Can affirm the arborvitae. About six years ago, we planted a number of 3' trees between our driveway and the rental property. The tallest is now easily 12' tall and each have filled in nicely to its neighboring tree.

First thing I saw, too.

Let’s hope the slideshows go extinct and never reappear...

I was going to say MS Flight Simulator, but...

Actually, that’s part of the problem: When taking notes by hand, you have to be choosy about what is important enough to write down. You have to use critical thinking, make outlines, and listen closely to determine what parts of the lecture are valuable enough to take the time to jot down. When you’re typing, you can…

Yep, that’s exactly what I suspect, too: this is a bridge between the old and new.

Nope. A convenient excuse. The best customer service I’ve received is via Twitter, and Musk has ruined that, now.

I have a Google spreadsheet of all of the major measurements in our house—including furnace filter dimensions—and it has been incredibly useful, especially when we are not expecting to buy something but find something on clearance/sale.

Ahem, Skynet would like a word. As would A.L.I.E.  At least just long enough before they kill you.

Pro tip:  make sure your stew/soup has chilled a bit before doing so, or you risk scalding.

Another cheap, but not necessarily easy solution is to drain the water away from your foundation. I used 25' sections of dual-walled drain pipe attached to the downspouts—with a cleanout—and graded downward underground to get the water as far away from the house as possible. At the far end, I augured out a 6' hole,…

Slideshows were a reality of our previous context, whether I liked it or not. (I did not.) Those in-line ads are gone, too.

The pie is a lie?

1. She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018–2020)

Or, for $50, you can get a JBL Flip 4 (or higher) speaker—they’re regularly on sale for that amount or less—and use any of a number of noise apps*.

Or, for $50, you can get a JBL Flip 4 (or higher) speaker—they’re regularly on sale for that amount or less—and use…

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The EV they were basing this on:

Magnet should be in any conversation that involves window management:

Or, were they simply wearing human helmets?