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OK, so I got a phishing email so blatant that it must have been done by ChatGPT.
I only get one or two of these a week (my email goes through a mail washer), so I decided to see what it was. Using a "throw away" VM, I went to the site with: Brave, Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Vivaldi browsers.
Only Firefox blocked the site with a big red screen, and a Details button. Site was known to install software, etc.
I need to rethink my default browser.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Firefox is the only browser I truly trust, I sometimes use Brave only because its ad-block is finer - usually it does not get detected by anti Ad-block countermeasures.
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I get to ignore even more emails: "That was you? I thought it was (AI) spam ..."
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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A bolt in my desk chair just snapped in half yesterday. This chair isn't worth re-tapping the hole.
I'm not even heavy. I am a scrawny thing.
I can't tell you how many times I've had that happen. Head bolts on the little 2-stroke I strapped to a mountain bike had to be replaced. Did that before they snapped. Same with the rest of the major bolts on that drivetrain.
I didn't replace the bolts in this chair, and that was my mistake. I replace the casters on the chairs I buy with US manufactured polymer coated rollies that work on my wood floors anyway.
I should have dismantled this thing and gone to Ace and replaced all the bolts as my first order of business.
I'll be doing that on my next chair.
But between the Chinese industrialists schlepping their low grade raw materials off on us, and my own country's schlepping their excess corn and sometimes industrial byproducts off onto us sometimes I feel like we're just used as garbage bins by people with too much money. 
But zooming back in, it has gotten to the point where it really makes little sense to me now that I have to replace critical load bearing parts in new products as soon as I order them.
What is even the point? Just send me the parts disassembled.
May as well order everything from Ikea and save myself half the work.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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I routinely replace screws, nuts, and bolts with A2 stainless equivalents purely to reduce corrosion, and to get hex / torx heads instead of soft Phillips.
That started back in the days when I started riding (and fixing) Japanese motorcycles: they were fitted as standard with titanium cored, cream-cheese headed bolts ... or that's what it felt like when you tried to undo them and then had to drill the sods out.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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honey the codewitch wrote: But between the Chinese industrialists schlepping their low grade raw materials off on us
The raw materials are okay, the technology and the production process suck. One bolt made of Chinesium, takes the same resources and anergy to be made as a real one. It's a waste!
Thats why whenever is possible I buy only US made stuff. From my dishwasher to my bike and car all are US made. Unfortunately, with some goods like your chair you don't have a choice these days. You can buy a really expensive one, but there is no guarantee it will be better. My very expensive chair gave up after a year and the cheap one is still around.
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Torque wrench. Bolt extractors. Canadian Tire when they're 60% off.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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After watching Chinese made stuff result in injury, sickness, and even death my wife and I do everything we can to avoid "made in China".
- Pet food
- Baby food
- Laminate flooring seeping known
- Drywall
These are the ones that come to the top of my head as they made headlines.
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After watching Chinese made stuff result in injury, sickness, and even death my wife and I do everything we can to avoid "made in China".
- Pet food
- Baby food
- Laminate flooring seeping known
- Drywall
These are the ones that come to the top of my head as they made headlines.
Besides, we need to remember Henry Ford's comment that if you don't pay your workers then who'll buy your products. Businesses forget this statement at their long term peril.
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Sometimes it can be hard to source things that aren't made in China.
In fact, my work requires me to use Chinese manufactured items all the time - in this case semiconductors, which can be okay if you get them from one of the more reputable makers.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Let's buy some Saudi oil instead 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Got my vote!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Curvaceously ran online? (9)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Anagram of RAN ONLINE: NONLINEAR
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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YAUT!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Good clue! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Oops. Did I say "closet?" I meant "retirement." I retired in 2016 to pursue my hobbies of gunsmithing, machine shop fun, and welding, but since the current administration declared war on our own economy, I can no longer afford my hobbies! Bummer. I can't afford retirement, either.
A few weeks ago a local tribe called to ask me to apply for a job, in this case Manager of Generation. They have a large facility that is entirely off-grid and dependent upon three diesel generators. Thanks to a recent grant, they have been able to build a solar photovoltaic generating station coupled with a Tesla battery system. We are about to embark upon the adventure of integrating the new source into the existing microgrid. Since the first of May, I've been working on this project on a time and mileage basis, and so far, they have paid the bill in a timely manner. Today I got a call to negotiate a salary, and we settled on an acceptable figure, so I'm off and running a power company again! I've missed it... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger,
Your story has familiar ring.
Enjoy but don't get too deep to keep stress away.
Like the supper table, when you have had enough push the plate away.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Congratulations!
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Light On!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Congratulations on your coming out...of retirement that is.
It's a shame the economy is such that you have to but it's good that you want to.
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine for those I can not!
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Well, I discovered that you can't really retire until your kids retired. I am still doing IT/Prog. for SNL's business.
>64
User: Technical term used by developers. See idiot.
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Congrats! Now when you are restarting the level you will need a new girl as well!
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