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Juuuunk yard tires are the best. Someone out there totaled their car and the tires that survived are sitting there waiting for you to find. The guy who has em doesnt want em. He wants the shelf for more valuable stuff.

Happy hunting.

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Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout

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I have a 2017 bolt EV - bought used, not one that is advertised as having great mileage even in 2017. I routinely take it 400-500mi plus drives with one or maybe two charge stops for vacation and family trips. Middle of ME to the southern tip of NJ. My home is somewhere in the middle.

Charged off my 110 outlet since I got to car (about 4 years) up to last month Oct 2023 when I got a 220v outlet installed as part of another project. One charge was enough for the week. Occasionally I'd plug in at work or at a friends. Worst case actually pay $5-9 for a DC quick charge if I know I'm doing a long drive. All that is way easier if you just have a place to plug in consistently at home.

I don't get the negativity most people have twords EVs. Everyone is astounded when I say I just plug it into the wall and have to plan longer trips slightly more, like that's not news anymore.

And there's a bunch more DC chargers than when I first started driving an EV - so it's wayyy easier for new folks to adopt.

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Removed an old flourescent light from a drop ceiling and found this splice hiding

Wagos my man, wagos. Its wire nuts from the future.

Kill the breaker undo whatever the monstrosity is. Each hot, neutral, and ground gets its own Wago. You buy the type that has enough holes for your problem. If theres 3 hot legs that all should all go together after you remove the fixtue get (3) 3-holes (one for 3 hots one for 3 neutrals one f0r 3 grounds). Strip the hot wires so theres no bare copper outside the Wago and clip em all in the Wago, do the neutrals and grounds in their own wagos and your done. No fire haze. Safer than wire nuts and easier. And I'm not a salesman just used em before.

Wagos!

probably you need 12awg size (the thickness of the copper cable)

Hardware store or amazon. Seriously easy. Cheap. No need for a box. Works just as well for weird 4 wire 277v or whatever.

.....just dont put hot and neutral together. Hots with hots neutrals with neutrals.....

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‘The Uprising’ Bombs at Box Office Despite Last-Ditch Scramble to Market Film as Robin Hood Origin Story

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Something with this much of a budget a theatrical release totally has Hollywood money behind it. Its not like a purposefully orchestrated tax write off flop either, those are bigger budgets (Madam Webb = tax write off plus tactic to keep Spidey IP)

Someone may want to bury the film with lack of advertising though. Or, yeah, its just a bad movie they dont want to throw money at propping it. I'll try to see it in the next few weeks to decide myself.

..."Hollywood" is just a bunch of investors who want their percentage back and dont give a fuck about what message the film has.

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I saved someone's life in the back woods while backpacking.

We tried to cross a water crossing we should NOT have tried to cross, whitewater and way too fast. A few folks came down the other side of the trail and we eventually rigged our bear ropes into a hand hold across the river, maybe 40' wide. Took about 10min to cross and I almost got swept away. First one from their group to cross got stuck, lost her footing, and was holding onto the rope with like 3 fingers. I rushed out and grabbed her pack. Not sure how I got back there so quick but hauld her back up and helped the rest cross. When I got back to the other side my legs were cut TF up from the rocks.

I dont cross white water now.

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fragile masculinity

Eh funny but untrue. The dudes I know who are plant people grow anything cool. Ive got a lot of weird and cool plants.

I do grow the super hot peppers, and i like feeding ticks to my carnivorous plants tho. So its not far off.

I also grow tomatoes, eggplants, garlic, cuces, squash, etc.

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𝗠𝗲: Are you recording me?..... 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗺: How can you tell?

Tf is that.

Even the model they chose for the photos looks uncomfortable wearing it. That ear fold.

Seriously is there any tech bro out there who defends this thing?

What does it actually do that I can't accomplish by many other means in my pocket or at home for less money and more comfort?

I love tech but holy fuck the dude in charge of new tech in the last 10 years seems to hate me.

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25 States Agree To Quadruple Number Of Heat Pumps In America

I'm going through this right now with my state (MA). After a lot of talking and finding non-shit vendors and quotes and stuff I've got an application into the state program. About $28k total to remove oil from my home completely in favor of heatpumps and a new water heater. State will give us a 10k rebate and a loan where they pay 7 years of interest. So that works out to 10k upfront we get back and then 7 years of $225/month payments.

We pay $300/month for oil. And that price is always getting higher.

Edit: worth mentioning that we are going for a full whole home rebate - to get the full 10k we are required to heat the same areas to the same heat load to qualify. We could have gone for a partial rebate and done a hybrid oil heat pump system. (Which didn't seem to be a good idea long term with oil costs)