It’s not critical, but it keeps things clean, keeps salt/snow off in winter, and contributes to fuel economy and ride quality.

Stretching an oil change is a bigger concern, especially if the oil change interval is a long one. Learn to do it yourself, it’s really simple and depending on the car you may be able to do it without ramps or a jack if you’re creative in parking eg over a dip or one wheel (securely) on a curb. Ensure you don’t spill oil into a drain.

Spending $80 billion to earn $30 million. Impressive.

Driving in a Lyft operated by a sovcit who’s as evidently unhinged as this person would be terrifying. As if the lighting wasn’t a red flag for a “professional” service vehicle.

With licensed cabs, at least, there’s ostensibly a cab operator who is required to maintain insurance for the business license; with ride share you’re hoping some tech bros have insurance.

Somehow I read it as your brother having schizophrenia and got really confused.

Continue to involve authorities, but u fortunately mental health funding keeps getting slashed. There may be a social worker centre you could reach out to for more information.

Exactly; the money is there but the PE leeches get to keep it all. “But bankruptcy” get the money or put the principals in prison, and work down the investor list.

HBC has a dark history but in modern form, it could have also provided important competition to Amazon. Apologies are in order nonetheless.

Aside: it’s amazing how HBC, Sears, etc. had successful mail-order/catalog businesses before Amazon came along and built a mail-order system on the internet - and completely threw away their lead.

The PE firm should be required to liquidate assets in order to pay the severance owed to the employees. It is a moral failure of the government and society to allow them to get away without paying.

I thought I just read about King of the Hill. https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/37633255

Stuff like Reolink or Hikvision PoE cameras are local, but I still put them behind a firewall to block egress.

CrossFit is something that tickles my dopamine and also because it has given me enough general fitness I can take a break and do another activity without feeling like a moron. Which is one reason I didn’t get into activities when I was younger.

I’ve heard that martial arts are also sufficiently dopamine producing, which is good for us.

This is how I do it; my problem, however, tends to be the inverse where I forget to eat.

It’s hard to downsize, and it may not always be affordable. In my part of the world, because of a few reasons between markets and mortgages, a 350m2 house is worth 80-90% as much as a 175m2 house. If the house has been in the family for 30 years that makes it worse because the house isn’t “updated”, so it’s possible to halve the living space and end up with a tax bill for your trouble.

I use a lot of fossil fuels and t think they’re going to last longer than some government goals suggest, but I’m not certain that any new pipelines make sense, anywhere in the world. Fix up and maintain the existing ones until they can be mothballed. Maybe there’s an argument to be made that exiting fossil fuels leaves market for other countries, or something, but investing heavily in a technology that we know for certain is hurting humanity’s chances of survival doesn’t seem bright.

The more I learn about the super wealthy, the more I believe they’re intelligent people in the right time, in the right place, with the right financial backing, and it snowballed. When they leave their area of success (particularly for government) they encounter difficulties and just have no idea what to do with themselves.

I still haven’t figured out how to make a firewall rule with slaac on pfsense, with an ISP that hands out addresses at random. It’s my understanding’s slaac is the “right” way to do things, not dhcp and reservations.

Granted, it’s been a minute since I tried so I don’t remember the issues, but as I recall, when ipv6 prefix changes, device gets new IP (and it seems not just the prefix part. I can get the firewall to register IPs into DNS and use a dns based firewall rule, but unbound restarts and blows out its cache when a device joins the network. And there another part to it but it’s all gone fuzzy.

I wonder if the new right-click menu is also part of this “improvement”, because it too is slow. Actually, a lot of stuff that used to be really fast in Explorer is now not nearly as fast.

Right? They figured that out a decade or so later.

The US was in possession of the data but likely wanted the scientists to provide context in the same way they wanted the experience of the nazi rocket scientists. But lifetime immunity and a cover up is a horrible way to deal with the problem.

Interesting; it should work that way because the hash should check out fine. But I’ve never tried.

The straps have so many uses!

I should note that the anchors need serious structure, even more so if any swinging is planned.

If it needs to be tight, Robertson or Torx is the only way. The benefit of Robertson over Torx is that it is pretty much immediately clear if the bit fits properly or not. I have stripped too many Torx that were in a place that required a human with an extra elbow and a second wrist to reach, that I thought were t20 but were t25, for example. I keep thinking I’ve learned my lesson.

I keep meaning to buy sets of Phillips, Pozi, and JIS, but never manage to time a stripped screw with a tool sale.

The only thing worse than + is -, and even that is situational.