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I would rather eat my own hat than have to bother with what would certainly be a proprietary app to control my ceiling fan.

Maybe I'm just an old man yelling at the birds, but why would I want one more point of failure in something that should be simple?

I have led retrofit screw bulbs in all my fixtures. They're the right color temperature and brightness. We replaced them years ago and have only had one go bad. Why are they shit?

I always did my own maintenance including changing spark plugs. Then I bought a Subaru. That weird 4 cylinder has plugs facing slightly down that you either have to cut the wheel well cowl or UNMOUNT AND JACK THE MOTOR OUT OF THE ENGINE BAY to change.

My solution was to use like 11 wobble extensions and pray that I didn't drop anything. 8 hours later I changed 4 plugs and understood why it cost $250 at the dealer to have them to it. Then I gladly started paying that money.

Fun, but terrible on mobile.

Air? I know it's splitting hairs, but there was already a branch with much experience of launching and flying things.

Honestly I think people forget this fact. You don't have to go that far back to find vehicles that you absolutely could do anything to yourself with basic tools.

We're fixing up a 1987 Jeep Wrangler for our son. I could strip it down to the frame with 3 or 4 tools. It's kind of amazing how simple cars were, and that was in the late 80's.

I worked with a state lottery as well. They had very clear training for the retailers they worked with to identify and stop problem gambling. There was space reserved in ever ad and on every retailer counter for stop gambling assistance. The few meetings I attended all began with what they had done to reduce problem gambling.

So I'm guessing this varies state by state.

Except with ham radio, nearly everyone you encounter is that mod.

My son had an interest in radios and what not, so our neighbor gave us all his old equipment.

First conversation was a very grumpy old man telling my 10 year old why he's an idiot and how the liberals and youth are ruining the country via not following unwritten rules in ham radio operation.

I've never seen my child lose interest in something so very quickly.

That's. That's just not how contracts for severance packages work.

I'm not familiar with this case but most severance packages I've dealt with are valid for everything except like death or federal prison.

I genuinely thought that was the baseline assumption in that statement.

Uber only exists because it ignored taxi regulations long enough to be too big to kill, right?

Okay I'll bite. What do you mean by auditors in scare quotes? Like actual auditors of business practices? Or something else?

The last one is the strongest one. Our prior allies know they just can't count on us at all, when it comes to Russia, especially.

It is a sad state of affairs.

If your output is based on best next result, it will tend toward the mode, not even the median.

I have to assume the most common [insert thing] is going to be bad, because more people are amateurs at [insert thing] than are experts. Right?

I have never expected excellence from chatbot generated anything. I have always expected just good enough.

Is Czarek your WoW name? Because if it is, I lost a duel to you once in about 2005 or 2006 and I've never forgiven you.

Wouldn't the rooms inside need more lighting then? I wonder about where the break even point is on those differences. I'm not educated in this area enough to even guess.

Growing up in the Midwest it was always kitty kitty kitty kitty KITTY with the last one said at the top of your lungs.

No idea why it worked. It's terrifying.

If you ignore all the metal every place around everywhere, then yeah it's harder to get to.

I have to believe we would be able to make due with the available mountains of metal that is already in use in things?

Libraries have always had events and activities related to books and other things not book related.

People are just now noticing them. This is a great thing and I hope it sticks.

I believe people are getting sick of every interaction being monetized and are finally seeking out spaces where you can learn and interact with others without that threat.

Not if I'm unconscious?

>If that's the situation in, and it can't be stressed enough, a children soccer game

It's not extremely common in my area, but it is more common than you would think. Parents treat their children like lottery tickets when it comes to athletics. And God help you if you're the unfortunate umpire at a travel league game that makes a questionable call.

The youth sports industry is fucking gross and nobody seems to notice.

Source: we will not let our children participate in travel leagues and they do not want to participate in them either, for this specific reason.

Because if my option is to own my own land but not be able to actually make a living off of it or work someone else's land but live, I know which I'm picking.

Like it or lump it. People use these sites to sell their things because that's where everyone is. You can scream into a void or you can go about making it.

I guess the question is, how much are your principles worth on this issue?

The far cry games should be good but just aren't because of the repetitive bullshit.

Clutch Nixon is the only thing good thing about the last few games.

Any time I crossed a bridge near me that is kind of steep and has a structure over it, the automatic braking engaged HARD. Like hard enough that I nearly caused accidents until I figured out how to turn it off.

Not great.

My local jewelers don't carry lab grown diamonds. So you might be able to, you might not.

This just opens up the door for meat that isn't inspected before sale. That's not ideal, really.

There are farmers everywhere who will sell you a cow. There are small butcher shops that will process it.

This is a solution in search of a problem, in my opinion. It will only benefit already massive corporation farms.

Yes. And there are a ton of companies that sell just loose stones, so you can take it to a locally owned shop for the ring and setting, thereby keeping more of the money in your own community.

Except in this case, the quartz watches would be better quality than the luxury watches

I'm not sure your analogy has teeth.

My spouse lost the main stone on their ring. We were able to get another that was twice the size and WAAAY better clarity and quality for about half of the price of the first one.

It's astonishing that it has taken this long to have this kind of impact.

Sorry but no, it would be possibly obvious which it was, and that username is tied to my real life name too clearly.

Summary: our message board was being used to coordinate csam, both the creation and consumption thereof. At first we just edited the posts to point to gore and other shit like that thinking it was just perverts sharing links. But then we realized there were times, dates, addresses/coordinates also being shared, hidden in the board in a way we didn't expect. The site owner immediately turned all information over to law enforcement and nuked the site entirely.

They buy our weapons because we make a shit ton of them. We're not great at a lot of things, but manufacturing weapons for mass slaughter is up towards the top of our specialties.