Another downside is that if someone asks your for your "emergency contact" and you tell them, call 911... they get all upset and puzzled that you literally don't have one.
Sure you can call my relatives 10,000 miles away but I doubt they will will answer the phone at 2am.
What are those? Movies with naked grown men in them?
Kts is incorrectly abbreviated, should be kt or kn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_(unit)
Knots is how the speed of aircraft and boats is measured. Both miles per hour and knots is a speed which is the number of units of distance that is covered for a certain amount of time.
Started when sailors would toss a rope with literal knots tied into it, and measure how many slipped through their fingers over a period of time.
Water use for urban landscaping is less than 2%, and for only 4-5 months of the year. It's literally "a drop in the bucket" when compared to agricultural and industrial use.
I did think, and decided that I like to have a small patch of grass like OP has for kids and dogs to run around on. You can't eat weeds either, so I like to have a green space out back. Also the rabbits prefer manicured lawn, they hate eating the native plants in the greenbelt out back.
Just another opinion.
Another tip, get a gardening knife, I use mine to cut the grass roots along the metal edging, and lift the roots growing into the rocks or weed mat out super easily.
How old is your car? If > 10 years then you pay $3. Plus a few extra line items, somewhere around $50-$75, the price of a tank of gas. If you can't afford this... then you probably should sell the car since it's gonna hurt you way more on regular maintenance, gas and insurance. Cars are by nature a massive drain on finances.
https://dmv.colorado.gov/taxes-and-fees
If it's a brand new $75,000 truck then you're gonna pay 2.10% which is just under $1,600.
How much current do you think a 1,5v battery produces? I call bollocks on this statement.
Here’s a real medical article: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/dangers-of-button-batteries-and-kids
When a button battery mixes with saliva or moist skin tissue in general, it triggers an alkaline (chemical) reaction that can burn the child in as little as one to two hours. Once this reaction starts, it literally liquefies and dissolves/burns the skin. Even worse, if the button battery isn’t removed promptly, the reaction can continue after the battery is removed causing severe damage.
I loved riding them! Felt like I was in some space age people carrier. And I flew out of IAD every week for almost 3 years, never got old for me.
What's the point of this, when you can't even opt out of the DMV selling your personal information to scammers like car warranty companies?
KRDO asked the state where all of our information is going. The state responded, saying data is typically sold to insurance or towing companies. It can also be sold to marketers, private investigators, attorneys, and even private citizens.
Especially troubling, the Department of Revenue can’t be sure where all of our information could end up. That’s because the state of Colorado sells driver records to a third-party data vendor called Colorado Interactive.
When KRDO asked Colorado Interactive what it does with Coloradans’ information, Colorado Interactive sent us in a circle, directing KRDO back to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Colorado Interactive also pointed out it is a private company with no obligation to respond to the Colorado Open Records Act requests as the government does.
Unless they're going to change their own internal policies on personal information, it's the pot calling the kettle black here.
Someone should reach out and find out what the DMV policies will be going forward, per original article:
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It happens quite frequently. A very sad nature is metal post.
It's super easy to work with quick connect stuff like Sharkbite, although copper or pex crimping are still the preferred methods from what I've heard from plumber friends.
The only questionable part of DIY is where to buy a new water heater from (big box stores don't carry the most reliable brands), since most plumbing supply houses are contractor only. And then where / how do you dispose of the old one? Most cities have regulations regarding old appliances, can't just take it to the local dump site.
Add Junkyard Digs, Pole Barn Garage, M539 Restorations to that list
This was my brother, we think he was racing with some of his friends and had his head down, and didn't see a parked car. Ended up smashing though the back glass and came around laying on the back seat covered in glass.
He assured his friends he was ok and ended up walking home carrying his bent and buckled bike. However later that day kept repeating himself over and over and acting very strangely. Ended up in hospital with a traumatic brain injury.
I can't remember what happened with the owner of the car, I guess those details weren't as important as the emergency hospitalization.
Not always. Some of the fire damage in Colorado from 20 years has become permanent.
A 2017 University of Colorado study analyzing 15 burn scars left from fires in Colorado and New Mexico found that as many as 80% of the plots did not contain new seedlings. In a 2020 follow-up study project under different climate change scenarios, the most severe scenario, where climate change continues unabated through 2050, showed as many as 95% of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir forests would not recover after a fire. In a “moderate” scenario where emissions decline after 2040, more than 80% of the forest would be replaced by scrubby grassland.
For some reason cricket pitches always have that odd building with the three steeples.
Great build!
I didn't see a graphics card, so am guessing AMD integrated graphics on this one? Also looks like lots of memory sticks, so would hazard a guess that this build might be for a game server perhaps?
It's complicated, but here's a graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England#Types_of_school
Objectively worse, thinking of other means tested programs such as food stamps (SNAP), housing etc where the means test is somewhere below the poverty line. The instant the person gets a part time job or any way of digging themselves out of the hole of poverty, their support system is ripped away from them.
How would a means tested social security system be any different from the other currently rather broken social safety nets that use means testing? I see a future where old people are stuck below the poverty line, being afraid that any supplemental income from investments or savings would rip away their support system and put them out in the streets.
I wonder why he doesn't take into account taxable income that in itself is a means test. For example a rich old person has capital inflows of tens of thousands of dollars a month (e.g. required minimum distributions from 401K etc), and the income tax from this offsets any income from Social Security.
He lost me when he went on a rant about ripping away social security from the elderly. So basically a death sentence for them when they need medical or long term care, put them on the streets when they can't pay for housing or food?
Also his view on National Service. Didn't he learn from the scores of soldiers coming back from Afghanistan with permanent disabilities, missing limbs, PTSD. How about a graph of suicide rates vs National Service eh?
Yeah, as someone who has seen more of the world than just the USA the young don't realize how lucky they are to be born where they are. Try being a teenager in the slums of India, in a crowded city in China, in a squatter camp in South Africa etc. Time periods are important too, kids 150 years ago had it a LOT rougher than the modern generation.
Sure, the teens in America have it worse off than their parents, but objectively they're still winning by virtue of their geographic location and period of history in which they were born.
Was a thing when the Olympics happened, lots of people got a surprise when they couldn't flush anything they hadn't eaten.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/2004/04/26/Athens-plumbing-may-not-hold-for-Olympics/4391082952000/
Janitor must love management for this one
funny