Also cyclists. If there is a person behind traveling faster than you, Get over when it is safe and allow them to pass. If that’s an inconvenience, you should have “left the house a few minutes earlier”.

I’ve raced motorcycles for decades now and this is brought up in every safety meeting. If the rider behind you is faster, let them pass, regardless of how important you think your run is. It’s safer for everybody.

Thought of going with a shirt only at work and I could not made a worse choice. I will have to look for a new job soon.

May should have went with a shirt and pants :)

ADL is including pro-Palestine protests in count of “antisemitic” incidents

I can’t find that anywhere in the article. Why use that for a title? The article states ADL is including ‘rallies that feature “anti-Zionist chants and slogans",’. Which is understandable; That’s their job. But pro-Palestinian isn’t inherently anti-Zionist and conflating the two is disingenuous.

Worked well for me. Altho I’m just a small example. I run a mechanic shop where pay is directly tied to productivity, not time. About 6 months ago as an experiment, I started giving the techs off on fridays, making it mon-thurs. Turns out overall productivity didn’t change; they got more done per day on the 4 day work week. So it ended up being an extra day off with no change in pay. They’re happy with the longer weekend, and I’m happy with a day of peace and quiet to get paperwork done. I don’t plan on changing it back anytime soon.

After referencing actress-comedienne and Trump supporter Roseanne Barr earlier in the interview, Grammer was asked by host Justin Webb if he was still a supporter of the former president.

“I am,” Grammer said. “And I’ll let that be the end of it.”

🤮

I doubt he’s broke. Far more likely that he’s just a bigot.

Getting all the old grease off isn’t super important. You mainly just want to get it clean enough to make sure the bearing surface on it and the ball on the back of the drum are smooth and not getting scratched/galled up.

I have about the same dryer I’ve been keeping alive for years. I wouldn’t worry too much about the dull spot. That’s likely where the old coil got a hot spot before it failed. It’s just discolored the zinc coating. Shouldn’t effect heat dissipation but it might be more susceptible to rust now.

If you’re not in a big hurry, I would replace that white plastic bearing the drum rides on (you can see it on the very left in the last picture). It’s super squeaky when it fails. If you don’t replace it, at least give it a dollop of high temp grease.

It sounds like you are looking for something like this: https://www.adafruit.com/product/2210

If you look around the site, there are lots of helpful tutorials to get you started with it and also help you adapt it to your needs. They also sell most of the extra parts you would need. For example you could add this to make it motion triggered. Their parts aren’t the cheapest tho, you are paying for the ease of use, excellent documentation, and tutorials. If you’re crafty, most of it should be salvageable from e-waste.

Like single frequencies/tones (beeps, boops)? Or more complex sounds (dog barking, voice)? A little more specifics about your project would help us give better info.

Pull out as much carpeting as your comfortable taking apart and get some air moving through. The more moving air the better.

I hope every one of those pigs got to wallow in shit that day.

We already have the tech to let signal lights at intersections know emergency vehicles are approaching so they can direct traffic accordingly. No reason this couldn’t be adopted to autonomous vehicles.

They both work fine. I mainly meant if you were having to buy electronic ballasts to make the bulbs you have work, it may be cheaper to buy the bypass bulbs and do away with the ballasts. Same amount of work.

I also have to replace all the magnetic ballasts in the basement light fixtures with electronic ballasts because we have fluorescent replacement LED bulbs, which only work on electronic ballasts.

Chiming in because I just finished swapping over 15+ fixtures. You can get LED replacement bulbs that do away with the ballasts entirely. At first I went with the LED retrofit lights that used the existing ballasts but I still had issues with the ballasts failing (because they were all 20-30 years old). Found the “ballast bypass” replacements and swapped everything over.

The back yard garden is overgrown with weeds, and I need to deal with that. We didn’t do any gardening this year so nature took over… I don’t really have many if any tools to deal with it, so I need to do some garden supply shopping.

I’m embarrassed how much time and money I put into my garden this spring just to let the weeds take over. It’s so hot out there.

Builder grade and contractor grade are interchangeable.

One thing to check is that the machine is leveled properly. If it’s not, the frame will flex and cause leaks.

I have a GE Quiet Power 2 dishwasher that I bought second hand 5+ years ago and that thing has been rock solid. All I’ve had to do is replace the plastic strainer on the bottom with a stainless steel one after it warped from being close to the heating element, and replace a rubber hose going to the pump after a mouse ate a hole in it.

I’ve never used youtube music, how are the suggestions? I use spotify at work for background music. I want to be able to give it an artist or genre and get 3-4 hours of music I know and some I may not have heard of. But it needs to match my tastes close enough that I don’t have to keep stopping what I’m doing, walk over and hit skip when it plays something horrible. Spotifys daily mixes do this pretty well. Does youtube have something similar?

When I just installed it, the second or third option that came up was “Restore purchases: Restore your previous in-app purchases made in Sync”.

This is my first time using sync so I don’t have anything to test it with.

It depends how precise you need to be. If a 10-15% margin of error is acceptable*, then most of the budget brands (Presa, Titan, Neiko, ect) will be fine. If you need <5% margin of error, start looking at the major brands (snap-on, blue point, matco, mac, cornwell) that come with calibration certificates.

How many inch pounds you are working with will determine the size you need.

• 1-100in/lb - 1/4" torque wrench

• 100-1000in/lb - 3/8" torque wrench

• 1000+in/lb - We really should be using a different unit at this point, but 1/2" torque wrench.

  *For most shadetree repairs 10-15% is more than sufficient.

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Maybe an unpopular opinion; but if you want a budget torque wrench (less than $100usd), get a beam style. I’ve personally used this one to assemble dozens of engines. I’ve got a $400 Snap-On digital that is great for torque to yield fasteners where you have to tighten to a specific degree. But if it’s just something like spark plugs, I’ll grab the beam torque wrench every time. I wouldn’t recommend the micrometer/click style for a novice. It’s too easy to get the setting off by a turn and unless you know what that amount of torque is supposed to fell like, you put your trust into listening for the click and end up causing much bigger problems for yourself.

Any questions, feel free to PM/DM. I’m having mechanic advice withdrawals after leaving reddit.