Plenty of these tickets are BS that most actual cops would not write. The only saving grace is there is video instead of just someone's description of what happened.

Trump has no moral compass; and the only thing that matters is his ego.

Harris had domestic policy that I almost universally disagree with.

I did vote in the primary, but it didn't matter at that point because the only other option was Haley. I would have been enthusiastic about any other Republican primary candidate.

With two candidates and a variety of issues, you are very likely going to have to compromise on something. You can support Trump's immigration policy, DOGE efforts, and more; without thinking that the US should help Putin restore the Soviet Union.

Personally, I could not bring myself to vote for either of the presidential candidates. I only voted on the down ballot races.

For example: - It can do dovetails, etc. instead of purchasing a Leigh jig and using a standard router. - You can do hinge mortises for various hardware. - Cutouts in hardwood floors for various registers, without having to make a template for just that thing.

When you get into curves instead of just straight lines it can be easier to work with the Shaper than a template/jig. You can also use the Shaper to build a template that a standard bearing guided bit will follow.

You can do all of that with another tool, but the Shaper origin does it with less setup. The trade-off is if you have the setup then a regular router is probably going to be much faster to batch things out.

The Shaper Origin has you move the machine, and it makes corrections using machine vision to track its position. It will give you more accuracy than a Maslow; but at a much greater cost and more attention.

A jig saw does not make as clean cuts as a router, and you need to have the workpiece suspend so the blade can go through the work. With a router, you can just have a spoilboard underneath.

I do want my pickup truck to be a good pickup truck, and the impression I get is that the Lightning is really an F150 and does a good job at that.

I ordered my ICE F150 in late 2022 (delivered in 2023), so don't plan to buy a new truck for another 7-9 years.

When I was ordering, the Lightnings were just not available. Even if they were, however, you can only get the Lightning in the crew cab short bed configuration with a 145" wheel base.

I wanted a 6.5' bed, so the Lightning doesn't offer that. For a classic F150, you can get 2 wheel base options with 3 different cab/bed combinations.

The frunk with lockable storage is actually a really attractive feature though in terms of carrying tools or other things you want secure and out of the weather.

Not all manufacturers have big batteries for power tools, but the ones that do like the MX fuel that is used to run concrete tools have prices that are >$500.

You can't just recharge the battery overnight like you can in your car if it run out; you need to have the machine running to get out of the house - and filling it up with gas is just a couple minutes charging is going to take much longer.

Even the smaller machine that I had before was 8hp (but had wheels instead of tracks) and weighed 150lbs.

The FDA approved systems do have safeties in there that alarm persistent highs or on any lows. They also won't provide more basal than a multiple of the pre-configured setting you have.

The biggest thing for me was the 780G alarms less than 680G when there is nothing that I actually want to do to change it. Waking up all the damn time is no fun.

>There are people who take insulin pumps (which provide insulin in very small very frequent doses and are ~permanently injected into your body, but are otherwise dumb as a brick) and combine them with continuous glucose monitors, and make the glucose measurements inform and control the pump. This is called “closed loop” or “artificial pancreas”, and getting one officially is very hard or impossible: not FDA approved yet / you need to be part of an university study to get one / … It’s one of those things that “will be here in 5 years”, they say every year for the past 30 years.

I've had a Medtronic CGM and pump for 6 years now (680G, now 780G). It is an FDA approved system with feedback from the CGM to the pump. The only thing I needed to get insurance approval was a blood test showing that I was T1 and not T2.

The auto mode has been greatly improved in the 780G pump vs. the 680G pump. I only need to stick my finger a couple times a week, and my control has improved. Without the pump and MDI it was quite a bit higher. It's nowhere near as good as an actual pancreas, but it is definitely not vaporware by any stretch of the imagination.

The Medtronic support is (mostly good), and I have a pretty high degree of confidence that it will keep me alive. I do have Kwikpens as backup in case of malfunctions - which do happen. The biggest things for me are as simple as ripping your infusion set out while away from home, or the thing has an intractable Bluetooth communications problem or other kind of hardware error.

The author is pretty much 100% right about "vibes" though, even with a pump.

There is a lot to think of with a car transaction that goes beyond mechnical function. The basic four boxes of finance or leasing/trade-in/price/"extras" are a lot to keep in your head all at once when you only rarely buy a car. I ended up going to about 6 or 7 dealerships to get what I wanted at a good enough price taking into consideration the trade value on my truck and what they had in stock.

The table saw is a great tool, and the safety feature makes sense. Especially for the cabinet saw where the incremental price for a comparable too is not so much - but there are plenty of other power tools that will hurt you just as badly. A router or jointer won't amputate a finger, it will just turn it to hamburger.

No matter the tool, you need to respect it and learn the safety rules.

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