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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Protect yourself, Canada. Treat Trump as hostile.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 hours ago

Bea Arthur became one of the first women to join the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. Arthur — then known as Bernice Frankel — joined the Marines in 1943 during World War II, just five days after they began recruiting women, according to the National World War II Museum.

Arthur served as a typist at the Marine Corps headquarters in Washington D.C. before becoming a truck driver and dispatcher at the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, between 1944 and 1945 and then left the military at the rank of staff sergeant.

Arthur isn’t the only famous name whose contributions were scrubbed, legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson, who was the first Black player in Major League Baseball, was also removed from the DoD website.

And because anything with the word “gay” in it apparently can’t be allowed to stay on the DoD website, photos of the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan are also marked for deletion by the administration, alongside photos of the first women to pass Marine infantry training, the Associate Press reports.

 

I was lazy, so only did the side mirrors and both front door windows.

I usually just use gas station squeegees, so using the Windex and a cloth towel was a step up and got it really clean.

It's so nice looking out the side mirrors. I keep looking at them and marveling at how nice the world looks. Like when a person gets their first pair of glasses and sees the world in detail for the first time.

It's been a week and I'm still smiling about the clear view. Luckily it hasn't rained in that time.

I only get rain, no snow, so I keep telling myself the side mirror rain guards aren't useful at all for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Felling a tree is opposite of dull!

Did you do much planning beforehand?

Is there anything you would do differently a second time?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No good story has ever started with, "I ate a bag of oreos over the course of a whole day. "

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Lol. Guess you're just cursed. Lol. I have multiple styles, wired and wireless, and work perfectly on multiple computers. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Nice job knowing the Alt key trick on Windows!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I really like Steelseries. Pick whichever fits your budget for the features you want. I've even bought used ones and they've been great.

I changed the foam ear pads to leatherette pads for a little better sound isolation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sounds like there was something wrong with your audio jack. I've had stellar comments about all of my Steelseries.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Nice. Protect yourself, Canada.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you ever see little kids with different skin tones playing together, they are clearly not bothered by skin color, and it has no bearing on their play. The racism in America is completely learned. It is not natural. Sometimes consciously, but many times unconsciously.

Loosely similar is how men in most places are fine walking around alone at night. While women consciously try to move in groups, even during the daytime. Many men have no idea how different it is for many women.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

It happened for so long, at all levels of society, that it is still affecting us today. It has shaped the cities we currently live in. It has shaped our language. It has shaped our laws.

The first girl Black girl to go to a school that was all white is only 71 years old. And that was barely the start of the end of segregation.

A bad example, because I'm only American, but anyone in the European Union could move anywhere in the European Union. Some places just have depressing weather, or are very isolated. But it would still take a great effort for the people who even want to move to actually move.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Keeping the device turned on while the airplane is ascending and descending.

 

Started on one computer mouse needing a new AA battery. Then re-glued the foot pad that had fallen off and was making it rock. While vigorously testing the other foot pads, they came off, and so I ended up re-gluing them all.

Then went one to another mouse and started to clean some dust in the corners of it. Turned out the dust was enough that I had an excuse to take it apart. Then there was enough random tiny fibers/hairs that I couldn't get off that I went to use the air compressor to really get it clean. And re-glued the feet pads here, because, why not.

With as much as I take apart my computer mice, it causes the factory sticky tape to fail. So I actually cut out an access whole where the foot pad covers the hidden screws. And then I can use gel super glue to keep the foot pads down fully without curling.

 

Currently installed is a recent (about 10 years) Harbor Bay 5 blade ceiling fan with 44" blade diameter.

In a box I have a recent (about 10 years) Harbor Bay 5 blade ceiling fan with 52" blade diameter.

Yes, the large blades will run the motor harder.

Would these two fans likely use the same motor, so that I can just swap the larger blades and leave the current motor? Or is there a high chance the motors are sized specific to their blades, and I would need to fully swap the motor to use the larger blades?

The blades appear to use the same connection.

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