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dull_mens_club·Dull Men's ClubbyBell

Cockamamie Scheme #4342

My house is 112 years old. I was in my attic and soaking my shirt because it was 120° in there (I live in Florida). I thought how nice it'd be to get some fresh air in there. I thought it'd be even better if I could get that air from the (somewhat) cooler air in my crawlspace. Then I noticed the 4" cast iron pipe that was used to be the drain pipe for the house from 1915 through about 2000. The vent for that pipe runs through my attic and straight down to my crawlspace...unused and forgotten. So I cut the pipe and disconnected it from the roof and cut off and closed up any branches it had. I cut it and slapped a screen on it in the crawlspace. In the attic I put on an inline fan (6 watts) and a bit of duct to vaguely direct it around the attic. Early tests say my attic is about 7° cooler. Am I crazy?

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slateauto·Slate AutobyBell

Towing?

I've been excited about buying a slate, but I just found out the towing capacity is only 1,000 pounds. I had hoped it would be higher than that, at least a little closer to a Ford Ranger. Anyone know why it's so low?

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longreads·Excellent ReadsbyBell

American Narco: The Miami football player who fell foul of Pablo Escobar

Greg Pahules wrestles his powerful frame into a classroom chair in his spartan apartment above a nail salon in central Florida. Aged 68 and bald, save for a string of grey hair pulled into a ponytail from the back of his head, he is practically twitching. He fixes me with cloudy blue eyes and asks if I think he’s “normal”.

An hour earlier, over lunch, Greg had suddenly remembered that he may have killed someone in Colombia in the 1980s, when he was deep enough into the cocaine trade to be on Pablo Escobar’s radar. He’d told me the story of coming upon a car crash on a winding mountain road one evening. As they slowed to help, a man jumped out and started shooting, hitting the driver’s hand. Greg put two bullets in the guy and sped away. The memory burrowed itself in a corner of his mind, until our conversation jogged it free.

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Epsteinfiles·The Trump-Epstein Files™byBell

Maxwell Lobs Grenade Naming 29 ‘Protected’ Epstein Friends

Buried in a habeas petition that Maxwell recently filed in court, hoping to void her conviction, the convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein references four potential “co-conspirators” and “25 men” who allegedly reached “secret settlements” connected to Epstein’s abuse—and were never indicted

Maxwell Lobs Grenade Naming 29 ‘Protected’ Epstein Friendshttps://www.thedailybeast.com/ghislaine-maxwell-lobs-grenade-naming-29-protected-epstein-friends/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
news·NewsbyBell

Maxwell Lobs Grenade Naming 29 ‘Protected’ Epstein Friends

Buried in a habeas petition that Maxwell recently filed in court, hoping to void her conviction, the convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein references four potential “co-conspirators” and “25 men” who allegedly reached “secret settlements” connected to Epstein’s abuse—and were never indicted

Maxwell Lobs Grenade Naming 29 ‘Protected’ Epstein Friendshttps://www.thedailybeast.com/ghislaine-maxwell-lobs-grenade-naming-29-protected-epstein-friends/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
Epsteinfiles·The Trump-Epstein Files™byBell

New Epstein documents include a claim of an Oklahoma 'murder'

The latest release of Jeffrey Epstein documents includes an FBI report about a caller's claim of a suspicious death in Kiefer, Oklahoma, in January 2000.

The caller said a woman was found with her head "blown off" in the small town in northeast Oklahoma days after reporting to police she had been raped by Epstein and Donald Trump. The caller described the death as a murder.

New Epstein documents include a claim of an Oklahoma 'murder'https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2025/12/23/new-epstein-documents-include-claim-that-a-woman-was-murdered-in-oklahoma/87901733007/Open linkView original on lemmy.world