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100% this, I’ve seen this exact claim a half dozen times now. I know we all want to made a big conspiracy where big tech is censoring everything, but Hanlon’s Razor tells us it’s just a poorly designed system that has no training data after 2023, so asking it about current events will always cause responses like this.

Looks like a vole (I think they are sometimes called field mice too). They make runs in the grass (essentially shallow tunnels that aren’t really underground but through the thatch layer of grass) and eat the roots of plants near the ground surface, often doing a good bit of damage to shrubs and trees.

I’ve never replaced a crush washer on a drain plug and haven’t ever had any issues with it leaking. The pressure in the sump is so low I just don’t see there being a lot of force to necessitate it. I also always forget to grab a pack when I’m at the store so there’s that too.

Luckily we have a garage that’s perfectly sized to get the car on ramps and close the door. I still lay on cardboard since the concrete is cold (and to catch the errant drip). When we lived in an apartment in the city I’d usually bite the bullet and take it somewhere since we couldn’t do any car work in the parking lot. In the past I’d take it to a buddies house but then moved a few hours away so that wasn’t a choice until e bought a house a few years ago.

If I had gone with the conventional store brand and a cheaper filter I could probably get close to $25. I like the longer intervals with synthetic though and use a bit better filter to go with that.

Sure did, full synthetic oil and a filter was less than $40, would have been around $70 to take it to a quick lube place.

So congress will enact comprehensive reforms on emergency declarations to prevent abuses like this, right? ….right? /s

This is not really useful though since the COL in and around cities will be drastically different than in rural communities; and the costs around one area of a larger state will differ from other areas (fir example the costs in Northern VA will be substantially higher than those around southwest VA, or the COL near Pittsburgh is much less than near Philly). States are just too large and non-homogeneous to make sweeping stats like this.

So paperless works as a service that ties into your storage. I point mine at an NFS share on my Synology and just backup that share. The documents are all stored as PDFs still so worst case I still have “dumb” copies without all the tagging available if my paperless instance goes offline for some reason.

Can confirm for the US at least, I was a backup juror a couple years ago in a rather dull civil case. It’s standard practice here to select 14 jurors so you have 12 plus two alternates. I sat and heard the whole case, then had lunch with the judge during deliberations where we chatted about how stupid the case was.

I think this is a huge part of it but there is certainly a lot of nuance here. We have a phenomenally funded, equipped, and trained military, but in the last 20 years it’s been shown to be only moderately effective at addressing the threats in the world that have a small fraction of the resources our military does with few exceptions (naval might is probably the largest of those exceptions). So even problems we think we should be able to solve we barely can.

There is also large and growing wealth disparity which drives the tribalism deeper and makes many folks dig their heels in to positions that just aren’t based in reality (see anti-vaccine and lockdown sentiment around COVID as but one example). Couple this with the majority of Americans being truly terminally online and being stuck in echo chambers that just further ingrain the basis they hold and it causes a lot of vocal Americans online to lash out irrationally.

I would like to offer OP a view that we aren’t all like this though. For many of us our incoming government, the corrupt people they are tagging to lead our various institutions, the incomprehensibly rich heads of various companies, and the brainwashed cults that worship them all are sources of deep shame. I can only speak for myself, but my friends, close coworkers, and even a few of my family all feel this way. Please don’t write off all Americans because of the loud, obnoxious jerks you have to see in many places, some of us are pretty decent people that really want to make the world a better place and help everyone we can.

I can send you one, if you still need one