hydrospanner

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[–] hydrospanner 3 points 3 days ago

I'm starting to think maybe the username isn't just a username, and the account is literally for a wall panel to express its views.

[–] hydrospanner 2 points 3 days ago

Of the entire list, I guess I'd pick Grassley.

At least he's from the old school of partisan bickering.

[–] hydrospanner 17 points 3 days ago

Remember when Obama wearing a tan suit was enough to keep the right frothing at the mouth for weeks?

[–] hydrospanner 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anyone who thinks tariffs will do anything at all positive for the American working class is absolutely clueless.

All they do is make prices jump for consumers. It doesn't put domestic goods at an advantage because the domestic producers of those goods increase their prices artificially to achieve parity with import pricing.

So prices go up for the consumer with the extra money going to either:

  1. For imported goods, to pay the tariff, a tax, to the government, which in this case wants to use that tax revenue to offset tax cuts for the wealthy.

or

  1. For domestic goods, it's pure straight profit for the unethical corporations who are price gouging their domestic customer base. They're not giving the consumer a break on price and they're not sharing the profits by giving employees raises. Hell, they're not even taking advantage of the competitive advantage to ramp up production and create jobs. They're just pocketing that extra cash for doing exactly what they're always doing...passing it on to, you guessed it...the wealthy.
[–] hydrospanner 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Uh...great story?

[–] hydrospanner 6 points 1 month ago

It wasn't until I saw this pic that I realized that a platypus and a tardigrade look alike.

[–] hydrospanner 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wouldn't surprise me at all if a strategist like McConnell knew in advance where every single vote would land, and made his vote specifically for Vance to be able to break the tie.

At least I guarantee that if his vote would have been the deciding one between "tiebreaker" and "failed confirmation", he'd have either voted to confirm or, if he felt really strongly, abstained to let Vance break the tie.

[–] hydrospanner 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Generally I enjoy board games, but for whatever reason I absolutely can't stand Ticket to Ride.

It's a shame because several friends and family really like it, but for whatever reason, I just can't put together the gameplay and strategy in my mind, and either because of that or in addition to that, I've never once had fun while playing it.

This and Farkle are two of the few that I just try to politely decline now. I'll make everyone a snack or something and sit out.

[–] hydrospanner 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which is why we need an update to the tax system to add brackets to cover the entire range of income, then redefine them based on percentages off the median, with the highest bracket set at 95% or more for the highest 5% of earners.

[–] hydrospanner 3 points 1 month ago

I think you misunderstood them...

Said another way:

"There's an unspoken lack of trust that comes with forcing people to come (back) into an office. Basically, it's the employer telling their employees that they don't trust them to do their work unless management can physically see them at their desks in the office."

[–] hydrospanner 1 points 1 month ago

My god, I was just using a reference table on another sheet to drive a few columns of data in my first sheet (basically a color hex code in the main sheet that would match a code in the reference table and return the color name in one column and a part size in the next one) and for some unknown reason, 3 rows of the reference table were causing an N/A (value not found) error in the first sheet.

I checked every variable I could think of and nothing was solving the issue.

Finally tried literally retyping the same damn value in the cell and it instantly fixed the issue. There weren't any extra spaces, format never changed...it just really needed me to retype it.

[–] hydrospanner 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you give examples?

Both clock and auto?

Because other than time, I'm having a hard time seeing what else a clock is telling you by being analogue.

 

Just stumbled across this in my travels.

Obviously this isn't "confirmed" as in "it's definitely coming out and here's a release date", but rather, simply confirmation that time and effort are being spent on it.

We also got confirmation that expansions are planned for the next two years, so even at the earliest, GW3 would likely be a 2027 thing, possibly with the second expansion in the current pipeline serving as a sort of link/segue.

Shifting gears for a moment, though...while there's a lot of room to steer the current story over 2 more expansions, I'm not sure there's much room left in the current lore for much of any real significant game. Maybe GW3 sees a prequel game? Maybe we actually participate in...you know...the Guild Wars?

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submitted 11 months ago by hydrospanner to c/fishing
 

Went 4lb 1oz on the scale, for a best fish of 2024 to this point, and likely one of my top 5 overall for the year!

She ate a black and blue jig (I think it was a Dirty Jigs compact pitching in Pay Day) with a Reaction Innovations Kinky Beaver in Blank Check color...in about 2 feet of water, up on shore under a bush.

It was also the first fish on my new rod! (A NRX+ 894C JWR...not the Mojo in the background lol).

 

I've been getting out when I can for the past several weeks...on my very first trip of the year I missed a nice one under a dock that just threw the hook. After that I fished for many many hours without a bite.

We had a local warming trend here the past few days and finally I managed to break the ice.

Went 2lb 2oz on the scale and is a very respectable fish from the small and heavily pressured lake I caught it on. Took a Vision 110 Jr. in Elegy Bone.

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Christmas (self.fishing)
submitted 1 year ago by hydrospanner to c/fishing
 

So...what didja get?

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submitted 2 years ago by hydrospanner to c/fishing
 

When the local discount store has their already cheap LC stock marked 25% off, you load up.

 

Basically the title.

I'm running some nice Japanese braid but I feel like it's a bit small/thin/light for the application.

Just looking to find out what others use!

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Best of the Weekend (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by hydrospanner to c/fishing
 

2lb 5oz on the scale, ate a Megabass SV-3 spinnerbait in Wakasagi colorway, pulled along the edges of weed mats.

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