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Or get them a Tungsten cube. Every man wants a Tungsten cube.

Why the hell did they grant him bail? And a reduction at that? You know he's not coming back.

Someone hasn't seen the price of nails recently...

Yeah. I finally got around to upgrading everything in my desktop this past year (rx 9070xt, ryzen laptop chip mobo combo with 16c/32t, 48gb of ram, and dual Samsung 990 pro 4tbs), and I did a quick price check recently, and my $1500 was now closer to $2.5-3k. It honestly amazes me how much it has gone up in the last year. Bonus points, I got some 18tb recertified drives for off-site at the same time for $250 a piece, now the same seller is offering them for $550 and still seems to be going up in price.

It's a honey badger, so of course it scared the shit out of the lions.

Yeah. The best option I've found is something like a qualtrix dac, where you have to have a USB c to USB c cable to connect it, or run it over Bluetooth. Still would prefer a decent headphone jack on the device.

It's not a scam, it's a link from FedEx (or in my case UPS) to pay tariff and duty charges. Believe you me, I triple checked the whole thing and made sure it was legit before I even considered paying for it. If you are shipping an item directly from outside the US, a lot of times those charges are left for you to deal with (resellers on eBay or Amazon for stuff from China would pay for those in advance, which is why it's not always normal). It's a bigger thing than it used to be, because it used to be that if the value of an item was less than $800 (I believe, it's been a min), there wouldn't be duties on it unless it was a big item or some other unusual circumstances. However, Trump screwed that up with the tariff changes, so extra charges are collected by the shipping company directly. The problem is that I wasn't warned ahead of time (I thought it was coming from the Philippines so the charges wouldn't be a thing), and that seems to be increasingly the norm for ordering directly from the manufacturer, given soo many are in China or countries we have decided it is a "good" idea to impose tariffs on (which the customer has to pay).

Yep. Accidentally imported some parts for my car (thought they were in the states, but no, China), got a random message about duty fees. I initially thought it was a scam, but got another, so I followed the link on a safe device (laptop running Linux). It gave a valid address from the shipping company with details that verified my order, so I had to pay or it wouldn't be delivered. Very annoying, should have been told earlier that I needed to pay duties/tariffs so I could plan accordingly.

Another idea you could try instead of the foil is maybe making some basic window inserts. They're mainly for keeping the heat in, though they definitely improve the r values of windows which can help keep the heat out for next year. Not really an excuse for the cops showing up, but should help head this off from happening in future.

Southeast US in the smaller cities (rent is cheaper for a reason though...).

I mean, it was supposedly from an ipsos poll, but he was maybe tied with them? I'm from the US looking in, but the general sentiment I always have heard was that he started out claiming to fix the issues the Tories caused, but backpedaled hard and ignored the wants of basically everyone in the voting base. This obviously backfired so badly that it messed up a lot of down ballot support for labour in the last elections, enough that the party basically had to force him out (behind the scenes obviously, labour didn't wanna seem "weak") and get Andy Burnham in (probably the most popular labour politician currently) to stop the bleeding.

Somehow, yes.