OT: Now that the world is ending How will you spend your time?
I'm thinking of heading to Nebraska, I keep dreaming of an old women playing guitar on her front porch. Surrounded by acres of corn
Or are you going to Vegas to hang out with the dark man?
Either way I'd like to know your plans
Well, my research lab isn't shutting down, so I guess I'm going to keep doing that.
Not all heroes wear capes.
LOL.
I will probably spend my remaining days on MGoBlog making snarky comments to conspiracy theorists and intermittently checking on my children to make sure they are not spending too much time on their iPads.
Have fun with you're extreme level of cognitive dissonance.
The conspiracy theory label died 2 years ago.
We are in an awakening. It's easy to dismiss a few coincidences here and there and make someone seem crazy.
But seriously how many coincidences will it take before you're eyes open?
The old media is dying for a reason. People are figuring out the truth.
Avatar checks out.
i feel your pain. our dept has asked PIs to plan for the worst and have lab members rotate and come in only when needed, such as cell culture and taking care of lab animals, if institution is closed.
Yeah, tough decisions have to be made, unfortunately. I don't have a lot of wiggle room in getting my research completed and thesis written and defended before graduation, and there is rarely more than one person in the lab, so I'm just going to be hand-sanitizing like crazy and avoiding my face until it's all done. Should be easier now that there are no undergrads on campus.
I've never owned a gun but I'm going to Dunham's today to buy two shotguns and filling my truck with shells.
Problems or no, it never hurts to own a firearm and to know how to use it with discretion.
I'm not terribly worried about this particular crisis yet. But it does feel like each time something like this happens, the public reaction gets more intense. I don't know if that's a social media thing or what, but there's no reason to not be ready.
I've never owned a gun, but I agree, in these days with the veneer of civility growing thinner, I think the same thoughts.
Good choice of word, veneer.
Totally...our Nanny saw two women engaged in a fist fight at Ralph’s Super Market fighting over the last box of pasta on the shelf...in a very nice neighborhood. People are the problem.
Saying "nanny" and "very nice neighborhood" in the same sentence is redundant.
That is fair
I take it back...I will spend my last days pointlessly trying to figure out how to work out the glitches on MGoBlog so it stops double posting when I hit “save” one time...and how to get my points back.
Ready for what? Planning to rob a Costco the second the toilet paper gets restocked?
Ready to defend my family in my own home if and when the infrastructure of our society collapses. And also defend myself on my way up to XM's doomsday prepped farm in Northern MI.
As long as you recognize having a gun in the house makes you and the family statistically less safe, then make an informed purchase and good luck on that Cormac McCarthy road trip. I hear one of XMs daughters makes an amazing pie (I can't remember what kind, apple I think?).
oldest daughter is wonderful and can bake like a deity. she is home for spring break. i am in possession of homemade banana chocolate chip muffins, in my truck, that when warm and with butter are something very close to heaven.
and the gun thing: first, correlation is not causation and second, since everybody i know owns guns and we don't have much crime here, i'd question where your stats come from. that said, i don't want to get into a debate about guns so i'll pass.
i hear out your way the freeways are empty.
XM, I have a survival tip I want to share:
When you're in the middle of an apocalypse, and you have possession of homemade banana chocolate chip muffins, YOU DON'T MAKE IT PUBLICLY KNOWN THAT YOU ARE IN POSSESSION OF HOMEMADE BANANA CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS
EVER!!
sopwith, point well taken. so lets just say i ate them all. every last one of them. warm and covered in butter. i did to stave off an attack as you imply, really a self-defense maneuver. feeling pretty proud of myself.
i hear out your way the freeways are empty.
Yes!
It's been such a breeze getting around here too!!!
Hey, can I get in on the XM Survival farm? I don't have many real skills, just IT stuff, but I still have a fairly strong back and can probably be taught to muck out stalls and such,
Can I bring the Miata?
kind of muddy on the farm. you're going to have a tough time getting that miata here, but if you do, i know my wife and daughters will swap you a little food and water for letting them take it for a spin. mrs XM actually owned one when were courting. that changed when the UP became our future destination and she got a 4x4 truck to be properly outfitted.
You got downvoted for that. Geez. You're the most well adjusted person on this board. Feels good to know that in a real shtf scenario, people like you would be most likely to survive it all.
March 12th, 2020 at 10:53 PM ^
dear daughter made homemade beer bread tonight. with bacon and green onions. warm and with butter. very good work.
since everybody i know owns guns and we don't have much crime here, i'd question where your stats come from.
Yeah, most I know do as well. I do not, but I'm going to have the kidlets take a gun safety course just because it seems like a good idea; and who knows, maybe they get the bug where I never had it.
not sure what planet you are on but me and the wife are very proficient with our firearms and our home is absolutely safer with firearms in them. you want people to cower in their homes waiting for the cops that take an average of 22 min response time? you do you though
Nah it isn't, I guess you can think that though.
You don't happen to be bringing that perspective from reading about it ... in an east coast city (like DC, perhaps)?
I was just talking to my county sheriff yesterday. Around here (southern Charlotte suburbia), they have three officers covering our 16 sq mile town of 11,000 people ... no way they can impact a haywire situation other than to clean up the mess after the fact.
XM nailed it ... causation vs correlation
Moreover the most armed country in the world is also the safest.
Gotta guard those canned goods!
I just went to the local Target outside Ann Arbor and there wasn't a roll of TP left on the shelf. I managed to buy the last 12 pack of Charmin at the OfficeMax. It's insane.
i'm not too concerend about tp... left hand and a mug of water lol
That's a thing in the middle east
"Overall, Branas’s study found that people who carried guns were 4.5 times as likely to be shot and 4.2 times as likely to get killed compared with unarmed citizens. When the team looked at shootings in which victims had a chance to defend themselves, their odds of getting shot were even higher."
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17922-carrying-a-gun-increases-risk-of-getting-shot-and-killed/#ixzz6GV2342tV
So actually, it does hurt to own a firearm.
Not that I don't support the 2nd amendment, I just want people to know that statistically, owning a gun is more dangerous than not.
Boy that really seems like a flawed study. Maybe they should look at people who have concealed carry permits vs not. Responsible gun ownership is a lot different than simply carrying a firearm.
This is a pretty consistent theme across every study about this subject. The why is still unknown, could be that people who own guns are more likely to be in the same area so it increases chances, could be you're more likely to put yourself in bad situations with a false sense of confidence, could be a million things.
I'm just providing the stats without any emotional bias. If you want to get defensive against numbers, be my guest.
I'm not getting defensive, I'm simply pointing out that it seems like a flawed study. I wouldn't recommend basing many life decisions on flawed data or information.
Could I ask what you think makes it flawed?
My guess the flaw would be that they are counting folks who walk into a convenience store with a gun, try to rob the place then get shot by the owner.
So statistically, yes, the armed robber is more likely to get shot than somebody unarmed walking down the street.
The other statistic that gets skewed is the gun death count when raising the alarm for gun violence. People citing the gun death count always include suicides where the person decided to end his or her life and used a gun to do it. Sorry, but if I was going to kill myself I'd take an overdose of sleeping pills and just go to sleep, for good. I wouldn't leave a mess of splattered brain matter and skull for some poor schmuck to clean up. Really, the point being, if you want to kill yourself, you don't need a gun to do it and those deaths should not be lumped in with the others.
Sleeping pills would hurt. Might I suggest taking a heroic dose of H?
I'm just providing the stats without any emotional bias. If you want to get defensive
thats not a great attitude, imho.
“studies” and “statistics” are only as strong as their researchers and interpreters when it comes to being useful. Challenging a result that doesn’t square with someone’s own experience isn’t bad, or being defensive. Calling people such is just an argument stopper, “I have x studies done by Y smart person so you can all sit down” followed by a mic drop doesn’t help us to seek truth.
Sometimes it seems like we have become such a slave to other people’s studies and statistics and become less critical thinkers.
I'll take everyone's useless guns and n95 masks. I wanna do my part.
I think there is an official policy that you can't buy the shotguns for your truck without owning at least two dogs and wearing a cammo ball cap.
Do I look like someone who doesn't have two dogs and wears a cammo baseball cap?
Good point. Carry on.
Yosemite Sam mud flaps also required.