Recent content by Sand

Defense stocks are a darn good group to own today.

Prayers that your people are ok. If there is a silver lining one can hope that this cracks the repressive regime that they've suffered under for many years now.

Oil was trending very low on price and is only back up to $75. Stocks down less than 2%. Right now a blip on the big screen.

Generally regarded as one of the best trails out there. Go do it!

So jealous of you tall guys. You can fit 14 liters of water, a tent, and your sleeping bag in the triangle (I guess for you quadrilateral?). Just not fair.

Doing that with the wife in September. Starting in Pittsburgh, though.

:lmao: :clyde: Also, :finger:

Casual mention of this without mentioning destination or equipment is a serious crime in here, fella.

Riding a lot, actually. Nothing wrong with current rig and I love my road bike. It is showing a bit of age, though. Tires limited to 23, rim brakes, etc. And the drive train is Wheeltop, which is fine (actually, it works awesome with 12 speed bits) but I don't want to be down if that goes...

Went with red/gold. Their burnt orange just wasn't the right tone. I will be putting on yellow lettering so it will look a bit like the middle one from that point of view. Looking forward to getting it and building it up.

Tungsten is a byproduct of molybdenum mining, so there we need moly deposits. I don't know if we have any, to be honest. We could use supplies of both metals.

It's multifaceted. There will be onshoring of manufacturing due to this. The question is how much. So it will help some average Americans (and hurt others), but how much of each and whether the balance is net positive or negative remains to be seen. On some of this stuff, like rare earths...

And over in this corner Houston has an 88,000 camera surveillance system that they use with no safeguards at all. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2025/houston-flock-surveillance-explained/

And yet, somehow, I'm worse. :lmao:

The F1 one is pretty good.