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You are being tortured. Your captor is forcing you to listen to someone else eat. What are they eating?
  • I'm so deaf I could sit in a room full of large, sweaty men slurping chicken off drumsticks while making open-mouthed, gruntled dad noises with every gasping breath, and it wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Well, other than such a room existing, that is.

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    Chaos!
  • I guess if you have one set, but there are usually two that come with most cars. Probably whoever grabbed theit preferred car key first means the other grabs their key for the second car?

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    Art by John Berkey for Colonies in Space by T.A. Heppenheimer (1978)
  • Yeah, I love his works, but I don't have thousands to spend on them. They sell giclée prints in limited runs. I don't remember if it's the same one as the last time I looked, but they have one for $250 right now.

    https://johnberkey.com/prints/

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    Record number of photo radar tickets in Ottawa so far in 2024: Here are the 10 busiest cameras
  • Challenge every one of them and pick the trial option. 10 over gives you no option to plead guilty to a lesser charge because there isn't one, so no reason not to take the trial option. If you want to have some real fun, bring a Charter 11B challenge to court when they can't try you for 4+ years. Worst case, you still pay the 2024 set fine in ~2028 dollars, but when they have to start deciding between using court time for trying criminals or speeders, they will rethink the whole system.

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    Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all
  • Does your PC have an Intel or AMD CPU? Congrats, you don't have to worry about Recall. At least for now, it only works on Copilot+ PCs with ARM processors.

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  • Ooh, I remember playing Monster Maze and Math Hurdler on a dual-sided cassette. Avenger (basically Space Invaders) on cartridge. Also typed in Killer Comet and Tank vs UFO from a magazine. Last one was probably the best of the lot.

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    parents scammed out of 10K line of credit - best way to pay it off
  • Typically when you are moving debt to a credit card, you are not making a purchase, but are withdrawing cash from the credit account to pay for the LOC. A cash advance usually means you are paying interest on the amount withdrawn immediately at super high credit card rates. There is usually no grace period given for cash advances. IIRC, the cash balance is tracked separately from your regular card balance, and payments first go to paying off the normal monthly balance, and when that hits zero, they go towards the cash advance balance. That keeps you paying high interest for longer if you can't pay it off in full. You'd have to read your terms of service to confirm how your card handles this. Be careful to make sure you understand your terms.

    There are frequently special balance transfer offerings issued by card companies that allow you to transfer your credit balance from one card to another for a fixed initial cost (3% of balance seems normal now), and then you get up to 12 months at 0% interest. That can be a pretty good deal, but you would have to confirm if you could do a cash advance on one card, then balance transfer to a second one using a promotional offer and make sure the second card doesn't still treat it as a cash advance balance, which would likely be subject to immediate high interest rates. This is probably the most likely scenario. However, if you can confirm they treat the transferred balance as normal, it would end up being cheaper than a year at LOC interest. Then you pay it off in full with the LOC and repeat, assuming you get another offer. I think it is more likely banks will look out for each other and that won't work for cash advance credit card debt, but hey, maybe there are banks that just want your business and only a little cash instead of a lot.

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  • ottawacitizen.com One dead, second injured, in two-vehicle collision on Highway 174 in Ottawa's east end

    Another person, arrested at the scene, was transported to hospital in serious condition after the crash in the Cumberland area.

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