Press declares boycott of Trump
The largest U.S. television networks, including Fox News, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and NBC News, have announced a suspension of coverage of events involving the president.
The decision was a protest against the White House’s refusal to grant several media outlets access to the president.
It was previously reported that Trump banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from working in the White House after his aide Natalie Harp showed him a selection of critical articles and television broadcasts.
A judge dismissed a lawsuit from a civilian engineer after it was determined that her report of being raped in her bed aboard a Navy transport ship was within her duties and must be treated as a worker's comp claim. (from @Rose_Lori) https://t.co/wYiyEQj1ga
Rural communities and businesses in Big Bend have been abandoned by Texas leaders. Locals here are dismayed and enraged, but they're in the fight of their lives—and they aren't backing down.
Business owner Jess Bartko describes how the feds plans would take everything from her:
At the base of Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park, protestors gathered Wednesday to rally against what they have called an attack on the sprawling West Texas park.
@celizario reporting for @MarfaRadio: https://t.co/OqFxfZBM0L
DHS is bulldozing a route for the border wall/road/barrier (or whatever they’re secretly building) through Big Bend National Park.
TX leaders talk big game about fighting federal overreach. Yet TX senators and governor are MIA. Now would be a time to speak up.
This guy nails it. This surveillance technology creates a system of default suspicion, or pre-crime, as he puts it, wherein we are all transformed into perpetual suspects in an infinite open police investigation that never ends.
Fort Worth: Former Rep Lon Burnam hauled out of the Tarrant County Commissioners Court meeting about slashing the number of voting locations, 📸 via @FortWorthReport
Ok, here’s my corporate greed call-out of the day.
I was dispatched today for a no-cool call. The indoor unit was running, but the outdoor unit wasn’t.
The system was a 10-year-old Bryant Evolution high-end variable-capacity inverter system. After running the factory diagnostics, I found Code 77, indicating the inverter board was detecting excessive compressor startup current.
Following the manufacturer’s diagnostic procedure, I disconnected the compressor leads to determine whether the fault was in the compressor or the inverter board. The results confirmed the inverter board had failed. The system is only 8 months out of warranty.
At that point, I started preparing myself to tell the customer the repair would probably be around $1,500–$1,900. I figured the board would cost somewhere in the $800–$1,000 range. After all, it’s just a printed circuit board.
Before giving the estimate, I called Carrier Enterprise for pricing.
$8,900.
Not for the entire outdoor unit.
Not for a complete system.
Just the inverter board.
That’s not a typo. $8,900.
In my opinion, this is the definition of engineered obsolescence. There is no reasonable justification for a replacement circuit board on a 10-year-old residential HVAC system to cost nearly nine thousand dollars. At that price, you’re essentially forcing the homeowner to replace the entire system instead of repairing it.
This is exactly why I’ll never sell Carrier equipment. They make decent equipment, but pricing replacement parts like this turns a repairable system into a disposable one. Homeowners deserve better than that.
Carrier Carrier Enterprise or anyone that’s sells this shit, care to elaborate why this board is so expensive?
🎩 Patrick Henning