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    Need help with getting a phone

    You say that now but the disease only spreads unless you kill it with fire. Or cilastatin. But fire is better since it doesn't promote resistance.
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    Need help with getting a phone

    You're dead to me.
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    Up to date Malware Removal

    I think I can click "Scan Now" an awful lot of times for $30, but your mileage may vary. To be clear, I have asked that people buy MBAM, but they're people who have displayed the special talent of having infections literally every time Iook, in spite of other precautions I have taken to keep...
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    I do want to buy a used car

    These are the drawbacks to apartment living for sure. My current issue is that my mechanic shop doesn't seem to be responsive about getting a list of parts for me to buy. I want to obtain Honda OEM parts. I'm aware that most parts that could be used on my car will be Chinese knock-offs and I'd...
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    Something Random

    That's actually great news. Gödel, I'm more of a Hide the Pain Harold sorta guy. That's pretty true to life experience at the moment.
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    Up to date Malware Removal

    If you haven't done so in a while, maybe run Malwarebytes on your PCs. A crap ton of formerly legitimate chrome and edge addons got re-classed as malware over the weekend after updates made them all part of a web scraper network. I had a color picker tool installed in Chrome that seems to have...
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    Basic, non-subscription software for Windows 11

    Winamp has an EQ.
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    I do want to buy a used car

    I still don't have a place to do the work, jtr, nor any appropriate tools. Nor anyplace to put ramps when I am not using them.
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    I do want to buy a used car

    Sadly, I don't have access to anyplace with facilities for safely working on a car. I suspect my landlord would take exception to me trying to do any serious work in our parking lot and it's not like I live in the best area. I don't know anyone with tools for car work either, so given the...
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    I do want to buy a used car

    Well, I let a drive train specialist look at my car. His official diagnosis is that the people at my original mechanic's shop just encountered a sound they didn't want to look into and so wrote it off as someone else's problem. I still need work on my car, but it's basically all suspension...
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    Need help with getting a phone

    A Samsung S23/23+ is worth about the same amount as an iphone 14. You can also find Samsung S24FE, a Pixel 8 or 9a or 2025 Moto G Power for somewhere between $300 and $400. Another curious option is the Samsung A56, which isn't MEANT to be sold in the USA, but can used on US networks. The A5x...
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    Need help with getting a phone

    iOS is evil and should not be countenanced. Some fun things to know: There are three and a half real phone carriers in the US, Tmobile, Verizon, AT&T and the half is US Cellular, which is only available in some parts of the US Midwest. There are DOZENS of MVNOs, resellers of services from one...
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    I do want to buy a used car

    I think I got a death sentence for my Element today. I'm going to get a second opinion but my mechanic seems to think I need my rear differential replaced at a cost roughly on par with the value of my car. I am not sure what I want to do about it, but I haven't had a car payment in 10 years and...
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    Empire in Decline

    Given that they tend to live in places that are pretty hard to get to, like private islands, fortified mountain compounds and Montana, I'm not sure digging them out would be the best use of limited revolutionary resources.
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    Empire in Decline

    I think there is only one name being protected. Not the minimize the issue, but the fact that actual millions of deaths can be laid at Trump's feet for his administration's handling of Covid, not to mention the cuts to medicaid and food assistance that will kill even more, is a far greater crime...
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