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After spending a couple hours posting here just now, I'm thinking...."Why am I wasting all this time posting for something I don't really care all that much about?" I'm not enjoying the arguments/posts so why do it? My OCD? So I'm going to mostly stop posting about Trump/Biden in this thread...

Both candidates have old age problems. Both of them. Biden's been in government for nearly 50 years. You think he will actually do or accomplish anything different/better? 1) Trump hasn't started any wars! 2) Trump hasn't continued and maintained any wars at a high level. 3) Trump...

First off, CHINA, not Russia is America's (and most of the world's) enemy. Not Russia. What one world leader says about another IN PUBLIC is mostly useless as far as strategic planning goes. Trump playing some 4-D chess here. 1) Trump is a buffoon. 2) Trump speaks out his ass. 3) U.S...

Just a tiny amount of Biden gaffs and poor speech patterns below. Whatever you think of Trump he doesn't have severe dementia or cognitive issues. BIDEN is mentally unfit for president. You all are saying the same thing about Trump and I get it, but BIDEN is PHYSICALLY unfit. FULL STOP...

I simply used ABL's video to show the video of Fauci saying that Trump wasn't distorting anything Trump and Fauci were talking about. And also to show a whole slew of other politicians severely downplaying COVID-19. So your point of Trump hiding the truth or downplaying COVID can be equally...

Governments need to have ACCURATE, COMPLETE and TIMELY information regarding COVID to make the best decisions. Now some aspects of the information may need to be withheld and slowly disseminated to reduce possible panic. And here in the states, at least in my state of Arizona, I was beginning...

When I was in the grocery store in March I already was seeing panic building up. Calm needed to be maintained and downplaying the true potential dangers was probably the right strategy. And when Trump proposed restricting travel from China he was called a xenophobe and racists. In that...

Any confirmation regarding this:

COVID-19 has killed more people than have died in the last 100 years. I think that's what was said. It's hard to tell really. Kamala will be president in less than 6 months if Biden is elected. The Dems have just now started to condemn the RIOTS because the poll numbers are showing massive...

Prepare yourself. Kamala Harris says that the riots are not going to stop, ever, and to BEWARE. With a smile on her face. It's OK though because all of the riots marches are COMPLETELY PEACEFUL. I thought this pic was funny.

Here's who owns the U.S. National Debt.

Regarding the heat wave this year in the Phoenix, AZ, USA. "The city on Sunday broke its heat record for having the most 110-degree days in a year, National Weather Service officials in Phoenix confirmed in a tweet." "For 34 days this year as of Sunday, Phoenix met or exceeded 110-degree...

^^^ This. For such a huge explosion the loss of life was "relatively minor" of only a few hundred. HOPEFULLY that number won't increase too much. The huge number of people with housing damage or complete loss is staggering. And the grain silo that held a huge percentage of Lebanon's grain...

The cure might just be worse then the disease. X number of people die from COVID-19. 10 times X (or up to 100x) die from famine caused by the massive collapse of the world's major economies. This collapse caused by the business, industrial and agricultural shutdowns and the restrictions in...

The fire and subsequent explosion on the docks of Beirut was INSANE. Youtube Vids.

Normally I'd set the indoor temp to 75F during the day and 72-72F at night. And I wish I could set it that low now, but with my central A/C pushing 17 years old I got paranoid this summer and bumped the temps to 82F day and 78F night. The clock/indoor sensor hit 84F because it's in a different...

New high temp for me this year. 123.2F or 50.7C.

During the early stages of COVID-19 China IMPORTED over 2 billion masks, PPE and medical equipment from the U.S. and all over the world. Kind of hard to build up a supply of equipment if China bought a huge portion of it. Before they told the world the real story or before the WHO (heavily...

Wow was I wrong. Things went FUBAR all over the place. Thank God we have looters burning down businesses and stealing goods from Targets to honor the man who's been in jail/prison NINE separate times and high on meth at the time of his arrest/death. Cops were scum but Floyd was no angel...

Australia put a travel ban on incoming Chinese travel very early on during the early stages of the forming epidemic and they now have a fantastically low number of deaths, only 119. Excellent. When such measures were considered here all I heard was, "That's racist" and "You're an alarmists...

There are six first-world, "western" countries that have a higher COVID-19 death rate per capita than the U.S. so the U.S. must be doing something right. Or are those six countries getting it even more wrong than we are? And the U.S. is supposed to have the crappiest health care in the world...

Highest temp ever recorded on this digital clock w/indoor and outdoor temp sensors. The wireless sensor is placed on the back/south side of the house. Always in full shade under a patio cover 5.5' off the ground, with the patio cover another 3.5' above the sensor.

^^^ Probably worse as the humidity was probably above 15% at the time. Temps for my early A.M. walk:

Another warm Friday.

The only limits still active on TP and other paper products here in AZ, USA are at Costco. One item/household/day. No limits at grocery stores, just crazy high price. Still some limits on cleaning products and hand sanitizer. No limits on any food items.

Unfortunately for Brazil it seems you are correct jtr. Huge spike in the graph on 17 June with the overall trend going up as well. Unless things turn around, by the end of July Brazil will tragically be #1 in number of infections and #1 in COVID-19 deaths. Pandemic update for Arizona, USA...

Imagine a Gen 4, PCIe x16 slot with a monster SSD installed. 20+ GB/s write speed in Windows.

WD gets sued for this issue.

I was going to start a thread last night so I'm glad you got the ball rolling. I don't think we'll descend into chaos. Things will get back under control and normalcy will return. Will things change? Probably not.

a1) Yep but expected. As is the "it's getting hot now" convo you have with random people when you have to make small talk. a2) Good to know. Not stuck on that brand particularly just thought the A/C split by window as interesting. a3) Yes. I've also turn air up from 75 to 82 during the day to...

Absolutely the indoor temps are with A/C. It simply doesn't cool off a great deal at night. When I finally went for a walk at 1:45am it was still mid 80s. Double pane windows but nothing special insulation wise. As is typical with cheaper homes the attic is outside the insulation envelope so...

First "kinda hot" day of the year today. Waiting for it to cool off so I can take my daily 6 mile walk. The high temp:

Looks like Russia and Brazil are vying for the number two spot. Brazil has 7x the reported deaths as Russia though, per the JHU site. Nobody knows the complete methodology any of these countries and hospitals are using to tie deaths to COVID-19. Was COVID-19 the; Direct/only cause? Most...

Crap. I haven't look at the numbers in a while. Russia was like 10th in the world just a bit ago, now they are number two on number of infections. China #11 and looks like India, Canada and Peru will pass China soon as well. As I've said before, I think there is going to be a lot of hate and...

Activity on this thread seems to have tapered off. Disturbing trend: Hospitals are (maybe?) falsely naming COVID-19 as the cause of death in order to receive more funding and insurance re-reimbursements. And/or stating ventilators were used for patient treatment, again to receive more...

I miss my Mexican restaurants. And no I'm not doing takeout. I want to sit at a table and eat WAY TOO MANY chips and salsa even before the food comes. When are restaurants going to return to pre-COVID-19 status? 2021?

From what I've been told, according to my posted pics, is that the pressure relief valve and drain was installed where the anode goes and the relief valve (see above post/pic) was just plugged. So maybe an anode was under the relief valve? Dunno. Maybe the tank was "overbuilt," or my...

I haven't looked into any incentives but I'm sure any decent aftermarket water heater is going to beat a 17 yo "builder grade" water heater, especially since the "efficiency sticker" shows my model on the low-end of the scale. Energy use: 263, on a scale of 215-283 therms/yr. Buy yeah, I plan...

My bug-in-monitor problem is solved, but now I have a new problem. My luck is awesome. My water heater just sprung a leak. Great! What's next? At least it's summer in Phoenix, AZ, and a water heater is OPTIONAL for a warm shower. Still need to have a new one installed within the next 1-3...

Good news. My dreaded monitor bug has dropped down to the bottom row of pixels. I have been banging on my monitor screen the last few days. So I'm sitting at my computer and once again banging on my screen. The bug moved a little bit. I continued to tap with varying degrees of firmness and...

I don't think "returning to normal" is going to be anything that will happen in just a few weeks. I think the earliest might be the middle of next year before we stop seeing/thinking about the changes to society caused by the pandemic. Ie. How long before people stopped thinking about 9/11 on...

I think many, many people around the world are going to think twice about buying Chinese goods. At least for the few things you can actually buy that aren't made in China. I also think there is going to be some resentment and anger directed at China that will be added to previous low-level...

I kinda of ignore it now, until a non-dark background comes up and I see it. Then I have a mentally "depressed sigh." As far as bug extraction goes nothing has happened yet. I don't think I'll open the monitor up as it's not worth the risk for me. But I might just "get in the mood" and at...

Well it's that time of the year again. It's summer. Been having abnormally cool temps so far this year and we only had our first 90F day a few days ago. But it's full-time summer now. Yipee! At least the "low" temps are not crazy..................yet.

According to the JHU COVID-19 page the U.S. has five times the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 as the next five countries combined but only about half the number of deaths. I don't think the U.S. mortality rate is one-tenth the rest of the world. It must be the number of tests skewing...

Honestly sounds about right. Forget the "upper management" of both parties and listen to the people actually doing to work below them.

I don't have any canned air so I haven't tried that yet. I did use a room sized vacuum cleaner with attachment hose on all the exhaust ports to no avail. What sucks is that even from a meter away it doesn't look like a bad pixel you can tell it's a bug. It's "that big" on the screen.

The increase in infections is a straight line going up according to the JHU site. Definitely need more and better testing. When reductions in the "lock-down" take place they need to be slow and gradual with plenty of monitoring to ensure we don't back slide into more infections. I'm very, very...

Yeah kinda depressing. I almost forget about it until a bit white/light background is displayed, like most of SF, then my eye is instantly drawn to it. Two less than optimal options. Try an RMA/on-site repair from Dell. (I'd have to check/call to see if this is possible) Or just try to take...

What really surprised me about this is how "un-rare" it actually is. There plenty of google results and youtube videos regarding this very situation. I'm hesitant to open a monitor that will cost around $900 to replace if I goof something up, but it might be my only option.