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I had this problem in my house in GA. Clay soil would expand with seasonal rains in the spring, push against the foundation, then dry out, shrink, settle, repeat. Had fairly substantial cracks and movements in multiple basement walls. Cost $6-8k to install bracing and earth anchors to stabilize...

That's what I intended to link. Looks like amazon links are FUBAR.

There are some cheaper, but I've had several good experiences with ASUS monitors. (Preview says $600 but it's listed at $429.)

Spent a couple hours playing with my kids (5 & 8) who are relative gaming newbies. This game really hits a great middle ground for complexity and skill levels. Multi-generational couch coop is a blast. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/06/01/kids-2

Mine's working perfectly after seven four years. (Sorry, it was my G602 that's seven years old.)

I have the wired version; love it. Definitely the best mouse I've ever used. I'm a claw gripper so I like the smaller size and lighter weight.

You can get security hinges (Security Hinges – Exterior Doors That Swing Outwards) that have various methods to prevent unhinging from outside. However, by the nature of how doors work you're going to have some of the hinge exposed. Someone could always take a portable angle grinder to it. Of...

A friend of mine and his wife tested positive for active covid infection two days ago, the morning after having dinner in our back yard (distanced, no shared food or surfaces). I'm not concerned for myself, but we have been using my in-laws for child care so that my wife and I can work. Odds are...

It's easy to forget now that the booster landings have become routine, but this is one of the greatest engineering feats of the last century. My cousin works at SpaceX doing flight aerodynamics simulation, so re-entry and landing were his main job for years. We were having dinner one night and I...

I recently upgraded my main PC and am converting my previous box for use as a media center and budget gaming rig for my kids. It'll be hooked up to the TV in the living room, so I'm looking for recommendations for couch/lap desks and wireless keyboards. Anyone have preferences?

Chael's channel is just mainlining the best part of his MMA career without having to watch him make dumb mistakes in the cage.

It's not sexy and it doesn't make for much ongoing discussion fodder for this thread, but it works. The wife and I are in the low seven figures at age 40 by working, living modestly below our income, carrying zero consumer debt, and throwing everything in indices since I was mowing lawns at 16...

I bought something very similar to that from Costco. Served me well for 15 years so far.

For people looking for this MB. Sadly, in stock June 11: https://slickdeals.net/f/14084174-asus-tuf-gaming-x570-plus-atx-am4-motherboard-167-free-shipping

Yup. I'm 40, never carried a card balance in my life, never had a car payment. Take the credit card perks and run off into the sunset. Whenever I needed a higher limit I just called the up the provider and asked for a raise, which they granted every time. By the time I wanted to take out a...

https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i3520#idm139632678702352 Relevant text is in second note after linked subsection. "If a complete Form 3520 is not filed by the due date, including extensions, the time for assessment of any tax imposed with respect to any event or period to which the...

I read that "indirectly" as referring to the upstream origination of the funds for the purpose of aggregation towards the 100k threshold. Regardless of whose hands it passes through on the way to the final recipient, the money still counts as coming from the grandmother's estate. For example...

Just out of curiosity, could you point out that language? I saw quite a lot about distribution in the parts concerning foreign trust activity but nothing specific for distributing bequests, either in the actual form or the instructions. This might be relevant for me in processing my foreign...

Are you guys sure about that definition of "received"? My understanding has always been that you're only required to report money that becomes yours in a given year, and that passing through your hands in transition doesn't count. It's not like you inherited the full ~240k and then gifted 2/3 to...

First, you are awesome people for doing this. Second, 4 year old are girls about the most adorable things in the universe. Mine is 5 and a half; this is a really special age.

That's a sucky situation. My cousin in Brazil is in a similar bind. She works as a chef in a high-traffic international hotel and lives with her mid-60's parents and 90 year old immuno-compromised grandmother (multigenerational houseolds are common there). They can't afford the loss in income...

Edit: Sorry, I misread the thread. Twitter is a shit medium for this kind of presentation. Anyway, it's really hard to know what to make of rate data without knowing exactly what was used for numerator and denominator. Anything that uses active case counts is going to be noisy as fuck due to...

Has anyone read Ford's stuff? https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/john-ford-science-fiction-fantasy-books.html

Population density. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population_density#List_of_incorporated_cities_in_the_United_States_with_over_75,000_residents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_statistics_of_the_United_States#Most_densely_populated

Was definitely that way when I played it. Thoroughly uninspiring.

I buy that. I just tried to get my daughter's immunization records for school and had to dig up a fucking fax machine to submit the request. The same form signed the same way was not accepted electronically.

Load of HIPAA problems with this, I imagine.

I use something similar. It's great if you're the type who wants a wired mouse but gets annoyed by cord snags and not having the slack you want.

https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/joe-rogan-experience-spotify-podcast-exclusive-1234610885/

Wife's aunt and uncle tested positive. LA. They live two miles away from us, so yes, I know them. They're late 60's, were totally laid out for a week and a half but never hospitalized.

Unreal Engine 5 supposedly running live on a PS5.

Her odds are not zero. I train BJJ with several women who will to routinely tool up novice men 50 lbs heavier. Whatever her flaws in MMA, Ronda is a legit world class grappler. The early UFCs were plenty of evidence about how one sided grappling plays out even against massive weight and strength...

Almost anyone competent in MMA could dominate Mayweather in the cage. Cover up, bum rush, clinch, double leg/trip/standing back take, and submit. It's really hard to express how fucked you are if you have no ju jitsu or wrestling against someone who does. Ronda did have especially terrible...

I did essentially the same last week. Finally having a decent graphics card, I pulled Rise of the Tomb Raider out of my Steam backlog. It was very pretty, but certain game areas were very choppy. Seemed to be a CPU bottleneck. A couple hours of hair pulling later, it turns out I'd put my RAM...

Got it. So you'll be looking into the end grain on either side of the stove. Rather than pocket screws, you might consider gluing the joints. With the orientation you've chosen the joints will be long grain to long grain. As long as the vertical faces are planed well enough you'll get a perfect...

Building a skate park for my kids in the back yard. It's going to be a looong summer.

Sorry, I've confused myself. Are you making a perpendicular joint or making one long counter out of two shorter lengths?

Edit: This applies only to perpendicular joints. Done perfectly, miters should be the more stable joint in terms of wood movement, since the two butcherblock segments should expand proportionally across their respective long grains and keep a roughly consistent joint length. With a butt joint...

Never mind when you've got a career-making title victory riding on your ability to gut it out. Also, you don't get to be a UFC fighter without being a tougher than average dude.

^ This is what we do for my small (3 person) consulting company.