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  • Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong?

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  • Well no, but short of a rewire, a gfci with sticker is the code-compliant way to plug in three pin plugs to an ungrounded receptacle.

    A rewire is the right solution but utterly impractical for many. Just silently swapping in new receptacles and leaving the ground unconnected is easy but not compliant. This is the middle ground.

  • Venus Williams Admits She Came Back to Tennis at Age 45 for the Health Insurance

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  • Nomenclature of upper middle class aside, the wild thing here is that $40m means she’s closer to being homeless than she is to the billionaire wealthy.

    She’s clearly wealthy compared to the average, but her financial concerns actually vaguely resemble that of normal people. She may not care about how much dinner costs, but she is probably acutely aware of her major expenses like housing and medical. $40m is not even close to “fuck you money”.

  • What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

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  • The first felt really fresh at the time. FPS was dominated by various milsim shooters and Halo, and the irreverence and clever cell shading style worked well.

    Two dialed things up in scope and scale and added some nice environmental variety.

    But the rest? The presequel? The 3rd? I just couldn’t. It was more of the same, tired, repetitive, the jokes started really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I had fun early on, but I’m out.

  • U.S. Conducts “Largest Airstrike in the History of the World” (Sort Of)

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  • No idea what they’re trying to claim. I can’t see any dimension in which this was “larger” than the typical WWII era firebombing. There were more planes, more bombs by weight, more casualties, more of everything.

  • ‘FEMA has not been on the ground’: St. Louis mayor pleads for federal aid in wake of devastating tornado

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  • I very much like the sentiment, but I’d mostly advocate for a data backup that doesn’t require any particular effort or memory to preserve in an emergency.

    Obviously everyone’s personal situation varies, but as a simple default I usually recommend that friends and family simply use whichever cloud drive service is available from the device manufacturer that stores their photos (ie, google Drive, Microsoft one drive, or Apple iCloud). Photos are almost always the most irreplaceable digital asset, storage is typically just a few bucks a month, and using the “default” provider usually requires zero skill, effort, or recurring action. Other than making sure you can afford the auto-debit each month, your backs are mostly foolproof.

    Cons include a dependency on a cloud service, which has a recurring charge and a privacy impact. The charge is typically minor vs the cost of a NAS or similar, and most services have some privacy assurances that may be enough to ease your concern. Nobody will ever care as much about your backups as you, but in aggregate a team of skilled full time FAANG engineers is often a more robust administrator than a solo customer.

    If you have the desire and resources, you could and should do both backups, or as many as you reasonably can manage in as many places as possible.

  • Trump tells Walmart to 'eat the tariffs' after retailer warned it will raise prices

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  • Obviously this entire situation is insane from many perspectives, but strictly speaking, it’d be 30% added to the cost of acquiring merchandise, rather than the overall margin. The price of goods is a small fraction of Walmart’s overall expenses, compared to logistics and freight, labor, real estate, shrink and such. The actual impact to margins is probably more like 10% or so. Which is simultaneously both something Walmart could probably eat, and more than the Walton family is willing to swallow.

  • Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study finds

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  • Just tell her to try and hold things in until tomorrow, that should help.

    Congrats!

  • Private equity executive raped and tortured women at his Manhattan apartment, prosecutors say

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  • Well, very technically, theres no such thing as (formal) executions for non-capital crimes. If there were, they’d be called capital crimes.

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  • Charles Grassley is slimy, but is also currently 91. He will be 95 is 2028, and is rapidly hitting “Diane Feinstein” levels of politics. He’s not particularly afraid of his constituents, but he’s a reliable tool for the modern GOP and can be counted on to only act concerned but vote the line.

  • Tesla board members, executive sell off over $100 million of stock in recent weeks

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  • If musk owes the bank a million dollars, musk has a problem. If musk owes the bank billions of dollars, it’s the banks problem.

    In other words, the banks will bend over backwards to support him, his businesses, and his loans, whatever gives them the best chance of collecting.

  • Tesla board members, executive sell off over $100 million of stock in recent weeks

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  • Every consumer stock ticker I’ve seen already factors those splits into the pricing scheme

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  • Garcia was later treated at the renowned Grossman Burn Center, where he received not one but two skin grafts on his penis. Garcia's attorney, Trial Lawyers for Justice co-founder Nick Rowley, said Garcia's penis was permanently discolored and disfigured, with less length and less girth.

    Rowley said the key evidence during the trial was the surveillance footage of the incident taken from inside the coffee shop. Rowley said the footage clearly showed the barista secure two of the cups in the caddie but not the third, causing it to spill less than two seconds after Garcia took it into the car.

    https://www.courthousenews.com/starbucks-hit-with-50-million-jury-verdict-for-hot-tea-that-scalded-and-disfigured-postmates-drivers-penis/

    He didn’t hold 3 drinks, he was handed a drink carrier and one of the drinks was negligently secured. The jury took 40 minutes to determine that Starbucks was at fault, and Starbucks themselves offered $3m and $30m settlements at different points. How much do you think two skin grafts to your genitalia are worth?

  • Least terrible domain registrars

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  • Counterpoint, I quite like this. I’m terrible at keeping payment details up to date, and I’ve got long renewal periods on my domains. The early renewal attempt allows me to get an email that my payment is expired or revoked (due to a stolen card number or something) and I have a month to go correct it.

  • Government oversight agency rules Elon Musk’s mass firings are illegal

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  • Actually, Hampton Dellinger himself was already fired earlier in the purge, but was temporarily reinstateted by a lower court and that was upheld by the Supreme Court (so far). It’s been one of the first cases to land on their desk, and is worth watching closely.

  • I love the future.

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  • It’s an old meme. I don’t entirely get it in the context of this thread, but then again I’m also old and stopped being hip years ago.

  • Blue states fear invasion by red-state National Guard troops for deportations

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  • More or less everywhere, really.

    Here’s more

  • There is a fee to close my HSA account

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  • No, you should probably collect your documentation and engage an attorney. Money in an HSA is yours, whether you leave the company or not. Your contributions need to be made while you’re covered under an eligible health plan, but once you’ve made the contribution, funds are yours forever, and can be spend on any eligible expense in the future.

  • Apple pulls remaining Lightning-based devices from European stores

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  • What devices does Apple sell elsewhere with lightning? The only remaining lightning device I can find is the iPhone SE, the lower cost variant that has a legacy form factor including lighting and Touch ID. It’s is rumored to be seeing an update in the next few months.

    Apple has spent half a decade implementing USB-C across its lineup, and was one of the earliest adopters of USB-C (to much criticism) back in the 2016 MacBook.

  • Costco doing right

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  • You can’t restrict the sale of stock, typically, but there are some provisions that can be adopted to make things more resilient. Check out “Poison Pills” on Wikipedia