Your local home center sells a variety of more permanently attached feet.

Given that you described it as a tank, here’s my first thought

• https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rok-8000-lbs-Steel-Screw-On-Heavy-Duty-Capacity-Adjustable-Furniture-Leg-Leveler-4-Pack-ROKFLHD-4/314134541

If I need 10 downvotes to make you disappear then I only need 10 Smurf accounts.

At the same time, 10 might be a large portion of some communities while miniscule in others.

I suppose you limit votes to those in the specific community, but then you’d have to track their activity to see if they’re real or just griefing, and track activity in relation to others to see if they’re independent or all grief together. And moderators would need tools to not only discover but to manage briefing, to configure sensitivity

Great idea but tough to keep people from gaming it

Earlier tonight I was watching a video going over sone climate predictions. There was a legit worst case scenario of an ice-free Arctic Ocean as early as 2030. Once one pole goes, it’s hard to see the other tensing frozen much longer

Thanks

I might consider that for myself, next time I need one, but the kid is not a techie. He needs something that just works, with anything he may encounter , for at least 4 years. Most damning of all he probably needs to be able to game, and is not interested in having to figure out extra steps

Went with an Acer. Best keyboard, tiny screen borders for a fairly compact 16” screen, 32G, 2TB, 3.1 lb …. I forget which CPU, we looked at so many.

The big question is battery life, and we decided to risk it. For a claimed 9.5 hours battery life when new, will it still get through a realistic full day of classes for the next four years. Hopefully

In theory we have elected representatives looking out for their constituents. Surely they would limit water use so this wouldn’t happen, and prevent the datacenters from relying on generators while waiting for power hookup, right? Oh, a red state. Never mind

I have no idea what point you’re trying to get across but I just got back from shopping for a laptop for my college kid and pretty much all of them had a slop button

My older son managed to set his schedule last semester so the earliest class started at 11am

He’s a bit insane though - the previous semester I think he had only one afternoon class, so was done at lunch

Someone from the US will always chime in about how we’re different, bigger, more spread out, but that’s BS.

• We also have 80% of our population in urban or suburban areas that could be designed for effective transit use.
• Most of our travel is between near-ish cities that could be effectively served by intercity rail.
• Many of our worst traffic jams are beyond the possibility of fixing by adding more lanes.
• Most of our air congestion is thousands of regional flights that could be served by rail

We have a fantastic interstate highway system, amazing air travel facilities, but we’ve not spent enough time or money on other possibilities. We emphasized people’s privacy on their own lot at the expense of being unable to walk anywhere

I know the feeling: what a horrible summer this has been here too. I switched from heat to air conditioning in only a week. It’s just hitting me that summer is almost over yet I haven’t been outside. It’s been 90° or raining just about every day

NYC?

So many times watching a car crash video, someone hydroplanes through a puddle …. my first reaction is I bet they live somewhere without safety inspections and those tires are bald

DOE gives salvation to “beloved” oil companies

Hertz was always bad at this anyway. For me the final straw was turning a car in and the guy recorded damage. I stayed there for several minutes making him point and describe, shining flashlights at angles, and was never able to see the damage.

It was one of the few times I got the damage waiver so I didn’t actually appeal it. If you get Hertz, definitely get that coverage: you’d be a fool not to. And factor that in when comparing prices with other rental companies

Even that’s not fair since efficiency isn’t the same thing as road usage. And one of the reasons gas taxes cover so little of the cost of roads is efficiency improvements over the last few decades.

Even before you take EVs into account, taxing by weight and mileage is more fair.

Then when you do take EVs into account, how do you adjust for usage, for road damage, and for your choice of vehicles? Is it fair to charge the same for a monstrous Hummer EV as for a Peugeot city car? Is it fair to pay the same for your Tesla driving 10k/year as for an ICE BMW of the same weight driving 30k/year? Taxing by weight and mileage is more fair for everyone

That’s insane. Either Chevy is really shitty at building EVs or those are two very different vehicles with the same name

Still don’t think that’s representative

I’ve done pretty well with this: stainless and cast iron pans, wood cutting boards, stainless or silicone utensils, glass food storage, stainless water bottles …… and I’m watching my rice cooker closely in anticipation for when I can rationalize replacing it with one having a stainless pan

Yeah I gave up on free swag for exactly this reason. If I have to hand wash it, it’s not free. If I only get one use out of it, it’s worse for the environment than a disposable water bottle. Sometimes “free” is just too expensive