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[Benson @Miggysbat]

The Tigers really, REALLY need to stop pinch-hitting Matt Vierling for Kerry Carpenter.

[Brad Lemley @BradCLemley]

Here is a huge positive to modern life that gets no press.

I have an old 2009 Toyota, and the AUX port crapped out about a year ago. Went to YouTube. Young, enthusiastic guy explains how to fix it.

It is not obvious - involves taking the dashboard apart in a counter-intuitive way, but once you see it, it's a 15 minute fix.

There are actually dozens of videos showing how to do this, and they collectively have well over 200k views.

Had this happened in 1995, I would have just lived with it. But the combo of the replacement AUX jack available from Amazon and the video of the simple (but not obvious) fix, I fixed it.

I HAVE DONE THIS DOZENS OF TIMES. Replaced the control panel of my dishwasher. Replaced the ice maker in the fridge. Fixed a wonky sanding head on my drill press. Mastered a bandsaw technique that I use for my sculpture. On and on and on...

I think it is likely no exaggeration to say billions of fixes and skill upgrades have been performed worldwide that would not have been performed if it were not for the instruction freely given peer-to-peer on YouTube.

Take a moment to be happy about this. The busted item keeps performing, rather than going to the landfill. The person learning and doing the fix gains a sense of mastery and saves money. It's an unmixed blessing.

Stop doomscrolling. Think of what is busted in your house, find the YouTube video on how to fix it, and fix it.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

I am not a economist or math genius, but I think deporting 15 million illegal aliens and fake refugees would probably make auto insurance a lot cheaper for everyone.

[Jesse Lynn♥️ @jesseRoss597206]

Did you guys know that congress is aggressively pushing for the kill switch on new cars whilst also pushing for 15% ethanol in our gas to be permanent knowing it destroys older vehicles. How convenient. Abolish congress. Throw the whole thing away. Traitors

[Poke 🇩🇪 @immortalpoke]

Protein tozlarının aroması niye hep tatlı?? Peynir aromalısını yapın makarnaya karıştırıp yiyelim mesela?? Million dollar idea

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Ducky @Ducky_Bets]

All this gambling education available for free online, and some of y’all still falling for the dudes marketing the ONE parlay they hit out of the 50 they posted that day?

…and they’re pushing sports book sign ups?

Got it 🫡💬💬

[hoe_math = PsychoMath @ItIsHoeMath]

Don't let anyone call you "unhinged" or "radical" or anything like that.

You are the unboiled frog.

They consider race replacement and transsexual children to be "normal" and rejecting these things to be "radical." Remind them of this!

It is not just "okay" to say "hey this is obviously not how we should live." It is necessary.

[Griff @deeptocenter]

When is the national media going to start talking about the fact that Dillon Dingler is an absolute demon

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The Midwestern United States was, until relatively recently, sitting on top of some of the deepest topsoil on earth.

Ten thousand years of prairie. Bison, fire, deep-rooted grasses, the slow accumulation of organic matter into a layer of black soil sometimes two feet thick. Soil that farmers in other parts of the world would have wept at the sight of.

Then the plough arrived.

In 2021, a team from the University of Massachusetts used satellite imagery and LiDAR to measure what was left. Their finding: roughly a third of the Corn Belt, around 30 million acres, has completely lost its A-horizon. The carbon-rich topsoil is simply gone. Scraped off the hilltops by a hundred and fifty years of tilling and rain, washed downslope, into rivers, into the Gulf.

The USDA had previously estimated that none of those same fields had lost their topsoil.

None.

The satellites disagreed.

Every year, the United States loses around five tons of soil per acre. Ten times the rate at which it forms. A layer as thick as a dime, peeled off every twelve months, across tens of millions of acres, and sent downhill.

The crops being grown on this land, the corn and soy that replaced the prairie, are in large part used for ethanol, high fructose corn syrup, and livestock feed. The livestock feed portion is the only one that gets criticised in polite company.

The prairie took ten thousand years to build.

We scraped a third of it off in under two hundred.

The people currently telling us to grow more crops instead of raising cattle are, presumably, unaware that the crops are already eating the ground they stand on.

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

BREAKING: The #Cowboys are trading DT Osa Odighizuwa to the #49ers, per @Schultz_Report.

[Ike @be_like_ike]

@themekoscott @erikschlitt Thanks Meko! Doesn’t make me feel any better about the trade though 😢

[Ike @be_like_ike]

@RandallKBets

[Ike @be_like_ike]

Hey @FOX17 ! We know, it’s winter, everything’s gross outside. Would you mind getting that giant weatherbug off the screen during the second to last football game of the season?!

[Ike @be_like_ike]

@DetroitTigersPR @tigers That’s great. Now do Skub

[Ike @be_like_ike]

@strong_sistas @FLBoundFreeMan Turns out I’m pretty close to where your website says you’re based. Are there any plans for a storefront?

[Ike @be_like_ike]

@DetroitTigersPR @tigers Now do Skub

[Cooper Mitchell - HomeGymGuy @homegymcoop]

Massive pro-tip for those building a home gym before years-end:

You can use your HSA or FSA to purchase gym equipment via Truemed.

This even includes Rogue Fitness Equipment as of a couple weeks ago.

[Ike @be_like_ike]

@FrankieFigz @homegymcoop I had to buy from Rogue using my own money, click a button after checkout to take a quiz about what it’s for, then got the LMN from TruMed to submit to my FSA for reimbursement. Titan somehow did the TruMed legwork for me and I was able to use my FSA card on the website