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Google is so rapidly enshittifying it‘s mindboggling! First the AI answers that are well, not so reliable, and then yesterday, I wanted to watch an episode of the Ezra Klein show and YouTube had turned it into a German version with a robotic AI voice. No clue how to turn it off. Arrgh! Come on, you cannot do that to podcasts! It’s all about the voice and humanity. Stop treating users like Guinea pigs, Alphabet.
Car waxing is the primary strategy you can utilize to increase the appeal of your vehicle and make it appear as great as brand new. While waxing, people generally make some foolish mistakes, destroying the charm of the automobile rather than enhancing it. Continue reading to understand how to polish a car properly.
Car waxing is applying a coat of wax, a combination of some oils and polymers, to the outside of the vehicle. The polish shows the sun's rays, including a streamlined shine to the beyond the car. Couple of individuals utilize the vehicle as a property, some are enthusiastic about their cars and take massive care of the same. For people who enjoy their vehicles, car waxing is an essential element of car treatment. Waxing a car is not laborious if you are well prepared with the required products and basic knowledge about how to wax a car.
Prior to comprehending how to shine a vehicle utilizing polish, you ought to understand more about car wax. The sparkle added to the car largely relies on the quality of car wax you utilize. It is suggested to use premium car wax. On the other hand, low-quality car wax might be inexpensive. This kind of wax will lose its sparkle within a couple of days and, for that reason, demand frequent car waxing.
While good quality car wax may be a bit costly, its outcomes will last for a longer length of time, therefore reducing the requirement for car waxing regularly. Car wax will come in liquid and paste form, possessing unique benefits. Liquid car wax is popular as the twinkle persists for an extended duration.
On the other hand, the paste is popular as it supplies a better shine. Another important aspect is to refer to the guidelines supplied by the maker. Some ranges of car wax need a wax buffer, while others just need a car wash to get rid of the wax.
You need to take a couple of precautionary steps before you decide to car waxing. The foremost step needs to be to wash the vehicle to get rid of all the soil settled on the outside. Need to you not wash away the dirt, there are possibilities that you might rub the gunk on the outside of the car, hence producing scratches on the car's surface. Real dirt will also appear when the wax coating is made use of, spoiling the vehicle's appeal. If there are scratches on the car, repair them with a polishing substance. It can be challenging to get rid of the wax if it leaks into your crevices on the outside of the car. You can utilize masking tape to cover these crevices so that the wax does not seep directly into them.
Instantly after cleaning the automobile, wipe it dry, and park it in the shade to polish it. Once you use wax to the vehicle, use it to one portion of the car at a time. Ensure you utilize appropriate polish since using more than the needed amount can ruin your car waxing activity. Next, take a cotton fabric, and apply the essential polish to its area.
The majority of people make a typical error of using the coat of wax in a circular motion. This method typically ruins the result of car waxing. The appropriate strategy is to apply car wax in straight lines. You can use the coat in horizontal straight lines or vertical straight lines. As soon as you are finished with the complete body of the vehicle, take a little break to enable the wax to settle, but make certain that it does not run dry. After the coat of polish becomes a somewhat nontransparent haze, you can start the elimination. Utilize a terry product to clean the wax off the car.
Utilizing an electronic buffer helps to make the work of waxing a vehicle far less complex. Prior to you put the buffer on, distribute the wax about the buffer by utilizing a buffer pad. Gradually move the buffer to the area where you work. The buffer will work on its own to apply the coat of polish; you require to merely grip it securely and move it over the exterior. Guarantee you don't put excessive pressure on the buffer, as excess weight may damage the car's finish.
When using the coat to all of the car's parts, allow it to settle before you begin removing it. To eliminate the real wax from the outside, remove the wax removal material from the buffer and move it to the car's surface. Make lengthy strokes in a single direction for reliable elimination.
The indication of a well-protected car is water bead advancement on the car's surface area. Applying polish to the car outside boosts its appearance, protects the sturdiness of the car paint, and protects the outdoors from minor scratches. Knowing how to car waxing will assist you to look after your car and add a radiance to it, therefore making all wandering eyes rely on your stunning vehicle.
Israel’s plan to handle the distribution of aid in Gaza via a U.S. private contractor is a key part of its plan to ethnically cleanse its population. Here’s how.Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)
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Month after month of watching death, destruction, and carnage on social media some western elites are being told in no uncertain terms, Israel must end its genocide of the Palestinians. The same weste...Odysee
For a brief thirty-year period following World War II, the masses succeeded in leveraging democratic institutions to wrest a measure of economic and political power from entrenched oligarchic elites, but the material conditions that made that possible — first and foremost the organised power of labour — no longer exist. In retrospect, the brief period of (relative) popular sovereignty was an exceptional, geographically limited deviation from the historical norm, sustained by unique material and political conditions. Indeed, countries like Romania never even experienced that, having gone straight from communist rule to neoliberal post-democracy. The two pillars of the transatlantic alliance — the European Union and NATO — have advanced Europe’s anti-democratic trends, leading the charge in undermining democratic processes and suppressing popular self-determination.
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Even assuming the voting process itself were flawless, the election was “rigged” from the moment the November results were annulled and leading candidate Georgescu was barred from runningThomas Fazi
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The “alignment” problem is much discussed in Silicon Valley. Computer Engineers worry that, when AI becomes conscious and is put in control of all logistics infrastructure and governance, it might …OffGuardian
“The idea is for every person on the frontline to have a device like this — it’s an absolute necessity, like having a helmet or gun,” says Taras, the firm’s product manager. “If you go into the dead zone there might be hundreds, maybe thousands, of drones flying overhead. Yet when we talk about this being a drone war, it’s really a war of frequencies. It’s about finding the frequencies and evading the frequencies.”
The crappy rust/go cargo of redundant coder specific libraries (instead of those that exist in the system) are loaded while the program is compiled,
go : in ~/go/pkg AND in ~/.cache/go-build/
rust in ~/.cargo/
Before you know it your builder's home partition may get full and you will run into building errors you can't explain (can't write disk full) ..
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Tl;dr: content is for your visitors, the eyecandy is for you and your shareholders.
In the early days of the World Wide Web – with the Year 2000 and the threat of a global collapse of society were still years away – the crafting of a website on the WWW was both special…Hackaday
The Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a special military operation against Ben Gurion Airport in the occupied Jaffa area using a hypersonic ballistic missile.IRNA English
"We tend to think of cultural influence as being tied to popularity and visibility. What Asparouhova wants us to pay attention to is a whole other class of cultural stuff whose influence is linked instead to being hard to find or difficult to understand. These are what she calls 'anti-memes.'"
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"Some people think they are supposed to wash their meats and chicken before cooking. I recommend not washing them because that puts you at risk for spreading the bacteria around your kitchen and around yourself," Hill says.
Cooking raw chicken straight from the package is safe, says the Food and Drug Administration, because modern food safety systems have been greatly improved. Bringing meats to their proper temperatures will destroy any foodborne illness.
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Gypsy Crusader said black people wash their meat with soap before cooking it
Is there any link online to confirm this
Possibly a video of black people washing meat in soap or a blog where a black person suggests to wash meat in soap or says that they wash meat in soap
This mayo clinic link says not to wash meat before cooking it, I assume it would be implied that there guidelines then are not to wash meat in soap
Can washing meat in soap lead to poisoning?
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Why people wash meat (or don't)
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[ The Daily Beast: Kristi Noem’s Needlessly Cruel Diss to Deported Migrants ]
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Krusti Noem is a relatively young acerbic cunt with presumably decades of life left in her.
Did I say life? I meant scorn, ridicule, derision.
When this shit is over I want her to spend the rest of her life wallowing in her own putrid juices of hate and malignancy.
May she be afflicted with every cancer known to medicine and her face falls off.
The Department of Homeland Security secretary sent the wild taunt from her official government account.Josephine Harvey (The Daily Beast)
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Have my Cake and Eat it TOO!?!
Current side PC is crashing and doing other weird stuff. Happened after a power surge. I have a surge protector. But I was also running it really hard playing Starfield just to see if it could at the time.
Okay... buying a PC that is that good is ridiculous given my circumstances. But I could get something cheaper that does everything I need my side PC to do. AND leave room for the possibility of fixing the messed up PC myself... eventually.
Odds are I will never tear apart that PC. But on the other hand if I can fix it myself it spares me the judgment of a computer nerd. And getting screwed to have him diagnose it and/or fix something while he sits in judgment on me: "OKAY, Boomer!"
Instant fix to the issues I'm having and a better option than shiny and new and EXPENSIVE.
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Yemen's armed forces launched a fresh missile strike on Tel Aviv early Friday, triggering air raid sirens across large parts of central and southern Israeli-occupied Palestine and sending settlers scrambling to shelters.Tasnim News Agency
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Absolute Storm: Ep 29 - 5/22/25 - 9pm ET DJT|MAHA|Patriotic Performances|Ghost Army
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Trump declared that "Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War," following a two-hour phone call with Putin.Odysee
I installed Windows 11 in Virtual Box in case I need it for school but it keeps crashing. My laptop is 12gb RAM and I gave the VM 8gb RAM.
If I upgrade my laptop RAM to maybe 16gb and give the VM 12gb RAM would that help? Thanks I'm a newb
I would consider creating a swapfile if you have an SSD. There should be countless tutorials for doing it on Ubuntu.
It might mean your windows or Ubuntu install gets sluggish, but even 32GB (less than 10% of a typical storage drive!) of spare swap space can let your active and memory-hogging processes breathe instead of invoking the SystemD-OOM killer.
For what it's worth, I think Ubuntu is also fairly aggressive with memory management. I remember complaints that it was a little too hasty to kill user processes under memory-limited scenarios. not sure if that was addressed
VMs will crash because of running out of RAM.
It sounds like that's exactly what's happening with your setup, however you probably don't need to buy more RAM to fix it.
Type free
, or free -h
, into a terminal to see how much RAM and swap space is being used.
Swap is a tool that allows you to use your storage drive as additional RAM when necessary. If nothing indicates swap usage when using free
, then you need to enable swap space.
Ask AI "How do I enable swap on Linux" and it should give you good instructions.
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PostgreSQL IDE in VS Code
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We are excited to announce the public preview of the brand-new PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), designed to simplify PostgreSQL database management and development workflows.JoshMSFT (TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM)
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Ivy League school has not responded to a request for comment.AFP (DAWN.COM)
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The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Bolivia suspended the presidential candidacy of Andrónico Rodríguez, who is backed by the Popular Alliance.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
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All great thinkers, be they scientists, musicians, poets, or statesmen, know that it is ideas, and not events, that shape the unfolding of history.Megan Dobrodt (EIR News)
Refaat Alareer, a professor of English literature at the Islamic University in Gaza, was tragically killed in an Israeli air strike on December 6, 2023, along with his brother, sister and four of his nephews and nieces.Jeremy Kuzmarov (CovertAction Magazine)
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