u/Far_Somewhere_8425

Hi everyone. I'm 32, and a successful electrical engineer. I'm married to my incredible 28 year old wife, and we have a beautiful little girl that is 4. She's pregnant with our 2nd.

7 months ago, my wife and I learnt that my cousin was not going to invite me to her wedding. This was hurtful but well, they (her family) are evangelical Christians, and have always been toxic and nasty towards us. My wife and I got drunk that night, and at around 8pm, we got interrupted by 2 19 year old Jehovah's witnesses.

I told them to go multiple times, but they kept bothering us. They were extremely judgemental and awful towards us, and well, I made the terrible decision to take their lives with my gun.

I'm currently out on bail, and I will get sentenced within the next month. 2 counts of manslaughter. I expect to get 5-8 years in prison. Best case, I will get 3 years. Thankfully my interaction with them was recorded by my security cameras.

I really regret what I did, because of it my parents will struggle financially, they will be lonely. My wife will be lonely, she will have to work a lot harder. And worst of all, my 4 year old little girl won't see her dad for years, and my unborn baby boy or girl won't know me for years. I've already decided not to let them see me when I'm in prison.

But eventually, I will get out. When I do, will it be possible to live a normal life again here in the USA? I'll be a convicted felon that committed 2 counts of manslaughter.

I'm a Norwegian citizen, and I have dual citizenship since my mom is Norwegian. In Norway it would be illegal to ask about my criminal history in my line of work. My wife is Polish, it's the same in Poland, they can't ask. Norway and Poland actually care about rehabilitation. The US seems to just care about destroying my life.

I'm not going to excuse the disgusting thing I did, I should go to prison, but is it possible to live a normal life in the US when I get out? Or should I move my family to Norway or Poland?

How bad is using low gear in high range on an 18spd fuller? (Driving it as a 20spd)

Hey, I'm an owner operator and I've got an 18spd in my truck. I work for my dad's business and he taught me to use low gear in high range, which a lot of people call the ghost gear I believe.

4th high split in low is 2.73 ratio, 1st high split in high (aka 5th high split) is 1.95 ratio, the ghost gear low with high split in high is 3.29. Physically these 18spds are 20spds but they say using low gear in high range is damaging. I get why, the torque multiplication is dangerous to the range box.

But my dad has been driving this way for decades, and never had a trans issue, and I've been driving using the 18spd as a 20spd for 8 years since I started, and never had any issues.

How bad is it really to use these gears? I find it convenient to not have to switch the range box, even though it's a lot harder to rev match and float low, gotten used to it though.

Hi everyone, I really enjoy homebrewing (and also distilling), but recently I've run out of ideas for what I can do. I've brewed almost everything I can think of, and I've run out of ideas.

Does anyone have some crazy ideas? They don't even have to taste good, I just want to enjoy making it, and maybe even suffer if it's awful. My last creation was a spiced Mead that I freezed distilled to 38% abv, that was amazing. Before that, I made an ancient Sumerian beer (no idea on abv, felt like 2%) that I didn't filter, and drank with a straw. I didn't even use yeast for that, I let wild yeast find and ferment it!

I have all the equipment to do anything, just want interesting and exciting ideas.