I’ll be getting about 20 taps in this weekend and will get another 30-40 in right before the next warm up

I haven’t been sick and I did get the flu shot. Just about every one of my friends has had the flu or some version of significant sickness this winter and none of them got the flu shot.

I don’t think the flu shot does anything against norovirus, RSV, bronchitis or covid, so that’s not surprising.

Dutchboy wrote:

I’ll also need to see if play-offs are included in the season price.

if we’re talking twins and playoffs, you’re talking 3 games MAX, so you wouldn’t miss out on much.

Michael Obremski wrote:

people have the right to their own choices in most matters including this one but what was just described was intended from creation.

go on… please expand on your thought process. some fictional character in your head told you that women shouldn’t work?

Eelpoutguy wrote:

Never understood this thought process.
If I pay $100K for a truck I’m going to drive it everywhere, I’ll drive it 100ft to my mail box and back
and
with no seat covers, wearing fancy jeans.

I think it’s safe to say that people paying $100k for a truck don’t have the same thought process that I do

Michael Obremski wrote:

The dad is supposed to be the breadwinner while the mom takes care of the home and kids.

According to who?

CaptainMusky wrote:

You’re not wrong, but IDK anyone who uses Craigslist anymore. That is almost like using MySpace now.

What platform is the anti-marketplace crowd using then? Still lots of activity on my local craigslist.

CM – That’s just the joy of selling things on the secondary market. That is not something that’s unique to marketplace – happens on craigslist too.

I buy and sell a lot on marketplace and highly recommend it. Sure you get some tire kickers, but you get that on craigslist and other places too. I’ve had nothing but good experiences selling everything from fishing/camping gear to ATVs, boats, ice houses, and vehicles.

I’ve found when selling a high price item like a nicer used vehicle, you get a lot more serious buyers than people wasting your time. If you’re selling something for a couple hundred bucks or under, you will get a lot more hagglers trying to find your absolute bottom dollar.

Craigslist just isn’t what it used to be. Way less activity than on marketplace and way more scammers. One of the better features of marketplace is someone has to actually have a profile and you can vet them out by looking at their marketplace reviews, if you have any mutual friends, etc. You simply can’t do any vetting on craigslist and there are a lot more scams on craigslist.

Lots and lots of really good deals to be had on marketplace, especially if you focus your searches on the more affluent areas. I’ve found high end items like boats, furniture, and ice fishing gear for dirt cheap – someone just wanting it gone.

Mr. Heater > Heat Hog > Clam

Bearcat89 wrote:

Well these days the average 1/2 ton gets good millage so why wouldn’t you want that for a daily.

The price of trucks has gotten to be insane these days, so I don’t like putting any unnecessary miles on my truck because I don’t want it to depreciate any faster than it already is. I will opt for my car unless I “need” the truck for something. I got a nice little grocery getter corolla 5 years ago for $6k and that is my daily driver unless I need the truck for hauling/clearance/towing/hunting/dog training etc. The corolla is cheap to own/insure/fix, gets great gas mileage, and is reliable. Not to mention I can fit in any parking spot and not have to worried about getting doored. I’ve avoided putting almost 40k miles on my truck by having this car. Big trucks are great but I don’t need to drive mine everywhere.

Great video crawdaddy. Those are some great looking goldens you have. They remind me of mine.

supercat wrote:

Should take that sled up to gitchi and drive across the driveway lol

Go ahead, I dare you. I own guns and a backhoe

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hnd wrote:

i don’t REALLY have issues with these guys. I do own my ditch…a nice full snow, have at it. but when its an inch, these guys drive me absolutely insane.

I’m with ya there. Nothing like spending $30k on finishing your driveway just to have it ripped up by sledheads with studded tracks. My favorite is when they crash into your mailbox and break the 4×4 mailbox post in half.

A huge part of the tariff conversation comes down to prices and labor. A main reason why things from China/Mexico/etc are so cheap is because they have much, much less restrictive labor laws. They extort unethically cheap labor and as a result, can manufacture really cheap products. Our country simply cannot compete with their prices because their labor is a fraction of the cost of domestic labor. Sure bringing back manufacturing to America is a great thought but we simply cannot compete with the labor of China and similar countries. Throwing unnecessary taxes/tariffs on the American public isn’t going to fix that issue. I’d love for someone to illustrate how it will fix things.

Looking at the agricultural side of things. According to the USDA, ~40% of agricultural workers are illegal immigrants. These are low paying, highly labor intensive jobs that many Americans simply don’t want to work. When the current administration deports all of these illegals and the agricultural industry loses almost half of its work force, what are the ramifications going to be from that? I can’t imagine anything positive.

During Trump’s first term, he ended up having to bailout farmers TWICE due to the tariffs he put in place and it cost double the auto bailouts. And given the Chinese market is probably lost to brazil forever because of this, we will be bailing out soy farmers for a long time.

Fun fact. According to the institute on taxation and economic policy, in 2022 undocumented immigrants paid $96 Billion in federal, state and local taxes with the majority of that amount ($60B) going to the federal government. These undocumented workers are paying into medicare and social security systems that they will never be able to draw from and they’re working low paying, labor intensive jobs that Americans don’t want to work.

Bearcat89 wrote:

Just avoid those areas and the crowds that go there. I always wonder why the mass majority go so deep to catch 12 inch sauger and walleye.

for a lot of the people on that lake (especially the resorts) its a numbers game. They’d rather catch 50 fish a day with most being small saugers versus fishing shallower and catching fewer but much bigger average size. Plus the big ones you get in shallow aren’t keepers and the resorts want their customers to bring home limits.

JEREMY wrote:

Try this again. How do you get the smoked wings crispy? I usually give them a 2 minute oil bath. Is there a better way?

as a couple others mentioned, if you want crispy wings, cook them in the air fryer.

riverbassman wrote:

I talked with the Warden I work with and law in Wisconsin and as it is illegal to keep targeting that species once yu have a limit, it is extremely hard for him to present a case for the local D.A. to prosecute as how do you prove you weren’t targeting northern (assuming you have a limit of eyes). That being said, he looks at intent. If you are taking a picture of every walleye, holding it out of the water, measuring, etc. he would make contact with you and push it further (looking for self incrimination). he said if you simply caught another walleye, immediately unhook and threw back he would most likely look the other way.

I’d like to see in the regs where it states this. I can’t find it anywhere. What I can see in the WI regs is (per pg 16):

The total daily bag limit is the maximum number of fish that an angler may reduce to his/her possession in one day from all waters fished for that day.

Stanley wrote:

So far in 2 1/2yrs and 20k mikes of owning this truck I have had about 14k worth of warranty repairs.

Holy smokes. What are you driving if you don’t mind me asking?

crappie fettuccini alfredo is awesome. essentially chicken alfredo but swapping fried crappie for the chicken.

Rivergills wrote:

I know on the WI/MN boundry waters pretty sure once you reach the limit for a species, you must stop fishing for that species. This includes catch and release fishing. This is what the regulation reads anyways.

Can you cite your source in the regs? I don’t see that anywhere.

Jon Jordan wrote:

Pretty sure in MN once you keep that last fish in your limit, you are done. The next fish of that species you catch puts you over the limit.

-J.

Not true. It doesn’t count as part of your limit until it’s in your possession.

Per regs:

Immediately released fish are only retained long enough to unhook, measure, and photograph. Fish not immediately released are counted as part of an anglers daily and possession limit.

Again, how is that different than any other brand camera? not isolated to blink. You can very easily silence notifications if, for example, the kids and dogs are running around in the area.

Whats important to me is 24/7 coverage with either a cloud or local storage option. For my purposes, a security camera isn’t worth having if its not saving the clips. Let’s say a stranger pulls into your driveway and tries to kidnap your kid while your kid and dogs are running around (in your example). I still want to have the video clip recorded and saved. With some cameras, you can have it automatically disable recording if you’re home which seems silly to me.

JEREMY wrote:

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Blink also would be a good option

They only record when the system is armed.

Don’t ever unarm the system and you won’t have any issues. Wouldn’t just about every camera/provider option have the ability to unarm it (i.e. turn it off)?

Baitwaster wrote:

I’ve bought them online and showed a screenshot of it. Just have it handy. The CO said they don’t want to wait for someone to go through a gallery searching for it.

Its not any different than someone digging in their wallet, tacklebox or backpack for their physical license.

Markets are in turmoil after Trump announced a 30% tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports, reigniting fears of a prolonged trade war.

The U.S. dollar skyrocketed to its highest level since 2005, while global stock markets plummeted in response to the escalating economic uncertainty.

Key Market Moves (9:30 AM EST)
• Dollar Index (DXY): +2.3% (Highest since 2005)
• S&P 500 Futures: -3.1%
• Nasdaq 100 Futures: -3.8% (Tech stocks hit hardest)
• Shanghai Composite: -4.1%
• Brent Crude Oil: -5% to $72/barrel Why Markets Are Panicking
• Currency Volatility: Yuan slumps 1.8%, Euro falls to $0.95 (20-year low)
• Supply Chain Risks: Tech giants like Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia brace for disruptions
• Inflation Concerns: Analysts warn tariffs could add 0.8% to U.S. inflation

Both Canada and China has vowed swift retaliation. This is fine. Everythings fine.

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Beast wrote:

all I know is 4 years of past policy and doing noting has led us to where we are now, sometimes you got to rip the band aid off so a wound cane heal.

How is adding to inflation going to solve anything?

fun fact: tarrifs plays a big role in the great depression

Doesn’t matter how you spin it, the consumers get F’ed with the tarrifs. Domestic manufacturing can’t pop up over night. Some things can’t be sourced here like many foods. A lot of oil in the US can’t be refined here so we need to import a lot from Canada. Can’t wait for the prices at the pumps to jump.

We’re p*ssing off a lot of our allies with the recent agenda swing. Now Canada is retaliating against us and going to implent corresponding tarrifs back on us. No one wins – consumers get F*ed on both sides of the border.

On a global level, we look like an absolute clown show right now. Renaming mountains and bodies of water for no reason. Blaming airplane crashed on DEI instead of offering sympathy. Its a gong show right now

be careful using generative AI. As the name suggests, it can literally make things up (i.e. generate) on the fly. I recently attended an ethics training where we discussed examples of this… There’s been several lawyers who used AI to cite case law and ended up getting in trouble because the cases they sited weren’t actually real cases… AI generated these case law references, the lawyer used them in court and then they got in trouble

One of many examples:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/another-ny-lawyer-faces-discipline-after-ai-chatbot-invented-case-citation-2024-01-30/

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