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by dessimus 3y ago
I'm sure it's getting more and more difficult to find people who can (and are willing to) play an organ well enough to play new-to-them hymns weekly in front of a congregation and not sound like someone's child's recital
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by dessimus 3y ago
Short answer: Lobbyists. Basically, the Intuits, H.R. Blocks, Jackson-Hewetts, et al., stand to lose a large chunk of their revenues if the IRS did everyone's taxes for them. Additionally, those in power, or with enough influence over
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by dessimus 3y ago
> "Journalists" are as biased as they come. So, you got any other account posting behind a pseudonym, being more unbiased than a journalist posting to Twitter/X using their professional name and attached to their organizat
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by dessimus 3y ago
Care to expound on that? Journalists are typically the ones bringing any sort of credibility to topics. Without journalists, it's just randos and bots shit-posting their hot takes.
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by dessimus 3y ago
I'm sure those were all completely above board and reputable businesses getting raided by the IRS, like Mom-and-Pop hardware stores or town doctor's office, and not used car dealers or nightclubs.
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by dessimus 3y ago
MS still hasn't gotten all of their users to transition to outlook.com in order to be rid of hotmail.com, which they bought in 1997. Do you have the US Government doing it quicker? The only way it ever occurs is if they effectively CN
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by dessimus 3y ago
As the unemployment rate measures the percent of workers in the labor force who do not currently have a job but are actively looking for work, people that give up 'actively' looking are not considered part of the unemployment rate
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by dessimus 3y ago
But no one looking to seriously buy tools goes to Harbor Freight, expecting to pass that tool to their child or grandchildren. They go there to buy the crappy chinesium grade tool that gets a job done. If they find that they need the tool o
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by dessimus 3y ago
They do when people (ab)use their tools, like use screwdrivers as chisels, chisels as screwdrivers, and anything metal as a hammer or mallet.
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by dessimus 3y ago
>Craftsman used to stand for quality, with a lifetime no-questions-asked guarantee wherein, if the tool fails for any reason, it will be replaced. Period. No questions asked, no receipt required. Quality. And men proudly used their fathe
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by dessimus 3y ago
That and every messaging app they release. You know it has about a 2 year shelf life, so don't bother picking it up.
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by dessimus 3y ago
Considering the posts I see on LinkedIn, when occasionally scanning for career opportunities, I'd say most PR/Marketing types think all their stuff is 9+, but everyone else's is sub-4.
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by dessimus 3y ago
Ok, but what if you installed a series of poles and mounted a wire atop, encircling the field in which these soybeans grew?
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by dessimus 3y ago
Significantly faster. A few months ago, after building a new rig for the first time in 6 years or so. I did a gentoo build from minimal to gnome, as exercise/burn-in/cooling testing. With the amount of RAM and cores available now
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by dessimus 3y ago
Depends on which part goes in first.
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by dessimus 3y ago
The West Wing is not the President's office, but rather the section that contains The Oval Office, which is President's office, along with other executive offices and rooms, such as the Press Briefing room, the Situation Room, etc
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by dessimus 3y ago
Even with the USN knowing it was fruitless, the USCG can use the activity to look at its operations and determine what improvements for SAR might exist in a way that pre-planned training exercises can not.
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by dessimus 3y ago
Immersion means the entire computer, motherboard, cpu, gpu, ram, etc. is in the liquid, not just piped to waterblocks attached to specific areas to wish to cool. You cannot do this with plain water as it is conductive enough to short circu