QuinceDaPence

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For a more forceful solution: pull the plug out slightly and then arc a screwdriver across the pins. Note: the screwdriver is consumed in this process.

Alternate method: pour mercury into an air vent on the computer.

QuinceDaPence,

Before long, it'll be all grill

GM already did that with their trains a long time ago. In the picture below you are looking at the front of the train.

EMD Long Hood

QuinceDaPence,

Most copiers can have a fax card added. And most businesses that need a fax machine don't even do that. They have their VoIP phone service set up a virtual fax machine. If it even needs a physical part it's probably a little black box in a network closet, but now most don't even do that.

Real fun thing, did you know faxed advertisements were and are still a thing? At work we get like 3 random ads each day that come out of the machine.

QuinceDaPence,

With the exception of mockingbirds. Who do it to be jackasses.

I had one in my yard that copied the sound of a tool once, I walked away and then heard it going and of course I'm thinking "how the hell did that turn on?". Of course I go to check and it's off and was just a mocking bird. It then proceded to make that noise for the rest of the day.

QuinceDaPence, (edited )

Wait 'till they meet Charlie B

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I was going to say the same thing.

The first two parked vehicles look like the (old) Pessima and the LeGran

QuinceDaPence,

There's a few reasons for that. One is obviously the having to get off the horse to deal with it but also dog poop smells way worse and doesn't degrade the same as horses does. It really doesn't take that long for horse poop to turn to pretty much dirt.

-someone who's shoveled or mowed over my fair share of both

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Needs to be either a percentage of yearly gross revenue averaged over the last 5 years, or a multiple of whatever they stood to gain from the policy (not just the individual plantiff).

Whichever is higher.

And don't let them write it off. You still have to pay taxes on the fine

QuinceDaPence,

I think most suicide clauses have an expiration on them like, if you get the policy and kill yourself within 3 years it's not covered but outside of that it is covered.

QuinceDaPence,

They're vessels but I don't think they'd qualify as ships.

If I ask you to name every ship in the Navy I do not want RHIBs, dinghys, tenders, lifeboats or rafts included, but if I ask for every vessel, then if the Navy owns a kayak I want it listed.

QuinceDaPence,

I can shoot a pistol from a jet-ski and go faster than an aircraft carrier. Is that a ship?

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Planing vs displacement.

An aircraft carrier is limited by its hull speed to about 45 pretty much no matter how much power you give it.

A slow jetski will do 65. I've heen on ones that would do that with the "slow" key where supposedly the fast key would let you do 85-90.

I've also been on a tri-tune that did 75.

An aircraft carrier is about the fastest displacement vessel but when you move into planing hulls its a different ball game.

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For reference there is a (low height but very long) wood trestle near me similar in design to this that goes for probably a mile over a swamp and it runs modern trains just fine.

They did some upgrades a while back but they were to the few metal parts over the road. The wood parts are still good enough to hold up modern trains.

I assume they had some idea of how much weight the wood could hold up. Also keep in mind those older trees were much stronger than modern lumber since it was old growth.

QuinceDaPence,

Any old growth left is likely protected.

Nobody is producing lumber planning for several hundred years into the future. And that's what I'm talking about.

For modern lumber trees are grown for 20-40 years depending on location and type of tree. Whereas early on you're talking tons of trees that were hundreds of years old.

If you look at an old 2x4 vs a new one you can see the difference. The old one will have a much tighter growth rings than the new one. This is from it frowing slowly over many years.

But now they just want as much lumber as fast as possible.

QuinceDaPence,

So roughly like $6.50/gallon.

I went on a trip recently and the lowest price I saw was, I think, $2.69/gallon which is like $0.70/Liter.

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Also if you happen to be on undeveloped land with no power, the electric company often charges $1200 or more per pole to get to you, so it very quickly becomes worth it to just do off grid solar.

There was one guy I saw who was 400ft from power but thepower company wanted so much that for a tiny fraction of that he was able to put in a really nice off-grid solar setup. Plus then you don't need to deal with connecting to the grid or any sort of permitting depending on where you are or how little you care about permits.

QuinceDaPence,

The most power hungry (modern) TV I've seen was 100W. Most fridges nowadays are similar, 100W but intermittent.

A fridge is not "the tiniest bit of convenience".

Box fans don't really help when it's 100F+ and 90%+ humidity. Where I am it you leave a house without air condition for even a month during the summer you'll have mold and the ceiling will be falling down.

For anyone that reads this and thinks that cheap solar setups leave you barely scraping by, I'll giv e acounter example. I helped my parents do solar on their RV. It's 720W of panels, 3000W inverter output and cost a little under $3k but could have been cheaper, the cost is due a bit to us being inexperienced at the time and also overbuilding it to allow for more panels. It can run all the modern conveniences (for up to 3 days with no sun) except the big airconditioner, but can run a window unit that conditions the bedroom and dries the rest of the RV. If we were to do it again though we could make it run the big one with pretty much no increase in price.

QuinceDaPence,

DIY everything...

QuinceDaPence,

Hamas has in their charter, calls for the extermination of the Israelites and rejection of peace settlements.

So yeah they're terrorists.

France and Ukraine didn't/don't have the goal of exterminating all Germans/Russians.

There's no world where Israel and Palestine peacefully coexist. And you can't compromise or negotiate with someone whos official stance is "We want your race dead and will reject all peace deals"

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It is absolutely not a liability issue. Sale of a used car by someone who isn't a dealer is as-is where-is at least in my state and I assume most others. They can even do like some districts do with their busses; they pull the batteries and say it can't leave the property under its own power. So you get a tow truck to tow it 100ft down the road, chuck a battery in it and drive it away, then at that point you've "restored it" and anything wrong is something you missed.

QuinceDaPence,

My HTPC has accounts in chrome on there for each member of the family. All are configured the same with ublock origin but only one is getting the popups.

QuinceDaPence,

Depending on the cost of it something like that could potentially also be used on air-conditioner evaporators to improve efficiency

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We only had one teacher tell us we were required to (we were standing up just kinda mumbling it), the following class everyone just stayed seated and at least 3 of us had printouts in our backpacks confirming that it was a violation of the first amendment to require it.

He didn't even acknowledge it, knowing that teacher I imagine he looked it up right after and realized he was wrong.

We eventually resumed standing up but hands at our sides and silent.

Edit: if this is showing up as a reply to another comment, it was supposed to be a top level comment to the OP. Some weird stuff keeps happening with my comments but I'm not sure if it's just visual.

QuinceDaPence,

Among higher than average users it seemingly was. Given that reddit was saying the third party apps were using above average amounts of API calls per user. They said it's because of the 3PAs baing unoptimized but it was likely that more engaged users used 3PAs.

QuinceDaPence,

we did it feddiverse!

That doesn' t roll of the tongue as well as "We did it Reddit". We'll have to find something else to be our catch phrase.

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