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tankplanker

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  • What is the most controversial TV finale?

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  • With Lost they repeatedly said that nobody, not a single person, had guessed what the ending was, not realizing that this was one of the first shows to go massive for fan theories on the Internet so everything even remotely plausable had been guessed.

    So yeah, they painted themselves into that corner fair and square as it was clear they had no fucking clue what the ending was when they started that show.

    If it was me, I would have admitted someone guessed it and just picked whichever fan theory seemed the most sensible to me.

  • Sheffield Wednesday file for administration with 12-point deduction imminent

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  • The reason the Premier League was created was for the teams in the Premier League to keep more of the money by sharing less with the lower leagues.

    The Premier League earns so much more money than the lower leagues its impossible to get into and stay in without a rich sugar daddy.

    Even if you do get up with money to spend as Forest found when they got promoted, the cap on your spending is greatly reduced for that first year so you struggle to compete without a points reduction for overspending.

    The rules exist to pull up the ladder as much as possible. One of the main goals for any European super league is to remove relegation and promotion. Its about locking in that revenue stream.

    Having said all that, the punishment is there to stop the club being pillaged or mismanaged as in this case. The threat of a points deduction stops anybody sensible from just borrowing their way up the league without being able to pay for it. We had clubs getting in all sorts of messes and far more often as they tried to buy titles.

    This owner is far from rational, best case was his plan was to sell it to a friend for a pound and wipe off the debt, and thats me being very generous to his ability to plan ahead.

  • How much sleep do you get a day and how much would you like to get a day?

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  • I would rather live on the streets than put up with that, I could not cope with it as I get woke up by people in the same house being quiet let alone noisy cunts like that.

  • How much sleep do you get a day and how much would you like to get a day?

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  • Typically I get about six. Had a long weekend had did nine and half each day for three days straight, which never happens, then last night I got four hours and undid all that goodness.

    I would like between seven and eight hours on the regular, just not going to happen unless I retire and live on my own as I am a very light sleeper.

  • Progress

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  • I did Samsung dex for a while, its ok as long as you don't want low level access to what you connecting to.

    Now I switched to a gpd micropc 2 and its built in ethernet, sd card, usb a and c sockets and native linux make it so much more useful. No longer do i need dongles or other rubbish.

    Plus it will do multiple monitor support, something dex struggles with. The keyboard is a little small for touch typing but the former factor is worth the trade of for me.

  • Sad but true

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  • Dumbest person I know also happens to be a super nice, always happy, and also very attractive. She's never struggled to get work ever, even for her dream job as a teacher when she had to take her foundational English and Math exams three times.

    I would say she has a better life than the majority of people, never had a day of stress ever as everything has always worked out for her.

  • Average New Car Prices Rise Above $50,000 for the First Time Ever

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  • Cars have also gotten much bigger, generally speaking more reliable, and stuffed with extra technology, some of which makes the car safer than before. Little of that technology is really optional now in the EU but still adds to the price.

    A cirrent polo is the same size as a mark two golf, a three series is same size as an old face series. Most could downsize and not notice.

    New cars are purchased on the monthly cost than anything else where I am, with a balloon for the final payment. Manufacturers make money again on the same car at the second sale but can only do so if they protect the resale price, which means ever increasing sales prices.

  • Kyoto struggling with tourists defacing beloved bamboo forest

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  • I would stay near (ish) to Kyoto and just go one day, the National Museum in Kyoto is really good and you can see the rest of what you want to see quite quickly. It is about as commercialized as you can get for a town in Japan, its approaching Disney levels of parody.

    Staying further away lowers the cost and as long as its on one of the direct train lines into Kyoto it doesnt take long to get there. There is a lot to do in daily travelable distance in the region that is a better use of your time.

  • Trump is preparing a coup — the evidence is clear if you know where to look

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  • Much like Regan and Bush Junior, Trump is the front man to smarter (but not really smart) people who orchestrate everything. He just happens to be broadly aligned with what they want, and every now and again they throw him a bone with his personal vendettas while allowing his family to make obscene amounts of money via various scams and bribes.

    What is truly astounding is how many people voted for the orange buffoon a second time, and still support him now. He has always been very clear as to what he is, what he will do, yet they still vote for him? Racism and hate has to be a powerful perfume that covers up the rancid stench of Trump and his goons.

  • UK ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows

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  • Would they not also be lobbying for ICE cars/trucks? Or would that be counted differently? At the moment we have had the big positive step of moving the date back to 2030, at the expense of more flexibility around hybrids (which are shit for the environment) and reducing the tapering of ICE sales.

  • Eric Kripke confirms plans for a second season of The Boys: Diabolical were cancelled due to low viewership; has plans for a third 'Gen V' season but renewal is up in the air, while The Boys: Mexico r

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  • Its possible:

    Godolkin finds out about the virus and adjusts it to kill off large number of weaker supes and possibly humans in a single hit; he can hardly force each supe individually to commit suicide, he would be there for another ten seasons. As he is a gifted scientist it would not be beyond his characters boundaries for him to be able to rework the virus significantly. This would setup a brand new antagonist to keep the virus in play, Homelander is hardly smart enough to do it himself.

  • Furious Elon Finally Addresses Why He’s in New Epstein Files

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  • The horse thing is even worse when you realise Musk was trying to offload the horses because they had relatively little value and it was costing him more to keep the horse than it was worth. He smushed a bunch of ranches together and he purchased a few of them lock, stock and barrel to get the deal done, this included some low value horses that he would have been stuck with costing him money.

  • Luigi Mangione Could Escape Death Penalty Because of Trump’s Comments on Fox News and Tweets by DOJ Employees

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  • How many times can he be retried for the same crime if the Jury does that? As I fully expect Trump to demand the DOJ keep doing it as many times as they can

  • Sir Keir Starmer is expected to announce plans for a compulsory UK-wide digital ID scheme in a speech on Friday.

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  • You could get a provisional (learner) license and not bother learning to drive, doesn't seem to be a popular choice despite I te it being £14 for ten years

  • Sir Keir Starmer is expected to announce plans for a compulsory UK-wide digital ID scheme in a speech on Friday.

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  • Thats because they are without fail massive grifts ran by the IT firms.

    UK already has an ID system that about half of all adults already own that is fully integrated and trusted by the police and other services, the driving license. It even operates at a profit.

    It would be pretty damn cheap in comparison to implementing a new system to just require everybody who doesn't have the driving license to get a special one thats a different colour and confers no driving privileges.

    Of course that would be too simple and wouldn't allow scum to skim huge sums of money so here we are...

    Obviously I don't actually want a mandatory ID but if we getting one then might as well make it cheap and already mostly implemented.

  • Not an idiot

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  • I would still call it layup as we still use the same plasterboard panels in the UK if they are having a skim or a proper multi coat plaster finish, regardless if they going onto framing or dot and dab onto breeze blocks. We do have old houses that are basically brick on the interior so have render and then plaster on top of that, like nearly 20mm of it.

    Its always my shoulder joints with plastering or large tiling that go first, always have too much gear on my board I guess.

  • Not an idiot

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  • Plastering I will only ever do for myself, and then only to save money as I am too tight to pay someone else to do it, much the same reason I do tiling or plumbing. They are one of those jobs like fine carpentry that is always better done by an expert with the years of just doing that.

    Plasterboard layup often gets left to the builder in the UK, assuming they can actually level it properly.

  • Not an idiot

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  • Yeah they should be sued for false advertising for that claim!

  • Not an idiot

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  • Yeah there is good reason to my madness when it comes to the number of tools I used, no faffing about changing bits or resetting jigs or manual measuring. I would reckon about an hour a door from unpacking it to having it fully trimmed and hung. Would have been a bit quicker but I went with magnetic latches so they needed a 80mm back box and my 1/2 router only does 70mm deep so I had to use the drill press with a Forstner to get the remaining 10mm clearance needed.

    I have done doors by hand, thats about 3 to 4 hours for me if I do not have to make a proper square backbox and I can get away with a round one via an auger. I do not like the bite of an auger if the backbox depth is even remotely close to the edge of the frame for the door due to the bite you get dragging you in further than you intended even when turning by hand. I much prefer a Forstner, but I will be fucked if I am going to hand crank one of those into oak.

    Its decidedly longer if my chisels aren't sharp, having to hand sharpen them is a PITA when its more than once a day, I wish I had the space for a wheel to speed that up. Other dream thing is a 360 degree door vise that holds the entire door and lets you spin it 360 degrees without having to take it off your stands and hand rotate it. Would make switching from hinges to mortise to handles a breeze.