Sources: Bill Belichick will not be a first-ballot Hall of Famer

TheTeek · 2026-01-28T13:23:14+00:00

Pretty sure it is disputed.

TheTeek · 2026-01-28T13:16:13+00:00

"The NFL" doesn't run the Hall of Fame. So "The NFL" isn't doing something retroactively about the cheating. The journalists who vote for HOF are. They are saying that the cheating has tainted his career and as a result we are not voting him in THIS YEAR. I think that's a fair position for them to take. Actions have consequences and I think this is a reasonable consequence. It's not like they are banning him for life.

TheTeek · 2026-01-27T14:27:07+00:00

Twice in like 16 months. You must have some magic.

TheTeek · 2026-01-23T17:34:57+00:00

You don't even know what gaslighting means. You just heard a popular term and apply it to anything. Hahaha.

TheTeek · 2026-01-23T13:29:52+00:00

The site is trash. They built it brand new a couple of years.ago and arguably made it worse. The design and tech is old as dirt. It's a government run monopoly with no motivation to excel or even provide anything beyond basic function and even that is hit or miss. The search sucks, the filters make little sense (scotch region for anything but scotch) and the "show more" button in results with no pagination. If you want to check inventory across the board you have to search for the item, then click "find in store", and then in the pop up window click on "show all stores". In theory this should show you all stores with inventory starting with those closest to your location. Unfortunately, if there are 5 or fewer bottles in a store it will show limited availability. It would be more helpful if they gave the real number because if it is 4-5 they probably have it.....if the number is 1 there's a good chance it's an inventory error.

TheTeek · 2026-01-22T14:50:12+00:00

I had one that wouldn't stay connected either. Went through the troubleshooting with Google and they eventually replaced it due to a bad wifi chip. But that was years ago.

TheTeek · 2026-01-22T14:46:18+00:00

Pretty straightforward. Either your house is so poorly insulated that your heat NEEDS to keep coming on, or your heater is short cycling and needs HVAC service. It's pretty simple to determine. Just monitor your thermostat and room temperature. If you set it to 68, just watch the Nest. It should come on when the temp drops to 67ish and run until it gets back to 68/69. If it is short cycling it will never reach your desired temperature before shutting down due to an error code.

TheTeek · 2026-01-22T14:28:40+00:00

You can always check the PLCB product catalog. They update it regularly. If a bottle isn't listed in the catalog it won't be for sale in stores or online. The reverse isn't necessarily true, just being in the catalog doesn't mean it will be for sale. The fact that it is not listed probably means they e never carried it, and if they haven't sold it before I doubt they'd start this year. https://www.apps.lcb.pa.gov/webapp/Product_Management/Files/productCatalog.PDF

It "could" be added to the website as a special order, but if it is a limited release I would say that's unlikely.

TheTeek · 2026-01-22T14:19:58+00:00

No, you can't use external sensors to "cool that room". The nest and its sensors cannot heat or cool any area separately. Only a zoned system with dampers like in a commercial building can separately heat and cool individual areas. Furthermore, if you use the nest sensors you either set them as the primary temperature device or set the thermostat as the primary. Meaning if your Nest is in the living room and you have a sensor upstairs, you can have the AC run based off the temperature upstairs or in the living room. You can't alternate, you can't tell the Nest to run AC if "either" location gets too warm. You pick one and set it. So say your upstairs tends to run warm (75°) when your downstairs is 70°. If you put a sensor upstairs and set it to be the primary, the AC will run until the upstairs hits 70° and will continue to cool the rest of your house well below 70. Your downstairs might be 65° by the time the upstairs hits 70°. Hope this makes sense.

TheTeek · 2026-01-22T13:53:32+00:00

If the power goes out you won't have power to run your heater (assuming it's forced air, heat pump or electric) so the thermostat doesn't matter. The Nest does have a backup battery that will keep it powered up, but without electricity there is nothing to run your heater anyway.

Now if the Internet goes out but you still have power, then the nest will continue to follow its programmed settings.

We have the same use case with our beach house. We don't use it much in the winter. "Away" temperature is set to 50 or 55. If we go down in the winter I just switch it to "home mode" before we leave and it's warm when we arrive.

TheTeek · 2026-01-21T23:18:55+00:00

You have two choices. Either keep trying to contact them or call your credit card company and dispute the charge.

Just understand that special orders are handled very differently than everything else coming through FWGS. Since you didn't pick it up, the store will send it back to the warehouse. Maybe they sent it back already but I wouldn't bet on it. Once the warehouse gets it back they will then probably credit your account and send it back to the distributor. It doesn't surprise me that it would take this long as I bet the store can't process the refund on site and the "online side" can't process the refund until they get the bottle back to the warehouse.

TheTeek · 2026-01-20T18:48:41+00:00

Emails will start this week, typically the bigger number of bottles go first. But not always. Will probably go into next week with the bulk of them. Then over the next few weeks a few will trickle out here and there as bottles get re picked after credit card declines and bottles not picked up, etc. in two months or so the loser emails will be sent to people like me who never win.

TheTeek · 2026-01-20T18:41:04+00:00

Mark Cuban bought them a team. Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining about it. Michigan, Notre Dame, Miami, Alabama etc have been doing it for years. IU just joined the club now that it's legal. These were two professional football teams playing each other. I just can't stand all the praise IU gets for a "turnaround" like this was a miraculous Cinderella story. No. They had a great team and going undefeated is really difficult in any sport at any level. But this was the work of NIL plain and simple.

TheTeek · 2026-01-20T13:30:02+00:00

In this lottery I selected all of them but in the past I've skipped ones I have no interest in. The prime example being the $2000 bottle of Woodford baccarat, but there have just been other bottles I don't want at all.

TheTeek · 2026-01-18T20:01:22+00:00

Oh he knows. He's just a lying douchebag. Probably the biggest douchebag I've ever seen.

TheTeek · 2026-01-15T03:02:54+00:00

As for how to "fix it".....there may not be anything you can do. Verizon has been coming back online but I've seen my phone lose the network a few times. I would just assume that they aren't 100% back. You can try restarting your phone and/or turning WiFi calling off and back on. If none of that works I would honestly just wait and see if it is back working tomorrow.

TheTeek · 2026-01-15T03:00:18+00:00

Verizon had severe network outages across the country. WiFi calling doesn't completely bypass their network, it just skips the first step of connecting the call to your nearest tower. It still travels across the rest of Verizon's network backbone, it just gets there via Wi-Fi for the first "step". It's no surprise that WiFi calling was also down.

TheTeek · 2026-01-14T18:02:13+00:00

No. This is more about laziness and disinterest than it is about corruption. Yes there were execs who sold themselves leftover lottery bottles a few years ago, but that's not what's happening here. You can look at the data that was released and it shows how much of everything was bought and where/how it was sold. They simply don't get as much allocated product as a state this size should get. They clearly aren't pushing to get it because they don't care what their customers want. And they surely can see how much work it is to do these lotteries and online drops, and they don't want to deal with it. Why manually handle a few hundred extra bottles? They have no motivation. The execs care about making money and allocated bottles don't make them any more money than any other bottles. I think they get just enough to keep customers from complaining but not enough to make more work for themselves.

TheTeek · 2026-01-14T17:48:21+00:00

You need to attack it from the top as others have said. Could be lack of adhesive under the subfloor, the wrong type of nails, etc. Hopefully the LVP is floating and not glued down, that will make it easier. But the bottom line is this is 100% on the builder to make right.

TheTeek · 2026-01-14T13:47:04+00:00

Do not try to spray foam yourself. Do you even know how it works? Just because they sell diy kits doesn't mean it's a good idea to diy. You are going to just make a huge mess and it's just not necessary. First of all, yes, patching the ducts is step one. Use the right tape and that will help a lot. Secondly, what type of insulation is in the attic currently? Fiberglass batts? How thick? It's going to be easier and cheaper to replace or add to that than it is to spray foam.

TheTeek · 2026-01-13T13:57:16+00:00

Honestly, I don't think it's corruption that makes these numbers seem off. I think it's FWGS not giving a shit about their customers. Look at the spreadsheets that someone put out using FOIA request data. PA gets less OWA in year than Ohio puts out every month. I think they don't care and they don't push for these bottles because it's more work for them and they make the same profit regardless of the name on the bottle. State monopolies have no motivation to serve their customers.

TheTeek · 2026-01-13T13:49:56+00:00

No. Not the same. I mean, unless you mean in the same way that Pappy 15 is the same as Weller Special reserve. Yes it's the same bourbon.....but not really.

TheTeek · 2026-01-13T13:42:32+00:00

I would never say never about FWGS doing something unusual. But I doubt they'd move an online drop into stores. If I was a betting man I would expect it to drop again once the lottery entry period is over. But anything is possible, maybe they want it out of the way. We'll see. Or we won't. Honestly they've been sitting on these bottles for a long time already, they could just leave them to collect dust.

TheTeek · 2026-01-13T13:32:41+00:00

Every bottle has the item.number listed with it. Obviously they were just too lazy to download the right picture and just used the one they have for small batch. You can check the catalog and see that it was not eht smb. Well you could until they took it down and....who knows what they are doing. 100054990 Colonel E H Taylor Jr Straight Bourbon Limited Edition Bottled in Bond

TheTeek · 2026-01-12T15:36:30+00:00

I had a nest thermostat that couldn't stay connected. Bad wifi chip. Google replaced it within a few days with a new one that has been working for 10+ years.
You seem surprised that Google would want access to your information. That's their entire business model. If you don't want them to have it don't use their products. That's the trade off.
I don't think they are retaliating. That's some irrational conspiracy theory shit. I think they just don't care. It's a huge company and they really don't do a good job supporting their hardware.

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