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Re: PSA: When was the last time you cleaned your Waterpik (or other, fluid oral flosser)? - Today

I run peroxide through periodically.

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Re: [ what a ] tool__time?!.....Casey Wilson says Tim Allen was a b*tch on ‘Santa Clauses’ set...... - Today

Quotevision63 QuoteTiangou Famously misogynist. (Also, a convicted drug dealer and right-wing conspiracy zealot.) Not at all surprising. She stayed there and took the money. I must be the only human that quit jobs I didn't like. "Struggling young actor." Never heard of it?

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Re: Abortion rights, trying to comprehend - Today

Quotemacphanatic Personally, I don't care whether or not a woman has an abortion. However, I have a hard time with people accepting abortion rights but against death penalty for people who have committed numerous violent crimes. When does a human life begin? When does that human become culpable for their actions? When is it appropriate to take a sentient human life? How one answers

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Re: [ what a ] tool__time?!.....Casey Wilson says Tim Allen was a b*tch on ‘Santa Clauses’ set...... - Today

Famously misogynist. (Also, a convicted drug dealer and right-wing conspiracy zealot.) Not at all surprising.

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Re: Abortion rights, trying to comprehend - Yesterday

Quotepdq Eggs and sperm are human and are as alive as any fertilized egg. They have the potential to develop into a baby, just like a fertilized egg... ...some people think God puts a soul into every egg at the moment of fertilization (exactly when is that “moment”, BTW?) with the possible exception of the roughly third that will be miscarried. Some people believe that aborted embryos go t

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Re: Post your favorite Christmas movies - Yesterday

Mary Poppins Blackadder's Christmas Carol Crimewave Fargo Nightmare Before Christmas Life of Brian South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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Re: Another Table Picture - Yesterday

That looks exactly like the set my grandmother gave to my parents as a wedding present, except for the seat cushions. Survived 60 years or so, and a house full of kids. Chairs were reupholstered about 20 years ago. Did yours come with the table pads? The originals from ours fell apart after a couple of decades and were replaced.

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Re: So pretty - 2 days ago

Is it nice? I get a white box. You should probably warn people when you use Facebook content. (I block Facebook traffic at the router.)

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Re: Abortion rights, trying to comprehend - 2 days ago

QuotekjPlus, what are you going to do about miscarriages, etc.? It's not intentional. Jail all women who have miscarriages, of course. Because it's always the woman's fault. Didn't you know? It's okay to jail/kill adults, right?

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Re: Is your closet / tote of old mac stuff running low? - 2 days ago

Quoterz QuoteTiangou Quotemrbigstuff are the airport things with time capsule still worthwhile for backup? No. Why no? I’m using one right now and it works fine. They're slow, obsolete, and unsupported, and missing critical security updates, and there's no way to install custom firmware to keep 'em chugging like some other routers, and the slow hard drives in them will fail soon if they'r

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Re: Is your closet / tote of old mac stuff running low? - 2 days ago

Quotemrbigstuff are the airport things with time capsule still worthwhile for backup? No.

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Re: Is your closet / tote of old mac stuff running low? - 2 days ago

There's an Apple Pencil in there. Probably worth more than the rest of the stuff combined.

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Re: Abortion rights, trying to comprehend - 2 days ago

Quotekj QuoteAcer Is it hypocritical to support programs for prenatal health at the same time as supporting access to abortion? If it is hypocritical, why does that matter? By what logic does mere hypocrisy invalidate justification for either position? I don't care about hypocrisy much, but it seems a little illogical if we refuse to acknowledge the fetus is human life that has begun to devel

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Re: Tuberville releasing hold on hundreds of (sub 4 star) military promotions - 2 days ago

Quotepdq QuoteSteve G. …would release all of his holds on military officers at the 3-star level and below. A hold will remain in place for the roughly ten nominations for 4-star generals and officers. Umm - how does this make any sense? We don’t need military leaders now? Do we need ambassadors? ...Most of the delays have nothing to do with the candidates, many of whom are caree

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Re: Want to speed up Time Machine backups - 2 days ago

QuoteTiangou Quotemattkime QuoteTiangou Quotemattkime I think most people who think about backing up just use iCloud iCloud is not a backup. why not? Because it's functionally a sync service for certain folders, not a backup service for all of your documents/data, it's not at all transparent how it determines what/when to sync and when it deletes from your computer, and it's volatile to the

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Re: Want to speed up Time Machine backups - 2 days ago

Quotemattkime QuoteTiangou Quotemattkime I think most people who think about backing up just use iCloud iCloud is not a backup. why not? Because it's functionally a sync service for certain folders, not a backup service for all of your documents/data, it's not at all transparent how it determines what/when to sync and when it deletes from your computer, and it's volatile to the point where

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Re: Traders knew too - 2 days ago

Link: Nobody seems to be buying the time-traveler theory.

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Re: Any problems upgrading an M1 Mini From Monterey to Ventura or Sonoma - 3 days ago

Ventura is still buggy. I get weird glitches and hangs in the Finder every once in awhile and apps that won't relaunch shortly after quitting because the OS still thinks they're open. Network operations from the Finder are strangely laggy sometimes, too. Sonoma is basically ugly lipstick on Ventura. That said, they're small annoyances.

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Re: Want to speed up Time Machine backups - 3 days ago

Quotemattkime I think most people who think about backing up just use iCloud iCloud is not a backup.

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Re: Dramatic video of home explosion in Arlington, VA - 3 days ago

QuotepRICE cUBE QuoteGGD I wouldn't think a flare gun alone could do that, but a house that's first filled with natural gas, and then a flare gun is fired seems like a strong possibility. That's why I was thinking. The explosion seems to come from the far left side of the house. My guess is that the flare hit the gas regulator on the side of the house.

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Re: Does YouTube actually stop you from watching if using an Ad Blocker? - 3 days ago

They seem to have shifted their focus to kneecapping ad blockers in Google Chrome.

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Re: Want to speed up Time Machine backups - 3 days ago

Quotesekker QuoteTiangou Quotesekker 300Mbps is limited by the fiber speed I am paying. That's Internet speed, not network speed. If you're using Apple's Airport 802.11ac for WiFi, you actually max out around 250Mbps (~30MB/s) on 5GHz. No, I’m using an AT&T fiber gateway. The number I gave was Internet speed, which is a conservative / minimal speed of the LAN speed I’m getting. Th

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Re: Abortion rights, trying to comprehend - 3 days ago

QuoteMr645 So it's OK for a woman to choose to have an abortion, but not smoke or drink while pregnant because that could harm the baby. I'm not picking sides, I can't get pregnant, but I find this conundrum interesting Is it okay for her to jump in front of a moving car in the hope that the impact will cause a miscarriage? Because that's where we're headed in this country.

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Re: A reminder from CNN: a President Trump will signal the death of American democracy - 3 days ago

Quotecbelt3 Op Ed from CNN. Deplorables won’t get it because big words are used. Deplorables won't get it because they won't visit CNN. It's THE MEDIA.

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Re: Want to speed up Time Machine backups - 3 days ago

Quotesekker 300Mbps is limited by the fiber speed I am paying. That's Internet speed, not network speed. If you're using Apple's Airport 802.11ac for WiFi, you actually max out around 250Mbps (~30MB/s) on 5GHz.

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Re: Is it too soon for the Holiday Decorations? - 4 days ago

Quotesteve... Those inflated snowmen and Santas that I see seem kind of depressing. I'm guessing it all goes in the garbage after New Year's Eve. Pretty sure most just get stuffed in a box for next year.

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Re: pet peeve - websites (always government ones) that have DAILY scheduled downtime - 4 days ago

Quotemattkime QuoteTiangou To start with... Thats one way to kill a conversation First rule for getting lucky with the ladies: Don't talk about NIST and FISMA.

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Re: Want to speed up Time Machine backups - 4 days ago

Quotesekker Quotemattkime Why is speed an issue? How long is it taking? How do you connect your macs to the network? These machines are connected via a modern wireless network, which has ~300Mbps connectivity. Modern wireless networks easily exceed 1.2Gbps. A few problems here, among them the speed of your wireless network and the fact that you're backing up to a slow spinner that's probab

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Re: It's the most horrible time of the year - 4 days ago

Quotedavemchine My daughter recently graduated with an accounting degree and I was surprised at how low of salaries most companies were offering. It didn't exactly motivate her to take a job and move out of our house. So at least from my very limited perspective there may be a labor shortage but I suspect there just isn't adequate enticement to jump into the job market. I'm hopeful that with time

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Re: Need help moving data and apps from Mojave volume to Monterey volume - 4 days ago

Set up an external SSD from scratch with a Monterey boot volume. Migrate from your Mojave volume to the external SSD via Migration Assistant. Copy anything of importance from the internal Monterey volume to the external drive. Run off of the external for a few days/weeks to make sure everything works as expected. Then erase the internal boot drive and clone to the internal drive from

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