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Plenty of good suggestions already but I for the under cabinet kitchen lighting (16' strip of cob LED) I installed a few years ago I just used thermostat (18/2 I think?) wire to run the gap between cabinets. Just don't make the same mistake I did and use the cheap solder that comes with the kits, it was such a frustrating experience until I bit the bullet and bought some nicer stuff, made the process WAY easier

Good. They've already done more than enough damage to The Witcher series

I've moved a few times around the US and, like the other commenter, have adopted kind of a mixed dialect. I grew up in the north but spent quite a while in the south, which have VAST cultural differences, and people from the south can tell I'm not one of them while people from the north think I'm from the south. For a little while after my first move from the north to the south, when I was still in my early 20s, I felt out of place but a lot of that was probably just due to being insecure and half a country away from my family. Wife and I moved to a northern state a few years back and we both feel even more out of place here because of the state religion but have accepted that we like being nomadic. We're mapping out a plan to move to a different part of the south and try that culture, then maybe after a few years move to a different part of the north or possibly a different country because why not. I used to be scared of trying new/unknown things (perk of growing up in a small town) but now I embrace it because there's so much to learn from different people and cultures. Plus I figure if we keep trying then my wife and I will find our tribe eventually

First you should edit the title so it makes sense, then you could try clamping a sacrificial board (MDF, 1/4", dimensional, whatever's easiest) beneath and running the drill faster but moving slower. You might even try just going back to trying tape but changing your drilling method just to see if that improves anything before killing another piece of wood

Maple Leafs were frustratingly effective at killing off the clock there at the end, props for that

“In no way is it my intent to have everybody re-register, is the bottom line,” he said in the message.

Riiiiiiiiight

McAlester. Saved you a click

Wife and I moved to UT for work a few years ago. Haven't made many friends because left no room for misunderstanding about our stance on their state church, but the ones we do like have shared some pretty unsettling stories. We had already spent several years living in one theocracy before moving here, but the deceit, narcissism, and self righteousness here is just incredibly next level. State services like food stamps keep getting whittled away so that people in need can be redirected to the church's "welfare", but then the church strongarms the needy into becoming church members before they can receive much. It's disgusting. Almost as disgusting as when the church applauded the legal decision to protect clergy-"client" confidentiality after it came out that a church member was diddling kids and their church leader did absolutely nothing. So...I mean maybe they ARE kinda family friendly, but in the very worst way?

Same, I'd rather have people help me subsidize big purchases with gift cards than buy me stuff I don't need or want. The in-laws especially hate giving gift cards so for years the wife and I tell them we just don't want anything for the holidays. This year they finally caved and sent us some gift cards. I'd rather have to pay $50 less for an expensive tool/toy than have $50 worth of even more junk cluttering up my house

I may be misunderstanding what alien.top is but I thought it was somebody's attempt to bring more content to Lemmy by using a bot to migrate Reddit posts. I think? Im not real technical and I could be entirely wrong but that's what I think I saw a while back when someone else was asking about defederating from that instance for the same reasons you posted

Peacemaker has a pretty fun intro, one of the few I don't just skip

Sounds like it comes down to your approach on risk management. Others have pretty clearly laid out the risks and frustrations of living in a house that's being fixed/renovated, but if the seller is as negligent as they sound then I'd expect to find even more issues. If the inspection couldn't cover anything pertaining to electricity then that'd be a huge red flag for me, that stuff can get real expensive real fast. Follow your gut and try not to fall for the sunk cost fallacy, it can be hard when you focus on how many hundreds of dollars and hours of time you've spent so far but it sounds like you're looking at at least another several thousand dollars in repairs, and that's only for the problems you're currently aware of. Everybody's situation is different so maybe this whole thing is right for you, but don't ignore the red flags just because of how much you've already invested