People think I’m some sort of TV repair wizard but it’s very easy to fix up dumpster TVs if you have a little patience and space. Broken TVs fall into two categories - broken screen or broken board (doesn’t turn on, error screens, flickering). Stick to more popular models and when you find a broken screen, take the board and note the model. When you find a broken board of the same model, just swap it. It usually really is that easy. You can work in the opposite direction too and collect good screens waiting for good boards, but that starts to take up a lot of space quick because you’re storing whole TVs at that point.

You will also inexplicably find a fully working 55" TV sitting at the dumpster 10% of the time.

This is what happens when you don’t moshi moshi

Are you kidding? He’s going to the feds for an interview.

Cabrini Green immediately comes to mind. The police used to get sniped in the parking lot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini–Green_Homes

I’ll be honest, I’m immediately apprehensive that they messed it up. Is it good? Quick Google search says Ito was involved so that’s a relief

With the fog this sounds like some amazing zero context photos. Did you get any photos of the Cows of the Fog that you can share?

Other commenter got the title. The artist is Junji Ito, and he has a lot of works as equally creepy as this one. Uzumaki might be the most popular one

I just see advertised swings and a reason to get in close with a knife

Maybe the answer is less reliance on a debt based economy. Maybe the answer is to not bake into the fabric of society a mechanism that makes a lifetime of debt a foregone conclusion. Kill the loan shark for all I care. Why does everyone need a loan? Because it’s built to require one.

Fun fact: boomers entered the workforce before credit scores existed. Credit scores were created in 1989, but people treat them like they were in the bible.

I suppose with Cox we could be talking about TV or Internet. If it’s Internet I’ve heard it called a duopoly. The cable TV company and phone company both had wires running to every house when the internet showed up on the scene. Typically these are the only two options available in an area, and when you zoom in further usually one of them has given up on a particular street or neighborhood, and you better just go with the one that has decent wires.

We sort of had protections in place at the phone company level for a while to stop this. ILEC and CLEC laws forced Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (the big phone co in the area, owns the lines on the poles) to share their last mile phone lines with a Competitive LEC, granted the CLEC shells up for their own equipment and puts it in a special section of the ILECs central offices. Bam, competition.

The problem is that the laws only specified copper, so when fiber rolled around, ILECs specifically targeted their upgrades to cripple the competition. The houses still would do DSL on copper, but the backhaul for the CO would get upgraded to fiber and the competition would have to also upgrade their handoff on their equipment to be fiber or just lose all their customers in the area. They would also set up fiber fed cabinets halfway closer to your house and offer VDSL. CLECs weren’t allowed in those cabinets and could only offer 1/5th the speed on regular old ADSL due to distance. There were a lot of dirty tricks…the laws that were supposed to help just let the big company absolutely batter the smaller ones once they started their fiber upgrades.

Real men aren’t held back by anything! The belt restricts blood flow through the body! It’s a globalist conspiracy to turn our men into women!

The only thing this pentagon chief can sink in 20 minutes is a fifth of whiskey

Make it a marathon and put on Come and See immediately after. Hours of fun all night

In our house, we would just walk out on the porch and watch the neat clouds for an hour or two.

Construction lacks materials (2385)

Hegseth has literal gang tattoos. Send him.

We should have just not worn masks. These are the geriatric dumbasses that were begging to die during covid.

A few of the stans switched (back?) to a Latin alphabet at the fall of the USSR. Kazakhstan is in the process of doing the same.

Weird way to say the on-board computer is Linux based, but ok. Link to the CVE?