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I switched to YouTube TV years ago, but now it costs as much as cable (still somewhat better functionality for me though). If I could do a few sports streaming subscriptions I could drop that also. Use an antenna for local TV news when needed, but most of them do free streaming of their news and weather emergencies.
Postage stamping
In general I like Carr but as Panthers fan I hate the Saints so let’s GOOOOOO!
This article acts like it’s a big deal that the discount only applies to new vehicles in inventory when that’s a pretty standard move from most carmakers, especially at the end of the year.
I think most people won’t mind getting a discount regardless of whether they need it or not. And there are always plenty of people trying to stretch at the maximum range of their budget for various reasons; someone who can afford something at $80k perhaps really can’t go to $90k. Even if some people’s budgets are beyond our wildest dreams, there are very few people on earth for whom there are no purchases that come with budgetary restraints.
This article ignores entirely well over a century of electric railroading via overhead catenary or third rail
This content and this system, Meta said, has led to an 8 percent increase in time spent on Facebook and a 6 percent increase in time spent on Instagram, all at the expense of a shared reality and human connections to other humans.
It’s certainly has the opposite effect on me. I used to spend a lot of time on Facebook in my younger days. That has been steadily declining over the years, especially the past 6-7, but even more the last year or two. I’ll open it up, see nothing from people I know right off the bat, and close it again. For a while they also stopped letting me scroll until it played an ad; that really helped me break out of a doomscroll since I’d just close the app.
I see this as a benefit to me in helping me not waste time there.
This article seems to argue that governments don’t need to worry, the ‘big 4’ are already doing a good job not giving in to conflicts of interest in a sort-of-related field so they don’t need additional regulation. I find the argument to be weak and the intent of the article suspicious.
Wasn’t a major company consulting at the same place they audit one of the contributing factors to the Enron collapse?
🎼is/can/should be/do🎶
—Frank Sinatra
How did you end up working for him a second time?
This is an outlet at my in-laws’ house which was built in the 1960s. I’m not sure if this is just some paint that was put on an outlet and has worn off over time or if this is some residual evidence of sparking/minor electrical fire. The walls are wood panels painted white, so it seems to me someone might’ve just thought they could paint the outlets as well (there are some parts of this basement that don’t have the wood painted and the outlets/switches are dark brown, which might be what I’m seeing). The outlet seems to work but I don’t feel totally comfortable plugging something more expensive like my laptop in, even though I suppose the charger would be more likely to die than the actual computer. The house has a fairly new electrical panel with breakers that seem nice, but it was also built initially as a duplex (with a later addition making it useable as a triplex) and each part has its own old sub-panel that still uses twist-in fuses. I’m still not sure if whoever put in the new panel said the rest of the wiring/outlets was fine or my father-in-law just decided upgrading the rest was too expensive.
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UK's Air Accident Investigation Branch Determines Film Crew's Lights Damaged A321 Windows
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We had to make an emergency trip to Quebec in January 2022 because of health issues with the in-laws. Father-in-law advised to get the stuff rated to -20°F, but it wasn’t available where we live and I’d gotten the car serviced before we hit the road and they filled the washer fluid with what they had, I’m guessing 0°F. I bought some -20°F in Buffalo but didn’t have room to add any. The temperature was rapidly dropping as we headed farther north and as we neared Watertown, NY the fluid wasn’t spraying well. I tried adding what I could of the -20°F but by the time we stopped east of Montreal that night it was -45°F and the whole system had frozen solid. Tried using a hairdryer at the hotel, but we couldn’t melt it until we got it in the in-laws garage. Without fluid running the wipers can mean just smearing crud across your windshield, making it impossible to see.
Now I always make sure whenever we leave Quebec that I have a bottle of -49°F rated fluid and fill the reservoir at home before heading up in the winter. If there’s a lot of warmer-rated fluid in the car I’ll actually siphon it out.