Subdeacon Joe
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Just.....
WOW!
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2 hours ago, Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life said:
Chargers need to heal up Herbert’s left hand first, then on the road for the end of season game in Denver, then immediately go on the road for a wild card game (currently Jacksonville), then again on the road against Broncos, Patriots or Jaguars. Tough going to say the least.
Regards
Gateway Kid
Yeah, it's not likely to happen. Especially with the Chargers habit of shooting themselves in the foot.
But I spent the first 21 years of life in San Diego County, and been here in Sonoma County for 47 years, so it would be both my "home teams" going at it.
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19 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:
"Final two minutes" HELL~!
Final two SECONDS! 😄
That was an exciting game all the way through. The back and forth scoring, plays that shouldn't have been made, plays that should have been made but weren't. Fantastic scrambling by both quarterbacks.
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Maybe a Niners v. Charges Superbowl?
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41 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
I was thinking that it might be a photochop.
19 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:Especially if that pyroclastic wave is moving at 100 mph.
Just a function of the lens and the distance of the photographer from the subject.
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31 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
Sorry Coffinmaker but CHATGBT is AI. It’ll make images of you that you ask for like this: Tell me this isn’t AI
Or these
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11 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:
We need a “boo, hiss” emoji. 😁
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Concept.
Replace the toast with hash browns, put an egg on top of the tomato, then top with the sauce.
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One HECKUVA game.
And a nail-biting final two minutes.
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Beelezebub on a box kite! Can't we even have ONE thread without some slam at politics‽‽‽
Last nnight Just for fun I "told" ChatGBT that I had a bag of rice and a bottle of cranberry-apple, could it make a rice pudding receipt for a slow cooker. It came back that it wouldn't be creamy, would likely be tart unless I put a lot of sugar in it, and the rice would probably be tough, but here's one for you.
I opined that it sounded like I would be setting myself up for disappointment. It agreed, made some other comments.
One of the things it said sent me thinking about a dessert risotto, which I told it. It came up with a receipt for me. Then asked what milk i have on hand. I told it, and, with about 5 seconds hesitation, shot a modified version to me with proportions of the different milks I have on hand.
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14 minutes ago, sassnetguy50 said:
From the point of view of a Christmas card that is used to small spaces?
It was probably nervous by the fire.
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2 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:
That might make me fall out of bed.
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1 hour ago, Dapper Dave said:
...I may have overdone it...
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Since most people younger than me don't send Christmas cards much, I am picturing this as a nice little old lady, maybe a couple, and now they can go to the next gathering with their lucky hat on and lucky deck to play pinochle with a cup of coffee, door key on a VERY distinctive keychain they won't lose.
Be sure to write something different on each card. Wax poetic about how good fire roasted jackalope is. And the lovely song of the javelin as they perch on the cholla at sunset.
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41 minutes ago, Chantry said:
No and I don't think the cases were reloaded at all, but instead sent to be recycled. I suspect the production line for the shells has been shutdown years before Vietnam.
Some more useless, but interesting information about the guns to fill up your brain and make you forget where you left your car keys.
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_8-55_mk16.php
"These weapons were apparently the first loose-liner guns in service in the USN. Mark 16 Mod 0 was constructed of a monobloc autofretted barrel with a chrome-plated loose-liner held by a liner-locking ring. The barrel screwed into the housing which contained the breech block. Used a wedge-type vertical sliding breech block in place of the conventional interrupted screw. "
Had to look that up.
"A monobloc autofretted barrel is a high-performance gun barrel, often for large cannons or rifles, machined from a single piece of steel (monobloc) and then strengthened using autofrettage, a process that creates powerful internal compressive residual stresses in the bore by over-pressurizing it, making the barrel stronger, more durable, and capable of withstanding extreme firing pressures. "
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- Process: A very high internal pressure is applied to the bore, causing the inner layers to plastically deform (stretch beyond their elastic limit).
- Result: When the pressure is released, the outer, elastic layers try to return to their original size, but are resisted by the permanently stretched inner layers, creating a permanent, beneficial state of compressive stress in the bore.
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I bet if ir was re-designed so your hand was higher on the grip it would help with grouping. I'd like to see him shoot it after he's put a few hundred rounds through it.
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Mare Island
in SASS Wire Saloon
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In December 1945, the Mare Island Grapevine looked back on a year that pushed workers to their limits and forever changed the Navy Yard, one that marked both the peak of wartime effort and the uncertain first steps toward peace. From secret rocket projects and record-setting safety and innovation, to repairing kamikaze-damaged ships and celebrating victory while thousands transitioned out of wartime jobs, 1945 captured the resilience, sacrifice, and ingenuity of Mare Islanders. Eighty years later, that pivotal year still echoes through Vallejo’s identity. Read the full story, “War and Peace,” in our History Vault at: https://www.tumblr.com/mareislandfoundation/803216534942220288/war-and-peace
By 1945 beaches across the pacific were being assaulted by Allied troops. Those landings were preceded by naval and air bombardments followed by rocket barrages in parallel with the troop’s landings. So many rockets were being used that Mare Island was secretly tapped to manufacture the needed rockets.
https://www.tumblr.com/mareislandfoundation/803216534942220288/war-and-peace
Records and Achievements
Mare Island’s workforce set records across the board:
Safety: Accident rates dropped to historic lows, with April’s frequency rate at just 2.7 per million man-hours.
War Bonds: January sales topped all other continental Navy Yards.
Innovation: By May, Washington announced Mare Island led the nation in adopted “beneficial suggestions,” with 1,930 improvements credited to its workers.