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  • Yeah if you look at 2000 in particular Bush “won” by .01%.

    If you are familiar with that election that is when Al Gore won the popular vote in the U.S., a recall was called in Florida twice and conspiracies surround how Bush’s own brother was the Governir of Florida.

    Basically first count said Bush won by 1784 votes ~.009%. That triggered and automatic recount by the machines. Which came back saying he actually only won by 327 votes, meaning the room for error was wider than the election. His brother helped stall a manual recount, they sent it to the Supreme Court and the U.S. supreme court decided it didn’t matter because hand counting them would take time and awarded all 25 elector votes to Bush, making him President of an election he had not one neither the population, nor possibly the electors… But we’ll never know.


  • Florida has gone to the right in the last 10 years but before that they always swung back and forth.

    Like if you look at who Florida voted for, it was pretty much who won president except the Trump 2020 election.

    Election Year Winning Candidate Party Margin of Victory

    1960 John F. Kennedy D -0.2%

    1964 Lyndon B. Johnson D +27.0%

    1968 Richard Nixon R +5.0%

    1972 Richard Nixon R +27.0%

    1976 Jimmy Carter D +1.9%

    1980 Ronald Reagan R +10.0%

    1984 Ronald Reagan R +20.0%

    1988 George H.W. Bush R +10.0%

    1992 Bill Clinton D +2.0%

    1996 Bill Clinton D +5.0%

    2000 George W. Bush R +0.01%

    2004 George W. Bush R +5.0%

    2008 Barack Obama D +2.8%

    2012 Barack Obama D +0.9%

    2016 Donald Trump R +1.2%

    2020 Donald Trump R +3.4%

    2024 Donald Trump R +13.1%




  • So I’m a paranoid person, if they don’t already have the parts for the replacement I would question how long they would take to acquire after turning the water off… Because while the hot water tank in theory shouldn’t drain anything, if others start trying to wash hands, clean dishes or take a shower the water from the tank would still come out and then you are heating lower amounts of water and air in the tank.

    So the what could go wrong always has me cut the breaker to the hot water heater before I shut off the water main.




  • This is actually do to government policies being put in place in the U.K., Australia and such. In those countries if a user has a child account (under 13 years old) certain safety features are turned on by default now in those countries, and the parent can choose to turn them off. If your account is over 18 years old, has a credit card attached to it, or I think there is a couple other ways it will automatically assume you are over 18 and you don’t have to prove it (otherwise you would have to scan your ID to get your Apple account to have you listed as an adult). In the U.S. you don’t have to prove it, and it is opt in by the users.

    So it’s a catch 22, I think it should be opt in every where, but no one is winning a political campaign on saying 12 year olds should be able to send or receive nudes without their parents knowinh about it.



  • Actually I bought I a 1/3 horsepower craftsman garage door opener for my father and helped him install it because my mother didn’t trust him to do it when i was 16 (says a lot about my mother’s trust of her husband) but that was more than 20 years ago now. Garage door has to be rated for 175mph (281kph) winds because they live in Florida for building codes. Never had an issue since.


  • Craftsman tools used to be great years ago, and sold by a company called sears “now bankrupt” but basically had a policy that was if you bought a wrench of x size and it broke, they would replace it without a receipt with the same or newer model they sell now. Then battery powered tools came out and they obviously had to change their policies, but still non electric tools was the same. 9mm socket, bring in the broken one, no questions





  • I want to build on what rose said.

    Privacy here does not exist. If everyone can see, then everyone can see…

    We are here for avoidance of corporate ownership and how they directly exploit us. There is 0 protections against them expoiting us really. (But us)

    We block who we want to not see, they will still see you. If a stalker chased you, you block them, you won’t see them, and a mod hopefully will help, but they are smarter to not… Because they aren’t blocking IP addresses, they are blocking a username which any new one can come from anywhere… so what’s best?

    Society rejecting a person means more than a mod rejecting one. I’m sure many want them blocked/banned/gone, it really it’s stupid. Keep them where they are, identify them, and recogze a person as what they are.

    I don’t want to know Trump is called Paul Tommorow, I want to recognize a rapist by his name. Ban him, he comes back as Paul