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I'll share a little more awesome, then.

My wife and I rented a rental property using a process where neither the landlord or ourselves used a computer. We saw it advertised in the local weekly newspaper, drove by, and the landlord was cleaning. She hadn't advertised anywhere else. She asked about criminal history and jobs. But, she didn't perform background or credit checks. Only after we signed the lease did she ask to take pictures of our government-issued identification. We paid cash for the deposit and first month.

I'm brown. Yesterday, I was moving into a new place and asked a Trump-hat wearing, ex-military boomer what day was trash day. He gave me an explanation of all the good and bad of the neighborhood, told me to use his trash bin this week, and invited my wife and I to dinner. When we showed up his wife asked why we didn't bring our dog because he's a member of our family.

Many things I thought I understood about others have recently been nuked by experiences.

Polls like this are propaganda leveraged to dehumanize the issues. Talking to your neighbor about Luigi hits them right in the heart.

I once loved American football as a sport. But, it's changed. Its so profit optimized that It's not even worth pirating.

The low end of Superbowl tickets in the OP article are $3k-$25k. A cheap ticket to a regular season game at my local stadium is $100. A cable package with reasonable access to important games is well over $100/mo. I can't even watch just my home team's full season with an antenna. When I watch a game they show the players set before the snap for a glimpse, such little time it's impossible to even attempt to read the play.

Profit optimization has even changed the way the game is played to such an extent that all teams must adopt a specific and shitty strategy to win. I was OK when they made playing defense more difficult to boost scoring. But, now the rules protect the team's fiscal investment into the quarterback position to such an extent that every team must have a quarterback that can run the ball and master the art of drawing a penalty when the defender commits to the tackle a tenth of a second too early. And, defenses need make ridiculous sacrifices to actual coverage such that the quarterbacks can't read the play quickly enough.

What I'll likely appreciate most is the creative way Kendrick humbles Drake such that the bougousie didn't understand and censor.

My limited experience beginning with having never having been in any gym, ever, until my 40s:

Most adults that are regularly working out in the gym judge the beginners as courageous. They want to teach and encourage them. But, social norms won't let them until solicited. If a beginner has also the courage to communicate sincerely then they're likely to find both physiological and psychological support for their personal goals.

This is generally true for most things. Create the opportunity and almost everyone will teach and love as is practical for them.

Perhaps you should limit yourself to reddit and .world.

That makes sense. I'll give it a try. Thank you for teaching me.

When we want to break hydrocarbon chains we use bases by default. But, I'd not use a base on a bike chain because if it rusts even a little bit it's junk.

For woodworking why is this better than mineral spirits?

Get the dangerous alkaline concentrate and dilute it as directed for the situation. It's much cheaper. Whatever environmental concerns are canceled out because 1 gallon was transported instead of 64-128 gallons.

Progressives will fight... until Elon Musk is out of our government...

I don't really care if they burn the witch or not. Elon is a symptom, not the disease.

The category of chemicals you're looking for are called de-greasers.

US: The way to effectively do thos is to open a series of accounts, in a tree structure, in countries that aren't CRS compliant. Disperse the money into the structure. This will buy time, mitigating losses in the event of an asset freeze, likely not being caught until FACTA reporting to the IRS. Get the money out ASAP. There's better methods if laws don't matter.

I'm not an expert, just a hobbyist.

If it's actual hardwood then, if you try to fix this, you'll almost certainly end up doing more damage. An expert probably won't touch any job for less than $750 because they're experienced artists as well as technicians.

The best case scenario is it's not true hardwood, instead wood veneer tongue and groove where pieces are easily replaced... which starts by removing all the baseboards and pieces of floor from the edge to the piece that needs replaced. Anyone could easily learn to do that. But, is it worth the time and effort for a couple hundred bucks?

Probably the best thing to do now is to prevent any more damage. That could be as simple as some 1/4 plywood between the legs and the floor. A quality rug is more expensive and would also work.

Future fish food.

There's the "right" way and then there's what's practical. Here's the "right" way:

Rough sand the entire floor to wood. Fill the voids with Starbond CA glue of the appropriate color, low viscosity for leveling. Fine sand the entire floor. Refinish with oil-based polyurathane.

If you know what you're doing then this will take three days, most of it dry time. If you don't know what you're doing then one way or another you'll destroy the floor during rough sanding.

While I know a lot less about global politics than other subjects, involving India seems like a really bad idea. Otherwise it makes sense.

How do you make people care before it's too late?

none of my co-workers care

You can't force another to care. We can educate them with facts and reason while trusting them to make their own choices. And, that isn't done in a workplace, instead one on one in presence of a human relationship.

But, if you insist, then there's always a way. Read the Bible as part of a Bible study to develop a nuanced understanding of its message. Relate that message to social democrat, socialist, communist, and anarchist ideology. Determine the relevant Bible passages useful in the specific situations you encounter with specific Christians, then memorize those passages. Then, in full context of Bible and situation, in the moment, quote the passage. Finally, shut up and wait.

Ex-VFR pilot here. I know enough to sit in judgement over this situation because it's crystal clear.

As is standard practice in this very congested airspace, the helicopter pilot asked for clearance to cross the regional jet's approach for landing using visual seperation. The ATC controller confirmed that the helicopter pilot had visual contact with the regional jet, then granted clearance.

The regional jet cannot maneuver for visual seperation while on approach for landing. It was entirely the helicopter pilot's responsibility to maintain seperation with the regional jet. The collision is entirely the helicopter pilot's fault.

Basically, the military just killed a bunch of civilians because they failed to do something that any pilot with an IFR license is regularly expected to do.

Voyager allows blocking of the instance whole while allowing specific communities.