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Spent the day offshore, tuna for dinner tonight. Catch bait, rig up, send it down & troll away until you get hit. Bonito bait fish are 12-16 inches, so you imagine the size of the targeted fish. Hook one & your workout is done for the day. Exhausting & addictive. If you ever get the opportunity to book an offshore trip, do it, it's an amazing experience. Especially if you never went fishing before. You'll finally know how that sushi you eat is being caught & handled before it gets on your plate.

The title mentions recommended blogs so one not yet mentioned in this thread specifically would be The New Elementary. Probably the best I can think of in covering new parts, colors, and the like. I'll have to sift through my links to see if I can find any YouTuber not previously mentioned or considered an obvious known. Anyway good idea for a truly LEGO related thread. Like others, I'm surprised we did not have this already. Don't tempt me. I could play that game for an eternity. Haha. ....Alright maybe one. Loquacious Analytical Neuron

Someone recommended their new favorite LEGO youtube channel (Emmasaurus) on another thread. Thought why not start a place so that others can share their faves with others, discover new ones, and/or chat about it all? Please consider that eventually that the faces behind these channels and websites are people with feelings. AND they may eventually stumble upon this thread AND we all have varying opinions and expectations of such channels and websites. Some search for reviews, others for investment discussions, for moc ideas, etc. I'll kick it off by saying that Emmasaurus is NOT my fave BUT her videos are positive and better than most I've seen. I'll admit I've "listened" to a few while sorting LEGO. She's upbeat and positive which can benefit us all (promoting others to buy and collect). My two new faves are: HighTeaToys (mostly Harry Potter and LOTR) And Hachiroku24 (great small moc builds)

Revamped my entire storage setup. Until now my garage (main storage) was a mishmash of walmart, target, amazon and other boxes, mostly gotten for free, but with varying stacking capabilities. With space at a premium, I looked into some options and decided that the home depot medium size heavy duty ($2.65 each) boxes were my best bet as they neatly fit a large amount of sets and safely stacked at least 3 high. Also labeled everything on all 4 sides so as to easily find them when needed. Tremendous amount of work but things are pretty organized for now. Except when Im going to need to reach the far corner in the back...not going to be fun.

Via Slickdeals $15 off $25 for first in-app Amazon purchase. Then the deal repeats one more time for another $15 in 24 hours. I’ve ordered for years using the app, but my account qualifies, so YMMV. https://slickdeals.net/share/iphone_app/fp/662971 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Couldn’t wait. All in for 20. If it’s this high already just think what it will be for Christmas

The new castle 31120 and friends heartlake city hotel where $75 at Costco when I went today Sent from my SM-N986U1 using Tapatalk

We bought our house four years ago and it took a power outage two years ago for me to discover that the existing garage door opener was MyQ enabled. Best thing ever. I don't need to have garage door openers in our cars parked outside anymore which is a big risk is they're ever broken into. I can see a benefit for this Amazon feature if people have detached garages, but like many others, mine is attached, and there's just too much risk in my opinion.

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My Target Circle had a $5 off $25 storewide offer that (amongst the 100s of other exclusions) excluded LEGO very specifically, however, when I checked out a Bro Thor's New Asgard it applied to my order. YMMV

I have watched more than my fair share of EllieV toys with my daughter. Honestly I think she's great because her focus is basically only on Friends and minidoll sets, with an occasional creator or ideas build (probably from LAN). There are no filler going to a store videos, just set builds or some creative challenge like adding on to a house or building with only one color. Plus she's quite good at building play houses. Obviously not for everyone, but my kid loves her videos and it could be worse.

Go to 16:03 but basically paid shills. Also where a lot of good leaks come from. This guy does a great job but in order to review the set before release day lego has to send it to him a few weeks early so he can build it and make the video.

Ahh, the true mark of a great mind: Ad hominem attacks. I am well and truly defeated.

Why are 80% of your posts edited?Yup I actually did watch some of it, but looked into the associated content creator: Academy of Ideas and it's run by two anonymous Canadians and you can pay them money and they will let you see their ideas, which sounds like a cult. If you're not willing to even put your name on a thing but ask money for it, that's sketchy. Anyways, the Dunning-Kreuger video from the same channel was linked in the sidebar and I felt it was more relevant to the conversation.

How is believing that the government is trying to control you with fear appreciably different from a fear of the government trying to control you with fear? Trace Dominguez here has got some nice Lego behind him

Who needs advice from people who actually know what they're talking about when you have conspiracy theories and whatever else makes sense to you to guide you? Sent from my LM-V600 using Tapatalk Just pointing out the obvious lest anyone take this inane drivel seriously. Sent from my LM-V600 using Tapatalk

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‘contaminants were only found from vial lot 3004667’ Japan has one of the most, if the most thorough and strictest quality control in the world. Kudos to them for catching this early. Sounds like your surprised errors occur on a production line ran by average people that are most likely over worked and understaffed. Do you have any experience in Global Manufacturing? https://www.rovi.es/sites/default/files/OIR 26.08.2021_eng.pdf Are you implying the contaminants were semiconductors purposefully placed by evil people for world domination? If so, you should search out Joanna Overholt for some juicy conversations. It's common for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder to think in absolutes because it gives them a sense of control and comfort. This can lead to a lot of rigidity which makes it hard to change. The problem is that it causes pain and suffering in the life of the person who adheres to an all-or-nothing attitude in any facet of his thought process. This is because the person is routinely exposed to contradictions to his beliefs, which creates a sense of threat to his world view.

Wow. Well for starters, antibiotics are for... say it with me... BACTERIA. And indeed over-prescription of antibiotics is a worry with superbugs and drug-resistant strains. There is no vax and booster insanity. There are vaccines that basically prevent you from dying. The vaccine teaches your immune system to respond to the virus. That's how immune systems work. You can teach it by getting sick and having a BAD time, or you have some real smart people figure out a way to trigger a similar immune response without the bad time. We're trying to save millions of lives, and I can't tell if you just don't care or you think we're doing it wrong, either way, you've shown over and over that you're out of your depth talking about it.

Same as trafalgar in length and width but about 1 cm deeper (fatter)

That is not what we know so far about the virus. Also, you can be asymptomatic and still spread it to others. There is an unknown number of asymptomatic cases in this event. Unless you have data that proves otherwise, based on what we know so far that rally did contribute to the spread.

When you use the term "MSM" it's pretty easy to understand your opinion on the matter. Sturgis = superspreader....

You were missing the point where the original Covid-19 has the incubation period of about 2 weeks. So, if the rally was from August to September, then you need to look at October numbers as well. Also, the 463 number in that report only represented cases that could be tracked definitely to the rally. Some people could get the virus and not show symptoms so they would not be part of the data. Plus, only 39 of 54 state health department provided their data.

Your response is proving my point again, so thanks for that. Do you understand that when someone tests positive, we can say with 100% accuracy that that person has COVID, but when a person doesn't get tested at all, we can't say with any amount of certainty whether they contracted COVID or not? And given that simple fact, out of all of the people who have not been tested, do you believe that 100% of those people have not contracted COVID? Do you understand that when you are dealing with a population of hundreds of millions, that an event in one part of the country can cause a spike in COVID cases, while a decline in other parts can at the same time contribute to an overall downward trend? These are really basic questions of logic & math. I feel like you are the most perfect embodiment of this tweet that I have ever run across.

Funny how you missed the relevant data for where the October spike originated, you don't see it in the national data because of the low population. The virus comes from somewhere, it doesn't travel outside of it's human hosts very far. This is all very basic epidemiology, it's not politics and only 'conservatives' are making it political by denying the basic science and crying conspiracy at every corner. Try to keep up.

I am in continual awe of how your mind works. Your inability to grasp how data is collected, analyzed, and disseminated - and what data can accurately tell us and what it cannot - is so astoundingly wrong at every turn. Are you a bot that was created by COVID? From the article you linked: 'While the number of cases identified is sizable—140 cases per 100,000 attendees—it is likely that the true national impact of the Sturgis event is underestimated," the report states.' In order for those numbers to tell you what you think they are telling you, you'd have to assume at a minimum that all attendees were tested, that all were asked about Sturgis attendance, and that all gave a truthful answer. This doesn't eve touch the complexity of trying to contact trace people that would have later crossed paths with attendees. The best you can do with that kind of incomplete and imperfect data, is make your best guess as to what the true impact was. And the infectious disease experts that authored the report said it was almost certainly worse than those numbers reflect, because of course they were.

The preventable deaths will continue, experts predict, with unvaccinated pockets of the nation experiencing outbreaks in the fall and winter. Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated

TFA literally contrasts the two events but please go off and ignore all the facts on the ground for your version of reality. BLM rallies happened in June and didn't result in spikes - not a lot of people travelled across states to those protests. I'm unclear about what makes you think you're so much smarter than literally everyone else in the world that you get to ignore them and say whatever.

I remember when Sturgis 2020 happened and it single-handedly started the second wave last August/Sept. across the midwest. You can literally watch the spikes in cases across Wisconsin/Minnesota/Dakotas/Wyoming - prior to that event the virus was largely contained to urban areas. Sturgis 2020 certainly helped spread the virus far and wide. And then they did it AGAIN, all while we knew delta-variant was surging. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/10/17/sturgis-rally-spread/

We live in a world nay a universe that is basically a game of Russian roulette, a person can always find a few examples of extreme things happening. I personally met a person who survived a skydiving accident where both chutes failed, there is a finite but tiny chance a person could walk through a brick wall if going fast enough, like an electron can. But what matters in any statistical distribution is where the bulk of the probability occurs not what happens in the far off tails. If you believe in tails then by all means jump out that plane with no chute and David Copperfield through that wall. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Don't know if this guy was vaccinated or not, in this case its irrelevant because he didn't die of COVID - he died from a treatable condition because hospitals were full of COVID patients, COVID patients that are disproportionately unvaccinated. **** like this is happening more & more, and will continue to happen. Can we get past this 14-year old libertarian mindset that a personal choices only affect an individual? I mean, I know YOU can't, but as a nation I'm holding on to a little hope...

These are only a few examples, he has riddled the forum with Personal attacks. Could we have some consistency with our Mods please?

9 minutes of pure gold. Brand is a genius.

yes i can sell on frustration free listings but i don't. i think this is a complete non-issue. i have had so many damaged "frustration free" packaged sets from amazon that i don't even leave them in the outer carton anymore. the outer carton is fine and you open it up and there is a dented box. the idea that a sealed frustration free box is going to be extra valuable or the defacto choice i think will not happen. if anything, you are setting yourself for the buyer to open up the outer carton to find a damaged box that you assumed was mint and get return or negative feedback.

Cult? Lol. You didn’t bother to watch more than a few seconds because you can’t comprehend anything outside of comfort zone. You’d rather hide in a birdcage with your ineffective cloth mask on. Your collective (ie Borg) mind is incapable of handling anything outside of what you’ve been programmed to obey. Pathetic.

I doubt that it takes two weeks for covid to incubate in the vast majority of cases. The rise in covid cases was across the board in October. No state involved with the Sturgis rally stands out significantly to point the blame. With all that being said Sturgis 2020 definitely was not the super spreader event that the MSM wanted it to be.

Whoa a spike of 463 cases. Obviously since the bikers were mostly white, male and unmasked that indeed they caused the national spike in covid cases beginning in October. That’s science.

And yet the numbers don’t reflect. The number of cases actually declined after the rally. Are covid case numbers now not accurate?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.argusleader.com/amp/4892542001 Oh my, half million bikers to blame for 463 cases over 30 states and *gasp* one death 😭

Sturgis 2020 didn’t start until August 7th. Looks like there was an actual decline in cases:

Pretty sure the BLM rallies last year had something to do with it as well. But that was for a good cause and Sturgis is just a bunch of redneck, racist bikers. So yeah the science always says that white racists are more likely to spread covid than law abiding African Americans protesting police brutality.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/26/sturgis-motorcycle-rally-covid-cases/ 100 cases linked to half million bikers. Oh my the sky is falling. But the MSM is of course having a field day with it. Watch Biden and his cronies try to outlaw Sturgis and other such events unless vaccinated.

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The MSM won’t report anything against the Covid-1984 narrative. As previously discussed it’s nothing more than a divide and conquer campaign against the civilians.

These types of articles are idiotic. He made a choice to not seek medical attention. The MSM cherry picks these stories for people like yourself. You just assume then that everyone who refuses to get vaccinated is some kind of conservative imbecile. You actually completely trust the MSM narrative on covid but believe that pet food companies are poisoning our cats and dogs 🤣

Ordered a piece that I needed on Bricklink - it was only available international, so I purchased enough other items from the seller to make it worthwhile. They send me the wrong piece - This happens way too often.