Yeah, I am very familiar with the clearance process. Not saying lower wage jobs don’t exist with clearances (I mean buildings need custodians and janitors, cafeteria workers, repro office workers, etc), just that I can’t imagine Dominos requesting, getting sponsored, and then paying for a delivery driver to be cleared, it just isn’t needed.

While I understand the note on Kagi requiring an account making it less private in theory, in practice you can pay using OpenNode and use an anonymous email to sign up which makes it impossible to really tie anything to the real person you are at that point (and functionally like other engines that may use backend fingerprinting to help personalize your results, just in the open).

Kagi provides a bit more detail in their FAQs: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#why-trust

That said it’s still an American company, so that may be the deal breaker for some which is fair.

Not in my experience, clearances are really expensive (last I saw it was in the $5-6k range per initial clearance package, and about 2/3s that each reinvestigation). Most secure workplaces will have a lobby for receiving things like this where they will call either a central mailroom to deliver it or whomever ordered it to come grab it (especially if it still needs paid for).

This is a fairly known way reporters track activities around DC. I recall a similar story about the raid on Bin Laden and food deliveries to the pentagon and White House.

Sharpening a blade that’s in decent condition on a stone should only take a few minutes. If it’s badly dinged up or needs a new edge entirely it can take a lot longer though. I spend about an hour every couple months to sharpen all of our kitchen knives, it’s 100% worth it.

Agree 100%, Ars Technica syndicates those stories (they do it for Wired and FT stories too), so they paid ProPublica to republish the story and give full credit to them.

Ars also has traditionally operated very independently of Condé Nast, and their authors, editors, and staff are incredibly active and as up front as possible in their comments and forums. Perhaps Conde is doing something shady, but if so I have decent faith that Ars isn’t in on it.

Banks don’t really create it out of thin air. Banks are letting you borrow money they otherwise hold, meaning they can’t lend indefinitely. This is the exact same way say a library works, they can only lend you books they have, and while you are using that book they cannot lend it to others. Paying back the principal on your loan doesn’t make the money disappear, it’s you giving back the amount you borrowed, plus extra to compensate the bank for lending you the money. This all matters a bit more in non-fiat currencies since those are backed by something intrinsically valued (such as gold), but even in fiat currencies banks that lend more money than they have access too are over extended and generally need to borrow themselves from either other institutions or the Fed in the US. This is why the Fed interest rate impacts loan rates.

And macOS, though they are starting work on porting it to Linux, I worry they are going to abandon WebKit for that.

Worth noting here that Orion is made by Kagi, a privacy focused search engine.

So Ryobi, Rigid, and Milwaukee are all made by TTI, and generally the differences are in design and availability of specialized tools and attachments. If you are just weekend warroring things any of those is likely fine unless you need/want specific tools. The batteries though are generally the same internally (usually a set of 18650 Li-ion cells).

I mean as a few examples, the installer for our kitchen cabinets used all rigid tools with no issues, Aging Wheels on YouTube uses Ryobi again with no problems, and Farm Craft typically uses DeWalt but with a few Milwaukee.

I use Milwaukee M18 tools mostly, though would like to get some M12 for the smaller sizes. All told though it’s much more worthwhile to look for a system you can afford, and go for higher quality in that brand (like brushless mothers over brushed). Don’t get so caught up on if it’s “a pro tool” since they’re all pretty much from the same factories.

We also have an I6, and generally really like it. With how fast it charges at L3 chargers, road trips so far haven’t been much different for us other than where we stop, but we would have taken a 15-20 minute break anyways. We got our last month, so no free NACS adapter for us, but we got a quality one from Canada for about $100. Lastly, don’t discount the V2L features. We used it in a recent 4+ day power outage to keep our chest freezer going overnights and saved likely $1000 in food from going bad. Sure we waited a couple hours to recharge it at one of the only working fast chargers, but we had no power anyways so sitting and waiting in the car or at home made no real difference.

In terms of driving, the I6 drives well. Like all EVs it has instant torque, which I described to my dad as like being in 1st but all the way to 60 with no need to shift. It handles well and is comfortable.

My biggest complaints are the it’s a bit short inside (but I think that of most cars, so maybe it’s me), and the parking sensors are stupid annoying most of the time (way too sensitive, and I can’t find a way to leave them on while turning the audible alerts off but leaving the normal driving alerts on). It really thinks our normal 1-car garage door opening is too tight.

A gift link to the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/well/live/guidelines-iud-insertion-pain-management.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IU8.YRQV.JNBVow3EqQvA

I have this on my list of things to do. I have the romex, just need to grab a couple breakers to add the circuits and do the work. I know it won’t be hard, and will be well worth it, but getting started is hard when it’s out of sight and only annoying when I need them.

Minor thing, but added a piece of OSB to the bottom of the foam lid to our energy box in the attic access (basically a wood tunnel through the insulation that has a 1" piece of polystyrene insulation board on top). It was built with weather stripping to help air seal it, but the hunk of foam isn’t nearly heavy enough to really sit on the stripping. I’ve been meaning to do it for like 6 months and finally cut the scrape of OSB I had, glued it down and added some small handles. Should make it a lot easier to move out of the way, seal better, and be more durable.

I’ll have to do a post with some pictures from a few weeks ago when I installed our EVSE soon.

I’m curious how everyone documents their core/critical configs to allow the non-technical in our homes work with it if needed. For instance if I’m on work travel and the Pi-hole goes down for whatever reason my wife wouldn’t be able to use pretty much anything online. I can remote in and fix it but that could be hours/a day or two later. Same then for the proxmox stack that everything runs on.

Along the same lines, how are folks documenting for EOL? It may not be a happy thought but we are all going to go someday, so what is your plan and how have you ensured loved ones can access/save important data?

In the nicest way possible, you both need to move on past this. This is something like your 10th post about this person on various communities in a week or two, and this person you are talking about has also shown up in your posts and their communities you post to to continue this drama numerous times (and been banned, and evaded those bans). I won’t speak for everyone, but in general this type of drama posting isn’t nearly as well received on Lemmy as it was on Reddit.

I’m sorry you had a bad friendship in high school, truly. I’m sorry you are being bullied for something that you just are. Kids are assholes, especially “popular girls” in high school IMO (I mean there is a reason a very successful movie was made on that entire concept). But if you really want to break free as you state, you’ve got to post about other things and leave this throwaway account behind. Move on, live your life the best you can, and take solace in the fact that if you are as happy as possible as often as possible, that is the best revenge ever for someone that bullied you.

It’s worth remembering the full elimination dieting doesn’t work for almost anyone because of exactly this. Sure ADHD makes it harder/different, but everyone has a dopamine dependency and food is a huge part of that.

Dieting is mostly mental, and about all of your habits around eating. Look at things like overall portion sizes, and trucking your brain into realizing you’ve had enough. It’s okay to have some chips, but put them in a small bowl and then put the bag away. Eat dinner on smaller snack plates and not full dinner plates so it looks like you have way more food available. Eat slower, and don’t eat while doing other things like watching TV or reading as that distracts you from the signals your stomach gives that your full. And give yourself a reward sometimes, it’s important to enjoy life and food is part of that. Finally, is your dieting strategy sustainable long term (like “the rest of your life” long term)? If you cut out chocolate you may lose the weight you want, but if you go back to eating it again in a year, or two, or three you’ll likely gain much of it back.

You 100% can do it, but be sure to set yourself up for long term success! You’re not just trying to lose weight/be healthier, you’re working on lifelong habits to be happier as well.

From YouTube and friends that have it I definitely suspected I did in my 20s. It wasn’t until my early/mid 30s though I got evaluated for it due to issues I was starting to have getting things done at work (forgetting things that needed completed, missing details, zoning out on calls more often). I think I masked it well previously because my work was varied and challenging but a new role had me doing more mundane things that required experience and attention to details but weren’t difficult for me or overly stimulating.

I am not, that appears to be @[email protected]

As has been pointed out though on non-web clients it’s much more disruptive to link to the webpage instead of how the bot works now. I’m not sure what the split is between web and mobile users but I’d hazard a guess there’s appreciably more mobile client users.

I’m also not sure why it would require more loads on web, if you open a post (as you have to do regardless) does it not show the image with text below it anyways?