5.7x28. Up until then (I researched what he posted, and he was right) I thought high power .22 cals were just overblown .22 Mags in a pistol. Not much more going on right? Wrong! The Ft. Hood shooter shot 52 people, of which 12 died. Of the remaining 39 victims of his shooting, none could continue their counter-assault on him after they had been hit. Meanwhile, the shooter had been hit six times by 9mm's and finally succumbed when one of them hit him in the spine. Both are proof that the 5.7 CAN kill and the 9mm can poke holes. In no way do I agree with the shooter, but it shows that high power .22 cals are worth looking at. I recently purchased a 1911 in .22 TCM as it is more powerful than the 5.7x28. After purchasing it I took it to the range, where (being cheap by not purchasing a watermelon) I set up an apple at 10M. After zeroing I shot the apple. It blew the apple four feet in the air and four feet to the right. And, when it came down it was in shreds. The only part that hung together was a few cracked chunks held together by some skin. I use 9mm mags as the .22 TCM is about the same size.
 
She looks like a stick figure drawing of a rat, she can’t dance, her music sucks, but I’m not hating she found a niche and got rich either


Maybe it's nitpicking, I'd argue her (already-)rich parents found her her niche and put together her image. Daddy used to fly her down to Nashville every weekend to try and get her signed, and when that record deal materialized, he bought a record company instead.
 
Maybe it's nitpicking, I'd argue her (already-)rich parents found her her niche and put together her image. Daddy used to fly her down to Nashville every weekend to try and get her signed, and when that record deal materialized, he bought a record company instead.
Who fucking cares? You just told me 20x more than I knew or ever wanted to know about her.
 
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A long time ago during a 9mm vs. .45 thread someone posted here about the 2009 Ft. Hood shooter. He used a 5.7x28. Up until then (I researched what he posted, and he was right) I thought high power .22 cals were just overblown .22 Mags in a pistol. Not much more going on right? Wrong! The Ft. Hood shooter shot 52 people, of which 12 died. Of the remaining 39 victims of his shooting, none could continue their counter-assault on him after they had been hit. Meanwhile, the shooter had been hit six times by 9mm's and finally succumbed when one of them hit him in the spine. Both are proof that the 5.7 CAN kill and the 9mm can poke holes. In no way do I agree with the shooter, but it shows that high power .22 cals are worth looking at. I recently purchased a 1911 in .22 TCM as it is more powerful than the 5.7x28. After purchasing it I took it to the range, where (being cheap by not purchasing a watermelon) I set up an apple at 10M. After zeroing I shot the apple. It blew the apple four feet in the air and four feet to the right. And, when it came down it was in shreds. The only part that hung together was a few cracked chunks held together by some skin. I use 9mm mags as the .22 TCM is about the same size.
The 5.7 has been around for about 25 years

Last time I looked at the FBI stats the 5.7 was not high in lethality.

The round was used in enough shootings to get a good data set.

Like all handguns, shot placement stops the fight faster.

There is something to the mag capacity and light recoil.

Many people shoot low recoil .22 lr the best. Speed and accuracy


The 5.7 was a great concept. Stitch a tango with 4-8 rounds of AP rounds. It could defeat common body armor.

Since we can't get 5.7 black tip nor SMGs (thanks Reagan), I'm doing a hard pass on the 5.7


Maybe another 10 years of data from ccw and other shootings will change my mind.