The pipes bursting below 55° rule of thumb is because cold water is at ground temperature (aka very cold in the winter) and the pipes tend to be at the edges of living spaces so will be much cooler than the living space. Additionally, it doesn't need to fully freeze to burst, just enough to create a blockage temporarily.

Basically, you never know what bizarre choices were made in the utility layout of the home someone lives in so giving a rule of thumb that has a comfortable safety margin is the safest bet

Another possible approach is to keep your home cool (keep it above 50 to avoid pipes freezing because that just sucks to deal with regardless of responsibility) and use a small like 200w heater pointed at yourself to warm up some. I live in a century old farm house and do that because it's drafty as heck in parts of the house and impractical to fully heat the entire house to a fully comfortable temperature once winter truly sets in and it's consistently around 0F

As soon as manufacturing (of which a significant portion is food processing!) starts losing shifts and closing due to not having enough employees they'll see the shortages and flip pretty fast. Manufacturing jobs rely heavily on immigrant labor because nobody wants to work in factories despite the pretty good pay and benefits, so the only people who do work in factories are the people who simply can't get better jobs.

When I was young that was how I had cell phone service. It was simply the cheapest option for a kid with no friends to have a cell phone to call their parents on at the time. $20 every 2-3 months or so plus a $40 flip phone and you're golden

I have some 19th century railroad stock certificates from railroads that have long since ceased to exist through many, many mergers and acquisitions. I'll post a picture if I remember when I get to the computer

The funniest part is Apple refused to work with Google on an open standard so Google reworked it's app to give Apple users the same experience Android users have had to have for years when texting with iMessage users, then not long after that apple switched to using a shared open standard

The behind the scenes for 1 Hour Photo has perfectly normal Robin Williams goofing off and it's just jarring going from watching the really serious and depressing movie and just seeing him on the set goofing off and making everyone around laugh

Another major event in the decline of passenger rail was the elimination of railway post office contracts in 1968 which heavily subsidized passenger transport by also transporting mail

Then the failed merger of the New York Central and the Pennsylvania Railroad(second largest bankruptcy in the country to date, only eclipsed by Enron who simply moved numbers in spreadsheets so do they even count?) created a true crisis as suddenly a significant portion of the eastern US could cease to have rail service

On a related but unrelated note, watching Miles in Transit videos where they take intercity buses, its clear that intercity buses are in danger of ceasing to exist, and he advocates for nationalization. Its hard to imagine such a national bus network as anything but an incredible expansion for Amtrak, greatly improving throughway services and likely improving the quality of bus service. Links here and here(timestamp to the retrospective where he advocates for nationalization)

Open VPN config file. Basically its a text file with all of the information your client will need to know how to connect to the VPN server

Idk sounds like the mother in law called the cops, and we all know how mother in laws tend to be

I mean, that's about one moderately sized cities worth of people out of probably most of the world, since I assume they don't only serve US customers

Edit: for context the state of Nebraska, famously the least populous state in the union has about 1.9 million residents

I think you need to touch some grass bro

This hoopy frood knows where his towel is!

Bedbugs can't survive heat. 1 hour over 100F or a few seconds at 200F kills them. Depending on what you have available, either throw your clothing in a dryer on high for an hour or use a steamer that goes over 200F to rid them. Alternatively placing them in a black garbage bag in a parked car for a day if it's hot out will also do it. Depending on what is infested, some plastic totes to stage things that haven't been treated yet can greatly limit their ability to re-infest while you're treating stuff, and re-treat within a week if you're not certain (their life cycle is about a week, so treating the same item twice in a week kill get any that survived before they can multiply again)

I read somewhere that bed bugs actually evolved alongside humans, so they're about as old as bedding and that's it

Ooh I'll have to try that! I've always hated soy sauce because its just too salty (I'm very salt-sensitive so I generally cook with no or low salt)

Hope she knows they make reusable coffee filters. I bought one about 3 years ago and haven't needed coffee filters since

Mother. Fucking. GARLIC.

Toss in some onion powder too, a bit of seasoning salt and you won't even miss the salt

I interpreted it as the resume shows your experience while the cover letter shows you know how to write coherently (plus gives you an opportunity to clarify anything on your resume)

The city I grew up in is home to the "world's largest" Bratfest. The sell close to 300k brats every year (and it's hosted in a city with a population of about 280k!)