I’m just this guy, you know?
That’s bad. Don’t do that. Major repairs are really expensive.
Also, this reeks of propaganda. You can’t have a mortgage without also carrying insurance for at least the value of the principal. The mortgage terms on the note tend to stipulate how much coverage and what riders you must carry until the loan is paid. One does not simply, “not have insurance.”
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The inner parts of the Milky Way (or any galaxy for that matter) is more, um, illuminated with hard radiation and cosmic rays than way out here in the 'Burbs of the Western Spiral Arm.
Fair chance biological life didn’t get much farther than something similar to Earth’s Giant Tube Worms for all that radiation.
YouTube teardown videos are a great resource to begin learning how things work. If you approach it as a sort of “theory in application” you will eventually pick up on what components tend to be used in what sorts of builds, and perhaps even why or how they do what they do.
Frequently these videos gloss over the finer points of electronics design, of throw around terms that.they don’t often explain. Still, once you have a feel for what you know you don’t know, you can delve a little deeper and look for tutorials on how THOSE concepts work in practice.
AvE’s BOLTR videos and Big Clive’s teardown-with-schematic and repair videos are high quality, if a bit saucy sometimes. Great Scott does some good videos on practical circuit design. There are so many other electronics and electrical edutainment creators on YouTube, it’s impossible to list them all, but some of the notable channels would also include Electroboom, PlasmaChannel, Andreas Speiss, Mark Furneaux, and to a lesser extent (for electronics projects) Jeff Geerling and Everything Smart Home
Outside of the YouTube sphere, older hobbyist guides in ham radio are a good resource for learning about RF transmission and antenna design. Likewise old textbooks from electrical & electronics school programs just about litter public libraries and used bookstores. Principles of Electrical Engineering is a classic, and any used edition would be valuable for learning the basic theory for circuit design.
The good thing about electronics projects is the materials are cheap and there are plenty of tutorials out there. You can make a modest investment in a 1000 In One Projects kit and start building as you learn. Sometimes its easiest to just dive and fail a few times, popping off a few caps or smoking some resistors along the way. (Or, just watch Electroboom do it for free)
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Remember to have fun with it!
When you get decent at it, you start looking for the carts with the dodgy wheel, just to keep it interesting.
My grocery is a couple miles up the road from the county golf course. One day there was this older fella in the parking lot who was clearly stopped off after an afternoon on the links for a honey-do errand. He was a couple cars over. I hadn’t noticed him standing there watching me send one in from about 6 or 8 cars away. I threw my hands up as it slotted into a receiving cart (rare feat!) and turned around back towards my car about to WOOHOO when I catch this fella’s eye.
With a big grin on his face, he says “Nice shot! You should join my foursome next week.” Quick chuckle, thank you, and we both get on our way. I think about that guy every time I sink one and wonder if he started doing it himself.
Corrals. ⛳
I’m a Gold Jacket member of the Shopping Cart Golf Masters. I sink carts in those bitch-ass skinny Walmart corrals in one shove from 2 aisles over on the regular.
It’s an elite league of one, but I’m enjoying my very limited notoriety.
It’s a psychological trick used both by hostage negotiators and con men alike to build trust and inclusitivity, and to maintain engagement of the other person in what otherwise might be a confrontational exchange where the other party would be motivated to disengage. It exploits people’s tendency to try to meet kindness with kindness.
People generally respond positively to hearing their name, and will sort of pay attention for the next few seconds to hear why they are being addressed. In a “selling it” context, using their name frequently keeps the other person engaged by making them feel involved in a conversation that might be entirely one-sided, or where their contributions are being minimized, dismissed, or rebuked. It also builds comradery through familiarity. If you are taking time to use their name and to include them, then you become a bit less threatening and perhaps even more familiar to them. Over time, it can wear down predispositions and make people reconsider that r commitment to their own goals.
Yes, it’s just as insidious as it sounds, and is a technique used by gaslighters, con men, and other abusers as much as it is by sales people, crisis negotiators and politicians. Pretty much anyone who needs to soften your opinion of their position would use it to try to draw you in and keep working on you might use it.
The only real defense is to spot it being used on you, and to assertively disengage.
Oh I dunno. My kids think they invented every damn thing. No, son. You were not being slick smoking in the shed. The scurity cameras and I had quite a laugh at that
That thing has been at or past 5 minute to midnight my entire life. Can’t live your whole life in fear.
Yeah even you, Boomers.
I ran into a fella in Seattle a while ago, maybe 8 years from now? 12? He was thru on a “fix,” We must’ve talked for the better part of an hour thinking he was with one of those, y’know, activist tanks (you know the ones) before I caught on they just called hops (or bounces) “fixes.”
Interesting character. Saw some shit but had this way of telling you about it that was just… Comedic poetry. I could tell he’d been out too long tho. Hope he finished whatever he on.
Anyway… Yeah.
This. No matter how many times you hop, you’re just never gonna get used to it.
+1 for droid-ify. Much more polished than f-droid too, IMO.
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Linseed oil is good too, but be careful disposing of the rags. 🔥
Son, I got comfortable with the fact it was only gonna get worse after '74 and Ford pardoned Nixon.
Sucks being right. points Pass those beer nuts?
Those mofos are loud, too. No secret when they’re overhead, either.
In the US and many other Western nations, the law operates on the presumption that the accused is innocent until proven guilty¹. To enter a plea as a defendant is to formally acknowledge charges filed in a court of law. A guilty plea simply indicates the defendant will not contest the charges, and the trial proceeds more or less directly to final adjudication and sentencing. Sometimes this is done as part of a plea deal where the prosecution and defense agree to a set of lesser charges, with reduced reduced jail times and/or larger fines. The defendant may noy even have committed any of the offences charged, but agrees to the to lesser charges to avoid time, expense or reputational harm of a lengthy trial.
A plea of not guilty simply indicates the defendant intends to challenge some or all of the charges, and is asserting their right to the presumption of innocence while the defense team reviews prosecutor’s inculpatory evidence, prepares counterarguments and gathers exculpatory evidence.
The accused is presumed to be innocent unless and until a guilty verdict is reached on the basis of the evidence presented at trial. Additional charges of perjury would only apply where evidence is entered in bad faith, or if the defendant were to make false statements under oath.
Labeling alcohol content by %ABV or %ABW is more versatile than absolute measure. Its also trivial to figure the absolute content given a specific volume.
In the US at least, there are regulations for packaging and labeling enforced by a federal agency. (I think that agency is Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), but I could be wrong.) The label must include the %ABV or proof, and must also specify the volume. Every distiller and brewer must file a label for approval of every product and pay a free before the product can be packaged and sold. The fees are not trivial, and the approval takes time.
In the US, you can purchase liquor in bottles from 50mL all the way up to 1.75L, beer from 8oz (customary) to 750mL, and wine from 333mL up to a magnum (which volume I don’t know off the top of my head), all with many sizes in between
Allowing for labeling the alcohol content in %ABV means the producer can package the same product in different sized units using the same approved label across the line. It saves on fees and administrative overhead.
edit to add: Another nuance of alcohol production and distribution in the US is bonding. There’s a federal tax on all alcohol products made for consumption that is paid by the producer when the product leaves the production facility. Product is psckaged and held “in bond,” a specific area of the facility where the product awaits sale and shipment. When it leaves Tue area, it must he recorded and taxes paid. It’s serious business, and the ATF can sometimes pull licenses even for minor infractions.
To keep the math and record keeping easy, the producer tracks the number of units releaeed from bond, and usually reports and pays the duties on it quarterly. Since the duties are assessed by absolute volume, the duties are calculated by %ABV times times number of units.
I’m happy for you that you’re paid off. I refinanced, or I’d be nearly paid off by now myself. Ugh.
You probably also understand you’re in a far minority among homeowners, and therefore my comments regarding lien holders and notes don’t apply to you.
Sorry about your hail damage. Um, the climatology around all that isn’t going to get better any time soon. Consider upgrades to ensure your investment against even more inclement weather down the road.