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Re: If you watch one Cybertruck review….. - Today

That was a very fun review to watch. However, it was totally an informercial that made a lot of hay about relatively unimportant things (like 48v electrical systems) and zero to 60 times..

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Re: Need help moving data and apps from Mojave volume to Monterey volume - Yesterday

OK, that sounds like a safer approach than my Time Machine method.

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Re: whats your favorite way to roast a chicken? - Yesterday

Quotemattkime Sorry, a Costco rotisserie chicken tastes like what it is - a cost engineered meal. It does not compare to roasting yourself. I agree. However, our local markets sell rotisserie free-range birds that are quite delicious and every bit as good as birds I have cooked myself and vastly better than the Costco cheapo birds.

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Re: Bill For Harvard Student In 1869 - Yesterday

Hmm. The tuition bill for my first term (quarter) at University of California Berkeley was $212.50. Not too far above the Harvard amount considering the number of years that had passed.

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Need help moving data and apps from Mojave volume to Monterey volume - Yesterday

A while back I set up a second volume on my 2015 MBPR so that I could run new apps that were incompatible with Mojave along with legacy apps that would not run on Monterey. Now I've gotten to the point where I want to move to Monterey permanently and delete the Mojave partition. The problem is that most of my data and apps are on the Mojave volume and fill up more than 50% of the SSD, even though

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Re: more on: Proud Boy Jan. 6 defendant who shot at law enforcement is sentenced to prison - 4 days ago

Two years for attempting to kill a police officer!? That's ridiculous. What are they smoking down there in Texas?

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Re: delayed Social Security - 4 days ago

The doomsaying about SS running out is nothing but horse manure shoveled by certain politicians who want to deep-six SS so they can give even more tax breaks and credits to billionaires. As to the original question, it is a very individual decision that must be based on your overall health, future tax brackets after RMDs kick in, and need for money at the beginning of retirement. I didn't retire

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Re: Diameter is not circumference. - 5 days ago

Quotekj QuoteTiangou Quotekj No, a pizza isn't a circle, as far as I understand. A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a specific distance from a point at the center. A Platonically perfect pizza crust will be a circle, and as a solid object it can be described as a series of circles or as a cylinder, or if the crust is puffy at the edges then as a torus surro

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Re: Yams vs Sweet Potatoes - 11 days ago

Most of the vegetables labelled as yams in the US are actually sweet potatoes. Actual yams are not common. Here's an explanation:

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Re: Male version of Hallmark Christmas Movies? - 11 days ago

QuoteJohn B. Yet another chance for the annual debate of “Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?” What debate? Also, The Ref is a Christmas movie, and a good one. Almost as good as Die Hard. "Yippee-Ki-Yay, Motherf*****."

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Re: Spatchcocked Turkey - 11 days ago

I spatchcocked turkeys for a couple of years on our outdoor Weber BBQ. It worked way better than the "traditional" cooking method. That said, we've moved on from turkey after my entire family agreed that we don't really like turkey that much. For a couple of years we've had crab but this year crab season is delayed so we had shrimp cocktail, slow-cooked tri-tip roast and hasselback

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Re: Received my new glasses today. - 12 days ago

Pictures, or it didn't happen...and I'm talking' glamor pictures, not just pix of the glasses.

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Re: question for those of you who recycle. - 17 days ago

Never. The mental harm that comes from paranoia would likely kill me before any harm could come from someone reading the address labels sitting in my recycling bin.

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Re: hey, big spender?!…..this is how Santos allegedly spent his campaign funds….. - 18 days ago

This sounds like it is completely consistent with GOP representative spending policies. What's the problem? Perhaps have one of the Trump kids vet the invoices.

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Re: What kind of turkey will you buy? - 18 days ago

We'll do crab if fresh crab is available (maybe not...they keep delaying the season opening due to overfishing and other reasons) or salmon.

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Re: MR Forum Confessions - 18 days ago

After years of cooking turkey with all the fixings, I decided that I don't like turkey that much so Thanksgiving dinner will either be crab (if the season isn't delayed again) or salmon.

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Re: WCNSF - 21 days ago

Thanks for that John Oliver video gadje. He's always a (agitated) breath of fresh air.

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Re: Is it true that alcohol burns off during cooking? - 21 days ago

It's pretty irrelevant unless you have some kind of religious objection to alcohol touching your lips since the amount that you use during cooking is usually minuscule even without considering the amount that evaporates. Nobody has ever gotten a buzz from any dish I have cooked that uses alcohol for flavoring.

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Re: Microwave repair has defeated me - 21 days ago

Quotemrbigstuff QuotePeterW A trip to a big box store? You have some sentimental attachment to that microwave? there are only so many things that go kaput on these things. plus, I try to save adding to the landfill whenever I can, I think it's pathetic how much we discard -- as long as we can't see it. I am totally in agreement with this philosophy, a "waste not" philosophy that

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Re: Dumb crooks …. Trying to steal a secret service SUV ? - 21 days ago

LEOs in the US are far too eager to use their guns. There should never be a reason to use guns to prevent property crime (secret property or not) unless shooting someone is highly likely to avert death or grievous harm to someone else. Just as initiating a war represents a failure of diplomacy, initiating shooting represents a failure of policing.

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Re: Trump has some really innovative ideas on immigration for his next term - 22 days ago

He's going to title it Trump's Final Solution."

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Re: Questions about replacing battery for old Craftsman 9.6v cordless drill - 22 days ago

I have an old DeWalt with the batteries like yours (except that mine's a 12v). I really like that drill and I replaced the battery shortly before they stopped making them so it's still going strong. That said, get a new drill! Also, you can't use NiMH or Lithium batteries with your old charger. If you're really insistent on keeping the old one then this is the only avenue that makes sense to

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Re: Received this LEGIT email, (copied exactly as it appears) - 26 days ago

Damn! That is scary. I sure hope that you clicked the link and gave them every bit of information that they asked for.

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Re: ‘ Even In Matte Black, The Tesla Cybertruck Still Looks Like Crap ‘ - 26 days ago

Frankly, I think that most modern pickup trucks with the enormous plastic chrome grilles are hideous. The Tesla truck is a bit weird but doesn't have the over the top excessive chrome bling of most of the competitors such as...

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Re: My Brain Hurts… - 27 days ago

What could possibly go wrong?

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Re: What will Apple call the next MacOS? - 28 days ago

Since I mostly have older macs, I have a problem with using these silly names instead of numbers. When there's a description that says something like "Only works with Catalina or higher" instead of saying "Only works with 11.5" or whatever, I don't know what the heck that means. I have several macs running various OSs (because they are maxed out on those particular OSs) includ

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Re: ‘ Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Intake ‘ - 28 days ago

Wow, that is really effed up (and a national security risk too)!

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Re: Not a fan of Daylight Savings ending, however... - 30 days ago

Hey, I'm retired. That means I don't use alarm clocks so I will wake up at exactly the same time as usual but that the clocks will show a time one hour earlier than usual, and I don't care.

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Re: better Late, than never?!....CBS names James Corden replacement for a 'Late, Late, Show'...... - 4 weeks ago

I think she's great and I think that her personality and style are well suited to a talk show, though I could be wrong.

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Re: Thoughts on installing fence posts - 4 weeks ago

QuoteBlack QuoteOmbligo and check to be sure there aren't any underground utilities running through it before digging. Thanks, everything is suspended in the alley and gas runs along the street in the front. I can't think of anything that could be buried there. Water main? Storm sewer? Sanitary sewer?

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