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    Hmm...it just occurred to me that the last time I...

    Hmm...it just occurred to me that the last time I saw a K&S display, it was picked clean. But that was during the supply-chain issues 2-3 years ago.
    As a Serial Hobbyist, I've since moved on from...
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    Learn something new every day. :) Oddly, they...

    Learn something new every day. :)

    Oddly, they also sell "Bendable Copper Tube" in the same sizes, same alloy, and same wall thickness. Different heat treating maybe?

    (I've never set foot inside...
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    I think I see part of the problem: All the K&S...

    I think I see part of the problem:

    All the K&S tubing I've ever seen is brass, not copper. (I went through a ton of it decades ago, when slot-car racing was still a thing.) Not at all easy to find...
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    Very long ago I had a knife my dad got from the...

    Very long ago I had a knife my dad got from the USAF, probably as part of some survival kit. It was bright orange and had two 'blades'.

    The smaller of the two was a ~2" smooth-edge knife blade....
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    "Hi, I'm Nick Dundee. I was the mumblety-peg...

    "Hi, I'm Nick Dundee. I was the mumblety-peg champion at Alice Springs Middle School.
    My friends call me 'Gimpy'."
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    I'm getting an image of a couple of middle-school...

    I'm getting an image of a couple of middle-school kids playing mumblety-peg: the whole school goes on lock-down and SWAT gets called out.
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    I vaguely agree with you in theory, but somehow...

    I vaguely agree with you in theory, but somehow the concept of someone being computer-literate enough to handle Craigslist but not computer-literate enough to handle Google Maps just Does Not Compute.
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    I wouldn't give a nickel for the odds of a...

    I wouldn't give a nickel for the odds of a bladeless Swiss Army Whatever getting past a TSA screening.
    It still looks like a pocketknife and most (all?) TSA agents wouldn't even bother opening it...
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    I saw the face right away, but...Nicholas Cage?!?...

    I saw the face right away, but...Nicholas Cage?!? Um, no, don't think so.
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    The Greenworks one I have (not sure bout the...

    The Greenworks one I have (not sure bout the newer ones) can do that, but I only tried it once when it was new. I just don't have that many leaves to deal with, and reconfiguring it from blow to suck...
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    The first thing that grabbed my eye in the...

    The first thing that grabbed my eye in the original pic was two people and five hands...huh?

    Reminded me a bit of an AI-generated pic I saw awhile back:
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    Back on topic... I have two, a 18V Ryobi now...

    Back on topic...

    I have two, a 18V Ryobi now used only for blowing cruft out of the garage, and a 40V Greenworks that shares batteries with the lawnmower, string trimmer, and hedge trimmer. One...
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    I'm still amazed the Tesla people let that...

    I'm still amazed the Tesla people let that particular trademark get away...
  14. I dunno, my neighbor has a Harley that looks like...

    I dunno, my neighbor has a Harley that looks like it's using that stuff for fuel.
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    No one on either side of my family has ever made...

    No one on either side of my family has ever made it to 80. I'm currently the oldest, and the number of candles required on the cake each year is making it really hard to stay optimistic.

    Chronic...
  16. Also I'm guessing that the people with 6-digit...

    Also I'm guessing that the people with 6-digit pad life are doing a lot of freeway rather than stop-and-go.
  17. That does depend on the car. My Corvette (C5...I...

    That does depend on the car. My Corvette (C5...I suspect the C6s had the same design) had a caliper bolt that was almost inaccessible unless the car was on a lift, and was spec'd for 115-120ftlb of...
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    Hadn't heard that one. One story he told had...

    Hadn't heard that one.

    One story he told had to do with a family friend who was in the queue a rocker. The guy said, "I used to worry that I wouldn't get it before you [Sam] die, now I'm worried...
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    Those are like Sam Maloof lead times, but his...

    Those are like Sam Maloof lead times, but his "factory" consisted of him and two helpers. They turned out about a piece (chair/table/whatever) per week: the real gotcha was the multi-year backlog....
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    That is pretty much exactly what I said in the...

    That is pretty much exactly what I said in the portion you redacted. If you don't want to compare current data to historical data, don't. But there are decades of current (i.e. satellite) data...
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    Have a cite for that? (I'm finding lots of stuff...

    Have a cite for that? (I'm finding lots of stuff about how names are picked, not so much about what qualifies a storm for naming.)

    It seems quite logical that "historically" (prior to weather...
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    So you're not old enough to remember the...

    So you're not old enough to remember the 1970-1980s. That, sir, was serious inflation.

    That's a problem for a lot of people, going back well before 2019, but it really wasn't what you asked about...
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    How about the computer you're using to access...

    How about the computer you're using to access this forum?
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    Heh. I've long had the impression that the...

    Heh. I've long had the impression that the overlap between economics and politics is nearly 100% for a largish percentage of the population.
    (Of course, the same is true for politics and religion,...
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    It would have to be something that doesn't...

    It would have to be something that doesn't require you to verify your email address by sending email from it. Off the top of my head, that's a very short list, and I'd be surprised if opening a...
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