I found a way to get around tariffs that will raise the price of audio equipment.

No smocking gun, @unclewilbur .

I'm in.  I am done buying and upgrading for a few years.

I have also quit eggs.

Turns into bickering and name calling more than ever. Political rants pepper threads also.

I just did a cursory scroll through the threads on misc and that seems like a very small percentage of the posts.  And on other forums on this site an even smaller percentage.  I mean, if that's what you are focused on, I guess I can see how it might seem that way.  But in reality, I do not think that is an accurate statement.

It’s hard enough to find good audio dialog here these days. 

Seriously?  @grannyring , any forum on this site you click on is loaded with audio dialogue.  How hard are you not looking?

I read here as much as you. Too many examples is my point.

Those are obviously the ones that stick in your mind, but I assert that they are the clear minority of the threads/posts and it is certainly easy not to click on something once you see that it is something that annoys you.  

That is why they were dubbed "the seagull squad" in a previous OP, they don’t offer much else except sh*tting on other people’s posts.

@jetter , the OP on that one actually made the analogy between some of us and sea gulls, and then, being that the OP is "always nonpolitical" he went on to call us "the squad" (NOT "the seagull squad") naming us after 4 members of the House Of Representatives, a name which I believe can be originally attributed to one of his political role models and heroes, who is also a convicted criminal. I asked him if I was part of The Squad did that make him Perjury Taylor Greene or Lauren Blowbert or Scary Lake? He never got back to me on that one.

What an excellent decision...... those highly concentrated cholesterol orbs can compromise your health. Eat oatmeal for breakfast, save cash and become a shining receptacle of health....while the cholesterol Kings & Queens fight over eggs at the grocery store and further deplete their sorry looking wallets.

There does not seem to be any hard and fast evidence, @deep_333 , whether high serum LDL cholesterol can be attributed to diet or not.  There does seem to be a definite link to alcohol, tobacco, stress, sedentary life style and obesity.  Eggs are not necessarily linked to obesity, and they are an excellent source of a complete protein with only 5 or 6 grams of fat.

. . . too late to edit, but heredity seems to be linked to high LDL as well.

@2psyop , for me it will be NO gear upgrades for a few years.  No more eggs, either.

@nonoise , now that you mention it, I do remember a post by MC regarding HRC, prison jump suits, and the CCP.

@mapman ,

I eat eggs and oatmeal for breakfast. So there! I do go easy on the yokes though

That is certainly one approach that many people take, but I’d still say to throw at least one yolk in as I seem to remember that the egg white, although containing 0 grams of fat, is an incomplete protein. The theory that I remember is that for protein in the egg white to be more usable, it needs to be combined with all of the rest of the essential amino acids (which I believe the egg white lacks). But stay on top of that LDL--I don’t think that anyone will argue about the link between elevated LDL levels and coronary artery disease.

He'd post screeds and manifestos, all taken from the right wing fever swamp trying to recruit members to his way of thinking.

@nonoise , for some reason I missed all of that.  He must have been phasing out as I was just getting here.  The last thread I remember MC participating in was one about the reason for setting up a single circuit for audio gear. 

From the late ’80s and throughout the ’90s and into the early ’00s I used to religiously drink (three times a day on work days) this concoction I made up of skim mily, either a cup or two cups (I cannot remember for sure it’s been so long) of powdered milk, this brewers yeast powder I bought at GNC, and four raw eggs of which I separated the yolk from white as best I could on three of them (I threw in some black strap molasses to compensate for the slimy raw egg taste). I felt great back then, but that was 30 years ago and things change. My cholesterol was never an issue back then. It is now.

I am trying to do more oats these days.

Statins work wonders.

Plenty of awesome audio gear made here in the USA..Tariff free.

@paqua123 as ​​​​​@mapman just noted in the post above yours, the parts for the gear are not all being made in the US.  If the manufacturers have to pay tariffs on those parts I would imagine that they will have to pass the expenses on to the consumers.

cholesterol is you least problem with alcohol tobacco.it has a direct link to head and neck cancer

@mark200mph , cardiovascular disease kills more people in the USA than cancer, so be sure and tell that to the next patient you are trying to shock out of v-fib.

@nonoise , without seeing your actual lab work I cannot make an informed comment. The other level the doc may have been referring to was probably your HDL, but at a certain level of LDL I am not sure the HDL can actually compensate for it. Maybe I have been indoctrinated due to my second career as a RN after my  previous career went south on me, but my understanding is that elevated LDL has a direct link to coronary artery disease and CAD has a direct link to myocardial infarction and MI often ends up as cardiac arrest, and when that happens if you are not in the right place and around the right people it usually has a poor outcome (and even then survival is not a done deal). I didn’t intend that as a lecture and I wish you a long healthy life so I sincerely hope that everything you are doing health wise works for you, but a low dose of Crestor is working okay for me with minimal side effects, so I am not changing that until it doesn’t work.

Not all of us are super-humans, like yourself, @deep_333 .  Some of us are unable to simply think away impacted wisdom teeth and blocked bile ducts and we occasionally need medical intervention.

I am curious, @deep_333 , with your superior intellect and apparent ability to self heal, why do you even bother going to all these doctors that you write about?

The problem is I have a sweet tooth and still eat like a kid....

I hear you, @nonoise , me too and the same for an awful lot of us. I am only a few years younger than you, and it wasn’t always like this for me, but now controlling my food cravings are way harder than controlling my cravings for alcohol and illicit use of drugs ever was. A low dose of a statin got my cholesterol in the way good range, so for me, considering my lack of will power and discipline in my old age, a pill seems to be the answer. I have known people that have told me they maintained a relatively healthy life style (diet and exercise) but still could not keep their LDL within safe parameters, so if what they told me about their lifesryle was true, I’d think they are a victim of the genes that they inherited and a pill may extend their life.

Back after my Mom died in ’92 my Dad pretty much gave up on any semblance of healthy eating, and I used to lecture him from 2000 miles away on the telephone as I was young and into health food and weight lifting and felt real good back then . . . but he took a daily statin and a blood pressure pill and he made it to 90.

It’s a personal choice and I am not going to lecture anyone for whichever way they choose . . . if you can do it without a pharmacolgical intervention, I say more power to you and keep up the good work . . . but if not, not all pills are bad all of the time; they are part of the reason average lifespan has been increasing.

this does not mean we should stop the starting but have had many patients develop leg pain as a side effect FYI

@mark200mph , personally, I can live with leg pain; I may not live through an infarct. 

So what are you saying, @deep_333 , you went to see your PCP to get a script for some  antibiotics or antivirals for some affliction that was beyond your super-human self-healing abilities and she took one look at you and wanted to perform a lap-choly?  I wonder why it is that I do not find this tale of yours to be credible.  And you are selling the education of your MD a bit short; I am sure she did at least a few years in a residency program.  

I have a great idea, by American!

@thefile , where will the manufacturing  take place of the resistors and capacitors and diodes and other components for these American products that we should buy?

"These jobs are going, boys, and they ain't coming back."

Bruce Springsteen/My Hometown/1984

+ 1 @ghdprentice . But gone forever is the day that the pay will ever be okay for that type of manufacturing jobs in the US.

They were paid OK.

However, my experience is that it does not work. I spent a year of high school in town in Pennsylvania where all the folks worked for Westinghouse. They were paid OK. The work was horrible and repetitive. Overall alcoholism was rampant, wife beating, a standard practice. The kids would drink in high school, get a girl pregnant, quit high school, have the kid... and get drunk and beat their wives... repeat. Yeah, the great old days.

Early in the morning, factory whistle blows
Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes
Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning light
It's the work (the work), the working (the working), just the working life (just the working life)

Through the mansions of fear, through the mansions of pain
I see my daddy walking through them factory gates in the rain
Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life
The work (the work), the working (the working), just the working life (just the working life)

End of the day, factory whistle cries
Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes
And you just better believe, boy
Somebody's gonna get hurt tonight

Bruce Springsteen/Factory from Darkness On The Edge Of Town/Columbia Records 1978

Eggs, chicken, and beef is expensive. But there's no reason to worry because I can eat all the dogs and cats in town.

Ya gotta love it, @unclewilbur !  After all, "what have you got to loose?"

and I’ve seen more than my share of patients survive alcoholism, 1 pack a day smoking, “bad” diet and no exercise and still be sharper than the proverbial tack well into their nineties so go figure.

Oh yeah, right, @normb ,   Everybody and their mother and brother seems to know many people who smoked 3 or 4 packs a day and washed down the pounds of the daily bacon that they ate  with quarts of Jack Daniels, and the only reason that they died when they were 97 years old was that they got hit by a semi-truck when they were crossing the street.

However, I honestly don’t know anyone who meets/met that criteria, and in reality, no one else does either.  What we do know is that when the coronary arteries get  plaqued up bad enough it shortens the lifespan.