The party who’s caused a recession every presidential term they’ve held power in my lifetime… Might cause a recession this time too???

Try to kick the football again Charlie Brown 🤷‍♂️

It is designed to be a desirable smell (or actually flavored in some cases). Since it’s highly addictive the people selling it know they just you to try it and they’ll probably have a long-term customer.

I’ve been looking into this (along with some other options like tankless) since my water heater is the next major appliances due for replacement.

Depending on the efficiency of your HVAC and water heater; it might still be cheaper to heat twice (water heater makes water hot & inside air cold; then HVAC makes inside air hot & outside cold). If your efficiency at the HVAC stage is more than double (most modern heat pumps give 3x to 4x efficiency; that’s both in the water heater and HVAC). It gets a bit complicated; but the short answer is when it’s efficient enough the switch between modes for the hot water heater might not be necessary.

Longer answer; is you need to know the difference in performance of the water heater. Ex. your heating costs go from $10/mo with heat pump to $20/mo with electric element (obviously if gas is the alternate heat source that adds another conversion…). If the marginal increase in HVAC cost is less than that $10/mo difference, there’s no need to switch the hot water heater between modes!

Undecided (you tube channel) has a few videos covering the basics that are worth a watch if you’re starting to look into the topic, but since you’ve already been doing research, maybe it’s all material you know? Quick link: https://www.instagram.com/undecidedmf/p/C4IrcBOsT_p/

Edit adding a better link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abGiNL9IT54&vl=en

Yes, it’s for a water heater being inside with sufficient ventilation. If your water heater is currently in a garage or separate area the benefits change.

I’m in Texas, and over 90% of the houses I’ve seen have the water heater in a closet somewhere inside. Some older builds have it in an attached garage. But if that is the case, there’s a good reason to move it when you next replace it, as the garage gets much colder in the winter, costing more to heat the water!

Given he put tariffs in place his prior term, good chance he actually does it again.

Things that can be done via executive order are highly likely … Because one of his staff will draft it and he’ll sign based on what they tell him it’s about.

Some lackey: “this is that tariff thing”.

Actual EO: contains whatever

Lathe of Heaven and Left Hand of Darkness I read before. I highly recommend both.

I’m also planning on re-starting the Wizard of Earthsea books, which (given the amount of time I have to read) will take me 2-3 months to get through all of them (6?).

Picked up some books by Ursula K LeGuin. I read parts of the Earthsea series a long time ago, picking up some of her other stuff because it all gets high praise.

Tariffs that went on long enough would force manufacturing to be done in the US. And wages would have to rise

When the tariff is on final consumer products, these are two opposing forces. Higher wages mean companies would more likely save money by paying the tariffs. Higher tariffs mean companies are more likely to purchase domestically.

But if the tariffs are on precursor products (e.g. steel, lumber, oil, etc …) rather than final consumer goods: the tariffs make it more expensive for domestic manufacturing. The US manufacturer has to pay the tariffs to use the materials they need to produce their final product, and have to pass those costs on. That means there’s less margin for wages.

There’s been a recession start in every single republican presidential term of my life. I’m over 40. Each of Reagan’s terms. HW Bush. Each of the second Bush (these were the worst, dot-com crash and the great recession starting in 2007/8). And then the great Covid bungling. As you point out: if they implement their agenda it’s likely to happen again.

There has never been a recession start during a democratic president in my lifetime (although Biden’s term came close).

The opposition needs to be ready to jump on this and yell from the figurative rooftops so conservatives can’t spin it away. And it needs to be most heavily broadcast where the electorate shifted to the right this election. The fact that people generally think republicans are better for the economy is a severe failure on the part of the democrats.

It’s a knife, what looks like a fork, and (by process of elimination) the other must be a spoon!

Cruz’s margin (and how different it was from polling) is a shock! This was a systematic miss, I’m curious to learn the root cause once someone investigates that difference… What significant portion of the electorate was missed?

Hopefully they actually vote.

I feel like we heard this same sentiment 4 years ago, and yet here we are.

Also use a towel or cloth on top of the rubber band so it’s gentler on your hand / skin.

Why it works: this fixes the problem of poor friction; metal doesn’t grip well against skin (especially if your hand is wet or oily). The rubber band grips well against the metal of the lid and your skin (or towel).

Exposed isn’t accurate… everyone who is paying attention and cares knew this. But sadly most Texas Republicans either aren’t paying attention or don’t care (or both).

I met my wife through eHarmony. I tried the other apps available at the time (mid 2000s) and most were “profile pic & swipe” level of depth. eHarmony had a fee (so both parties were at least a little more committed to finding a partner, rather than “sign up for free account while drinking one night”). Also it had maybe 100(?) questions you had to fill out before it’d give you any matches… basically a quasi personality profile about what you were like and what you were looking for in a relationship. The result was fewer matches, but all the dates I went on were meaningful (eventually leading to ~15 years of marriage & 2 kids).

There’s now additional dating sites beyond just eHarmony that have this barrier to entry which seems similar (although I don’t have personal experience with those).

60% Local; 30% All; 10% Subscribed (still building out my subscribed list)

I enjoy her series; as well as the “What’s Eating Dan” one. The regular ATK show is okay; it’s still quality content, but the delivery feels too fake for me.

Why protect a home industry that won’t make the type of product I want? I don’t want a giant electric SUV, eHummer, Ford Lightning truck, or whatever; I want a small electric car. The models that would compete with BYD are often being discontinued by domestic producers…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Volt

https://www.slashgear.com/1604210/why-bmw-i3-discontinued-what-happened/

There’s still the Nissan Leaf I guess? And the ever-present promise of a cheap compact EV “coming soon” from many producers.

Use a secret manager?

Cert is a secret, add a small agent to your containers that pings your secret manager and gets back the current cert. Then saves / imports it (or whatever is appropriate).