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Terrorist attack in Montreal

Holy guac this is insane and insanely tragic ...

The cop crawling to the front of that white car is definitely dead, looks like he had already been shot when the video started.

His female colleague then appears to shoot a civilian in the dark top who pops up behind the barricade/wall (but in that situation I don't know what I would do, the other cop next to me just got shot dead).

And then the shooter in camouflage gear runs up, it looks like she spots him and actually is able to shoot at him while reportedly getting shot at & surviving herself. And then the shooter hides behind the white barricade, appears to reload or fiddle with his weapon, but maybe grasp at his wound? And just ... keels over? At first it looked like he was trying to get on the ground to me, but the more I'm looking at it, the more it looks like he just died then and there.

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Life in your 30s

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As someone who is some of those things as well, I would love to know what the wife and/or child are doing during all those activities. Because something has to give when you're doing that much.

In my experience, that balance is really hard, and even in the most hospitable, high-quality-of-life places, that balance is not exactly always something that is nurtured and valued by the systems in place.

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What is something you SHOULD cheap out on?

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For headphones, DEFINITELY not true in my experience. There’s cheap and gimmicky (like Skullcandy), there’s perceived “luxury” brands like Beats (which aren’t actually worth their money) but then there’s brands that actually offer significantly better quality and longevity for the price, like Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, Audio-Technica and Sony to name a few.

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Texas resident used Apple AirTags to discover plastics taken to Houston recycling centers aren't being recycled

Did you guys read the article? It says that the recyclables are “sitting in an open lot, waiting to be recycled” but the processing facility doesn’t have the machinery to do so yet. It will in a few months, when it is scheduled to start recycling plastics.

I’m the first person to bring upthe whole “tons of recyclables just end up on a garbage dump” thing, but this article (or at least the way it’s posted here on lemmy) feels rage-baity.

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Should you run your sink until the water comes out hot before you start your dishwasher?

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Its not so much about that, as it is about the fact that they almost always do an initial "clean-off-the-dirtiest-bits" cycle for around 10 minutes which pulls in (mostly) cold water if your line is not purged like the OP describes. And they don't use the heating element for this initial cycle.

After the first 10 minutes they flush out the super dirty water with the dirtiest food bits and sauce and whatnot, fill in brand new water, and then run for the duration of the washing cycle (1hr plus) along with the heating element.

So flushing the cold water out of your kitchen water lines AND adding pre-wash detergent (such as some extra powder right in the door, outside of the main closable detergent compartment) helps a ton with this initial 10ish minute cycle.

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What's something good that's happened to you this month?

Money is not overly abundant currently. Today we got a notice in the mail from our landlords that our rent is being lowered by 20 bucks a month (yes, you read that right, lowered) and we have been overpaying on our utilities so we're getting some money back which, incidentally, can then go directly to our upcoming electricity payment haha.

That felt like things working out nicely out of the blue.

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Do any of us host their own email?

I do, a bit differently from what’s been mentioned here so far:

I actually host my server at home, running mailcow as my email-server-software of choice, and incoming emails do get delivered directly to my ISP-assigned IP via dynamically updated DNS records.

However: Outgoing email is delivered via an SMTP relay service, specifically Mailgun (I like them because for normal everyday email volume it’s free), because even when I was hosting the email server in a datacenter, it was impossible to not encounter deliverability issues.