Security tip: Never post your home address on social media.

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Maybe crosspost to [email protected] and/or [email protected] since this is in the ballpark of what we talk about there.

Good question, and I’m not sure of the actual, lexicographic answer.

All I can say is there’s typically an implicit negative connotation when using the form “those people” regardless of intent. Usually it’s used that way when stereotyping or otherwise making a blanket statement about a group, so even benign uses of the phrase tend to sound hostile.

My guess is that “those persons” sounds more specific.

Those are delicious.

Used to make something very similar, but we used a pancake for the “shell” instead of a tortilla.

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In before “they’re just writing that off their own taxes” or “they’re already going to donate it and you’re just reimbursing them”.

Most of the ones near me just ask if you want to “round up” or make a static donation amount. I’m guessing the coupon book is nothing more than the coupons they’d send out in the weekly paper. Having received similar coupon books as “welcome aboard” gifts, most of those deals aren’t even all that good. Plus, they likely expire, so it puts a time rush on using them and draws in business.

“If everything’s above board that store really just acting like an agent,” said [Laurie Styron, Executive Director, CharityWatch]. “They’re really just taking your money and at some point in the future passing it on to the charity if they’re filing their taxes correctly. It actually doesn’t have any impact on that store’s taxes,” she said.

• https://www.charitywatch.org/charity-donating-articles/store-check-out-charity-donations
• https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0
• https://www.click2houston.com/consumer/2022/12/19/4-things-to-know-about-charity-donations-at-the-checkout/

Not sure if this is the most environmentally-correct answer, but I’ve usually put old, beyond redemption glassware into a thick bag (like a dog food bag) and sealed it up. Those bags are usually thick enough that even if the glass breaks, it usually won’t break through.

Sealing the glass up in the same bags, I’ve also smashed them to pieces small enough that they’re no longer shards (depends on what i’m throwing away).

Glass is typically able to be cleaned in all but the worst cases, so I don’t throw it away often. Usually it’s when a glass or plate breaks and I don’t want to risk injury to the sanitation workers.

Yep. Mine didn’t have the ones on the radiators, just the wall controller. The only thing on the radiators was a valve which could adjust it a little bit but was mostly just on/off.

No, not from UK, but thought some of the credits would transfer since I’m kinda familiar with HVAC and have had a radiator setup lol.

Yeah, thanks. I saw your other posted and added an edit to mine. I was way off.

The house I lived in that had radiator heating used the wall-mounted thermostats to control the boiler. That’s totally different. Hope you get an answer.

OMG I would love for that to be a real show. It would have to be hosted by the actor who did it in the show; he was perfect.

“It’s always the other one. Let me see the card.”

“No! Never!”

Apparently I will forget you, Rural Juror. 😆 But I’m still glad I met you.

30 Rock has quite a few good ones:

• M.I.L.F Island
• Bitch Hunter
• TGS
• The satirized version of NBC in the show (lots of ‘biting the hand’ humor)

Thermostat

If it is broken, they’re inexpensive and typically easy to replace. Usually it’s just one or two pairs of wires: one pair kicks your heat on when connected, the other turns your A/C on when connected. If you don’t have A/C (or have a dedicated thermostat for heat), then it’d probably only have one pair. Edit: Forgot, some have a dedicated pair for the fan. Mine doesn’t, so it slipped my mind.

They usually have a faceplate part that comes off (the part that you think you may have broken) and a mounted part that stays on the wall usually with two screws.

You might have better luck taking some pictures and posting the question to [email protected] to get some more specific advice.

Edit #2: Just saw your new post in home improvement. I was way off lol. The last house I lived in that had radiator heating used a regular thermostat to control the boiler. The one you’re describing is totally different.

I forget the name of it, but back before I got old and started waking up consistently before the alarm went off, I had an alarm clock app that made you do math problems in order to shut it off or snooze it. They got progressively harder with each snooze, so you eventually had to actually wake up.

Can’t get you out of bed, but it can definitely force your brain to kick into gear which usually kept me from falling back asleep.

True.

And you could always go back in time to stop me from stopping you from stopping the guy.

That’s why I think time travel will never allow history to be changed, and I think Rick and Morty may have done a bit about that.

Yep. Plus, people spewing violent bullshit aren’t going to be deterred by a counter keyboard warrior. So I just let them shout their shit into the void (as far as I’m aware of it, anyway).

I’ve got enough stress IRL I don’t need that shit here.

I’d stop the guy who went back in time to stop the first guy from smoking stuff.

I tend to block those users very, very quickly. At best, they’re “knee-jerk” types that react violently without thinking. At worst, they’re sociopaths. There’s a lot in between those, but either way, with them blocked, this place is way more chill.

I was actually surprised to learn that most current dumb phones (at least ones that run KaiOS like most of the Nokia ones) do actually support acting as a wifi hotspot. Not sure of any that have a REST API for management, though. They also have at least primitive web browsers.

Actually, you might be able to make a REST API (and web app to use it) with NodeJS or Python with Termux, though that requires an Android device (so not applicable for a dumb phone). Termux has an API that lets you interact with the phone hardware, though I’ve had issues with some things not being implemented (I’ve only briefly played with that, so I may just be missing something or it doesn’t fully work in Android 14 yet).

The “dumb” phone I chose for my challenge is the CAT S22 Flip which runs Android 11. I disabled most of what made it “smart” for the challenge, though. At the end of the week when the 30 days are officially up, I’m going to re-enable some of those features just for convenience. (That device was $20 cheaper than the true dumb phone I was looking at, so I figured I’d just dumb it down for the 30 day challenge and then use it as the unique smartphone it is after that).