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    Death and... Taxes.

    Including withholding? That is odd. I'd deposit the money but keep it protected and liquid for quite a while. The onus is on them to correct mistakes. Worst case you return it.
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    On becoming an electrician

    Dunno. Good friend of mine ran a demolition company for about 20 years and saw lots of his competitors get into problems over safety. Religiously following OSHA starts to look pretty good after your second or third major injury lawsuit.
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    the I'm tired of sjw bullshit in gaming thread

    Is that a new board speedrun record? Character arc completed in 3 posts over 40 minutes.
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    the I'm tired of sjw bullshit in gaming thread

    You aren't understanding what's happening here.
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    the I'm tired of sjw bullshit in gaming thread

    A response like this is going to provide an excellent object lesson in how to properly manage your expectations on this board.
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    Health Problems

    Nope, you can order basically any test you want for yourself.
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    MMA Thread

    Because it's not (wrong tattoos) and this is just someone trying to get attention on instagram.
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    The Video Thread

    Yes, though aviation autopilot isn't as auto as you'd think. Basically the human pilots fly by giving instructions to the computer controlling the plane rather than controlling the plane by hand. The reason Tesla tries to bill their current driver assist tech as "Autopilot" is because they hide...
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    Health Problems

    You can just go to Quest Diagnostics (or wherever) and get whatever test you want done a la carte for far less money than that. No point in going through your PCP because your insurance won't pay for this because it's almost certainly snake oil as a functional product, even if there's some truth...
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    Home Improvement

    I used an electric mower when I lived in Atlanta (plug-in, though, not battery). It was slightly less powerful than the gas but generally fine on thick grass. Managing the cord isn't really much of a hassle once you get used to mowing in a non-overlapping pattern. Plus you can buy three or four...
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    Woodworking

    That honestly doesn't sound like it could be the fault of your sled; it's got to be the saw itself. Did you somehow manage to jar your saw table so that your miter slots aren't parallel to the blade any more? Check thoroughly against the front and back of the blade with a dial indicator or at...
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    Home buying thread

    If it's 3 kW and not 3kWh that sure sounds like an EV.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Can you have someone else shop for you with strict instructions to only buy healthy foods? Snacking stops feeling so good when you've eaten your 15th apple of the day and the next-tastiest thing is in the house is broccoli. Something else that helps is to drink a glass of water every time you...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    At some point, and maybe only for certain peoiple, the suck factors can become addicting. I'm not a morning person and I absolutely hate it, but my days are better and my sleep is better if I force myself to get up at 6 and work out. It's incredibly easy to fall off the wagon, though.
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    Woodworking

    It makes sense for vertical miters and cross cuts. The angled miters and rip cuts really don't.
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    Woodworking

    This looks like an amazing way to lose focus and kill yourself. About halfway through he realizes that on a vertical (edit: angled) miter the blade could hit the tool post, never mind that the blade takes three fucking minutes to spin down. 😨
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I shit you not I saw this exact car with this plate about two weeks ago. GIS coincidence.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Cleaning up your diet, drinking enough water, eliminating excessive alcohol and caffeine, and religiously getting enough sleep make WORLDS of difference.
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    Home Improvement

    Fuuuuuuuuck termites. That is all.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Oh, believe me, I agree no numbers should be taken at face value. I have an economics background and do optimization and forecasting for a living. Numbers can be made to say anything. I'm just saying that the nice thing about government numbers is they have to publish their data and methods so...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Are they? I definitely acknowledge the flatness is odd, but whether that's a legitimate outcome of the process or not none of us knows without auditing the calculations. My point is the information is available to see how those numbers were arrived at, which is necessary to know if they're bad...
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    Investing General Discussion

    This stuff is auditable for anyone with the requisite patience. Here are the federal numbers. It's trivial to see the pre-seasonal adjustment data. The adjustment process is a whole can of worms I'm not going to read, but (I think) it's documented at the link at the end of this post. The...
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    No Rest For The Wicked - A Souls Like ARPG

    No, 2. https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/5FDE-BA65-ACCE-A411#:~:text=What%20can%20I%20request%20a,offline%20and%20shared%20library%20playtime).
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    Investing General Discussion

    Well ok then. We sure do accumulate some special people here. Agreed, already done.
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    The Video Thread

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    Investing General Discussion

    Can we check IP records to see if this is an alt account of Araysar? The instant high-volume bromance on a two-year dormant account's first day of posting makes me wonder.
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    The Stock Trading and Shitposting thread.

    Obviously, since the very first thing you did upon arrival was to tell longtime members they're doing it wrong. The fact that Foler and Araysar are on your side in this tells the rest of us all we need to know. Your condescension schtick doesn't change any of that.
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    The Stock Trading and Shitposting thread.

    Please tell us more about what our threads are for, dude with 14 total posts all in the last 24 hours.
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    No Rest For The Wicked - A Souls Like ARPG

    Eeeew. Worst mechanic ever.
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    No Rest For The Wicked - A Souls Like ARPG

    I don't know about easier, but whoever is in charge of art direction at Moon Studios deserves a raise.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Burden of proof is on you; this doesn't pass the sniff test. If it were possible to reliably crank out returns from following a tiny number of the best-performing stocks in a short time window (which are definitionally only possible to identify in retrospect), the HFT folks would have long since...
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    Investing General Discussion

    "Only buy winners!" Holy fuck, how did no one think of that?
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Hope they checked the shade on those helmets, the cheap ones still aren't suitable for eclipse viewing.
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    Usenet, NZB Indexers, Sickbeard, etc

    Dunno, my server runs 24/7 since it's also my NAS and Plex host. Edit: Just looked in the settings, don't see that option.
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    Usenet, NZB Indexers, Sickbeard, etc

    Similar results with NZBGeek + NZBGet, which I'm using because it's a convenient install on my TrueNas server.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/florida-man-tells-ars-about-his-encounter-with-something-that-fell-from-space/
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    Woodworking

    I said bandsaw, and I meant for shop-made veneers, obviously. Just because they're thicker than the thinnest viable commercial alternative doesn't declassify them as veneers. What do you think people did before the giant industrial slicers existed? @whoo has more woodworking experience than...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    They could recycle assets from the previous games by having her return her own plundered artifacts to the original locations! Genius!
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    No Rest For The Wicked - A Souls Like ARPG

    If the EA buzz is even half decent I'm saving this for release.